The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-15
OKLAHOMA LETTER.
Geary, Okla, Oct. 8, 1908.

would visit me this summer but as they
did not in consequence thereof my
tongue has had, such long resting
spell l will have to exercise it by writ
ing to them through that never failing
friend, the newspaper. The topics you
can criticisc to a finish il you so desire.
The Great Geary Fair is a thing Of the
past. Had-a good display of stock, also
of fruit and vegetables, baby show in
which half breed Indian baby proved
the handsomest. Three or four weeks
ago they had the fruits, vegetables and
cereals for the Worlds Fair on display
at the postof1ice, some were very fine
indeed. j. ID. said he saw four tomatoes
that would fill a candy jar, but that is
nothing. He told me this summer that
over on Deer Creek, after the high
waters subsidized, there were great holes
washed in under the bank of the Creek
all you had to do was to reach your
hand in and pull the big mud catfish out
by the arm load, but aside from this |
would like to follow up the exhibit car
from Oklahoma to the Worlds Fair with
the sorry looking vegetables and other
stuff not fit to eat that is raised here
every year. The cabbage | raised this
year is highly seasoned before prcpara-
ton for cooking. went to the garden
to get head for dinner and proceeded
to cut it off, out jumped 10 crickets, 2
or Gravity worms, but the lice stuck
to it 50 | took that one to the COW and
kicked the next one to see if it was any
better, but there is a subsoil here in
some places where you can raise decent
looking vegetables. Watermelons and
sweet potatoes grow immense, one
about as large as tho other. We have
been here three years and in some parts
OF Oklahoma there falls no rain in July
and August, now some one will dispute
that but it is absolutely true. We had
no rain in and around Geary for over
| two months although we could hear of
heavy rains in other parts of the terri
tory. ! understand it was very dry all
summer at Alva and il anyone imagines
or believes that the wind does not blow
here only wish that they could have
been here the last OF August and ten
| days in September. But maby where
you find q windy democrat it has no
effect on him, but it might impoverish
| Ei,. e ho l,nI
afraid to step outside the house today,
October 9th, for fear it will scatter
| what few brains / have left. When it
blows strong enough to whip big
circus tent in tattcrs right over your
head you do not have to be showed the
fact is evident. | guess | had better
proceed to boom Oklahoma SO that medi-
Gated democrat at Washita will compre-
bend the matter. Now the grasshoppers
and crickets here grow SO large it takes
two chickens and an old hen to kill one,
but today killed large centipede be-
hind my bread jar by myself. was scar
ed into bravery. l have forgotten any
more boom. By the way J. D. visited
Washata junction or Clinton, as it is
now called. The railroad doomed it to
a finish. The papers stated that $780,
600 changed hands in one day, corner
lots selling as high as 81 900. While he
was there he noticed there were pumps
without handles. He asked why it was
and they told him the pumps we're out
OF order. He said if they had have been
on they would have pumped gypwater.
He also said it was a good corn country
for there is a kind of stlbsoil out there
that produces good crops and will
stand the drouth, and it is an unmiti-
gated fact that there is Il drowth in
some part of Oklahoma every year,
sometimes only 10 miles apart, and il it
strikes the growing crops at certain
times OF the year it Injuries them more
or less At the present time here they
cannot pillow their ground to put in their
wheat crop but they had fine rains at
El Reno this week. Last summer thcy
a.
fine crop of blacllbcrries was the re-
suit, the first ever raised near Geary.
The Monday after the Fourth there
were forty pickers all in one patch.
Speaking of the Fourth of July reminds
me that Leon will never have to ccle-
brate as long as the Ill Alaskas hold
forth. Tell Mike Springer to come and
look over the new country again. He
will scarcely recognize it with it's well
filled grainaries, it's great crops of corn
and cotton, it's fine dwellings and young
orchards. Land he could have bought
then sold for $4,000, others also did not
see fit to speculate. We bought 100
acres of heired Indian land at $500 per
acre, but that was at the first selling.
New they think it is all appraised too
highly and you can buy improved farms
for just little more than unimproyed