JAKTZ, CORHHIUS J. IHTHVIBW 9??6 / 381

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1 JAKTZ, CORHHIUS J. IHTHVIBW 9??6 / 381

2 f ' Fom A-(S.-149) BIOGRAPHY FOHM WORKS PROGRESS ADhilKISTR/tflON Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma JAWZ, 00PHXLID3 X. INHBBYIEt 9776 Field Worker's name»h * m "'**. ^ /^,. \ January 24 no, This report made pjv (date) ] Name Cfonielitt* J. Jantz, 2. Post Office Address f0rt 3, Residence address (or location) 4. DATE OF BIRTH: Month * WVB Day _^ Year 5. Place of birth 6. Name of Father *>*» B «***** p lacc of - D irth ' Other inf ormat ion about father 7. Name of Mother Place of birth Other information about mother Notes or complete narrative by the field worker dealing with the life and story of the person interviewed. Refer to Manual for siv^osted subjects and questions. Continue on blank sheets if necessary and attach firmly to this form. Number of- sheets attached *

3 383 JARTZ, COHHSLHB J# / iutxrvrs* 9776 Rsyaond <J«Jsnts, sts 24, Coxa liu8 «Jantz, Fort Gobb # Ofclah«MU Z Wao born in Kansas, June 1, 1891, and my parents noved to. the vicinity of Pauls Tallegr in the Spring of 1892* My parents wore farmers and farmed around Paula father wa» a threshing machine man and had a threshing rcaohm at Pauls Valley, East of Paula Valley on the Washita Rlfor was the only cotton fin in the country* T^ex-e m»i & dam across the river and the gin was of the old type water sill* Otir crops "^ere corn, cotton and wheat* Xtt &rsh, we moved to a fain eleven miles southwest of Fort Cobb and aqr parents still livs on thia famu Oooing through the country, in those days isn't like traveling of today There were no roads, only trails to fsll$«ft *& fallow these trails you hsd to go a^ay ut of your «/» We left Atadarko and headed southwest} we tressed the place that S3* Melonca^p notr omm. We b&d to

4 384 JjJTTZ, C0RHELIU3 J* IHTEEVIEW ~ keep to the ridges, which the trail follow* We patted close to the place where Broxton School District ISO* 66 now is and on southwest until wo got to Cache Creek and from there we followed the creek vest to where my parents are now located, one and one-half ailes north of Cache Creek* The first year wg father plowed the sod and we children planted core with a hatchet* this was done by sticking the hatchet into the ground and putting the com m the hole left by the hatchet; After placing the aora m the hole we would step on it* The ne*t year we got a hand planter* It was aed* similar to a post hole digger and had a quart grain box on the side* Ten would push it down into the ground and pull the handles apart and the grain would drop out, after which you would step oa the hole to cover the grain. We nored the threshing machine that we had at Pauls Yalley up to our new hone* The engine was a small 12 horse power steea type tractor* The separator was a Sterlets brand, which dida*t hare either feeder or bind cutters on it* One man cut the binds, another fed the

5 385 JAHIZ, C0JRHELIQ3 J. INTERVIEW machine* i!ksre were BO scales, no the grain had to be measured by hand with a halt bushel measure* There was BO blower, so «n bad to stock the threshed straw* Everything was&'t as modern those days aa no*. We used to hare from sixty to seventy days threshing season where we have from ten to fifteen days sow* is because there are sore machines and more modern