The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-29
OKLAHOMA.
Vast Resources Of the Fertile Terri
tory Which May Soon Reach State.
hood-No Tramps There-Cheap

tory Which May Soon Reach State.
hood-No Tramps There-Cheap
Place to Live.
Chicago Times-Herald: While we are
renchlng out after the Islands Of the
seas and annexlng new insular terri
tory, 1t is well to be occasionally re-
minded of the vast resources OF the tar-
ritory lying Immediately within our M
tional domain which Is practically un-
developed and not yet thlckly popu-
lated. 81
In our Civilizations over the fertll.
acres of Hawaii and the rich produce
tlveness OF Porto Rico VIC have almost
forgotten Oklahoma. To so to oklaho-
ma during the five. years succeeding tn.
run, says Helen Churchill Candea in the
September Atlantic. was to Invite sus.
plcion as to motives" Those who IN.
tered the territory In those days were
locked at speculatively but silently by
fellow travellers.
But now 1t Is different. IL You are
going to Oklahoma now you will be re-
Earded with envy and Interest. You
Will probably be classed rs rich farm
er or stock raiser. Prairies In Oklaho-
ma are thing of the past. except in
the western grazing districts and the
long Cherokee strip which caps the
Texas pan handle. These prairies were
long since metamorphosea Into proiitn-
ble'wheat fields. The rough tales OF the
early days that, followed the run when
men quarreled over claims are also
things OF the past. The territory, says
this writer, Is now "a garden OF quarter
sections. each farm continuing farm
house of modern pattern, large barns
Tor storing gnin and hay and sheltcrins
cattle, and enough wIndmlls to shadow
Holland" In ten years the people Of
Oklahoma, who started with nothing,
showed si3.OO0.0oO OF taxable property.
This, OF course, did not represent the
full cash value OF the property
Five million dollars was received for
the cotton crop of oklamoha in 1898.
some OF the cotton going to Liverpool
and Japan. Large mills have been
erected for making nil from the cotton
seed Of these great crops. There Is no
need to 30 TO Europe for cheap living
while Oklahoma exists. All home grown
foods of 4 perlshabla nature can be had
for astonishingly low prices. The finest
watermclons and muskmelOns raised IN
the world may be purchased at any tImt
from July to cold weather for five cents
each. Spring chickens are twenty-five
cents pair: beef and lamb, fifteen
cents q pound; grapes OF the most lus-
cious varieties are nearly given away
one cent a pound for the best. Fruits
OF all kinds that rival the California
fruit In flavor lnd size are abundant
and cheap.
There are no tramps In Oklahoma.
There Is more work to do than pcoplc to
do 1t. and farmers are constantly clam
or!nS for help Mt good wages. Oklaha-
ma, says the writer, "tonk its politics
from Kansas" But 1t Is easy to sec
that land Overlooking with prosperity,
where there is no unemployed, is poor
place for poDullsm to take permanent
root. y land where farmers gather phe-
nomenal crops every year and often
loan money ut s and 10 per cent Will
never produce very large crop of free
si!var calamity howlcrs. In fact, the
days OF PoPui!sm are nearly gone by in
Oklahoma.