Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-12
ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY, APRIL H. 1892.
HUNGRY FOR LAND.
Boomers and Sooners Gather
ing for the Rush.
fHE NEW OPENINGS FOR SETTLERS.

Facts About the Arapahoe and Cheyenne
Territory That Is to Belong to Those
Who Get There First Next Week-The
Redskins Pick Out 500. 900 Acres of
the Best-The Cost of Living on the
Waiting Line-Dakota Land to be
Opened Friday.
GUTHRIE, o. t., April 12-It is now
an assured fact that the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe reservation will be opened to
white settlement rJme time between Mon
day and Friday of next week This reser-
walton lies west of the settled portion of
Oklahoma ana for twenty years has been
occupied by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
tribes, who are still semi barbarous, and
within very few years have been on the
war path and in open revolt against the
government. There are 4, 100000 acres in
the reservation, a little over 500,O 900 acres
of which have been allotted to the Indians.
About one-half of the land is good agri-
cultural land; most of the balance is fair
grazing land, but in the western part are
thousands of acres of rock and sandhills, a
whole section of which would not keep a
single goat alive.
Such a Generous Uncle Sam!
The Indians have picked the choicest of
the land, every man, woman, and child of
them receiving 100 acres, many single fam
lilies of them receiving from 1900 to 1000
of the most fertile acres This they will
fence in all together and will lease to cat
tlemen, Gving in idleness on the lease
money. Indian land is inaheneble and
untaNable for twenty-five years. 1t can be
readily seen that the Indian will have
SNAP" The government gives him the
land and fences ii in for him. the cattle
man stands ready to lease it, and for twen-
ty-iive years to come he draws his rent
money, sits in idleness and looks on while
the white men build roads, bridges, and
schOOlhouses and make his land the more
valuable. No one need worry over the
poor Indian being crowded from the huut-
ing grounds of their fathers. They still
have plenty of ground to exercise on, and
every one of them, young and old, will be
made independently rich in spite of them
selves
The Land and How to Reach 1t.
A small portion of the eastern part of
the reservation has been attached to King
fisher and Canadian counties of settled
Oklahoma and is best reached from Hen
Messy, kingiisher and FL Reno County C,
lying just west of this land is also good,
and is best reached from the same points
Over half of this county has been taken by
the Indians. County d lies west of c, is
forty-two miles long and twenty-four
wide The Canadian and North Fork riv-
ers pass through it and about 50 per cent.
of the land is very fine. 1t is best reached
overland through the Cherokee strip.
County E is still further west and is ira
versed by the Canadian river 1t is best
reached from Stockton or Goodwin in the
Cherokee strip, or Higgins, Tex.
Where the Best of 1t Lies.
County +, south of f, is reached from
the Panhandle of Texas or Greer county.
The trip must be made overland a hun
dred miles or more. County g is in the
center of the reservation and is very desir-
able, but the Indian allottments are
numerous. Ii is about equal distance
from all sides of the reservation. County
Fl, lying south of it is the best in the lot.
1t is reached overland from Minco through
the Wichita reservation, or from Texas
through the Commanche reservation by
way of the old cattle trails