The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-01
OKLAHOMA,S PROSPERITY.
Frank Greer, in an Interview. Gives Some
Salient Points on the beautiful LAND
The Wonderful Promises in Corn,
Cotton and Wheat - Something
About Prospective Railroads.

Frank H. Greer, of the Guthrie Capital,
was in the city yesterday. Oklahoma S
crop outlook" said he, as magnificent.
The wheat is a mat of luxurience, and
about June to ID will harvest a yield
which will stand unexcelled even by the
big records occasionally made heretofore
by the soil of southern Kansas. You see,
this is our third year, and all the condi-
| tons exist necessary to a complete demon
stration Of Oklahoma's productiveness.
while much corn and wheat are out"
continued Mr.. Greer, cotton will be made
the leading Oklahoma crop this year. We
are directly in the Fort Smith cotton belt,
the richest in the world. The expert
ments of the past two years have
proven that a half bale of splendid
cotton can be raised on sod: a bale on
second breaking and bale and a quarter
to a bale and half on old ground
| Twenty-Five bushels of wheat to an acre of
we'll cultivated land at a dollar bushel is
a big average return, while of corn that
much can hardly be realized. Forty-five
dollars bale is low price for cotton, SO
you see an acre of sod in cotton properly
cared for will return s22. so; an acre of
|
cultivated land will bring from $50 to SCI
over twice the amount to be realized
from wheat or corn. The prices on wheat
and corn are uncertain; cotton is cash al
ways at from s45 to $55 bale. There are
many southerners, old cotton raisers. in
our territory and the northerners are edu-
eating themselves to the crop from which
they can make the most money. Guthrie's
| Board of Trade has just given 600 bushels
of cotton seed to surrounding farmers and
have another 1000 on the road, and we
| understand other towns over the territory
are supplying the farmers all the seed
they want to plant. From May to the
! 18th, about every farm in Okla
homa will have in from two
to sixty acres of cotton each.
To care for this crop, this fall are two
gins at Guthrie, two at Oklahoma City,
one at Norman, one at Edmund and one
at Saltwater, and other towns will per-
haps put them IN as they see the demand.
Yes, there is no reason why the Iowa,
Sac and Fox and Pottowatomie lands
should not be thrown open by July l.
The Pottowatomies are all allotted; the
III Iowas will be allotted in thirty days
more and the Sac and Fox agents think
they can finish by June 10. This would
give time to file the records at Washing
ton and for the proclamation to issue
by the 1st of July. Already many people
have arrived at Guthrie to await the
opening of these lands.
with an extension of Oklahoma's area
railroad activity will begin. St. Louis
wholesalers, anxious for the trade of Ok
lahoma, are making efforts to have the
Frisco extended the seventy miles from
Sepulpa to Guthrie and then westward,
which there is little doubt will be done
this year There the Union Pacific has
SURVEYORS out and is figuring
on extending its Omaha Hutch
inson and Gulf line from the
Kansas line through Guthrie, the PQtto
watomie country and over to the McAlister
coal fields before the Choctaw completes
its line.
Oklahoma has passed low water mark
If the Lord and good crops are with us
this year according to the magnificent
promises. Already confidence is firmer,
business better and the tramp of the immi
grant comes on with vigor. In fact, Okla
homa is about the only place left where
man can so to with hopes of carving for
time from the undeveloped -