Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-15
THE wild AND WOOLLY WEST.
s. K. DENDY "BURYING HIS DOUGH" :.
IN OKLAHOMA DIRT.

DenGy from LaWton, OklanOma, on
April 21st we make the following
extracts:
The last time 1 wrote l was at
Tulsa. Since then we came to Cor
dell, the county seat of Waohita
county. We spent one day and a
night there. 1t is on the Frisco rail-
road. 1t is fine agricultural county.
Cotton, corn, wheat, alfalfa, all grow
well all over this section.
Cordell is a town of about 1900
population, four banks, four news
papers, about twenty-five stores of
all kinds and sorts, two bar-rooms,
three :'ote's and four churches. Major
StFibling and went out about 20 or
rs miles with a real estate man to
see aoine fine places for sale. These
farms are in quarter, half and whole
sections. These men don't price
land by the acre. 1t is sold by the
section, half or section. The
prices range from $4,000 to $4,000.
1t seems to me that this is the very
best kind of land for all kinds of
farming. We went back to Cordell
and bought fourteen town lots from
our real estate man, Mr.. Dixon. l
took twelve lots, or a half block, and
Major Stribling took two. We think
it fine section of this fine country.
l have seen some of the old-time
Indians with their blankets on and
their hats off. They need their blank
cts this kind of weather, too. We
had fine snow Friday night at Cor
dell, but it soon melted and rained
most of the day.
saw with great pleasure my first
wild native wolf. l was the first one
on the cars to point him out. We
also see lots of big jack rabbits, but
there are very few of the old native
"molly cotton tails mere.
The wind does not blow here at
this time as hard as in Walhalla. i
have not lost my hat, or my head
either, by the hard Western winds.
The green bug has destroyed a great
deal Of the wheat and oats in Okla
homa. When these bugs get through
with large field of grain it looks
like our old brown broom sedge.felds.
The farmers are blowing up many
large fields and will plant them in
cotton and corn. l see lots of old
corn in big piles, some shucked and
some not-all lying on the ground.
Much of their corn is in cribs with no
cover whatever. What great loss of
valuable product! Corn is selling
at SO to 40 cents and oats 80 to 35
cents per bushel.
All kinds of labor here commands
good price. A blacksmith gets
$3.50 for shoeing common horse
and So for shoeing Purcheron horse.
Brick masons get 70 cents an hour,
or $500 for eight hours. I thought
of my old friend, Sam Byrd, when 1
went into shoe shop to ask about
prices. Sewed work is $3.50 and peg
work 80 cents to 81 pair. Painters
get $500 day of nine hours; COM
mon field hands $3.50 and board for
a day of ten hours.
There is plenty of all kinds of
drinking water here, and 1 rather
like it-all except that from the old
stock ponds, of which 1 find many in
all this vast and beautiful prairie land.
Corn and cotton are now being
planted. Some places corn is up, but
no cotton has come up 30 far as
have been. Alfalfa is looking fine ;
wheat in many places is very fine.
We are heading for the Big Pas
ture. We hope to reach there to-
morrow and will stay few days. l
hope to camp one or two nights
among the Indians, wolves and jack
RAJ bits.
This town of Lawton is fine place.
1t has a population of some $4,000,
is six years old, and all the streets in
the town are wide and beautiful.
Fort Hill is in a mile of this place.