The Carlisle independent., 1918-09-05
PROMISED LAND"
 DECLARED IRVING
GREAT ENGLISH WRITER MADE GLOWING PRE-
 DlCTiON
HAS LONG SINCE FULFILLED
Reunion Visitors In September at TuI- sa Will See Monument To Irving Who Visited
 the Spot in 1882.

Tulsa, Okla, August-In the early thireies, the renowned Washington Irv- ing came over from England and made tour of parts of the United States. His tour to the southwest included a stop among the Indians at the pres. ent location of the city of Tulsa Lo- cal history has 1t that he paused on an eminence about a mile northwest of the center of the present business district of Tulsa, and took a compre- hensive view of the valley of the Ar
 kansas spread out before him. The following description of the land. scape, and prophecy of the future wealth of the community, appears in his sketches of the American tour:
 This seems to me to be the Prom ised Land, flowing with milk and honey. On the rich herbage of the prairies will be fed herds of cattle as innumerable as the sands upon the seashore. And the Bowers that bedeck the prairies will be paradise for a nectar-loving being.'
 This was written October 13, 1892, about the time of year that the 18th annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans Association will be held this year at Tulsa. The dates of the re- union are September 24-27 inclusive, or some ten days earlier in the fall than the dates upon which Irving wrote his appreciation of the valley of the Arkansas. Visitors to the re- union will have an opportunity to en- joy the same river panorama, made more beautiful and promising by mod ern enterprise and city of S0,000 people. The greatest agricultural section of Oklahoma is along the Ar kansas, above and below the city of Tulsa, land now flowing with milk and honey, fulfilling the Irving proph ecy if not discounting it.
 One of the beauty spots around Tulsa is Irving Circle, on the crest of a ridge north of the city now beauti- tifed by handsome residences. 4 monument has ben erected there com memorating the visit and prophecy of Washington Irving made more than eighty years ago. The idea was orig mated and carried out by " Tate Brady, chairman of the General Com mittee of the Confederate reunion or ganization. In the meantime, the prophecy of the great English writer has been discounted many times
 The comparatively ancient settle ments of the Indians around Tulsa and throughout the state are full of in- terest. The footprints Of the Indian have been obliterated by the march of modern progress. but his name ling CTS. Where he formerly had his tent | ed villages, or wigwam abodes. cities have been built and towns laid out. | have been converted into rich and l productive farms. Alfalfa has taken the place of prairie grass, and domes- | tic cattle graze in former haunts of the | wild beast.
 All over Oklahoma prosperous towns and cities have been built. They are laid out along modern lines of city | building, and their people are enter prising and patriotic. Tulsa holds | first place among Oklahoma cities for enterprise and progress. The city | has grown more in the past ten years than any other city in the great south west It is amply able to care for a large number of visitors, such as at- tend the annual reunions of the | Confederate soldiers. Had it not pos sessed all of the facilities for caring | for the reunion, the Confederates | would not have been srged to come | here with their 1918 meeting All who | come to the reunion will be cared for | in most satisfactory manner