The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-30
SAYS OKLAHOMA TERRI
TORY is ONE VAST,
FERTILE PARK
FARMS YIELD RICH CROPS
Growth of Oklahoma I'm.
paralIeIed in History.

VIM p curtis the famous carte
blanche correspondent Of the Record
Herald. who draws s25.ooO year for one
column OF stun per day. has been kind
20 Oklahoma. In the. Record Herald Of
june "a. under an Oklahoma city date
line Curtis has the following. which is
refreshing after taking into consideration
the hrrFpg roast be poured into Indian
TosFi.if'y:
Oklahoma CITY, OKLA, June 2i.-so far
SIS scenery goes. ] think oklahoma has
the loveliest landscape / have ever seen.
Its hills are not too high It's prairles
are not too fiat. itr streams nre not too
large and its forests are not 50 great
as TO hide the rest. OF the country IN
June the rerritory looks like one grand
park, and is the greatest triumph Of ma
sure IN her role Of landscape architect
Just now everything is n perfect eondi-
tion The foliage is fresh and perfect.
and as lustrous as II every leaf had been
washed and varnished only a day OF two
ago. The yellow fields OF ripened wheat
and the rustling corn make the picture
perfect. The farmers complain OF saving
had too much rain. although no damage
has been done to the crops II has left
the territory as fresh and bright and as
beautiful as II It were newly made.
And what crops they arel Nature is
going 10 furnish an unanswerabie argu-
ment for statehood and unless some cy-
clone or other disaster comes the soil
VIII yield such harvests this year as were
never known before Nearly All the ter
ritory IS under cultivation The 3s5-
miles from east to west and 30 miles
from north to south could swallow up
Massachusetts, New Hampshire New
Jersey Rhode Island Vermont and half
ot Connecticut. an5 almost every acre is
producing something this year some
thiag that win bring money into the
pockets OF the people and Increase their
Importance as members Of our great
commonwealth In the western part OF
ne state. as you perhaps know. there
IS an area Of high and dry land that needs
Irrigation In order 10 make Il sure pro
Queer; but this year IL VIII not fail to
do its share In rolling up a big column
Of agricultural statistics. To make sure
"a
erroir covering 4,275 acres by construct
ing a dam across rocky gorge in otter
creek, and there store water enough TO ir-
rigate $1,000 acres. Another reservoir irav
De constructed on the north fork OF the
Red River which win furnish water
enough to iIgigate $1,000 acres. and that
is an that viii be necessary 10 reinforce
ne rainfall Of nature The farmers OF
western Oklahoma are not taxing very
much interest in the project however
This scheme Is too far from them. They
do not need the land for agriculture. and
they DO not need II for grazing
Oklahoma IS sweet sixteen. Her BIRTH
day was celebrated on the 22d Of April
last 70 ON that day in 1859 the gun was
fred as a signal for the rush OF home
hunters Those sixteen years have Wit
messed miracle Of growth and devel-
opment. They have no parallel in the
history OF any other state. It must be
said, however. that the conditions here
We're favorable to it-more favorable
than We're found BY the pioneers OF any
other country on esrth--and the homes
that stand tpon these beautiful prai-
ries cost lvA5 labor and less hardship
than those Of any new land that was
ever settled. The history Of oklahoma
Is unique,
The population now, according TO the
best estimates, is between 7O0.O 900 and
100000. and Is Increasing at the rate Of
about 20 per cent yenr seventy-one
per cent of the people are engaged IN
agriculture. and 81 Is asserted that a larg.
er variety Of crops onn be produced on
this soil than in any other part OF the
world Upon many q farm you can md
growing. side by side an OF the staples
an Of The botanical products ihat can
be found between the two oceans rnd
between the great lakes and the gulf
Kansas has plenty OF corn and wheat. !
bu. she caniI1f grow cotton. Oklahoma I
can produce not only an unlimited guam /
fity o. corn and wheat bat an unlimited
quantity Of cotton. ard OF the very lest
quality of each. It's reputation has
reached other parts Of the world. on
the steamer which h.ought me from Ja- \
pan last summer was a. representative !
Of the Cotton Manufacturers association
Of Osaka on his way to Oklahoma 20
make contracts for cotton tina, is now /
growing anc he told me that his om-
ployers preferred the Oklahoma nber 10
ali others.
Wheat grows just as well as cotton.
and the crop last year amounted to about
5s.oooo 900 bushels ranging from hfteen
10 thirty bushels per acre Nearly an
% the Oklahoma wheat is consumed al
home. Mills are springing up IN every
part of the territory. with other manu-
factories and are scarcely abls 10 meet
the local demand. sixty mlliioi bushels
~ corn we're raised hst year vas ing
from thiriy-hye 10 sixty bushels an acre.
and nearly al Of IL Was USED n feeding
Oklahoma hogs Very few oats were
ehipped. because they were an needed at
homei and d may be- said that, with the
exception of cotton. the people o. me
territory eat their own aeiiculturh
products. The cotton fields last year
ylSded nearly 25o.0oo bales and t..s