This town, located in the West Hickory District, is generally noted through the oil region, and an occasional reference to its improvements is interesting. A correspondence of the Forest Press writes:

The town of Fagundas, or Battle City, reminds one of the loudest days that oil ever inaugurated, carrying one back again to those live days of speculation. Yet men learn wisdom from past experiences, and after no such confusion and disorder as characterized in the earlier days Pithole, Shamburg, and some other oil towns prevails.

The buildings are more substantial generally, not being shanties, but homes and comfortable store-rooms, in many instances lathed and plastered. Better than all, amidst all these buildings, the House of God stands among them, lifting its high steeple, proudly overlooking all. This church edifice is a find building indeed, an honor to the place.

The hotels are swarming, not with bedbugs, etc., but with active business men. No oil section presents a more industrious and excellent population than this. I will not give you any detailed account of hotels, stores, etc., of which there are many, as your columns are open for “business” in the way of advertising, and they can “blow their own horn.”