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the flood waters in streams, but also Of
the water from rains. viii enable the
people TO more largely indulge in sue
cessful agriculture This, however. is
declared by scientists who have given
the subject special and practical study 10
be a question of a generation. or even
more. CFestinony of F. n. Newell. pp.
IL, 10)
Agriculture by irrigation is very large
Iy an adjunct to stock raising. although
fruits and the cereals are also success
fully grown by means Of it.
THE second industry and first in point
OF Importance is herding and stock rails
ing. For cattle this is successful for FIVE
miles on either side of a stream, or on
what are> called water holes in the
foothills Testimony of Martinez ANA
dor, p. Io5; f. III. Newell, PIP. 176. 1s5;
Governor Brodie, p. 1856, and others)
THE capacity OF the territory fer stock
raising can therefore be determined with
comparative accuracy. For horses 4 still
wider range is possible while sheep thrive
where neither horses nor cattle can pros
per. But when sheep are introduced
into a region it seriously interferes with
the grazing Of cattle, for the reason that
the sheep closely crop all edible heritage,
leaving nothing for the cattle to subsist
upon.
The committee is very complimentary
OF Oklahoma. 1t reported as follows on
Oklahoma and Indian Territory:
In striking contrast to the unprepar-
edness for statehood of Arizona and New
Mexico is the preparedness of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory. The population of
Oklahoma, according to the census of
1900. was 3sS.S5l; OF the Indian Territory,
go. $50. Personal inspection will convince
anyone that the tide of immigration since
that census was taken has swollen the
population in these two territories COM
bined to at least million and in all
probability over that. Excellent lands
still unoccupied in Oklahoma in 1900 have
been taken up with amazing rapidity
every day since and the progress con-
tinues, while the immigration into the
Indian Territory can not be appreciated
mad even believed until the evidences of it
are witnessed.
And of the hundreds of thousands of
people in the Indian Territory less than
5000 are Indians This fact is important
TO those whe have taken it for granted
that the population of the Indian Terri
tory as of the latter race.
'All the conditions prevail which work
for the absorption OF this heterogeneous
clement into the body of our homogene-
Gus citizenship.
While no comparison is made of the
Indians Of the Indian Territory with the
so-called MeXicans of New Mexico (aI-
though the latter are of Mexican Indian
md Spanish people,, this comparison can
be justly made. that. whereas in New
Mexico, out Of an aggregate population of
1880 a great majority are Spanish
speaking natives. belonging by descent,
tradition, instinct and speech to another
civilization and system of Institutions. in
the Indian Territory, out of an aggregate
population of between 400 900 and 500 600
less than 5000 are Indians. the over
whelming body of the people being immi-
grants from other states of the Union.
the children and products of our institu-
lions, bone of our bone and blood of our
blood
The great body of Oklahoma is mag
niiicently developed. 1t is a farming
land unsurpassed in fertility and lowell
ness by any. section of the Union. Thriv-
ing towns. quite equal to those of the
central states are the universal rule. i'll
stead of the oasis-like exception. Four or
five of Oklahoma's cities are beyond any
praise in their solidity of their business
houses, the affluent solvency of their
banks, the enterprise of their newspapers
and the beauty and perfection of their
somes.
There is one daily newspaper in Okla
homa with bona iide circulation of Il, 900.
There are wholesale houses that do a
business of sl.590,000 a year. and one or
two that reach the proportions of over
two million annually. Railroad traffic,
both passenger and freight, is unsurpass-
ed by any similar agricultural region of
the United States. The school develop
ment throughout the territory is superb
The homes and barns of the farmers in
the older portion Of the territory, and
no portion OF the territory is much older
than a decade. are commodious. hand
some and unsurpassed. if. indeed on the
average. they are equalled elsewhere in
the whole country.
The resources of Oklahoma territory
are purely agricultural and all cereals
are raised with ease and in abundance
and cotton is one OF the staple products
Of this region.
But the proposition to admit this ter
ritory as a single stante is not tenable.
Its size is much below that OF any west
ern state. 1t must not be forgotten that
originally Oklahoma was taken piecemeal
from thN Indian Territory. Its bounda-
ries are INscientific. accidental and gro
tesque. And above all. the committee are
convinced that a majority of its people
are opposed to statehood at present TX
cept by a union with its natural COM
PIGMENT, the Indian Territory.
For the Indian Territory has been
made by nature the ideal mate to oklaho-
ma. What Oklahoma lacks the Indian
Territory supplies, and the reverse. Ok
lahoma is practically without coal and
minerals. and building stone; the Indian
Territory has all OF these. oklahoma is
practically without timber. the Indian
Territory bears great forests. Its timber
stone, Quarries OF marble, mines Of coal
End ore afford unanswerable natural
reasons FOR a union with its western
neighbor.
Commerce has recognized this natural
union, and railroads have been built and
still others are building, and others still
arc projected in recognition OF the nat
ural union OF the two Industrial empires.
But most of all. the people themselves
have recognized this great fact. Tho
commercial life of the two territories are
one The Wholesalers Association OF Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory are the
sanle Their religion is a unit The Cath
siic church has the same bishop for the