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Show COLONIZATION COMMITTEE 'FORMED CENTRAL COMMiTTEE TO ASSIST LOCALS FORM TO COVER EACH DISTRICT Rousing meeting held Saturday Expect to develope later into organization of far influence and protection-to new-comer. On Saturday, March .'4th, at Mercer Hall,'' a large number of representative, men piet at Delta for the purpose of outlining some sort of Colonization Committee, which should aid the newcomer new-comer in finding land..adapted to his neejds.and,.past experience, to place him right on that land, and to' save the newcomer that' fleecing. which has been all too prevalent,, in, the past. Such areo the outlines of the new organizations, being effected in, this, region. re-gion. Already Ilinckley has so organized,; Bishop StraUon ,js. President, Jos. E. Blake, Vice President, and Harold R. Morris, Secretary. Along this same line, and with, same : intent, Delta, had previously organized the Farmers Realty Co. The meeting Saturday was presided, over by Bishop I J.. K. Maxfield, who .briefly stated the purpose of the meeting to be to get "the idle, forties filled im To bring, settlers to the land.", AU.d,. that to do so, "Something attractive must be offered." And fur--ther, that "We want more neighbors." , .r . .,.....;. The meeting was well attended, and from the spirit evidenced, evi-denced, no doubt the public mind is now in that channol. ...Each district is to organize its own local, which, in order to abet the Railroad Colonization .movement, will act, harmoniously thru, the central committee, appraise its local lands, make known the full commissions that can be charged, . which, ,.in each instance , are to be paid by the seller, establish terms of sale, and in every way possible provide a. community interest pf paternalism iu the . newcomer, who will be aided in becoming, a settler among nr., not weakened by being a prey of rapacity.,.; Abuses wh.ichi hay.rv grown to detrimental excesses in the past are to be done, away with, and men placed on lands as nearly, without profit (and cev. tainly without abnormal profit) as the effort can be accomplished accom-plished to enact.... ... , '" Such seems to be a reflection of the public mind as expressed. ex-pressed. . ... . Attending the meeting were Jos. E. Blake, James Blake, Milton Moody, Jos. Nielson, Hugh Hilton, James F. Blake, frohi Hinckley, D. A. Foley, M. A. Abbott, O. P. Soule, L. H. Moulton. II. E. Wolfe, Dan Simkins, Edgar A.' Henrie.'L. Morison,' Webb Roberts, and Chas. Friberg of North Delta, A. C! Stringnam,' 15. H. Bunker, Fred W. Cottrell, Alma Greenwood, II. E. Maxfield. H. A. Mather, from Delta, E. H. Clarke, Albert E. Reid, T. Paine Franklin, C. M. Hickman, and II. E. Sherrick from Abraham, W. R. Black, and P. T. Black, from Deseret. , ", Committee men appointed to represent their districts and to report back Saturday March 11th, were J. C. Ilawley for Oasis P. T. Black for Deseret, Alma Greenwood for Delta, L. Morrison for the North Tract, and J. H. Palmer for Abraham. One remark that carried much conviction with it was uttered ut-tered by the presiding officer in saying that eventually "The seven interests of the lower Sevier might be merged, beginning with one river water master." ''We have enough troubles or the outside, so that we ought to get together on the inside." And the newcomers will be treated treat-ed as an insider. |