The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1923 Page: 3 of 6
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EVENTS OF STATE
WIDE INTEREST
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF OKLAHOMA
COTTON OUTLOOK IS GOOD
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hc Area of Cotton In Cultivation Is
About 3357000 Acres Compared
To 3052000 Acres Last Year
Oklahoma City Oh1a-----875000 bales rived
or cotton from an area of 3357000 ley ri
acres Is the official estimate released the c
by the 1Inited Statos Bureau of kgri-
cultural Economics and the State tery
lloard of Agriculture cooperating of th
The area of cotton in cultivation Capt
In Oklahoma this year hi about 3357- denvi
000 acres as compared with 3052000 units
acres the revised estimate of acreage Ilona-
In cultivation a year auo tieing an in- Oki
cr‘-ase of 305000 acres or 10 percent arriv(
The condition of the growing corp state
on June 25 was 64 percent of a nor-
mal condition as compared with 63 poN
on May 25 1923 76 on-June 25 1922
and 79 the average condition for the Work
past ton years on June 25
A condition of GI on Juno forecasts
a yield of about 125 pounds per acre Not
and a total production of about 875- sive
000 bales The final out hurl may la:-
mate'
jarger or smaller titan this amount ao- the c
cordin2 as conditions developing dur- has
log the remainder of the SONSon
used
more or less favorable to the crop wars
than averago 1ast yt-ar the produo- with
ti011 was 627000 bales two year ago
481000 bales three 'years ago 1336-
mg 11
000 bales and four yeals ago 1016000 mend
bales
PIONEER OKLAHOMAN DEAD
As Ore Of "Twelve Apostles" He
Fought For State Constitution
Oklahoma City Okla—Henry E
Asp widely known Oklahoma at
a member of the now historic
slate constitutional convention and a
leader in tho republican party In Ok-
lahoma sinee territorial days died at
an Oklahoma City hospital recently
Death followed an operation He
had been able to at tend his office dit-
ties until the day before his opera-
tion Ile was 67 years old
Asp had been a resident of 'Okla-
homa City for eleven years and of-
Oklahoma for thirty-three yeifrs
Caine to Oklahoma in 1890 from 'Win-
field Kansas
DUNCAN CROPS LOOK GOOD
Area Damaged by Excessive Rainfall
Slight In Stephens County
Duncan Okla—Refreshed by time-
ly rains and good weather conditions
crops in Stephens county promise to
yield a better production than in
many years While some over-flow
lands suffered during the excessive
rainfall the area is negligible Inas
much fts there are no large streams
through the county subject to over-
flow Corn cotton broom corn
maize and sorghum crops are In good
condition as is pasturing for live
stock
Tank Farm Being Built
Tulsa Okla—Proration of crude
oil pipeline runs in the Burbank
filet which on the average amounts
to about 65 percent is causing opera-
tors to build a tremendous amount of
steel tankage At this time thirty
65000-barrel 'tanks are under con-
struction locations have been made
for thirty-one more or similar capaci-
ty and seventy-three additional ones
are proposed There are already a
total of seventy-seven 55000's twenty-seven
77000s and ten 80000's com-
pleted in that field
Frank Rush To Quit
Lawton Okla—Leaving a record
of seventeen years of work in the
government forest service as superin-
tendent of the Wichita national game
preserve behind him Frank Rush
quit that position on June 30 to de-
vote his time to building up Crater-
ville Park "I'm not resigning my
work with the forest service" Rush
wheat and oats The acreage is mach
smaller than it was last year but a
greater yield an acre is expected from
both grains
Berries Yield Profit at Meeker
Meeker Okla—S G Poplin has
just finished picking his early harvest
RTIti McDonald blackberries market-
ing 200 crates from three and a bait
acres lie cleartA $320
STATE GUARDS IN CAMP
Special Trains Bring Companies Of
State Militia to Annual Maneuvers
Ft Sill Okla—National guardsmen
from all parts of the state have ar-
rived at Fort Sill fOU the annual en-
campment Most of the companies
arrived Thursday morning although
others came later
Special trains were used to bring
the guardsmen here According to
information from Ardmore a train
left there with 1000 men representing
Idabel Hugo Tishomingo Atoka Du-
ant and Ardmore
The Muskogee special train also ar-
rived hero Thursday It carried Bat-
tey D of the 189th field artillery under
the command of Maj W A CaeNi
Wewoka sent all members of Bat
tery A and the sanitary detachment
of the 160 light field artillery vith
Capt Walter Seran in charge BM-
denville i represented by its four
units of the guard under Alaj C
10111P
Oklahoma City's guardsmen have
arrived Nearly every unit in the
state will be rerwesented
On Cleveland County
To Begin Soon
CONCRETE NORIIAAN ROAD
Road Sys
Norman Okla—Following an exten-
sive investigation of t)td building
materials the committee chosen by
the Cleveland county commissioners
has rtcommonded that concrete be
used on the north and south' high-
ways across the county to connect
with the Oklahoma City paving
The report specified CA-MC1'0 e pav-
ing for the north road and recom-
mended that the commissioners spend
not more than $200000 of the coun-
ty's money on this road It further
recommended that this road be com-
Dieted before contracts be let for the
road from Norman to the south line
of the county
WELEETKA GETS A HOTEL
New Company Formed to Erect Mod
ern Structure
Weleetla Okla—NV M Dell has
been cdected president L T NeW1011
vice president S N Craig secretary
and D W Johnson treasurer of the
IATion 11010 company organized by
Weleetka business men
The proposed hotel W 11 be erected
as soon as all the stock is sold It
will be a three-story brick building
and will cost $65000 according to
plans Part of the top will be used
as a Masonic lodge hall
Medicinal Water Found
Antlers Okla—Mineral water ot
medicinal value WaS found by drillers
at a depth of twenty feet on the resi-
dence property of Mrs S C Green
recently Mrs Green has a large well
now under construction and Is nego-
tiating with an eastern firm to pur-
chase the water in carload jots for
medicinal purposes
Initinn n en
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BMOC
Hospital Will Help Cripples
The entire lower floor of the state
university hospital at Oklahoma City
will be turned over to the treatment
of the 10000 crippled children of the
state ir plans now being worked Out
by Paul IT Fester superintendent ot
the institution carry through to corn
'tenon
Fester declared that the "crippled
chiliren" law passed by the Nintb
leghdature is one of the most pro-
gre7tsive laws on the books of any
state in the union Tie said that it
passed both houses of the legislature
without a single completed reading
the each time it was to be read some
metliber of the legislature moved that
the reading be dispensed with
The law provides that any teacher
mintstitr doctor or other responsible
citizen may report the case of any
crippled child to a county judge It
then liecomes the judge's duty to di-
rect the tounty health commissioner
says "I'm just leaving the position to investigate the case and if the de-
I've held so long Since I'm only go- formity 1 round to be relievable the
ing across the boundary line of the child is sent to the clinic maintained
preserve into Craterville Parit I'll at the hospital for treatment
still be available to help In carrying Expenses of the treatment under
on the work the law whic!"is now in operation
are borne halt and half by the county
Epworth League Camp Planned and the state they amount to $15
Guthrie Okla—Preparations al- la week for board and room at the
ready are under way here for third! hospital according to Pester
annual Oklahoma conference of the
Epworth League institute to be held Health Rules On Weather
at Mineral Wells park August 13 to A fan is Just as useful to the lur
23 Two hundred tents will be pitch- man body as to the engine of an auto ed this year for delegates who will mobile according to a bulletin on how
attend from all parts of the state to keep well in hot weather Issued
The institute will conventrate this by Dr A E Davenport commissioner
year oA recreational features al-I of public health The bulletin explains
though educational and religious that drafts are harmless in summer
Points will be stressed I unless they cool the body too rapidir
'When the weather is hot the but-
Madill Wheat Yield Heavy letin states the surface blood vessels
Madill Okla—Threshing has began expand and sweat glands bathe the
in Marshall county tho first being on body with perspiration Tly its evapo-
the Bounds ranch with 1000 acres in ration the body is cooled and it evarv
wheat and oats The acreage is much orates more quickly if the air is kept
smaller titan it was last year but a moving The daily bath keeps the
greater yield an acre is expected from pores open and assists in keeping the
both grains body cool and also well Over exer
Berries Yield Profit at Meeker tion in the hot sun should be avoided
Meeker Okla—S G Poplin has the bulletin warns
just finished picking his early harvest The bulletin warns against °Vet
RTItt McDonald blackberries market- eating and recommends a varied diet
lug 200 crates from three and a half with plenty of 'Vegetables Plenty ol
RCITS lie clearcli $320 I sleep and abundance of cool watet
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
"' - FirlAMATION of arid landa by the
Irtfederal government is now twenty
si-tt:IaorsseNo(1:11t 0 f
The ettrptt!crioaNtItital
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tbityat rarcets1111tel June
114 17 1902 marked an expansion of the
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' e- homestead policy Of the nation and its
'i ad adaptation to new conditions Aluch
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has been written In praise and in
hbune of what has been done The
rc' present year is the first of what tip-
ill pears to be greater activities and
)) changed met hods
'' 1 In this reclamation of arid land say
the experts considerably more than
$100000000 have been expended A
very considerahle stun has been repaid The works
erected are many of them of monumental charac-
ter In the main the settlers under these projects
have been prosperous and suecessful but a series
of low prices and high freight rates have created
a condition under which many of the settlers find
It temporarily impossible to meet their payments
With a view of remedying this condition an act ex-
tending the time of certain payments under care-
fully guarded conditions was enacted It Is real-
ized by all that the time has now arrived when
there should be a general study of conditions on
the reclamation projects and a readjustment of
payments in the light of present conditions in a
manner to enable the industrious and well-meaning
settler to meet his obligations at all times and
to place these enterprises on a basis of permanent
prosperity
According to the experts we have long needed a
federal law providing for the organization Of irriga-
tion districts on projects under the national retie-
mation law in order to make it possible for the
federal authorities to deal with the settlers fina
water users collectively instead of Individually
This is now made possible by the act of May 15
1922 This act also provides for the conditions un-
der which farm loans can be made on lands on
reclamation projects thus meeting a long-felt want
on the part of settlers on such projects
Dr Hubert Work is now secretary of the Interior
He Is a Colorado man and has had personal experi-
ence with Irrigation In a recent address delivered
by Secretary Work at the Agricultural department
motion-picture show he set forth the need of co-
and the Interior In one plaee he said this:
operation between the Department of Agriculture
"The Interior department and the Department
of Agriculture ars units of a great government
not miniature governments in themselves and
therefore both departments are obligated to con-
tribute through mutual co-operatien to the success-
ful administration of the government as a whole
The lost motion and time expenditure incident to
duplication or overlapping does not make for in-
tensive organization the lack of NVIiiiii is a weak-
ness of the government service One department
F hould rot he dependent on another for an inciden-
tal service because not prepared to do It alone
That service should be the responsibility Of the
department host equipped to render it" In an-
other place be said this:
"Farmers must compete in the markets predsely
as other industries do and the question of trans-
portation is a fundamental factor in the market-
ing of farm products These are questions the
two departments !must study together for they
have to do with the food supply not of this year
and our own people alone but for many years in
the future and for other nations as well There
is no longer any frontier in the United States
we cure all one people having a common interest
and obligation to the government and I shall ask
the secretary of agriculture to lend the good of-
fices of his most scientific practical and effective
department to appraise soil fertility and markets
In advance of our reclamation connnitments and
to aid our settlers in profitable farming" Ile
concluded thus:
"I have not tyld opportunity to consult with the
secretary of agricAture on these lines I have been
discussing with you I am new to my department
while he has been En the far West for several
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weeks where incidentally he has Missions to per-
form fur my department hut we are long-time
personal friends I know the trend of his mind and
feel assured that we will not e far apart in our
conclusions bearing on the Important services our
respective home-making departments should ren-
der to the government"
'This NVIII be good news for many who would
benefit by co-operation since these two depart-
ments have been for a long time at feud over
several questions—such for example as the pro-
posed transfer of the control of the national for-
ests to the Interior department the efforts of the
Agricultural department to get control of the na-
tional parks and the proposed turning over of
Alaska to the Interior department's administra-
tion At any rate Secretary Work has begun his ac-
tivities by appointing Miles Cannon former com-
nissioner of agriculture of Idaho to the position
of field reclamation commissioner headquarters to
be established later in one of the reclamation
states In his letter to Director A P Davis of the
reclimation service and to managers of the sev-
eral reclamation projects Dr Work says In part:
"Mr Cannon is the direct representative of the
secretary of the Interier in a work which I have
undertaken for the Improvement of government
reclamation prejects along business and agricul-
tural lines Ills work is not to conflict with or
duplicate the engineering work now being carried
on by existing reclamation forces nor with the
work of other bureaus or departments but is to
be so far as same touches your work or that of
others in co-operation in producing beneficial re-
sults "Briefly it Is the purpose to co-ordinate vari-
ous agricultural activities aid the farmers In rais-
ing better and more diversified crops in applying
modern method a In handling marketing and real-
izing upon crops produced to effect economies
wherever possible and to In every way improve
not only the condition of the water users on the
projects but the administration of the projects by
this department"
Incidentally Commissioner Cannon Director
Davis and Special Assistant Secretary D W
Davis are at this writing nulling a visit of inspec-
thm to the principal reclaniatien projects
There are :10 reclamation projects in various
states The total investment of the United
States is approximately $1720000°0 the reim-
bursements and credits approximately $460( 000‘)
The net Investment is therefore about $125040t00
Senator Ashurst of Arizona in a recent senate
debate gave these general figures:
"Since federal irrigation began 3000000 acres of
theretofore practically worthless desert land have
been made productive by government irrigation
The value of the crops produced thereon now
amounts to $900000o0 annually The increase in
value of the Irrigated acreage amounts to 4zikt0-
000000 and since the government began the de-
livery of Irrigation water the crops produced on
the reclaimed lands today aggregate $400000000
In value Nor does this sum of $400W0000 in-
clude the value or expansion of production or live
stock or stock products in other words the fig-
ures t$psystOOtsli as to the aggregate crop value
are limited to vegetable fruit and grain values
at the farm for which government reclamation
furnishes the sole supply of water All the moneys
disbursed by the government to the various Irri-
gation projects will ultimately be repaid
"At the outset let it be remembered that the
full importance of national Irrigation cannot be
measured in dollars for it has an Intangible value
not to be estimated In tonnage tables nor trans
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Cotton seed cottonseed oll and cake
Manure
Cattle
Alfalfa seed
llttseellaneous
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portation rates In building new commonwealths
In the arid lands of the West the government is
utilizing undeveloped resources and creating op-
portunities for its citizens One of the primary
purposes of the reclamation law was to create
homes and this purpose has been richly fulfilled
Viewed from this standpoint alone national rec-
lamation has amply justified all for which Its ad-
vocates hoped
"Since 1902 the reclamation service has con-
structed the Irrigation systems to supply abundant
water to 2000000 acres of land and the capacious
storage reservoirs of the government are furnish-
ing a supplemental supply of stored water to a
million additional acres in other projects or a
grand total of 3000000 acres On these irrigated
lands are now profitably employed and satisfac-
torily housed approximately 500000 persons
On the government-project lands are 50000 fam-
ilies in independent homes The population in
cities towns and villages in these government
projects has been Increased by an equal number
of families"
In the Reclamation Record are given the fol-
lowing figures concerning the Yuma project Arizona-California
which may br may not be typical
of conditions among the projects:
Values Created
Value of farm lands and Improvements
on project at close of 1921 $10240000
Value of live stock 065000
Value of farm equipment 450000
$11355000
Assessod Valuations
Towns $ 4000000
Parma ' 6185000
Public utilities 4615000
$15400000
Value of Crops Produced In 1921
Alfalfa hay $ 430000
Alfalfa seed 473000
Cotten 798000
Cotton seed 60000
Miscellaneous 382000
201)84 00
Value of crops produced since 1913 $23000004)
Shipments of Agricultural Products 1921
Carloads
Hay 621
Cotton 425
Cotton seed cottonseed oll and cake '20s
Manure 137
Cattle 121
A I faint seed 65
Iloney 13
iseellsneous 38
Total amount shipment 11328
Wholsesale Purchases of Manufactures In 1921
Dry goods clothing shoes 980000
Lumber 375000
Automobiles trucks etc 133000
Groceries 21500k)0
Ilard ware 82001X)
Coal feed flour blig4 etc 225000
Farm implements 205100
Machinery and supplies 175000
Electrical supplies 10i'S000
Jewelry and miscellaneous instruments 50000
Drugs and sundries 205000
Cigars etc 104000
FM-111We 1404)
Other merchandise 2o0txX)
Tot al 5411000
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