Show I 1 NEW PLYMOUTH COLOR COLONY fifty heads of families now at work ovel arrangements of streets aud and tots lots grading streets and preparing to plant trees in the spring difficult questions ons of administration to be tested by experience how the town is managed I 1 sit salt lalo lake city utah october 14 col stevenson secretary of tb the e utah commission has received a lt t ot of the new plymouth colony lands la d village site in ili payette valley ida ether with a letter from D mr W ross ROBS Pain I 1 0 the payette valley ignation le allon and water power company ving vine much interesting information arding the progress ot of the colony theme heme according to the plat the village site situated in the center of the colony act t and embraces about acres acre e plan in which it Is laid out Is ther her novel and as presented on the P the effect la Is a good deal like the un gement of a theater the streets preventing entIng aisles arid and the lots rows 1 seats eats lit in the center of tile the sue site are 0 0 squares for a public school builds fill aad d a town hall the lots a are re all re e acre in size with the exception of 0 few w lit in the inside of a boulevard hach rounds into a curve at one end of le e townsite te and fronts on foot I 1 meag ts I 1 THE STREETS superintendent and chief engineer aoa a la ill his letter says saya the street wing ing is now well under way and out lit GOOD trees will le be planted in the lage ge next spring the grand boule rd d which makes a circuit of the 1 I 11 will have tour four rows of elms and 0 rows of slower growing trees tree a and vacant lots lota will be seeded ceded to grass er being properly leveled the town W being located on a ridge an excel pl opportunity la is afforded tor for perfect nage aee A simple system of P Is planned tor for the village tract U the work Is belne being done with a w to having a good as well as a PP P system to maintain about fifty MS 3 of families have selected tracts made aue payments and many of these ir ire ady on the round ground the colo aia belong belenk to the professional ill and to the greater portion of them ame e front from chicago and the mississippi ey y while a few are from the exil e r eaga alit the colonists are all peo of means ns and many of them well bal to sonie some have sought the new B to for r their health willie the great V nn portion scein saem to have come for the epee ose ot of making pleasant homes 1 Y will engage in agriculture and S t l browing A fruit cannery cream arid old cold storage plant I 1 Is s to be tea in the near e future the capital auch purposes bobes pobes PO Bes as aa well as other is taker taken from efrom the stock which each colonist must 0 in purchasing lands AlA GEMENT OF ov THE COLONY COLONT the ln strangest thing thine about this un lin der takIng 1 says ii 1 I 1 r alosa lo 10 Is one a one 1 Is I 1 s making a dollar tle 1 out 0 it that alico no aro h hard 4 times s I 1 tn ll 11 which to iio ai ei anie cn Ie 5 pron oe especially esp J illy one va the involving r plans V of a would be pol seller and rid calmer ca liser and till tile chief nur one Is the fact tellef drawback to th this that hat would bo be s find it IMPOst impossible sible to dispose ca colonists ot or kastern eastern property their 1 I ani am bound bo und to admit after I 1 all obstacles are removed from aroi n the way of promotion that the remains most serious 1 problem 0 I 1 yet to be solved because been its solution use must be lit in process for years and tills this problem Is many management how 11 0 w closely they will to the 0 original 1 I inal plan adhere or how clog they will b be e allowed to follow the closely ely ideal will be determined in high come years to the management of the colony at present Is in the iho hands 0 of nine trustees arid everything is going har harmoniously moul they are all ail good business L ability find and unquestionable men ot of honesty and leavo lave a already rea done much in t the C wa way ot of accarin securing lo 10 low rates for the transportation of I 1 agedal mate ilal and foo food supplies tor for t the c colony I 1 Y no 0 have yet been e en es established lishe and n tile the goods fire are hauled auto from fro bayette etta twelve I 1 lelve miles distant no intoxicating liquors will be allowed to bo be sold within the borders 0 of ne new plymouth as the deeds to tile lie colonists stipulate that the lands will be forfeited to the trustees or oc the colony it tormented fermented drinks are sold on tile premises mr air ross closes ills his letter in fit tile the following words it has passed the stage of 0 doubt as to its possible number of settlers sett lors and only needs to be managed with care in order t to 0 demonstrate whether it Is possible t to 0 enact on our complex structure called higher civilization a higher order ot of farm life where the chances of a livelihood wili will be without great ilsk and the decadence of 0 the agricultural class be arrested I 1 am sorry for one thing thine only and that Is ig that mr air smythe lies s labors do not appear to bo be appreciated I 1 cannot agree with him in all lie does but I 1 am willing to record accord him credit for this undertaking as I 1 think he has located what will soon prove to be the nucleus ot of another greeley Gre oley ON THE UTAH PLAN in I 1 tills connection it may be interesting to many utah people to know that the hie plymouth scheme had its origin and Is iving effected on the well known mormon principle of settling up the country the town 0 of huntsville utah according n to alie statements made by promoters ot the enterprise furnished the main idea to tills scheme which Is now bring being with at a superior location arid and under more favored conditions the scheme originated nt at one 0 of the recent meetings of the national irrigation congresses where the utah delegates front from experience testified cd to the superior advantages of people living in a town with the cultivated lands adjacent enjoying all ail social advantages rather than dwelling in isolated farmhouses |