The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-29
GROWTH
IS ALL IN
THE TOWNS
LANDRES STRIcTIONS KEEP
PEOPLE FROM OKLA
HOMA FARMS
H0MESEtKERS 60 THROyGn
The STATE TO TEXAS
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Real Estate Dealers Free
Selling Town Lots TO ES
clusIOn Of Farms

The belief that statehood would
cause more rapid growth IN the
population of Oklahoma than pre-
vailed In territorial days has not been
sustained by the 1910 census figures
| giving Oklahoma a present population
| of /, 657, 1875, as against I90,39l In
1900 and l,41i,l77 at the opeclal fed
eral census taken July /, 1907 The
Increase stree 1907 has only been l7.2
per cent, the increase during the sey.
en- other years was 1873 per cent,
The increase for the decade was 96.l
| per cent,
An analysis of the Oklahoma CEN
sus figures by counties and towns
| probably will show that In the last
three yoarsthe growth in population
has been almost wholly In the towns
Real estate spectators have pr0mot'
ed the sale of town lots and the
building of new towns almost to the
exclusion Of findlng buyers ior farm
lands.
indians Can Not Sell.
In the Indian Territory part Of the
state, whore praci ciically bll realty
outside OF the Incorporated towns was
given as allotments to citizens OF
the Five Civilized Tribes. farm set.
tlcment has been retarded by the con
grcssloral restrictions thar forbade
the alienation OF certain lands from
the allottees. Spectators have man.
ipulated portions OF the in6lan lands
In such manner as 70 cauNV farmers
from outside states to hesitate,
II is believed that If these East
ern Oklahoma lands had been avail
able for the open market hundreds OF
farmers from other states would have
come and bought them. This diff
Guilty in marketing iafm lsn1s IL
Eastern Oklahoma turned the atteQ.
ton OF investors to urban enterprises
and caused a big growth III the towns
ard cities. Usage county. which Is
held mostly as alotments by the Os.
age Indians, maye be taken as an
example of the situation In Eastern
oklahoma. In 1907 the urban .opula-
ton OF Osage c0hnty vas hardly any
greater than 1900. while in 1910 II
hal increased 10 about rine thousand
The population OF the entire county
was approximately fifteen thousand
In 1907. and about twenty thousand
in 1910, the increase being consumed
by the towns.
A Drift to the Towns. Also.
hn Western Oklahoma tsere has
been no marked increase In the rur.
al population since 1907. In thai part
Of the state the original homestead
farms OF 100 acres are still intact
and in the gale OF farm lands in the
last three places with the owner, In
stead Of the latter,s selling eighty
acres to ore man or dividing his farm
between two purchasers. This how
ever, would leave two men where
there had only been one, and TO ac
count for what has become of the
other man Is . problem. Undoubtec
" there has been q considerable drfl
of Western Oklahoma farmers to the
tons. while large numbers still i'm
0ued with the pioneer spirit have
!, gone further south and west Colon
les OF settlers nave established then
selves on chap lands In Mxico. 9th
ers have gone to exas, New Mexico
and Colorado, while others have NOV
Cd to Oregon, Idaho and Washington
and to the British Northwest. Fol
several years II has ueen noticeable
that train loads OF hcmeseekers from
Northern states nave passed through
oklahoma forsTexas.