The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-12-05

Editor OF THE CHRONICLE:
/ am located in the southwestern part
of Comanche County, in valley ~ by IS
miles. This valley is said to be Z, 800 feet
above sea level. The soil is from to
feet deep, and is . dark, sandy loan.
Irish potatoes do we'll here, producing
100 bushels to the acre. One ofmy neigh
bors has just dug 100 bushels Of sweet POI
tatoes off q Of an acre. No sickness in
these parts. We get good water at a depth
of 10 feet and plenty OF it, but this is not
the case all over the county in other parts
some get no water and others get salt and
jip water.
People that prepared their ground this
year and cultivated their crops made d
to bale of cotton per acre. OF course
few Of us expected to make anything, as
the land had never been broken before,
A great many people arc sellil their
farms IG0 acres in old Oklahoma for
81 900 to $1,000 and coming down here.
Fourteen months ago almost all the land
around me changed hands at from $25 to
800, and'the cheapest place near me sold
the other day to James A. Allen, former
! ly Of Holiday, Tenn, for 81, l50. No
Improvements, except y dugout. Old
Westerners say that in three years any
Of the best quarter sections of land here
will bring $1,000.
We are having fine rains and plenty Of
them. The present wheat crop sown in
this county is estimated to make at least
100000 bushels. East of this valley
there are hundreds of acres Of poor land.
A. D. Woods, who left old Benton re-
Gently and located in Greer County, O.
T., by some means crossed Red River and
was soon lost in Comanche County, but
by accident ran upon my ranch. Alter
telling him who l was, he informed me
that he was still expounding and that his
travel in search of Martin j Baugus (who
is located y mile south of .me) was equal
to SANKEY'S trip in Africa, and declared
he had then travelled two hundred miles
and had not seen a single fence rail. AT
this time J. A. Allen was visiting our
Tennessee camps, so we soon called oul
little Tennessee colony together. We
haG no fatted calf, so we ribbed up oul
old rusty artillery and off to the lake we
went (this lake is 2 miles north of me anC
covers 800 aCres) and we killed the fatteC
geese and ducks and thus we Toasted
But / must tell you more about Conan,
che County, so l will put these things of
/, until / get further along with my letter
For many reasons the army post in this
county is one of the most desirable in thu
United States. Uncle Sam has ample
room here to train his soldier boys in thu
rudiments of war, and they haveformet
their lines of battle on the prairiesa and il
, the mountains and marched through val
leys, across streams and through timber
! The Government set aside 800 acres c
land to build a Town at the county site I
be called Lawton. The lots were sold q
I auction and brought over 100000 TIL
o lots were soon covered with business an
dwelling houses. More territory wa de
manded aud another 800 acres was added
! and this is being rapidly covered wit
houses. LaWton now has populatio
of about $4,000, and two other towns
this county will each soon have at lea
d 5000 inhabitants.
As this is my first attempt at writir
E to THE CHRONICLE / will close, as tn
- may find its way to the waste basket.
10 A. H. PRITcHARD,
Tesca. o II. November %. 1902.