The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1902 Page: 2 of 12
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Now an Established Industry in Eastern
Oklahoma.
From the Kansas City .Star.
Chandler, Okla., July 24.—The
Oklahoma-Indian Territory canta-
loupe district is marketing its first
crop. The local centers are Chan-
dler, Shawnee, Tulsa and Catoosa.
The combined acreage is close to
1,700, Tulsa leading with 1200 acres,
including the Red Fork fields, while
Catoosa has 250, Chandler 250 and
Shawnee seventy-five acres. The
Chandler crop is entirely the crop of
local growers. Elsewhere the seed
and crates were supplied by a Chi-
cago commission firm, which is buy-
ing the crop of the entire district
On July 1 it was estimated that
the total yield of cantaloupes would
be 100,000 crates. The melon louse,
unfortunately, entered the fields and
caused such irreparable damage that
there will be a 50 per cent shortage.
The quality of the melons was much
impaired. The fields of Tulsa and
Catoosa suffered more than the Ok-
klahoma fields. Had conditions
been favorable in every way this
season the acreage would have been
vastly increased next year. The
damage from the louse, however,will
tend to discourage the Indian terri-
tory growers. It was found that
vines on new ground were scarcely
molested, but on ground that had
been cultivated for several years the
lice appeared in large numbers. It
was impossible to destroy them with
profit by spraying. The pest ex-
hausted the strength of the vines and
caused the melons to ripen before
netting. The appearance of the
melon louse is not limited to Okla-
homa this year but has been general
throughout the Southwest.
Buyers, after furnishing crates,
are paying thirty-five cents a crate
at this place. This would have dis-
tributed about $50,000 among the
growers had they produced 100,000
crates. They will be lucky now to
get $30,000 for the entire crop. An
acre of ground should yield 100
crates under favorable conditions or
$55 in cash at this year's price. J.
W. Dunkeson, who is buying the
crop, says that the cost of producing
an acre of cantaloupes and deliver-
ing them should not exceed $18.
Even with their shortage, growers
should realize ar reasonable profit
this year.
The promoters in the cantaloupe
industry in the Oklahoma-Indian ter-
ritory planned to make it a competi-
tor of the Rocky Ford fields in Col-
orado. At Shawnee the fields are in
the fertile valley of the North Ca-
nadian river and at Tulsa and Red
Fork the soil is enriched by the
Arkansas, the same tributary to the
Rocky Ford region. Seed was I
brought direct from Rocky Ford last
spring and wh jrever the vines es-1
caped the ravages of the louse the
cantatoupes were not inferior in
flavor to the melons of Rocky Ford.
The melons here were better than
the best grown in the Lawrie district,
near Guthrie, which heretofore, has
been the largest single melon pro-
ducing district in Oklahoma.
The crop here |is earlier than the
Rocky Ford crop, later than the
•texas crop and ripens about the
Drs. Minor & Wallace,
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Office 'Phone 167.
Residence 'Phone 27
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DRS. BENEDICT & BISBEE,
Physicians and Surgeons.
w. G. bisbee.
Entrance to Office
Room 9.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA.
J Office Rooms 7, 8, 9,
1 in the Clapp Building
THE UNION NATIONAL BANK,
Succ cssor to
. The Bank of Hoffman, Charles & Conklin
organized in 1892 '*
General Banking: Business, Exchange and Collections.
Corner Manvel Avenue and Tenth Street
Chandler, Okla.
'Phone No. 3?
Manvel Ave. Opp p. o.
CITY MEAT MARKET,
SHACK & HOCKING, Props.
Fresh and Salt Meats,
Produce. Etc.
The choicest Meats always on hand.
Hides and furs bought and sold_'
Highest market price paid for chick-
ens and produce.
Chandler.
1 A iVI i M , x
' 11 < >n H ,-ne.
If You Need Any You
Can Have Them at
ffKT Come and Take
Your Choice.
Buggies,
Spring Wagons,
Sludebaker Wagons.
c. A. FILTSCH
same time as the Arkansas melon,
giving a market with practically no
competition.
Persons familiar with the growing
of cantaloupes advise that seed be
brought from Rocky Ford each year,
as this will come nearer maintaining
I the highest standard of excellence
than if seed grown locally should be
planted. It is not known that there
would be any difference in the seed,
but this plan is advised as a safe-
guard against questionable experi-
rnents. Rocky Ford seed cost about
I M a pound and one pound will plant
Ian acre of ground. The inexperience
of growers has been to their disad-
vantage this year. Many do not
know when to pick their melons or
how to crate them. Some make the
mistake of planting cantaloupes near
watermelons, etc., which always in-
jures their flavor.
Growers generally will not permit
themselves to be discouraged by the
results of one season. They will
plant a big acreage next year in.the
belief that patience and industry will
make this portion of Oklahoma and
adjacent Indian territory one of the
most productive and lucrative canta-
loupe districts in the country. Shaw-
nee will have 1,000 acres in canta-
loupes next year.
An exchange says : A traveling
man tells us that he stopped at a
hotel in a town not a hundred miles
from here and being shown the bill
of fara he wrote on a slip of paper
"Heb. 13-7." The girl whS
waiting on the table thought he was
trying to guy her and took the paper
to the proprietor. Upon looking up
the reference in the bible the latter
read, "Jesus Christ, the same yes- '
terday, today and forever."
FOR SUPERINTENDENT.
Philip power, of North Wichita, An-
nounces His Candidacy.
In another column will be found
the announcement of Philip Power
for county superintendent. Mr
Power is one of Lincoln county's
brightest young men. He is a Hoo-
sier by birth and secured an educa-
tion through his own efforts, working
on the farm by the month in the
summer and attending school in the
wmter When he left the high
school he-had made the best grades
ever made in that school. He came
to Lincoln county four years ago
and has taught every winter since
and has been employed as principal
of the Parkland school for the com-
ing year. Last winter his school
ook more certificates of award from
the county superintendent than any
, other school in the county. He lacks
I but two lessons of being a graduate
of the International School of Music
of New York. He has att< nded the
normal institute for the past three
years, completing the normal course
last year. He made the best grades
that were made at the last teachers'
examination.
He is a young man of good char-
acter and possesses a great amount
of energy. His popularity and suc-
cess in his own school work prove
that he is a safe man to entrust with
responsibility of this important office.
esSM:10 1"xt warranty deeds and rea
| estate leases at News office.
The largest apple of the season
was brought to The News last Sat-
urday by A. H. R. Calvin. The ap-
ple was fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed seventeen ounces
Hoover & Kanaga sent the apple to
the Frisco people in St. Louis.
Major Moses Neal made a busi-
ness trip to Tulsa Tuesday.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1902, newspaper, July 31, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117595/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.