(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Bureya colonization plan took a more practical turn today when A. Merezhin, leader of the Ozet delegation which is sponsoring the plan, signed an agreement with the Central Executive Committee of the Blagoveshtshensk district, obtaining 5,000 hectares of rice plantations for the Jewish settlers.
The land is located ten vierst from Yekaterina-Nikolsk. Forty thousand more hectares are available for the rice plantations.
Prior to the signing of the agreement, a delegation, headed by Merezhin, was sent to investigate the land. Twenty-seven of the delegation members remained on the plantations where they will start work immediately. Two hundred and fifty more were asked by the delegation to come and settle immediately.
Twenty-five houses will be built around the plantations this summer, The Jewish settlers will also be able to find employment until December in the water channels which are now being built in the plantation fields. Artisans are also needed in the neighborhood.
The transference of the effort from the Tichonkoye region to Yekaterina-Nikolsk give the Jewish pioneers a better location and better prospects.
The Comzet, the government department for settling Jews on the land, officially announced today that the contion of the Crimea fields has improved, due to the rains.
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