The North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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The Trains Stop Only at North Enid.
Th e I)ortJi Erjicl Weekly Tribdrje.
VOL. I. NO. IO.
WOLTERS' BULLETIN.
NOHTII ENID, COl'NTV O, OKLAHOMA, TI! I' USD A V, DKCKMIiKlt - I, ISJCt.
* 1.5(1 non YKAU, IN ADVANCE.
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Enid Station.
AND THE WORLD-FAMED
CHEROKEE STRIP.
of men who had tramped and camped and most striking mark of the depart-
all over it; who knew every section j ed days are the old luiflalo trails.
of it well. The explorers at one time ; The country was, in buffalo days,
believed it unvaluable. The traders crossed from south to north by iunuui-
and freighters agreed. The erable paths cut deeply into the sod.
more learned wrote elaborate treaties They were almost endless, because
of warning". The judicious grieved, they started in Texas and ended in
< >f such gigantic vastuess was thi
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I lin e just received lor
(lie I loliday trade,
FINE CANDIES,
N IS OF ALL KINDS.
RAISINS.
CITRON.
I iv Silver Churn Butterine.
Call and examine our
line < 1 Lain]) and Queens-
ware.
Enici SlaLion, the Pros ective
Capital and metropolis and
Railroad Center.
I'uro, Stiff Witt or In .t' u tuliiiioo.
Manitoba. These trails are all that is
left to remember the bison by. The
plow of the industrious husbandman
has obliterated them with all other |
signs of .1 curious past. Then the
Mini I li s In t In' > «
Connection to Eastern and Souther
MurketB by the Great Hock
Island Route.
" The home
' the brave."
</ the free and th
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QOTO THE
T. JVI. Richardson •
humber Co.
to so write o
ma and the still great-
er Cherokee Outlet
that those who have
never visited the coun-
try. and are therefore
unfamiliar with the greatness of its
vastness, may he given even a vague
idea of the most fertile and productive
agricultural and fruit-raising section
in the United States.
When the government conceived the
idea of concentrating the various In-
dian tribes on one vast reservation the
privilege was given poor Lo, in his
giinnysaek frock, to select from the
unoccupied domain the country he
would like best, where lie could make
merry with his plural wife and make
his periodical raid against the peace
and scalp of the white man, With
immense plain that it seemed the
whole country had been swept by the
besom of desolation. was not only
a homeless solitude: at that time there
were reasons palpable and undoubted gray thief of the wilderness yelped the
why it should never become the home night watches away, barking to hear
of civilized man. himself bark enamored of his own
Now, there is every reason perfectly voice. The camp-tire was then his
apparent why it is rapidly becoming I guiding .star, and he smelted the fry-
the most wonderful agricultural and ing pan from afar.
fruit growing section in the world. In the early morning herds of ante-
Kour y« ars ago when tin• Rock Island lopes would appear for a moment on
first stretched it ■ lone-, me lines of the brow of the hills, and then were
iron across the silent landscape there gone like phantoms of the Mirage
was not a human habitation in the
id whole country. Now it is an agr-
icultural paradise. The country is
l ions 1 i k |PrinciPally prairie: just enough timber
f Oklalio
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the monotony. Hut millions
of trees have been planted by the
settlers. They have completely
changed the original appearance of
the country. The horizon has depart-
ed. and clumps of tree- interrupt the
(Mice almost boundless view.
There were those who claimed with
many other things that trees wouldn't
grow. Ood did not intend they should i
j or He would have planted them Him- | imi f,(r
self. It was a pious conclusion, built
upon the ideas of the old school, but
like all the others, entirely erroneous.
The general idea of a prairie count-
ry is that it should be flat. That is
not, though the territory cannot boast
of a mountain, or even anything that
can be called a hill except by a con-
siderable stretch of courtesy. There
is not a swamp within its boundaries.
It is what is called "rolling," and the
the grace fullest and nimblest of the
denizens of what seemed perpetual si-
lence and unbroken peace.
THK COMINC. CITY ANI) V \ I'lT A I. OF
OKLAHOMA.
North Enid (or Enid Station proper)
is freely and frankly admitted to be
the most favored town in the territory.
Its location and the conditions which
surround it unite in making it the
great city of the plains.
It is located on a beautiful, rolling
prairie and will be fed by the world's
richest agricultural and fruit raising
more than forty miles in <
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North Enid,
Okla.
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true Indian cunning, that portion was imdulations are very charming to the
cted where the land was the
| fertile, all kinds of timber
i and an abundance of pure
most
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water.
Heretofore this much coveted coun-
try has been an enigma to itself. The
Cherokee Strip, since the building of
From May until November it is
plentiful well worth a visit for the mere sake of
running feasting the eye upon probably the
j most charming pastoral landscape,
and the most extensive, in the world.
It will not answer to allow yourself to
become attracted by it unless you pro-
D. G. BOYNTON.
Tonsorial flrtist. 3
(lOOU WORKMEN. SHARP RAZORS. I.KAN TOWELS.
North Enid, ** w w Oklahorna*
the 6rent l\ock Island Routt through pt)se listen to the promptings which
Horizon
;rept in-
advertently into the language. It is
TOU WflHT : : :
. . LUMBER
flNb TOU WANT QOOD
LUMBER
(io lo Davidson A Case and <re! it,
j its center, lia^ sprung up out of u soil persuade you to remain.
that in the east end looks like redisli |llln(rrv" is a phrase that h;i
concrete but through the center, from
Caldwell to Hennessey, is a rich, black j no^ entirely hyperbole.
I sandy loam. In our trips here. Nooks and valleys historically
amid the scenes that lie charming will lose their spell to you,
around its gateways, that nestles because they are too small. In early
there is the agricultural garden of the times her climate was most diseourag-
United States; where the farmer can ing from its very inherent incurable
till his soil every month in the year; disagreeableness. The wind seemed
where roses and castor-beans take up- to be always blowing. It amounted
oil themselves the similitude of trees, to malice. Everything that was port-
atid where fruits and flowers of tropi- able was taken to some other locality,
cal islands, and curious perennials This perpetual sirocco was not oc-
froin across the seas, flourish better
I than in their native clime.
There is nothing wild or startling
I about it.
Occasionally may be seen the typi-
casional but continuous. This has all
changed now.
Reminiscences and assot iations
mig'ht have a rich field there, but it is
a very busy country and the people
cry direction, a country equal to the
low lands of the Nile.
North Enid lies almost in the center
of Oklahoma, north and south, and
in another six months will be the cen-
ter of population from east to west.
Being thus located, in so exceptional-
ly tine country, and having the sup-
port of so great and good a corpora-
tion as the Kock Island railroad, our
chances for the permanent seat of
state government are far better than
any other town in the territory.
Our streams of water are Turkey
Creek on the west, Pond Creek and
Salt Fork on the north and Skeleton
Creek six miles to the east. All these
streams are lined with a tine growth
of the various kinds of hard timber
growing in eastern and northern
states- not so much as to destroy the
land for agricultural purposes, but
sufficient to afford the farmer plenty
of cheap fuel, and, if necessary, build
log houses, stables, corals and other
improvements, where, in a new coun-
try without timber, money would be
necessary to buy lumber with which
to make these improvements.
Our soil is a rich black sandy loam,
frotn fou** to six feet deep, with a sub-
soil of yellowish clay, underlaid with
coarse gravel. The soil is heavily
sodded with nutritious native grass,
and the gentle undulation of the sur-
face affords the most superb natural
drainage.
The water supply of North Enid is
the pride and boast of every citizen.
We can better illustiate its abundance
in this manner; On Monday, follow-
ing the day of the opening, the Town
FRED HOW ITT,
ENGINEER AND SITRVEY< )K.
r to drill a well
townsite. The
Is Abvavs tlie Popular I>rink.
' al frontiersman in his picturesque are not nursing old phatoim. The
habiliments, but really he only ling- growing trees, the tall fields of corn,
ers now in song and story. the waving wheat, the creeping car-
Froin every ravine and hillside, and pet of sod, the sleek cattle roaming in
from the broad valleys, may now be broad pastures, seemed to have con- Company, ever watchful foi the in-
seen the little thin blue columns of spired with the new comers and the 1 terests of tlie town and its citizens.
| smoke creeping towards the clouds rising generation to obliterate all the employed a well-digge
from hundreds of happ> . thrifty and disagreeable past. There is no coun- center of the
' prosperous homes a few weeks ago try where less attention is paid to the drill was sent down fifteen feet and
it was a barren, uninhabited wilder- has-been and the might-have-beens, five feet of water struck. Io be ab-
• ness. It was the lonely reaches of The great Salt Fork river crosses solutely sure the drill was put down
Llano J:stacado; after long years of the c unity and is about ten miles to a depth of thirty feet, into the
windswept silence and nights of tire- north of this place. It is about three j heavy underlying bed of gravel and
less watching; after the weary tramp quart rs of a mile wide but of not any i the finest flow of water was struck.
| through a land that had no human great depth. Three years ago its 1 wenty feet immediately arose in the ;
habitation; after years of wandering banks were as uninhabited as those of well and has remained at that depth
where countless herds of buffalo block- any wilderness river in any corner of | ever since. A force pump was put in ^
ed the trails, frc ni the j-outh to the the world. The prairie dog towns it, and it being the only well in town |
north; after hunger and thirst,daring, were built beside it, their outraged in where water could be procured, every
privations, Indian fighting" we have habitants seeming to hold indignation j citizen "took a turn" at the handle,
a full measure of refined, intelligent meetings, and barking querulous pro- Calahau's grading outfit of mules.(100
civilization. | tests against the other diggers and head) quenched their thirst three |
One is a picture of what Oklahoma delvers who have lately come, against times a day at this veritable fountain, .
was a few weeks ago the other, what the rumble and roar and sounds of es- i settlers came in from their claims as (
it is today. caping steam that had begun to dis- far out as eight and ten miles and I
A few weeks ago there was nothing I turb the peace and quiet of these ex- filled their kegs and barrels. This
crossing the country but a lot of etnplary burghers. The two very j has been kept up every day since, and
the flow of water is as great now as it
OKLAHOMA AVE.,
north enid, o. t
CWflPfDfIN & BRKER,
was the hour the drill was taken fn
the well. The supply i.J absolutely
inexhaustible. The Town Company
immediately had another well drilled, j
with the same gratifying result, and
now there are wells all over the town, i
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North Enid Grocery Co.
G. S. STEIN.
E are now located in our new room on
Oklahoma Avenue with a lull and
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complete stock of
f
TflPLE AND - * 4 * *
dNCT QROCERIEJ.
Wti eavecome to stay, and by giving
good weights and good goods will try to
mertt your patronage.
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trails, foot roads of the Indians who lonesome lines of steel among the
inhabited the territory. The Indian sedges were unauthorized by either
is not a colonist. The Indian comes the dogs or the common sense of the
and goes: does not leave a thread of times, now they are worn by the im-
historv of his conquests. These old mense tratic that is taken over them
trails, lined with graves and wet with every hour of the twenty-four. These
tears, the scene throughout its weary steel spans have ceased to be lonesome
length of toil and perils that can never and are a part of the landscape of A system of water works is an assur-
be lived again, is now populated by this beautiful country. Yet, there i ] ed enterprise. The water is unusual-
"thrifty intelligent people, prosperous something almost supernatural in the ly soft and cool. The Tkibi'NK uses
to an amazing degree and the territory distant flash of the headlight as i1 it in its engine and finds it excellent
is now spanned by three of man's most creeps nearer and nearer through the for steam purposes, free af iron, clay
collossal commercial achievements silence and in the darkness across the and lime
the railroad. vast reaches of the prairie by ni^ht.
One must think twice before he can There is still something ominous in
quickly comprehend what has passed the long trail of smoke that lies along
in this quadrangle of soil in the way the horizon by day as the train speeds
of material development in the past (on iU journey laden with settlers,
three years, both by the people in the merchandise and implements. The
thriving towns, on the farms and by picture of tho old times doe* not occur
that great civilizer, the (Jreat Rock to many of the pushing inhabitants of
Island Route, and when one lends him- that section now. It has gone in the
self to contemplation over the picture, past, and is of no concern to modern
judging by the past of only a few interests. Away from the town and
years, the result must be nothing but the track, and between the great
a general feeling of astonishment. It fields, we see occasionally the foot-
has been something remarkable. prints of poor Lo and his aimless,
There is, even from a modern and wandering existence. Glimpses of
western standpoint, something extra- the historic trail to thy government
ordinary in this high per centage of trading posts may be caught occasion-
increase in the settlement of the ally from the windows of the train.
country in three years. The increase, The dog towns are still there, half ted States. The thermometer scarce-1
it must be remembered, has taken deserted it is true, and lacking the air ly ever rises above ninety-five in the
place in what has been termed a and opulence of pros}>erity which summer and never reaches zero in
I desert. It was a desert in the opinion characterized tlieiu. But the chiefest Continued on fourth page. j
We keep in stock all kinds
of Hardware Merchandise,
Our prices are to suit the
We are certainly fortunate in the 111 IllCS.
one prime object of a new country- (
a pure, wholesome and inexhaustible
water supply. The railroad company
has selected North Enid as its water-
ing station in Oklahoma. This poin-
ter beats a dozen "straws" all to!
thunder.
THK CI.IMATK.
It is difficult for our northern and (
eastern friends to realize that we have
cooler and far more pleasant sum- j
titers than are experienced in any of
the eastern or northern states, but it :
is none the less true. Heyond que*- i
tion the climate of this section is more j
equable, healthful and salubrious |
than in any other portion of the Iltii-i
A\
enue
North Knid.
J. lyl. TWORNTOD,
It A K KS I'll K
Best Bread,
Best Pit's
AN" Best Rolls.
sOKMHOn#! AVE., KHSKTM ENID.
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