The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-07
Indian
Land
in Southeastern
Oklahoma

in 1925 offered the five Southern
tribes of Indians the privilege OF
going west of the Mississippi river
and selecting their own hunting
grounds in return for lands to be
taken from them in the South.
The Indians selected what after !
ward became so well known as the
Indian Territory. They selected
it because of its fertile soil and
good water. The vast stretches OF
gently rolling prairies and timber
ed regions, with rich valleys be-
tween, traversed by innnmerable
streams of running water, with an
ample rainfall and ideal climatic
conditions, exactly suited the as
tute Indian.
Progress toward civilization was
slow among the Indian tribes, but
they made sufficient advance to
justify Uncle Sam in alloting GER
tain lands to them individually a
few years ago, which was the sig
nal for a rush of immigration into
the Territory; cities and towns
sprang up as if by magic. Vast
areas of land hitherto unproduc-
tive we're made to produce bumper
crops; oil was discovered in untold
quantities in the eastern part OF
the Territory, coal mines were de-
veloped and the Indian Territory
early in the present century be-
came a thriving, busting, busy re-
gion; and greater agricultural
commercial, industrial and mineral
development has occurred there in
the last ten years than was ever
known elsewhere on earth. This
region comprises what is now the
eastern half Of the State of Ok
lahoma.
Through education and inter-
marriage, the Indian has of late
years made rapid strides, and he is
today a taxpayer, a voter and a
busy, useful citizen; though the
Indian population in Eastern
Oklahoma cities and towns is less
than / percent of the total in.
habitants.
There are a large number of
tracts of valuable, unalloted lands,
all in the possible oil district as
laid out by geological surveys
These lands are not only in the
possible oil district, but r valua
BILE agricultural, grazing and tim
Der lands, and because of the great
advance in the price of oil, the
various oil companies are anxious
to secure leases which they can
not obtain until the lands pass
from government cotrol into in
dividual ownership.
The last Of the series of sales Of
these lands will occur in the nea,
future, in tract ranging from 4(
to 100 acres.
The land is to be sold on cas-!
payments under q very low ap
praisement, ranging from 500
up per acre. The )nds classed al
timber land contain valuable mer
charitable timber. The land class
ed as agricultural is as good farm
land as can be found anywhere
all situated near to railroads
towns and cities.
There are no homestead require
ments. The purchaser is no
required to live on the land nor II
improve ".
And you get it direct from you
own government! Have you eve
bought land from your own gov
eminent? If not, call at tn
Indian Land Schooling Car, sen
out by the McAlester Real Estat
Exchange, Of McAlester, Okla,
now in Greenwood, on the railroa'
tracks opposite Southern depo
and learn without cost how I
secure the land, how to make q
intelligent selection, and how tn
land may be developed for you
benefit.
The ear 10 open from . a. m. 4
. ,. m. daily and Sunday. Admit
sion and information free. Her
fer . few days only.