The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 5.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1898
NUMBER 20
The Products of Garfield county for the
Year 1897, were worth $3,721,846.22.
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
GARFIELD
COUNTY.
Garden Spot in Oklahoma
Compo8ed of Rich, Level
and Rolling: Prairie.
EYERY AGRE HOMESTEftDED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GflPTIVflTING, HEALTHY GLIMATE
J'hat causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
"IRE 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 Oounty Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Previous to the year 187(> the
Jherokee outlet was mhaliiteil only
Oy India us, buffalo*, wld horses,
scattered hands of cow hoys and
their inseparable companions, the
long horned Texas si.eer. It was
* luring the year 1876 that the ail.
/MUCH guard of the grand army of
King Agricola marched iiito "the
quiet prec\ nts of Southern Kansas
to reconnoiter; the main army soon
followed, taking up every acre to the
Kansas state line then looked wish-
Idly into the str p, I his beautiful
Country of which we write. From
the centennial year, twenty.one years
<go, there was a continual struggle
with the powers at Washington to
open this laud, so that new homes
might be established and the fertile
soil he made to bny the fruits of the
abor of the pioneer fanner.
Hi* strggle non tinned from year
to year, and, at times, the hardy
ay iners becoming tired of the in-
•obon of the iroverniuent Would
fink the Kansas line to force
Doettleinent, only to be driven out
ac the soldiers. At last on die 16tli
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
government declared the long closed
'^ates of the Cherokee strip ajar, and
Dade all enter, who wished, provid-
ing they held a booth certificate.
Thousands of mortgage pinched
farmers from Kansas; the drouth siric
ken poor from western Kansas; home
less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd
ed into this Edenic secuon of new
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
and toiled forthree seasons, brought
their families here, founding per-
manent, happy and independent
iomes, without means, without any
encouragement lor many weary days,
weeks, months and years, yet today
they feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable land.
ALTITUDE.
1 his county is on a lino with
central Tennessee, Arkansas and
jNorth Carolina and the Bay of
Montery on the Pacific coast, and has
a mean altitude of 1,158 above tfie
sea, which is that happy medium be-
tween arid plains and malarial
(narsbes.
The surface is as handsome as the
practical mind c.;n conceive; long
swells of green crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, from
impoverishes the rich, will find that
much sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north land and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south in
his latitude; and at this point the
elevation is such as to eliminate all
traces of lassitude an:l 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.
PRODUCTS.
The products of this country are
very numerous and wonderful, as it
is in die peanut belt and just far
enough south to raise the best cotton
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 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
i he 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 where the
tall prairie grass waves to and fro at
the will of the wind today.'
CLIMATK.
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
e n be successfully grown here.
1 lie weather scarcely ever gets ex-
tremely hot or cold; the nights are
always cool and pleasant during
the warmest weather.
The reader whose fortunes hid
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 sort
jttints elastic and strong, the slug,
gish brain and impaired blood active
and healthy, and, In fact, the wholfe
system becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." Those who
live amid the cold banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freering blizzard chills the marrow
tiieir hones, pinches t I oor a
that has ever reached the market and
wheat, this year, that has or will
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing corn of 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 assbssors for the year 1897,
shows that there are 58,75(5 apple
trees planted and growing in the
county; 170,540 peach trees; 24,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,072 pears;
6,760 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.
BUTTEK, 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 of
income from this source of about
£08,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
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,
lied considerably, nence, 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
gold cash to ♦1,875,000.
8TOC.
Gonninonaiii & GroDDer.
The Leading
Implement, De airs oi OKianoma.
Have in stock the celebrated
Orescent s Monarch
Bicycles and a full line of Bicycle Sundries, also
The Racine Bunnies-
of all sizes and patterns. Call and see them.
You are always welcome, dw 2 21
Pies, - Gakes, - Bread.
Bran New
We have opened up a ba ery, confectionary and fruit
store in Enid. We also carry a full line of lunch canned
goods. LUNCH COUNTER.
Rest Brands of 7(^660.
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E street.
OunnlnnUam & Linneborn.
Proprietors.
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
Hinds 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 *<55,085. 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.
OATH, BARLEY AND RYE.
The acreage of these ?ereals was
not large this year, but the yield per
acre was wonderful; oats and barley
figured as high aa eighty bushels to
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of
oatB out, some barley and rye, but
no record was msde of it. There
were 4,022 acres of castor beans, and
0,220 acres of cotton planted.
These crops are estimated to be
worth $100,000.
No e<> i*" on earth can beat this
county on "rage of all kinds, and
English uii.e grass does remarkably
THEO STAMM.
Dealers in
fresh in fresh meat, salt meat
Poultry, Oysters, Game, etc.
We have purchased the market just east of Kuhlman res-
taurant on E street and have refitted the same with latest in
the meat mar et line. We shall deal in only the best quali-
ty of everything in the line of meats on the markets. Your
patronage solicited. GIVE US A TRIAL,
FRED LUFT,
' leading Enid dealer in harness, collars, whips, saddles,
and everything in the saddler and harness making line,
at the very lowest prices for good stock.
Hand Made Harness a Specialty.
W2
d. I invite your trade; try me.
FRED LUFT
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