Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
CLAUDE.
The Wonderful Resources of the Staked Plains
Additions to the Town-A County that
is Bound to Settle up Rapidly.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

! Correspondence of the Gazette.
| CLAUDE, TEX. April Now that the
county seat question of this armstrong;
county has been settled this town is en-
| joying boom that is in some respects
wonderful, but if one stops and considers
the why and wherefore, it is not so
wonderful after all.
| In the first place this town is located at
and may well be called the ''gateway to
the great staked plains country which
is considered and acknowledged TO be
the finest and most fertile body of land,
settled or unsettled in the United States,
and now that the farmers of Armstrong
county have demonstrated that it will
grow small grain 1t will settle faster than
any section of the United States ever did
or perhaps ever will be settled. The soil
of the plains is of a chocolate loan a
with just enough sand mixed with tito
make it sconr nicely. 1t is from thrsefEfo
nine feet in depth and is underlaid5Ffth
limestone. The sod before beingE3oken
by the plowH4s covered withSA thick
growth of bufEaJo grass whIehdrys and
cures on the gr6hnd and affords feed for
stock the year aTaAnd.
a board of tradNs has 9hEgn organized
here and will at oncse ok6ence the work
of advertising the 60 end wonderful
resources of this 'aksft staked plains
country, - as poets (and with
good reason) to be 80 Ssiet city of that
section. They wiAEAt 0stSe proceed to
survey a road saalFh FROM Claude into
Swisher, CrosbYsstisco Hete and Floyd
counties, and meth INTO Hheeler and
Grey. for the Expose of attaehing these
counties to herr trading purpeses. AS
road northsSnd south across44hese
counties over ttF&staked plains woJfld be
as level as fiod& nearly, the people of
these counties<a8ill be glad of an OPP
portunity of reaching the railroad at
Claude. The original town site of
Claude consisted of but 100 acres, but
the demand for lots was so great that
section of land south was sold, 100 acres
to Goodnight and others, 100 acres to
some Trinidad, Colorado, parties, 100
acres to Vernon people and l60 acres to
Quauah people. This land has all been
plated and has nearly all been sold.
RAILROAD ADDITION.
Now comes the railroad addition, which
is by far the most slightly and desirable
addition yet laid out. This is owned by
Col. R. E. Montgomery, the general
light of way and town lot agent Of the
Fort Worth and Denver railroad, and
other officials of that road. This ad-
dition comes within about three blocks of
the railroad depot on the west, and the
railroad runs through the north edge of
it, A well will be dug here at once and
windmill erected. The well known |
liberality of the Fort Worth aud Denver |
railroad company in the way of donating |
building sites to parties wishing to erect |
fine residences insures this being the |
fashionable quarter OF the town. AL |
ready parties from East Texas have Sc
lected building sites and will commence |
the erection of cottages for summer use. |
The climate being so very desirable here |
in summer, Claude Will, without doubt, |
spring into prominence as fashionable
resort, as the health seeker will |
find cool and pleasant weather here