.^^ .. V ;-i7;r^^' v^ o >,0 "Til * ^ .<^^ o V o V > r • JO °%? A^ W- 3^' c O. * « o ' °'-.;^-> ,/,-:^v.\. ^ •^^0^ ^-^ *' '^o l*^i •7' t; -'.-'•* "'t'^Pw^ EASTLRN OKLAHOnA PUBLISHCO 6Y KANSAS Cmr SOUTHERN RAUMf COMPANY IMMIGRATION DEPARTM£NT '^m '^KM^M^^ ^cvsJO '^^^ 'i^ffl •rv-v*/ Rlufl's v Creek at Marble City. Oklahoma found in quantity in I^e Flore and other counties, and near Page, Okla., is a deposit of grahamite, a form of asphalt largely ^d in the manufacture of roof- ing, 23 feet in thickness. Vanadium, a mineral used in toughening steel, is found with this grahamite. Shales and clays suit- able for the manufacturfc of brick, pottery, drain tile and other purposes are abund- ant at many places, and at Spiro, Poteau, Panama, Howe, Heavener, etc., are in close , ->ximity to cheap fuel, either coal or gas or bf i. Lead and zinc ores have been found nejr Westville and Still well, Okla., and in McC irtain County near Gillham, Ark., is a miTeral belt some ten miles wide contain- in,j large veins of lead and zinc, antimony, manganese, copper and iron. None of these veins have been fully developed, but enough prospecting work has been done to demon- strate that these ores are present in com- mercial quantity The climate of Eastern Oklahoma is mild and pleasant in winter, cold weather rarely setting in before January. There is occa- sionally a snowfall, but the snow usually disappears in a few days. Sharp frosts oc- cur in January and February, and occa- sionally there will be a fs-w successive days of freezing weather, but these occur only at long intervals, and do little damage, ex- cept when they come very late in the spring. The summer months as a rule are pleasant, and the killing heat of the northern states is unknown. Heat prostrations never occur, and the nights are always cool enough to insure sleep and rest. The thirty-seventh parallel of latitude marks the extreme northern boundary of Oklahoma, while the irregular boundary on the south, marked by Red River, in places nearly reaches the thirty-third parallel. In longitude the ex- tremes are from about 94^ to 98 degrees. These boundaries indicate that Eastern Ok- lahoma is well below the line of hard freez- ing, and well east of the drought line, or the hundredth meridian. The altitude along the K. C. S. Ry. in Oklahoma varies from 490 feel to 1.135 feet In Eastern Oklahoma (formerly the In- dian Territory) there is considerable di- versity in the soils. Along the eastern border the country is more or less undu- lating and generally timbered. Further west prairie country predominates and there is more uniformity in the character of the soils. All the soils are fertile, varying ill degree according to location. The an- nual rainfall is between thirty-five and fnrtv-fivp inrhes. usually wpII distributed throughout the year. The yield per acre of wheat is as great as anywhere, and the corn produced is excellent in quality and great in yield. The native pasturage is among the best in the world, and the crops of alfalfa and other forage made each year are enormous in quantity. No better coun- try can be found for the profitable raising of live stock and in the production of fine fruit, berries and truck, Eastern Oklahoma holds its own with any other section of the country. Eastern Oklahoma offers splendid induce- ments to the stock raiser in its mild cli- mate, Its abundance of pure water and the luxuriant growth of natural grasses. For- age of every kind, including the clovers, al- falfa and cowpeas, is easily and cheaply grown. The location is such that the great markets like Kansas Ciiy, St. i^ouis, Omaha or Chicago can be quickly reached. All conditions are favorable to profitable dairying, and nowhere is there a better mar- ket for dairy products than in Oklahoma itself, for Oklahoma buys in the northern states several million dollars worth of but- ter, which should and could be made at home. There is no better location any- where for poultry and egg production. The climatic conditions are excellent, the home market very good, and the cities of Kansas City and St. Louis within a twenty-four hours' run. The principal field crops grown are wheat, which averages about 22 bushels to the acre, and yields up to forty bushels. The aver- age Oklahoma crop amounts to 21,500,000 bushels, the greater part, however, being produced in the western part of the state. Corn is the greatest crop grown in the state, yielding from 30 to 80 bushels to the acre. The annual production of the whole state is about 135,000,000 bushels, sometimes more, sometimes less. Broom corn is a great staple crop, -and is grown in many counties. Every county in the state pro- duces cotton, and the value of the crop annually is about $35,000,000. The yield is from half a bale to a bale to the acre. Spiro, Sallisaw, Poteau, on the Kansas City South- ern Railway, handle from 10,000 to 15,000 bales each. Alfalfa is grown more or less extensively on the bottom lands in all parts of Eastern Oklahoma, and is a highly valu- able crop. Cowpeas are next in favor,, and are practically grown everywhere for the purpose of securing a good forage or hay, as well as fertilizing the soil. The red rust- proof oats is a common field crop in Okla- homa, which yields from forty to eighty and sometimes 100 bushels to the acre. The grain produced is of superior quality. Sor- ghum and Kaffir corn are grown extensively in Western Oklahoma. Sorghum grown for forage in Eastern Oklahoma is harvested when in full foliage, and is helpful in mak- ing a balanced ration for live stock, in con- nection with grain and hay. Smaller quan- tities are produced for making syrup, with which most farms are supplied. Fruit and truck growing as an industry nas not been fully developed, though th« possibilities in this direction are very great. The unsettled condition of land titles de- terred many from planting orchards or making extensive permanent improvements until the Government arranged for the proper disposition of the lands. This has now been done, and there is nothing in the way now to prevent the making t erma- nent improvements. In the Arkansas Val- ley near Sallisaw, Spiro and other points convenient to railway transportation, potato culture has assumed very large proportions. The shipments of potatoes have reached 1,000 cars per annum, though the ordinary shipments, one year with another, run from 600 to 900 carloads. The crop is produced twice a year on the same land. Peach o," ThresbinA Wheat. Westville. Oklahoma Farm Scene, Ballard, Oklahoma chards of large area were planted eight or ten years ago near Sallisaw, Spiro and Po- teau, and have yielded fine crops with con- siderable regularity. All the standard va- rieties of apples yield well, and the culti- vation of strawberries is becoming an im- portant business. Watermelons, and canta- loupes yield bountiful crops, and are very profitable. Most railway stations ship melons and cantaloupes in carload lots. Fruit and truck growers' associations have been formed at many points, and more truck than ever before is now produced, consist- ing in the main of sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, onions, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, asparagus, radishes, tomatoes, egg plant, beans, carrots, etc. The cultivation of peanuts is receiving considerable attention. It is a crop which will grow on any kind of a soil, and will yield from 50 to 75 bushels to the acre, sell- ing ordinarily for 50 cents to $1 per bushel. The crop is frequently grown for hog food, acting incidentally as a fertilizer in the same manner as does the cowpea and other legumes. Harvestinii Wheat, M^estville, Oklahoma Making Hay at Heavcner. Oklahoma Indian Lands Western Oklahoma was opened to settle- ment by whites prior to 1900, and was a well settled territory before an agreement was reached by the National Government w^ith the Five Civilized Tribes in the In- dian Territory, concerning the allotment of tribal lands among the members of the tribes. In 1904 a final conclusion was reached, and the allotment of land to indi- viduals began. The allotments were com- pleted in 1906, and the total acreage of tribal lands allotted to individual Indians was 19,511,889 acres, leaving a surplus of 1,600,000 acres, which was not allotted, 444,- 000 acres of coal lands segregated for fu- ture disposition, and a large forest reserve. The allotted lands were under certain re- strictions pertaining to the sale thereof, but most of these have since been removed. Sales of allotted lands are now made once or twice a month through the U. S. Indian agent at Muskogee, and lists of lands of- fered for sale can be obtained by address- ing the U. S. Indian agent. The residue of the Indian lands, 1,600,000 acres, more or less, the unallotted lands are now being sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. The title to all of this unallotted land is perfect. The chain of title runs from the grant of the United States to the Indian tribe, and the convey- ance of the tribe by its chief or governor, with the official approval of the Secretary of the Interior to the purchaser. Most of this land is in small tracts, but there are also many large tracts, particularly in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. These lands are being sold at auction to the high- est bidder. During the month of February, 1912, the Carter-Owen Bill was passed by Congress, authorizing the sale of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands after proper classification and appraisement has been made. The sales will be at auction and will be held under the rules and regu- lations provided by the Secretary of the In- terior. All mineral rights are reserved for the benefit of the tribes. The commissioner of the Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, Okla., will be pleased to furnish any de- sired information. Land values in Oklahoma along the line of the Kansas City Southern Railway range in price from six to forty dollars per acre, as some of the lands are highly improved. The towns of Westville. Stilwell, Marble City, Sallisaw, Gans, Spiro, Poteau, Howe, Page, Heavener, are surrounded by lands' of good quality, and a homeseeker will not go amiss by visiting them and inspecting the adjacent country. Some Good Oklahoma Tow^ns on the Kansas City Southern Railway Ballard, Oklahoma. — This is a new town in Adair County, platted in 1910, is 238 miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and 21 miles north of Stilwell, Okla., The popu- lation is 300 and the altitude above sea level 974 feet. There are in the town at present two general stores, hotel, postoffice, a saw mill, four charcoal kilns, stock pens and a public school. Railroad ties, cattle and hogs, cotton and about 60 car loads of charcoal per month are the principal products shipped from this station. During 1911 there were erected in Ballard, 14 new dwellings, costing $4,200, and four business buildings, costing $1,600. The country surrounding Ballard is well adapted to general farm- ing, stock raising and the cultivation of fruit, berries and commercial truck. Fine, large springs abound in the vicinity and the landscape is unusually attractive. Fifty new families have settled in the vicinity during 1911 and have improved 400 acres at a cost of $10,000. There were planted in orchard 200 acres; in truck, 150; in strawber-ies, 50 acres. Total acreage in cultivation, about 8,000 acres. The shipments of surplus products amounted to three car loads of wheat, 10 bales cotton, 15,000 pounds poultry. 1,000 cases of eggs, 40 car load's of cattle, 5 of sheep, 32 of hogs, 45 of mining timber, 25 of railroad ties, 56 of charcoal, 2,000 pounds of hides and 10,000 pounds of dairy pro- ducts. Land Values. — $10 to $40 per acre. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Re- tail merchants in various lines and pro- fessional men. Bunch, Okla., in Adair County, 272 miles from Kansas City, Mo. Altitude, 772 feet; population, 125. An immense bed of marble is situated a few hundred yards from this station. There are in Bunch, two hardwood saw mills, a grist mill, Methodist church, public school and three mercantile firms. Lumber and live stock, about 300 car loads of the former and ten of the latter, poultry, eggs, corn, farm produce are the principal shipments from this point. Cans, Okla., is in Sequoyah County, 299 miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and has 500 inhabitants. It is dependent for the present business entirely on its agricultural re- sources, which, however, are very abundant. Owing to the fact that the land sales in the vicinity have been under restrictions very little progress in development could be made until within the past year. Dur- ing 1910 one hundred new people set- tled in the town and twelve new dwell- ings, one business building, costing about Charcoal Ovens> Ballard. Oklahoma « HP' ^!~ ^ '1 ! fc_ Ipt-^ BPliiflH^ ^■' ■■ ■'.|7iiii-ri.-^- ""''*'^™ aiyiibdi^ zS^KtJM '■ '.'mJ-M ^^^i P ggg. HM Hp^?^ Brin^inft in the Cotton, Heavener, Oklahoma $7,000, and a new school house costing $8,898, were erected. Two new mercantile stocks were located and a new cotton gin was estab- lished, the latter at a cost of $1,500. The ad- jacent country received an immigration of twenty-five families, who purchased one thousand acres of land and placed five hun- dred acres of new land in cultivation at a cost of about $5,000. The lands in the vicinity of Gans are highly fertile and produce abundantly all staple crops, such as corn and cotton. Of cotton, the annual production is 900 bales. Potatoes are a staple crop here, producing twice during the year, the shipment varying from 5 to 15 carloads per annum. Canta- loupes, melons, strawberries, poultry and eggs, hardwood lumber and railroad ties, are among the surplus products which are ship- ped to the larger cities. Land Values. — $10 to $30 per acre. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Cloth- ing store, telephone exchange, printing oflace. Good opening for electric light plant, town growing rapidly. Coal deposits with- in 3 or 4 miles, which should be mined. Ad- dress Citizens Bank, Gans, Okla. Heavener, Oklahoma. — The present pop- ulation of Heavener is about 3,000. It is In Le Flore County and has been recently made a division terminus of the Kansas City Southern Railway. It is the junction point of this railway with its Waldron branch, the Arkansas Western Railroad, running easterly thirty-three miles through an ex- tensive coal belt and a fine fruit and truck country. The population has nearly trebled, within a year and since June, 1910, there have been erected 275 new dwellings, costing $160,000: twenty-one new brick Railroad Varda. Heavener. Oklahoma iBirdseye Vie-H' of Heavener, Oklahoma business buildings, costing $95,000. A munici- pal water works and electric light system costing $75,000, has been installed, and a warehouse, steam laundry and postoffice building are the latest acquisitions. The improvements made by the Kansas City Southern Railway exceed in cost $300,000. About $100,000 has been invested in mercan- tile ventures, the latest being the Pierce- McNeeley Grocery Company, $30,000; the Heavener Supply Company, $20,000, and the Grand Leader Dry Goods Company, !fl0,000. The Heavener Oil & Gas Company is mak- ing test borings in the vicinity and one coal company is operating a mine two miles from town. The improvements made by the Kansas City Southern Railway ('o. are extensive and include new round houses, repair shops, office buildings, depot, em- ployes' hotel, and several miles of new yard trackage. In a business way the town has two sub- stantial banks, which doubled their capital recently, two cotton gins, one hardwood mill and numerous mercantile es'ablish- ments, carrying stocks valued at more than a third of a million dollars. The town has a Baptist and Methodist church, fud ex- cellent school facilities, large commodious, well equipped school buildings and a thor- oughly competent corps of teachers. One new school building, costing $30,000, has recently been completed. The country nrijacent to Heavener is more or less hilly and in places mountainous, Tbpro is. however, ranch fine tillable land ar'l this is exceptionally fertile. Corn, cot- ton, potatoes, oats, forage of all kinds are easily and abundantly grown, and fruits, berries and truck are profitably produced. The hillsides yield grass abundantly, af- fording excellent pasturage about ten months in the year. The water supply is excellent in quality and abundant, there being numer- ous springs and small rapid flowing streams. The indications are that artesian water can be had in many places by boring for it. The town and a large area of the adjacent coun- try is underlaid with a fine vein of coal, which, in some places, is being mined for local consumption. The quality of this coal is excellent and there are good prospects for developing a great coal mining industry. Much fine timber, such as oak, pine, gum, hickory, abounds to the south, southeast and east of the town and several lumber mills are in operation. In agricultural lines the country is at- tractive and good tillable lands are excep- tionally cheap. The shipments of surplus products consist of cotton, poultry and eggs, hides and furs, hardwood and pine lumber and railway ties. For raising cat- tle, horses, mules, hogs and sheep no better facilties can be found than are available here. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Plumb- ing shop, sheet metal worker, electrical supply store, good lawyer. Good open- ing for a brick and tile plant, ice plant and cold storage, furniture factory, chair factory, cooperage, fruit box factory, coal mines, stone crusher. Available for manu- facture, large quantities of ash. oak. elm. hickory and gum timber. Address Secre- tary 10,000 Club. Heavener. Okla. Street Scene, Poteaii, Oklahoma Howe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma. This town is at the crossing of the Kansas City Southern and the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf branch of the Rock Island Ry. System, 333 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The population in 1912, was about 900, and most of the business done in town is mercantile, the handling of cotton, live stock and the mining and transport of coal. The company surrounding Howe is open prairie limited in area by the Sugar Loaf Mountains. The lands in the vicinity are claimed to be of exceptional fertility, particularly so in the Horse Shoe Bend of Poteau River and the Sugar Loaf Valley. Nearly all the country surrounding Howe is underlaid with coal deposits of excellent quality and there are several large coal mines and a large coke plant in the immediate vicinity. In Howe there are the State Bank and Trust Company, a large commodious hotel, a flour and grist mill, four cotton gins, a bottling works, a public school building, cost $12,000, telephone service, three or four churches and from ten to fifteen mercantile estab- lishments. Four or five substantial brick business buildings and a hotel costing $50,000 have been erected during the past two years, as well as ten or fif- teen dwellings, costing from $500 to $3,000 each. The temporary segregation of the coal lands in this vicinity by the U. S. Govern- ment, has somewhat retarded immigration to this point and intending farmers have found it difficult to secure suitable lands. As the Government has now arranged to sell the surface of segregated lands, splendid opportunities will be available for thp agri- cultural home seeker. The shipments of surplus products amount to about 1,000 bales of cotton, 20 to 30 car loads of live stock, several car loads of Irish potatoes, hardwood lumber and poultry and eggs. About fifty new families have settled in the adjacent country during the past year. Westville. Oklahoma Business Opportunities. — Wanted: A cannery, bakery. Good opening for a coke manufacturing industry, coal mines ; an elec- tric light plant would pay well. Address State Bank & Trust Company, Howe, Okla. IVIarble City, Oklahoma. — The things that go to make a prosperous town are al- most infinite in variety. Sometimes one sin- gle industry is sufficient, but frequently a variety of resources is the stimulus to growth. Marble City, Okla., has at the pres- ent time 750 inhabitants, and its principal dependence is on the agricultural resources of the adjacent country, the growing of corn, cotton, forage and live stock. Its principal asset is, however, an enormous marble de- posit, situated about three-quarters of a mile from town. This deposit, probably the larg- est in the United States, has been most thor- oughly tested and has been found to with- stand a compression of 14,270 pounds per square inch. It has been drilled into to a depth of 142 feet and is of excellent quality from top to bottom. The marble is found in five distinct colors and each takes a high polish and is pleasing to the eye. The supply is practically unlimited and the demand for a good marble is practically of the same di- mensions. Several Marble Companies were organized and the quarries were for some time scientifically operated. The financial disturbances of 1907 and the difficulties of getting the marole to the railway tracks made the industry temporarily unprofitable. Since then the companies have been reor- ganized and the difficulties of transportation ganized and the difficulties incident to transportation have also been overcome and there is nothing in the way now- Marble Quarries. Marble City. Oklahoma Street Scene, Poteau, Oklahoina of the development of an enormous indus- try. It is thought that when the industry is fully established, there will be ample employment for more than 500 men. The output of dressed and polished marble dur- ing the year 1911 consisted of 70 car loads, valued at $210,000. The country surrounding Marble City is agricultural and can be safely classed as a fine fruit-growing section. Not only is it a fine apple and peach country, but all the small fruits can be successfully and profit- ably grown. In the valleys and bottom lands along Sallisaw Creek and other streams, corn, potatoes and cotton are more or less extensively grown. During the year ending June 30, 1910, fifty new people have settled in the town and several new dwellings have been built Fifteen new families have settled on adja- cent farms, and 400 acres of new land have been improved at a cost of $10,000. Three new business houses, with stocks of $19,000, and the Citizens State Bank, capital $10,000, have been established within the year. Among the local manufacturing entcprises is a hardwood saw mill, the Kelley Cotton Gin, with a capacity of forty bales per day and an annual output of 700 bales, a grist mill, printing office and a newspaper. There are also in town twelve mercantile firms, a bakery, hotel, church and good public schools. Marble City is in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, has an altitude of 729 feet and is 281 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. Gaa Well. Poteau, Oklahoma m iinflBifl i ^ ^^' i -'^ "^^"^■v 1 L._ ■ .^ ri, ;** '.'IBm! ,„, ..,.,. ^ ^ ••» Tr— ^ r J p !^ * ^^1?. iiid T^ J_' . _ ' flW^^' ■i^»^^: j 1 1 --^-yi r 1 ■' .■=» ^jgrsMi!^-!^ rl 1* 1 ■ '^fls ipii^ Packing Peaches, Sallisavr, Oklahoma Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Elec- tric light plant, lawyer, harness shop, furni- ture store, produce dealer, laundry, any kind of factory working hardwoods, feed store, shoe shop, large drug store, large dry goods store, physician. Address Agent K. C. S., Marble City, Okla. Page, Oklahoma, is in Le Flore County, south of Kansas City, Mo., 355 miles and has an altitude of 918 feet above sea level. The population is 175, many of whom are engaged in lumbering. In the vicinity are several coal outcroppings and an enormous bed of Grahamite, a substance similar to asphalt. In the town are two mercantile establishments, two hotels and a public school. The Buschaw-Blackwell Lumber Com- pany operates a saw and planing mill, and in addition to the products of this mill large shipments are made of railroad ties and hardwood lumber. The present cotton production is from fifty to seventy-five bales per annum. Owing to the restriction placed on the sale of Indian lands the settlement of the adjacent country has been slow here- tofore. New settlers are now coming in and more or less agricultural development is taking place. The agent of the K. C. S. Ry. can supply further information. Panama, Oklahoma. — This is the crossing point of the Kansas City Southern and the Midland Valley Railways and has a popula- tion of 500. It is south of Kansas City, Mo., 317 miles and has an altitude of 453 feet. Coal mining is the principal local indus- try. The surrounding country is agri- Cotton Gin, Salliaaw, Oklahoma Good Fishing on SallisaiMr Creek cultural and is well farmed, produc- ing annually 7,000 to 8,000 bales of cot- ton and considerable livestock and grain. The institutions of the town consist of a cotton compress, cotton gin, a grist mill, public schools, churches. Bank of Panama, with a capital of $10,000, two hotels and about five substantial mercantile establish- ments. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Dry goods store, shoe shop, furniture store, hardware store, harness shop, bakery, clothing store, implement store, jewelry store, notion store, newspaper, physician, dentist, livery barn, cotton seed oil mill. Good opening for a brick plant, flour and grist mill, coal and oil development. Ad- dress Bank of Panama for information. Poteau, OKIahoma. — Where tne city of fo- teau, Okla., now stands there was thir- teen years ago a cotton patch near the base of a mountain. The National Government platted a townsite there and sold the lots. The Kansas City Southern and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railways crossed at this point, and the authorities decided that it was a good location for a town. Since that town lot sale there has been a steady, cer- tain and healthy growth; the citizenship was energetic and enterprising and today numbers 3,300. It is the county seat of Le Flore County, which has within its borders over 200 miles of railway. It is the center of the Oklahoma and Arkansas Coal District and is underlaid with coal and surrounded by coal deposits. Coal mining is the most important moustry at Poteau. Three exten- sive mines are operated in the immediate vicinity, two of which are within the city limits. When in full operation the average daily output is 100 carloads. The clay found in connection with the coal is excep- tionally good for the manufacture of vitri- fied brick. Immense beds of shale are also in evidence and some of them are used In the manufacture of paving brick, sewer pipe and tiling, etc. The surrounding country abounds in val- uable hardwoods, including oak, hickory, ash, gum, elm, sycamore, etc., affording good opportunities for the establishment of wood- working plants. There are in Poteau a spoke and handle factory employing 75 men; a pressed brick and tile plant, with a daily capacity of 20,000 bricks; a planing mill em- ploying 100 men, an electric light and ice plant, a municipal water works system, and several coal mines. The monthly payroll of Poteau is about $50,000. The assessed val- uation of taxable property in the city is be- tween one-half and three-quarters of a mil- lion dollars, and the municipality is entirely Marketing Cotton. Salliaaw^. Oklahoma ^ A -^^ ramr mm 1 m^tSKmKBi m ' ssiia. Cotton Seed Oil Mill, Salllsaw, Oklahoma free from debt. The city has two prosperous banks, some twenty-five or thirty mercantile houses carrying large stocks, four hotels, a fine public school building, seven religious congregations which have buildings of their own, two lumber yards and nearly all the minor industries common to a town of its population. During the year 1910 and 1911 there were constructed thirty-two new dwellings, costing $25,000; ten brick busi- ness buildings, costing $30,000; a new ice plant, $20,000; a theater, $20,000; water works and sewers, $40,000; a cotton gin, $600; a canning plant, $500, and improve- ments on existing plants, $25,000. Much work was also done in grading and paving the streets. Eight new mercantile firms with stocks valued at $31,000 have estab- lished themselves, and three gas wells have been bored which have a daily capacity of 14,000,000 cubic feet and a pressure of 325 pounds to the square inch. On the farms adjacent to town 260 new fam- ilies have been settled and of these 150 pur- chased farm lands comprising 5,400 acres. Sixty new farms have been cleared and 2,100 acres of new land have been brought under cultivation. The rolling hill and prairie lands imme- diately surrounding the town are as good as can be had for fruit and truck farming. Irish potatoes are grown twice a year on the same land and very large shipments are annually made of potatoes, as well as peaches, berries, cantaloupes, melons, poul- try and eggs. The receipts for cotton ship- ped run between half a million and three- quarter million dollars. In the bottom lands of Poteau River and Brazil Creek great crops of corn and cotton and forage are ob- tained. Crops of 60 to 80 bushels of corn, or one bale of cotton to the acre are not uncommon. Wheat and small grain yield as well here as elsewhere. Marketinii Cotton, Sallisa>v, Oklahoma Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Groc- ery stores, gents furnishing store, hard- ware and furniture store, hotel, notion or racket store, hide and fur buyer, produce dealer, tailor. Good openings for brick and tile plant, foundry, machine shop, furniture factory, wagon works, fruit box factory, flour and grist mill, sawmill, chair factory, coop- erage, fruit evaporators, coal mines. Raw material of every kind abundant and cheap gas and coal mined at home for fuel. Ad- dress Business Men's League, Poteau, Okla. Redlands, Oklahoma. — This village is sit- uated near the Arkansas river in Sequoyah County and has 100 inhabitants, most of whom are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The village is 306 miles south of Kansas City and has an altitude of 455 feet. The country surrounding it is very fertile and produces abundantly of corn, potatoes, cot- ton and livestock of which large shipments are made. In the village are five mercan- tile establishments and a cotton-wood saw mill. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Bank, drug store, physician. There is consider- able timber that could be manufactured. Address Agent K. C. S. Ry. for information. Sallisaw, Oklalioma. — This is the county seat of Sequoyah County, Okla., and has a population of about 4,400 people. It was platted about thirteen years ago at the junction of the Kansas City Southern and Missouri Pacific Railways. Its location is 291 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. Salli- saw has made a steady growth from year to year, until the tribal lands were allotted to the individual members of the tribes, when a more rapid growth became possible. In the last three or four years the growth has been very rapid. There are in Sallisaw about seventy-five mercantile establishments five hotels, four restaurants, five cotton gins, one cottonseed oil mill and three pros- perous banks. It has stores in which stocks of $25,u00 to $40,000 are carried and a busi- ness of $125,000 is annually transacted. A majority of the leading stores do a business of $40,000 to $80,000 a year. It is a modern little city, having a water works system, electric light plant, telephone service, well graded streets and paved sidewalks, etc., and is expanding in all directions. The two trunk lines of railroad passing through Sallisaw transport annually from 12,000 to 15,000 bales of cotton. During 1910 this cotton was worth and sold for $75 per bale, bringing to this city the sum of over $1,000,000. Now this is for the cotton crop, one item only. Among the products of agri- culture shipped last year were also large consignments of peaches, cantaloupes, straw- berries, poultry, eggs, potatoes and corn, worth approximately $52,000, to which should be added the value of 20 carloads of cattle, two of horses and mules and three of fat hogs. There are in the city four churches of different Protestant denominations, a new five-grade school building costing $30,000, and another school building for the younger children. The school attendance is about 900, and fifteen teachers are permanently employed. During 1910 and 1911, the city improvements consisted of eighty-five new dwellings, costing $100,000; eleven modem business buildings, costing $60,000; a new factory, $8,200; two new churches, new postoffice, two lodge halls, theater, public amusement park, public school building, $25,000; water works system, $60,000, and enlargements — and miscellaneous improve- ments, costing $6,000. ^ Amoa Brothers Handle Factory. Poteao, Oklahoma Among the new mercantile and manufac- turing enterprises are a clothing house with a stock valued at $10,000; a dry goods house $8,000; a general merchandise stock, $20,- 000; six other stocks, valued at $10,000; a lumber mill, cotton gin, planing mill and a handle factory. The capital stock of the three banks is $30,000. Sallisaw offers many attractions to the homeseeker, and a man looking for a new location makes a bad mistake if he fails to examine the adjacent country and the city. Lands are very good and very cheap, the climate is everything that can be desired, public health is good and the people are progressive and wide awake. The Sallisaw Commercial Club will cheerfully furnish any desired information about town and country. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Hard- ware and implement store, shoe store, notion or racket store, meat market, coal yard. Good opening for a broom factory, tannery, brick and tile plant, flour mill, creamery, sawmill and coal mines. An abundance of coal and hardwoods. Address Sallisaw Bank & Trust Co., Sallisaw, Okla. Shady Point, OklaJioma. — This is a coal mining town at the junction of the K. C. S. Railway and the Poteau Valley Railroad. The town has a population of 300 and is 320 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The sur- rounding country is fertile and produces annually from 600 to 800 bales of cotton and from 25 to 50 carloads of livestock, most- ly cattle and hogs. The Sequoyah Coal Min- ing Co., operating at Sutter, Okla., ships daily from six to ten car loads of coal. In the town are three substantial mercantile firms, a cotton gin, grist mill. Baptist church and public school. Land Values.— $10 to $30 per acre. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Hard- ware store, restaurant. Opening for coal mine operators. Address Agent K. C. S. Ry., Shady Point, Okla. Spiro, Oklahoma. — The city of Spiro is south of Kansas City, Mo., 312 miles, and west of Fort Smith, 16 miles. It is the junc- tion point of the main line of the Kansas City Southern Railway and its Fort Smith branch. The population for 1912 is given at 2,600, showing an increase of 140 over the preceding year. During 1911-12 fifteen new dwellings and two substantial business buildings were erected at a cost of $34,500. preceding year. During the year fifteen new dwellings and one substantial business ^uilding were erected at a cost of $18,000. The municipality also installed a water works plant costing $40,000. and improved ItB electric light plant and city park at a cost of $8,000. In the adjacent country one hun- dred and ten families have settled on farms and have brought under cultivation 2, SOU acres of new land, involving an outlay of $30,000 for improvements. The auuual production of cotton in the immediate vicinity of Spiro is from 10,000 to 12,000 bales, and large quantities from oth- er places are also handled here. Potatoes are grown on a large scale, the annual ship- ments varying from 100 to 600 carloads. The bottom lands near Spiro are most excellently adapted to the cultivation of these crops. The hill lands or uplands are good for gen- eral farming operations and also splendidly adapted to the cultivation of fine fruits and commercial truck. A few miles west of Spiro are large areas of prairie lands, well adapted to general farming and stock raising. Along the Arkansas River and north, east and south of Spiro there is much good oak, hickory and cottonwood timber, which could be manufactured. A good quality of coal is convenient to town, but is being mined only in a small way. In the township there are 6,000 acres of coal land and one vein between four and one-half and five feet thick is known to extend to within one-half mile of the city. Coal is being hauled direct from the mines, three to five miles away. With- in a half mile of town is an inexhaustible deposit of fine brick shale, and building stone of excellent quality is found on the edge of town. There are in Spiro two large cotton gins and a compress, two prosperous banks, two churches, an opera house, local and long distance telephone service, a brick plant, some thirty mercantile establishments, the largest of which do a business of $60,000 to $75,000 annually. Land Values, — $20 to $50 per acre. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Shoe shop, furniture store, implement and hard- ware store, harness shop, jewelry store, tin shop. Democratic newspaper, axe handle factory, chair and table factory, physician, lawyer, dentist. Good opening for a can- nery, creamery, sawmill, fruit evaporator, cooperage, wheelbarrow factory, ice plant. Coal and cheap gas for fuel. Hardwoods of all kinds in abundance. Address Choctaw Commercial Bank, Spiro, Okla. Stiiwell, Oklahoma. — This town is ^aa miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and lies on the slope of the Boston Mountains, be- ing 400 feet higher than any other town within forty miles. The population, 1910. was 2,300. The business part of the town is substantially built of brick and stone, the residence portion having many neat and at- tractive frame buildings. There are in Stil- well two banks, fifteen or twenty mercantile establishments, hotels, schools, churches, and several large cotton gins. The town haa been visited by several disastrous fires with- in the past few years, but the new buildings have been constructed of fire-proof ma- terials. Stilwell has enjoyed a steady growth since the platting of the town. Since the allot- ment of the Indian lands to individuals the growth has been more rapid and during the past two years there were ei'ected sixty new dwellings, costing $110,800, and four- teen business buildings, costing $60,000. Among the new structures are two factory buildings, costing $10,000; two theaters, $15,000; water works plant, $25,000; electric light plant, $25,000; a steam laundry, bot- tling works, hotel, $6,000. Four new mer- chants established themselves in business. Fifteen new families established their homes on farm lands in the adjacent coun- try and have placed in cultivation 1,600 acres of new land at a cost of $6,000. The shipments of surplus products for 1910 amounted to 800 bales of cotton, 1,800 pounds of poultry. 200 cases of eggs, 10 car- loads of cattle, 12 carloads of hogs, 1 car- load of sheep and 35 carloads of hardwood lumber and railroad ties. Two new mer- chants, with stocks valued at $5,000, lo- cated in town during the year. The surrounding country is rich agricul- tural land, adapted to the standard field crops, as well as to the raising of commer- cial fruit and truck. Corn produces from forty to seventy-five bushels and wheat 20 to 25 bushels to the acre. The ordinary yield of cotton is from one-half to one bale per acre. Tree fruits and berries yield handsome crops and with poultry and eggs will become an important item of income. The country is well grassed and forage of all kinds is easily grown. The water sup- ply is excellent, and the climate such that stock raising can be carried on very profit- ably. All conditions are favorable to the profitable production of beef, pork, horses and mules and poultry. Good oak timber and other hardwoods are abundant near Stilwell and there are good openings for a wood-working industry. Among the available resources which in time will be developed are hardwood lum- ber, building stone, zinc and lead ores, com- mercial fruit and truck growing, the rais- ing of live stock and general farming. Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Cloth- ing store, dentist. Good opening for a cannery, wagon factory. Address Bank of Stilwell, Stilwell, Okla. Watts, Adair County.— South of Kansas City, Mo., 236 miles, altitude 96 feet, popu- lation 250. A new division terminal of the K. C. S. Ry., which is rapidly growing into a prosperous business town. In addition to the railway improvements, exceeding in cost $175,000, comprising yard tracks, en- gine house, hotel, yard offices, etc., there were constructed by private enterprise 25 new dwellings, costing $20,000; 10 busi- ness buildings, costing $10,000; two hotels, costing $17,000. Numerous new cottages are in course of construction. All the im- provements have been made in the course of a year. The surrounding country is well suited for stock raising, poultry raising, fruit, berry and truck growing and for general farming operations. The adjacent country is receiving many new settlers and new- farms are being opened up. Westville, Okialioma. — Westville, Adair County, is a crossing point on the Kansas City Southern Railway and a branch of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway. It is 244 miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and has an altitude of 1,137 feet. The location is a very good one, owing to the very large scope of fertile country surrounding it. The present population is about 1,200. The town is now rapidly growing, because the adjacent lands are now in market and can be had at a moderate price. During the year 1910, twenty new dwellings, costing $18,000, two hotels, $4,000, an electric light plant, $4,000, were completed, and bonds for a water works plant to cost $28,000 were voted. Concrete sidewalks have been ordered for all parts of town. Forty-five new families settled in the ad- jacent country and purchased 1,100 acres of farm lands. Twenty-seven new farms were opened during the year, and 980 acres of new land were put under cultivation at an outlay of $20,000. The shipments of sur- plus products from Westville amounted dur- ing the past year to thirty carloads of wheat. 5,000 bales of cotton, worth about $75 per bale, 20.000 pounds of poultry, 2,000 cases of eggs, 44 carloads of cattle 15 car- loads of hogs, 5 carloads of oats, 8 of apples, and 30,000 pounds of hides, pelts and furs. Nearly all the business buildings in West- ville are constructed of brick and stone, and in addition to some fifteen or twenty mercantile establishments, the town has a large modern flour mill, an electric light plant, two banks, a large modern school building and several churches. The farm lands at Westville are fertile. the country gently undulating and quite level in places. Good water is abundant everywhere. The corn production is from forty to sixty bushles per acre, that of wheat 15 to 25 bushels, and oats, small grain and forage yield fine crops. Cotton is grown ex- tensively, and there is enough grown of corn, wheat and cotton to maintain a flour mill and grain elevator and several large cotton gins. Stock raising can be carried on economic- ally and profitably, as the country is well grassed and supplied with nutritious forage grasses. Beef, pork and mutton can be pro- duced here at a minimum cost. Owing to the altitude and most excellent quality of the water there is hardly ever any disease among the live stock. Some feeding must be done in January, February and March, but the cost is very small compared with the cost of feeding in more northerly lati- tudes. Poultry and eggs are important sources of income, and being convenient to the great markets like Kansas City and St. Louis yield a handsome profit. The commercial fruit and truck industry has not been fully developed, because until quite recently only a small acreage of suit- able lands could be had for this purpose. Apples, peaches, cherries and strawberries are produced in considerable quantity and have yielded a good profit. The People's Bank, Westville, Okla., will be pleased to furnish any desired information. Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. Homeseekers' Round Trip Tickets To points in Oklahoma and return, limited to twenty-five days, are on sale at very low rates, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, from points in Illinois, Wis- consin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, while from points east to Illinois, tne rates are slightly higher. Stop-overs, on round trip homeseekers' tickets to Oklahoma points on K. C. S. Ry. will be allowed on both going and return trip at any point on K. C. S. Ry. soutk of Jaudon, Mo. For rates, address S. G. Warner, G. P. A., Kansas City, Mo. Household Goods and Elmi^rant Movables The term "Household Goods and Emigrant Movables" will apply to property of an intending settler only, and will include tools and implements of calling (including hand and foot power machines, but not including machinery driven by steam, electric- ity, gas, gasoline, compressed air or water, other than agricultural implements) ; second- hand store fixtures of merchants; second-hand vehicles (not including self-propelling vehicles, hearses and similar vehicles); livestock, not to exceed ten (10) head (sub- ject to declared valuations and premium charges); trees and shrubbery; lumber and shingles; fence posts, one portable house; seeds for planting purposes; feed for lire stock while in transit, and household goods, but does not include general merchandise, nor any articles which are intended for sale or speculation. Shipments of emigrant movables must contain a sufficient quantity ot furniture to make the intention of a permanent residence at destination evident. Information about Freight rates can 1) > obtained by addressing R. R. Mitchell, General Freight Agent, Kansas City, Mo. Immigration Department, K. C. S. Ry. WM. NICHOLSON, Immigration Agent Kansas City, Mo. J. HOLLISTER TULL, Agriculturist Mena Ark. KANSAS CITY SOtTIlEKN RAILWAY CO. TKXAHKANA & 1 OHT SMITH RAILWAY CO. ARKANSAS WKSTERN RAILWAY CO. J. A. KDSON President J. F. HOLDEN Vice-President R. J. McCARTY Vice-President and Auditor S. Q. WARNER ; General Passenger and Ticket Agent R. R. MITCHELL General Freight Agent GENERAL OFFICES. KANSAS CITY, MO. BEAUMONT, T£X. J. L. BOYD General Agent R. A. MORRIS (T. & Ft. S. R'y) City Pass, and Ticket Agent CHICAGO, ILL., niarquette Bids. J. o. HAMILTON General Agent DALLAS, TEX., Slanehter BIdiC. A. CATUNA ■ • General Cotton Agent HENRY BROWN General Agent PORT SMITH, ARK. H. N. HALL General Agent K. DICKERSON City Pass, and Ticket .Vgent HOUSTOX, TE:X., Commercial Bank Balldlns. G. M. RILEY General Agent JOPL.IN, MO. C. W. NUNN General Agent iJ. JOSEPH Depot Ticket Agent ij. S. HALL City Solicitor and Ticket Agent KANSAS CITY, MO.. 911 Walnut Street. J.. V. BEATTY General Agent •J. A. McM ANUS City Pass, and Ticket Agent M. O. BELLIS Depot Ticket Agent LAKB CHARLES, LA., 824 Ryan Street F. R. HASKILL Commercial Agent J. R. MUSTAIN City Pass, and Ticket Agent MENA, ARK. W. C. B. ALLEN General Agent J. HOLLISTKR TULI Vgriculturalist .MOW ORLEANS. LA., Gil Hibernia Bank Bldg. J. M. CARRlERE General Agent NBW YORK, 3«6 Broadway. .1. P. KNIGHT General Agent I'lTTSBUltG, PA., 142!» New Oliver Bldg. D. S. ROBERTS General Agent I'URT ARTUtR, TEX. C. W. LITHERLANl) City Passongoi- and Ticket .V^ent ST. LOUIS, MO , Cliemical Bldg. T. E. HAYWARD, Jr General Agent SAN ANTONIO, TEX , 314 Gunter Bldg C. M. WILKINSON Commercial Agent SlIltEVCPORT, LA., Caddo Hotel Bldg. A. 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