The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-24

come of any state in the Union for a
similar purpose.
Every city and town of these twin ter
ritories has its womeR s clubs and mus
| zeal, social, literary and chautauqua So
j cieties.
1t is the meeting ground of many pro-
| gressive and intelligent people from every
| state in the Union. 1t is there that the
! civilization of the North, the South, the
| East and the West are blending and
uniting to form the most progressive
and most enterprising people in the world.
! The average annual temperature for the
last ten years ranges from 522 degrees
in the north TO 81 degrees in the south.
/ We escape the risors of the northern
winters and the extreme sutriness and
heat of the southern states.
Not only is our climate unsurpassed
for healthfulness, but we have SOL which
/ produces more abundantly than is found
in the latitude of North Carolina and
Tennessee, and yet the maximum tenn
perature is seldom greater than that in
Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas due
presumably TO our altitude. We are de
veloping into one of the richest oil and
gas fields in the world, covering an area
IN oklahoma and the Indian territory Of
hundred miles in length and from forty
to sixty miles in width. Coal is found
in great abundance in almost every part
Of Indian Territory as wen as in east
ern Oklahoma. and the output of coal Of
those territories at this time Is greater
than that of any of the Mississippi
states. We produced during the year of
1902 in Oklahoma alone. thin Nr-siX MIL
lion bushels of wheat: sixty-tivt million
bushels of corn; ten million bushels Of
oats: three million bushels OF katfir corn;
seven million pounds Of broom corn, and
TWO hundred and twenty bales of cotton.
For the same year The Indian Territory
produced greater quantities of cotton and
corn than Oklahoma. The quantity has
been greatly multiplied in both The ter
ritories; and since that date. and for
the years of 1924. it has been estimated
that the TWO territories viii produce sixty
million bushels ~ wheat. one hundred
million bushels Of corn; twenty thousand
bushels II oats; five million bushels OF
kafhr corn: ten million pounds Of broom
corn. and five hundred thousand bales OF
cotton.
There were moro than one hundred
miles OF railroad completed in Oklahoma
in 1893: twice as much as VS. built in
any state in the Union. and oue-sixth
as much as was built in the United States
for the same period. For the same year
the Indian Territory ranked second for
railroad building; and it viii be seen that
these twin territories for the year OF
1885 built about one-fourth Of all the rail-
roads build in the United States. The
two territories at this time have more
than seven thousand miles OF railroad IL
operation, with no attachments II rail-
road construction from what It was in
lsc and 1898.
There are in the territories more than
I'VE hundred territorial and national
banks. with a combined capital OF nearly
ten million dollars and a deposit OF
nearly fifty millions.
In Oklahoma there vas no white set
Element prior 20 April -. lSSS. The only
inhahitant Of that country IN To that date
was the Indian and the cowboy. April
-. lSS9 three million acres Of land, known
as original Oklahoma. were thrown open
10 settlement. The Sac and Fox. ard
Pottawatoulie reservations in the east
ern part OF the territory were opened
10 settlement September, 1881 These