Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-01-15
SATURDAY, JANUARY IS.
NEW CAMP LOGAN.
A Partial Description Of the
Grounds Where the Big Re-
unions Will Hereafter
be Held.

the Inter. State Reunion Association
recently, in our opinion, is the most
important transaction for Baxter
Springs and the Association that
has ever been made.
On New Years we spent most OF
the day in taking in the entire
grounds. We venture to say there
are but very few persons in or
about Baxter who comprehend the
beauty and fitness of those grounds
for the purpose for which they were
purchased.
While / have always been an en-
thusiastic admirsr of Camp Logan
and have seldom allowed friend
from abroad to visit me but with
pride I have taken them to that
beautiful grove and asked them TO
look upon what l have thought the
most beautiful landscape view in
Southeast Kansas, and thence TO the
DEVILS Promenade in the Indian
Territory, to geological formation
worth going many miles to see, yet
on that firse day of this new year l
learned that within one mile of our
depot, in a direct line, is tract OF
land by nature prepared TO form
the most beautiful park in the state
of Kansas. No wonder at the time
of our boom few men with brains
took in that land and have held il
ever since, and now have generous
~ offered il to the Association for
less than half what it is worth.
As we travelled over these grounds
we could but feel emotions of graft
tude TO Providence for sending the
unprecedented dust upon Camp
Logan during our last reunion TO
fill our eyes and open our minds;
also for leading those persons who
own the lands about Camp Logan
to ask price which compelled the
Association to reject their offer ind
look for new grounds. l listened
with deep interest to the report OF
the committee that was sent by the
Association to inspect these lands
aud also the Black lands. l can
now say that their report was no
exaggeration, and did not express
half that is to be seen and told.
The objections that were made al
moving the reunion grounds from
the north side of the creek to Camp
Logan cannot apply here, for we
find numerous springs and abund-
ance of the best quality of water,
with ample shade, of which the
first was entirely destitute and the
latter too limited. Then in extent
and grandeur there is no compari.
son between the new grounds and
the two former places, only as
bright nickel to twenty.dollar
gold coin, or the pictures hung in
our amphitheatre TO the national
paintings which hang in the ro-
tunda of the capitol at Washington.
From the summit of the grounds,
where there is abundant room for
the encampment even if il should
double any number that has been
seen on Camp Logan, to the north,
is seen the most interesting view Of
Spring river that can be found any
where. To the south is one of the
most romantic and picturesque
spots that can be found in a radius
of one hundred miles. The bluff
facing Spring river may remind
soldiers of Missionary Ridge or
Lookout Mountain in miniature.
The room for parking teams at the
foot of the bluff is ample for all
that may ever come, and the river is
convenient for water. From the
edge of the water you find solid
bottom, and il is not PERCEPTIONS
and thus dangerous, but is gentle
slope for more than twenty feet.
The surface of the ground for the
encampment is unequalled. If il
had been made to order IL could not
have been improved. It cannot get
dusty like the ground around Camp
Logan. 1t will not be muddy like
the camp at Coffeyville, or Chetopa,
or Parsons, but appears macadam-
lied with fine pebbles which be-
come very suggestive to the eyes of
those who have found true poetry
in the study of geology. AT the
southeast corner of the grounds as
you begin TO descend you find a
quarry that is full of choice fossils
belonging TO the observation-disclosures
age; then a half mile TO the south
west is the rich Hunter quarry of
sandstone, resting upon this very
bed of limestone. To the south of
this first quarry is lovely place for
the young men and young women
to roam that must captivate alltrue
lovers of nature aud inspire them
with a love for the beautiful. We
venture to prophecy that in the fu-
ture hundreds will wander through
this delightful walk and continue
TO stroll until they End themselves
miles away in thFterritory.
At the south end of the grounds
or little below may be found .
number Of primitive trees that were