The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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It WAVES- SURGES ROARS AND REBOUNDS ONLY TO COME BACK AGAIN W'TH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD OOUNTY. OKLAHOMA. AND DEMOCRACY.
VOLUME 5.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1898.
NUMBER 7
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
&AKIN0
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
I less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd-
ed into this Edeuic section <>f new
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
land toiled forthree seasons, brought
| their families her.-, founding per-
manent, happy and independent
homes, w tliout means, without any
encouragement for many weary days,
I weeks, months and years, yet today
j they feel fully repaid, as they are in
COUNTY.
A Garden Spot in Oklahoma.—
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
EYERY flGRE HOMESTEADED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GftPTIVftTING, HEALTHY GLIMftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
RARE CRYSTAL WATER.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE G1TY OE ENID.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Previous to the year 1876 the
Cherokee outlet was inhabited only
by Indians, buffalos, wild horses,
scattered bauds of cow boys and
their inseparable companions, the
longborned Texaf steer. It was
luring the year 1876 that the ad-
vance guard of the grand army of
King Agricola marched into the
quiet prec'Mits of Southern Kansas
to reconnoiter; the main army soot
fallowed, taking up every acre to the
Kansas state line then looked wisl
I illy into the strp, this beautiful
country of which we write. From
he 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 lie made to bear the fruits of the
ab'ir of the pioneer farmer.
The strggle continued from year
to year, and, at times, the hardy
av mers becoming tired of the in-
sobon of the government would
bliak across the Kansas line to force
Ivettleinent, only to be driven out
sic the soldiers. At last on the 16th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
government declared the long closed
gates of the Cherokee strip ajar, and
bade all enter, who wished, provid-
'.ng they held a booth certificate.
Thousands mortgage pinohed
farmers from Kansas; the drouth Htrio
l«n pint from western Kansas; home
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable laud.
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, irrigatiu
and draining, furnishing power,and
water for stock, and indicating
that at a moderate depth a superior
bualitv 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 no doubt but what hard-
wood timber would stand whpre the
tall prairie grass waves to and fro at
the will of the wind today.
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
inihdis made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas
ant, the cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug
gisli brain and impaired blood active
and healthy, and, in fact> the whole
system becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." Those who
live amid hie enid banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills the marrow
in their bones, pinches the poor ant
impoverishes the rich, will find that
much sought medium between the
cold blast*' of the north land and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south in
hit 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.
that has ever reached the market and
wheat, this year, that has or will
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing corn (if all
kinds, including kaffir and broom,
grow to wonderful proportions, the
species mentioned never failing.
Here is the home of the castor bean
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 1897,
shows that there are 58,750 apple
irees planted and growing in the
county; 170,540 peach trees; 24,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,(572 pears;
(5,760 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, EG(iS AND POULTRY.
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
income from this source of about
#(58,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
Pies. • GaKes. ■ Bread.
Bran New
BAKERY.
We have opened up a bakery, confectionary and fruit
store in Enid. We also'carry a full line of lunch canned
goods. LUNCH COUNTER.
Best Brands of JODaCCO-
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E Street.
~ '; & Liiineiiorii.
Proprietors.
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,
lied considerably, hence, 125,000
acres is nearer the actual amount
mrvested 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
gold cash to $1 ,875,000.
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. The
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.
OATS, BARLEY AN1> 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
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of
oats out, some barley and rye, but
no record was made of it. There
were 4,022 acres of castor beans, and
6,220 acres of cotton planted.
These crops are estimated to be
worth $100,000.
This Spit''* is for aonie luekyraan who 1* up to snuff and wishes to tioreaee his busin'M.
No co l*"
county on
English i,.
well.
on earth can beat this
rage of all kinds, and
grass does remarkably
This country will produce as fine ,
peanuts as were ever placed on the I
markets, yel they are notraised to an j
extent worth mentioning.
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PENSIONS.
Garfield county contains
tnes of many ol soldi is
hepeusion money paid
etrnas amounts to $4 ,0
The population of the county is \
now about 18,000, and increasing j
n Every quarter section has been
n esteaded, in fact, only eighty
acres in the 1,080 square miles com-
posing the county, remains to be
taken up, and the eighty is thought
to be valuable for gypsum.
PRODUCTS.
The products of this country are
very numerous and wonderful, as it
is in the peanut belt and just far
enough south to raise the best cotton
Th,msamh of" mortgage pinched | ^ " t belt and jU8t f,r j
rs from Kansas; the drouth Uric | m w | ^ rti|,tlie bMt cotton I
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1898, newspaper, February 17, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112052/m1/1/: accessed May 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.