Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-12-05
GROWING OKLAHOMA.
Graphic Account Of the Growth Of That
New Section


OF your most welcome paper and remem-
boring that / promised to give you
a few facts concerning this country and
people / will now hurredly fulfil my
prom St. Butt Mr.. Editor, you will eX-
Cuse me 1t what ! shall say be bodily
disconnected and muddled, for while
am far away my mind unconsciOusly
steals back TO the land aud people so
reluctantly broke away from and which
can never 20 forgotten though my
peppers may never again gaze upon her
rivers, her valleys and her hills, and
my ears may never again catch the
slightest sound Of the giggles and huns
of her women and the "hfccups'' Of her
men.
However | must not dwell on things
back there for fond membranes creep
up and you might discover tear stain,
So / will now give you few figures and
facts concerning this wonderful coun
try.
The population of the Territory as
given by the L. 5. census for 1900 was
POS, 900, gain Of 5.44 per cent. in ten
years. the greatest percentage Of gain
ever made by any state or territory IN
that length Of time.
The opening up of the new country
the past summer has brought the pOpu-
lation up to fully 100000. Taxable val.
uation of the Territory, on March LIST
1901, was $50, 600, 600 This valuation Is
based upon an assessment at which is
returned at about n of its real value,
and but - per cent of the farm land is
taxed at this time.
The Territory holds in trust for the
future state of Oklahoma over two mil
lion acres of school, college and public
building lands for which the rent this
year will be fully $500, 600. There are
now 10000 miles of railway in the Terri.
tory in operation and 300 miles under
construction. There are ll3 Territorial
and 81 National banks whose aggregat'
ed resources exceed $40, OO0,0 600 and
whose deposits reach the large amount
of $4,000, 600. These deposits repre-
sent largely the accumulated savings
of the farmers and working people.
The public school system is equal to
| that of any state in the Union. At pre-
! sent there are 2096 school districts in
every one of which school is held from
| Fl We to nine months of the year, Near
ly one third of million dollars were
expended in carrying on the coumOn
schools this year. BY operation of Ter
ritorial law permanent library is es
! tablished in every school in the Terri
tory.
The corn crop last year amounted tC
| TO TO, 600, 900 bushels and the wheat CrOL
| this year amounted to 10000, 600 bush
| els and the cotton crop was 10000 bales
In no other sections in the Union can
these three crops be grown successfully
on the same farm. Fruit is also large
! ly grown. The apple crop this year was
| 800 900 bushels and the peach crop a
bout the same.
On the first day of March of this
! year there we're returned for taxation
&c. 235 horses, SO, 5Sl mules, or, 1872 cat
tie, A., 900 sheep and 277, 2S9 swine dur
ing the past year.
Five hundred business blocks and
fodr thousand five hundred residences
were erected in the cities Of the Terri
tory during the past year. There are
in operation in the Territory sos nan.
ufacturing establishments, 800 Touring
mills with an output of 5000 bbls. per
day.
Churches OF all denominations. The
various churches own property valued
at 81, 900, 900. All fratepnal organiza'
tons are we'll represented.
The little city, Ell Reno, in which we
now reside is one of she most prosper
| GUS cities TO il * size in the Territory.
It has population Of about 1880. II
is the county seat of Canadian Co., and
is situated between the North and
South Canadian rivers on the Great
Rock Island and Choctaw railroads. !,
has L. 5. Land Office. Z. 5, District
Court, the largest wholesale grocery
house in the Territory, the largest ele'
vators in the Territory with the Gapa
| city of Of 375, 900 bushels, the most ex
tensive hardware establishment in the
Territory, two of the largest Touring
mills in the south west, three banks
with deposits of 5000, 600, best business
college in the Territory, the best but
/ line in the U. $. 1t has all the modern
| cOnveniences, telephone, electric lights
water works, etc.
According to the last L. 5. census re
! port Oklahoma is one of the mos
! healthful states in the Union and the
health of the city of Ell Reno is beyOnl
! question. Situated upon an elevation
that rises far above the miasma of thu
low lands and removed from the malar
| ia of the river bottoms. The city,
moral and religious sentiment is sup
erior and is church advantages are eX
Cellent.
The Ell Reno Bar is an unusually
strong one and is especially noted 70
the thoroughness of its members il
preparing their cases for trial and TO
their accurate and precise methods il
practice.
The citizens of FL Reno and Jbe Ter
ritory are made up from the bette
class of people OF the U. 5. All Strang
ers yet not strangers although the!
may never have met before They iok
each other about their country and way
of thinking and doing and pass on a
friends and brothers.
Sir, doubt IL there was ever before
in the history of the world such mas
of humanity from all parts Of the world
all strangers and representing all creed
and natiOnalities, where there was s
much fraternal feeling and warm fellow
ship as exists in Oklahoma today.
With best wishes for the News.
OKLAHOMA,