Show COLONIES FOR THE WEST 8ari > lui Popalntton at the rat to SutUe on Arlil Western Ijinila It has been years since tho cry of Westward ho has been heard In the eastern states and meantime the cities and thriving manufacturing centers cast of the Mississippi havo boon rapidly rapid-ly I fllllntf to tho point of overcrowding until labor Is n drug on tho market Mining which attracted > o many h bun Broils of pooplo from tho cast many years ago has loot Its glamour hunting and trapping havo too many devotees already to encourage moro to enter this life today granger life on the western scale requires too much capital capi-tal and the too plentifnl foreclosure of western farm mortgages has been discouraging dis-couraging to thoia vho may have bei wonsHrit emigration All these things have tended to stagnate the population of the east and tho remit is alarming to all concerned capital nod labor alike An opuortunlty has presented Itself at da ilAiBgh what Is known as the Carey law parsed by the Fiftythird congress by which each of eight western west-ern states was granted one million acres of arid land located within their borders on condition that they utilize them for agriculture through Irrlgai tlon and prove to the secretary of the Interior that their irrigation plans arc feasible Five of the eight states have accepted the proposition and one more is expected ex-pected to reply favoiibly before long The national irrigation congress a body composed of delegates from twin tythrce woternstis has appointed a national irrigation commission which body Is engaged in forming colonies to take up these arid laivlsand carry them on by irrigation under proper and scientific scien-tific direction Some of tho details of tho scheme arc given in the Boston Transcript It is tho purpose of tho commission to form colonial clubs throughout tho cast wirerover there is a congestion of population popu-lation and these clubs will disseminate information concerning tho present and future possibilities of the western country coun-try It Is not intended to send out separate sepa-rate families which would certainly become entangled in diillcultics if not properly directed Whole colonies rre to bo organized nnd dispatched to favorable fa-vorable localities with men competent to teach them tho solution of tho problem prob-lem of Irrigation and agriculture These colonists It is proposed to organize organ-ize on the principles upon vthlch the successful Mormon colonies were carried car-ried on An organization to be known as tho Plymouth colony is now being formed to tako up lands in Idaho Each member of this colony Is to furnish one thousand dollars capital The land is to be taken In small holdings and the whole managed on the basis of a cooperative co-operative village |