The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-09-17
PROMISED LAND"
DECLARED IRVING
GREAT ENGLISH WRITER
MADE GLOWING PRE-
DICTlON
HAS LONG SINCE FULFILLED
Heunion Visitors In September at Tul-
sa Will See Monument To
Irving Who Visited
the Spot in 1882.

Tu- a, Okla, August-In the early
Ghirties, the renowned Washington Irv-
ang came over from England and made
- TOUR or parts of the United States
his tour to the southwest included
"A stop among the Indians at the pres
'snt location OF the city OF Tulsa Lo-
cal history has Il that he paused ON
AN eminence about a mile northwest
sof the center of the present business
91istrict 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
mis- sketches OF the American tour:
This seems to me to be the Prom
ised Land, flowing with milk and
honey. On the rich herb.ge OF the
prairies will be fed herds of cattle
as innumerahle as the sands upon the
..seashore. And the flowers that bedeck
'rhe prairies will be paradise for a
nectar-lovng being"
This was written October l3, 1892,
about the time OF year that the 2Sth
annual reunion of the Confederate
Veterans Association will be held this
year at Tulsa. The dates OF the re-
ElniioD are September 2427 inclusive,
or some ten days earlier in the fall
than the dates upon which Irving
wrote his appreciation OF the valley
or 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 a city OF 10000
people. The greatest agricultural
lion OF Oklahoma is along the Ar
kansas, above and below the city OF
Tulsa, a land now flowing with milk
and honey. fulfilling the Irving proph.
ecy IL not discounting it.
One OF the beauty spots around
Tulsa is Irving Circle. on the crest OF
a ridge north OF the city now boauti-
kifed by handsome residences
monument has ben erected there com.
-msmora,ing the visit and prophecy OF
Washington Irving made more than
sighty years ago The idea was orig
inated and carried out by W. 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
aerest. The footprints OF the Indian
have been oblitcrated by the march
OF modern progress but his name ling
ers. Where he formerly had his tent.
ed villages, or wigwam sbodes cities
have been built and towns laid out
His hunting grounds on the Arkansas
have been converted into rich and
productive FERNS Alfalfa has taken
the place Of prairie grass, and domes-
tic cattle Craze in former haunts of the
wild beast
All over Oklahoma prosperous towns
rand cities have been built They are
laid out along modern lines OF city
building, ands their people are enter:
rprisfng and patriotic. Tulsa holds
sfirst 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. 1t 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 urged to come
here with their 1918 meeting. All who
come to the reunion will be cared for
3n most satisfactory manner.