The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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IT WAVES. SURGES ROARS AND REBOUNDS ONLY TO COME BACK
AGAIN W'TH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. AND DEMOCRACY.
By Wave Printing Co.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897.
VOL. 4, No. 28.
rei-roiu i—i ■ iiiiiiui finrm v iw-r--**.
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less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd
• d into this Edenic section of now
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
><nd toiled for three seasons, brought
their families here, founding per-
manent, happy anil independent
homes, without means, without any
encouragement for many weary days,
weeks, months and years, yet today
they feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable land.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great leavening
strength and healthfulness. Assures
the food against alum and all forms
of adulteration common to the cheap
brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER
GO., New York.
A Garden Spot in Oklahoma.—
Composed of Rich, Level
..nd Rolling Prairie.
E/ERV ftGRt ttOMESTEftDED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GftPTIVfiTlNG, HEftLTtty GLIMftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
RARE CRY ST ft I WflT&R.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE CITY Or E.NID.
ALTITUDE.
This county is 011 a line with
central Tennessee, Arkansas and
North Carolina and the Bay of
Montery on the Pacific coast, and has
a mean altitude of 1,158 above tiie
sen, which is that happy medium be-
tween arid plains and malarial
marshes.
The surface is as handsome as the
practical mind can conceive; long
swells of green crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, from
one end of the county to ihe other
not unlike the majestic roll of the
deep dark ocean in its hours of
repose anil solitude. The regular
and gentle undulation of the surface
is at once a guarantee that both ex-
cessive rains and protracted drouths
will have less of a detrimental effect
on the products of this splendid
I county than on and nearer a dead
level. Through this county spark-
! ling streams wind along like a
| thread of silver through the folds of
a (lark green garment, irrigating
and draining, furnishing power, and
water for stock, anil indicating
that at a moderate depth a superior
quality 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 la)' our face in our
boyhood days in our far away east-
ern home.
There are at least one hundred
clearly defined water courses dis
tributeil 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 an'd
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 tlis
tall prairie grass waves to and fro at
the will of the wind today.
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
verv numerous and wonderful, as it
is in the peanut belt and just far
enough south to raise the best cotton
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 kallir and broom,
grow to wonderful proportions, the
species mentioned never failing.
Here is the home of the castor beau
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 as'sessors for the year 1897,
shows that there are 58,75(5 apple
irees planted and growing in the
county; 170,540 peach trees; 'J4,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,()i2 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.
BUTTE It, KGGS AND 1'OULTltY.
There was 128,820 pounds of but
ter marketed last year and upwards
of 1,520,728 dozens of eggs and
180,000 chickens, ducks, gee^e and
turkeys, making a grand aggregate of
income from this source of about
$.58,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People — In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
WIIKAT.
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for this season is 85,000
acres, for this c unty, but owing to
the farmers fearing a slough in
price, should they report correctly,
lied considerably, hence, 125,000
acres is nearer the actual amouiii
harvested and it will average thirty
bushels to the acre making a grand
yield of 3,750,000 bushels, which a:
50 cents a bushel amounts in cold
gold cash to *.',875,000.
CORN.
The acreage in corn of all kinds
will equal the wheat and while the
corn crop is not positively assured for
this year at this writing, yet every
indication points to success and the
crop, if successful, will amount to
over $700,000.
STOCK.
homes of many old soldiers, in fact,
the pension money paid out to old
veteruas amounts to *40,000 yearly.
population.
The population of the county is
now ahout 18,000, and increasing
fast, livery qunrt,jr section hits been
homes tended, in fact, only eighty
acres in the 1,080 square miles com
posing the county, remains to be
taken up, and the eighty is thought
to be valuable for gypsum.
IIAY.
There is probably a million tons
of hay on the unbroken purines, the
greater part of which will never be
cut, as the price of hay is so lew that
it would not pay to cut it.
machinery.
The value of the farming machin-
ery sold in this county this year
amounts t<> over $100,000 and the
season is not near over.
land.
Good claims can be purchased at
from $2 10 $25 per acre, owing to
the lav of 1 he land and its distance
from the city of Enid. These figures
do not include the government
price of $1.50 to *2.50 per acre
which must be paid six years from
the date of the filinr.
the el l v of enid.
Near the geographical center o'f
this large and rich county is the city
of Enid, on the line of the Rock
Island railroad, with a population of
about 4,500. It is the county seal,
and the headquarters of the I'.nid
land district, composed of Grantjand
Garfield counties. The city has
fully 35,000 people tributary to it,
including its own citizens. Not only
the 18,000 people of the county, but
it draws trade from south Grant
county, south Woods and Woodwind
counties, west Noble county, north
Kingfisher and Hiaine counties.
It is the third largest city in the
territory and the largest in the
Cherokee strip, hence, affords a
belter market for the farmers' pro-
duce than any adjoining town.
More freight is handled at the
Enid depot than at any other station
on the line of the Rock Island road
in the territory, causing the company
to erect a large freight ware house,
some time "go, and double their
switch room.
Enid city is, comparatively speak-
in^, out of debt; it is not bonded for
water works, electric light, railroads
or anything of that sort. The people
of Enid are not boomers, they be-
lieve in goiui'long in pace with
their means and development of the
country, which in the long run, :s
wisdom well defined. 1 he people of
the world are invited to Garfield
county and Enid when I hey will
discover that what tlie Wave has
said in this wrileup is the truth with-
out the application of exaggerated
dressing.
With these few remarks we close
this description and statistical ar-
ticle, hoping that our work will be
of some information 10 many readers
and their inquiring friends.
To sum the whole matter up
it is safe to say that the
income of ihe people of this county
from all sources will be close to
$5,000,000.
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manufactures.
cm mate.
Previous to tliw year 18<(> tlitf
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. It was
during lliH year I816 that the ad-
vance1guard of the grand army of
King Agricola marched into ihe
quiet precincts of Southern Kansas
to recon 1101 ter; the main army soon
followed, taking up every acr.- to the
Kansas state line then, looked wisli-
f illy into the strip, this beautiful
country of which wo write. From
the centennial year, twenty-one years
, 1 r,,> there was a continual struggle
with the powers at Washington to
open this land, so that new homes
■ night be established and th ■ ferule
oil he iiiinle to bear the fruiis of the
Sabor of the pioneer farmer.
The struggle continued from year
to year, and, at times, the hardy
boomers becoming thed of the in-
action of the government would
break across the Kansas line to f nee
a settlement, only to be driven out
by the soldiers. At last on lb" 10th
day of September, 18U3, a beneficent
irovernmeiit declared the long elused
gates of Hie Cherokee strip ajar, mid
bade all enter, who wished, provid-
ing they held a booth certificate.
Thousands of mortgage | inched
farmers from Kansas; the drouth "trie
ken poor from western Kansas; home
The climate of Garfield county or
Oklahoma can scarcely be exagger
ateil 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
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
lias upon mankind. A short slay
here convinces all that here is na
lure's sanitarium. The depressed
mind is made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas-
ant, ihe cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug
girth brain and impaired blood active
and healthy, and, in fact, the whole
system becomes renovated, making
life, "worth the living. ' 1 hose who
live amid the Cold banks of gleaming
snow, and 111 ihe far north, where the
freezing bli/zard chills the marrow
in their bones, pinches the poor and
impoverishes the rich, will fi id that
much sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north land mid the
indolent atmosphere of the tilth in
this latitude; and at this pc tut the
elevation is such as to elimi nite all
traces of lassitude and retain all the
Enid has a broom factory employ-
ing four or five men anil boys in the
1 winter time; a cigar factory; an ice
I plant three miles nortb of the city;
j bottling works; a horse radish mill
1 „ t-. i ' and two larure merchant flouring
Up to the first day of Febuary , jJ two ^ ^ of
'a.,, the little empire of Garfield , ^ ^ el(JVator.
C"""t,V,«t«a t square, con- ^ >f l)U8intJ8S are weU
tamed U,8M hogs, or a half a hog | mB<| i,ut as ,|le try de-
for each man woman and ch, d ... P ^ K|,jd wi„ yrow
the county, winch means consider- j ^ J a 'f ^ ^ 1() ()ou p«ople
able pork; horses t« the 11 u 1.1 l>er of, tllert, wiM he many line oppor-
^,(335 about a half a horse for each ' « ; ' . hranche-i
1 1 -1.1 ..I c 11 111111 ties presented m many iirauL..e.
I 1'561ioa-1t!w1'of business, in fact more business
kinds 11,3 <6, about two t urds of a un ^ every week.
steer, cow or calf for each of us 11 e , 1 .hacks are disap-
Value o this stock on a close estimate | • l>uil<1i.i taking
is Si75o,08o. Counting an increase V* " >-
of one to each head of stock each tll^^^Sm)l R belter |octtte(1 cit_v
year to be is sold hi the m ket , thllll Enid, and under
makes the income from the stock " rvalivH it is
source about the amount mentioned ^ ^ (q ^ frolltrttpid|y.
Hl")ve• lieal estate has doubled 111 pricc since
oats, bauley and rye. April first, yet it is tar below what
The acreage of these cereals wa- j, wj|| |)e jn a s|,ort time. The citv
not large this year, but the yield per js ijiesse() wi111 pure water drawn
acre was wonderful; oals and barley j f|om nature's fountain below, the
figured as high as eighty bushels to vv0||s twenty feet deep on the
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of avBrML,P, ,.\i this writing th" sick
oats out, some barley and ry 1
>::iot him* ;-s Innt Tnrlli Hill.
(.[ tlit* r.i. -1 rilviuy indications
growth of sen; inien t against high
tion 10 '! of a liberal sentiment
Tariff"muTters is the movement
St the 1 [".lili: ;; tariff bill by the
M~iinufaetur s" A? uciation of the
United St::;cs. Mr. A. IS. Farquhur, an
extensive annfnctnrcr of agricultural
machinery lit York. Pa., isat the bead
of the movement.
It is well k'Kiwn that in the manu-
facture of ngelcultnn 1 implements actl
machinery Americans ifre far in advance
of their competitors in any other land
and that the products of the>r factories
piny be seen In the Itch's all over the
civilized world. These people need no
protection aed nr.' e el! able to take care
o 1* themseh ■ s. All they ask is tolinyc
untaxed raw material, so that, they will
not be placed at a disadvantage.
A great list of other industries are
practically In tlie same position and de-
sire free raw material more than they
desire protection. It is also significant
that the manufacturers, in their pe.ti-
tion to the senate, declare that, their
ability to employ American labor will
be greatly impaired by the passage of
the tariff bill. They ask that the Chi-
nese wall that is obstructing the foreign
trade and crippling American enter-
prise shall be broken down.
The pica which has been used for
years by the protectionists—namely,
that protection is in the interest of
American labor—is shown by census
figures to be a sliam. Of the 5,000,000
persons employed in manufacturing in
the United States it is shown in the pe-
tition that less than 200,000 are em-
ployed in occupations subject to active
foreign competition and 016,000 in
occupations subject to moderate for-
eign competition. 'the remainder, over
4,000,000, do not come at all in compe-
tition with foreign labor.
It Is very plain that the Ding-ley bill
is not designed, any more than any oth-
er high protective measure was de-
signed,, to protect American labor or to
produce revenues for the government.
It is designed primarily to protect the
trusts and to foster monopoly.—Balti-
more Sun.
barley and' rye, but
.... record was made 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.
FOKAliE.
No county on earth can beat this
county on forage of all kinds, and
English blue grassdoes remarkably
well.
PKANUTS.
average. Atlhis writing the sick
list contains only six patients out ol
the large population given above, j
Rpjmbllenn Criticism.
According to the protective theory the
imposition of a tax on noncompeting
articles adds to their cost to the con-
sumer. This theory would be aptly ex-
emplified in the proposed duties on
hides, as the people would be compelled
to pay more for their footwear. It is
estimated tha* the increased cost of
boots and shoes for one year under the
proposed duty would amount to $20.-
000.000. With free hides our manufac-
turers of leather goods have been able
to build up .1 great export trade in foot-
wear. As Mr. Hiaine said when it was
propns ?d to put a duty on hides in the
law of 1890: "It will yield a profit totho
butcher only—the last man that needs
it." The interests of the tanners and
shoe manufacturers are vastly more
important than the interests of butch-
ers :i::d western ranchmen.—Chicago
Times-Herald (Rep.).
L. B.SAWYER,
Real Estate and Loan Agent.
Buys and sells farm and city property. Loans money
on farms and chattels. Has a large list ot farms for sale at
This country will produce as fine |jargajns. aiso a ]aroe list of fine homestead claims to locate
peanuts us were ever t> 1 acetl on the p .. • jr virish to f*et lcind
markets, yet they are not raised to ail homesteaders on at S1T1.ill priCC, b
extent worth mentioning. please call and see me, or write for such information as >ou
pknsions. want> Reference. Bank of Enid. L. B. SAWYKK,
Garfield county contain* the Lock Box 222, Enid, O. 1.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1897, newspaper, July 15, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112023/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.