The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-01-02
Guthrie, the Capital City,
the Gem of the Territory
Some Of It's Business Men Of Mark P ain Facts as We
Wish The World TO See Them.

The history OF the settlement and
the rapid development Of Oklahoma is
without a parallel in the annals Of
American civilization. On the mem
orable 226 day of April, 1859, people
who had gathered en- the borders from
all paI is OF the United States made
the run" for the coveted lands. The
morning sun rose upon vast region,
blessed by nature with an abundance
of animal and vegetable life. The
Land ( the FAN God, as it is known
by Indian legend, is Edenic in its love
illness Dame Nature fJr many cen
turies had been preparing home for
these ten OF thousands.
The present territory Of oklahoma
consists of five tracts OF land, mainly
lying between the 9th and 0sth de-
grees OF longitude, and b tween Kan
sas on the north and the Chickasaw
Indian nation on the south For judi
eial and other purposes all the old In
dian Territory except that belonging
t. the five civil zed tribes is called
Oklahoma Territory.
Oklahoma now contains 1882, ,347
acres Almost the whole of this is
rich, areable land, and gentle, rolling
prairie, interspersed with groves and
river bottoms. A small part is rocky,
while there are tracts of timber of
considerable size-more timber than is
usual in prairie country. This tim
ber becomes more plentiful and has d
greater commercial value as one travels
eastward.
The high prairies in the extreme
western part of the territory are well
covered with grass, and the soil is nat
urally possessed of properties neees'
sary for producing crops, but the ter
supply in that section Is Iot yet " fiji
ciently uniform to sustain dense pop
ulation. Uutil agriculture is more
thoroughly tested there st elk raising
will continue TO be the main relianc
First aud foremost of the different
counties in the fer lie portion OF the
territory is Logan county, which easily
surpasses the others in population
wealth, and 10 acreage of rich agricul
tural lands. The soil of this county
consists for the most part of darl
chocolate loan varying in depth from
three TO six feet on the uplands, and 1
rich black loan Of great depth in he
wide CimaIron river bottoms and il
the creek valleys. The moisture is re
tanned an indefinite length Of time 70
the use OF growing crops. The sol
contains just enough sand TO be o
vane in retaining moisture, and
cannot be ezcelltd for farming pur
poses.
Convincing evidence Of its va'ue i
found in the substantial farm resi-
denees and barns, the very large per
centage of its area in cultivation, an
its many thrifty orchards
Nearly all these lands have bee
decided by the government and as
result taxation has grown lighteI
With a population Of 10000 Loga
county shows in the cash assessmer
to possess 8 G67 head OF horses, / ,6s
head of mules, lI,Gl6 Of cattle an
9,0s6 hogs.
WATER.
Water is an important factor in II
development of a new country. Loga
county is traversed by a number
rivers and streams running from we
10 east, the largest of which are Il
Oimarron, Skeleton and COTTONWOOD
Innumersble creeks empty isto the
streams, approaching them from Il
north and south, Spring water
found in nearly every part Of this d
main, and good supply OF well wat
can be had at depth Of twenty fl
feet ia the valleys and fifty fe
the uplsnds The rainfall in Log
eoun has reached as high as six
inches per annum. In the spring al
summer there are haavy and seaso
able rainfalls, flooding all kinds
vegetation very rapidly.
CLIMATE.
The climate is very eq able a
healthful, the latitude being abe
the same as northern Georgia, a
possessing many attribates that ha
made that state SO popular. The 10
tion Is especially happy for the dev
opment OF vigorous, industrial p
ulation. The climate and soil is "
adapted TO the production Of co
cotton, tobacco frnits, vegetables {
all the eerAls.