The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

ly-lS because there is great need or trading places and commercial centres. The whole country Is increasing in population at a rapid rate-about one hundred thousand per year-and naturally new towns are needed to meet the needs of the farming element.
 It used to be when a new Indian reservation was thrown open by Uncle Sam for settlement that dozens of use- less towns would spring up and the booms in great many of them would soon collapse. These places were started without due regard of the future. It was only a passing desire and ambition of a few boomers" to create a place where lots might be sold at fabulous prices. and the suckers skinned. That day has passed; prin- cipally because Uncle Sam has quit opening new countries and again the suckers have ceased to bite.
 A recent excursion left Memphis over the Frisco System in charge of Mr. F. D. Fuller, townsite agent of the South western Colonization Company, which is the great land selling body of the Frisco System Immigration Bureau. MT. Fuller has gathered two hundred dele gates on this train who came to rep resent fourteen hundred town lot buy CTS. The train was a modern Pullman
 
 schedule. With the party were several capitalists worth more than a million dollars, and MT. S. A. Hughes, general immigration agent of the Frisco SyS- tenn.
 MT. Fuller, some six months ago, took Carmen, a small but excellent little town in western Oklahoma, up for the purpose of selling 1t to Southern peo- pie. MT. Fuller was himself a travel ing man in the South for great many years before he became interested with the Frisco System in the settlement of its territory, and he knew the South was alive to any money making oppor- tunities. He sold the fourteen hun dred lots in Carmen on the installment plan and these two hundred excursion ists represented his patrons.
 The party reached Carmen early one forenoon and was met by a reception committee. They had already sent a band ahead to meet the train forty miles ahead and the party where at once shown the part of town sold to them before they had seen their pur- chase The lots had been sold without any particular selection on the chart being granted. and the prices had been made so low as to be attractive. Of course all of the lots could not be valued at $400-b br $500 each, nor could they all be sold for more than that. IT became necessary in selling them to set one price and this was low enough to make 1t a quick sale to persons wishing to make money in new town
 After the party had viewed the town, they gathered in a large hall and Mir Fuller placed the distribution of lots in the hands of a committee selected by them. This committee placed num- bers on every lot and numbers of every purchaser, and the two were jumbled up and when the selections took place some lot buyers secured property worth ten times their purchaser and few of them got lots at less value. One man paid $35 for a lot and sold 1t within a short time for $500. and another bought a lot with a house on 1t for $225 and sold it>for $1,100.
 MT. Fuller took the whole train load of investors to the town of Quanah after the distribution of lots at Carmen, and drove them over the site, where a number bought property for the distri- button which takes place In about three months.
 Mir. Fuller ia one of the most suc- cessfuI town-site managers in the en- tire South, living at Memphis. and he is handling all of the townsites of any importance along the Frisco system. During the past eighteen months he has sold about S25O. 900 worth of town property in Oklahoma, representing r. 500 buyers. These are scattered through the South. His plan of building a town in day. as 1t were, has attracted the attention of railroad and immigration representatives all over the country.
 Of the seven hundred new towns to be built in the Southwest within the next year, MT. Fuller will manage the most successful ones, as he holds the confidence of the Frisco officials to a high degree and they look to him to populate their territory with the best class of Southern blood.