Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 2, 1907 Page: 1 of 16
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THE ONB DOWX-TO-DATE FARM PAPER OF OKLAHOMA AND IND. TER.
VOL. XV, No. 37.
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| OKLAHOMA IS
$ PROSPEROUS 1
£ £
The annual report of Governor
Frank Frantz of Oklahoma Is the best,
advertisement of this part of the new _
state that has ever appeared. It con-
tains no recemmendations and asks n.i
favors. Everything is booming, and
wonderful progress is shown in all
lines of industry. No jarring note is
found in the entire 150 pages of the
printed report. .
The question of education, which is
still a burning issue in Indian Terri-
tory, is giving Oklahoma no concern
save that the 3,100,875 acres set aside
for school and other purposes may
be hard to dispose of most profitably.
Its approximate value now is given
as $29,000,000 by Governor Frantz,
and assures the coining generation of
the new state ample educational facil-
ities.
In addition to the land thus reserv-
ed, congress made a cash donation of
$5,000,000 in the statehood bill, in
lieu of the common school lands ill
Indian Territory. The report contains
subreports from the heads of the va-
rious schools in Oklahoma, from the
State Agricultural and Mechanical
college down.
An abundance, of common schools,
both in the towns and in rural com-
munities, is shown by* the report,
while much space is given to the pro-
gress of education in the various high-
er schools and colleges.
The following extract is taken from
a chapter in Oklahoma agriculture:
"From a very me.iger beginning in
1S89, we have increased in poulation
until we have almost 1,000,000 people
in Oklahoma—happy, prosperous, con-
tented, peaceable, wide-awake, the
most progressive element from all the
states. Those who came here in the
early days, as those who have come
here since, came to establish homes.
"Oklahoma is pre-eminently a land
of homes and families. True to the
Oklahoma spirit, we are now ready
to put our energies to work to eclipse
all previous record-breaking.
"So rapidly do conditions change
here that agricultural statistics be-
come old in a, few weeks. The produc-
tive wealth of Oklahoma soil has in-
creased by leaps and bounds from
prarle hay in 18S9, to include all of
the greit gfarin 'productions of both
the north and the south, the aggre-
gae value of which in the year 1905
was over $100,000,000. It is />«serva,r
tively estlmated^.that this high record
will be exceeded in 1906 by not less
,than $25,000,000. $
"No class of settlers in Oklahoma
have prospered to a greater degree
than the farmers, a majority o* whom
came here with little or no means
beyond that of a willingness to "tvork
and endure hardship for the time nec-
essary to subdue the sod and grow
a crop. Comfortable and, in some in-
stances, palitial homes have supplant-
GUTHRIE, OKLA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1907.
50 Cents a Year.
PR1Z WINNING BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK COCK.
This bird took seven prizes at the ht. I.ouis Exposition, and is a fine pecimen of his breed.
ed the dugout and temporary im-
provements." o
TIWs is a fair sample of the encour-
aging and attractive character of the
report, which, by the way, is a com-
pilation of the reports of many ex-
parts in thir particular lines of work
Of the livestock industry of Okla-
homa the report says:
"Some very effective arguments *^n
be found in comparing our wealth of
livestock with that of some of the
older commonwealths, which have for
years been recognized as livestock
producers of no mean caliber. Infcint
Oklahoma exceeds in value of live-
stock that of Washington by $61,000,-
000, that of Oregon by $56,000,000,.
Colorado by $42,000,000, Arkansas by
$39,000,000, Tennessee by $24,000,000,
South Dakota by $1^,000,000. It ex-
ceeds by $26,000,000 the combined
value of the livestock embraced in.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 2, 1907, newspaper, January 2, 1907; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88134/m1/1/: accessed June 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.