The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-05-04
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OF his Trip to 0kldhOmdA Wonder
1ul Town for Growth Visit to an
lndian Reservation.
The territory was opened up
to white settlers in 1900. | went
out few weeks ago with the
Frisco tourists to see the country
and as a purchaser. l went by
way OF Atlanta, Birmingham,
Memphis, Springfield, Me-, Tel
sa, |. T., and: Enid, Okla, to Ho-
bart. Hobart is a town four years
old. and has population of 5000
people, all white. 1t has electric
Lights water works system and
sewerage system. 1t is called
the four-year-old wonder of the
West. = Sixty-one thousand bales
of cotton were marketed here
last season.
We visited Anadarko, the head
quarters of the Wichitass> Indians
TaWSakanes Jim is chief of the
tribe. There is here an Indian
school which accommodates four
hundred children. They carry
them through an industrial
course. These Indian children as
q race, are the richest children
in the United States. Each one
is worth farm valued at from
= bs'eTito five thousand dollars, and
there ltr two million dollars to
be divMed among tvua- thousand
of them. We attended Their
worship. They were dressed in
gala attire, The chief led them in
their wa ship. They went through
with the holy dance.
These Indians live in wigwams
made of matted grass. They are
the only Indians in the world that
manufacture this material. |
saw an Indian gown worth
twelve thousand dollars. 1t was
made of elks teeth strung on silk
cords.
l stopped at Shawnee, which
is the. second largest Irish pota-
to marketin the United States.
Thirty -seven,t thousand car loads
were shipped from here last
seasan Greenyille, Mich, is the
largest Shipper of Irish potatoes,
marketing last season forty-nine
thousand carloads. Shawnee has
a large starch factory. 1t has a
population of twelve thousand,
and was five years old last July.
| went to Guthrie, the capital,
beautiful little city of eighteen
thousand.
The lands are prairie, not wood
ed lands, and are very product
i've. Without fertilizer they pro-
duce from seven to fifteen hun
dred pounds of cotton to the acre.
and thirty to fifty bushels of
wheat to the acre. The chief
crops are cotton, corn, wheat,
oats and broom corn. The farm
ers are building good houses. 1t
is law of the government that
g g ,aae,n fence in his farm with a
iout strand fence. The farming
| is done wfti,-+lr--l--L--c
farming implements. A farmer
driving four mules to "a sulky
plow is a common sight. / Wis.,
tied a blackberry farm three
years old. A net profit of seven
hundred and fifteen dollars was
made last season on three acres.
The school system is quite fine.
Every thirty-six square miles has
two square miles set apart by the
government for a school. This
liberal help results in elegant
schools everywhere.
The people of Oklahoma came
principally from Texas, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi and Indiana.
The country being prarie lands
there are no trees. The people
have planted the cottonwood and
elm for shade around their hous-
eS.
One of the largest farms in the
world is at Bliss, Oklahoma. 1t
) embraces eighty-seven thousand
acres. Last year this farm had
nine thousand acres of wheat and
,, eight thousand acres of corn. 1t
! has ten thousand head of cattle
on it's ranch, besides twenty head
of buffaloes. My trip was very
t enjoyable, and at some future
: day expect to take another trip
= to this country.
/; Death OF Miss Rosa Wood.
= Mice Roca WooI q yo,1por 1ad,