The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-30
OPEN THE STRIP.

of opening of the Cherokee outlet to set
Element on the score of the possible in
ability of the country, the land, yielding
a support for population such as vii
unquestionably occupy it in the shortes
time, the following state of facts of til,
actual present condition of the settled
country, both south and north of the
strip, is sufficient to dispel any appre
hension of possible restitution and suffer
ing among the new population that viii
occupy that land:
In the year 1892 Oklahoma county,
| Oklahoma territory, has produced $40,
900 bushels of wheat just harvested ac-
cordIng to the estimate of practical
millers and farmers who have viewed
the same recently.
And the growing corn crop in the
| above named county corresponds closely
with this wheat crop and an unusually
heavy yield of corn is assured. No esti-
mate is yet heard OF as to the probable
aggregate of bushels. The above named
county contains about 500 square miles.
In seven counties in the state of Kan
sas situatedt nearest the Cherokee Quite
Strip in 1891, seven millions of bushels
of wheat were harvested and marketed.
The Cherokee outlet will consist of
fourteen counties of say 900 square miles
each and the little cultivation to which it
has been subjected shows that it will
yield heavy crop of wheat and corn in
the counties above mentioned; that is to
say fourteen times as much as Oklahoma
county in wheat or 5 1905, 900 bushels for
one year, and Oklahoma county can in
crease her wheat yield more than three
times, SO that the foregoing estimate for
the outlet is upon minimum basis.
1t is fair to assume that the outlet will
yield commensurately with the other
counties above indicated in all other
cereal, root and grass crops.
1t Is not necessary to argue the ad-
vantages and profits to many places in
Kansas, and to the more remote Jobbing
points which will attach upon the outlet
being opened to population of half a
million people, and the average popula-
ton of the fourteen counties in the out
let would then be but little more than
10000 to each county.
In this connection we note, in the Ar
kansas City Traveller, that the Business
Mems club of that city held a meeting
Tuesday evening in the interest of open
ing the strip, at which meeting the fol-
lowing very strong presentation of the
case was adopted as the sense of the
business men of that place, and which
expresses the sentiment of the people
throughout the great southwest on this
most important subject:
Whereas, it is conceded by all persons
that there are 5000, 900 of acres of fertile
agricultural and fruit growing land IN
occupied surrounded by an active, ener-
getic population now legally ready for
occupancy by a people needing homes,
and
Whereas this land known as the Chero-
kee outlet, or strip, on the present condi-
ton is an obstruction to the economic
progress Of adjacent territory and states,
and
Whereas, all the necessary preliminary
measure and conditions precedent have
been employed, and now attend the
passage of the Peel bill'' by both houses
of congress providing for the opening to |
and sale of the Cherokee out
let, and
Whereas, by comparison with the pro-
ducts of cultivated lands of the same |
character and area of those of the Chero-
kee outlet and adjacent thereto both in
the state of Kansas and the territory of |
oklahoma, we find chat annually this |
is losing about Il, 900, 900 bushels
Of wheat and as many bushels of corn
and other products by the millions Of |
bushels; seconed at minimum figues to-
yether with the usual production of live
stock with passing reference to the loss
IF commercial transactions which always
grow and develop upon vacant lands in
our country when occupied by our ener-
yetic countrymen, and which, in this
;ase, amount to many millions annually,
md
Whereas, we fear that delay in the
passage of said bill will result IN an in
lefinite postponement until too late for
opening and occupying this year. There
ore, be it
Resolved, That the senators and mem
)ers of congress from the state of Kan
as, be and are, hereby, earnestly request
d to use their active efforts, both in
liyidually and collectively, in urging
he passage of said bill at an early day
nd continue thereat until said bill be-
omes law.