Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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THE KANSAS CITY. MEXICO A ORIENT
ROAD TO RUIN BY JANUARY
At a meeting in Kansas City's great
Convention hall, H. E. Still well told
the other night that the Orient road
will run from Kansas City to Topolo-
bampo. This road runs through West-
ern Oklahoma from Fairview south,
and is worth millions to the territory.
It will place it 500 miles nearer the
Pacific coast. It will develop the great
unsettled lands south and south-west
and make us the center of a market.
The people of Oklahoma are interest-
ed in the Orient. The Star has the fol-
lowing report of the meeting:
Before an audience of 3,000 persons,
H. E. Stilwell gave his illustrated lec-
ture in Convention hall last night. It
was an audience composed for the
most part of business men engaged in
the upbuilding of Kansas City. But
hundreds of women were there with
the men. And the great crowd listen-
ed attentively to all that Mr. Stillwell
had to say about his early struggles in
the building of the Kansas City, Pitts-
burg & Gulf, now the Kansas City
Southern, and the wresting of that
line from hi3 control through the plots
and counter plots hatched in Wall
street; his new resolve to build a great-
er line from Kansas City to the Paci-
fic coast—the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient railway; the story of the prog-
ress of the construction work on the
road and the opportunity now offred,
especially to Kansas City people, to in-
vest in the bond issue to make it pos-
sible to have Orient trains running
into Kansas City early next year.
Mr. Stillwell was greeted witlf ap-
plause as he walked across the floor
and ascended the platform while the
band played "Dixie." He was smil-
ing as he turned and looked out over
the large audience. If the audience
expected to see Mr. Stillwell produce
manuscript and read from it, it was
disappointed. He stood erect by the
side of a small table and spoke in
clear, straightforward manner he
might have used in talking to a group
of prospective investors. At times
when describing the perils through
which tha Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf passed in its infancy and the
success that has following the financ-
ing and the construction of the Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient, Mr. Stillwell
appeared to forget the vast crowd and
talked earnestly, with rapid gestures
to emphasize his words.
Immediately after Mr. Stillwell con-
cluded his speech a number of persons
in the big audience volunteered to pur-
chase blocks of the trust notes. U. S.
Epperson arose and suggested that j
persons be sent out through the hall to j
solicit applications for the notes.
"No," said Mr. Stillwell, "we will
not detain the audience. We want
Kansas City citizens to help us. Go to
your homes and think over our offer.
Tomorrow you can mail any applica-
tions for the notes that you may desire
upon the bl inks which were distribut-
ed at the entrance. I think we are of-
fering you an investment that is worth
while, and no better security could be
offered as a safeguard for your inter-
ests."
In several minutes after the close of
Mr. Ktillwell's talk fifty-eight $500
shares were asked for. F. D. Crabbs
read a telegram from Frank W. Furry
asking to have ten shares of the collat-
eral notes reserved for him. John
Perry's name was then announced as
the purchaser of sixteen shares. W.
C. Michaels asked for two shares and
W. S. Dickey made application for
twenty shares. W. S. Bradbury of
Burlington, Kas., asked for eight
shares and B. C. Christopher and J. D.
applied for one share each.
Mr. Stilwell explained that he is now
giving the people of Kansas City and
its tributary territory an opportunity
to purchase any part of an issue of
$850,000 of the company's townsite
notes. The notes are being offered
for sale for the purpose of raising rev-
enue to finish 200 miles of track be-
tween Kansas City and San Agelo,
Texas. These notes are of the face
value of $500 each. They draw 7 per
cent interest from the date of purchase
and an additional 5 per cent is added
to the face value of the notes or bonds
on retirement. The notes are secur-
ed, first, by a deposit with the United
States and Mexican Trust company of
$850,000 of first mortgage bonds of the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Rail-
way company; second, by the guaranty
of the International Construction com-
pany, which has a capital of 10 million
dollars; third, by the guarantee of the
Union Construction company, having
a capital • of 3 million dollars; and,
fourth, by the income from the sale of
town lots in tha townsites along the
Orient road through the Southwest,
this income being deposited with the
United States and Mexican Trust com-
pany. That this income will amount
to 6 million dollars the officers of the
road are practically certain. In the
last twenty-four months this income
has amounted to $485,348.
Mr. Business Man!
Believing that you are or soon
will be in need of the services of
a stenographer or book keeper or
both, we ask to furnish you with
first class help, for which we
make no charge. Do not class
our graduates with those of the
ordinary business college, for if
they belonged to that class, we
could not have built up our
school so rapidly. We have on
our Employment Bureau list some
of the very best business firms,
lawyers and railroad managers,
many of which will employ none
but our graduates.
The final examinations given
our students of book keeping and
shorthand are the same as given
bv the U. S. Civil Service Com-
mission or by the best Employ-
ment Bureaus of this country.
Our giaduates are so thoroughly
trained in practical work that we
have never had a single failure
by those taking the U. S Civil
Service examination, or the hard-
est examinations give l by an em-
ployment Bureau, or statutory
court reporters examination.
We have a large crowd of stu-
dents, both men and women, from
the age of 13 to 43 years from
which to select. We have those
who are experienced in various
lines of business. Write or 'phone
us the kind of help you need, and
if we have it we will turnish it
free of charge. If we haven't it,
we will tell you so frankly. Ad-
dress Employment Department,
Capital City Business College,
Guthrie, Okla.
WORDS FROM THOSE WHO
KNOW ABOUT THE CAPITL
CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE,
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
Guthrie, Okla., 2-2, 1907.
This is to certify that Mrs. Ros-
alie Hamblen Jarrell was, on the
18th day of December, 1906, ap-
pointed Official Reporter and
Stenographer in and tor the Con-
stitutional Convention for the
proposed state of Oklahoma, in
Guthrie assembled, and thatsince
that date of said appointment,
she has served in said capacity
of Official Reporter and Stenog-
rapher to the entire satisfaction
of the Convention and fhe Offi-
cers thereof.
W. H. Murray,
Pres. Constitutional Convention.
John H. Young, Secretary.
Mrs. Rosalie Hamblen Jarrell
completed a course of Byrne Sim-
plified Shorthand in ten weeks
time, immediately afterwards ac-
cepted a position with a real es-
tate firm, where she was promot-
ed to head stenographer and gave
entire satisfaction.
She was also made society ed-
itor of the Guthrie Daily Leader,
of Guthrie, Okla. After the con-
stitutional convention had met in
the city of Guthrie, she applied
for that position, where three
young ladies and one young man
stenographers, writing Pitraanic
systems, gloriously failed. Pres.
Murray immediately assigned
I her the work of reporting the
proceedings of the day. Mrs.
j Jarrell successfully reported same
(submitting her typewritten tran-
script bick to the president for
comparison with other stenogra-
phers; her work was so perfect
that shtjwas at once placed on
the Journal work at $b .per day.
The Journal is the permanent re-
cord of the proceedings of the
convention, and Mrs. Jarrell's
name will be embalmed in the
history of the new state of Okla-
homa. She says she owes all her
success to the wonderful superi-
ority of the Byrne Simplified
Shorthand taught by the Capitsl
City Business College.
Write for 162 page catalog and
enter the only practical business
training school in this sectton,
the one that proves this statement
by enrolling more students annu-
ally and placing them in good
paii tions than any other school
in the two territories.
Capital City Business College,
Guthrie, Okla.
Uneeda
the
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To Protect Indian
Oil Lands.]
The Department of the Intel-
ior has made a new rule that will
affect all gas and oil pipe line
companies acquiring right-of-way I
in Indian territory. In the case
of the Ardmore Natural Gas com-
pany, requesting approval for j
twenty miles of pipeline right-of
way, the department approved
the application with the provis-
ion that on the right-of-way there
should be drilled any well within
500 feet of any Indian allotment.
This is for the purpose of pre-
venting oil and gas companies
from acquiring narrow strips of
right-of-way and drilling wells
upon it and drawing gas and oil
from under the allotments of
Indians who own adjoining Ian d
m
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Some Oklahoma
Altitudes.
Prof. August Peishfelder of the Am-
erican Hydrographic Surveying Corps,
is in Oklahoma making a tour of the
western part of the state in the inter-
est of irrigation for the utilization of
the waters of the rivers under the
United States desert and reclamation
act. He made a trip from Fort Reno
along the North Canadian river to the
western edge of the state and in his re-
port he will approve the formation of
an irrigation district comprising the
valley of the river in the counties of
Blain, Major, Dewey and Woodward
counties. By utilizing the water for
irrigation purposes would greatly in-
crease the value of farm lands in the
district and render crop yields more
certain.
In some resDects he found the North
Canadian river different from any
other stream in the United States. In
ore particular this fiver virtually lies
upon the top of a high ridge with a
watershed of only a couple of miles on
either side; no streams of any length
flow into it and its waters come from
the foothills of the Kocky Mouatains.
The North Canadian river is paralleled
by the Cimarron river at an average
distance of twenty miles to the north
and by the South Canadian river about
ten miles to the south and each are
from two to four hundred feet lower
in altitude.
Records of the topographical survey
of Oklahoma show £the several altitu-
des along the course of thi3 river with
corresponding ones to the north and
south of the river. At Oklahoma City on
the North Canadian river the altitude is
1247 feet, while at Guthrie thirty miles
north the altitude is only 982 feet. Com-
ing farther up the river to Fort Reno
the altitude is given at 1390 feet and at
Kingfisher, twenty miles north on the
prairie the altitude is 1046 feet. About
the same averages of altitude is main-
tained all along these rivers to the
western border of the state.
This stream is so small that it could
not be called a river except for its
length which is in excess of four hun-
dred miles. It isjunlike either of its com-
panion rivers as their beds are noth-
ing but a wide expanse of shifting
sands, changing their course withevery
freshet and at many seasons of the
year are almost dry; while this river is
narrow with deep waters and but little
sandy land along its course. The hard
formation of the bed of this river
makes it available for constructing ir-
rigation ditches direct from the river
bed.
Under an act of congress a desert
and reclamation fund was provided
from the sale of public lands in the
western states and territories and Ok-
lahoma is entitled to nearly a million
dollars from that fund and when Mr.
Peishfelder makes his report, it is be-
lieved that the Irrigation Commission
will designate a district as suggested
by his report and that the government
will begin work the coming year and
construct an irrigation system in the
western part of Oklahoma.
To Sow 50,000,000
Seed of Trees.
The forest service has made
arrangements to collect 50,000,
000 seeds of forest trees during
September and October of this
year. The collections will be
made in Montana, Wyoming, Col-
orado, Arizona and California,
from the Douglas fir, Engleman
spruce, Western larsh, incense
cedar and yellow pine trees.
The seeds will be used for
broadcast sowing, and for plant-
ing in lorest service nurseries.
The broadcast sowing will be ex-
perimental, to test the extent to
which this method of renewing
the forests on denuded lands in
the West can be usee'. Many
large tracts have been rendered
treeless by repeated fiies, and
only by planting or sowing can
1 timber be got to grow there again
J for a long time to come.
| The gathering of tree seeds is
| an interesting process. One meth-
od is to rob squirrels' nest:. In
the West, where hickory nuts,
chestnuts are scarce or wholiy
lacking, the squirrel gives his at-
tention to pine cones. He stores
them by the bushel behind old
logs, or in the hollow bases of
trees, to wait for them to open
and release the seeds. He col-
lects good qualities for he climbs
to the tops ot the tallest trees
and to the tips of the longest
limbs, and cuts down the choice
cones. The seed-gatherer sear-
ches out and robs the squirrel's
hoard.
Seeds must be gathered in
other ways also, for the sqi'irrel
collects only certain species for
which he has a particular taste.
When men do the work they us-
ually go to some tract where a
lumber operation is in progress.
Seeds may be conveniently col-
lected from the jelled trees, pro-
vided it is a good seed year.
If all would grow, a ton of al-
most any kind of tree seed would
produce a forest of large area,
j But no one expects all the seeds
j to grow. When the tree plants
them in the natural way very
many perish where one survives.
John Muir has estimated for cer
certain trees, 10,000 seeds perish
for every one that lives.
Geo. W. Gaffney
AUCTIONEER
GUTHRIE. OKLA.
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Tickets good in personally-conducted^Tourist
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