The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XI.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOHA, JUNE 21. IQOO.
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COX BROTHERS' RACKET STORE
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Never before have we had such an assortment of
INew Spring Goods
Host all our goods were bought before the advance. We want everyone to give us a trial this spring. We have bought early and can save you
money on most every purchase. We plactd our orders early last fall on most goods that we expected to advance. Especially are we cheap on shoes,
as we own ;;il our shoes at the old price; also most all our orders for dry goods were in before the advance. We use the utmost care in buying, as we
know goods well bought are already about sold. Our strong point is in our l&uying. We use the same care in buying a stock of pins as we do in
buying clothing. It makes no difference what you may want, we own it at the lowest price.
Please bear in miml all we ask of those who have never traded with u>; (although they are scarce) is to give us a trial.
There is some satisfaction in trading where you know that every purchase is bought at the lowest possible price, and where every mistake is
made right and where every single purchase is warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded.
We have a fine line of Ladies Shirt Waists, the latest styles and lowest prices.
lien's and Boys' Summer Caps.
We have a fine line of
Hats! I Tats! Hats! We handle tlie celebrated Elk and King brands of hats. If yon want a good liat we can nave you money. If you want a cheap liat we
have about 200 good fur 11;i 1 -, worth 1.50 to '200, for OSc; 100 good fur hats at 75c. Some odd lots from 10c to L'iic. Men's pants at your own price. Good heavy cot-
tonades at 7.r>c— cheaper than overalls. See our stock of harvest supplies, consisting of Jumpers, Bib Overalls, Harvest Gloves, etc. We have a cheap line of cooking
utensils for threshing outfits: also can make you close prices on job lots of groceries. We cannot name you prices 011 groceries this week, but make this announce-
ment: Will sell them as cheap, if not cheaper, than any firm in Kingfisher county. Buying early and in car lots has given us the inside. We have almost a car load
of tomatoes, com, etc. \v e have just received a car load of salt: come in and get prices on sack or barrel. We have also our last car of seed potatoes, ami will give
you special price until they are gone. Remember, we handle most everything—Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Tinware and Glassware.
RESPECTFULLY,
COX BRO THERS, ✓ ✓ Hennessey, Oklahoma>
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Wh *n you want to buy a hill of
Lumber, don't forget to c ii on
•:G. H. BLOCK,:-
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Y DFicrieor Lumber 2v£orclia.r2.t,
WHEAT RAISING IN OKLAHOMA.
One Family's Success in Growing This Cereal.
MILLER'S RANCH NUMBER 0\E HUNDRED AND ONE.
i who caiikies a FULL LINK OF ==5-
Lupibe)*, Sash, Doofs, Blipds,
PAINTS. OILS AND GLASS.
Agent for Acme Cement Plaster.
He can and wi!! save you money and guarantee satisfaction.
Immense Crops Raised With Small Cost—Harvesting Night and Day
to Secure the Crop.
-On all bills not paid in 30 (lavs interest, will be charged.
Yard: West Fourth Street. Hennessey. Oklahoma
j forty 1>uk1h Is to the acre. Such Miller, secretary; (Joorffo Miller
wheat was never grown before in and Zach Miller, assistant secre
Oklahoma. One head of wheat in la ries. The company is the same
a handful pulled at random from today. The idea of wheat raising
the field measured six and one- on these broad plains originated
half inches and had seventy-two i with Joseph Miller. He had seen
large grains. The smallest head j the Indians raise patches of good
in the handful measured four and j wheat on the same kind of ground,
one-half inches and had fifty-three Me came to Ponca City and un-
grains. The wheat is up to a ! folded his scheme to the banker,
man's shoulders. The wheels of to whom they already owed $L'U,-
a buggy driving through it are 000, and asked that he cash their
hidden from sight. In a field of chocks for #1'0,000 more till they
2,2r>0 acres not a weed or a thin could harvest a wheat crop the
spot can be seen, nothing for !!: following June, nearly a year in
miles away but a level plain of the future. The banker told him
waving wheat heads, standing so to go ahead. That full, five years
thick that a hat tossed ujxm it j ago, they hired men and teams
From the stme Capital. |a solid wheat field, without a fence
For a number of years the bulk ! or road through it. Twenty-five
of the big wheat crop of Oklaho- reaping machines began at once,
ma has gone south to Galveston, working ill a row, one after the lies there supported by the stand- and plowed up l,r>00 acres and
Kansas City has determined to other. The first swath cut was ing wheat. sowed it in wheat. It was a bad
stop this, and the Journal sent a five miles long, around one wheat j This enormous average crop year and the yield was only eight
staff corresjiondent to the terri- field. The reapers cut and bind over such a large area is the le- bushels to the acre. That was a
tory to investigate the wheat sit-1000 acres a day. The cutting suit of experience, hard work, dead loss and the banker received
nation, who, along with statistic- will be done this week. Thresh- good management, rare intelli- only a part of his money. The
al crop matter, writes concerning ing will begin next Monday. A! gence, brought to bear in the second year they sowed 2,000
one wheat farm in Oklahoma, harvest of lii0,000 bushels of growing of it. The Millers, fatli- acres and had a yield of thirty-
Ranch 101, near Ponca City, as wheat will be gathered. It will! er^nd four sons, make a science two bushels to the acre and got a
follows: be sold from the thresher in the j of wheat growing. Joseph C. good price for it. This put them
"Four years ago—Without a'field for cash, all except ">,0001 Miller, superintendent of the out of debt. The third year they
dollar and in debt. | bushels which has been sold for I ranch, gave the following facts | made money, but before the crop
was harvested, wishing to get 12
ollar and in debt. busliels whicli nas been sola tor i I'lntn, me j.i>uu uik wcuuj
Today- Worth $100 000 incasli.' seed at thirty cents a bushel more j Saturday, while driving over the was harvested, wishing to get 1:
| than the regular market price of ranch. It is a story of success ; binders to harvest the crop, thej
hat is the record made ny o e jord5n wlu,,lt Mr Mi]1(,r con-! that all farmers may read with 1 had hard work in getting credi
a story of success.
Ranch 101 is on and in the Pon-
ca Indian reservation. The forty
thousand acres in the ranch is
owned by hundreds of different
Indians. For nine years the Mil-
lers leased it for a cattle range.
NOT .RY K l'llC.
family in wheat raising inOkla ..
honia.' A fortune of #100,000 in tracted Saturday to sell the first, profit:
four years; half of that money j10'000 bUBhels threshed at lifty-
i., , .■ , rpi two cents a bushel, regardless of
they have got in cash. They will ' °
j net the other half in cash within /l11'' '^v ■
j two weeks for the 150,000 bushels j one \ ear s profit m k ).
of wheat they are now harvesting. If the Miller family get fifty
The Miller family operate the cents a bushel for their wheat
101 ranch nine miles southwest of | and fair prices for their other
Ponca City. The ranch has 40,- crops and their live stock they
000 acres of land that is divided will make in clear profit this year
in half by the Salt Fork river. Of $75,000. The yield of wheat this
this land 6,000 acres is in wheat, lyear i,s almost twice as large as
1,100 in corn, 200 in oats, 600 in last year. This ranch marketed
sorghum, 1,200 in hay and 1,100 H5,000 bushels of wheat last year
in watermelons and muskmelons. ] from 4,600 acres. The average
On this ranch is one wheat field yield was eighteen bushels tothejOne Live Stock Company. (•. W
This year the average j Miller was president; Joseph i .
will bo from thirty five h; Miller, superintendent; A. M
for them. Last year they made
in clear profit $25,000. This year
they will be #100,000 or more
ahead.
SCI K N T1FIC FARM ING.
The experiende gained in live
years of farming on this ranch
has reduced it to such a science
„„ , , i . that nothing is wasted and every-
They made money and lost it. . "
... ., i ruut i thing is turned into money. 'Ihe
Five years ago they owed #20,0001 , . J
j of acre-:,, thr<
and uvo andonc-h.'.1.
years ago they owed $20,0001 .
,, • farming is done in this way:
and decided there was nothing I , , . ,
. - i As soon as the ground is clear
for them in the cattle business. . . .
., , . of wheat the plowing begins for
The company was then doing '
business under the corporate I
name of the One Hundred and
in wheal. Farmers from differ-
ent parts of Oklahoma drive in
during the harvest and camp.
vGj:)clu<icd on ly-L ££.)
flit! ntixt year's crop. The same
ground is planted year after year
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