Show NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY Fifty Heads of Families Now at Work Novel Arrangements of Streets and LotsGrading Streets and Preparing Prepar-ing to Plant Trees in tlc Spring Diillcult Questions of Administration Administra-tion to be Tested by Experience How tho Town is Managed Salt Kalto Clly Ulali October M I Col Stevenson secretary ot the Utah Irrigation cOlnmll Ml n hall received a plat of the New Plymouth colony lands and village slto In Payctto valley Ida I together wltha letter from D W Boss superintendent of the Payctto Valley Irrigation Jnd Water Power company Giving much Interesting Information regarding the progress of the colony clwl 1 According to the plat the village site is situated In the center of the colony trilfct and embraces about 320 acres Tte plan In which It lu laid out Is I ttther novel and as presented on the lap the effect Is a good deal like the arrangement of a theater the streets representing aisles and the lots rows of seats In the center of the situ are f two squares for a public school building l build-ing and a town hall The lots nro all 0 > < 1 acre In size with the exception of I a few In the insldo of a boulovnn which rounds Into a curve at one end ot the townslte and fronts on 200foot streets > GRADING THE STREETS Superintendent and Chief Engineer I Uoos in his Jotter says the street grading Is now well under way am about COOO trees will ho planted In the village next spring The grand boulevard boule-vard which makes a circuit of the town will have four rows ot elms and two rows of slowergrowing trees and ull vacant lots will bo seeded to grass utter being properly leveled The town site being located on a ridge an excellent excel-lent oimortunltv Is afforded for perfect drainage A simple system of Irrlga 1 tlon Is planned for the village tract syid tho work Is being done with a vfVw to having a good as well ns a cheap system to maintain About IKt headSof families have elect eilIiAets and mativ payments and ijituiy of these are nlreauyOTrtluTRrQUhd The colonists colo-nists belong mostly tu the professional class and the greater portion of thorn come from Chicago anti the Mississippi valley while a few are from tho extreme ex-treme East The colonists are all people peo-ple of means and many of them well todo Some have sought the new climate cli-mate for their health while the greater great-er portion seem to have como for the purpose of making pleasant homes They wUl engage In agriculture and fruitgrowing A fruit cannery creamery cream-ery and cold storage plant Is to bo erected tho near future The capital for such purposes as well ns other Improvements Is taken from the Block subscriptions which each colonist must make In purchasing lands MANAGEMENT OF TILE COLONY Tho strangest thing about this un dortnlllnG 11111 Mr HOR Is that no one Is making a dollar out of It These I are hard times in which to promote I enterprises especially one Involving the plans of a wouldbe seller anti purv cahser and the chief drawback to this one In the fact that wouldbe colonists find It Impossible to dill lose of their I Eastern property I nm bound to admit after all obstacles ob-stacles are removed from the way of promotion that the most serious problem prob-lem remains yet to be solved because Its solution must be In process for many years and this problem Is management manage-ment How closely they will adhere to the original plan or how closely they will be allowed to follow the high Ideal will be determined In years to come The management of the colony fit present Is in the hands of nine trustees trus-tees and everything Is going harmoniously harmoni-ously They are all considered men of good busIness ability and unquestionable unquestion-able honesty and have already dune much In tho way of securing low rates for the transportation of material and food supplies for thc colony No stores have yet boon established and the goods are hauled from Payette twelve miles distant No Intoxicating liquors will be allowed al-lowed to bo sold within the borders of New Plymouth as the deedn to the colonists stipulate that tho lands will I bo forfeited to the trustees of thc colony col-ony If fermented drinks arc sold on the premises Mr Hmm closes his letter In the following fol-lowing words It has passed the stage of doubt as to Its possible l number of settlers and only needs to be managed with care In order to demonstrate whether It Is possible to enact on our complex structure called higher civilization civ-ilization a higher order of farm life where the chances of a livelihood wllli bo without great risk and the decadence deca-dence of the agricultural class be arrested ar-rested I am sorry for one thing only and that In that Mr Smythes labors do not appear to be appreciated I cannot agree with him In all he does but I am willing to accord him credit for this undertaking as I think he has located lo-cated what will soon prove to bo the nucleus of another Oreeley MODELED ON THE UTAH PLAN In this connection It may be InterestIng Interest-Ing to many Utah people to know that the Plymouth scheme had Us origin and Is Ixflng effected on the wellknown Mormon principle of nettling up tho country The town ot Huntsvllle Ulah ncconllngto Inc 8tatemoiitHirtauusTO promoters of tho enterprise furnished the main Idea to this scheme which Is now being experimented with nt a superior location and under moro favored fa-vored conditions The scheme originated origin-ated at ono of the recent meetings of the National Irrigation congresses where the Utah delegates from experience experi-ence testified to the superior advantages advan-tages of people llvlr7 in a town with the cultivated lands adjacent enjoying all social advantages rather than dwelling In Isolated farmhouses |