The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-29
Military Camp at Wriphtstown.

MILITARY lamp at WrlghtSt0Wn
1t has been definitely settled ths
military camp will be established q
Wrightstown, for the mobilization an
training of soldiers in the service of th
government.
Leases and options to lease farm Ian
in that neighborhood have been OF
tanned by state military authoritie.
and as the land and location are salts
factory to the government, the Unite
States will take over the leases.
This is one of five sites for mobiliza
camps to be established in the easter
department. Major General J. F. Bell
commander of the department, sen
the following telegram to Adiutan
General c. w. Barber, yesterday:
''Wrfghtstown site accepted on term
offered by State of New Jersey, name
ly, $25 an acre for first year and $7.5I
yearly, thereafter, for camp site, and S
an acre yearly for target range. Offe
OF State to have site surveyed on scal'
one inch equal 100 feet accepted. Re
quest work commence at once. Pleas
request Pennsylvania Railroad to com
mence construction of road into sitt
without delay"
The tract comprises about 3,OOt
acres, nearly all of which is as goot
farm land as is in Burlington county
or anywhere else. 1t is high, well
drained land, and fine artssian watel
is obtainable.
The farms included in the tract are
owned or leased by Eugene Danley,
Benjamin Harker, Samuel Davis estate
part of Joshua Shreve's, Wilbur Davis
all along the road from Lewistown tc
Wrightstown; Davis Bros, part ol
William Platt's, Warren farm, part oil
Clara Davis, Curtis Danley and AbneI
Lewis, all along the Hanover road
Asher Parker, ]. Cline, John HI. Atkin.
son, on the Cookstown and Pointville
road; Budd Warren and several small
farms, William Stevenson and Lewis
Yerkes, from the Pointville road to
Yerkes' corner.
The farms inside the above boundary
farms include those of Samuel Bishop,
T. ]. Plat, Benjamin Frazer, Henry
Mantel, Douglass Stackhouse, Harry
Davis, John Davis, Jackson DeCamp,
Lewis Mantsl, Y. Potter and Citizens
Cox. In all about 80 farms are in
cluded
A committee OF local farmers
Samuel Bishop, Benjamin Harker and
Wilbur g. Davis-was appointed to
make an appraisement of the leasing
value of the farms. Various amounts
we're fixed, averaging about $25 per
acre for the first year, which includes
the cost of planted crops. The second
year rental averages about $3.50 per
acre. The first lease dates from July
|, 1917, to March 25, 1918.
All fences or buildings that may be
removed by the military authorities
will be paid for, or any other damage
hat may be incurred.
About 20 diaries will be put out of
business by the land being taken. The
number of COWS involved is about 500,
which the owners will be required to
lipose of.
The time for taking the farms is
uly 1st, when the work of making the
ract ready for camp purposes will be
'egun. A great amou mt of work must
'e done before September LIST, the date
low fixed for mobilizing troops. An
Extensive water supply system must be
sanitary arrangements pro-
ided; barracks and other buildings
rected, etc. A railroad spur will be
I'm into the camp.
The teams belonging to the occu-
ants Of the farms will be employed, at
reasonable price, in the work of pre-
airing the camp ground, if the owners
lesire to let them for this purpose.
hundreds of men will be given en-
loyment in getting the camp ready.
'ver a million dollars will be ex-
ended for the purposes above outlined. |
After the Wrightstown site had been
elected by the state authorities and |
he leases signed, board of federal |
rmy officers inspected the tract and |
lade favorable report. Officials of
be Pennsylvania railroad promised to
rovide sufficient transportation facil-
les.
The camp will be made rendezvous
)r from $4,000 to $4,000 men. The
ayroll and other expenses will amount
} about $25, 900, 900 year.