The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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- - """ T" =T UARHH 10. 1898. NUMBER 10
REBUUNUO v_/ '' u w " —
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1898.
VOLUME 5,
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and deliclooA.
POWDER
Absoi tely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEWYORK-
less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd
ed into tliis Edenic section of new
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
and toiled forlliree seasons, brought
their families her.-, founding per-
manent, happy and independent
homes, without means, without any
| Hiicouragemtnt for many weary days,
I weeks, months and years, yet today
1 they feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
I valuable land.
ALTITUDE.
This county is on a line with
central Tennessee, Arkansas and
North Carolina and the Hay 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 tlie
practical mind can conceive; long
swells of preen crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, from
A Garden Spot in Oklahoma.-
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
EVERY ftORE HOMESTEftDED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
CAPTIVATING, HEALTHY GLINlftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
R.ftRE CRYSTAL WATER.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE GITY OF ENID.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People -In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
a dark green garment, irrigatin
and draining, furnishing power,and
water for stock, and indicating
that 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 souice
in a bubbling spring, sparkling 111
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
Iributed 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 tins coun-
try, there is no 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 has or wil.
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing com ot 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 ot the town,
ship assessors for the year lodi,
shows that there are 58,756 apple
trees planted and growing J" the
county; 170,540 peach trees; *4,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,0pears;
0,760 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 lasr
spring.
lSUTTElt, EGGS 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 o
income from this source of about
$(!8,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
Gunnmatiam & croppy.
The Leading
Implement Dealers ot Oklahoma.
Have in stock the celebrated
Orescent s Monarch
Bicycles and a full line of Bicycle Sundries, also
The Racine BiiQflles-
of all sizes and patterns. Call and see them.
You are always welcome, dw 2 21
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Previous to the year 18 ih the
Cherokee outlet was inhabited only
by Indians, buffalos, wild horses
scattered bands of cow boys and
1 heir inseparable companions, the
long horned Texas steer. H was
1 luring the year 1876 that the ail.
/mice guard of the grand army "
King Agricola marched into the
quiet pp-oSnis of Southern Kansas]
t 3 recounoiter; the main army soon
followed, taking up every acre to the
Kansas state line then looked wish-
fully into the strp, this beautiful
country of which we write. From
t lie centennial year, twenty.one years
H rr, there was a continual struggle
wi 1I1 the powers at Washington to
this land, so that new homes
,nlgla be established and the fertile
oil be made to bear the fruits of the
M'ior of the pioneer farmer.
The strggle continued from year
to year, and, at tiniest, the hardy
ay mers becoming tired of the in-
sobon of the government would
btiak across the Kansas line to force
b ettleinent, only to be driven out
a<- the soldiers. At last on the 10th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
tfovern.ne.it declarer! the long closed
"a tea of the Cherokee strip ajar, and
bade ill enter, who wished, provid-
er the? held a booth certificate.
Thousand* of mortgage pinched
fsrmsri from Kansas; the drouth strio
p«.r from western Kansas; bom#
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
|„m dwell in low malarial places,
breathing the foul breath of death
itself at, every respiration, is unpre-
j pared to accept the truth regarding
' the influence the clear, balmy, invig
irating atmosphere of this locality
has upon mankind. A short stay
here convinces all that here is na-1
turn's sanitarium. The depressed
nundis made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas-
ant, the cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug
trish brain and impaired blood active
nud healthy, and, in fact, the whole
system becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." Those who
live amid Me cold banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills the marrow
in ,heir bones, pinches the poor and
impoverishes the rich, will find that
much sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north mud and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south 111
his latitude; and at this point the
elevation is such as to eliminate all
traces of lassitude and retain all tne
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.
WHEAT.
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for thisseason is 8o,OUU
acres, for this county, but owing to
the farmers fearing a slough in
price, should they report correctly,
lied considerably, hence, 12o,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
gold 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-,
able pork; horses to the number of
9 635 about a half a horse for each |
one ot 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 8755,085. 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.
Bran New
GaHes. ■ Bread.
BAKERY.
We have opened up a bakery, confectionary and hurt
istoreinEnid. We also carry a full line of lunch canned
goods. LUNCH COUNTER.
Best Brands of Clears and Tobacco.
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E Street.
Gunninoliam & Liiweborn.
Proprietors.
oats, barley an1) rye.
The acreage of these cereals was j
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 ' ,488 acres of
(MtB out, some barley and rye, but j
no record was made of it. I here ;
were 4,022 acres of castor beans, and ,
6 220 acres of cotton planted. .
These crops are estimated to be j
worth *100,000.
fobage.
No C(M"' on earth can beat this
county on "rage of all kinds, and
English ..v.- grass does remarkably
well.
p mm1s
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 'hej
mes of many ol soldi- rs *
hepension money paid o
etrnas amounts to *4 ,>)
I. AT I O N.
The population of the county is j
„ow about 18,000, and increasing
Every quarter section has been ,
„ esteaded, in fact, only eighty |
acres in the 1,080 square miles com |
posing the county, remains to be 1
taken up, and the eighty is tho.ght
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PHODUCTS.
The products of this country are
Terr numerous and wonderful, as it
is ill the peanut belt and just far
enoufh south to raise tk* best cotton
i <111 (Mi uj/) r>
to be valuable for gvpsum.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1898, newspaper, March 10, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112055/m1/1/: accessed April 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.