The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-03-13
ALABAMA s ETTLERS
RUSHING INTO BEA.
YER COUNTY.
CATTLEMEN ARE WORRIED
Steady Stream of People
Filing on the UplandS

Beaver City, Okla, March 13.-"Be-
fore fall there win not be much Land
worth the taking in Beaver county, Z"
is statement made by Dick Quinn,
editor OF the Guymon Herald, in speak
ing OF the great amount of Govern
'ment land being homesteaded in that
part Of Beaver county The truth Of
the matter is that already the tide Of
immigration Is tapping over into New
Mexico, and at Clayton, where there
lis a Government land office, the FL
ings on New Mexican lands for the
last quarter amounted to over ninety.
The average filings being made now
by a United States court commission
er at Mineral, near the New Mexico
line. is from ten to twelve day, and
this covers land in both Territories.
The first filings are in the Cimarron,
Carigo and Travesier river bottoms,
and after these are taken, the steady
stream of homesteaders from all parts
Of the country is beginning 10 stake
of the uplands, where heretofore the
cattleman has had full sway
During the last year in the Okla
homa counties Of Beaver and Wood
ward alone 427777 acres OF land was
fled upon by homesteaders, and there
was a gradual increase In the popula-
ton OF the Territory from this source
during the entire year, The counties
in the western part Of Oklahoma have
of late years given substantial evil
dence of their ability 10 raise good
crops, and as a result much land here
tofore used for grazing purposes only
is now being cultivated by the agri-
culturist The immigration to Oklaho-
ma by homesteaders during the last
year was not less than 10000 Tx
Gov. Tom Ferguson says that "the
character of the citizenship which
comes to Oklahoma through it's inn
migration is of the highest type and
most desirable. Men and women, with
ambition and determination as their
capital. as well as those who else
where acquired competence, have
come here to make their homes"
Figures secured at the Government
land ONCE in Guthrie show that there
yet remains 10000 acres of land in
Day county On which homestead entry
can be made. The land Is going fast,
however. as 1000 acres in this one
county were taken up during Febru-
airy. During that month sixty-eight
final proofs on homesteads were
placed on record in the Guthrie office
alone. seventy-six entries were made
and fifty-four contests on claims were
filed. The general land commissioner
the entries on thirty claims
and allowed successful contestants to
make entry on the lands.
Among the homesteaders who filed
on Government land during February |
was William Hoyt, the Decatur (Aia.) !
man who made the entire trip over
land, crossing the Aneghenies and wad- |
ing through the Mississippi river bot
toms last spring during the flooded |
period. He drove two yoke of oxen
the entire distance, drawing an old
fashioned prairie schooner He was
A full nine months on the road, and |
some extra time was put in at Fort |
Smith, Memphis and other points |
along the read, where stops were
made IN order that he might work at
his iron molding trade and make |
enough money to carry the family |
another stretch westward.