The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CHELSEA COMMERCIAL.
J. W. QUINN Publisher.
chelsea, INDIAN TERRITORY, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1905.
VOLUME 11. NUMBER 5.
CHELSEA.
What It Is; What
It's Got; What
It's Doing
SPIRIT OF ITS PEOPLE
Sixty business enterprises t
29 stone or brick business houses
two fine grain elevators one flour-
ing mill with a capacity of 100
barrels per day; two big lumber
yards, and is headquarters for the
oil well supply business in the
Chelsea-Alluwe field. It has a
Twenty Thousand Dollar Hotel
projected, the site Jor same having
just l>een secured;
Natural Gas is on the way to town.
Chelsea is situated in Indian
Territory, midway between Clare
more and Vinita, on the Frisco
Railroad, where it is crossed by
the survey of the Oklahoma &
Cherokee Central Railroad, which
is now being built. You are .179
miles from St. Louis, 2()0 miles
from Kansas City, 166 miles from
Oklahoma City, and in the middle
of the greatest farming coitntry in
*United States.
There is not a superior to it
I It is the home of big crops and
prosperity is a spontaneous quan-
tity, that you have only to reach
out and partake of. When you
are in Chelsea you are in the midrt
'of more good things for the pluck-
ing than you ever was before
Chelsea has four organised
1 churches, a good High School,
J and a
'Ten Thousand Dollar School House
Is now under construction, and
a splendid public school will be
opened ip Septemlwr It has
es
The franchise is now before the
town council and will be passed
in a few days, and the finelt medi-
cated artesian water in the west,
on the principal business street of
the town, in sight of the Frisco
Depot, besides other blessings that
this folder is too small to mention.
Chelsea ships annually—
20,000 tons of hay,
HO.OOO bushels wheat,
500,000 bushels corn,
Miscellaneous products about
400 car loads.
The freight receipts of the Fris-
co Railroad Company at this place
will exceed $25,000 per month.
The rich Pryor Creek valley
surrounds it on two sides and on
tbe other is the Verdigris River,
noted for its rich farming valley
lands. Sixty bushels of oorn, 30
to 40 bushels of wheat, 40 to 60
bushels of oats is an average crop
on this land, and alfalfa, hay.^ieas,
potatoes, rye and other products
are always snre crops and 1n
abundance.
Brick shale aboands in inex-
haustible quantities, and all the
natural gas you want and need U
here for the taking, to make a
brick plant a paying investment.
If you want a good home in a
town filled -with oultused people,
enjoying the blessings of good
schools and churches, able teach-
ers and preachers and blessed with
a healthy climate and good water,
come to Chelsea to live.
Property can be bought at res-
sonable prices either improved or
unimproved, as you may desire,
and nothing stands between you
and a
Happy home in the Coining Country
of the United States, if you desire
to have such a blessing.
Chelsea has been an incorporat-
ed town since 1890, and title to lots
are perfect from as deep as you
can dig to as high as your concep-
tion can reach.
Abstraetf glv*n,
if desired, that loan companies are
. T. McBpaodem.
Prwiident.
W. O. Milam,
Vlco-Prexident.
Cm*. Windham. Aa*Wtnnt
J mo. D. Scott
Bank of Chelsea
1896-1905
Does a General Banking Business and Solicits your Account.
DIRHCTORHi
McHPADDEN C. J,. LANK W. F. MrSFADDBN W. 0
J. M. SHARPE W. J. KTHAMiK JOHN D. SCOTT
MILAM
Anjr c<ill<wtiiin« iron devirs male we anlc you to Ira to with in. Wo remit on day o( collection
OIL FIELD NOTES.
No. 9 on the Clark Barrett
farm, owned by the Cineo Oil Co.,
was shot Monday and is about a
25 barreller.
No. 1 on the Simpson farm was
shot by Panlger Monday for the
Cinco Oil Co., and is good for
about fiO barrel Is a day.
No. 145 on the Cherokee Oil,&
Oas Co. lease was slmt this week.
Nos. 12 and 5 on the Adams
farm were shot this week. They
are the property of the Pennsyl-
vania Oil Co.
The California Oil <5o. brought
in the big well of the season Tues-
day. They feel happy over the
find, as it is a record-breaker
„ No. 3 for Hart & Co., was shot
accepting. You can borrow money on the Elliott farm this week and
to build a home. Come to Clisl- | if a dandy well.
sea and get prosperous. Business I No. 4 on the Nairn farm was
Muskogee's Steamer.
The steamer Mary D.. which was
sea an«get ij«'"«• "<— j ivi. •* wn >u< « •■ — purchased this week by the newly
and prosperity are twin brothers shot Monday and is a fair well. It- Muskogee Navigation
th«t m.Kh hand in hand-Ink* a jowned by Smith 4 Lee arri,^ 8„,„„l«y ate,-
hand. ; No. 10 ou the Clarke & Barrett , , . .
. i u at r - < ;i rv. noon about o o clock ana m
arm owned by the Unco Oil Co ^ Pftrk fonr niX„tTom
is now drilling and is due about, /
Call Meetiai
The ladies of this vicinity are
called to meet in the Opera
House, Monday July, 24, with the
officers and members of the fair
association for the purpose of sr-
various
ranging the rarioue commit!**; h><l No 8 .hot Monday hy
and appointing superintendents©! ^ ^ ^
departments^nd such other mat-
tcrs as may come up in relation to No. 41, an old well on the Cher-
woman's work in holding the fairokee Oil & Gas Co. lease was shot
this year. j this week.
city. The trip from Fort Smfcth
was made without difficulty, and
iuipson farm is nicely, commander of the
It is the property o , «ays the condition of the riv-
er is good and that there is no long-
er any question that the steam is
navigable.
The Mary D left Sunday for
her first trip down the river, mak-
ing stops nt Tamaha and other riv-
I er towns.
Friday.
No. 2 ou the Simpson farm is
due Friday
the Cinco Oil Co.
Alex T. McDonald on the Young
Pulling Rig
We have a Complete and First-Class Stock of Water Coolers Refrigerators,
and Ice Cream Freezers. Also a Good Supply of Camping Outfits and Tents.
We have as we always have had—a Complete Stock of Oil Well Supplies, Fit-
tings, Belting, Cables, etc. x
Bessemer Gas Engines, MerPowers, \ Advance Drilling Machines
Bovaird 'and Seyfang Boilers and Steam Engines.
STUDEBAKER AND SPRINGFIELD
WAGONS.
Also the McFarlane Buggies, Surries, Oil Country Buckboards ^Run^cmts.
We constantly keep in stock a fall line of,Wagon and Buggy HARNESS.
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Quinn, J. W. The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1905, newspaper, July 21, 1905; Chelsea, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175165/m1/1/?q=coaster: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.