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Moïseville.
Moïseville, in the province of Santa Fé, is the oldest of the
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Argentina. It was founded by Russian
immigrants in 1890, before the establishment of the Jewish Colonization
Association, but was reorganized by that association in 1891. Including
the estates of Virginia and Santa Elena, Moïseville embraces nearly
60,000 acres (24,000 hectares), of which 22,500 acres are occupied by
colonists. Although it has passed through several grave crises, Moïseville
is the most successful of the Argentine colonies. Its success is
attributable (1) to the fact that the colonists had time to gain the
experience they needed, and (2) to the aid accorded them by the Jewish
Colonization Association by the creation of lucerne fields. These fields
not only favor the rearing of cattle, but yield forage which finds a ready
market in the more northerly portions of Argentina, where fodder is often
scarce. The colony is equi-distant from the two railway stations of
Palacios and
Moïseville, which are connected by a good road, affording ample
facilities for the transportation of crops to the markets. Moïseville has
become a center for the purchase of provisions by neighboring colonists,
many Italian settlers resorting to it for this purpose.
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