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Information for Intending Settlers Regarding Opportunities of the State Land Settlement at Delhi Merced County California
1921List3316S.I.: Department of Public Works Division of Land Settlement 1921. Large broadsheet; 19 ½ x 16 ¾; pp. 2; illustrated with photographs drawings and a large map; a few penciled-in manuscript notes possibly originally belonging to a potential settler; some age-toning along fold lines; edges a bit unevenly trimmed; in about very good condition. Very good. An uncommon survivor of a failed California State project the broadsheet outlined all the relevant information to potential settlers of the Delhi State Land Settlement in Merced County California. It was initiated in 1917 with its main goal being to encourage improved land development and farming techniques through a cooperative model. A State Land Settlement Board was appointed led by engineer and educator Elwood Mead 1858—1936 which would be responsible for selecting approximately 230 settlers based on their capital experience and willingness to cooperate. Though well-intended by 1931 the project would fail spectacularly due to a myriad of problems including insufficient plot sizes unsuitable crops high financial burdens lax management social and cooperative disputes etc.<br /> <br /> The broadsheet included details on conditions under which farms were offered to purchasers various allotments with acreage and prices poultry farms farm laborers' lots schools and churches soil water supply taxes and so on. It also featured images of model homes a vineyard a large subdivisional map plan and a drawing of the Delhi Community Hall the latter called â€The Business and Social Center of the Delhi Colonists.†Quite scarce with only two copies recorded at UC Davis and the California State Library; none currently in the trade.<br /> <br /> Smith Roy J. â€PROBLEMS FOUND IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE LAND SETTLEMENTS AT DURHAM AND DELHI.†Applied Anthropology 3 no. 2 1944: 16–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44135106. Department of Public Works, Division of Land Settlement unknown
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