Davenport Leader (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1904 Page: 1 of 6
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Davenport Leader
VOLUME I, NUMBER II.
DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA,
THURSDAY MAY. 12, 1904
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The Best Town in Oklahoma.
While it is true that the word
•'Davenpc-i" has been used in this
locality for tlis name of the post-
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office for twelve years and is found
printed on some maps, yet as it is
preseutly located,a large number of
people know not where it really is.
It was plotted and laid oft" as a town-
site four or five years ago and re-
ceived some entitled notoriety at
that time as a pleasantly situated
place for a town, but its really steady
growth and development began
early this spring and a short time
after the K O. I. T. toWnsite com-
pany had bought this quarter section
of land and replotted it making
some changes in the original survey.
Davenport can be located on any
map by drawing a line north and
south 13 miles east of the 97th de-
gree of longitude and a line east and
west 22 miles south of the 36th de-
gree of latitude and at the cross is
about where this beautiful little city
is situated. It is 42 miles east and
13 north of the metropolis, Okla
homa City; 37 east and 13 south of
Guthrie the capital of the territory;
from Shawnee it is a distance of 25
miles north and 8 east, which is the
metropolis of southeastern Oklaho-
ma. Our town is in the direct line
from the oil fields of Kansas through
the Indian Territory fields to Mc-
Loud, Oklahoma and Beaumont,
Texas. From the oil field at Tulsa,
I. T. to Davenport it is only a dis-
tance of 72 miles (42 west, 30 south)
while on through to McLoud where
oil has also been found the distance
is only 35 miles, (17 south, 18 west)
In the very near future Davenport
is surely destined to great notoriety,
growth and development as the field
is explored. As a strengthener of
this assertion we need only to point
to the many oil experts that are daily
in this locality leasing every avail-
able acre of land. Some only get a
section of it and feel satisfied that
they have a bonanza, while others
have thousands of acres leased and
are eager for more. At Chandler,
the county seat of the county, 6*4
miles west they already have a der-
rick built and have drilled down
more than 200 feet and are reported
as having struck coal. We reported
last week that Mr. Crane of Cha
nute, Kansas, would put up a der-
rick and begin drilling on the quar-
ter south of here within the next
ninty days. This is the report and
only goes further to substantiate
our prophecy for the excellent fu-
ture of this growing town.
As to the inducements here for
men t® go into business and to make
this their future home, there are so
many that this short article could
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EVERYONE PUSH—FQRWARD.
The following clipped from the Tulsa Democrat, comes
so near fitting in "the right place at vhe right time" that we
print it below asking the careful consideration of our intelli-
gent citizens and business men: "If you want a live town,
push the hustler. Few towns are without men who have
more push and energy than means to carry out their plans.
Perhaps the hustler may occasionally make a mistake, possibly
he may overreach in his efforts to build up the town. Better
thus than not to do it at all. If you have such a man in town,
keep him going, help him push. He may become weary at
time? and should be encouraged. Don't get jealous and
throw cbld water on his efforts. It is more difficult to build
up than tear down. It takes more enterprise than money to
build up a town. If you cant say a good word say nothing."
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not begin to cover trie field. Situ- j
ated as it is in an almost level basin :
| that is at least four miles across 1
which ever direction you go, with
the very best of roads leading into
| it from all directions; and in the
! very heart of Lincoln county's very
best agricultural land it can not help
but appeal to the business judge-
ment of any man looking for a com-
mercial location as a most excellent
investment and business venture.
Not only has a live business man.
the advantage here of the good roads \
which always appeal to our farmer
friends, but we have the crossing of j
two trunn lines of railroads, which |
gives competition in freight rates,
enabling us to get the very lowest
rates on freight and consequently
allowing us to make the very lowest j
prices on goods sold.
It would be very unfair should we
fail to speak about the beauty of
Davenport as a residence town. As
we suggested at the first wo nestle i
down in a little valley on a nearly I
level prairie. The townsite itself
has just enough slope to the south,
southeast and southwest to give ex-
cellent drainage. Where the busi-
ness lots are laid off the land is per-
fectly smooth with a luxuriant car-
pet of green grass. The streets are
nice and smooth and as yet have
needed no grading whatever to keep
them in good condition. The
east and norcheast corner of the
townsitc, where a liberal number
of the residence homes are built is
quite heavily timbered with large
forest trees which makes a nice
piece of scenery and adds much
beauty to that part as a place to
build a comfortable home. This
part of town also has a pretty ar-
tificial lake built thereon by placing
a dam across the draugh. It
will be stocked with numbers of fish,
and boats will also be procured.
Two wells with wind mills, which
are to be placed there, will keep it
filled with fresh water when the
fall of rain is insufficient. This
little park will make the most pleas
ant place immaginable for the en
joyment of a quiet summers day or
for the holding of picnics, conven
tions, and other public and private
gatherings. The excellent shade
provided is an extra inducement to
encourage a large number of these
during the present summer as well
as summers to follow.
In the southwest corner of our
little city where there are some
more pretty and comfortable homes
built and under construction is lo-
cated an excellent orchard of fruit
trees. Back of this and across the
section line is another draugh lined
on either side with stately forest
trees, which forms a most beautiful
background for the many pretty
cottages that are suro to ba built
there.
Then again the soil in this im-
mediate locality is splendid. It is a
rich dark loam, with just euough
sand mixed in to make it work nice-
ly. It is very productive as is evi-
denced by the many family gardens
that are daily springing into exis-
tance on the towusite since the re-
freshing showers and pleasant sun-
shine have been doing their work,
the past few weeks. Also let your
gaze rest wonderingly on the many
fields of growing cotton and corn
that are csntinually climbing sky-
ward and which have in the past and
will in the future make our agri-
culturists the richest and hapiest in
the world.
Is it to be wondered that people
express such surprise when they visit
here for the first time. Can you
expect anyone to call this grand
territory anything else than "the
I land of the fair God," when all na-
j tare 1 jins with exultant real estate
, man and satisfied setsler iu lauding
t. praise and showing its wonders.
Come friend* from the uncheery
north and cai^t, Oklahoma stands
with beautiful outstretched hands to
welc >iue you. fiio has an eve
ready sunny smile and flower per-
fumed breath to great you, and will
win your love and adoration ere you
are aware. Why have you waited
so long, she lias been urging you fa-
years to come and make your home
with her. She knows what happi-
ness and prosperity you will en jay.
Come today. Davenport is the
lucky place where she lavishes her
greatest riches and most pleasant
surroundings—it's the ideal spot in
Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma w ill buy 100,000 lbs.
of the Kan-as penitentiary bind-
ing twine.
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Oklahoma City is cinchiag on a
#20,000 canning factory to employ
75 people.
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Star mail routes from Parkland to
Agra and Lawe to Carney have
been discontinued.
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Auditor Baxter has 26 democrat-
ic sheriffs after him an ! yet is able
to attend the World's Fair-
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Oklahoma City's mayor is still
getting notoriety; this time by ac-
acepting an invitation to lunch in a
den of lions during the week of
May 16, to 21.]
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The secretary of the Muskogee
chamber of commerce has written
a letter to the secretary of the inter-
ior requesting that restrictions bo
made in leases made in the Indian
Territory, which will prevent the
piping of gas out of the Territory,
thinking that the supply might pos-
sibly be exhausted before the Terri-
tory will need the gas for its future
industries.
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A 11 >nth igo t! • < rop prospects
in this part of Okl-i -..nv ,01 ! r
from flattering, but since the recent
rains theiehas been a great change
and it is said that both wheat and
outs promises to yield n fairly good
crop. Several fields of wheat and
oats that were sown early have been
plowed up and will be planted to
corn and cotton. The late sowing
of wheat stood the drouth pretty
well and will make from 10 to 15
bushels per acre, so we are informed
—Carney Enterprise.
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