The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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r^A^l^rROARS AND RBBOUNPS ONLY TO POME BACK AGAIN WTH GREATER FOROE FOR ENID. GARFIELD OOUNTY. OKLAHOMA, AND DEMOCRACY.
VOLUME 5. "ENIEVOKLA^^ FEBRUARY 3, 1898. I '
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
&AKIH0
POWDER
Absolutely Pur©
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
GARFIELD
COUNTY.
A Garden Spot in Oklahoma.—
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
tYERy flGRE HOMESTEftDED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GflPTIVATING, HEALTHY GLIMftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Pair
God every year.
RARE GRySTflL WATER.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE 6ITY OF ENID.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Issb farmers from Texas, Colorado and
nil parts of the United States crowd
wl into this Edenic section of new
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
and toiled forihrti« seasons, brought
their families her.-, founding per-
manent, happy and independent
homes, without means, without any
encouragement lor many weary days,
weeks, months and years, yet today
tliey feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable land.
ALTITUDE.
This county is on a line with
central Tennessee, Arkansas and
North Carolina and the Bay of
Montery on the Pacific coast, and has
a mean altitude of 1,158 above the
sea, which is that happy medium be-
tween arid plains and malarial
marshes.
The surface is as handsome as the
practical mind can conceive; long
swells of green crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, from
a dark green garment, irrigatin
and draining, furnishing power,and
water for stock, and indicating
lhat at a moderate depth a superior
buality of well water can be found.
Here and there a babbling brooklet
percolates through tangled grass
and over its gravelly bed, and a
short, brisk walk will find its source
in a bubbling spring, sparkling in
the sunlight and tasting to the
thirsty palate like the spring water
we so loved to lay our face in our
boyhood days in our far away east-
ern home.
There are at least one hundred
clearly defined water-courses dis
tributed so judiciously that in a mile
or two, at almost any point in the
county, one will cross a creek of
greater or lesser importance, while
the Turkey, Skeleton, Boggy, Hack-
berry and Black Bear creeks and
others are formidable streams.
There is along the banks of these
streams more or less timber, and had
it not been for the raging fires that
for centuries, prior to the settlement
of the country, swept over this coun-
try, there is 110 doubt but what hard-
wood timber would stand where the
tall prairie grass waves to and fro at
the will of the wind today.
that has ever reached the market and
wheat, this year, that lias or will
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing corn of all
kinds, including katlir and broom,
grow to wonderful proportions, the
species mentioned never failing.
Here is the home of the castor beau
oats, barley and sweet potatoes. The
homesteaders who had money to im-
prove their homes rapidly are well
provided with fruit this year.
The records in the county clerk's
office, from the returns of the town,
ship assessors for the year 189/,
shows that there are 58,756 apple
trees planted and growing in the
county; 170,540 peach trees; <24,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,(572 pears;
6,700 grape vines; 207,250 straw-
berry plants; 16,229 blackberries;
2,930 raspberries and 9,280 plum
trees. These figures do not include
the fruit trees planted this last
spring.
BUTTER, EGGS AND l'OULTKY.
There was 128,826 pounds of but-
ter marketed last year and upwards
of 1,520,728 dozens of eggs and
130,000 chickens, ducks, geese and
turkeys, making a grand aggregate of
ncome from this source of about
#08,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
Look Out
FOR
"M
Previous to the year 1870 the
Cherokee outlet was inhabited only
by Indians, buffalos, wild horses,
scattered bands of cow boys and
iheir inseparable companions, the
long horned Texas steer. It was
during the year 1876 that the ad-
vance guard of the grand army of
King Agricola marched into the
quiet prec\ntsof Southern Kansas
to reconuoiter; the main army soon
followed, taking up every acre to the
Kansas state line then looked wish-
t illy into the strp, this benutiful
country of which we write. From
i lie centennial year, twenty-one years
ago, there was a continual struggle
with the powers at Washington to
open this land, so that new homes
might be established and the fertile
soil be made to bear the fruits of the
a'xir of the pioneer farmer.
The strirgle continued from year
to year, and, at times, the hardy
ay mers becoming tired of the in-
sobol 'of the government would
b tink across the Kansas line to force
bv-ettleinent, only to be driven out
acthe soldiers. At last on the 16th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
government declared the long closed
gates of ttie Cherokee strip ajar, and
bade all enter, who wished, provid-
ing they held a booth certificate.
Thousands of mortgage pinched
farmers from Kansas; the drouth stric
kdi poor from western Kansas; hotne
CLIMATE.
The climate of Garfield county or
Oklahoma can scarcely be exagger
ated in words. The country is cen
trally located between the cold,
frigid north and the torrid, hot
south. To prove this we have only
to say that both wheat and cotton
can be successfully grown here.
The weather scarcely ever gets ex-
tremely hot or cold; the nights are
always cool and pleasant during
the warmest weather.
The reader whose fortunes bid
him dwell in low malarial places,
breathing the foul breath of death
itself at every respiration, is unpre-
pared to accept the truth regarding
the influence the clear, balmy, invig
orating atmosphere of this locality
has upon mankind. A short stay
here convinces all that here is na-
ture's sanitarium. The depressed
mindis made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas-
ant, the cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug-
gish brain and impaired blood active
and healthy, and, in fact, the whole
system becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." Those who
ive amid Me enid banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills the marrow
in their Imnes, pinches the poor and
impoverishes the rich, will find that
much sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north land and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south iti
his latitude; and at this point the
elevation is such as to eliminate all
traces of lassitude and retain all the
energies for which the people of the
north are famous.
The stranger in this section is in-
fatuated with the delightful climate,
and satisfaction in this direction is
guaranteed by every loyal and re
sponsible citizen.
AND
WHEAT.
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for this season is 85,000
acres, for this county, but owing to
the farmers fearing a slough in
price, should they report correctly,
ied considerably, hence, 125,000
acres is nearer the actual amount
harvested and it will average thirty
bushels to the acre making a grand
yield of 3,750,000 bushels, which at
50 cents a bushel amounts in cold
jrold cash to *1,875,000.
STOC.
Up to the first day of Febuary,
last, the little empire of Garfield
county, 30x36 miles square, con-
tained 9,869 hogs, or a half a hog
for each man, woman and child in
the county, which means consider-
ablepork; horses to the number of
9,635 about a half a horse for each
one of us; mules 1,561; cattle of all
kinds 11,376, about two thirds of a
steer, cow or calf for each of us. lhe
yalue of this stock on a close estimate
is $755,085. Counting an increase
of one to each head of stock each
ear to be is sold in the market
makes the income from the stock
source about the amount mentioned
above.
Startling
FROM
Logan & Kennedy,
ENID, O. T.
OATS, BARLEY AND RYE.
The acreage of these cereals was
not large this year, but the yield per
acre was wonderful; oats and barley |
figured as high as eighty bushels to I
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of j
oats out, soine barley and rye, but j
no record was made of it. There j
were 4,022 acres of castor beans, and ;
6,220 acres of cotton planted, j
These crops are estimated to be |
worth *100,000.
FOllAGE.
No cc r' on earth can beat this
county on ' rage of all kinds, and j
English grass does remarkably
well.
peanuts
This country will produce as fine
peanuts as were ever placed on the
markets, yet they are notraised to an
extent worth mentioning.
PENSIONS.
Garfield county contains 'lie;
mes of many ol soldi rs a
hepension money paid o
etrnas amounts to *4 ,0
I.ATIO N.
The population of the county is j
now about 18,000, and increasing |
n Every quarter section has been
n esteaded, in fact, only eighty
ncres in the 1,080 square miles coin-
posing the county, remains to be
taken up, and the eighty is thought
to be valuable for gypsum.
This Space is for some lucky man who is up to snuff and wishes to lncreace his business.
Pies. ■ 6akes. • Bread.
BAKERY.
Bran New
products.
The products of this country are
very numerous and wonderful, as it
is hi 'lie peanut belt and just far
enough south to raise the best cotton
We have opened up a bakery, confectionary and fruit
store in Enid. We also carry a full line ct inch canned
goods. LUNCH COUNTER.
Best Brands of Gioars and iobaoco.
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E Street.
Cunningham & Linneborn.
Proprietors.
- I in peanut oeit and just fur
^•u fjom wes'jr-t Kansas; home . enough south to raisethe best cotton
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1898, newspaper, February 3, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112050/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.