The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1923 Page: 3 of 6
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TBS CHATTANOOGA NEWS
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NEWS ITEMS GATHEREO FROM
ALL PARTS OF OKLAHOMA
COTTON OUTLOOK IS GOOD
The Area of Cotton In Cultivation Is
About 3,357000 Acres Compared
To 3,052,000 Acres Last Year.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—875,000 bales
of cotton from an area of 3,357,000
acres Is the official estimate released
by the United States Bureau of \grl-
cultural Economies and the State
lioard of Agriculture, cooperating.
The area of cotton in cultivation
in Oklahoma this year is about 3,357,-
000 acres, as compared with 3,052,000
acres, the revised estimate of acreage
in cultivation a year ago, being an in-
crease of 305,000 acres or 10 percent.
The condition of the growing corp
on June 25 was 04 percent of a nor-
mal condition, as compared with 63
on May 25, 1923, 76 on June 25, 1922,
and 79 the average condition for the
past ten years on June 25.
A condition of 64 on June forecasts
a yield of about 125 pounds per acre
and a total production of about 875,-
000 hales. The final outturn may be
larger or smaller than this amount ac-
cording as conditions developing dur-
ing the remainder of the season prove
more or less favorable to the crop
than average. l-.ast year the produc-
tion was 627,000 bales, two yearS ago
481,000 bales, three years ago, 1,336,-
000 bales and four years ago, 1,016,000
hales.
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 for 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 1,000 men representing
Idabel, Hugo, Tishomingo, Atoka, Du-
rant and Ardmore.
The Muskogee special train also ar-
rived here Thursday. It carried Bat-
tey D of the 189th field artillery under
the command of Maj. W. A. Green.
Wewoka sent all members of Bat
tery A and the sanitary detachment
of the 160 light field artillery. «ith
Capt. Walter L. Seran in charge. Hol-
denville is represented by its four
units of the guard under Maj. C. R.
Home.
Oklahoma City's guardsmen have
arrived. Nearly every unit in the
state will be represented.
PIONEER 0KLAH0MAN DEAD
As One Of "Twelve Apostles" He
Fought For State Constitution.
CONCRETE NORMAN ROAD
Work On Cleveland County Road Sys-
To Begin Soon.
Norman, Okla.—Following an exten-
sive investigation of i o id building
materials, the committee chosen by
the Cleveland county commissioners
has recommended that concrete be
used on the north and south' high-
ways across the county to connect
with the Oklahoma City paving.
The report specified concrete pav-
ing for the north road and recom-
mended that the commissioners spend
not more than $200,000 of the coun-
ty's money on this road. It further
recommended that this road be com-
pleted before contracts be let for the
road from Norman to the south line
of the county.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—Henry E.
Asp, widely known Oklahoma attor-
ney, a member of the now historic
state constitutional convention, and a
loader in the republican, party in Ok-
lahoma sinee territorial days died at
an Oklahoma City hospital recently.
Death followed an operation. He
had been able to attend his office du-j
ties until the day before his opera-
tion. He was 67 years old.
Asp had been a resident of *Okla-|
lioma City for eleven years, and of-!
Oklahoma for thirty-three years. He
came to Oklahoma in 1890 from Win-
field, Kansas
WELEETKA GETS A HOTEL
DUNCAN CROPS LOOK GOOD
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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 as 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.
New Company Formed to Erect Mod-
ern Structure.
Weleetka, Okla—W. M. Bell has
been elected president, L. T. Newlon,
vice president; S. N. Craig, secretary,
and D. W. Johnson, treasurer, of the
Legion Hotel company, organized by
Weleetka business men.
The proposed hotel will be erected
as soon as all the stock is sold. It
will be a three-story, brick building
and will cost $65,000, according to
plans. Part of the top will be used
as a Masonic lodge hall.
Medicinal Water Found.
Antlers, Okla.— Mineral water ol
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 lots for
medicinal purposes.
Tank Farm Being Built.
Tulsa, Okla.—Proration of crude
oil pipeline runs in the Burbank dis-
trict, v/hich on the average amounts
to about 65 percent, is causing opera-
tors to build a tremendous amount of
steel tankage. At tills time, thirty
65,000-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 55,000's, twen-
ty-seven 77,000's and ten 80,000's com-
pleted in that field.
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Frank Rush To Quit.
lawton, Okla—Leaving a record
of seventeen years of work in the
government forest service as superln-1
tendent of the Wichita national game'
preserve, behind him, Frank Rush
quit lhat position on June 30, to de-
vote his time to building up Crater-J
vlll£ Park. "I'm not resigning my,
work with the forest service," Rush
says. "I'm Just leaving the position
I've held so long. Since I'm only go-
ing across the boundary line of the
preserve into Craterville Par.k I'll
still be available to help in carrying
on the work.
Epworth League Camp Planned.
Guthrie, Okla.—Preparations al-
ready are under way here for third
annual Oklahoma conference of the
Epworth League Institute to be held
at Mineral Wells park, August 13 to
23. Two hundred tents will be pitch-
ed this year for delegates who will
attend from all parts of the state.
The Institute will conventrate this
year on recreational features, al-
though educational and religious
points will be stressed.
Madill Wheat Yield Heavy.
Madill, Okla.—Threshing has began
In Marshall county, the first being on
the Bounds ranch, with 1,000 acres In
wheat and oats. The acreage Is much
smaller than It was last year, but a
greater yield an acre l« expected from
both grains.
Berries Yield Profit at Meek«r.
Meeker, Okla.—B. G. Poplin has
just finished picking his early harvest
and McDonald blackberries, market-
ing 200 crates from three and a half
acres. He cleared $320.
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 10,000 crippled children of the
state, if plans now being worked out
by Paul H. Fesler, superintendent of
the institution carry through to com
pletion.
Fesler declared lhat the "crippled
chillren" law passed by the Ninth
legislature is one of the most pro-
gressive laws on the books of any
state in the. union. He said that it
passed both houses of the legislature
without a single completed reading;
tha* each time It was to be read some
metdber of the legislature moved that
the reading be dispensed with.
The law provides that any teacher,
mlnlst#r, doctor or other responsible
citizen may report the case of any
crippled child to a county judge. It
then becomes the judge's duty to di-
rect the eounty health commissioner
to investigate the case, and if the de-
formity Is found to be relievable, the
child is 3ent to the clinic maintained
at the hospital for treatment.
Expenses of the treatment, under
the law whicft .is now in operation,
are borne half and half by the county
and the state. I hey amount to $15
a week for board and room at the
hospital, according lo Fesler.
Health Rules On Weather.
A fan Is just as useful to the hu-
man body as to the engine of an auto-
mobile, according to a bulletin on how
to keep well in hot weather, issued
by Dr. A. E. Davenport, commissioner
of public health. The bulletin explains
that drafts are harmless in summer,
unless they cool the body too rapldlr.
When the weather is hot, the but
letin states, the surface blood vessels
expand, and sweat glands bathe the
body with perspiration. By Its evapo
ration, the body is cooled, and It evap
orates more quickly If the air Is kepi
moving. The dally bath keeps the
pores open, and assists in keeping the
body cool, and also well. Over exer-
tion in the hot Bun should be avoldod.
the bulletin warns.
The bulletin warns against over
eating, and recommends a varied diet
with plenty of vegetables. Plenty ol
sleep and abundance of cool watei
ToPush U.S.
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Likely to (h-operate
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
ECLAMATION of arid lands by the
federal government is now twenty
years old. The approval by President
Roosevelt of the reclamation act June
17, 1902, marked nn expansion of the
homestead policy of the nation and its
adaptation to new conditions. Much
has been written in praise and In
blame of what has been done. The
| present year is the first of what ap-
pears to be greater activities and
changed methods.
In this reclamation of arid land, say
the experts, considerably more than
$100,000,000 have been expended. A
very considerable sum 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 successful, 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.
\\ itli a view of remedying tills condition an act ex-
tending the time of certain payments under care-
fully guarded conditions was enacted. It Is real-
ized by nil 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-mean-
ing 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 recla-
mation law, In order to make It possible for the
federal authorities to deal with the settlers ana
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 place he said this:
operation between the Department of Agriculture
"The Interior department and the Department
of Agriculture nrp units of a great government,
not miniature governments In themselves, and
therefore both departments are obligated to con-
tribute through mutual co-operation to the success-
ful administration of the government as a whole.
The lost motion and time expenditure ipcldent to
duplication or overlapping does not make for In-
tensive organization, the lack of which Is a weak-
ness of the government service. One department
should not be dependent on another for nn inciden-
tal service because not prepared to do It alone.
That service should he the responsibility of the
department best equipped to render It." In an-
other place he said this:
"Farmers must compete In the markets precisely
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 nntions as well. There
Is no longer any frontier In the United States.
We are ull one people, having a common interest
and obligntlon 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 commitments and
to aid our settlers In profitable farming." He
concluded thus:
"I have not had opportunity to consult with the
secretary of agriculture on these lines I have been
discussing with you. I am new to my department
while he has been In the far West for several
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weeks, where, Incidentally, he has missions to per-
form for my department, but we are long-time
personal friends; I know the trend of his mind and
feel assured that we will not oe far apart In our
conclusions bearing on the Important services our
respective home-making departments should ren-
der to the government."
This will be good news for ninny 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
Aluska to the Interior department's administra-
tion."
At any rate, Secretary Work has begun his ac-
tivities by appointing Miles Cunnon, former com-
missioner 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
reclamation 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 Interior In a work which I have
undertaken for the Improvement of government
reclamation projects along business and agricul-
tural lines. His 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 methods 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 ma!.lng a visit of Inspec-
tion to the principal reclamation projects.
There are SO reclamation projects In various
states. The total investment of the United
States Is approximately $172,000,000; the reim-
bursements and credits approximately $46,000,000.
The net investment is therefore about $128,000,000.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona, In a recent Benate
debate, gave these general figures:
"Since federal Irrigation began, 3,000,000 acres of
theretofore practically worthless desert land have
been made productive by government Irrigation.
The value of the crops iwoduced thereon now
nmounts to $90,000,000 unnually. The Increase In
value of the Irrigated acreage amounts to $600,-
000,000, anil since the government began the de-
livery of Irrigation water the crops produced on
the reclaimed lands today aggregate $400,000,000
In value. Nor does this sum of $400,000,000 In-
clude the value or expansion of production of live
stock or stock products; In other words, the fig-
ures ($400,000,000) 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 traua-
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portutlon rates. In building new commonwealths
In the arid lands of the West the government Is
utilizing undeveloped resources and creating op-
portunities 1 or 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-
siructed the Irrigation systems to supply abundant
water to 2,000,000 acres of land, and the capacious
storage reservoirs of the government are furnish-
ing a supplemental supply of stored wuter to a
million additional acres In other projects, or a
grund total of 3,000,000 acres. On these Irrigated
lands are now profitably employed and satisfac-
torily housed approximately 500,000 persons.
On the government-project lands are 50,000 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, Ari-
zona-California, which may 'or may not be typical
of conditions among the projects:
Values Created.
Value of farm lands and Improvements
on project at close of 1921 $10,240,000
Value of live stock 065,000
Value of farm equipment 450,000
$11,355,000
Anemd Valuation*.
Towns $ 4,900,000
Farms 6,185,000
Public utilities 4,615,000
$15,400,000
Value of Crops Produced In 1021.
Alfalfa hay $ 430,000
Alfalfa seed 478,000
Cotton 798,000
Cotton seed 60,000
Miscellaneous 332,000
$ 2,098,000
Value of crops produced since 1916 .. $23,000,000
Shipments of Agricultural Products, 1921.
Carloads.
Hay 621
Cotton 425
Cotton seed, cottonseed oil and cuke .. 2*18
Manure ' 137
Cattle 121
Alfalfa seed 65
Honey 13
Miscellaneous 38
Total amount shipment 1,628
Wholsesale Purchases of Manufactures In 1921.
Dry goods, clothing, shoes $ 980,000
Lumber 875,000
Automobiles, trucks, etc 133,000
Groceries 2,150,000
Hardwuro 320,000
Coal, feed, flour, bags, etc 225,000
Farm Implements 205,000
Machinery and supplies 175.000
Electrical supplies 105,000
Jewelry and miscellaneous Instruments 50,000
Drugs and sundries 265,000
Cigars, etc 104,000
Furniture 124,000
Other niercliundlse 200,000
Total $ 5,411,000
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