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Excerpt from Colonization and Rural Development in California There is urgent need today for a credit system which will provide a longer time of payment and lower rates of interest than private enterprise can afford to offer, and which can be given through state or national aid or through the cooperation of the state and private companies. Many settlers occupying large areas of land in California are interested in such a policy. Cooperation between the state and the federal government would make possible more liberal terms under the Federal Farm Loan Act. What may be done through such cooper ation is discussed under the proposed credit measure on page 28. The people of California at the next general election will have an opportunity to further state colonization by voting for the three million-dollar bond issue authorized by the legislature of 1921. Of the proceeds of this bond issue, $1, 000, 000 would reimburse the state for money already expended on the Delhi colony, and $2, would constitute a fund toward the next step in state colonization. How this sum may be used to create not one, but several, additional colonies is outlined on page 28. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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California Commission on Land Colonization and Rural Credits

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 20


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Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Land Colonization and Rural Credits of the State of California, November 29, 1916 The legislature of California, in 1915, passed a law providing for a commission to "Investigate and consider the question of land colonization, and the various forms of land banks, cooperative credit unions, and other rural credit systems adopted or proposed in this country or elsewhere, with especial view to the needs of the rural communities of this state." In accordance with this measure the following report has been prepared. Within the last five years questions of land tenure and land settlement have assumed a hitherto unthought of importance in the United States. The causes for this are the disappearance of free, fertile public land; the rising prices of privately-owned farm lands; the increase in tenant farming and a clearer recognition of its dangers; and the increasing attractions of city life which threaten the social impairment of rural communities by causing young people to leave the farms. Some of the most enlightened nations of the world have gone far toward solving the problems created by such undesirable conditions by the adoption of new attitudes on the part of the government towards land ownership and land settlement. In such countries the state has taken an active part in subdividing large estates and in creating conditions which will enable farm laborers and farmers of small capital to own their homes. They have adopted this policy because experience has shown that nonresident ownership and tenant farming are politically dangerous and socially undesirable; that ignorant and nomadic farm labor is bad; and that the balance between the growth of city and country can be maintained only through creating rural conditions which will make the farm as attractive as the office or factory for men and women of character and intelligence. The state of California has had no state land settlement policy. The subdivision of land for settlers, the character of settlers sought, and the kind of agriculture created, as well as the conditions of purchase, have all been left to unregulated private enterprise. There has been no public control over the selection of colonists to insure that they would be effective agents in rural development. There has been no public scrutiny of soil and conditions of purchase to render it certain that colonists would find an opportunity here rather than a temptation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
"Harvesting Suburbs" attempts to provide an understanding that agricultural communities in California represent a unique rural suburban type labeled here as "agriburbs." Such an understanding deepens an appreciation for both the growth and development of California in general at the turn of the twentieth century and the diversity of suburban types across the American landscape. Moreover, by reviewing historical narratives concerning agriburban areas, one can reach a better understanding of the dynamics at play working to divert attention from the suburban side of agriburban areas' origins. Put differently, "Harvesting Suburbs" seeks to explain what an agriburb is and why historians and others have failed to identify an agriburb. Parallels are hence drawn between the suburban ideal and the California dream to show how they largely mirrored each other. The suburban side of three case study sites (Ontario, Orangevale, and Fair Oaks) is then furnished to specify better what made California's "agricultural colonies" agriburbs. Finally, early promotional efforts concerning agriburbs reveal how a master historical narrative about each of these communities largely contributes to diverting attention from their suburban origins. Examining a metanarrative also exposes much about the nature of public memory in agriburban communities. It shows the importance and lasting influence of older historical narratives and other public representations of the past on present-day historical narratives and public representations of the past.