Opinions by Editors of Leading California Newspaper Who Visited Atascadero This Year
January 18, 1916
OPINIONS BY EDITORS OF LEADING CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS WHO VISITED ATASCADERO THIS YEAR
IMPRESSIONS
(By Judge Harlan G. Palmer, President of Southern California Editorial Association, and editor of the Hollywood [Cal.] Citizen.)
* * * But other things have impressed me, chief among which is the extraordinary high standard of its citizenship. Atascadero is attracting the cream of the citizenship of the United States. It cannot fail, with such citizenship, to advance and to prosper.
And just another of the many impressions is the beauty of Atascadero evenings-the clear sky, the cool nights, the restful calm. In such a land one cannot be other than healthy, hopeful and happy.
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* * * A wonderful spirit of loyalty, good cheer and hospitality reigns throughout the Colony.
* * * And it is that spirit that will make Atascadero the ideal home spot on earth. Everything has been carefully planned to carry out the ideal.
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One could never expect to find a more beautiful place than Atascadero, which seems to be the home of the monster live oaks, and the ground is fairly red in places with little wild flowers.
We talked with many residents of this empire, which is now in its building, and we found not a note of dissatisfaction.
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A FINE LOT OF PEOPLE
* * * Probably no finer body of people has ever been gathered together than the more than three thousand representative American families who have become purchasers of orchards and home sites in the Atascadero Colony. They are progressive in many clubs, church circles, and several of the world's popular lodge orders.
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The whole scheme is so monumental and so far in advance of the ordinary methods of founding new communities, that it is hard to appreciate it all at first glance. The strongest feature of the plan, as compared with other real estate schemes, is that Mr. Lewis and. his helpers are not trying to unload the land and get out. They are making it for their own homes as well as for those who buy and build there.
It is a big project in every way-probably the most advanced plan ever attempted for a cooperative colony-and its future will be watched with great interest by all who know of it.
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Of the wonders of California along with Yosemite and the Big Trees, and it is well worth the time and trouble to inspect it, whether you go to scoff or pray. It's a study of humanity, a fascinating experiment in human endeavor-the development of an idea.
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A WONDERFUL CONCEPTION
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(Daily Facts, July 5, 1916.)
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I have said that primarily the Atascadero Colony is to give an ideal situation wherein to live. Its secondary reason is to give those who want to and need to, an ideal place to work. The soil and climate make an almost perfect fruit land. Experts plant and take care of each orchard for two whole years. By the looks of the orchards we saw, left and right, we do not believe there will be any failures.
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At Atascadero, the Colony Holding Corporation, headed by E. G. Lewis, is founding an empire along one of the most ideal social and commercial plans conceived, and where we were royally entertained the past week.
It would take many columns of this paper for me to attempt to pen an intelligible description of the scheme under which this huge colonization enterprise was conceived and is now being carried out.
