A SCOTCH COLONY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 606, 15 November 1881, Page 3

A SCOTCH COLONY.

The Scot abroad is as useful generally as those who stay at home. But when to northcountry shrewdness is added the “ goaheadedness ” of the Yankee, we may be pretty sure that fortune will follow with both hands full. A new instance of this is afforded by the small colony of Waverley, which lias recently been set going by Scotchmen on the prairies of Dakota, some six hundred miles north-west of Chicago. Waverley is a suburb of Waterton, a place which m two years and a half has grown from nothing into a place containing a couple of thousand inhabitants, Waverley it-elf has progressed still more rapidly, Under the active and industrious hands of its Scotch settlers the virgin soil has been turned, within ten months, into smiling fields. The soil -r ires maivellous promise—wheat, barley, oats, and all other cereals are springing up on every side around substantial farm buildings In the centre of the fertile tract some sis hundred acres have been sot aside for the town, and the strcc's margined all by trees, are already mapped out and named. There is a store, run up by an enterprising Scotchman, at which everything—in eason—can be obtained. A postoffice has also been established, and very shortly the biggest eohoolliouse for sixty

I miles round will be opened, and twenty-five scholars have already entered their names on the Much nice is promised within another year —a flour mill, a buttery on a large scale, a flax and oil mill, and a strawpaper mill, Besides this, a manufacturer of agricultural implements intends to open a branch, and Waverley, through Watertown* will be brought into conned ion with the railway system of the north-west. Richly gifted by nature, having a most salubrious soil, wherein —to quote the local doctor —a medical man can hardly expect to earn salt j for Ins porridge—more than all, inhabited i by a stalwart, pushing race, Waverley is ( ptotty sure to develop soon into a very I prosperous community.