SINGLE TAX COLONY

Pullman Unemployed Taking up Land in Alabama
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 10.—A party of Pullman unemployed and their families, numbering in all 500 persons, will arrive in Alabama this week, and will start a single tax colony after the ideas of Henry George, near Blakely in Baldwin county. They have secured 2,000 acres of fine land at $5 an acre on the very spot where the last battle of the civil war was fought. The land liea for two and a half miles along the beautiful Tensaw river. A sawmill and brick naking machineryhave been bought on time and it is believed here that the co-operative colony will prove a success.

Transcribed by Dawn Conway, June 2010, from the manitoba Morning Free Press, Winnipeg, Wednesday, November 14, 1894

 

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