The Iola register., 1901-08-16
BIG PRICES FOR LOTS
Men Who Want Business Lots in New
Country Have to Bid Up

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surprisingly aud prices remain high.
Late investors have found the best
business lots sold and are Offering
increased prices to original purcbas-
ers. Building is being rushed as ia st
as several hundred carpenters can be
worked and Hobart, just one week
old, presents lively appearance.
Saloon men are getting restless and
announce an intention OF taking ad-
vantage of the uncertainty regarding
the liquor law and opening their
are already running and trouble is
likely to follow. Prompt action by
officers yesterday effectually stamped
out plague of pickpockets and to-
day the town is quiet and orderly. A
mountain lion cub captured ten miles
south in the mountains was brought
in today.
Anadarko, o. T., August 13.-The
bidding on lots continued brisk today
and prices we're good. The churches
attempted to buy sites around the
court house block, but the prices went
beyond their reach. John O'Connor
was today committed to be held for
trial for attempt to rob. Outside of a
few minor offenses everything con-
tinues peaceful and quiet here. There
has been no liquor sold here thus far.
The crowd continues large and the
interest shown indicates that the de-
sirable residence lots will bring good
prices.
Lawton, o. T., Aug. l3.-Big prices
are being paid for lots at last. This
morning George Hudson, of Winfield,
Kansas, had to bid So, 545 to get a
corner that he wanted for a jewelry
store and inside lots in the same block
sold for 81, 200 to 81, 700. The best
corners are yet to be sold and it will
be no suiprise now if $1,000 is bid for
one Of them That will be 800 front
foot for raw prairie. The proceeds of
the sale will probably reach $3.50, 600,
which is far in eXces, of all estimates
before the sale
Fort Sill, Ok, Aug. II. Lawton has
sixty saloons in full blast this morn
ing. Comparatively few of them have
located in the tCwusite. A favorite
location is on the homestead of j. Il.
Woods, whose Indignation knows no
limit. Cold storage plants have
sprung up as If by magic on Wood 5
claim and frame houses have been
built for storing bottled goods.
Woods attorneys have appealed to
the civil authorities and their applica.
tion for troops to eject the trespassers
has been referred by Ex-Governor
Richards to the Secretary OF the In
terror.
The northeast corner lot in the land
Office block sold todu I3r 81, 600. The
lot faces c street and the adjoining
lot sold for 81 ZOO. The northwest
corner lot sold for 81 900 and the
southwest corner for 81, 300. Inside
lots brought by far the best prices of
the sale so far. There was no delay
in the bidding. The first bid for the
northeast corner lot was $3.50 and
for the southwest corner 81, 900.
Two water works companies have
been formed to supply Lawton with
water, but Lawton wants to own its
own water works. and movement has
been started to ask for an appropri-
alton from the sale of town lots for
this purpose.
WELL GROWN OIL BOOM.
Fort Sill, Ok, Aug. u. Oil compa
nies with fabulous sums announced
for their capital stock are being orga-
nized hourly on paper in Lawton.
Twenty or more promoters" and "oil
experts, direct from the Beaumont
district have bottles of oil on display
this morning. No gushers have been
brought in. 1t is unnecessary to orga-
nize company on paper for or
iAAAAApiA bOilHios ho Lllb CdSt may bts
all that is necessary is to prove that
oil claims have been located and dis
play bottle of Oil The excitement
is not confined to any particular dis
trict. Evidence of oil can be found in
all directions, but what is known as
the oil district is township 3, range IL
west, about eleven miles north of
Lawton and not homestead nor an
Indian allotment in the "oil district
has escaped the oil locaters. They
have plastered the entire country with
mineral claims and an Ottumwa, Ia,
company has 1000 acres staked in one
body. One company composed OF
Oklahomans, Kansans and Missouri.
ans has organized with a capital stock
of oue-fourth million dollars and
claimed a large tract nine miles north.
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