The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
BIG TRADE OF F. CUSTER
OKLAHOMA CITY IS CENTER OF
A PRODUCTIVE TERRITORY.
Great Variety of Crops and Large
Yields Fast Building Up Town
Into Commercial Center.
Special Correspondence.

+ CUSTER CITY, Ok, Sept 2.-One of
the first things that forcibly impress
the Northern man coming to this country
is the amazing variety Of the agricul-
tural products. In addition to all the
products of the North, he here finds many
of the crops of the mi-tropics, and all
yielding with an abundance that the
North has never dreamed of. 49,
It Is safe to say there is no other
section of the Union which can show
greater variety of crops with so gener-
GUS yield. Among the staple products
grown successfully here are corn, for
which Oklahoma took the first prize at the
st. Louis Worlds Fair; wheat, cotton,
broom corn, kaff1r corn, oats, barley, cas-
tor beans, milo maize, alfalfa, millet, cow
peas. potatoes, sweet potatoes, apd pea
nuts. The crops of this section can al
ways be depended upon. The deep soil
stores up an ample supply Of moisture,
and IN case of a few weeks of dry weather
this reserve proves ample for the grow
Ing crops. l., *,
81 Coming Commercial Center.
: Custer City is the natural marketing
point for many miles of tributary terri
. tory, and has unexcelled shipping facil-
tiles for all the produce that is brought
here. Its merchants are alert and pro-
gressive, and their hustle and wide awake
business methods are certain to make this
one Of the great commercial !centers of
this country. At the present time there
is being marketed here in good quantities
corn broom corn, oats, wheat, cotton,
castor beans, and alfalfa. r., ...S
~ "The magnitude of the business being
transacted here may be seen in the single
item of broom corn" said J. D. Chalfant,
who, as president Of the hustling Custer
City Commercial club, has exceptional OPP
portunities for keeping we'll informed on
business affairs. up to date this season
there has been marketed and shipped
from this city over 1900 tons of broom
!. corn. For many years the state of Illi-
| nois has held the supremacy for this ar
lrticle, but 1t will be only question Of a
few years when the title will be wrested
from it by Oklahoma The cheaper and
| more. highly productive lands here give
! the farmer an insurmountable advantage
over his competitor in the North.
Oklahoma's Peanut Crop.
| "In the matter of the peanut crop Okla
| homa has already become formidable
| competitor of the Southern states that
have heretofore had the monopoly of this
!, product. While the crop will not be as
large this year as it was last, the acre.
age being somewhat less, the returns to
the farmer will be quite as large, as tbs
| quality is of an extra high grade, and the
prices are in consequence much better
| than last year."
In consequence of the bountiful crops
and the good prices at which they arc
selling, this section is overlooking will
money, and on every hand the indications
of prosperity are plainly manifested
The farmers have money in the banks
and are spending it freely for the lux
uries as we'll as the necessaries of life
1t can be set down as an indisputablt
| proposition that any man who farms witt
ordinary judgment in this country is GER
tain to make money, and many are max
ing 1t with rapidity that they neve
dreamed of until they came down here, thu
garden spot of the Union.