The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1902 Page: 1 of 12
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The Chandler News.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER~36r+?01.
;l<J0 V NUMBER 15.
The Average Weekly Circulation of The News During December Was 1509
4.
Chandler's Opportunity.
A BUSINESS man very truthfully
remarked at the meeting of the
Commercial club Tuesday evening
that the year 1902 would probably
present to Chandler her one great
opportunity to decide as to whether
she should become one of the lead-
ing cities of the territory in commer-
cial importance or whether she
should remain a country town for
years, if not always. The speaker
evidently believes that in the affairs
towns, as well as men, there is a
tide, which, "taken at its flood, leads
on to fortune." This is true. It
has been demonstrated time and
again within the experience of peo-
ple living in this community, and in
all parts of the older states there
are towns which, many years ago,
had prospects of the brightest kind,
but whose dilapidated and lifeless
appearance now bears mute evidence
that their people slept and waited while those of ,
neighboring towns watched and worked. Some
of them are monuments to the folly of citizens
who thought that a railroad wouldn't dare to miss
their town ; who said they could see no reason
why they should give up any of their money to
swell a railroad bonus ; who argued that Mr. So-,
and-so would derive more profit from the con-
struction of the road than anyone else and that
he, therefore, should put up the main part of the
bonus; who didn't like the soliciting committee,
or were, perhaps, not personally invited to at-
tend the railroad meeting, or, maybe, had a griev-
ance at the railroad company for employing some
person whom they did not like or running the sur-
vey in a manner different from the one they would
have suggested. All these misguided citizens
had the pleasure of giving full sway to their
predjudices. They held on to their coin, roasted
the railroad, abused the committees, and waited
for their property to be doubled in value without
any effort or expense on their part. They are
still waiting, and while they have been doing so
they have seen their property decrease in value
and have seen the more enterprising citizens
moye to the more wide-awake rival town. Some
of the towns that are now classified as "has-
been's" neglected their opportunity when they
failed to make needed improvements and refused
to do what was necessary to secure new indus-
tries and to open new lines of trade. Chandler
doesn't want to be a "has-been." She wants to
live in the present with a first-mortgage on the
future. She has neglected some opportunities in
the past, but the main ones are to come and will
come soon. Let the New Year resolution of the
town be to do her best; to keep everlastingly at
it, believing that nothing is too good for Chandler.
No drones should be tolerated. Everybody
should join in with the Commercial club and work
for the upbuilding and good of Chandler during
the coming year.
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FEEDING CATTLE AT CHANDLER.
Partial view of the feeding yards of the Chandler Cotton Oil Co.
2,000 head of cattle are being fattened here for the market.
' I "HE Commercial club made a good beginning
* for the new year in the election of a good
set of officers. J. F. Ayars has made an excel-
lent president, and his re-election was the proper
thing in view of the work that the club has be-
fore it for the coming year. No one is better ac-1
quainted with the needs of the town than he, and
it would be hard to find a man who more cheer-
fu'ly gives his time when the interest of Chandler
demands it or who is capable of more effective
work. Geo. W. Baternan will make a splendid
secretary, and that-means a great deal for the
success of the club, for it is upon the secretary
more than upon any or all of the other officers of
the club that the success of its wqrlt depends.
Everybody who feels an interest in the welfare of
Chandler should put himself in position to co-
operate with the Commercial club. Property own-
ers especially should take bold of this work and
do all they can to make the coming year the
greatest in the history of Chandler.
V*
WE HAVE heard a good deal of complaint
from lesses of school lands recently on ac-
count of the rule adopted by the school land
board forbidding them cutting any timber without
special permission. This rule was made neces-
sary on the account of some unscrupulous persons
cutting largQ quantities o:" timber and selling it.
As a matter of fact the school lands are federal
property yet, and the territory only has permis-
sion to lease them. If it allows lesses to remove
valuable timber without reason the U iited States
authorities are likely to make trouble for some
one. Those who wish to put mor - land in culti-
vation, however, will generally have no trouble
in getting permission to do so. The governor
told the editor of The News this week that he
thought that several special agents might be ap-
pointed temporarily to inspect and report on cases
where it is desired to put more land in cultivation.
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And Still We Grow.
NEW enumeration of the pop-
ulation of Oklahoma will be
taken by the county assessors in a
few months, and it is safe to say that
the results will be surprising to peo-
ple outside of the territory, and, in
many cases, to people here at home.
In a few sections the increase
has beeft very noticeable. This
is true of the Kiowa-Comanche
country and also of the other south-
western counties, which caught the
overflow from the Kiowa-Comanche
opening. A gentleman who has just
completed a four months job of ap-
praising school lands in Greer and
other southwestern counties told us
a few days ago that there is hardly
a quarter section in all that country
that was worth a cent that is not filed
and settled upon. Much of this land,
too, was supposed a few years ago
to be of so little value for farming
purposes that it would never be taken away from
the cattle men. It was argued, and not without
good reason, that the rainfall would never be
sufficient to justir^ any attempt at farming wi ■ Vh-
extreme western part of the territory. But it has
been found that even natural conditions change
sometimes, and it is hard to tell where the effects
of settling up this country will stop in their in-
fluence upon the rainfall. It is an unanwerable
argument that some ol the counties in what has
often been referred to as the "short-grass" coun-
try have during the past year produced as good
crops as nearly any of the eastern counties. At
Hobart, a town not yet six months old, there are
2,500 bales of cotton ready for shipment, all of
which came from the "short-grass" country just
north. But this growth of population has not
been confined to the "new" country, as it is call-
ed. Eastern Oklahoma has had a share, and
here, perhaps, is where the the greatest surprise
will be in store for those who study the statistics
of the year. The immigration has been steady
and almost uninterrupted. Those who have
watched the list of real estate transfers as pub-
lished in The News from week to week have been
impressed with the fact that Lincoln county farms
are be oifiing more and more in demand. Prices
are increasing and yet the number of transfers is
growing. People in the northern states, where
land costs tv/o and three times as much as here,
are coining by the score, and in nearly every case
who e a man settles here from the Noith he is
joined within a few months by a number of his
old neighbors. They find that they can own
more land here and have more money for im-
provements and stock, and yet the land wiil earn
them as much on an aveiage as did the higher-
priced land that they sold in the states. These
new-comers, generally, open up their farms more
rapidly than have the older settlers, and this
means more work and calls for still more people,
thereby rapidly increasing our population.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1902, newspaper, January 2, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117520/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.