The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-04
TO BE GATE WAYS
TOWNS AROUND TIE WICHITA
COUNTRY ARE WAKING Up.

o~AO'~ "a VI A-au0 ONSupsCQ 10 L8uu
Unoccupied-El Eeno Will be the Main
Depot While Union City and Minco Will
Also Have Piece of the Pie as IL
Passes Through-GeneraI News of Okla
homa.
Guthrie. o. T., April S.-AH talk Of
the Wichita country opening in May is
nonsense. This is impossible. The ear
Hest date possible for that event is the
last OF July.
The towns surrounding the Wichita
country are now beginning 70 advertise
themselves as gate-ways. The frs. IN
the field is Chickasha in the Chickasaw
nation.
FL Reno is certain 70 be the main head
quarters for the boomers until within a
month OF the opening. Union City. just
on the Chickasaw line. Will also be a
gateway; while iMnco in the Chicka-
saw nation and north OF Chickasha Will
also have temporary boom. The run
can also be made from Custer county
and Wash!ta county and towns on the
borders OF these two counties VIII no
doubt spring up.
Ever since the opening it has been the
fashion of Oklahoma boomers TO es-
tabllsh ''gate-ways" near the line OF the
country 70 De opened and 10 spend much
money and breath advertising their ad-
Marriages. Arkansas City and Caldwell
were ga,--ways both at the opening of
original Oklahoma and the Strip.
This week the Chicasha Express in the
following shows that the people there are
on the alert. The Express says: The
representative business men held meet
ing last Monday afternoon al the office
Of MOnical & Shepherd. The meeting
was a sort of general business affair of
the city in which the c.ty's future and
immediate prospects were taken under
consideration. That the Wichita coun-
try will open before very long seems now
assured and Chickasha should get into
the proper condition 10 reap some OF the
benefits Of this opening. With the ex-
ception OF Minco. Ch.ckasha furnishes a
better base from which 10 make the race
for settlement of that country. Chicka-
sha being located within three miles of
the line is easily accessible. The whole
south line of the region can only be
reached by coming here and i; is upon
this line N the Washita valley that the
BEST land is located. There is no doub:
that when the country is thrown open
that this is the most advantageous point
from which TO enter. In order 20 make
this fact generally known a COMMITTEES
on advertising was appointed whose duty
il shall be TO furnish data and news for
the city dailies. BY proper advertise
ment we will make our advantages
known and as strenuous effort is 10 Be
made in this direction. In addition 70
advertising there is also another effort
To be made 10 open mail route 10 ClOul
Chief. This has been under discussion
for two or three years. Ch.ckasha is the
nearest town to most of the Cheyenne
country and mos, Of the trade from that
section should come here. This trada
would c1meto our city IL there was only
a good road opened for that purpose. Il
is proposed to open mall route from
Andar6o TO Rainy mountain and also TO
Cloud Chief This would make con-
4IuDuS l0GAE llDill llCA anu NbGAL al
sure a good road the entire distance.
committee was appointed 10 go over the
route and make the proper arrangements
for this route. Ii was the general IN
preston that prosperous season was in
prospec, and also fine future for our
city. and there is but the necessity for
proper preparations for US 10 reap these
advantages. We believe that with ener-
Jstic measures our city can see The most
prosperous time of our history during the
coming season"
THE WICHITA MOUNTAINS.
Guthrie. o. T., April 3-Willism Cool |
ey. man Of experience. has written the
FL Reno S;ar in regard 10 the Wichita |
He says:
THE Start promised 10 give you a |
write up of the Wichita mountains. but !
nave failed to do 50 up to the present |
lime. I will now fulfill my promise.
1.-The time has come for me 10 write |
you a truthful statement of facts as
hey exist You may be assured that |
will not make any false statements. I |
nave no object in view except TO tell the
ruth. II my ju5gmen; and experience |
n life in the mining countries. which i
lave explored. dsceives me, % course. |
fail bur ! am willing 10 live or die |
" that judgment and experience. II IS
,nly by deep study. thought and perse-
-srance. and search into nature and na-
ure's avs, that We gain the light. l ]
ave been studying those laws in the
Wichita mountains for two years. and I
have learned something
n regard 20 them. I have been studying
III these different formations with Pc
uliar interest and with much pleasure
say REGULAR because its formation is
. very different from any other forna
ion that l have ever mined in. When
Irst saw /, / appeared 10 be blind, as Il
we're. / could not read II. but ! knew
.ature's law was there, consequently /
new the mineral was there. and b.
sking a p.ece Of rock and studying is
imposition for three or four days to
.ether. with MI glass and geslogy and
hea d OF Webster. ;ae rocks commenced
O TAX. I now thoroughly understand
hem. The course % these mountains
uns northwest and s0usheas:-a bout ten
sgress north OF west The great moth
: lode or carbonate belt runs the same
curse. That great feeder has never
cen moved from i;s bed. but hes IA; n
that IS called a blanket form I;s crops
~ very bold and proninen; in diffsTsat
Izcss along is ledge The mesquite
lsins are covered vita is Groupings
n &c itprocse5s on It's natural cuurse.
ips and Upheavss those mountains
roggI. about by the acton % FIRE IN
se bowels OF ne earth; The rock thsre-
1Ts * burnt red. cadzs5 b. that ne As
a. II neral grows IN those rocks By "a
ares Laws. the FIRE nsl-s cut that NIL
"a. aLi = then thrown ogt o. blown