The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-02-06
DON'T WANT CAMP BRAGG.
Farmers and Land Owners Indignant
at Treatment Received.

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war department in an effort to keep
up the construction of Camp Bragg
there are some people in that section
who want the thing stopped. The
construction of the camp had just
started when the war closed, but by
spending money and wire pulling at
Washington, Fayetteville interests
have been able to get the work con-
tinued, and millions of dollars
thrown away by the government.
The following is from the Char
lotte Observer:
Southern Pines, Jan. 21-"Camp
Bragg has become a mighty unpop-
ular theme in Hoke county," said
Frank Cameron, who was visitor Ill
Southern Pines today from across
the county border. Months ago we
we're notified to make no crops this
wear, and we planted no fall and win
ter grain. We were told to be ready
to move out by the first of the year,
and we let our farm plans disorgan-
ize. Now we get no information, no
satisfaction, and we seem no nearer
to disposing of our farms to the gov
ernment than we did a year ago.
Things in the upper half of Hoke
ci1
are in bad predicament. Our farm
help has left us. Two or three miles
from our farm lived a community OF
colored people who own their
homes, and who have made credit
able places for themselves. They
have practically abandoned their
homes, moving away to other places
and they have not been paid for their
farms, nor will they stay to work for
any one else.
Il do not know of any farmers,
white or black, who have been paid
anything on their lands, yet the gov
will give us no notice, that
we may go ahead and farm this sea-
son. Our schools have been wreck
ed. our churches interrupted, we are
getting rid Of our stock. and 1t looks
now as if the military committee in
congress, by putting the army mat
ters over to the next congress in De-
cember, has hung US on the fence
1t seems to me If there
is any justice anywhere the farm
ers in this $4,000 acres that has
been condemned by the government
have a case against the government
for the practical loss of their years
work. Government men come in
and appropriate anything they want
and when we protest they give us
that cheap answer that the govern
ment will pay but so far it has not
shown the color of its money. Close
by my house they cut about 10 acres
of the finest round pine timber in
this section, but N. S. Blue, the own
er. has not heard anything that
sounds like money rafting, and he
has succeeded in stopping them. The
people are very tired Of the whole
thing, and the one subject OF talk
now it is different. An appeal has
workers and to get some pay for
what has been done in the way or
damage. I think million dollars
10 the farmers, who have been play
ed with this way, would not pay
them for the losses they have sus-
tanned in their year Of interfered
work. l think many claims will be
filed before long. Everybody was
tolerant while they thought the gov
ernment really needed the land, but
now it is different. An appeal has
been made to Senator Martin, Sena-
tor Borah and others to have the
whole project killed. The people
are very tired Of the way it has
gone"
Rushing the Work.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 22-Today
the Cincinnati Federal Employment
office is furnishing 500 men wanted
to work on a United States War De-
partment Artillery Cantonment to be
at Fayetteville, N. c..
said a notice issued by Superintend-
ent Robt. Rice Of the United States
Service under the au-
thority OF Col. H. D. Sawyer, U. S. A.
who formerly had charge OF the con-
struction work at the fifteen million
dollar anchor nitrate plant near this
a.