The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-10
Republican Ticket

OKLAHOMA is PROSPEROUS.
Governor Frantz's Annual Report
Shows.
The annual report Of Governor
Frank Frantz of Oklahoma is the best
advertisement of this part OF the new
state that ever appeared. 1t contains
Recommendation and asks 40 favors.
Everything is booming, and wonderful
progress is shown in all lines Of indus
try, No jarring note is found in the
entire 100 pages of the printed report.
The question Of education, which is
still Il burning issue in Indian Territory
is giving Oklahoma no concern save
that the 3,I00,S75 acres set aside for
school and other purposes may be hard
to dispose of most proiitably. Its APP
proximate value 10Y Is given as 500,
100000 by Governor Frantx, and as
sures the coming generation of the
new state ample educational facilities.
In addition to the land thus reserved,
congress made a cash donation of So,
100000 in the statehood bill, in lieu of
the common school lands in Indian
Territory. The report contains sub
reports from the heads Of the various
schools in Oklahoma, from the State
Agricultural and Mechanical college
down.
An abundance of common schools,
both in the towns and in rural COM
munities, is shown 10y the report, while
much space Is given to the progress
of education in the various higher
schools and colleges.
The following extract is taken from
a chapter in Oklahoma agriculture
From a very meager beginning in
1889, we have increased IN population
until we have almost 100000 people
in Oklahoma-happy, prosperous, con-
tented, %peaceable, wide-awake, the
most progressive element from all the
states. Those who came here in the
early days, Ms those who have come
here since, came to establish homes.
"Oklahoma is pre-eminently a land
of homes and families. True to the
Oklahoma spirit, we are now ready to
put our energies to the work to eclipse
all previous record breaking.
$50 rapidly do conditions change
here that agricultural statistics be-
come old in a few weeks. The produce
tive wealth of Oklahoma soil has in
creased by leaps and bounds from
prairie hay in 1880, to include all of
the great farm productions of both the
north and the south, the aggregate
value of which in the year 1906 was
over : 100000. II is conservatively
estimated that this high record will
be exceeded in 1908 by moi less than
100000
mo class Of settlers in Oklahoma
have prospered to q greater degree
than the farmers, a majority of whom
came here with little or no means be-
yond that of a willingness to work and
endure hardship for the time necessary
to subdue the sod and grow a crop.
Comfortable and, in some instances,
palitial homes have supplanted the
dugout and temporary improvements"
This is a fair sample of the encour-
aging and attractive character of the
report, which, by the way, is a com
pilation of the reports OF many experts
IN their particular lines of work.
OF the livestock industry of Okla
homa the report says;
Some very effective arguments can
be found in comparing our wealth of
livestock with that of some of the old
er commemorative, which have for
years been recognized as livestock pro-
ducers Of no mean caliber. Infant
Oklahoma exceeds in value of livestock
that of Washington by $6l 100000,
that of Oregon by $50 100000, Colorado
by $42, 0 1900, Arkansas by $50, OOO, 1000,
Tennessee by $24, 1000, South Dakota
by $l0,000,000 1t exceeds by $40 Co.,
" the combined value of the livestock
embraced in Utah, Nevada and Idaho"
On January /, 1905, the department,
of agriculture issued a statement Civ
ing the number and value of livestock
by states the value Of Oklahoma's an
imals being placed at SOL $40, 1923, which
has increased very considerably since.
An account of the healthfulness of
Oklahoma's climate covers several
pages, the superintendent of public
health for various counties reporting
a less amount Of sickness than last
year, and no epidemics.
A brief history of the territory is CIV
en- in the report, with a detailed ac-
count of the arduous fight for state
hood.
The public and private credit Of the