The spectator., 1918-09-24
PROMISED LAND"
 DECLARED IRVING
GREAT ENGLISH WRITER MADE GLOWING PRE-
 DlCTION
MAS LONG SINCE FULFILLED
Reunion Visitors In September at Tut sa Will See Monument Ts irvine Who Visited
 tho Spot in 1882.

Tulsa, Okla, AuguSt-In the carly thirties, 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 il that he paused on an eminsnce about a mile northwest of the center of the present business district of Tulsa, and took eompre 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 hts sketches of the American tour:
 This seems to me to be the Prom. ised Land, flowing with milk and honey On the rich herbase of the prairies will be fed herds of cattle as inrumerable as the sands upon the seashore And the flowers that bedeck the prairies will be paradise for 6 nectar.lovins being"
 This was written October l3, 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 242T 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 promisiur by mod ern enterprise and a city of S0.e00 people The greatest agricultural section. 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 preph ecy If not disoounting it.
 One of the beauty spot. around Tulsa is Irving Circle. on the crest of a ridge north of the city now beauti' tified by handsome residences ! 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 w Tate Brady, chairman of the General Com mittee of the Confederate reunion or Eanigation In the meantime. the prophecy of the great English writer has been discounted many times.
 The comparatively ancient settle ment. of the Indians around Tulsa and throughout the state are full of in terest The footprints of the Indian have been obliteYsted by the march of modern progress. but hs name ling CTS Where he formerly had his tent ed villages. or wiKwsm abodes, cities have been built and towns laid out. His hunting grounds on the Arkansas have been converted into rich and productive farms Alfalfa has taken the place of prairie grass. and domes- tic cattle gra,e in former hsunts 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 ia the psst ten years than any other city in the great south west Y is amply able to care for a large number of visitors. such AS al 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 heen srged to come here with their 1918 meeting All who come to the reunion will be cared for in most satisfactory manner