The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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IT WAVES SURGES ROAftS AND REBOUNDS ONLY TO COME BACK AGAIN W'TH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD OOUNTY. OKLAHOMA, AND DEMOCRACY.
VOLUME 5.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1898.
NUMBER 16
must have a
road from Cleo
SPRINGS TO THE CITY LIMITS, Eemember this.
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
mi
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Garden Spot in Oklahoma.-
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
EYERY ACRE HOMESTEftDED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the "World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GflPTIVATING, HEALTHY GLIMftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
nflRE GRYSTflL WATER.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE CITY OF t,NiD.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Previous to the year 1870 the
. hsrokee outlet was inhabited only
ny Indians, buffnlos, wild horses,
•scattered bands of cow boys and
(heir inseparable companions, the
lung borned Texas steer. It was
luring the year 1876 that the ad-
,',inctt guard of the grand army of
King Agricola marched into the
ouiei prec'\nts of Southern Kansas
Io reconnoiter; the main army soon
followed, taking up every acre to the
Kmsas state line then looked wish-
I illy into the str'p, ibis beautiful
c«>uittrv of wliieli we write. From
the centennial year, twenty.one years
tgo, there was a continual struggle
with the powers at Washington to
open this land, so that new homes
might be established and the fertile
■soil be made to hear the fruits of the
>ib'>r of the pioneer fanner.
fhe strggle continued from year
ti) year, and, at times, the hardy
av mers becoming tired of the in-
Kobon of the government would
iinl< I ih" Kansas line to force
Dcettlemeul, only to be driven out
ac the soldiers. At last on the 16th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
government declared the long closed
gates'of tlie Cherokee strip ajar, anil
Dade all enter, who wished, provid-
ing thev held a booth certificate.
Thousands of mortgage pinched
I fanners from Kansas; the drouth stric
ken poor from western Kansas; home
less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd
led into tiiis Edenic section of ne«
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
mid toiled forihree seasons, brought
their families her--', founding per-
manent, liapp' and independent
homes, without .ueans, without any
encouragenieii t"r many wearv days,
weeks, months and years, yet today
they feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable land.
ALTITUDE.
This county is on 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 the
sea, which is that happy medium be-
tween arid plains and malarial
marshes.
The surface is as handsome as the
practical mind c..n conceive; long
swells of green crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, from
a dark preen garment, irrigatin
and draining, furnishing power,and
water for stock, and indicating
that at a moderate depth a superior
buallty 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
wo 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
the 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.
CLIMATE,
The climate of Garfield county or
Oklahoma can scarcely be exagger
at^d 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.
Tub 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 io 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 ua
turn's sanitarium. The depressed
mindis made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas-
ant, the cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug-
gish brain and impaired blood active
and healthy, and, in fact, the whole
system becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." I hose who
live amid luecold banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills the marrow
in their bones, pinches the poor and
impoverishes the rich, will find that .
tiiucti sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north iand and the j
ndolent atmosphere of the souili m j
his latitude; and at this point the
elevation is such as io eliminate all
traces of lassitude and retain all the
energies for which the people of tlie i
north are famous.
The stranger in this section is in |
fatuated with lhe delightful climate,
and satisfaction in this direotion is
guaranteed b\ every loyal and re-
sponsible citizen.
PRODUCTS.
The products of this country are
verv numerous and wonderful, as it
is in ilie peanut bell and just fur
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,
llere is the home of the castor beau
oats, bat ley and sweet potatoes. The
homesteaders who ha1' money to im-
prove their homes rapidly are well
provided wit, fruit this year.
The records in the county clerk's
office, from the returns of the town,
ship assessors for the year 1897,
shows that there are 58,750 apple j
trees planted and growing in the)
county; 170,540 peach trees; 24,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,672 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.
BUTTEII, EGGS AND POULTRY.
There was 128,826 pounds of but-
ter marketed last year and upwards
of 1,520,728 dozens of eggs and j1
130,000 chickei s, ducks, geese and :
turkeys, making a grand aggregate of
income from this source of about I
.#1)8,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
Guniiiiiflliam k cropper.
The Leading
Implement Dealers oi Oklahoma.
Have in stock the celebrated
Bicycles and a full line of Bicycle Sundries, also
Tlie Racine Biiooies-
of all sizes and patterns. Call and see them.
You are always welcome, dw 2 21
Pies. ■
Bran New
. ■ Bread
BAKERY.
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for this season is 85,000
hcres, for this c unty, but owing to
the farmers fearing a slough in
price, should they report correctly,
iied 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 ,875,000.
8TOC.
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-
able pork; horses to the number of
9,635 about a half a horse for each
nne of us; mules 1,561; cattle of all
kinds 11,376, about two thirds of a
steer, cow or calf for each of us. 1 lie
yaltie of this stock on a close estimate
is $755,085. Counting an increase
of one Io each head of stock each
ear to be is sold in the market
makes the income from the slock
source about the amount mentioned
above.
OATS, BAItLEY AND KYE.
The acreage of these cereals was
not lai'ge this year, but the yield per
acre was wonderful; oats and barley
fiiMired as high as eighty bushels to
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of
01118 out, some barley and rye, but
no record was made of it There
were 4,022 acres of castor beans, and
6,220 acres of cotton planted.
These crops are estimated to be
worth <(100,000.
No ci' I"' on earth can beat this
countv "rage of all kin.Is, and
English .1.-grass does remarkably
well.
We have opened up aba ery, confectionary ind fruit
store in Enid. We also carry a full line of lunch canned
goods. LUNCH COUNTER.
Best Brands of dears Tobacco.
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E Street.
Gunnlnanam & LiieUom.
Proprietors.
THEO STAMM.
Dealers in
Fresli iisii Fresli 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,
WnutH In t*h«
A French scientist figures thart
number of women in the world v. !
nearly equal to that of men. In Fran*-*
the numbers approach more warly to
♦quality than In my other country,
there being 1,007 women for 1,000 men
For the same number of men In Swe-
den there are 1,004 women, and la
Grrece only 933 women. In the French
colony at Reunion there are 457 Creole
women for 1,000 provincial French-
men, colored men Included. In IIOBf
Kong thcro are 1,000 mm for &1M
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1898, newspaper, April 21, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112061/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.