The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1906 Page: 6 of 8
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What the New State
Brings Into the Union
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OKLAHQMA TERRITORY
Area in Square miles ■
Population —.■■■' ; ;
In.linns ——
" Negroes
Taxable property in million ddllfirs
Main line railroad mileage
Anjiuul wheat crop in million bushols
Annual cotton croji in thousand bales........
Valuo in dotnest i c alii nulls in million dollar ./.
National banks ........ - -
Srato or privato banks ...
National banks deposit in million dollars
Stttte-or private banks doposit in million dollars
Common school funds in million dollars
Cities with more than 15,000 inhabitants
(Jittes with more than 5,000 inhabitants
INDIAN TERRITORY
Area in square miles
Population ......
Indians
Negroes
Taxable property in million dollars .
Main line railroad mileage '
Annual wheat crop in million bushels
Annual cotton crop in thousand bales
Annnal corn crop in thousand bushels
Value in domestic animnls in million dollats
National banks
State or privato banks
National banks deposit in million dollars
Stat'! or privato banks deposits in million dollars .
C nimon school fund in million dollars.
Citi s with moreihan {>,000 inhabitants
'38:890
11,945
23,000
s
\lh
. 31,400
.750,000
. 87,980
. 38,000
300
.. 8,400
10
OKlaHoma in 1889
The bill granting statehood .to the and proper that she be admitted and! under these adverse circumstances the
twin territories—Oklahoma and In- her citizens given a chance to exercise people have done nobly towards edu-
There has never been a state ad-
i mitted to the union that was as far
dian Territory—has passed both the rights of members of a soverign
houses of congress aiid now becomes a | state
law by virtue of the signatures of the'
presiding officers of each house and
then president of the United States.
., ,,,, f„„ advanced at the time of admission a%
The omnibus bill, .providing for. state" ,
hood for Oklahoma and Indian Terrl- is the new state of Oklahoma. She
tory as one state and New Mexico and j has wealth, resources and population
Arizona as another, was one of the today tnat will exceed a number of
first bills introduced at'the convening ; states. What has been accomplished
of the fifty-ninth' congress. Several in the way of development in the past
bills looking towards nils end have j few years cannot, perhaps be equalled
been framed and referred to the com- J by any section or country in the,.world,
mittees. Many amendments have been j She has, besides the finest agricultural
tacked to tthe original bills and the | land, untold wealth in oil, minerals and
consideration of this question has con-
sumed more time than any other
measure before congress. At times
timber. Some of the largest oil wells
in the central west have been drilled
within her borders. The climate is
the prospect for statehood woiild J delightful as well as healthful. Almost
appear quite encouraging and hopes for ! any product that can be grown
immediate passagerof the measure flourishes in Oklahoma. Here is
would look bright, but some diswgr-ee- j located the happy medium in the
ment either in the committee rooms climate and ability to bring forth the
eating the White children. ' Tribal
schools have flourished, but to most
of these the children of white parents
could not be admitted and it was not
until the last year that any provision
was made by congress for ;thelr educa-
tion. Under the terms of the state-
hood bill congress has provided a fund
that will at once enable schools to be
built where there are none, and educa-
tional matters will be brought up to
the high standard of the western part
as rapidly as it is possible.
Oklahoma enters Into statehood witji
a: larger population than any one of
twenty-three other states in the union,
among them being Arkansas Colorado,
Connecticut, Florida,... Idaho, Maine,
Nebraska and Oregon. The new state
county of-Beaver, the north boundary I efles 0f the Oklahoma officials were in
line of the state is close to 450 miles j private buildings, rented by the ter-
inlength.
The citizenship of the state is typ-
ically" American, nof less than ninetv-
seven per cent being A'merican born,
the percentage In Oklahoma territory
being 9G, and in Indian Territory 98.
Of white population, the percentage is
actually greater in Oklahoma, the
heavier Indian population in Indian
Territory causing the statistical dif-
ference in favor of that portion of
the state. The population is growing
tremendously by the constant incom-
ing of vigorous men and women from
northern states, the' movement beine
greatest from that direction. The per-
centage of illiterates is five and one-
third in Oklahoma territory, and nine-
teen in Indian Territory.
The constitution of the sta:te will be
itorial secretary for the federal gov-
ernment," which paid the rent. The
enabling act fixes the capital of the
state at Gutjirie until 1913.
For the maintehac£of public "schools
the state has "1,413,803 acres of land,
being sections 1G and 36 in original
Oklahoma, being worth twenty mil-
Jion dollars, and the sum of five million:
dollars appropriated by congress for
Indian Territory. The Oklahoma
school lands have paid in rentals more
than two million dollars for the sup-
port of Oklahoma schools, and the an-
nual income from leases now amouhta
to more than $300,000 a year. In orig-
inal Oklahoma there are about 3.200
school- houses.
The mineral resources of the state
embrace nearly all the products use-
ful in commerce, are seemingly inex-
south,
or among the members would cause | products nati\e to the noith
a jialt in the proceedings. At no time oast and west. The cattle range ol
was the fitness of Oklahoma doubted j a few years ago is now a tiling of the
or the lack of qualifications of her in-j past and the wild steer has been
habitants to govern themselves ques- j abandoned for the best pure bloods
tioned Tho national lawmakers j that can be procured. In educational _
seemed determined to combine the two; matters the western part of the new j five million acres came from Oklahoma
to state or old Oklahoma can boast of j territory and twenty million acte.
exists; from Indian Territory. The state is
other territories, whose ability
govern themselves—either united or . as fine a public school system as s'llihtly 'snialler than Kansas and
" larger than Missouri, Illinois. Iowa,
! Indiana, Wisconsin,
separated—was not considered in the j in any of the older states. _B._ I
most favorable light, with Oklahoma i versity and normal schools are the | jr'uf^'na7"wisconsin, Pennsylvania or
and tied them together in an omnibus i pride of the people and the perpetual Qhio". It lies between the thirtv-third
biD for which it seemed impossible to 1 school endowment derived from the ;ind thirty-seventh parallels north latt
disentangle them. Citizens of Okla- leasing of school lands, excels that of, itude, and between meridians nIInetv
homa and Indian Territory did not see j any state Conditions in the eastern tour and one ^^^^^"^Vnorth
the consistency in this stand taken by , half, or Indian territory, have not been j Kansas and Colorado, in the west,
certain leaders., in congress. They; the same as the western part. There New Mexico and Texas, on the
hejd, and rightly, too, that if the new , has never been any provision made for j south by Texas, and on the east bv
state of Oklahoma was entitled to common schools except at the expense | Arkansas and Missouri. Because of
come into the union it was only right! of each separate town or city, but | the extension of the long narrow
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formed by 112 delegates, fifty-five from
Oklahoma, a like number from Indian] haustlble, and in greatest abundance
Territory and two to be elected bv the in Indian. Territory. Beginning far
hag a population of approximately! qualified electors in the Osage Indian | out in western Oklahoma, the first val-
1 tsnooo Oklahoma contributing 700 - reservation. There will be onlv 111Unable- product encountered is gypsum.
1350,000, nrvfi^OOOO ! districts. The governor, secretary of ( used for cement and plaster. Geolo-;
000 and Indian rem ry , . state and chief justice of Oklahoma; gists estimate that there are 125 bil-
The new state of Oklahoma is one I apportion Oklahoma into fiftv- Hon tons of available gypsum in Okla-
of the richest portions of the vast gix ^ist ricts, of which the Osape reser- homa, a supply so -enormous that tho
Louisiana Purchase acquired from va^|on shall be on£, and the judges of world could hardly exhaust it. In
France in the reign of-Emperor Napo-i ^ie cour^ 0f appeals in Indian Terri- northwestern and western Oklahoma
leon I. It has an area of 70,2o0 square j ^ory shaii apportion that territory into ; are vast plains, beds of salt, a con-
miles and--close to forty-five million ^ fifty-five districts." The governor of tinuation of the Kansas field. These
acres of land, of which^ aboujt twenty-1 oklahoma and the Judge senior in deposits practically are untouched. In
service in Indian Territory shall order j southwestern Oklahoma is the red
an election of delegates within four granite of the Wichita " mountain
months after the approval of the en- j range. Further east, the extension of
abling act, the proclamation to be is- j the Kansas limestone bed appears, es-
sued sixty days before the election. J pecially in the neighborhood of New-
The laws of Oklahoma regulating the j kirk, Ponca City and Pawnee. In
election of a delegatee to congress | northeastern Indian Territory are rug-.
shall apply. In Indian Territorv the ^ed flint hills with lead and zinc de-
judges of the United States courts are , posits of the Quapaw field, now devel-
required to establish and define elec- oping, Oklahoma does not equal In-
tion precincts and appoint three judges j (jjan Territory in the amount, and va-
of election for each precinct, not more | riety of building stone and granite,
than two of whom shall be members j The granite beds at Tishomingo, in
of the same political party. The elec- [ the Chickasaw nation, have been pro-
tion judges appoint their own clerks, j ducing for years, and a great deal of
and report to the judges of the United ] the granite columns and superstructure
States courts and the latter constitute
the ultimate and final canvassine
board in Indian Territory. The consti-
tutional convention will assemble at
Guthrie on the second Tuesday after
the election of the delegates, who shall
not receive pay for service longer than
sixty days.
Two senators and five congressmen
will represent the state in Washing-
ton. There were twenty-six counties
in Oklahoma, exclusive of the Ossge
Indian reservation. Indian Territory
had twenty-six court recording dis-
tricts, which were established for the
ultimate purposes of their becomlnsr
counties.
The state begins with practically no
public indebtedness. Oklahoma terri-
tory had outstanding obligations ag-
gregating about $000,000, or less than
fifty cents per capita for the state. This
indebtedness existed in the form of
warrants, due to failure to make a
levy sufficient to meet the running ex-
penses of the territory. These war-
rants, however, were looked" upon as
| gilt-edge investments that in amounts
of $200 or more they have been sellinr
at a premium of 2 per cent.
For the erection of public buildings
the sum of $140,000 is ready to be
turned into the state treasury. This
money was derived from the leasln'
of section 33 in every township in cer-
tain portions of Oklahoma, aggregat-
ing 31(i,3Gl acres, the land having been
set aside by congress to raise funds
for the erection of state buildings. The
citizens of Oklahoma were never per-
mitted to erect a capitol building. At-
tempts to do this caused such disturb-
ance in the legislature over the rivalry
of different towns for the location of
in buildings in the two territories
came from Tishomingo.
The coal deposits of Indian Terri-
tory are so immense that alone thev
would be a splendid mineral endow-
ment for any commonwealth. Oklaho-
ma has no coal of commercial value
and has been depending for fuel upon
Indian Territory and other states. The
area of the Indian Territory coal fields
includes the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Sem-
inole and Creek nations, and a portion
of the Cherokee nation. During the
last fiscal yeear nearly three million
tons of coal were mined and the work
gave employment to more than 8.000
men and boys.
Asphalt, the allied product of coal,
is found in mountainous quantities in
the Chickasaw nation, to a less extent
in the Choctaw nation and less extend-
slvely in southwestern Oklahoma, di-
rectly west of the Chickasaw nation.
The oil and natural gas resourdes
of the state hold forth a promise
of future wealth so great that careful
statisticians hesitate in making esti-
mates. Bartlesville is the center of
the producing district, but the extent
of the field is not definitely known.
Tho western half of the Cherokee na-
tion from Kansas south beyond the
Arkansas river in the Creek nation,
and the eastern half of the Osage In-
dian reservation, together with east-
ern Oklahoma territory counties down
to the Choctaw railroad are believed
to cover the field. The oil is of su-
perior quality, and is equal to the best
Kansas oil. The Standard Oil com-
pany is heavily interested in oil land
| leases In Indian Territory, and has
, built a number of pipe lines that lead
I from the Indian Territory-Oklahoma
OKlaHoma in 1906
the capital that congress forbade anv Held to its big refinery at Whiting,
change in the temporary location of j Ind. Many of the best wells have a
the capital and prohibited the con- pumping capacity of overy 500 barrel*
•atruction of a capitol building. The of- j a day.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1906, newspaper, June 22, 1906; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117994/m1/6/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.