The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-02
OKLAHOMA. A COLD NUGGET.

Oklahoma is gold nugget. Cover
nor Frantz In his recent report did not
put Il that way but he set gut in the
Introduction to his report the facts
that show Il TO be the truth Of the
matter. Il would be difficult to find
mcsc .-ri solid facts in one little
pocke, than the governor has refined
into the following nugget.
and The Usage Indian reservation, COW
ering an area OF 3S,7l5 square miles.
The population numbers upward of
100000. Guthrie is the temporary
capital and Oklahoma City the metro
polls Twenty-,hree cities are OF the
first class, having population of $500
or more. There are over 800 postof-
fees i'm oklahoma. Fer year ended
June 80. 1905, seven towns In Oklaho-
ma had postal receipts exceeding
$4,000, aggregating $2O9.9i74O and
twelve others exceeding $4,000. There
are over 700 rural free delivery
routes In actual service.
Th Iovation above the sea level
ranges from zoo feet on the east to
1000 feet on the west The cir ate is
mild in winter and hot in SIMMER.
The rainfall averages 35 inches in
eastern, 30 inches in central, and "a
inches i'm western Oklahoma The
main pursuit is agriculture, there be-
ing 143.750 farms in Oklahoma, with
a cash value of 32,0st,776, averaging
s1.G13 each The yield OF what in
Oklahoma for season Of 1905 was a.
6iS.602 hushels corn. 1891 ,392
bushels: cotton, 293.77S bales; broom
corn, 29.GG2 tons. The valIe of all
orchard prod 1cts gathered in Oklaho-
ma during the year 1905 was $23S.69S
The value OF poultry raised in 1899 was
$f,3O2, 400 Thirteen million seven
hundred and twenty-four thousand nine
hundred dozen eggs were produced
valued at $1,2S4,414.
Oklahoma has no territorial bonded
debt The territory is a land of homes
and families. Out of S6,90S families in
Oklahoma i'm 1900, 60,0S9 owned their
own homes There are 1903 organic
ed churches. There are 73 Touring
mills and 10 cotton seed oil mills. A
cotton mill for the making of cotton
goods will be opened for actual oper
alton on January /, 1907, with $3.50.
eco capital. There are ESQ elevators
located in IL towns, With total ca
pacity of &.jz5oon Gushels- There
are 35 fraternal insurance societies
There are 2S7 territorial banks.
There are 3,6S7 teachers i'm common
schools, operating in 3,093 school dis
tricts, and 15S,322 pupils enrolled.
There are z territorial institutions of
higher learning, besides private col
luges and other Institutions. The per.
centage of illiteracy of population in
Oklahoma 10 years of age and over is
SO, being the same as New York state,
the lowest percentage In the United
states. The percentage of foreign
born population in Oklahoma Is 80.
There are 1851 Indians in the ter
ritory. There are II government
schools for Indians in Oklahoma.
The school lands set aside by con
gress for use of the schools of the ter
ritory aggregate 3,100,S75 acres, val
ued by low estimate at S30,000,0G0
The iueome last year from these lands
bei.,, over $500, 900. The average
price paid teachers is a little over $50
There are trunk lines of railway
MulNuf AdhtH Win iNhNe "a w
aration, comrrise 2,611 miles within
he borders of the territory. There
lfe over 1900 miles of telegraph lines
and over 5000 miles of telephone lines
i'm Oklahoma.
The tax levy for all territorial pur
poses was, for 1905, GA mills, and for
906 6.5 mills
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