The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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-^^IHRpS A S AND REBOUNDS ONLY TO COME BACK AGAINWTTH GREATER FORCE FOR EN.D. GARFIELD COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. AND DEMOCRACY.
NUMBER 23
VOLUME 5.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY THURSDAY, JUNE 9,1896.
OUT. ESTIMATED VALUE $3,600,000.
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
&AKIN0
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK
—
Garden Spot in Oklahoma.—
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
EYERY r\GRE fiOMESTEADED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
oftPTIVftTING,HEALTHY GLIMftTE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
*ME CRYSTAL WATER.
Flowing Fr6m Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
Doettlement, only to be driven out
ac the soldiers. At last on the 10th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
crovernment declared the long closed
incites of the Cherokee si rip ajar, and
Dade all enter, who wished, provid-
ing they held a booth certificate.
Thousands of mortgage pinched
Farmers from Kansas; the drouth stric
ken poor from western Kansas; home
less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
all parts of the United States crowd
ed into this Edenic section of ne«
Oklahoma; took up claims, suffered
and toiled fortliree seasons, brought
their families her-, founding per-
manent, liappv and independent
homes, without means, without any
eiioounijreuien' for inany wearv days,
weeks, months and years, yet today
they feel fully repaid, as they are in
possession of bountiful crops and
valuable land.
4LTITUDB.
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 green garment, irrigatin
and draining, furnishing power,and
water for stock, and indicating
that at a moderate depth a superior
buality of well water can bo 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 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
tribute'! 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.
impoverishes the rich, will find that
much sought medium between the
cold blasts of the north land and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south m
his Latitude; and at this point the
elevair. is such as to eliminate all
traces of IfSE tude and retain all the
enemies 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.
PKODUC1S.
The products of this country are
verv numerous and wonderful, as it
is in 'he peanut belt and just fa:
enough south to raise the best cotton
that has ever reached the market and
wheat, this vear, that has or will
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing corn of all
kinds, including kaffir 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 ha'i 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 assessors for the year 1897,
shows that there are 58,750 apple
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.
butter, eggs and poultry.
There was 128,826 pounds o* but-
ter marketed last year and upwards
of 1,520,728 dozens of eggs and
130,000 chickens, ducks, geese and
turkeys, making a grand aggregate of
income from this source of about
$08,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
whkat.
Gunniiiaiiain & Grower.
The Leading
rs ot C-icsrja.
Have in stock the celebrated
Bicycles and a full line of Bicycle Sundries, also
Tiie Racine BiiqqIss-
of all sizes and patterns. Call and see them.
You arc always welcome, dw 2 21
Hello Central.
CLIMATE.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Previous to the year 187<> the
Cherokee outlet was inhabited only
y Indians, buffalo*, wild horses,
scattered hands "f cow boys and
their inseparable companions, the
long horned Texas steer. It was
I 1 riu'.5 the year 1876 that the ad.
/,,ncH guard of tile grand arinv of
King Agricola tiwched into the
quiet precAntsof Southern Kansas
to rec'innoite;; the nviin army soon
fallowed, taking up ev-ry acre to the
K .nsas state 1 ne then looked wish-
fully into the strp, this beautiful
country of which we write. From
rh ■ cen tennial year, twenty-one years
•iro, there was a continual struggle
with the powers at Washington to
open this land, so that new homes
mifjht be established and the fertile
so;i be made to bear the fruits of tlio
■••bur of the pioneer farmer.
rii., sirg^le continued from year
ver, and, at times, the hardy
1 v ■ 1. "s beco ni ng tired of the in-,
.1',) ,:i 1 if the government would
!.- no-oss tiie kansas line to force
The climate of Garfield county or
Oklahoma can scarcely be exagger
a'ed in words. The country is cen-
trally located between the cold,
fricid north and the torrid, hot
south. To prove this we have only
to say tiiat 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 tiie 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 na-
ture's sanitarium. The depressed
inindis 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." Those who
live amid (necold banks of gleaming
snow, and in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills tho marrow
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for this season is 85,000
acres, for this county, but owing to
the farmers fearing a slough in
price, should they report correctly,
lied 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 81,875,000.
stoc.
Up to the first day of Febuary,
last, the little empire of Garfield
county, 30x36 miles square, con-
tained 9,809 hogs, or a half a hog
for each man, woman and child in
the county, which means cons'.der-
able pork; horses to the number of
9,035 about a half a horse for each
one of us; mules 1,501; cattle of all
kinds 11,370, about two thirds of a
steer, cow or calf for each of us. lhe
yaltie of this stock on a close estimate
is *755,085. Counting an increase
of one to each head of stock each
ear to be is sold in the market
makes the income from the stock-
source about the amount mentioned
above.
energetic firm desir-
ing to plant an ad in
this space?
THEO ST A MM
Dealers in
Fresh lisii fresli meal sail 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 ma ret line. We shall aeal in only the best quali-
ty of everything in the line of meats on the markets. Your
patronage solicited. GrlVE TJS A. TRIAL,
OATS, barley ANI) rye.
The acreage of these weals was
not large this year, but the yield per
acre was wonderful; oats and barley
fit;tired as high as eighty bushels to
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of
oats 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 HlOO,000.
No co ir'"' on earth can beat this
county on '"rage of all kinds, and
English v'vu grass does remark.ibl 1
well.
£
# Saddles, Harness, whips ^
♦ and everything in the har- T
X ness line for sale by us at the ^
X lowest rat.: Give us a call.
<p Satisfaction guaranteed. A
FRED LUF
ST.
E St, Enid O. T,
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1898, newspaper, June 9, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112068/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.