Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-05
OKLAHOMA
VIII at Man Who Has Been There
saws.

Mr.. c. b. Young who had Just ar
rived from Oklahoma Yesterday made
the EAGLE a cali. He preftcei the in
formation gwen below by the remark
that he had understood that the EAGLE
had been showing up the Oklahoma
boom in its true light and also that il
had been warning people not to go
there for the purpose Of settlement
until the peoples au horities at Wash
ington had legally opened the way.
Mr.. Young originally joined Pavne's
colony paying 50 for certificate
numbered 1925, which number
showed him concln>ively that some
body was getting some money out OF
the scheme. lie afterwards helped to
organic an independent Oklahoma
colony numbering lhirty-six members
with headquarters at ST. Joe, Reno
county, Kan-as, Of which colony lac
was made secretary. In the interest
of this colony he had gone down to
the Ok ahoma laniS, independent of
the boomers, for the sole purpose of a
careful survey of the country, its eli
mate, soil, water, timber aud 20 forth.
He had jast flushed the work having
Travelled all over il from Bull Fool
rancho, up and down the Cimarron.
circling around by Payne's old town
site, down the Cottonwood, along
Deer ere k AMI the tributaries 10y tn,
we do not noT remember. vending
up at the Otoe agency. Speaking
from the standpoint and knowledge of
a Kansas farmer he says the Oklaho-
ma country as an agricultural country
is an uumiiigared humbug. While he
found lands on the Cherokee strip
and between Salt Fork and the kan-
sas line that were passablc, within the
bounds of Oklahoma proper not TO eX-
coed two per cent, or two sections in
every hundred, can be called average
farming land. He examined carefully
the sort of grasses, growths of timber,
water and every thing. and saws that
Pratt, Barber, Comanche, Mead and
pass Oklahoma rs agricultural coun-I
tries, and that the Oklahoma lands
hold no comparison TO this valley. For
cattle grazing, Mr.. Young says that
the Oklahoma will rank "a only fair 10
good. He bad kept away from the
boomers camp, refusing even To carry
them letters. so that he might make an
intelligent and unbiased survey and
report TO the members of the colony
in whose interest he made the trip.
He comes back thoroughly convinced
that speculative scheming is at the
bottom of all the moves made by the
boomers. He found MANY along the
border who had been misled by the
whom were nearly destitute and all
disappointed in their eff prts to make
settlement In n country which has
nothing 10 offer them but hardships
even should they be permitted to make
settlements unmolestcd. Mr.. Young
saws il is a shame and an outrage that
these spectators and Adventures
should be allowed 10 thus mIslead in
nocen; and confiding people, and that
SO far "a these leaders are concerned
aud the men who are backing them,
that il would be more honorable for |
them To put their hands in The pockets |
of their deiuded victims aud rob ,hem |
outright Than To till them away Of |
down there To that dc>ulate district 1" |
squander their hard earnings and be- |
come helpless only that a few specula |
tors might profit thereby. TO this
end ne asked u To warn all honest
people 30 keep out of Oklahoma, at
least not 10 TAX. their wives and chill |
dreu until they had gone down and |
themselves