Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Coming North With The Swallows. [ARTICLE]

Coming North With The Swallows.

That persistent traveler, James S. Alter, having gone to "the “jumping off place” in Texas, namely to Galveston on the gulf coast, is now drifting northward in company with the early birds of spring. He was at King Fisher, in,western Oklahoma when last he wrote to The Republican. He came up from Texas through the Chickasaw nation, and visited Lacy Alter, a former Jasperite, near Edmond, Oklahoma. He has been there ever since the country opened up, and is prospering finely. Most every place he goes to in Oklahoma he finds a good soil for wheat, corn, cotton and all kinds of fruit. Near King Fisher he was impressed by what are called the salt plains. Hundreds of acres covered deep with salt, which the people haul away by the wagon load, and shovel up like so much sand.