A COLONISING FAILURE.
The colony planted by Mr T. Hughes at Eugby, Tennessee, is in a bad way. According to a New York paper “ the crops are said to be an almost total failure. That this is so surprises no one, for it was pointed out from the first by well informed persons that the scheme must necessarily fail. The slaty, clayey soil will neither support grain nor grass, and the dairy as well as the wheat industries are a failure. The locality is one altogether shunned by men acquainted with the nature of the soil, and the isolation of the colony may be judged by the fact that one settler who went out to drive in cows was lost in the woods for five days )f and could not find even buries to eat. The success of the colony in its present location is deemed impossible. A later telegram says that typhoid fever has broken out.” If this account is not an exaggerated one it is apparent that Mr Hughes or his advisers must have made a serious mistake in choosing a site..
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2693, 5 November 1881, Page 3
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184A COLONISING FAILURE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2693, 5 November 1881, Page 3
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