The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-30

WORK. au5 ua ono aAo las ans
recollection o[ Haskell 80 ANS rt
connected WitI tAe .lt or real estate
business darius aii fuar time. 81 who
kHew im Iu ans say excepting as
o stranger Uha was building the ra.t
rlal faraue5 Nuskasee
Held Lots ss Trustee.
This railroad construction was - s
ldy progressed Wita mll tae spring
ot 1899 Whom Haskell sold ont Dis
littla.ea al tn Kansas On. and Chicago
parties Who used if as au extension
~ the railroad they Uere building west
nam Faeervilie Ar. moss known as
tine Frisco railroad ez. ending from
Okmulgee through NUsk3eee t. Fay
eterli. Afb. Immediately after sells
ing ont this first railroad Haskell
chartered ANA began second rails
r1sI. known as the MuskogoC S1u p
en railroad and about th3t time he-
came b s-8ckl0ller M the ndian1ll
Contracting company organized iu
June 1902 and in which Haskell be-
came the owner of little less than ?
per cent cf the capital stock ana t1
which the lots conveyed To him as
trustee. were conveyed, and the re-
maiuaar oi The capital stock of said
rea estate company distributed 70 the
parties tn interest. and t1 this day
Haskel as never had a larea- ia-
tercst 'u that COMPANY The lots IN
question We're valued at S3.tl1 So
that Fl The contention of the govera-
ment is correct. the amount that this
company would owe to the Greek Na-
tion would De one-half that sum ana
Haskelrs part OF il would be $3411
During the summer of the year 1902
and the year 1903, Haskell continued
building his NuskOgee Southern rail-
road until thirtyeigh. miles 81 track
was iI operation and an additional
section graded, when e transferred
it TO his associates. who later made g.
part of the Midland Valley railroad.
now extending from Ft Smith. Arkau-
sas. To Arkansas City. Kansas
Immediately i'm the spring OF 1904.
Haskell began the building of the
fourth Muskogee railroad under the
chartered name Of the Muskoeee Ue-
ion railway. and continued pressing
the construction of this road until he
sold ont To his associates In the sum
mer of 1905. This railroad is now
known as the NJ, O & G. r. r. ANA
extends from Wagner through Mus
kogee to Calvin. about one hundred
miles ia length
MusKogee Made Center.
These several railroads fixed Mus.
kogee as railroad center and early
gave assurance that It would be one on
the leading towns of the s1uthw st.
The early settlers Of Nuskogee ana
the business men generally give TO
Haskell the credit for the development
and building Of Muskogee and vicinity
and for giving property the value that
has made it worth litigation. and
doubtless aoeounts lor the fact that
effort Is maze To reclaim these present
great values. due TO the sroWta of this
city when no eftor. is made in a
dozen other Creek Nation towns
whore little on NO increase i'm value
has occurred since the lots were
originally scheduled Muskogee to.
day is a city of 10000 people. a com.
mercial and industrial center.
! find thai Haskell aud the other
four citizens of lluskogee who are
indicted. are largely the men who have
made Muskogec property valuable
Every enterprise in MuskOgee created
from the year 1902 to the year 1907 IS
traceahle in great part to the enter
prise and energy Of Haskell While
Haskell himself ! learn, i'm his pub io
utterances gives the credit to many
Muskogee people. yet these same pel
pie tell me that the town property
would be Of insignificant comparative
value today excepting for his efforts
His Real Estate Deals.
] also find that until the wear 1904.
Haskell's time was so entirely taken
with his railroad construction work
that his associates in the real estate
company deemed his services to them
OF no value and never compensated
him until after he had ceased to be n
railroad buildc and thcu only f3r
other purposes Beginning with the
ycar 1907 during The next threo vears.
Haskell and bis associates huilt leased
and sold four,ecn of thc prominent
brick business buildings of Nuskogeo
located in the business part az town
and none of Them on an outlying uG
in controversy The hotei aHd opera
house buildings I'm NUsEoeee are
conspicuous among the many improve.
mrnIs % which he contributed and
which early made Muskogee attraotiNe
TO strangers want right hero %
correct an erroneous statement made
By magazine writer Who ia scus1-
ional article about the robbmg of Is
poor Indian referred to the hotel and
opera house lots as being pieces Of
property stolen from the Indian There
Is no truth in this statement as To
either of these lots They We're both
scheduled to church societies which
had churcl buildings thereon. and
We're owned h1 the respective orgaui-
zati1us until tho year 1901. when the
church organizations sold them at a
good price and removed their church
bindings away from the business part
Of the town
Where Is II?
When ! reached this point In gath
eriug facts / asked wv ere. then. IS
am This property ard wealth that I
read OF Haskcus securing by sraftE
The only answer ] get aud / have