The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-06-19
FINECOTTON
CROP NOW
PREDICTED
Hot Winds Didn't Hurt II:
Hail Damaged Sever
al Localities.

attn VI Aof lhrio ahu HtiNhahto Al
town today showed considerable
shrinking in length and a correspond.
ing increase in width. these changes
having been brought about BY the
fine showers Saturday night which
also operated as an elixir OF life TO the
growing crops. especially cotton.
According to the government gauge
IN chickasha the total precipitation
was .36 Of an inch spread out through
two or three showers Reports indi-
cate that the rain was pretty general
iy distributed over the county and in
some sections II was heavy. 1t ex-
tended from southern Kansas to Law
ton. but was not general rain, some
sections not being visited.
Crops Are Benefited
With two cool days following. the
rain although light. was Of vast bene-
iii 10 cotton and other crops. Corn
in this vicinity. which suffered se-
verely durlng the hot winds last week,
was considerably helped aud the pros
pect for a fair crop is much better
One well posted man said today that
with additional rains and not too much
scorchlng weather, be believed @lru
would make threcfourlhs Of crop.
Cotton Not Damaged
Some well informed cotton men, who
make X business To gather crop In
formation. said today that cotton IN
this locality showed no bad effects
from the unusually hot winds last FRI
day. except that IN few instances
where the plant was very young Il was
w.Iied bit
Hardy Diel. one Of the well known
farmers OF the state. who Is connect
cd with the state board Of agriculture.
was here yesterday and he said cot
ton was never 10 finer shape. He pre-
dIcied that Oklahoma would break
all her recnres on cotton this year.
a Merchants View
w. w. Horne Of the Eagle Mercan-
tile company expressed the feelings
of the merchants today when he said,
.l'm not al all discouraged over our
cotton outlook. We have larger
acreage in this county than we ever
had and while grasshoppers and
drunsh have done some damage, ! be
lIeve we are going to have 2 good
yield. some of the farmers say their
corn Is In fair shape"
Hail Does Damage
J. w. Hardin. who is farming the
George Ladd place. northwest Of town.
was here today and reported a good
rain IN that section last Saturday
night He also reported heayy hail
storm which demolished several
fields OF cotton in his Immediate
nelghborhood
Reports from Pocasset and vicinity
and from Amber and vicinity are to
the effect that heavy rain and hail
storm swept that section Saturday
night ]. r. wheeiock Of the vicinity
Of Amber was in town today and re-
ports that his thirty acre field Of cot
Ton was badly beaten down and dam
aged by the hail He reports Bitter
creek bank full
Lively Storm at Poesscet
A. r. Angel OF the vicinity OF To
cassott was here today and reports q
heavy rain and hail IN that part Of
the county Saturday night. He says
a heavy wind accompanied the storm
and that one farm house south OF Po-
cassel was blown away. No one was
injured. The storm travelled ~ a
southeastern direction.
Renorts came over the Oklahoma
Central today by men who came in
from the eastern part Of the county
are that good rain fell IN McClain
county
Records IN the Pioneer Telephone OIL
flee shows shat rain fell at Duncan and
on south and to sayre and Snyder
and on up to weatherford, Okla Mr
Ross says that the rains were only 10
cal showers
W. s. .Kllgore received reports from
his farm out west Of town that q
heavy rain fell there and only q ligh'
hail storm.