The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-08-08
MARvELs or Lie NEw LANp.
Some Highly colored Fairy storles
Of the New Lands.


opened to setuemcn iu Oklahoma
according to the yeraclous tales Of
railroad boomers. real estate agents
and others interested IN making
hings hum ont there. a man engaged
in real estate operations I'm the new
country is quoted as follows by tho
Chicago inter ocean.
SAY. its the finest land a man ev.
or dug his toes in o. An Indian and
his family are living ON one Of my
farms now Their hut IS a half sec.
tion Of a watermelon shell. The round
top makes an excellent roof A door
ls cut ia the lde. The house was
a little damp at first, but this warm
weather has dried IL out"
"The Indian had hard time cut
ting his melon in two He finally did,
though, and The family ate their way
into their home. The other half Of
the melon he uses as a barn. would
fetch one Of the melons from my place
to the Chicago market. but can't
get a nntcar big enough to transport
t. AS it is.. the melons have been
used for irrigatlng during this dry
spell The Indian has gone around
and bored holes iuto few and the
water has savct the corn harvest.
"Corn9 Say, Kiowa corn is a won
der. You can heart it groan any night
from growing pains The sound Of
these groans at midnight mingled
with the coyote howls, makes a
strange chorous that frightens The ten.
derfoot at first. It did me.
"The Indian on my place lost
promising son last year The young
buck was on ladder that leaned
against a stalk about 25 feet from the
ground He was lowering medium
sized ear OF corn with rope, when he
fell and broke his neck.
Crops do not rotate as much in the
Kiowa country as they do in Kansas,
where the tornado nourishes. | did
not see any turned around while
was there Pumpkins do well win
the corn, but are difficult to handle
single handed In Kansas the bumb-
lebees have to get down on their
knees to work at the pumpkin bios
SONS. bu. around El Reno they use
stepladders.
When a thrashing machine of suf-
hcient size is built to handle the crop
wheat viii be raised In the Kiowa dis
trict. The kernels are too large for
the ordinary thrasher. That is all
that keeps the country back as a wheat
district The Indian on my place
plants just a little, A kernel is soak
ed in water over night and baked the
next morning. It makes loaf not IN
like our Vienna bread This metl cd
saves lots of hard work in hot weats,-
er, as the housewife does not have to
kneed any dough"
A circular issued by the Chicago and
Rock Island Railway company gives
this summary of the characteristics
Of the opened reserve:
It is a rolling and very attractive
prairie country.
III is watered by timbered streams
in number much above the average in
Z "er agricultural prairie regions.
The soil is loan, dark choco-
late TO dun red in color, deep and COW
cred with a rank growth of the same.
o. apparently the same, blue stem
grass that covered the prairie in east
ern Kansas.
There are no swamps or sloughs.
and malarlai disease is unknown.
The latitude places the country
between the north and the south. 1t
grows cold in the winter. but does not
make ice in the streams, and old resi-
denis say actual winter such as Il is,
is about one month long.
Stock lives out OF doors without
provision or forage But feed should
be and viii be provided by the new
settlers as a matter OF economy
The PRODUCES are corn, wheat and
cotton, II Will be the upland alfalfa
country par excellence. 1t is "A most
excellent region for all the small
fruits, melons and vegetables. Il is
known now to be an excellent peach
country and successful in all varieties
Of fruits that there has been time to
try"
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