The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-22
KAW CITY, FLOURISHING
NEW STRIP TOWN
Lies in Midst Of Richest
Farming Country In
Oklahoma
! Leader sLan correspondent.


frame business houses and many pret-
~ residences. Save the stone, which
Is found upon tho gcound. the material
for these houses was freighted by wa
Eon from railway points twenty-five
niles distant Il has all been &C.
complished since last July That was
the date Of the founding of the town
and the first survey OF the site There
b nothing phenomenal about the
growth Of Kaw City, either The phe-
nomcnon IS expected to come now
that transportation Is established and
lhe best agricultural section of the
Arkansas river valley brought In close
touch with the markets and being
made productive by allotment Of In
dian lands and cultivation Of them by
farmers who lave heretofore been
enable TO get possession.
There are many new towns In Okla
bona. There are many with bright
outlook. and there are others the IN.
ture Of which is assured by natural
conditions Along the lines of all the
new railways have sprung up new
cities come of them without reason
able cause, perhaps, and some of them
because there is an immediate de
mand for them and the number OF
miles OF new railway in Oklahoma ex-
ceeds that Of any other state or ter.
ritory,
The Santa Fe cutoff from New
kirk. In the strip 10 Pauls Valley in
khe Chickasaw nation. Is almost all
graded. The track has been built
from Newlsirk to the Arkansas river
at Kaw city. distance of twenty-four
miles, 1t win be completed to Pauls
Valley this sumrtler. total distance
Of 100 miles, shortening the track be-
tween Newkirk and Pauls Valley thir
~ miles This line is the only one
entering The great Usage pation. the
greatest remaining pasture land IN
The soathwcst. It is being construct
ed under The name of rhe- Eastern
Oklahoma railway and is a Santa Fe
property II tapn the richest farm
ing country in Oklahoma. the Usage
reservation. and the Creek and Chick
asaw nations.
Ia the extreme east Of Kay county,
Okla. is Kaw City at a point where
The Arkansas river makes wide
sweep to he east and doubles back to
She west, forming what has long been
known as The "oxbow heud"-a long
neck OF good land that lies west Of
tbe river but surrounded on all sides,
save a little az the west, but the Kaw
and Usage reservations the former
on the north. the latter to the east and
south This rs twenty-five miles from
POnca City, twenty-five miles from
Hewkirk, and thirty @iies fcom Rails
ton the nearest railway points prior
n the coming of the Eastern Okla
Aoma. On the Oklahoma side of the
nver are fertile farms, developed as
sae farms OF Kay county are reputed
20 be- to the highest state OF produc
Hon -peoplod by The best citizens N
that commonwealth But II is in the
Kaw reservation. now being brought
1nder cultivation, and in the Osags
country, allOtments in which are noW
Being selected. that the great tribu
tary country of this new city In this
aHahraee vi the Arkansas is chiefly
situated
There are 100000 acres Of the Kaw
reservation, OF which a homestead OF
ts8 acres to each of the nearly three
hundred members of that tribe has
already been patented, There is re
naaining Of the Kaw domain to eact
member OF the tribe $50 acres add
tlanal land which is now being divid
"a among the members of the tribe
Hntn now this reservation has been d
pasture occupied by Texas cattle, al
= nUHNHll A'nN1Af. ~ - hA+N 'N''- +rttf
IL the southwest for farming purposes
aud IS being RAPIDLY placed In a stat,
% cultivation II Is estimated tha
fuzzy 50 per cent Of the Kaw reserya
tion farming lands will be in cultiva
tlou this season. Next season all th'
lands will be farmed Under the treat,
siibnlsuons by which the KaWs have
laken their ailotments, the agent a.
Psshuska may issue certificates 4
such Of them as he deems it for The
management OF their own lands. whiei
seni6sate. when signed by the secre
cary OF the interior. shall make the In
sans citizens OF The United states
esofhed with full power over their
realty holdings and allotments % sell
Or dispose OF as they desire. Il d
aasel BY competent authority thel
sore than per cent Of the ka~s