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A Nw Stray If mm Atoat the Coloay ail Its Protracts.At many at ten citizens of tbit locality have gone to Georgia to locate in the old soldiers' colony landa Among thoee down there now are Alexis Weston, B. P. Knapp, Ed Tan-bert Benson Woods, Edward Johnson and Will C. Burdick. In consequence of the largo membership in the colony hereabouts the local interest it considerable. Briefly the plan of the colony, at whose head isGol. Fitzgerald of Indianapolis is to build a oity in the center of 200,000 acrea of land and develop the country to such an extant that every member can reap a profit by selling out. Already the olty has bean looated and the plan Is this: The town Is surveyed into lots, those near the outer edge being largest. Outside of town, the nearest land Is surveyed into five acre tracts, the next nearest Into ten, and the furthest into twenty. Each stockholder will then have his choice of drawing for either a town, or a five ten or twenty acre tract, as he chooses, being entitled to a certain amount of land for each share of stock. About 40,000 acres now belonging to the colonists. who havo options on 100,000 more.
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Elk Point Union County Courier
Elk Point, South Dakota, US
Thu, Nov 21, 1895
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Madison J.
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