Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-08-19
Monroe, Okla.
SbeeiaI 10 HE Nc7Os.

h DIV has laid by, IL the editor will al
low M space In his most interesting
News, | will try to tell you Cumber-
berland Momntain boomers near Whit
we'll T4nn about the show we are 20
ing to have at North Nubhins Ridge
schoolh0use tonight, Aug. 18th. and !
will tell you in the morning what
saw at the show.
John CIR. filth landed at Whitwell last
week, his old stamping ground.
We writer would like to hear
from the Pocket creek oftener.
received R. C,'s letter few days
ago. | want to tell him what | think
OF this place. Monroe is only farm
ing place. No shops filed with mach
inery, only one gin. Hartford, Okla, is
booming little town with machine
shop or two there, one gin, mines in
plenty. We are living on or near the
Arkansas and Oklahoma line and loca-
ted on Government land, which is rent
ed every year at $t.5O an acre, We
have larger crop than ever before and
larger prospects of making lots more
than before. | will try to give some
idea of this section OF Oklahoma from
what have learned and seen of this
place. Since have boon here l have
looked over only small portion OF
Oklahoma, as | have been here only
T.. Aur hnt | hnliaVn |
can Judge 1t to be a very productive
state. | see these old farmers with
nothing to fear as they remember that
one dollar at home is making three.
Judge for yourself in the past what
may be in the future. Their cattle
range on the pastures through the mid
winter months without feed, and are
fat all the while.
The mean annual temperature OF
this part of the State, known as the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, is a.
Only four states have a larger rainfall,
As inches. Oklahoma City has popula-
tion OF 4O, 900 and is only 10 years old.
II will soon reach the 100, 900 mark.
1t has capital and surplus to the amount
of 81, O6O, $40, and deposits are S6,54s,-
900. The building permits last year
were $780, 600. The Postoft1ce receipts
for 1906 we're $l41, 500. Oklahoma City s
freight tonnage in 1906 was 1,22S, 246,
900 tons.
Guthrie is the capital of Oklahoma
with factories of all kinds, cotton, two
oil mills, canning factories, -four mills,
electric street railway, five banking
institutions, eight hotels. twenty chur-
ches and opera house.. Guthrie is the
home of the Oklahoma Deaf and Dumb
College.
Muskogee with a population of about
10000 is in East Oklahoma, and is the
county seat OF Muskogee county
where all the Governments business is
transacted, and where Indian land sales
are recorded. Among Muskogee's in
dustries is a -four mill, oil mill, mat
tress factory, box factory, brick plant
oil refinery, soap works, compress, ma
chine shop, numerous wholesale hous-
es, system of water works, electric
light plant, seven banking institutions,
colleges, etc. There are IA oh urches
Oklahoma has real industrial advan-
tages. This region was acquired I'M
der terms of the Louisiana purchase
and has been q. S, territory for ovel
lOOyea The Government early set
apart the land for the segregation o
the Indian tribes who had been driver
from their eastern homes.
This oil field follows the Goth nerd
ian from the Kansas line to the south
ern part of the territory, three to eigh
miles wide. There are about 800 OF
wells in the Cleveland field in Pawne'
county, and in the Usage reservation
are twelve gas wells,
Earlier than this 800 years or over
Oklahoma was visited by the Spanish
explorers in search of gold. They had
been told OF mineral wealth to be founC
in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma
Oklahoma is above the boil weeVi
belt, they claim. We are neither to,
hot nor too cold. Neither too wet, no
too dry, but like the middle sized bea
in the story, our future is just to dot
II you take your atlas you will SCI
that Oklahoma City line is near tn
centre OF the state, and a little bi
north OF parallel with Santa Fe, N. NJ.
Raleigh, N. c.. and Nashville.
saw in the News where DIR. Shirle.
saw his big fish. Wonder IL he will re
peat his fishing trip next year. IL b.
does what do you suppose he will see
One as big again? That was bi
bass, doctor, hut YOU meant to say tina
IL took IS minutes TO pass instead o
Is. eh? T. NJ Walkers fish was ais
stout and glib IL must have fooled
about and caught a dose of bad man
agement when It ran under the bridg
and knocked the brakeman of the DO.
car into the river, and supposedly at
him. saw a fish once in Haskell Co.
Okla. that could eat two bridges equa
in sizs 20 n. y. Moore's bridge.
l will close by telling you what
saw in the show last night Isl, a bal