The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-03-03
TO PLACE a VALUATION ON
cHlckAsAW CLUB LANDS.
UNNECESSARY RED TAPE
To Be Put In Use TO Comply with
the Departments order in
cases-High Price Paid
for Land.

Farley Dichmond, Tom Bell and
Ice Gait have been appointed AZ.
i praisets by the court To condemn
land appraise the tract Of land held
by the Chickasaw lake club west of
this city, for club purposes
The appointing OF this board of ref.
erecs was made necessary by the sec.
Iretary of the interior refusing to ap.
prove the deed of the lake club to
the land as purchased from James
and Lucy Tannituffee, full-blood In
dians.
The history which leads up to the
purchase OF the land is as follows:
About five years ago party of
men in Ardmore organized stock
company to be kHown as the Chicka-
saw Lake club. for the purpose Of
erecting a country home and building
a lake, for pleasure purposes, The
project at once became successful
one, and the stock in 1t sold readily.
After a meeting of the stockholders
and the election of officers search
for suitable site was begun. Some
four miles west of the city the tract
Of land now owned by the club was
found to be the most desirable for
the purposes. 1t was purchased from
James and Lucy TannituffcD. VINO
being fullblood Indians could not
transfer their land without the appro-
val of the deed of the secretary of
the interior.
The club paid the full.blood s. and
$40 per acre for the land, which had
at the time OF the appraisement by
the government been appraised at
$3.50 per acre. The deed was sent
to the secretary OF the interior, who
returned it with tho statement that
the land was worth SIS per acre
BY an act known as the Five
Tribe Bill passed by congress April
20, 1906, all transfer y full-bloud
lands must be approved by the sec
etary of the interior, and all con
demnation proceedings to secure
lands must be made through com.
pany which is to use said lands un.
der the name Of power company.
Therefore to hold these lands it
has become necessary that the Chick
asaw Lake Club incorpollal Itself
under the name of apower company
and has taken the name of the Chick
asaw Power company rs Succession,
To the Chlckasaw Lake club.
p D. a petition to the court the re
, ferccs have been appointed to ap
, praise and condemn the land.
, The red tape in which said thingi
have 10 be done In this countr,
| disgusts the person who knew If In
leXisting conditions and Is one of tn,
best evidences 4 the ignorance o
the Secretary of the Interior and 9th
er officials of the conditions here
The hand itself condemned by an.
Il'ltt't III Nnt ndNlbn is nOl WORT
more than fifty cents per acre, an,
was appraised at the figures of 81 81
by the government appraisers, no
because Of its value, for II has none
for other than the purposes tina
which Ii is at present in use, but be
cause of its proximity to this city.
The land is utterly barren, rock
and hills, the trees on which are no
suitable for timber The deal mad,
by the club and the full bloods Il
vastly more favorable to the Indian
In question. than any decision of tn,
referees can hope to be. The pric,
Of So and $40 paid for the grounds
by the club was above the value, anC
placed so as to do away with any
controversy, which might occur from
the secretary fearing the Indians
We're selling it too cheap.
The club and the grounds are fol
pleasure, purely, and not a dollar Is
realized of of II by anyone. It Is
suitable for such purposes alone, anc
Is not worth fifty cents per acre fol
Anything else.
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