The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-12-18

HNtt Auoot ihutane you can't tell
from the pure Anglo-saxon have
grown rich IN this way some rf
them are worth 100000. a few $780,
600 others $4,000 But these. for the
most part are Indians who are seven
eigh white Now aud then you find
a white man who HAS married into
the tribe and has amassed million
dollars There are possibly a half doz-
en- of them in the Creek nation. The
very richest men are in the towns.
They have stores which would be
considered important commercial
houses in Kansas City or St. Louis.
They get prices for heir goods when
the traders in the days OF the Oil
Santa Fe trail would have hesitated
to demand Each end every one Of
these men is violently and eternally
opposed 60 statehood or any her
change not only for reasons whicn
are obvious from what has been writ
ten, but for the mightier reasons
which are to ccme.
This statement viii explain
More than one-half Of all the lani
They get prices for their goods which
Z 81 the Greek country including shree-
ready leased from the Indian owners
for terms of from three to seven
years
rrt, e,,o,t,,,.,,4 ,,,dor ,rbfrb tbo
lands were allotted provides that he
Indians can not rent their lands for
1 longer period than one year at a time.
They are forbidden to lease it for a
term Of years. That enactment under
which the present allotment was made
counts for no more in the Creek ma
ton than the prohibitory Law in Kan
sas. Companies have been formed
two or three in each town-and
leases gobbled up right and left. One
man has under lease 100000 acres.
one corporation has leased 4 million
acres. The prices range from IS to
7 50 cents an acre per annum. The in
di, . Al or corporation will sublet
the lands. If he gets one-fourth the
cotton crop he will receive at the low
est possible estimate IS an acre for
good land in the average year in ten.
The Contract is Blanket.
Nobody in Muskogee talks very
freely about the system which has
been Inaugural ed. Nobody is willing
to have his name used in an interview
But portions Of one of the contracts
which has been widely signed by par
ties of the first part meaning the In
dian land owner. and the party Of the
second part, meaning he corporation
that hes thousands of acres already
leased. are herewith presented:
It is further agreed that the party
Of the second part may bore, prospect
and mine for coal, lead, zinc, oil, gas
and every other kind of valuable
mineral or ore or vege able substance
whatsoever with the right to use so
much Of the surface of tie land and
so much of the timber and building
stone thereon as may be properly
needed in conducting said prospecting
and mining operations also the right
OF way over and across said land
whereon to construct and operate
everything necessary TO prosecute the
objects of this lease.
And the party of the second part
agrees to pay to the. QaF Of the first
part the sum equal to pea ceutum
OF the market value at the place min
ed for lead zinc, oil and ali other
minerals or substance whatever; ex-
cept coal for which is TO be paid -
I. cents per ton for all lump coal mined
or removed by the party of the sec
ond part, and such payments of royal
ty or rent shall be paid on the first
day of each month last preceding
such date of payment.
1t is further agreed II any of the
minerals above mentioned are found
in paying quantities during the term
Of his contract, and the party OF the
second part so desires, it shall be
permitted 20 continue TO work said oil
lease, coal fields or other minerals as
long after the expiration OF this con
tact as any of the minerals above
described may be found in paying
quantities by continuing TO pay the
above mentioned consideration.
It is further agreed that in ths
event the party Of the second part
may desire to put any Of said land in
, cultivation, that it may have the
! privilege Of doing so by enclosing thl
same with fence sufficient to turn
hogs. cattle. horses or other stock, and
by erecting a four room box house up
on each OF the quarter sections that
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