The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-04-30
A NEW TOWN WILL
Be ESTABLISHED
Colony From Canal Zone to
Settle in Charles County.
is HELPFUL TO THE STATE
About Forty Families OF Canal En-
ployes. With Combined Savings
OF About $780, 1000, Will Make
Their Homes Here.

great boom to Southern Maryland
is the purchase of $500 acres of land
in Charles county by a colony of en-
ployes of the Panama Canal and their
families. They have organized them
selves into the Canal Zone Club. Added
to this tract is the acquisition of 1000
acres of adjoining land by company
which will improve and develop it.
The Southern Maryland tract ac-
quired is between White Plains and
Waldorf. The average price was
S18.75 per acre. The colony which
realized that new homes must be
secured with the completion of the
canal, appointed a committee to find
q suitable site for settlement. That
committee visited Is States before it
decided that the Charles county prop
osition was the most attractive. The
land is in the Popes Greek branch of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
the new state road, and is within q
few miles of Washington. The pros
pective settlers have combined saw
ings of about $4,000. They will
acquire $500 acres from the purchas-
ing company at cost, with expenses of
searching titles, deeds, etc, added,
giving long time notes in payment.
Their capital will be spent in erecting
homes, outbuildings, fences and in
other developments.
The land was not acquired until it's
fertility and productiveness had been
fully investigated. This work was
done by DR.. S. R. Hopkins, formerly
professor of agriculture at the Uni
versity of Indiana. After chemical
analysis of the soil he said tnat it was
capable, after development of produc-
ing any kind of crop that can be grown
in this latitude. He said the improve
ments to soil would cost SIC per acre.
and with this expenditure the land
would be as productive as that in the
price is 800 per acre.
Aided the Enterprise.
tuSlIu luelldl III SeCuTlHS Inc COlOny
for Maryland were the Southern Set
Element and Development Organiza-
ton, of which S. Davis Warield is
president; w. L. Marbury and Robert
Grain. Edwin Warfield, Jr., son of the
former Governor, has taken deep in
terest in the enterprise and has aided
1t financially.
Mr. Marbury consented to act tenn
porarily as president of the company.
which has acquired the land. He will
hand the managerial reins over to
Clement S. Ticker, manager of the
Southern Settlement and Development
Organization. Mr.. Ticker was one of
the most capable men in the govern
ment service.
Canal Zone Club.
The Canal Zone Club is an organ
ization consisting of some 80 or 40 men
and their families, who have been en-
gagged for seven or eight years past
in work connected with the construc-
ton of the Panama Canal AS that
work approached completion. these
people, who had been living together
so many years, conceived the design of
securing a tract of agricultural land
somewhere in the United States and
settling upon it. Many of them had
previously been engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits, and these various FAM
lilies had accumulated savings amount
ing to about $4,000 or $4,000.
They desired to purchase a good
agricultural land. well located with
reference to markets and with proper
transportation facilities. making a
small initial payment, the balance of
the purchase money to be paid in in
stalments running over a period of 10
years. and thus reserving the bulk of
their capital to equip and improve
their farms.