Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-03
THIS ~ 4 YEAu OF GREAT rRos-
PERiTY AND PROGRESS.
GOOD CROPS OF ALL KINDS.
F,IR WHEAT. uEAyY cons AND \
BiG Tor OF CorrON.
Enterprises Also WAX
Ing II stnrt and Ruiirond Buitd-
Ing IN Prourrss-i.i,c stori.
Interests Developing
Nnpidi,.

be year OF remarkable prosperity and
ptoEtcss for all oklahoma. and "in an
| other month Oklahoma people Will he 81
happy and prosperous that the calamity
bowler and the free silver kickcr Will h,
! ont of "A job" said a well known business
nan TO the journal correspondent to-day.
Even railroad building is an assure !
| thing for this year the Tccumsoh short
line. from that city to tho Chocinw road.
being over half completed. and the work
| Of construction b. already BEGUN on the
| extension OF the Hutchinson. oklahoma Il
| Gulf road from Manchester. o. T., 10 a
| jurction with the Rock Island. twenty
| miles south. while ihcrc j. little doubt
that dirt will be tlyius in the early fall
| or an extension of the Frisco from
| Sapulpa to either oklahoma city or
| Guthrc.
Creumeries have been started at Okla
| hoina city. El Reno. Hcnussscy. Man
| chester and North Enid. while several
| other towns are figuring -n them; a large
| canning factory 0, tn full blast at Okla
| hama city; n shirt and overall factory is
| being started in Guthrie and numerous
| new Industries are springing Up at other
! points. At Shawnee work is progressing
/ on the Choctaw Hallway Complny's shops.
at Perry, an immense big stone Touring
| mill has Just started up and Il half score
| smaller mills and six or eight cotton gins
are going UP in various parts o! the ter
/ ritcry.
Ii Cleveland AMI Noble counties there is
| considerable mineral development; in
| Canadian county, immense natural cement
beds have been oueuei. and in Blaine
county. hundreds OF tons Of salt are being
/ turned out at II large number OF strong
saline springs.
There was a time not in the far distant
| past, when complete failure OF the 90
wheat crop was universally predicted for
bk'ahoma. but Vis!; to the mills and
warehouses and elevators along the lines
vE aRn n
any one that the failure was OF rather an
unusual kind. As fair sample OF what
can be taken the business OF one company
.9t ms city for one day, July 81. when
at Lawrle. three at Guthrie and one at
| seward, and there are a score or more
territory. With the going into eject OF a
~ cent rate TO Galveston. over :o1 cars of
greater part of II being wheat.
Ihc wheat crop va, a good average all
over the territory with the exception Of
the extreme eastern parts of Payne and
Lincoln counties. where 4. was almost a
total failure. but the best yield both as TO
IgSali,y and qg,anil,y vas, wns in Ray county.
to twenty-eisht bushels TO the acre Of
wheat grading No. ? in the dirt from the
Threshns Is being pushed rapidly now
aud IT l. estimated that before the trade
si4eks up SO or 90 ears will have been
business Will show million bushels OF
wheat exported from oklahoma as well as
supplying the home demand for flour and
The great money crop % the territory,
however, is eotton. the production Of
counties IN the southeastern part. With
the continuation o! the present favorable
conditions another month, y is pretty GER
ir,Gn bale, Of The white stvT-c, bringing
In close upon 10000 in gash. Lincoln
county seems TO lead with this product,
and, Will alone produce over 1000 bales,
while Logan county will come close up to
that amount. with Oklahoma. Pnttawato-
m!e and Cleveland counties with from $3.50
to 5000 bales each. and several thousand
scattered among other counties.
The corn crop Will bo euormous-beyon1
made now and the late corn safe In the
rich CanaciHu, Cimarron, Arkansas and
SAT- Fork valleys it VII, yield from sixty
acre, while IN the rich semi-timbcr lands OF
Lincoln Payur and Pouawatomie coun-
ties Il will not be far behind this, and,
with the better prairie all over III. terrific
~ pruiueus rom forty 10 nifty bushels,
and oven thg poorest Of upland from TWEEN
'y-nve 20 thirty, the aggregate OF the crop
promises TO Doc so great that no Conserva-
tive man Will risk putting an estimate
The failure u the corn crop in Texas
viii give The territory a close market for
It's millions Of surplus bushels and insure
| mlssloners Of Garfield, Woods. Grant and
Dklahdua COMMITTEES have agreed nor "a tnN
rartln or aih.r stock broIr III into rhe
counties for winter feeding. and mos Of
i' "tyr NY 'f hnnso Ml iUi.9" Su; pio'hEimS I'm,
r,,,, 20 b -,,t"ncd fSr marx, ,,t,.i,,t.
~ J,,.,1,,. "a rI',rlf"t iipbt A. bi No. at'i
49, y'u H. 10 & Canf go,n IL, oLi,bg g,,,a ~,
,fI - ' Y 1870 '' '''
''.5Y M Hy'l t., %, ,,tr ,,,, t,, -,
y" WI .lLlil.- ~ ol tlls trngh VIII hIso
hhthr corn l.at Woh4cF!ui new rroiuGt
WIN Puhlu hahinL II SuHrIl9r 10 hoth
Mme"i hhI .oIl lor I InG ary "S'@rn Gonn-
n.y. wiz ,'a"' u HrllHl.I 1ul 'He l"iSr
surplus OF hay which aggresatcs several
hundred C1Is per year ana rnhdnoo the
value OF all mat great extent oi pasture IN
Western Oklahoma, put in such excellent
condition by the heavy rains of the past
month.
\ COmparutiyoly now crop that Will fig
uro snmcwh HAT extensively this year Is cas-
tor beans which Will be raised to the OK
tent OF gnprI bushels or more. The har-
! ycsting Of this arop Is now in progress. the
! sag Citv and st. Louis buyers at 50 cents
nor bushrl
Then there rs the watermelon crop, over
| 100 cars having already been shipped from
/ Logan county alone and the territory out
| nut will be 7On or $50 cars while the home
people ar. enjoying the luscious ague-
[ breeder al Two for n nici<Ie.
! I'm addition there have gone out fifty or
f more carloads Of Cantaloupos and more
/ than that many more new potatoes, with
] other garden truck.
Ike E'Y.u "t E.,I,nited nj cants t,' ~ nnIinG
| tnr VlrloIis IN Tietl.s. and large u,,nntitiGs
! afr being Shipped out, including some
D varieties putInl 10 ANYTHING coming