Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

II is Il great mistake to suppose that nj
the boomers are in search of Il quarter
section Many of them wouldn't take il
as Il gift They have settled in the mos
thriving localities and into $50 porta
bic house they have stocked $50 line u
goods Then after the goods are SOC
for $40. the stock is rcpcniShcd, anc
when trade becomes dull. these itincrlm
shopllicrs, in literal sense, fold ~
their houses and move on down the road
Finally they close the trip by selling til,
house foi 500, Immediately cmbarkins
ON some new venture.
Thus one party informed me he had sole
pickct-fcnccs ut Alfred, cakes and pie;
nj Guthrie, crockcry ut Edmond, horse
Shoes at Oklahoma City, sheep at Yer
beck and bad whisky ton the qnicD Il
Norman. This class of boomer has in
creased Guthrie from town of 200 in
lnbitants to one Of 5000 Kingiishcr from
$50 to 5000, and smaller places have in
creased propor;ion-lly, while the humble
Of newly located town sites swell the lis
of Oklahoma settlements beyond that OF
their ncighbors in tho great Texas pan.
handle. The whole district is hourly OK
hlbitlng how much can be done even i'll u
rugged country, under the dominion OF
mild laws, where every man feels Il direct
interest in the prosperity of a common.
wealth Of which he knows himself to
form Il part.
Conceive the surprise of Il former resi-
dent Of Oklahoma in coming suddenly
upon the new scenes and magic changes
that have altered his native land Pct.
urc his astonishment ut the well-arraneed
municipalities, though as yet in embryo !;
ut the piercing shrek OF locomotives
heading in different directions; at the
ringing of church bells and the hammer
OF carpenters! The NEUROLOGICAL con-
qucror of the East, whose entertainments
reduced wild beasts to the tamcness of
domestic cattle, and touch OF whose
lance caused tlomishing cities to spring
up out of the ground is but an imperfect
type of the extraordinary forces that
would seem to have been mt work among
these native hills and prailics.
The old Indian country where, but n
few months ago, scattered bands OF
Greeks and Scminolcs roamed at will, has
become the new tcrritory--thc land OF
'ncwness" in all that the term implies
The quiet and at times gloomy forest
trail from Guthrie to Kingishcr is now
punctuated here and there with trading
posts and newly surveyed farms, willie u
big, cumbrous stage, drawn by four Kan.
sas horses, makes two trips day over e
well-beatcn roadway, already feeling the
influence Of railroad construction. In
every direction the traveller meets with
surveyors corps, whose tipods, stakes and
measuring lines give to the somewhat
sombre landscape an appearance of new
thrift, suggesting substantial and whole
some Improvement of the right sort. A
large corps of engineers are also at work
bridging the many streams and clearing
the way for several new lines of railroad.
The Frisco. Santa Fc. Rock Island and
Atlantic Pacific are each maxine sircnu.
Gus efforts to secure the necessary rights
OF way and push their iron bound paths
through the heart of the new El Dorado.
Inc presence Of these Omcns of civil
eaton reminds one that all the maxims of
'he indian policy are changing. Physi-
cal boundaries are superseded by moral
boundaries. Paradoxically, the Govern
ment IS waging a peaceful war with the
indlan-a war with money for arms