The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-22

will soon receive these certificates.
This will make an Opportunity for the
.homeseeker to buy or lease lands IN
the Kaw country on very favorable
terms and without the routine that has
heretofore accompanied the acquisia
ton OF these lands for use The eni
of the big pastures has come to the
Kaw reservation with the building Of
the Santa Fe through the Usage coun-
try and the establishment OF Kaw
City
Almost Surrounding Kaw City is the
Dosage fertile and wonderfully rich
in mineral resources This vast do
main is now all q pasture The cat
tie that will Craze there this lear will
ali be hauled out over the Santa Fe
after having been loaded upon the
cars at Kaw City This is by many
miles the nearest railway point to the
big pastures. and just across the Ar.
kansas in the Usage reservation the
Santa Fe has established the largest
cattle pens for shipping in the entire
southwest. These pens are in the
duarantined district one mile from
Kaw City It is estimated that during
this year there will be about 400 train
loads of cattle shipped out Of the
Usage county from this city This
branch OF the Santa Fe is the only
railway limo entering the Usage reser.
walton. and is essentially the cattle
line OF the great pastures Kaw City
will assuredly handle more cattle than
any other station In Kansas or Okla
homa. And as the Osages take their
allotments. the selection OF which is
now under way. and the great pas
lures shall be merged into good
farms, the central point for all the
products OF 5000 farms that will be
formed in the Usage reservation will
be Kaw City This is the certain re-
suit of the strategic position Of he
city The same outlook whith realiza-
tion already partly at hand holds good
with reference to the 500 large farms
to be made in the Kaw reservation.
Allotment Of the Kaw lands will be
completed this summer Seyenty-hvo
per cent. OF the Osages have selected
lallotments, aud the entire domain VIII
be allotted within two years.
And Kaw City of now Is a good city.
On the Oklahoma side are wheat
fields such as only the famed strip"
counties have ever known-and Kay
county is the best county in the strip.
Two elevators are now completed and
busy handling the great stacks of corn
100 900 bushels-that has lain on the
ground since It was gathered awaiting
the railway that is now hauling it out.
A modern Touring mill Of $50 barrels
capacity is in readiness for the com
ing wheat crop that is luxurlantly
waving a welcome TO the repaer-due
in less than sixty days. There are
two banks with 10000 capital each
one six months old. mas deposits
amounting to 100000; one good hotel
already completed and large stone
hotel nearing completion; nearly all
lines of business are represented on
the compactly built Main street-an
avenue 100 feet wide and well orna-
mented by stone business blocks built
from material found not a mile away
The building stone Of Kaw City is a
white limestone somewhat harder
than the Ponca City and Newkirk
stone, but similarly easy to work Two
lumber yards are kept Dusy freighting
material into the city for the construc-
ton of houses The railway wall save
the long haul by teams from now on.
however. and the hundred or more
tents that are serving as homes Will
give place &c pretty cottages like those
already constructed.
The Kaw City townsite comprises
4s0 acres, about half OF which has
been plated. and good share OF
which part has been sold to business
men for homes. w, NJ Jenkins, form
er governor Of Oklahoma. is president
of the townsite company; G.. w.
Carey Of Wichita. secretary and treas
urer. and n F. Frazier Of El Dorado,
vice president. A. c. Jones Of Wlch-
ita, is a member Of the townslte com
pany, and has considerable interests
here.
Kaw City is In the natural gas and
oil belt and a company has been
chartered to begin development al
once. They will have drills at work
within a fortnight, and It is confident
ly expected by them that adequate
natural gas for fuel purposes viii he
found, as the same conditions are
found here that prevail in the Bartles-
Vile district to the north. The city