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Show A Colony in Louisiana. mSf' About one year ago a'number of L Bohemlan and Dutch farmers and 15 stock raisers living lh "Nebraska and lev adjacent States decided to seek a fiff" new locality and formed themselves P' Into an association. J. E. Kroupa f?' of Omaha as president of the- asso- iS' c'ation. with John Ubl and Frank f?l Bally of Nebraska, wore selected as jSs a committee to islt tho various ' sections of this country and to re- : Jleft port to their associates tho best iitt place In which to locate the col- Wo ony, taking Into consideration rer- MS tility of soil, climate, variety of tttfi products that could' bo grown, mar-ket, mar-ket, shipping facilities and oin'er. K" essential factors necessary to make wwi a colony a success. - fSjj The committee toured Missouri, mi Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, -West Up Virginia, Virginia, to Norfolk, p'rom flfel Norfolk they started south through tfo North Carolina, South Carolina, Hp Georgia and Florida, and rrom tha State they moved west through Alabama, Al-abama, Mississippi' and Louisiana and begat, their return Journey northwards through Arkansas and , Missouri,' to Omaha. They then . prepared an exhaustive report of their pilgrimage and submitted It with a-mnss of -accumulated data to " their associates. The report recommended-that Louisiana offered t tho best opportunities and was In the opinion, of the committee the place to settle their new colony. Tho particular locality selected was a tract of land six miles from Alexandria. Alex-andria. The report- of the -committee was adopted arid a trade for the land -consummated through the Louisiana Land Company of-- Oma- ha, Nob., and L. Lahroy-Slusher of Baton Rouge and 'New Orleans. The 'J deal Involved a tract of ,10,000 i acres, which is being subdivided ;bo- ) tween. the members of . the colony J association at 512 per acre. ' , The first ( settlers. arrived on the : land about 'December 1. 1913, and now nineteen families are building 4 homes .and .preparing "land .-for t crppg. Thirty-two families will ar- rive , next weok-In ., emigrant cars to u join in 'tho work of "making the ;3 first . Bohemian villngo'ln America, jj while -150 families havo' joined tho , association and will movo to their new- homes. ! The fact that a committee of in- ' telllgnnt' 'farmers .after touring A through ' the greater part of, this j cpunfry should have selected Louis- ; iana' as-'the proper place. In which j , to - locate a colony . composed of 1 j themselves and famlllos and their 1 3 friends ' should ho conclusive evi- i dence that this State offers thei very j best of opportunities to 'the honest jj and industrious homo-seeker. , 1 |