Cou. P. Cilrrnn Printing CQ., St. Louis. I Monarch Pneumatic Tools, )#Ia CA'R ROOFS. RIVETERS, 6 )$I Murphy American Outside Steel Car Roofs. DRILLS, 8 Murphy Improved Winslow (inside) Car Roofs. CHIPPING HAMMERS, 63 FLUE CUTTERS, .,.2 Old Style Winslow Car Roofs. I ETC. '2 Old Style Chicago (corrugated sheets) Car Roofs. 1 SOLD BY- STANDARD RAILWAY EQUIPMENT COMPANY, ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. aldwin Locomotive Works i LOCOMOT~VESOF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

I SINGLE STEAM, EXPANSION COMPRESSED Ir ,. -:- AND Ale COMPOUND. AND ELECTRIC.

i L. - I Burnham, Williams & Go., Philadelphia, Pa., U. 8. A.

Brink&X SC The Beer That Made MiIwaukee Famous The main difference between good beer and bad beer is in the &er=effect. You notice that pure beer, Schlitz beer, does not make you bilious. Pure beer is good for you; bad beer is unhealthful. You may be absolutely certain of its healthfulness I WHEN YOU DRINK SCHLITZ BEER. This 184b. Car Mwer The Double Glutch Will do the work of a gang of men, saving its cost in a short while. JIANUFACTURED BY Walter A. Zelnicker Supply Co. (Dept. F) 1 RAILWAY, MILL AND FACTORY SUPPLIES. IW SAINT LOUIS. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

VOLUME11. DECEMBER, 1903. NUMBER11

CONTENTS. - The World''s Fair in Forty 3Ii1111tes-Illnstrated, . After, . Tah leqnah, 1)ixon's To!wato ~kiiistr;, : ;\Iempliis, t hc Qlieeu City of the Soutli-Ill~~strated, Silk Cultur e iri Texas, . Rich Landsf iu Missouri ope11 fo'r I+ee ~ett~eAent,: The Southviest Alielcl. . The Government Fisheries at Neoslio, Missouri, . Valley Park:-Illustrated, Arcleu, . Oklahoma- A Vision, How I Refoxtned Charlie Finche*, . The Xrowrirsood Region- Illnstratecl. . Chickeu hfc mey in Dade County, . The Harvester-in Actiou, The Hickory Flat Country of &Iississippi-Illustratetl, . The Ozark Repion-111ustrated. Chance for 'I'1.a ,aLavL.rh&entw~+~l,lt of Huntiug ~arLsill Oklalio~iia-Ill~ls., Vice Versa, Pocahontas, Ark.-Illustrated, In Doubt, . An?c ze Virginia Cu Bcl /son O~~ortunitiesin the Choctaw Nation. 1P. ZK. D. . Tilk Fruit Belt c)f Nortlmest Arkansas. The Osage hditIn Reservation to Open. Farm Developm ent in the So~~thvrest-Ill~~strated,. Vacant Lands o:f the Southwest, The Common Fs tte! Colony of Vegel.ar~ans, . Over the Line o;I the Arkansas Valley & Wester11 Railway, Some Big Trees in North Arkansas, . Marshfield-1111~ ~strated, . 97 At the Gates, : Meribah Pi ilbrick.-k'ced 98 The Indian Terr itdry ~iri-~llus~rated,' . 0g.a V. Eddkmnn . 99 Lebanon, a Natr~ral Health Resort-Illustrated, . . 102 Kansas, . . Ceo. U'. BYOWH. . 103 -

A RISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. h'. P. O'FALLON, Manager.

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FORT SCOTT, BAN. NASHVILLE, TENN. E. E. DIX ...... Qen~1Agent. BRUCE JEFFRIEB .... .Traveling Passenger Agent. FORT SHITH, ARK. KEW ORLEANS, LA,, St. Charles Hotel. F. I. RICHARDSON ...... Cfeneral Agent. I. T. PRESTON ...... Cornme~ial Agent. F. BUMGARDxER ...... Traveling Freight Agent. Ii NEW YORK, N. Y., 385 Broadway. FORT WORTH, TEX. F. D. RUSSELL...... General Eartern Agent. W. H. PORTER Trav. Freight &Pass. Agent. J. B. MORROW.. City Passenger and Ticket Agent...... GEO. L. TRUITT .Trav. Freight & Paaa. Agent. E. WINSTEAD .Commerdal Agent. ... M...... J. L. CABLING .Contracting Agent. C. E. WYNNE, Jr...... Traveling Freight Agent...... OKLmOMA, 0. T. HOUSTON, TEX. WARREN BAKER ...... General Agent. W. C. CONNOR, JR ...... Commerdal Agent. J. H. GIROTHER ...... Traveling Psssenger Agent...... F. ANDERSON ...... Traveling Freight Agent. OIAHA, NEB., 205 South Fourteenth Street. W. C. MELVILm.. .Northwestern Pass. Agent. L. W. PRICE.. DIvision Passenger Agent...... E. F. SERVISS Commercial Agent. T. J. FFtANES ...... Division Freight Agent...... E. 0. HOAQ ...... Traveling Freight Agent. PITTSBURQ, PA,, 706 Park Bdlding. H. E. PORRIS ...... Traveling Freight Agent. 0. Y. CONLEY ...... General Agent. SIDNEY VAN DUSEN...... Traveling Pam. Agent. KANSAS CITY, NO., Thqer Building. W. MLLIGAN...... !Craveling Freight Agent. PHIL JOHNSTON ...... City Passenger Agent. C. 0. JACKSON ...... Traveling Passenger Agent. ST. LOUIS, lo., S. E. Cor. 8th & OHre Sts. P. W. JOHNSTON...... Depot Passenger Agent. F. J. DEICKE .... City Passenger and Tioket Agent. CAL. DUTTON .... Union Station Passenger Agent. KANSAS CITY, HO., Board of Trade. A. D. LIGHTNER ...... Qen'l Agt., Freight Dept. WALTER E. BROWN. Traveling Freight Agent. . E. S. STEPHENS ...... Comme~.cial Agent. ... E. T. HALL...... Traveling Freight Agent. ST. LOUIS, HO., Llnen Bldg., 6th and Olive Sts. LOS ANQELES, CAL., 208 Stinson Building. K. M. WISHART...... Traveling Paaaenger Agent. J. F. EDWARDS ...... PldBc Coast Agent. ST. PAUL, XINN. C. W. HUMPHREY ... .Northern Passenger Agent. LOUISVILLE, BY., 300 West lain St. J. M. KIRK ...... Traveling Freight Agent. SAN ANTOXIO, TEX., 102 West Corn. St. J. W. HUTCHISON.. ... Traveling Passenger Agent. I IIEMPHIS, TENR., Peabody Hotel. I E. F. TILLMAN ...... Commemial Agent. J. N. CORNATZAR.. . Gen'l Agent Paseenger Dept ISAN FRARCISCO, CAL., 105 Front Street. EUQENE SUTCLIFFE.. City Pass. & Ticket Agt. ... J. F. EDWARDS.. .Pacitlc Coret Agent. W. L. EVANS ...... Trsveling Passenger Agent...... FRANK GRIFFITH.. .. Traveling Passenger Agent. H. E. NEEDHAM ...... Commercial Agent. SPRINQFIELD, MO., XEMPHIS, TENN., 347 Xnin Street. W. C. SMITH ...... Qenerd Agent. W. P. ADAPS...... Commercial Agent. H.. F. BUCHANAN...... Traveling Freight Agent. 1WICHITA, BAN. C. W. STRAIN ...... ; .Division Passenger Agent. MEXICO CITY, HEX., 6 Calle de Gante. H. C. CONLEY...... Commercial Agent. ALEXANDER MORE ...... Qenernl Agent. E. E. CARTER ...... Traveling Reight Agent.

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ALSO FOLLOWING REPRESENTATIVES OF THE I Chicago & Eastern nliilois Railroad. CHICAGO, ILL., 91 Adnrns St. MOUNT VERBON, ILL. R. BOOKWALTER ...... City Ticket Agent. E. J. KNICKERBOCKER ....Div. Frt. &Pass. Agt. C. B. GREGORY, 131 Adams St...... Ngr. So. Disp. NASHVILLE, TENN. IILWAUKEE, WIs. S. L. ROGERS ...... General Agent. WM. HUGHES ...... Commercial Aeent. I TERRE HAUTE, IXD. XINNEAPOLIS, MINN. ' J. R. CONNELLY ...... &anera1 Agent. C. H. ALLEN...... Commercisl Agent.- I GEO. J. NATTKEMPER ..Traveling Freight Agent. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. PAOC Anderson-Tully Company, - - 8 Red Estate Agents-Continued. Baldwin Locomotive Works, - Inside torer Bradlev Realtv Bank aud Trust Co., B. & 0. S-W. Ry., - - - - 7 Case 8r ~heltdn, Bensonizer Company, - - - 107 Caldwell & Smith, - - Berthold & Jennings, - - - 118 Cheuault Brothers, - - Boyee, Dr. A. L.. - - - - 9 Cheney,W.J., - - - Carruthers-Jones Shoe Co., - - 9 Clarke & Howard, - - Chicago & Alton, - - - - 6 Cooper & Wooddell, Chicago Great Western Ry ., - - 6 Crawford, A. B., - - Cole Manufacturing Co., - - - 111 Daniel, F. M., - - - Curran Printing Co., Con. P., - - 116 Dison c9L Shattuck, - - Crescent Hotel, - - - Insid$ bk, cew Ehricht, D. J., - - - Crescent Lumber Co., - - - 117 Faxon & Co. F. W., - - Commonwealth Trust Co., - - 11 Ferriter, John, - - - City National Bank, Kansas City, - 118 Fleming Realty Co., J. V., Correspondence Institute of America, 115 Forester, J. J., - - - Clement,C.A., - - - - - 112 Foster & Elliott, - - Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, - 5 Frisco Townsite Co., - - Demon, Dr. F. T., - - - - 128 Fuller, I?. D., - - - Douglas, Lacey & Co., - - - 108 Gregg & Houghton, - - First National Bank, Lawton, Ok., - 115 GuionCo.,H.L., - - Foster, W. S. & J. S., - - - 118 Harper & Co., C. P., - - Freeman, J. W., Mining Machinery, 9 Hastings & Neary, - - Gardner & Co., W. A., - - - 108 Howard & Lee, - - - HobartLeeTieCo., - - - - 116 Hubbard, C. A., - - - Huttig Sash and Door Co., - - 115 Indian Territory Land Co., Illmois Central R. R., - - - 114 James & Son, J. IV., - - Jacques,H.P., - - - - - 6 Johnson, L. W., - - - James & Graham Wagon Co., - - 11 1 Johnson,IVm.H., - - James Old Homestead Sanatorium, - 111 . Karnes & Co., L. E., - - joplin Brewing Co., - - - - 124 King & Chauey, - - Mobile & Ohio Railroad, - - - 7 Kinney &Jackson, - - Magner, Winslow & Co., - - - 9 KOOU~,11'. A,, - - - ?diller, Charles R., - . - - 1 0 Landers, Isaac, - - - hIissouri Copper Mountain Mining Co., 117 Lalining, Davis & Co., - i\Iorehead, Randolph & Co,, - - 108 Lawrence Conilty 1,aiid Co., Mound City Paint & Color CO., - 7 Locke & Lawrence, - - Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp, - $1 Lott, "The Land Man," - RIcNeil Pressed Brick Co., - - 108 Lindsey, Joe H., - - - Muskogee Title and Trust CO., - I18 Lynch, M. W., - - - National Law & Credit Co., - - 113 NIarkham & Co., E. C., - Poole Bros., - - - - 11.5 Masters & Bottorf, - - Pocahontas Bending Works, - - 115 McCarty Sons & Co., E. P., PortiaLumberCo., - - - - 11s McLeau Bros., - - Pickeriug Lumber Co.,W. R., - - 117 McIvers, H. M., - - Queen & Crescent Route, - - - 113 Melton & Couch, - - Red River Timber Co., - - - 118 Minton. W. E.. - - - Saunders Lumber Co., D. G., - - 117 Missouri Land & Immigration Bureau, 123 Schlitz, Milwaukee Beer, - - lnsids corer IIissouri Land M Ilivesti11e1itCo., - 125 Standard Railway Equipment Co., Illside corm Nelson & Co., C. C., - - - - 124 St. Louis & North Arkansas Railroad, 6 Ollis & Co.. A. W , - - - - 124 Schmelzer Arms Co., - - - 108 Parham & Co., K. W., - . - 128 Springfield Trust Co., - - - 11 Parrish,J.M., - - - - - 126 Schraps' Restaurant, - - - 108 Peters,Geo.C.,- - - - - 120 The New Washington, - - - 113 Price, Lester L. , - - - - 126 The Latoila Co., ---- 9 Quinn,J. H., - - - - - 124 The Nitroline ~Mfg.Co., - - . 100 Iiay-QuadeInvestnlelllCo., - - 125 The Thiel Detectme Service Co., - 9 Ragland & Co., J. M., - - - 124 The Four-Track News, - - - 8 Rhodes Company, C. B., - - - 124 The First Nat'l Bank of Memphis, Tenn.,lll Rietz Realty Co., Victor Wm., - - 114 Third National Bank of St. Louis, - 11 Robinson&Porvers, - - - - 121 The Homeseeker & Investor, - lnside bk toisr Schulter, M.. - - - - - 122 The Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co.,115 Sequoyah Land and Investment Co., 126 The Warrior Mining Co., - - - 111 Schoo~iover& Brown, - - - 120 The Keeley Cure, - - - - 7 Soutl~rvesterliInvest.& Construction Co. 126 The Muskogee Phoenix, - - - 8 Shawnee Loail h Iuvestment Co., - 1'21 Western Railway Equipment Co., - 126 Stillwell, Crow & Co., - - - 124 Zelnicker Supply Co., Walter A., lnsidb corer Sheppard,Wm. D., - - - - 125 Real Estate Agents. The Tracy T,and & Rlnigration Co., - 125 Ahren, McCracken & Wissel, - - 121 Thompson Real Estate Co., G. B., - 121 Atkins & MacDonald, - - - 125 Triiiible c9L Colbitt, Ihnk, - - 126 Adan~s&k Co., \V. J., - - - - 125 Trevathan,K.II., - - - - 1% Blackwelder Co., - - - - 121 Turiier Sr Co., C. II., - - - - 114 Blair & Co., - - - - - 120 White, Hagler k McKinney, - - 128 Benton Co. Real Estate Co., - - 120 Wrizht Sr Co., T. H., - - - - 126 THE SOUTHWEST LIMITED NEW TRAIN-NEW ROUTE The new short line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, between Kansas City and Chicago has been completed. It forms a "Cut-off" through Chillicothe, Ottumwa, Mus- catine, Davenport, Rock Island and Moline. The Southwest Limited, a new daily train between Chicago and Kansas City, is now in service via this route. Its equipment is new and complete, including standard and com- partment sleepers, dining car, chair car, coach and observation-library car. It is electric lighted t hroughout. The service measures up to the high standard maintained on other famous trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway The Pioneer Limited, between Chicago, St. Paul' and Minneapolis, and The Overland Limited between Chicago, Omaha and San Francisco. TRAINS RUN DAILY AS FOLLOWS: No. 12, Leave KANSAS CITY, .5.55 p. m., Arrive CHICAUO, 8.55 a, m.

No. 8, 'I 10.00 a, m., ~- 6 I 7.55 a. m. .- - .y - -. - .-. -. - No. 5, " CHICAaO, 6.00 p. m., ' KANSAS CITY, 9.00 a. m. NO. 3, " 6 8 10.25 p. m., ' 6 I 5.30 p. m. All Agents in the Southwest sell tickets via the New Short Line. Address any of the fol- lowing for additional information : a. L. COBS, M. F. SMITH, F. A. M~LLER~ Southwestern Pws'r A gt., Commercial Act., General Passenger Agt.. 907 Main St., Kansas Oity. 245 Main St., Dallas, Tex CHICAGO. If You Intend to Make a Trip to C3 f Chicago, Kansas City

I. OR ANY POINT NORTH OR WEST,

write for maps, time tables and lowest rates to th Chicago & Alton Railway. fill info~mstion~pnd details cheerfi~llydven. The equipment of The Alton" is matchless in every respect, its superb appointments having earned for it the title of "THE ONLY WAY."

0. BOWES. Ass7 Gen'l Pass. Agent. ST. LOUIS, MO,

St. Louis ti North Arkansas R. R.

Between CHICAGO,ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS,DES MOINES

The Only Railroad reaching the Great Health Resort, Eureka Springs, Ark., General PassenPer Agent. All-the-Tenr-7Roimd. If you are in search of health, you can flnd it here. Pure water and plenty of it. pure air laden with ine odor:- high altitude; cheip living,' good boarging houses; fine hotels, and plenty of them; reaching the great mineral pnd The Only Railroad fruit lands of North Arkansas. Harrison Ark., is the town you are looking for, be- cause it is in the yew heart of the mineral reglon. Green Forest, Ark., a very important town on oar line, is in the center of one of the Aneat fruit countries in the world. In all the territory adjacent to our line the raising of Live Stock, especially Sheep and Angora Goats can be caned on rmth larger proflt than auy other 'place in the United States. The raising of Fimt will be the greatest mdustry for the next tan years to come. EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK., is the gateway to

-- thls great BIineral and Fruit country. This city with its modern improvements, hotels 42 free springs7elec- For Advertising space in this t+ car line, and thpusuuds of,visitor?. brlngs city life wlthin two hours' nde of the zinc section. Magazine, address E. P. O'FALLON, For further information address, GEORGE WEST, Manager, Manager, Third and Locust, St. Louis. Eureka Springs, Ark.- Pro t ee tion, Beauty an8 Eeonouy Are the special properties of GOOD PAINT The highest degree of each is attained only by the use of material whose purity and time-tested qualities are universally acknowledged as parnmount. Zinc White, White Lead and Linseed Oil are the elements that contribute most effectively to these ends. Anything else lessens and weakens the degree of auperi- ority in a ratio greatly in excess of the amount employed. The Horse Shoe Brand of Strictly Pure Pre- pared Paint is wholly composed of Zinc, Lead, Linseed Oil and the necesmry pure Color and Turpentine Drier, guaranteed and proven by chemical analysis. If quality counts, the choice is easy. Mound City Paint & Color Co., I Exclusive Sale to one Dealer in every town. ST. LOUIS, U. S. A.

has stood the test of time having been The Keeley Treatment used with un~aralleledsucee'ss for the ~ast

Dr. J. E. BLAINE, Manager, Home Treatment for Tobacco and Neurasthenia. 2803 Locust Street, ST. LOUIS, YO. of Muskogee, Indian Territory, has been officially designated by the Interior Depart- 1 The Muskopee- Phoenix ! ment as the Publication ill which all Sales of Creek Lana must. be r~dyertised. All Territory and Creek Nation news. Daily, $4 per year; Weekly, $1 per year, in advance. Sample copies on application. CLARENCE B. DOUGLAS, Editor and Ynblisher. THE FOUR- TRACK NEWS An Illustrated Magazine of Travel and Education More than 128 Pages Monthly Egg Cases, Its wope and chnracter are indicated by the fol!owing titles of articles thnt have appeared in rewnt Issues:

Poutprints of Columbus in Spain--1ilust'd Frederick A. Ober ' A TVatJh with a History--Illustrated X. 8. Olda A Journey Amon" !he btars--1lluatrated - Frank W. Xack In the Great h'ortz Woo,ds--Poem - - Ehen E. Rexford Where Pilgrim and Puntm Jfet--1liust'd Hezeklah Butterworth In Rip Van Winkle'a Land--Poem - - Yinna lrvmg Box Shooks Nature's Cllronometrr--Illustrated - - El. >I. Aibauah Abaudaned Farms--1lluatrated. - - Eaaard W. Loggewlrail The Three Oregone--1iiustrated - - - Alfred Holmau Ancient Prophecies FuiBlled--1lluatrated Ceorga H. Daniels The Storiel the Totem# Tell--Illustrated Luther L. Hoideo A Little CounLrv Cousin--Illustrated - Kathleen L. Greig The 3lazamas--~llnstrated - - - - Will G. st&] AND When Mother Goes Away--Poem - Joe Cone A Iiltle Bit of Holland--Illustrated - Charles B. Weiil The Romance of Reality--illustrated Janc W. Guthrie 'The War Eavie--Illustrated - - larr 1,. Aubtin Under Xe&n Skies--1lluatrated - Marm B. Fenrlak Nia ara I" Winter--Illustrated - - - Orria E. Dunlap Veneers 1.1ttfe I*fatoriem--Illustrated Old Fort Putnam - - - William J. Lampton - Charter Oak Chair. - - - - Bemie 11. Dean The Confederate White House - - Herbert Brooks Single Copies 5 Cents, or 50 Cents a Year. Can be had of new~dealew,or hy addreaning George H. Daniels, Publishr, MEMPHIS, TENN. Room 52. 7 East 42d Street, NEW YORK. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

wisdom in the seleclion of the site which the C'hcrokee Acatlclny (Captist i\iIission), they appropriatcly named Tahlequah, a and Tahlequah Institute (Presbyterian word, according to Cherokee translation, Mission). In addition to these, are the that signifies, "The Haven of Refuge." It cnlored high school and q~litea number has hcen their mecca evcr since. of primary schools. While in session, the ,\ 1ahlequah lies in a charming little vale, attendance is, at the Male Academy, 180; sm-rounded on all sides by wooded hills Female Seminary, 200 ; Tahlequah Insti- from which gusll n~~merouslarge springs tute, 200; Chcrokce Academy, 150; at the of the purest freestone water. Viewed public schoola, 225; ad in thc colored from any p'oint it is a most delightful spot schools, 150 pupils; in all, 1,105. The and one in search of pleasing landscapes Fresbyterian, Baptist, Methodist C1~ISCO- ' will find them in abundance. It is just the pal, Episcopalian and Moravian churches Icc~.tionto appeal to a wearied and tired ali have large congregations and commod- wanderer; its shady arbors and rippling ious churcli buildings. The school fund 1,rooi.s becli011 to him who needs rest and 11eld b;c the United States for [he benefit rccreation, and in consideration of its his- of the Cherokee children amounts to tory ~loother place, perhaps, was more ap- $902,252, and yields an ann~~alinterest oi prcsyiate!y named. $45,555; the Insane and Blind Asylum ?'I12 educational institutions of Tahle- fund is $64,117, and yields annually $3,201 qitxil are ample and sufficient for a town interest. The school fund also gets $2,000 fi\i(: Limes as great in population. In the a year from railroad right of way rentalq. northern part of the town is the Female 'I'ahlequah is the home of many rich Seminary, an elcgalit scl~oolbuilding, sup- and refined people, and thc dhcrokee pliccl with all moclern appliances, costing women are noted lor their beauty and ac- more than 9;100,000; south of the town is complishments, many of them hav~ngbe:n t!~cMale Seminary, a similar institution, educated in the best colleges in this coun- costing about the same; on the west are try and European capitals.

DIXON'S TOMATO INDUSTRY.

11 lias been satisfactorily demonstrated makes the invalid swell with renewed vigor, that the rocky hillsides of the Ozark re- and it is here that some day will be built a gion will grow anything-tomatoes being fine summer resort for St. Louisans. no esccption. If one should stop off at But back to the tomato cannery. Sur- Dlson, No., this assertion would again be rounding the little town of Dixon are some verified, for it is here that the hillsides are 160 acres of tomatoes iron1 whicli tlic good iairly covered with tomato vines. They farmers are fast becoming rich. The Lhon are so extensive In sizc, ho~~wer,as to no Canning Company has just put in a can- longer tlcserve the mere appellation, nery with a capacity of 20,000 cans daily. patches, but would more properly be This factory employs fifty-four girls and cnlletl fields. about fifteen men to handle the business Lhon is one of the highest points be- that comes to it. They pay the farmrrs 3.5 tween St. I,ouis and Springfield on the cents pcr 100 pounds for the tomatoes am! Frisco Systcm. One can stand on the rear one man, H. P. Sherwin, gathered $100 porch of thc Frisco Hotel and view the wx-th of these vegetables from a small picturesque mountain scenery for fifty garden this year. Others are doing quite miles or more; the air is so pure it fairlyas nell. 26 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. MEMPHIS, THE QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTH. BY A. K. W.

Located at the head of one of the most Cities of one-third and half her size in fertile valleys in the TJfiited States, and this rich territory, who started out to com- possessing all of the alivantages that na- pete with Memphis are now numbered ture can give her, Memphis, the Queen among its patrons. In the matter of ship- Citl- of the South, is inclec d a n~etropolisto ping facilities, Memphis holds a point of be conntecl in the final reckoning of the vantage that cannot be taken from her. large cities of this country. Her eleven trunk lines furnish competi- Far ahead of the cities in whose class tions greatcr than most cities can boast of. she was counted a few years ago, the Ten- It' these elcven trunk I'nes were to com- nessec metropolis forgcd on at a rate that bine, the city still has the Mississippi river,

proves startling to the people of other sec- in addition to its wonderful railroad fa- tions. So great a momentum has the city cilitics. The great stream forms an insur- acquired that conservat-ive inen say shc mountable barrier to all congestion of will grow greater and greater for years to Lraffic. Cotton and lumber have done come. more to make Memphis great than any With wideawake and intelligent mon- other t~7othings that have contributed to eyed men pushing her, they see no stop- her growth. The city is the largest inland ping point. hIemphis has and can have cotton market in the world and the marlet no con~petitorin many lines of trade. Half is steadily growing. AIississippi, Arkansas way between St. L,oiiis and New Orleans and West Tennessee have lor many years she has a great territory, which neither sent their cotton to Mempl~is. Kow Tex- can hope to talie away f:-om her. Taking as, Indian Territory and Oklahoma find in nearly half of three statcs and reaching they can do well here and are coming in on into the fourth, she is the center of to joi~the forces. trade for hundreds of thousands of ~eople. The city is also the center of the cotton- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 27 seed industry. It is the largest produccr \\rood lumher markct the city is constant1.v of cotton-seed products of any city in the increasing in importance. With hundreds world. This fact was emphasized time ad of tIlousands of acres of wooded land lying again in the past few years. As a harcl- all aroun(I and 500 square milcs of wooded 28 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. land within a radius of 100 miles, it is eas- Incant as a compliment to our southern ily the largest hardwood market in the city. world. The business activit),, the hustling qual- The indr~strialdevelopment in the last ity. the rush and roar of life pervade Mem- two years has been greater than ever be- phis from one boundary line to asother, fore. In twice the same length of time this as is the case in no other southern city. town has forged ahead of its southern In the uptown distrc the streets and neighbors. Factories of all sorts have beerr stores teem with moving people from day- flocking to the city. Northern manufac- light to dark, hank tellers are kept busy turers have come to realize that they can and the clerks are engaged, while in the get their raw material close at hand, and streets the drays and truclcs lumber past, ship the finished protl~~ctNorth much and there iq gcneral activitv all around. In

Building Loggiug Engine.

cheapcr than by continuing at their old lo- tlie outlying d cations. Labor is cheaper, rates are right of straps and and a mild climate makes better results ery and the be possible. earlier imprcs Memphis is a lively city of the South- pirnty of wor land. It is this view that always impresses worlhg. the stranger. This is tlie feeling that im- Memphis ha buts a11 and thcy carry il away and talk The largest to their friends about it. The reniark is world. frequently heard that Gemphis resembles I-9I he largest hardwood lu~nbcr~mrlict in rnany northern cities. This is always the world. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 29 - -

'I'hc largest producer t;f cotibm-seed oil this city, three others practically assured ant1 products. within the nest eighteen n~onths,and still 'I'ht. largest snuff ma:l.:.:t 111 t!~e woi-ltl. others projected in this direction, Mem- The sccond largest lumber nlkritct in the phis promises in a comparatively short world. time to rival all competitive cities in The seventh in wholesale of boots and 1.1-!e Southeast and Southwest as a trans- shoes, St. Louis ranking first. porta tion center. Memphis is : As a gateway bctween the East and The second largest wholesale grocery West, Memphis is coming right to the center in the South. iront with a development 'that is exceeding Largest drug market in the South, and any of its rivals in that respect. Chicago, third largest in the Unit~dStates. Ft. Louis. Mcmphis and New Orleans are

Typical residence. Xemphis, Tenn

The twenty-seventh city in population. the four great gateways of the Mississippi The twenty-sixth in i-olume of business. rlrcr \alley territory through which pours The second in heaIth. the bulk of the traffic, both passenger and The volume of business for 1902 reached ireight, bettveen all scctions of the East k'2S7:000,000 and for the present year wi;l an. 1 IVest. exceed, it is believed, $300,000,000. This is Memphis' railroad development has an exceptionally fine shewing. been especially noticeable since the open- For the past few years Memphis has ing of the great Memphis bridge over the grown so rapidly in the eyes of the trans- Mississippi river, the only one south of prtation world that it is now classed as St. Louis, though one ic now undcr con- olie of thc great rai!ronci centers of thc United States and one o; thc most im- struction at Thebes, Ill. 'I'he bridge has portant in the entire SO~I'.~.With twelvc brought Memphis to :he lront as a pas- dis~inct lines of railroad radiati~gfrom senger gateway by eliminating many of 30 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

A - the difficulties of past years in crossing Within the past twelve months the the river by ferry. This has been respon- growth of Memphis in a railroad way has sible for much of the attraction of traffic been noticeable even to the casual ob- from both St. Louis and New Orleans. server. The increase in passenger traf-

.[t has been but one of the several means fic has hccn brollgl~tabout largely I)y tlic of Memphis' developmelit as a transpor- increase in and inq~roveinentof passcngcr tation center. train service and equipment. Not only FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE, 3 1

with onc but with all the roads have h1-1~!.lg...... $102,573,081.43 lrovcmmts becn nlade. 1900 ...... 130,Ci97,138.2? As an example of the increased use of 1901 ...... 160,135,025 36 filemphis as a passenger gateway in the 1902 ...... 157,943,449.84 amount of baggage handled through the 1903 ...... 201,847,570.60 Memphis depots, for the first three months These figures represent the figures from of this year, January, February and September to September. March, the number of pieces of checlted ?he aniuial cotton statement for the baggage passing throuqh the Union De- year ending Sept. 1 is given below, hav- pot (used only by part of the Memphis ing been issued by Secretary Hotter of lines) was increased 5000 aver the corre. the Cotton Exchange. sronding period of 1902. hat represent- The most remarltable feature of the re- ed ~erllaps25,000 additional passengers port is the very large receipts, Ivl~ich

Old Homeste~dSauirtorinm, JIeuphis. over the three months of the preceding broke all previous records by more than year. 100,000 bales. The gain in total returns The population in 1880 was 33,892; as compared with last year exceeded $9,- 1890, 64,,495 ; 1900, 102,320 ; 1903, 159,325. 000,000. The most important statistics pertain- The total receipts were 892,511 bales. ing to any city are those emanating iron1 This is a gain of 212,575 bales over last the banks and clearing house. Memphis year. The money returns for the cotton has 16 banks and three trust companies, handled here were $24,698,482.62, against the conlbined capital and surplus of these $15,544,384.44 for the previous year. financial institutions being $5,800,000. One Thus it will be seen that Memphis holds has but to examine the clearing house re- her position as the largest inland cottori ports for the past five years to get a very marlet in the world. good idea of the progress of the city. Until recent years people have looked Following are the figures for the past upon Memphis as being solely a cotton five years: town, and have attributed her wealth and 32 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. . - prosperity to the fleecy ~taple. However, ket in the world. The export lumber busi- Iater developments show that tli2 lunlbe ness is of recent origin. As late as 1890 industry has played a very prominent p,rt the wholesale lumber Inisiness nuinbercd in placing Memphis as one cf the foremost only about three or four firms. After 1899 cities of the entire South. Memphis is to- people awakened to the fact that Memphis day the largest hardwood producing mar- would lead all other markets in the manu- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 33

:ture of hardwood a~tdtoday there are 'umber dealers are in tnuch with all for- )re than forty firms engaged in this la-, dgn countries, some shipments being ,.~tive business. There are many firms Bmade to Japan. with offices in the city who have t;leir Tt is a well-known and at the same time mills and yards in the contiguous territory. a well-established fact that Memphis real With the facilities afforded them by rail estate offers more attractive features '0 and water, it is easy inr them to supply the conservative investor than that of al- any and all orders. It is estimated that most any other city in the country. The about 7000 men are given employment 111 fact that Meinphis has grown to be thc the city of Memphis in the nlanufacturing prosperous city she now is, is largely due and handling of lumber, which is neces- to the fact that real estate values in and sarily of great benefit to the city. Statis- around the city have reached the present tics S~LWthat it takes 33,000 cars annually high stage by steady increase and not by to handle the logs and lumber shipped tu spasniodic fluctuations, as has been the the city. case in so many cities where a "boom"

Just now there is invested in the lum- had been inaugurated in order to force up ber business in Memphis something like real estate values. $4,000,000. These are startling figures "The greatest mule market in the and they show to some extent what the world.'' lumber trade means to Memphis. The Such is the verdict of the United States mmnfactrrrers and shippers deal largely il: governinent and of the government of oak, poplar, gum, ash, cottonwood and Great Britain. The opinions were verified hickory. Memphis is especially noted for during the past few years, when both gov- the quality of quarter-sawed oak she pro- ernments, each having a little war on duces, ranking higher than any ir, the hand, made their heaviest purchases world. All European, Northern and East- of mules in Memphis. It is impossible ern markets hve representatives in thc to even estimate the nursber of mules pur- city, who attend tn thc: many and large chased by the two nations during the sev- orders placed in their hands. Memphis eral months each was buying the frisky 34 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE, -- - hut hard-working animals, but the enor- Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missis- mous SLI~ISof nioney spent in this city in sippi and I,ouisiana furnish practically all payment of the mules were the one tiii:~g the mules used in the world. Ten years ago needed to firmly establish i\iIemphis at the the mule was considered essentially a mule very top of the business the world over. for the states in the far Soutll. His fame FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

as nothing when the United States greater than the trade of any previous :rnment began using him in the West year. And prices reached the topnotch, beast of burden. His ability to with- creating a new record. d heat, to undergo extremely hard and The present year, however, has already --.._inued labor, and his great strength, broken the record made during the Boer made him popular with the war depar!- war, and local dealers arc eminently satis- ment, and soon his presence began to be ficd wit11 the manner in \vhich the trade noted in the North and East, although as is growing. IVhile the:-e have been times yet he is not common there. The war when for several weeks at a stretch busi- with Spain brought the mule into world- ness mould die out, as a whole there has dide prominence, especially as several never been such a prosperous year in the army wagons, drawn by governtnent business, and never h\-e prices been so mules, of the stubborn Mississippi variety, 11:gh. Formerly mules of the freight grade captllred a whole regiment of Spanish sol- could be purchased for $135 or $140. Now diers merely by trying to run away irvn these same nlules cannoc be had except at from $175 to $225. It is a conlnion say- ing amon,a users of the mule that a good mule cannot be bought for less than $200. Cotton mules, which could have bee!^ Lought for $10 several years ago, are now sold every day for $135. S~)inedays salc5 havc been made of this grade at prices el en higher. Mules do not occupy all the attention of the local dealers in libe stock, however. Memphis is really one oi the largest mar- kets for horses, and in this line of trade her business has been constantly growing for many years paqt. During the past few years this trade Xemphis Shoe Factory. has been particularly active in horses for family use. The riding and driving horsc, a l~attlefielcl. The noise and clatter o[ the trotter, the pacer, the saddle I~orsc, thc mules scared the Spaniards, who ran the biiggy horse, all have been in g-rcat into the American camp and surrenclercd. demand, and for a very good reason. The This recorcl was so firmly established hy the mule that when the British finally dc- people of Memphis, ant1 the residents of all this vast section of the country, have bee11 cided to crush the Doer rebellion in Sovth Afrita they decided the trouble could not prosperous the past few years and have reached that point where they can afforc! be abated without the assistance of ihc American, mule. Thousands and tiloti- tlre one-time luxury of a horse. sands of these animals were purchased in. Mernphis ships large quantities at Memphis by agents of the British govern- horses all over the covntry, and the trade ment, and were shipped to New Orleans is rapidly increasing. Prices are higher and Galveston for export to South Africa. than heretofore, but not higher than war- The British wanted the very best grade ranted by the demand. The stock is of of mules that could be found, they wanted the best, as a rule, an~lthe horses them- them in large numbers and they wanted selves atlract trade this way. It was es- them at once. As a result, the trade of timated a few days ago that the trade in 190'2 reached stupendous proportions, far mules amounts to upwards of $3,000,009 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. each year, while that in horses is nearly May, 4.26 ; June, 4.55 ; July, 3.28 ; August, as much more. 3.41 ; September, 3.08 ; October, 2.65 ; No- A glance at the following figures com- vember, 4.54; December, 4.03. piled from the Post Office shows plainly The mean annual temperature is 62 de- that the business of Memphis has- more grees, and by months : January, 41 ; Feb- than doubled in the last nine years: ruary, 44 ; March, 52; April, 62 ; May, 71 ; Receipts. Expenses. Ratio. June, 7s ;July, 81 ; August, SO ; September, 1895 ...... $l52,030.57 $59,255.04 .3900 73; October, 63; November, 61; Deceni- 1896 ...... 165,106.45 63,656.51 .3900 ber, 44. 1897 ...... 179,052.03 63,967.56 .35N The highest daily normal temperature, 1898 ...... 192,403.88 72,278.46 .3750 87 degrees; lowest daily normal tempera- 1899 207,209.92 74,674.31 ...... 3609 ture, 38 degrees. Sub-zero temperatures 1900 229,906.82 76,815.45 ...... -3340 are very rare. 1901 ...... 247,292.94 84,277.16 -3450 Memphis is a healthy town, one of the 190% ...... 273,291.49 92,224.79 .3367 most fortunate in this respect in the world. 1903 ...... 319,263.24 102,502.63 .3210 Tl~crci:; more building going on in According to recent statistics she has the Memphis today than at any previous time second lowest death rate of any city in the during her history. Real estate values United States. This phase of the city life is clearly and forcibly shown in a state- have now gone slightly beyond the orig- ment prepared recently by Dr. Heber inal 100 per cent and are increasing slowly Jones, president of the board of health. and steadily with a continued demand, and The 1902 death rate is as follows : a brighter prospect for the future of the city. As a rule people living at a distance l?~liites,per thousand ...... 13.10 have a much better opinion of Memphis Whiles, per thousand, (citizens only). 9.03 as a business center than our home peo- Colored, per thousand ...... 20.2(i ple. This is evidenced by the numerous Colored, per thousand (citizens only).l6.?% inquiries daily received from moneyed -- men from all over the country, nor do Total, per thousand (citizens only). 1'2.75 these inquiries come exclusively from The death rate has been steadily de- points in the United States, but from Par- creasing for the past five years. In 1898, is, Berlin and London as well. A great it was 22.17 per thousand. In 1902, 16.32 many people in Memphis have yet to know per thousand. This compares favorabls that their city is one of the best advertised with any city in the world, and such a low and best known centers of commerce in rate cannot exist except under very favor- the United States. Her steady rise in real able conditions. Favorable conditions estate values and the enterprise and pro- are : gressiveness of her business men have First-Pure artesian water-as pur; reached out beyond the confines of our water as that supplied to any city in-the own country. Inquiries are continually be- world. ing made by capitalists who are looking Second-The "separate" sewer system, 3 for investments in Memphis real estate. large portion of which has been built dur- The exact geographical location of ing the last four years, and is, unques- Memphis is north latitude 35 degrees 3 tionahly, as sanitary as can be found in minutes, and west longitude 90 degrees 3 the world. minutes. The elevation above the sea, 27'3 In the one matter of sporting Memphis feet. ~~t~q~iestionnblytakes the lead over all The annual precipitation is 50.82, and it other cities of the South, with the possible is distributed as follows : January, 5.45 ; exceplion of New Orleans. Even the ex- February, 4.86 ; March, 5.67 ; April, 5.02 ; ception of this one great city is a question FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. of doubtful proportions, notwithstanding the country; and to this one mil e of soil the fact that the Crescent City gives sup is credited more world's records fc)r horses port to racing during a hundred and ten oi the trotting and pacing classes 1than any days' meeting. one other track in Amcrica, Eurol,e or the Memphis lays claim to the greatest, fast- rest of the world. This track, o vvned by est and prettiest trotting race track in all the Memphis Trotting Associatio n, is the FNSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. pride of the local race followers. And phis has one of the finest waterworks qys- right well may it be, too, for it has all tans in the United States, that the purity that one may want to alrract except many of the supply is beyond question and the years of age. life of the same is practically iimitless. Memphis also boasts of a track for thcr- Since 1887, when Memphis switched oughbreds. This track, situated at Afont-. from the Wolf river supply to that of :he gomery Park, is one ol the best in the pure product of artesian wells, the health country for racing at the time of the spring of the city has been improved in a way when dates may be obtained by any asso- that is hardly credible. With the advent ciation in this part of the West. It also of an abundance of pure water came inorc has qualities which make it ideal for the sewers and the old sewers were made twicc passing of winters and tlie beginning of the as effective. By degrees the old wells and spring season of training In this respect cisterns that were formerly used by the it outclasses all tracks in the West, East Memphis resident in preference to the or on the Pacific coast, and is being more donbtful and muddy product of the Wult and more recognized as the proper place river plant of 18'70, were done away with for wintering by horsemen of prudence till there are few of them in the city to- and sharpened judgment. day. Every one has come to realize (lie Thus st~pportingtwo fine race tracks, value and purity of artesian water and the one race meet for thoroeghbreds and an- fact that it is a boon. At present the city other for trotters and pacers, Memphis is supplied from sixty S and 30-inch stcel has much to think of in the sporting line. tube deep wells, averaging 350 feet in Yct thc intcrest of hte~~:pliiansis not alto- depth and the pumping plant consists of g:.zt!ler centered in raci!~gof horscs. The three high duty compound condens:ng residents give m11c1i oE their time to basc- Mrorthington puniping- engines, one oi bi!. Ijoating, golf, slioo!ing and othcr which is kept constantly in reserve. T!ie sporting attractions. Among the g:ln en. capacity of these pumps is 10,000,000 gal- thusiasts of the city are some of the mosf lons daily. Recitles this there is an ausil- ~ron~inentshooters in the entire Soulh iary plant located in the extreme sout!lcw and tl~eshoots pulled OR here are interest- end of the citv that was installed last yeAr ing in the estrcme, Sclng patronized by at a cost of $20,000, and in Ft. Fickerii~g the best marksmen of the United States. there is a watcr tower that acts as a safety The track of the Men~phisTrotting As- valve for thc mains and balances the watcr sociation was built through the efforts of pressure. C. I<. G. Billings, one of the most enthu- siastic followers of the trotters and pacers in this country and a n~illionairewith con- Madge-Why does she at last own up siderable holdings in Melnphis. The track that thcy are in love? \\as built by Seth Grih, the most expert ikrajorie-She had to. They sat on the trotting track builder in all the wor!cl. sand yestetday, and never noticed the tide '\;Vhen the stranger asks a Memphian coming in until they were drenched. what kind of water is nsed here for the Stella-There goes Totty Footlights in general city supply, he is told artesian. the automobile Charli~gave her. She acts 'This much every citizen of Memphis is as if she had been used to one all her lilz. alvare and nearly every stranger that Eelle-I guess it's heredity. Her fat'lcr comes within the gates of the city, but the used to run a steam roller. full meaning of the word is rarely appre- "Wonder why she lifts her skirts so ciated by any. Jn other words, there arc high while passing over the crossing"" few saye those who haw looltecl the mat- "011, it's no wonder ! I can see two good tcr us, that kn0w it to be a fact that Mem- reasons." FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 39 SILK CULTURE IN TEXAS. There appears to be no end to the re- to enpge in this industry i, due to the sourcefulness of Texas, and this fact is be- fact that it has been iouncl to be profitable conling accentuated by the results of the only when it is concl~~ctedon a small scale. policy of diversification 9f crops and to a In those European countries where the general experimenting, proceeding Lon1 business is actively engaged in, the girls that policy. The Agricultural Department and housewives depend on it alnlost wl~olly at Washington has for many years been for their small mone). In some districts endeavoring to encourage silk culture ill there are silk reeling establishments to this country. Though enormous quantities which the families carry their cocoons, of silk are consumed in America, not a which they raise in their homes. Here and strand of it is raised here, and hence the there large areas are devoted to the mul- money expended for it goes to' France, berry tree and silk culture, but as a rule Italy, China and Japan. From the fact it is engaged in by only the females of the that silk has been known to Europe since family. Being what may be termed a the clays when the Caesars ruled, having small business, it has never obtained been brought there from China and India, looting in this country, for the American and from a Icnowledge of its value, it desires to do all sorts of business on a wouId be supposed that its culture was large scale or not do it at all. As has impossible in this country, or it would !ong becn stated, tlic Agricultural Department ago have been engaged in. But it has lias been endeavoring for a long time to been shown that it can be produced in cer- excitc an hiterest in tl~isindustry. It has tain parts of the United States as cheaply issued pamphlets containing instructions and with as little labor as in any part of as to hatching and care of the worms and the world. More than this, expert exam- as to everything pertaining to the produc- ination into the industry shows that silk tion of sillc. It has sent free of cost the egg? can be produced in some of the Southern of the worms to all persons who dcsirr States, and notably in Texas, with less em- them, and lately has offered to market all barrassments, perhaps, than in almost any thc cocoons or raw sillc produced by thosz part of the world. The food of the worm who have entered into the industry is the white mulberry tree, and the cultiva- through pleasure or for profit. And the tion of this tree is a prerequisite to the result is that it is receiving several hun- culture. In a more northern climate thail dred pounds of cocoons every month, that of Texas, the leaves oE the tree coma nhich it sells without charge for the per- fort11 later and die earlier than in Texas. son producing it. The reports of this dc- Hence the season of the worm is longer in partment show that from twenty to thirty this State than in latitudes farther north, pounds of cocoons can be easily produced and it is supposcd that a sillc colony can by a small colony of worms in two nlontIl.s, produce more silk here on account of tlle wliicl~ will \ ield from $23 to $30, an length of the working season. BLIL amount wliicli n~ouldcome pleasantly to whether or not this is true, the advantage any farmer's wife or daughter. Thc care this State and a few other Southern States is not so great, and the labor small. With possess in this industry, is the presence of the bois d'arc tree in nearly every nook the bois d'arc, or Osage orange tree. The and corner of the State, this industry worms thrive on its foliage. The trlse puts ought to grow till in time Texas should forth its leaves early in the spring, it is take her place as a great silk-producing hardy and is never affected by climatic State. It is presumed that the suggestion changes as are the less hardy mulberry will be ridiculed. The suggestion of a pol- trees. The failure of the American people icy of a diversity of crops was ridiculed. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

But the crops are here and the people are policy has extended. And in the small better off in every way because of them . thing of silk culture they will see another The man and woman who have been im- opportunity of improving their condition pressed with the benefits of diversification. and making the State greater.-Dallas will not stop at the point to which that News .

RICH' LANDS IN MISSOURI OPEN FOR FREE SETTLEMENT. BYE. D . L .

Missouri. the richest and just now the vacant land in each county as compared most famous State in the Middle West. with four years ago : contains more than two hundred thousan3 IRONTON DISTRICT . County . 1899 . acres of land that are open to free home- Bollinger ...... 1. 600 stead entry It is a fact that there exists Butler ...... 790 . Cape Girardeau ...... 120 more land subject to free entry in Missouri 2arter ...... 640 than in Oklahoma The official record at 2rawPord ...... 1. 480 . Dent ...... 3. 820 the office of the Secretary of State shows a Xowell ...... 4.520 startling number of acres that may be had [ron ...... 10.740 Madison ...... 7.520 absolutely free of charge. Much of this 3regon ...... 6.160 land is fit for cultivation and will grow Perry ...... 420 ?helps ...... 11. 790 good crops. The entire amount of un- Pulaski ...... 4. 340 settled land that may be had free is just Reynolds ...... 8. 180 Ripley ...... 3. 840 235. 193 acres . One can secure a title to St . Francois ...... 880 this land immediately by the payment of Ste. Genevieve ...... 1.560 Shannon ...... 5. 590 $1.25 per acre or by living on it under the Texas ...... 13. 360 homestead law can obtain it free. Washington ...... 2. 540 Wayne ...... 6. 110 The principal reason that most of this SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT . Barry ...... 11. 994 land has not been settled upon is due to Christian ...... 1.020 the fact that it was so far removed from Dallas ...... 3. 856 Douglas ...... 8. 926 the railroads . But year after year the Laclede ...... 6.165 railway systems of the State have be- McDonald ...... 11.322 -ark ...... 74.150 gun to realize that there are millions Pulaski ...... 2. 160 of dollars in undeveloped resources. and Stone ...... : ...... 17. 808 Taney ...... 16. 316 they are penetrating all of these out-of- Texas ...... 2.763 the-way places . Within the past three Webster ...... 569 Wrght ...... 3.764 years over four hundred thousand acres liOONVILT, E DISTRICT. have been settled upon by immigrants Benton ...... 2. 980 2allaway ...... 160 from the East . The land that may be set- 3amden ...... 19. 620 tled upon is limited to one-fourth sec- Zedar ...... 40 Cjrawford ...... 440 tion. or 160 acres . Providing one wishes Dallas ...... 13. 200 to buy the land outright you can purchase Franklin ...... 40 Hickory ...... 4. 160 320 acres. The State being divided into Jefferson ...... 55 three land districts the reports of vacant Laclede ...... 9. 820 Xaries ...... 2.080 land in the State are filed at three sepa- Miller ...... 4. 200 Morgan ...... 340 -rate places-Springfield. Boonville and Phelps ...... 1. 920 Pulaslti ...... 17. 520 Ironton . The following table shows the St . Clair ...... 3. 520 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 41 THE SOUTHWEST AFIELD. BY WILLIAX R. DRAPER.

Exodus from the great cities of the East away the Indians and who had to throw and tlie overcrowded farms of the older a line of guards around his fields in grow- states has caused a wonderiul transforma- ing season to hold off the roving steers, tion afield southwest. A new era in land has been blessed with success. Others tenure is being developed, cattle ranges of the same stuff as he came to his rescue occupied by farmers, arid and semi-arid and the combinetl efforts of the pioneer sections redeemed by irrigation, public do- farmer have taken over the entire iield main being claimed by settlers, and fields for their ver)? own. The cattle business that have heretofore felt only the tramp has been relegated to the rear, in a mea- of herds of cattle have come to know the sure, and the brightest days are even yet touch of an iron hand. to come, despite the fact that southwest- A hundred million acres of domain, ern farmers are fairly rolling in health lying in this great southwestern empire, 2nd prosperity. are being redeemed,so to speak. While but Ten years ago the Indian Territory and a small per cent of the territory embraced Oklahoma were principally populated by in Iirisco Lancl-that part of the south- redskins. Totlay the Indian population \\rest traversed by the Frisco System-was forms less than one-fifteenth of these two ever arid, it has been and is yet thinly set- territories, so011 to become states in the tied. There are thousands of acres to every Union. A few Years ago the Indians were fanlily as yet and the process of putting an idle and shiftless sort, living upon the five million settlers onto the 250,000,000 ann~litiesprovided by the government acres of land adjacent to the ~~i~~~ system 2nd doing everything within their power has become of great magnitude in the last to prevent the white man from coming few years. Even now fields that a dozen \rears ago grew nothing but wild buffalo But it has been said with truth that irassand cactus bushes, are waving where tlie iron rails are laid, there you will \\iith a luxuriant growth of alfalfa, wheat, find the enterprising white man. corn and other products of the field. From the time the railroads began to plow through the Indian Territory-the Greatest indeed are the Changesthat beautiful land-white settlers began to have taken place in the fields of the south- crowd nearer and nearer to the ~~di~~~. Beginning a "Ore Or 'Iore of They leased the land from the cattlemen years lvhen the was in 'Om- ,h0 had for years beetl on friendly terms maiid, the settler went about his harvest the powers that ruled in l,,dian T~~- in a small way. Harvesting machines were ritory, and acre after acre the prairie sod an quantity On the was turned and made to bear rich returns. tier-indeed they cost a great of Work is said to be as is en- and the pioneer '' those was erg^. When the white man \vent to work doillg we'' if he possessed a log hut developing the sod in Indian Territory, to live in. Most of them found a dugout some of the more progressive redskins Ihufficient. The co'~upuncher the turned their eyes in envy ~lponthe burst- night of the plains, and if he chose ing graneries of wheat, the great piles of lrive a herd of long horned steers Over corn and the stacks of hay that reslllted field of growing wheat he did so. To froln a sumn,er~slabor T~~ Indian is an .venge the wrong, the farmer mL1st need avaricio~lsfellow-he loves money despite kht and even then he was 'lsua1'y all that has been said of his willillpness to vorsted, for he was in the minority. part with it for fire-water and kindred Brit things have changed since then, the thinqs. The Indians of the'~iveCivilized nan with the hand reaper who needed to Tribes saw the richness that lay beneath rirork with a six-shooter in his belt to keep their own Iands and many of them com- 42 FRISCO SYSTEM - MAGAZINE. menced to turn over the sod and get at Hillside farming land is cheap in the this wealth. Ozarks-much oi it may be bought for As a result the Indians are today worlc- $6.00 an acre. The soil is usually a lightish a-day men and women. They are as busy in color with a dark red clG as a sub-soil. harvest time as the Kansas farmer with a This holds water very well and it is a ripened field of grain on hand and no strange tliing but true, that the hillside helpers in sight. They pitch their tepees crops never suffer for want of rain half near the fields and with modern machin- so rnrlcll as do the crops in the valleys. ery begin the harvcst of the cereal. The While this region-large enough for a braves cast aside thcir blankets-few of good sized state and containing 23,400,- them wear blanlcets anywajr-and wade 000 acres-is a distinct upheaval and into the yellow fields. Some of the richest inountainous in character, nyore than half Indians in the Cherokee Nation are farm- of it is made up of elevated plateaus, easy, ers and have acquired their fortune, not graceful slopes and beautiful low-lying val- through tribal payments, but by digging lcys, river and creek bottoms. These it out of the ground in wheat and corn smoother lands are all available for con- crops. The CheroI

pecially. Thc only ranclles one finds in The tendency of the Oklahoma farmer this, the richest of undeveloped America is to increase the size ol his farm as quickly today, are wheat antl alfalfa and corn as possiblc. 'I'his sanie rule holds good ranches. Here they are found, eve!l in Kansas and Texas where men of enter- greater than on the broad prairies of the prise make up the rural population. They northwest. The famous wheat farms of know Lhat the larger the farm, the cheaper the Dakotas and Minnesota that have iur the expense in harvesting and putting in the crops, and thereiore the greater the years been looked upon as the supply ita- profit. On the ranch covering 5,000 tions for milling companies, are no larger acres, it has been learned by actual figures, if as large as some of the big wheat fields the profit is 25 per cent greater in propor- found in Oklahoma and Kansas and tion than with the sinall farm oi about 200 Northern Texas. The Miller ranch, con- acres. taining 37,000 acres of wheat fields, the One of thc comparatively infant indus- Forsha ranch, containing 5,000 acres of tries of thc grcat southwest, especially in .alfalfa, and the immense farms ,of Wr. 1'. that cou~itrytributary to the Frisco Sys- Waggoner in Northern Texas, all of tem, is the cultivation of rice. Quite re- which are along the Prisco System, are cently several hundred northern farmers, ibut a few oi the famous fields that have following tlie footsteps of friends who had attracted wide attention in the pub!ic %one hefore and grown rich in tlie rice in- prints. duslry, wenl to the southcrn portion of The management of these properties the Lmne SLar Statc and opened up big req~~iresbusiness judgment quite as acute rice fields covering thousands of acres. as in the afiairs of any large manufactur- ,,1 he cultivation ot' rice adjacent to the ing firm. Hundreds of men are employed Frisco Systenl and in the coast collntiea at the "101" property in Kay County, Ok- of Texas, is certain to be one of the grow- lahoma, and the net profits amount to ing industries. This is apparent because about $100,000 per annum. The fields are of the iact that millions of acres of Texas co~vnto grain at certain seasons and they soil call with but little cspensc be made are carefully cultivated and every inch of suitable to ricc culture. Rice could antl ground utilized not only once but twice perhaps will be grown in certain parts of and thrice each year. For instance: A OLlahoma as well. field is soivn to wheat in the late fall, this Irrigation is absolutely necessary for the wheat grows rank before winter and is successi~ilcultivation of rice and this is pastured by the owners, putting several accon~plishedin two ways. The canal dollars' worth of fat per acre upon the system and wells are used. Rice canals steers. In the early summer the grain is are constructed by building two parallel cut and the field immediately re-plowed levees over the prairie and flooding this and sown to Kaffir corn-a quickly ma- with water. At intervals are flood-gates turing crop and one that produces a good which are opened at certain times when it yield before sowing time comes around is necessary to cover the growing stems again. Indeed the soil is kept in such fine with water. The only thing in Texas nec- condition by the tramping of the herds essary for rice cultivation is plenty of wa- over it that a plowing is hardly needed in ter. . the fall, thus saving that expense to the owners. Rice is sown in April and May and after It is a common sight indeed, in taking a it has got several inches out of the trip along the Frisco System in summer ground the water is turned on and al- time to meet every few hours a ~vheat lowed to cover the entire field at a depth ranch where there are five to fifteen bind- of several inches during the growing sea- ers al: work in the field, or where a battery son-sisty to seventy clays. The grain of two to five threshing machines are puff- then ripens and the water is drained away ing away around one farmer's wheat field. and harvest begins as soon as the ground In the East, where the farms are small, has dried. Rice is harvested by Mexican such a thing would be novel indeed. labor principally and after the same man- FNSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

ner as wheat or oats. The profits are souvenirs of the black past, while a score large. of years ago they were the main places oi Onc man can easily haiidle a hundred abode. The gathering of the sheaves in acres of rice land. 'the cost per acre, in- Kansas these years is therefore an occu- cluding water rent, is about $10. If one pation of great pleasure. The income of rents he land add $7.00 for rental. The the farmers of the Sunflower State for average price of rice is $3.00 per barrel. 1903 amounted to about two hundred mil- ?'he average yield is twelve barrels per lion dollars, of which one-half was irom acre, or $36, a profit of $19 an acre. These the wheat fields. The wheat crop Sgures are conservative, not exceptional amounted to 100,000,000 bushels. 'Slle cases. alfalfa crop sold for $15G,000, whereas t\v~ It must be stated that no man can en- years ago this item was not recorded in gage in the rice iridustry with little funds. the official report of Kansas crop values. Rice lands cannot as a rule be rented, for Kansas is receiving its share of settlers once the owners have ventured to build a and has for the last four or five years. canal or take a long lease on the water Since the rain has commenced to fall with rights fron~a corporation, they desire to regularity and crops yield in abundance, take a11 the profits themselves. There are the people have been assured of not only a great many canal companies being or- a living but they are getting rich fast in ganized in Frisco System territory for the the Sunflower State. Dotting the plains purpose of tapping the Colorado river in here and there a dozen years ago were sod Zentral Texas and turning the wheat and houses, whereas to day there may be seen .:otton fields into rice plantations. At fine two-story frame and brick farm present much of the rice land is found in homes, finely improved fields and the ;.he coast country where the water is plen- farmer conles to town in rubber-tired rigs. tiful. In fact all along the southern coast Almost every one has a bank account. ;or a distance of several thousand miles, Kansas has reachcd that point where ilo there is an abundance of fresh water, farmers are its aristocrats, so to speak. which makes rice culture cheap and profit- B\ILthere is room for more in Kansas. able. Of uilappropriatcd and unreserved public Until three years ago the rice industry land in the state there are yet one million was not considered in parts of Texas or more acres, which are even now avail- where it is today a leading and most pro- able to actual homesteaders. Much of fitable industry. There are four million this land lies in the western section and is --lcres of Texas land available for the rice fit for grazing more than for wheat rais- industry and about 200,000 acres are now ing. being used. Much of the best rice land in One of the newest of Kansas crops is the state is to be found along the proposed alfalia, that yields four or five cuttings to extension of the Frisco System from San the acre each season and a net profit of Antonio to Brownsville, Texas. from $20 to $35 an acre. There are a num- In recenl years the prairie west has ber of alfalfa ranches adjacent to the Fris- been turned from a' barren waste into co System in Sedgwick County and neas fields of rich productiveness, consequelltly Eeamnont, Winfield and Arkansas City, its people have prospered beyond their Thc sugar beet industry now offers a very wildest dreams of wealth. Less than ten profitable field for the settler and since years have passed since the present king- 1901 the industry has been encouraged dom of wheat was a mere desert plain. not only in Western Kansas, but at Wich- The state of Kansas has been plastered ita, Arkansas City and all through the with mortgages for time eternal, its people' southern portion of the state. Sugar held up to ridicule and the crops attacked beets yield a profit of about $45 an acre by various plague or pest. But now all is around Wichita this year. changed. Wheat is mainly responsible for Kansas has been the best advertised the prosperity in Kansas. state in the Union all through its hard- Sod houses are seen no more, except as ships and through its good times. But FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE,

Kansas people are not much given to ex- and 25-bushel-per-acre wheat is not taken aggeration, either way, for good or bad. off the rich black land without some work. state is what people ilnag- Cut if a man will settle in Kansas with a ine, a field of honey or a bleak desert. It determination to win, he will win. Others is just now in a very prosperous condi- tion, but money does not grow on trees are so right

THE GOVERNMENT FISHERIES AT NEOSHO, MISSOURI. One of the most unique industries of eries and stations located elsewhere in the hlissouri-and there are many-is the fish United States. These shipments are made hatcheries at Neosho, reached by the to all parts oi the United States, from Frisco System, in Newton county, where Washington Territory to the Florida nlillions of fish are hatched and shipped coast. Streams of the southwest have to other portions of the United States. The from time to time received fish from these fish hatchery at Newton has been pro- hatcheries, while the streams in the Ozark nounced one of the best located and finest J'Iountains are regularly supplied with in the United States, due to the pure the trout and salmon, known as game fish. spring water in which the fish are kept. Thcse who have fished for these in the The industry is one about which little is ,Ozarlc region know of the fine catches that know11 outside of the state and perhaps have been made. lew residents of Missouri would be able A visit to these hatcheries, which ire to converse intelligently upon this subject. located some distance from the town, is 'I'he Newton county station of the one of the interesting features of a visit to United States Bureau of Fisheries hatches, to the pretty little town of Neosho, located raises and distributes fish of all kinds. itself amid a number of spring streams The higher grades of fish, however, are and at the foot hills of the Ozark range made a specialty. The station itself com- on the Frisco System. The water supply prises fifteen acres, with an average flow of this town comes from springs and of 350 gallons of water per minute. Nine- through the streets of the town and the teen ponds and eight pools make up the residence portion flow several very pictur- entire hatchery, and the output of the $a- esque streams that add much to the pleas- tion has averaged for the fourteen years ure of a trip to Neosho. In making a of its esistence, about 100,000 fish per an- visit to the Indian or Olclahoma Terri- num. tories via the Frisco System one would not Principal anlong the fish hatched and rcgret a stop over at this interesting spot raised are rainbow trout, bla'clz bass, crop- in Missouri. pie, rock bass and strawberry bass, with some salmon and steel heads. The follow- ing table of the fish in the station on Sep- Friend-You have made your bed, and tember 1, 1303, furnished by H. D. Dean, you will have to lie in it. superintendent in charge, shows the mag- The Defendant-Not if I can lie out of nitude of the station's work: rainbow it. trout, 50,000; wild rainbow trout, 5,300; black bass, 2,500 ; strawberry bass, 1,800 ; Dolly-There wasn't a single young quinott salmon, 8,250 ; steel heads, 10,400 ; man at the place I went to. graylings, 1,000 ; lanlocked salmon, 1,000. Madge-That was just awful I don't It is estimated by Mr. Dean that since see how you squeezed through the sum- 1899 2,225,000 trout eggs alone have been mer. shipped from this station to private hatch- Dolly-I didn't. 46 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. VALLEY PARK. BY A K. W.

111 the narrow valley of the Meramec, of modern residences and neat cottages twenty miles from St. Louis, where the sct on eitllcr side of broad avenues, ~vh~re rhils of the Frisco System begin to winJ but recently was a dense forest, mark thc sinuously along the ban1.s of that scenic nciv cra in the town's history, e1oquen:lv river, has for many a year reposed the verifying the truism that "towns do not cl~~ietvillage of Valley Park, with its sev- grow; they are built." Eut all this is hut era1 hundred residents. It has principally the beginning of a mammoth undertaking, been known as the objective point of which, when finished, will be a monument devotees of the rod and gun, who made it tu the brains and energy that have direcld their starting point for thetr favorite pas- the capital wherewith to accomplish it. time, where rewards for the true sports- The xigor and conlpleteness with which

Plant of the St. Louis Plato Glass Compsny. man are unfailing, both for game and fish. the work is being pushcd is proof of tlw Passengers on the "Meteor" and fast ex- faith its promoters have in the results. press trains oniy get a glimpse of thc The projectors and promoters of this depot and the few houses that set further wonderful transformation of Valley Park back from the tracks cn the north, for are a syndicate of capitalists, from Pitts- it was only a way station up to a year burg, Pa., under the corporate name of. ago. the Valley Park Land Company. The resi- But within a twelve-month a wonderful dent agent and efficient director of the transformation has taken place. Instead Company is Mr. R. M. Darley, a yomig of a sleepy village, there is s busy, bust- man who has shown his ability to handle ling town of several thousand population, big enterprises. The Company purchase6 the buzz and whirr of ponderous machin- an entire section of lan.3 r~unningfrom the ery resounds through the beautiful valley, crest of the magnificent hills that over- shut in by the cragged hills on one side look the town for a mile up the valley. and the winding river on the other. Scores By reason of the bends in the river, the FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 47

new Valley Park will have one and a half not have been half enough shelter even miles of water front, and surrounded on for one-third of the glass-makers. And all sides by the most beautiful natural so it was decided to build a town of scenery to be seen in tho Southwest. houses, residential and for business pur-

Valley Pork Hotel.

The object of the Company was not poses, not only for their e~nployes, but only to build a to\vn, but also to erect tor all who desired a holm in the charm- the largest plate-glass plant in the United ing suburb, only fifty minutes' ride from States. The latter object lias bcen ac- St. Louis. complished. The plant covers twenty The new town lias been Iaid off with acres, and already employi six hundred symmctrical precision. As you alight skilled worlimen. The lvcation for s1ic11 a from the train, you loolc up St. Louis - plant was ideal, becar~scthe material for Avenue, eighty feet wide, substantially the production of glass was in easy rcach. paved and with flagstone sidewallts, fifteen Then, with such a trementloi~s factory, fect wide, for half a mile. On the first there nimt be lio~~scsfor thc employes block is the handsomc briclc and stow and their families. There werc none to structure of the Valley Park Land, Saving he had; and, in fact, if all the residents of and Trust Company and on the opposite Valley Park had vacated, there worild side of the avenue are a tiumber of brick

Valley Tn~stCompany. 48 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. business houses ; in fact, all the structures plete sewerage system as well as water- of the Company are of brick and stone, for works. In fact, homeseekers in Valley the best of building stone is quarried from Park will find a newly-made town, com- the surrounding hills. Further on up this plete mith all the public utilities. The magnificent thoroughfare are residences, Company has eighty houses finished for ranging from ten to six rooms, modern in occupancy and by January will have as architecture, and mith every domestic con- many more. venience. They are not jammed together Several large mercantile houses arc like tenement houses, but each occupies a under construction, aid a number of lots distinct and roomy lot. The same rule is have been sold whereon others are to be observed on all of the avenues. Sitting built. The Con~panyeither leases or sells well up on the hill, north of the Frisco its houses, but where a purchaser buiIds System tracks, is as pretty and commodi- ous hotel of fifty rooms as architectural his own house, it must conform to the skill can devise. The Company has its substantial plan on which the Company own electric light and power-house, with constructs its own. capacity not only to light the town, but In addition to being the seat of thc to furnish power to its own and other fac- lnrgcst plate-glass plant in the country, tories. It has also construct'ed a com- Vallcy Park is a delightful place to live in.

ARDEN.

CHARLOTTE BECKER.

There is a wood wherein the thrushes fling Their very hearts away in melody; Where dryads have a home in every tree And wood-gods haunt the shadow, mur- m~~ring Fantastic lures; where tawny lilies swing Their fragrant bells, and bees Iiunl drowsily; And breezes woo the pale anemone With tenderness that breathes the soul of Spring.

Here Summer may not pass, nor Autumn rest His blighting hand, nor harsh winds wend their way; Beneath these boughs the wonder of the May Shall never fade, nor Love deny his guest Of happiness, nor beauty lose its truth; For .4rden's forest is immortal youth: -Ainslie. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. OKLAHOMA. BY J. C. lIcXASIJIA.

The name of Oklahoma has been be- lahoma has been blessed with good crops fore the public so nluc11 for the past dozen and prosperity. In no part of our great or more years that the news reading public and diversified country has prosperity is more or less familiar with it. Not all been more universal, and in no other sec- that has been said and written is true and tion has so large a percentage of the pop- it is well that such is the case. The misin- ~ilationacquired a competence and been fornlation is almost as common as the placed in a position of independence. Such facts. The so-callcd funny papers have is the Territory that is now under consid- had much to say about the picturesque eration. features of the Oklahoma oi the Indian "The Land of the Fair God" is the and cowboy days, ancl have lei;- a ~ride- meaning oi the word Oklahoma, and it is spread impression that the old conditions therefore well named, for Oklahoma is a

View near Mountain Park. Oklahom~ still prevail. Like Kansas, its neighbor on land of fair skies, sunshine and refreshing the north, Oklahoma has been jeered at breezes. It is a land of peace and plenty. as the home of the tornado, the drought It is a land where the hand of friendship and all evils known or imagined to exist is extended to the worthy of all states and on the plains of the West and, like Kansas, nations. It is a land of industry, and the has moved steadily forward in the things drone has no place in its system of eco- required to make a great comn~onwealth. nomics, where honest industry is well re- Like Kansas, Olclahon~ais peopled by a warded. It is a land without classes ex- class who know not what failure means, cept as men malie them by superior indus- and a temporary reverse is taken for a try or ability. It is a land where there breathing spell for renewed effort. are no great gaps between her people, and In the early days of settlement, before abject poverty and unwieldy wealth are the prairie sod was fully decayed, there alike unknown. It is a land of diversified were short crops and settlers experienced industries, the cotton fields of the South hardships as is always the case in a new overlapping the corn fields of the North, country, but for nearly a decade now Ok- and challenging the world for a superior 50 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. in wheat production. In the early days the read like a romance, but it is yet fresh in rich grass of the prairies fed,, countless the minds of the participants and those thousands of buffaloes and antelopes who were interestcd in watching, hence wherc now alfalfa and other cultivated no attempt will now bc made at a descrip- grasses feed and fatten their thousands of tion. high grade domestic animals. Olilal~omais preeminently an agricul- The history of Oklahoma since its set- ttlral State, for we may well call her a tlement by whites, covers but little more State evcn before a tardy Congress takes than a dozen years, but for picturesque- the action necessary to set the machinery ness and positive reqults, it stands in a of a lull state government in operation. C~SSby itself. Peopled in a day, as u7as In few States has farming Ixen as profit- Oldalioma at the original opening, the able as in Olilahoma during the past dc- world Ioolced on amazed, and expected cacle. Situated as she is in the central belt nothing less than a revrllsion that wotdd of the United States, thcre arc few crops send thosc tliousands of land hunters back of thc temperate zone that arc not pro- whence tiicy came. and aln~ostas qnickly : clucctl with profil in Oklahoma. IVhcat is

Before the Railroads. =I=----: ' - 1 but they did not know Olclahoma or the the great staple tl~athas done so much for character of tlie people who were in line this l'erritory, wllile corn, oats, cotton on the border waiting for the pistol shot and the leading grasses vie with each that woulcl tell tl~ein that the land was other ior the second place. In some sec- theirs for the taking, and who were willing tions moderate fortunes are made annu- to risk life in the mad race that followed. ally in potato culture, and both the Irish Following tlie original opening, other sec- and swcet varieties secm to do equally tions were released to the public and well. X brief glance at some of the pro- opened by races for possession, until the ducts that have niade Oklahorna famous c~~lminationin 1901, when 176,000 persons are tinicly here. journeyed, some of them tlio~~sai~clsof WHEAT.-IVhile wheat culture is miles, to the El Reno and Lawton land morc general in the northern half of the offices to register for a chance in the great Territory, thcre is not a county that does clra\ving whose prize was a quarter section not produce it abundantly. The winter of rich land in Southwestern Oltlahon~a. varieties are produced, and the wheat is A history of these various openings would usually pastured during the \\linter, and it I

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is not unusual for horses and cattle to be is about the same in Kansas and Nebraska, carried through the winter with little or and tlie quality is similar. The shipment no other feed and this without cutting of corn is quite large, but every year a down the yield of grain at harvest. The larger percentage is fed to stock at home, wheat yield in Oklal~oinaoften reaches as thus realizing a double profit on it. It is high as 40 bushels per acre or even more, now conceded that Oklahoma must event- and a11 average of 22 to 25 is always ex- ually take her place among the great corn pected, and the quality is of the best. TLw statcs of the Union. total yield for 1903 will not fall far short cf Ci)'TTi)l\'.-This is another of the 40,000,000 bushels. Many nlills have been great staples for which Oklahoma is noted, as the soutlierii half is well within tlie cot- ton belt, and is already recognized as a factor ill the cotton production of the country. In thc average season, cotton picking exlends well into the winter, and the writer has seen Oklahoma cotton pickers at work in full force in February. ,llie , average yield is about lialf a bale to the acre, all1ioug.h a bale is by no nieans uncommon. Cotton raising is especially attractive to men of small means and large families, as the work of the children can be utilized in cultivating and gather- ing the crop. It ma); be noted here by way of information to those unacquainted with cotton culture, that cotton does not impoverish land like most c~iltivated crops. 0A'l'S.-When it comes to oat produc- tion it is generally conceded that Okla- homa is a marvel, aid pl~enomenalyields are common. It is no1 uncoinmon ior oats to yield 75 or 80 busllels per acre, and even 100 or more is frequently reported, and the quality is excellent. The writer heart1 of one farmer in the Canadiau va- ley getting 110 bushels per acre on 120 acres, and it was of excellent quality and heavy weight. In the souther^^ counties there is a growing interest in the produc- tion of a variety of winter oats that is very successlul and tnatures early. Corn stalks in 5eld near Chandler, Okln., man G ft. 2 in. POTATOES.--The cultivation of Irish tall, stalk 14 ft. * in. high. potatoes has grown into a great industry in some sections of Olclal~oma,and hun- erected throughout the Territory, and dreds of carloads are annually shipped out. Oklahoma flour is known far and wide. Two crops a year are raised, one to sup- It is sent into many states and even ex- ply the early markets of the East and ported in large quantities, and recognized North, and the other for winter use for for its good quality. both home cons~~mptionand shipment. CORN.--While wheat is probably the This industry is a profitable and growing leading crop, corn is a close second in one. In some localities the production acreage, and much greater in number of of sweet potatoes is also an important bushels produced. The corn yield per acre and growing industry, and, as in the case 52 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. of Irish potatoes, the quality is unsur- important as well as a profitable industry. passed, even by the Georgia product. T3oth soil and climate are such as are MEL,OI\TS.-The melon industry may needed for n~aturingthe perfect tomato. seem a small one, but it is neither small AL,I:ALf;'A.--Evcn a brief description nor unimportant, and is destined to reach of Oldahoma would be incomplete with- large proportions. The Oltlahoina canta- out especial reference to this crop. Alfalfa loupe is said by experts to equal the Col- is successfully grown in all sections and orado Rocky Fords, and to be as easily in most soils of Oklahoma, and there is no and more cheaply produced, ~xhilethe wa- more profitable crop. For cattle, when termelon is seldom equaled. judiciously pastured or used as hay, there FRUIT.-Apples, peaches, pears, cher- is no better feed. For hogs it is the best ries and all varieties of berries are raised pasture there is, and hogs are often win- profitably. Being in the same latitude as tered in good order with no other food the celebrated fruit belt of South Mis- than alfalfa hay. The crop yields enor- souri and North Arkansas it was a fore- mously, from 3 to 5 crops being harvested gone conclusion that the same success a year, and from one to two and a half

Wichita Mountains. would be attained here, and experience tons of hay per acre at a cutting. As the has now proven such to be the case. The alfalfa roots go very deep, dry weather has apple crop the preseut season was good no terrors for the alfalfa grower. In a afid the quality superior, and the same was recent excavation alfalfa roots were found true as to the >each crop. Strawberry to have penetrated to a depth of 128 feet. culture is becoming an important industry O'I'IIER CROPS.-It would be impos- in nlany localities and interest is annually sible to make note of all the crops that are increasing. In addition to the common successfully grown in Oklahoma, but it and table varieties of grapes, an excellent is enough to say that thcre are few crops quality of wine grape is grown, and wine- grown in ollr country that are not colti- making will no doubt some time be added vated successfully there. Among the crops to the important industries of Olclahoma. that have been thoroughly tested and TOMATOES.-As is the case in South found profitable may be mentioned Kat'fir Missouri, the growing and canning of to- corn, castor beans, sugar beets, matoes has come to be looked upon as an sorghum, broom corn, timothy, clover FNSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 53

and millet, all of which are cultivated to a the feeding season for stock is short. considerable extent. There is always frost enough to kill the LIVE STOCK-There is nothing in fever germs that are found in frostless the shape of domestic live stock that can- regions, and therefore the fevers of the not be successfully grown in Oklahoma. extreme South never reach here. The The native grasses are nutritious and greater part of the Territory has general!y those under cultivation equally so. The had an abundant rainfall to mature crops, winters are mild and the close feeding sea- and even the extreme western portion is a son short. It is no trouble to raise forage good grass country and therefore good for crops for pasture and rongh feed, while stock. Since it has bcen denlonstrate,l corn and the products of cotton seed put that alfalfa and Kaffir corn can be success- on the fat. The climate is as healthful for fully grown in the dryest part of the 'l'cr- animals as for people, and there are, there- ritory there is no such fear of drought 2s fore, no climatic diseases to make life a was formerly experienced. Some of the burden for stock raisers. Every year wit- western counties, notably Custer ar:d

Excursion of Immigrntion -4gents Frisco System, Hobart, Okla., Jlar., 1933,

nesses a decided improvelnent in the grade Washita, are noted for the almost uni- or quality of Oklahoma live stock, and forinly good corn crops produced for a much pride is talien in good stock. What long period of years, and the opinion is is here said of live stock applies equally becoming more and more prevalent that well to poultry of all kinds, and a living in- the dry belt is disappearing, and disas- come can easily be secured from a few trous drought no longer to be feared. acres devoted to poultry raising. Whether Oklahoma ever has a serious CLIMATE.-Oklahoma is located in drought or not, it is certain that one would that middle belt of our country which is not be as disastrous as in the early days free from the extremes of both North and of Kansas and Nebraska for farmers have Sonth. While it is in the frost and snow learned how to farm and what crops to belt, the cold is never severe or lasting. raise so as to guard against its effects. Snow seldom lies on the ground more There is no dead line in Oklahoma, and no than a few days at a time, and some win- section in which the farmer has not been ters pass with no ice in any portion thick successful of late years, unless it be Bea- I enough for storing, and in most winters ver county, that narrow neck or strip of 54 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. land exlending to the wcst of OIdahoma lahonia, howcver poor, necd go without a proper, and scparating the Panhandle of good education. Texas iroln Kansas and Colorado, and RAILWAYS.-Oldahoma is rcmarka- that is as yet mainly occupied as a grazing bly well supplied with railways for a new land, and but little farming has been at- cuinmonivealtl~,the most important and tempted. extensive of wllicli is the Frisco System. Ell,UCA'I'ION.-Feiv of the states havc It crosses the Territory diagonally from better educational facilities than Okla- Northeast lo Southwest, and from central homa, and her public scl~oolsystem is the Ens1 to the extrcine Southwest, and is pride of her people. This Territory was now rapidly pushing to con~pletionan East fortunate in drawing heavily for citizens and '\'\Test linc a little north of the ceuler from Kansas and other states \vhere edu- of the Territory. Nearly every county in cation had rcached a high state of pcrfec- the Territory no\v has one or more rail- tion, ant1 thus started in with the esperi- roads, and building is by no means over. ence of an old state, but without the ruts The very fact that so many miles of rail- and set notions of older communities. If road have been built is conclusive evi-

not the first building to be crected in a dcnce that it is a good country, for rail- new Oklahoma comnlunity, the school road inanagcrs make thorough investiga- house was among tlie first, and the church tion of a country before building through was near by. No town was laid out with- it. out aniple provision being made for FUEL-The eastern part of the Terri- schools and churches, two great moral tory is largely covered with a growth of forces. 'l'he newspaper, another great timber that is valuable for lumber and moral and educational force, was univer- fuel, while smaller bodies are found at va- sally read and liberally patronized from rious points throughout the Territory, the start. The public school system of Olc- though Oklahoma as a whole is a prairie lahoma is not restricted to narrow limits, country. Coai is known to exist in large but is based on comprehensive plans. This quantities in the Osage Indian Nation in system consists of graded schools for ru- Eastern Oltlahoma, and is believed to ral districts and towns, a county high exist in other sections, and is found in ex- school, a preparatory school, normal haustless quantites in its twin sister on the schools, an agricultnral and mechanical East, Indian Territory. Oil and natural college and a university. No child in 01~- gas have been found in widely separated FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. localities in Ol

VISION.

By HATTIE WHITNEY.

Out of the dusk of the yesterdays, With the muffled dawn it came, Winged with the fragrance of cool, dark ways, Yet touched with a hidden flame;

Dear as the light of an afternoon That dies in a golden hush; Heart-breaking sweet as the half-heard tune From the soul of a hermit thrush.

It came when the fog-white dawn was still As the wing of a weary dove; A broken chord with an echoed thrill- The dream of an old time love! -Munsey. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. HOW I REFORMED CHARLIE FINCHER. BY WILLIS LEONARD CLAYAHAN.

"I'll tell you what I'll do with you, bad boy, and his old school teacher, Miss Charlie," I said, looking him earnestly in Musgrave, blushed with shame every time the face. "If you will cot take another she thought of him or met him on the "rink or rob another man between now street-but it had been many and many a and Christmas, I will take you home with day since Charlie Fincher had had a me and you shall be the guest of honor Christmas dinner of the right sort; and in my house that day." Charlie ltnew one thing-that of all the You see, I could talk thus familiarly to crowd who had been his friends in boy- Charlie Fincher, because Charlie and I hood, I was the only one who had unfail- had gone to school together down in the ingly recognized him. Others either Ozark country, and it really was not illy avoided him or snubbed him outright. fault that he and Eli Denton, who hati Some spoke to him, but patronizingly, likewise been raised ilk Springfield, had and either told him what a shame it was held up big Ben Claik one night-or, that he had gone to the dogs as he had, rather, had rolled him over, for Ben was or remarked llow thev pitied him. Tile speechless, being mightily drunk-and Sunday school superintendents passed him robbed him of a few dollars ; neither was by. and even the saloonkeepers took his it my fault that a jurv found them both money grudgingiy-all but Ilce Brennan. guilty of highway robbery and sentenced Ilte was impartial. A thief's money loolied them to a term at Jefferson City. Neither, like any other coin to Ilie. So it came to I art1 convinced, mas it my fault that pass that of all the town I alone stood by Charlie felt like a vagabond when he was Charlie when he was at his worst. Never released from prison and immediately once did I mention the penitentiary to commenced to drink whisliey as fast as him; never once did I treat him other his stomach and his pocketbook would let than as the Charlie of scl~ooldays ; never him, as his father had been doing ever once did I speak to him commiseratingly. since the boy could remember. Neither "Don't pay any attention to these fel- can I hold myself accountable for the fact lows, Charlie," I said. "You hold onto that Charlie had been compelled on two my coat-tails, and we will pull out of this or three occasions to work out a fine on mire yet." the city streets by reason of his inability Charlie heeded the word and held on, to pay cash after an uproarious bout with and for the first time in six months I saw corn. Neither was it my affair direct!^ him smile when I mentioned the Christmas that Charlie Fincher was held up by dinner. Springfield mothers to their sons as a "What do you say?" I asked, seeing horrible example of depravity, although that he hesitated. Charlie sald nothing, he was barely twenty-five years old. I re- and I smoked away in silence for tell fer to these painful facts only to sl~o~vyoa minutes. that Charlie was in a bad way, socially and "I would go you," hz said at last, "if I morally, at the time I made him my propo- had any clothes." sition concerning the Christmas dinner. "Oh, darn the clothes !" I replied. "Who NOW,a Christmas dinner is not nlucii do you think I am entettaining these days, of a reward, per se, for one whole month anyway-millionaires? Brush up the best oi righteous living alter ten years of yon have, get a shine and come on." cln~nlte~nessand evil associations-for "All right," he said, after a pause. "1 Charlie had long been accounted a bad, will. Here goes for the last drink till FRlSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. ------Chri5tmas night !" Ancl he dren- from his wrc tossing abandoncd papers around hip pocket a small flask, which he halt' the old school-jard, where we had played, drained, not even offering it to me, then and biting winds soughed tlirough the hurled the bottle through a window, bade leafless branches overhead and shook the me good-bye and departed. coal-house in the rear. "It's a bad night. I continued to see him every day after Don't you tliinl; we had better go home?" that, and if Charlie ever tool; a drink, hc "Yes, it is a bad night," answered nlust have used some powerful disin- Charlie, hoarsely; and I thought he said it fectant immediately ailerward ; and if he betn-een his clenched teeth. "It's a ever had designs on any man's person or damned bad night, at that. We ought to property during that time he never be- turn in." trayed the fact by \vord or look, although "Vcry well," I replied. "Shall I walk before that there had becn several rumors up your way?" closely connecting him with midnight "Yes," he said, "you may go as far as robberies, to at least onc of which Charlie the Hart corner. I'll make it the rest oi had, to all intents and purposes, coi~fided the ~7ay." to me a guilty Itnowledge. But the And he did. I know he did, because I Christmas dinner idea seemed to be ;I watched him. He went home and went to deadener to his career as a merciless ma- bed, and I knew that the poor fellow's rauder, and I felt considerably encouraged struggle for one night was over. (and, perhaps, secretly, a little proud) Christmas Eve came at last. I knew it when Charlie remarked sorrowf~~llyone behooved me to keep an eye on Charlie, night as we passcd a church ~vherethtx and I did. It may seein strange that I, a choir was practicing Christmas anthcms : young man honorably employed in com- "I wish to God I had a seat in the l~attingthe world, should spend so mr~ch Gospel wagon !" time in the coinpanf of a jail-bird, who "That beats the water-wagon?" I said, had been suspected of othcr crimes than inquiringly. the one for which he had been convicted, "Yes," said Charlie, "yes!'' And I:? to say nothing of his drunken record, but almost hissed the word in my ear. "But everybody in Springfield knew that Charlie for God's sake, don't ~ncntionthat! It and I were friends, but not partners, an11 might tempt me to drink again, just by came to look upon our association as a mal.;ing me thinli of it." matter of course. So on this night, of a11 And the poor fellow drew the thin collar others, I sought Charlie cut, and kept him of his only coat as far up around his neck company. Up and down the streets we as possible, and shivered in the wind, walked, watcliing the cro~vcls,viewing the which was beginning to howl dismally. I\-indows and decorations, smiling at the We ~valkedalong in silence anothcr block, bantering of friends in merry mood-"my and passed a saloon wherein a noisy friends," I should specify, for Charlie had crowd had assembled, for the holidays none-and even venturing to take a peep were fast approaching, and men werc be- into one church where a Christmas tree ginning to take on the festal spiri~. was being divested of its sweet and glit- Charlie shudderccl, and looked toward thc tering iruit, and where little children, street as he heard the ha!(-drt~nlcenshouts when not engaged in cracking nuts or that came from the inside, and me hurried gorging themselves with candy, were sing- onward, neither daring to speak. ing Christmas carols, while their elders "It's a bad night," I said as we reacheJ loolted on with parental importance. the corner of the big brick house, where "I

sometiines talking, sometimes silent, for and sobriety preceding Christmas had the day of reckoning was near at hand; "not been the same that it used to be," and the Imowledge of that fact, perhaps aid Charlie did exact];/ what he said he unconsciously, oppressed us both. cwuld do-he went awey from my house, "Well," I ventured at last, "this 1s from my elegant Christmas dinner, from Christmas morning. I wish you a merrv my friendly voice, from my brotherly Christmas, Charlie. Don't forget the smile, and cominenced "all over again." dinner this afternoon. I shall expect yc~u He kept his word, as Ix said he would; at 1:30 sharp." and had not his pent-up deviltry had a He promised, and we parted. Entertain- chance to exert itself, no doubt he would ing ex-convicts is not much in my line. have gone a step further and died-blown but I flatter myself that the King or up-esplocled. yes, he kept his word with England never sat down to a neater or me, both before thc dinner and after. more tempting spread than that which And that is how I reformed Charlie greeted the gaze of Charlie Finches that Fincher. Christmas afternoon at my cottage. The neighbors were horrified, and the The Dog-Feeling pretty blue? The hIethodist preacher, whose church I somc- times attended, seemed Lo be in do~tbtas Turkey-You netcln't talk. I'd rather be sluffed than a sausage, any day. to whether I was a ci-irinal 01- only a fool, as I learned later. But that made no 'Wave you heard the latest? Brown's difference with me. I had my tow-line wife has run off with his chauffeur." around a young man whom they had all "Mercy, what a pity! He was such a good declared was shooting down the rapids of chauffeur! Drown will never be able to sin to perdition, and I was determined to replace him." haul him ashore and set his feet upon the IIe--And at last thcy agreed to marry. rock oi respectability. She-Yes, and it was the last thing they The dinner passed off pleasantly enough. agreed on. Had I been enLertaining the Governor of Wife-What do you think of my pic- Missouri, I could not have enjoyed his ture? Husband-It will do. Evidently a society more than I did that of Charlie snapshot, my dear. "IVhy?" "Your Fincher, reiormed drunkard and highway mouth is shut." robber. He got his full share of the white "The expedition endured the extremest meat, and when he sniffed the brandy in hardship." "Yes; I understand the;.^ were the mince pie, he was vir~uousenough to locked in the ice during two lecture sea- leave it untouched. As we parted, he sons." grasped my hand fervently, and said: "This is the bes~day of my life. I can't A magnate-"Is he very rich?" "Rich? tell you how I feel. I am like a different \Yhy, hc's so rich he dsren't look twice at man. Life is not the same that it used a girl for fear she'll bring a breach of to be. I am going away from here, and promise snit." Guest-Why do yo11 believe in second I hegin all over again. I will keep my word or die." sight, major:' Major Darby (in an inl- 4nd so he did. That night, as soon a3 pressive whisper)--.Because I fell in love he corlld absorb enough whiskey to give at first sight. him the courage, Charlie went forth upon "\Vhat's the matter with Fred?" asks the highivay, fell upon a stranger, beat one workman. " 'E's got a splinter in hi.; him half to death, al;d robhcd him of 'znc!," saw 'a~iolhcr. "V~'hy don't 'e p~lll evesy cent he had. He had spoken truly. it o~it?" "Wot ! Tn his dinner I:our ! Not l,ih during that long month of decency Ilkel\. !" 60 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. THE BROWNWOOD REGION. Facts about a rich and fertile district of which but little is knom. BY W. H. C. The Brownwood country, which in- financial stress, Bro~~nwooclgrows right cludes all that territory for many miles along and values increase. Mention is ol- around the city of Brownwood, in Erown ten made of the natural advantages of a connty, has become almost as well known p!ace, and while Brownwood seems to as Texas itself. There are many things have nearly all of these that go to make that have contributed to make this psr- a city, they do not, as in many placcs, ticular section of Texas far-famed. In thc stand in the way of the hard work neces- first place, it seems that only the clevercst sary to the upbuilding of a country. In its people from all the country, by a location, Frownwood is particularly for-

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- kind of common c onsent, have located in tun ate, it being at the intersection of the Brownwood. They are not only clevcr, Fort Worth & Rio Grande division of the but they are enterprising, and never let Frisco System with the western branch of an opportunity pass to let strangers know the Santa Fe, about one hundred and forty the many advantages of their town anal miles southwest from Ft. Worth, and country. This spirit of keeping sometl~ing about the same distance from any otlker doing all the time attracts much attention commercial center of importance. It is to Brownwood, and keeps the town sterd- on the Pecan River, and the center of the ily growing and the country round about famous Pecan Valley of Texas, the very developing. In this connection it should heart of the pecan industry of the State, be stated that there has never been a where grow the finest paper-shell pecans boom of any kind in Bro~vnwood;but its offered on the markets of the world. The growth, year by year, has been steady and stream not only furnishes an ample supply permanent. Even in times of the severest for the city, but is utilized quite. exten- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 61 -- arruy for irrigation, and its banks are tain that land which, in Brown county, lined with large native pecan trees. Near averages in cost perhaps $10.00 an acre the city is perhaps the largest cultivated now, will produce, one year with another, peca~orchard in the world, there being without any irrigation, as good crops, over 11,000 trees in one grove. When it is fruits and vegetables as any land in the known Lhat as many as seventy-five cays of State, regardless of value. This is say- pecans have been shipped from Brown- ing a great deal, but the farmers produce rvood in a single season, that the cars av- figures to prove it. It is no unusual thing erage 30,000 pounds each, and sell at for land to net the owners, in a single about six cents a pound, it will be seen year, double its appraised value. A few what a nice revenue is brought in from instances are cited to show the productive- this source alone. The business is growing, ness of the soil. A few years ago a well- and a number of small orchards have been known agricultural paper offered $100.00 planted in the past few years. The water as a premium for the largest proven yield supply of the country is ample for all pur- on a ten-acre field of oats, and Brown

Colol~ldoriver bridge on the Brownwood-Brody line of the Frisco System. poses, besides the Pecan river, which runs County captured the premium over the diagonally across the county, and the Col- United States, without irrigation or fertil- orado river, which forms the southern ization. This gear a prominent farmer of boundary, there being some fifteen or the Bangs country, in Brown County, twenty smaller streams. Wells of good threshed 124 bushels of oats from a nieas- water are easily had anywhere from ten ured fifteen-sixteenths of an acre, and sent to one hundred feet below the surface. a sample of the oats, with a statement to There is now a considerable acreage irri- that effect, to the Farmers' Congress. gated in the county, and this is being in- Forty-five dollars an acre was netted from creased every year, the water being sup- barley this season after the field had been plied from streams, wells and reservoirs. heavily pastured. Another s~tbstantial But farming is being done successfully, farmer is authority'for the statement that and has been for years, without irrigation, his potato patch grew potatoes at the rate many dry land farmers contending that, in of 232 bt~shelsto the acre. Wheat sent proportion to expense and labor involved, from this county to the agricultural de- the unirrigated lands pay best. It is cer- partment has been pronounced equal to 62 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

the finest Genessee Valley wheat of New feed country there is no surprise when a : York, and, in favorable seasons, forty person is informed that the cattle interesrs ; busl~elshave been grown to the acre. The and general stock interests of the country I past season a great many farmers grew alone are enough to keep tlie people pro<- twenty-five busliels and over. Two large pcrous regardless of other things. The ' flouring mills at Bro~vnwood are kept mild winters decrease the expense of car- busy day and night, an evidence of the ing for stock, malting this one of the lnrg- large wheat interest of the Brownwood est feeding grounds in the State for fin- country. All cereals grow equally as well ishing stock for the markets, which arc as wheat, oats and barley. Hays and all now easily accessible at Ft. Worth; where forage crops produce so abundantly that a parties do not care to ship farther north. simple statement of some yields mould Diseases among stock are almost Ilrr- sound so large that the average reader known, the climatic condition heing favor-

might discredit it Corn this year will able for both stuck ai~dpeople. The cot- yield thirty or forty bushels to the acre, ton conditions arc most favorable every and Mesican June corn, which is exten- )-ear. l3rownwood has marketed over sively planted as a second, or catchcrop, 30,000 bales of cotton, and this year will after the cereals are harvested, produces exceed over 20,000. The decrease is about the same quantity. The sorghums, largely due to diversification idea which milo maize and Icaffir corn are also heing has taken such a hold on the people of the estensively gro\vn now, and produce county. Perhaps the average crop will enormous yields. A great deal of atten- be a third of a hale, though individual tion is being paid to alfalfa now, and as a cases are cited of ovcr a bale to the acre. consequence the interest in hogs is in- 'T'hcre is seldoin too much rain for cotton, creasing. With such an ideal grain and never enough to damage it materially, and FRISCO SYSTrn MAGAZINE. such thii~gsas boil wcevil or boll wornis all that co~ildbe desired, there being abso- are ~u~iinown.It is claimed, and with much lutely no local causes for diseases of any good reasoll, too, that at this altitude, lii~~d.'l'he climate builds up most people 1,500 feet, the boll weevil has never done who are run down in health, and many any damage, and, consequently, his dep- come liere for that purpose. With such a redations are not ieared. Fruits and veg- productive s~~rrounclingcountry, with its etables do as well as ulywhere. Brown adva~~tageouslocation with reference to County apples have raKen the blue ribbon other large places, with its public-spirited repeatedly in State Agricultural contests. citizcn~hip,with the low prices on lands The best liortic~~lt~~i-a1autliorities say that and city property, uhen compared with the fine plums mature on the trees morc other sections, with the cordial welcome perfectly I~ere than anywhere else in that 15 extended to new-comers and new Texas, and one man near Bangs, in entcrprises, it requires no prophet to fore- Erown County, is preparing to plant tell that Bro\vnwood, already the metrop- eigl~tyacres this fall to plums alone, and olis of a large section, will soon talie its one man southeast from ~'ro~m\vood,place in industi~ialenterprises and in pop- about twelve miles, is preparing a three ulation wit11 cities now much more preten- hundi-cd acre farm to plant in fruit orchard. tious. Brow~nvood is already a city of l'caches grow to just as great perfection some 6,000 people, has the usual enter- as in East Texas, and all the berries do as prises of such places, is noted for its two well. One Icatling Tesas horticulturist, fine colleges, its schools, its cliurclies, its \vho has 111ade a caseiul examination of manufacturing industries, its large com- col~ditio~lshere, says that the Brown\vood nlercial interests and many other tltings countrjr is bound to become famous as a that need not be enumerated in thii arti- fruit country in the next few years. Po- cle. 'l'here are exceptional opportunities tatoes and other vegetables will be in Brownwood for many manufacturing planted on a large scale nest year, and will, enterprises, and in the county for thc in a short time, be in all the markets of the farmer, stocl

CHICKEN MONEY IN DADE COUNTY.

h larmer whu purchases forty acres of highest parts sometimes gct into the ground in Dade county, No., is sure to lower cloud line. get the worth of his mo~~ey,i01- lie is de- Ilade county, despite its rough surface, l~verecljust twice tlie numbcr of acres that is one of the richest counties in tlie state, he bargains ior. This is due to the fact and ~tspeople are supremely happy. 1 that Uade countj runs from one hill into spent a day in Greenfield recently and here another and all tarms have two sides to around the court house square met many thcm, up onc hill ancl down another. folk who had never seen any other train This does not deter the farmers from than those of the Frisco System running mahing moncy, in fact the hills are the through the county, and lvho had never aiders and abettors of this feature of the been fifty miles from their birth place in - Datle count man's existence. It is a very their whole life, To then1 a t\vo-ring cir- pleasant feature also. Dade county lies on cus was the greatest thing that el-er hap- the wstern slope oi the Ozark range, in pened and yet they were far more content southwestern Missouri, but that side of the than tlie people I have met in the lobbies range has decided creases in it. The ele- of tile high-class amusement places of tlie vation of the county above sea level, at biggest n~etropolis. its lowest point, is 1,300 feet, while the Greenfield is the county seat of Dade ,; ' , 64 PI'RISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

and the town is perched nlajestically upon dozen eggs were marlceled from Green- a high hill, while in the valleys be- field and other sillaller towi~s in the low are rich wheat and corn fields and cou11ty. upon the hillsides are nunlerous orchards, 1 lie egg shipping business has received each covering several hundred acres. In a great impetus ot late, however, and this places where the land is too rough the year onc million dozen eggs were shipped farms are turned into melon patches, poul- from South Greenfield on the Fnsco Sys- try fanns, etc. Dade county is also rich tein,to Iiansas City and St.Louis. Paclters in mineral. Ail accurate idea of the wealth are establishing branches all over the ol Dade county is given in the official re- countj. Poultry raising is a great deal a port of the governlnent issued in 1900. matter of fashion anyhow, for anywhere I*lhe tolal number of farins in the county in Missouri can poultry be raised with pro- at that time was 2,732, of which all were fit, but onlj in those counties where one improved with buildings except eighty- neighbor tries to outdo the other does the three. The total acreage of these farms busincss become of gigantic proportions. was 291,434 acres, of which all but SG,S47 At Springfield, the "queen of the Ozarlts," acres were improved. 'rhe value of the the chicken and egg shipping business is land and improvements, excepting the one of the most extensive industries of buildings, was $4,67G,2SO, the value of the that town. buildings being $514,410; the live stock Greenfield is a model town, inasmuch as in Dade county is worth $1,181,211, while its people are moral, rcligious and happy. the value of the products not fed to live There are signs carved into the stone stock, for 1900, was $1,215,000. wallis along the main streets advising the The live stock industry of Dade county passersby to "get right with God," and is not a small item. On June 1, 1900, there there are no saloons in the county. Dade were 4,712 calves under one year, 2,717 county has no town over 2,000 inhabi- steers under two years and 2,257 steers tants and can therefore maLe liquor selling under three years. The number of dairy prohibitive by high license. The people cows anlounted to six thousand or over. are not ill for a cl~ange,either, as they say At that time there were 29,000 hogs and drunkenness begets idleness and idleness 277 goats in the county. But now the is likewise prohibited in Datle county. I goats are increasing and the hogs are in- never witnessed such activity in a Mis- creasing also. Fat hog shows are getting soun town so sinall as Greenfield. Even "faddish" with the farmers and they are the old Missouri mules seemed in a hurry even malting up purses to send some of to get hoine. Speaking- of mules, it seenis the best to the fat stock shows at Kansas that the buyers of mules for the Eoer war City and St. Louis. From the goats in forgot to come to Dade and that there is 1900 there was shorn 17,850 pounds of a surplus on hand. The hitching rack mohair and from the sheep as much wool. around the court house square on a Satur- But Lhde county is primarily a county day afternoon is lined with teams, and gone to chickens. With them it is not a five-sixths of the teams are mules. The side issue, but as Mr. Willis King, a well iinplement stores prosper in Dade county known newspaper correspondent who because of the fact that the farm macllin- traveled through that region recently, ery is quiclcly norn out in the rocky soil. wrote his paper, " they clothe the children A hardware drummer told me that he did with chickens." If Sal or Sue or brother more business in Greenfield than any Will wants a new pair of shoes, or a new other town in the 5tate twice the size. Cut hat or something of that sort, the parents a failure in the valleys is seldom known take in a coop filled with fat pullets and and the farmers are all getting rich. One bring back the desired articles. It is just is impressed at once upon reaching Green- like finding it, they say. The value of all field ly the subtantial appearance of thc poultry in the county on June 1, 1900, was home< and business houses. The stores $50,336, while the year previous $89,000 are of fine white native stone and the worth had been sold. In addition 746,000 houses are nenly painted. The farm ERISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. homes are also very excellent. The opera that the show house contributes to every house at Greenfield has a most peculiar element of human emotion. The best sign carved in three stones set about five days for Dade county are yet to come, so feet apart in a horizontal line across the its residents believe. Certain it is that top of the building. These are "Drama, things are "picking up a bit," as the old Conredy, Tragedy," meaning, I suppose, settlers say.

THE HARVESTER IN ACTION.

The most vital work of the nation is that of 3 mid-sunlnler sun and never feel the se- of gathering in the sheaves. And yet how rious effects of heat. On every hand men little attention is attached to the great are falling about them, but the real har- ~lneri& harvest. Perhaps, because of vester is a giant in endurance, who works the usual peaceful manner in which this day after day in a temperature ranging tvent in the world of labor passes by each from SO to 110 degrees and never wavers. summer season, is why it is accorded less Is the labor worthy of the price? Har- than usual prominence. vest hands in the-richest wheat belt of the But new conditions are surrounding the IJnited States, the northwest, are paid from farmer today, conditions against which he $2 to $3.50 per day. The actual profit, and ic going to and has already rebelled, and it has been averaged by espcrts, upon $1.90 the future of the grain dealer is rather worth of labor, yields frotti $5 to $8 to the stormy. Strikes are liable to follow each employer. The same condition of affairs other in quick succession throughout the exists in Kansas, Xebraska and elsewhere. wheat and corn harvest ot' the present sea- There are in the United States six inillion son. Reports of coinbines of harvest daily wage earners, of which one million workers are pouring into the headquarters are found in the harvest field during the of the American Federation of Labor from summer time. Last year $365,000,000 was all portions of the United States, while paid out to the workers who gathered in equally as numerous are the reports of the sheaves. This included the regularly codines of farmers, who have organized employed farm hands and the men who to fght the trust, as they are pleased to were imported from the cities to cut the term it. grain. But the harvester in action is a man The harvest begins in May and lasts un- til latter August. It moves north from the worthy of his rank in the realm of labor- Gulf coast at the rate of twenty miles per ers. There are masters of their craft in day until the Dakotas and Canada are every division of the world's great work, reached. Meanwhile there are experts who and there are men who have the work of have followed the harvest in its northward the field completely subservient to their flight and who have spent the entire sum- hands. Be it known that grain gathering mer in the midst of the grain fields. These is a task. In the heated days of a long, dry are the experts who earn from $3 to $5 sumnler it becomes a siege of endurance, per day. Eut as a rule, for the immense which muscles cannot always withstand. profit brought to the enlployer, the farm But there are men who can wade tl~roiigh hand is the poorest paid worker on the acres of golden grain, in the beating rays labor calendar today. 66 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. THE HICKORY FLAT COUNTRY OF MISSISSIPPI. BY 13. E. BLAKESLEE.

"T!lere3s snmcthing to see along the largely high and dry, closely bordering 011 Frisco" in Mississippi. the rnoi~ntainoi~s.It is not an agricul- T!ie highest and lnosi picturesque por- tural country, strictly speaking, the valleys tion of the state is traversed by the road and gentler slopes only being in cultiva- as it wincls its way through the Hicl

Where the<&~1.o dozeus of mineral springs to the acre, possessing varied medicinal properties, wit!l the moilotony frequently broken by ton county, with its -100 people, is situated precipitous bluffs and 1111ge boulders. The in the ccnter of the yellow pine region and traveler will1 a zest ior Llie novel in natural still does a considerable timber and lum- scenic effect always finds something of in- ber business, but not so much as formerly. terest at every turn, as the train dashes It lics in the pretty and fertile valley of t!lrougl~the varied lanclxape. "Oak-li-me-tall" ct-eel; and only half a mile A wrong impression has gained a foot- from thc picturesque "Oak-Chili-Tubbe" hdtl in the mincls of an uninfornled public bl~~ffs.It is well supplied with sch001j as to the topography of Mississippi, whicli and churches. The people are proverbially brings disappointment if, when the border hospitable ancl take pride in making the has been crossed, an unbrolcen Iine of strnngcr within their gates feel at home. snamp ancl morass is not in evidence. Thc head of the ml~nicipal government, Such is not the casc, ho~vever,along the Nayor G. Ayers, is a I\;ebrasl

Looking down through n rift in the foliage to Oak-li-me-tah Cle~kat thr foot of Onk-Chili-Tnl~be bluff. tunes with the people c~f the Sunny Soi~tti Cermuda and othcr grasses where the un- a few years since. rlerhrush has becn cleared away. This Lands surrounding the town are varied land would make aclmirahle 5toclc farms if in adaptability. The bottoms are fertile prol~crlymanaged. especially for sheep and arid in a high state of cultivation. Corn Angora goats. 'The cxtremcly mild and and cotton arc thc principal crops. This short wintcrs of ti~isscction require hut land sells from $4 to $15 per acre, ac- littlc feed and scarccly any sheltcr to bring cording to improvements. The hills, which stock through in good condition. Native constitute a largcr portion of the country, goats roam thc hills and thrive \vithout are not In,rultivation, generally being too special feed or attention. Thousands of prccipitous for such uses, but readily grow acres ot this la~dC311 be bought at from

Exposed Pace of coal ledge 4 feet aud 8 inches thick within rr few miles of Hickory Plat. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

75 cents to $1.25 per acre and only await of Hickory Flat there are many indica- t the coming of people esperienced in stoclc tions of mineral wealth. Iron ore of sur- c raising to make them more valuable than prising richness can be found scattered on c the lowlands to the owner. Peaches, pears the surface. An examination by expe- I and grapes grow finely and rarely eve: rienced mineralogists would liliely reveal : miss a crop. Strawberries produce woli- the presence of ledges o! great value. The t derfully and the close proximity to several detached specimens to be found in such large cities affords a ready market for profuse q~iantitiescertainly came from a them. There are fine openings for this parent source at some time. At a number kind of farming and tlie first to introduce of places there are outcroppings of coal it will reap hanclsome profits. The lands which, while closely bordering on lignite, are cheap and would require very little is hard enough to burn in a grate or for labor to prepare for grasses, trees or other light uses. These ledges face from berries. Some attention is being paid to three to five feet, some being of

Luxuriant growth of ferns, rines and flowers in "Oak-li-me-trrh" bottom, nenr Hickory Flat these industries and in a few years th:;? greatcr thickness. A mining expert re- will in all probability grow to large pro- cently declared that at some distance be- portions. Last year peaches grown in this low the s~irfacethere might be found veins section brought more on the St. Louis of greater hardness and with less sulphur. marltet than offerings from any place. Ber- 4 move is on foot now to investigate this ries grown here con~mand the higilcst matter with the view of clevelopme~it price everywhere. With the energy and rn- shonld a strictly merchantable article be terprise of good scttlers to help in the de- found. Then, too, the writer has in his velopment this section is destined to be- possession specimens of galena that as- come a great stock and fruit country. says 75 per cent of lead and a trace of Should the state of i\l:ississippi ever de- silver. These havc been picked up from velop mineral deposits of any consequence time to time in a section of country only this is bound to be the section from which a fcw miles north of Xickory Flat and it must come. In the hills to the north near the town of "Oak-Chili-Tubbt:~," FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 69 the old Indian chieftain who ruled the ciilm, aluminum, sulphuric amyhide, silica country hereabouts during the first haii and sulphur. The high dry pine hills and of the last century. IIis people werc in pure atmosphere make it a desirable lo- possession of a never-ending source of cation for an all-the-year-round resort. A11 supply of lead and also of silver with which that is needed is men with money, push to make trinkets for the adornment of their and brains to make it onc of the inovt persons. Old settlers still living testify to popiilar health and plcasure resorts of this tact and, too, that less than a day's the South. Its proximity to Mentphis jcurmey was required to go from their would make it very popular with the peo- town and bring a fresh supply. ple of that city. The virtue of these There are several beds of clay of esqui- waters has becn lmown since the time of site fineness that might be used for the "Oak-Chili-Tirbbe" and was sung in the manufacture of semi-porcelain or other beautif~il legend of his only daughter,

"Wah-]la-li-h" mist hole in Oak-li-me-tsh Creek according to the legend of Oak-Chili-Tnhhe's ill-fated daughter, who was drowned id the stream with her warrior ?over. ware. One of these in partic~ilaris from "Wah-ha-li-ta," ~110was clro~~~neclin the three to four feet in thickness, and while limped waters of "Oak-li-me-tah" creelc it is of a yellowish color, easily washes to with her lover in the vain attempt a snowy whiteness. Indications of other to reach their healing power when talien minerals appear in places, but their quality ill away froin the father's wigwam. There and quantity have not yct been tested. are nun~bersof these springs with varied There are within a few miles of Hickory medicinal properties that can be purchased Flat numerous mineral springs, which by for non~inalsums and furnish an inviting recent analysis have proven to be the most field for men with capital and tact in the valuable in the South. The "Oak-Chili- management of health resorts. Tubhe" MTater Co. has been organized for - their development and placing the water "Advice to a newly married couple is on the market. These springs show large so useless !" "Yes, all the harm is done quantities of iron, magnesia, sodium, cal- then." FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. THE OZARK REGION. BY J. C. aIcU.iNI3I'i. 1 NO well defined description can be high state of cultivation, but gradually given oi the bouiidaries of the so-called liien io~lndthat fruit and grass would grow Ozark Mountains. The term so-called is successfully on the rouglicst, and cultiva- , used because the use of the name Moun- tion is gradually spreading, even to the ,

tain is a misnomer, plateau being a bet- least accessible portions. 'i'wo-thirds of , ter word. 111 general, it may be said that that part of Missouri lying south of the the Ozarks are a low, wide railge of hills Missouri river arc in what may be classed cstencling from near St. Louis in a south- as tl~eOzark region, the exceptions being westerly direction through South idis- the level lands of the southeast and the soi~ri and Northwest Arkansas and on uplands of the northwest. The big fruit iuto l

The "3Ietcor" speediug ornr the Ozarh-s

Hills oi Kansas, the Circle Range of In- ?'he Ozai-l\ rcgion is not without a his- dian '~'erritory and the Wichita Moun- tory that is full of rornancc and bloodshed, tains ot Ol

Next to climate, there are probably more, while natural gas and petroleum more who must be satisfied as to the are found in abundance to the south and quantity and quality of the water supply west and no portion is far removed from than on any other point, and in this respect fuel. the Ozarlc region has few equals and no Wheat is a sure and profitable crop in superiors. Some of the springs of the the Ozarks and the quality is of the best. Ozarks are looked ~~ponas wonders of na- This is a winter wheat region, and in ad- ture because of their immensity and gran- dition to a good yield of grain, is an ex- deur. There are springs in this region cellent winter pasture for stock. Other that pour forth a volume of water suffi- small grains also do well. cient to supply a large city for all pur- Corn is raised extensively and is a safe poses, not even excepting manufacturing crop, even on rocky land, and the yield is purposes. The springs, abundant and fine usually satisfactory, even if hardly equal as [hey are, are not all, for the Ozarlts are in quantity to that of the best prairies of traversed by nlany beautiful streams, so Iowa and Illinois. Broom corn, Kaffir clear lhat a pebble may be seen at the bot- corn and sorghum are also all raised pro-

Railroad tie mill near Chester. Ark.

tom, and the best of water can usually be fitably. Timothy is the favorite hay crop, found at a moderate depth by digging. followed closely by clover. In much of Springs of great medicinal properties are our soil alfalfa has proved very profitable also abundant and health resorts are and is growing in popularity. Blue grass springing up in various localities. An- grows naturally wherever it has an oppor- other never-failing source of water supply tunity, and all the various cultivated is the rainfall, which nevcr fails to do its grasses, such as millet and orchard grass, part towards maturing crops for those do well. Melons of the various kinds are who have the industry to till the ground cultivated extensively and our cante- intelligently. There is no bad water among loupes are not far behind the Rocky the Ozarlts. Fords of Colorado. That tomatoes are Fuel is another important consideration profitable is evident to the person who ancl in this we are peculiarly fortunate, as sees the scores of canning factories. Both the greater portion of the Ozark region sweet and Irish potatoes are grown ex- is covered by a natural growth of timber. tensively, as are onions, turnips, peas, The north slope of the Ozarlcs is almost a beans, and in fact all kinds of vegetables. solid coal mine for a hundred miles or Every family may have a garden. FRTSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. -

;e Ozark region is justly called the connection, for he is always with us. The me of the Big Red Apple," for it is "razor baclc" has about disappeared and that the apple reaches the highest in his place is found the sled<, round, DCLC~of perfectioll in size, color and flavor. short nosed hogs, like you see at the fairs. Many thousands of acres of orchards can The hog is the standby of the average be seen from the cars on any of the lines family, here or elsenrhere. Poultry is an- of the b'risco traversing this region, and other tl-~ingto speak about, for go where every year adds many thousand more you mill in thc Ozarlcs J ou will see cl-~icl<- acres, and the market for our apples is ells, turkeys, ducl~~,geese and other world-wide and an over supply is practi- fowIs i7-1 evidence. You will see them ev- cally impossible. The peach is a close erywhere, and everybody will tell you that second to the apple in productiveness, and a family can easily malce a living on a very conseqrrently in profit. This is particu- few acres by raising poultry. Iarly true oi the Sout1-1slope where there Land is yet cheap, but is gradually go- is less frost than 011 that of the north. ing up. Wcll improved, led farms can Grapes are grown successfully and much be purchased at from $25 to $50 per acre interest is bcing developed in wine mak- ili rcasonahle distance of towns. [ng, Cherries and plums seldom fail to Farms with poorer improvements or far- yield profusely and their flavor is fine. ther from markct can be bought for much Strawberries are produccd in iinnlense less. Unimproved land can be purchased qriantitics and shipped to all parts of the in small tracts at from $5 an acre up, and country in carload lots. All the ordinary in many cases the standing timber will berries are gro\vn extensively. more than pay for the land. As in all An article of this kind would not be hilly countries. there is a great difference complete withotrt reference to live stock. in the land. There is much level upland The pure water, good grass and healthful that has little or no stone to interfere with cliiuatc are sufficient to insure successful cultivation; there is bottom land where stock growing, and this industry is one of the soil is loamy and deep; there is soil our most important. The i\/Iissouri mule where -Lhe land is strcwn with loose rock, is lcnonw wherever there is civilization, but produccs ndl and is lasting. With the because of his endurance, strength and exception of an occasional outcropping beauty, if a mule may ever be said to have ledge of rock, there is but little of the land beauty, and the Ozarlc mule heads the list. that will not produce good crops, and es- This is a horse country, as all will admit pecially is this true of grass and fruit. who take the trouble to investigate. There are thousands of rcnters on the Heaves and some other diseases so com- farms of the North and East and tl-~oiis- mon in many states are almost unknown ands of industrious families crowding each here and horses are unusually hardy. other out of jobs in the cities, that could The abundance of pure water and mild secure homes in the Ozark region and in winters assure a fine cattle and dairy a short time be independent, healthy and country here, and in this connection it is happy. It might require some self-denial well to state that thousands of families at first, and ~voulilrequire work, but both can find good homes and profitable em- would be rewarded. The person who has ployment, with small capital, by coming been accustomed to farming land where to the Ozark region and engaging in a stone is seldom seen might find it hard dairying and stock raising. The Angora to get accuston~edto the roclcs, but he goat has proved himself well suited to our would get accustomed to that after a time, hilly districts, and the goat industry is growing Sheep are at home in this re- and then he would enjoy the change. He gion and can hardly fail to'be profitable if would find that he could make a living given proper care. The diseases that are hcre ~4thless work than where he had so disastrous to sheep in many states are been. He would find that he could get nearly unknown here. more comfort out of life than had ever It will not do to forget the hog in this before been his lot. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. CHANCE FOR CITY MAN IN THE COUNTRY.

This paragraph, usually accompanied The man whu has spent years in a city of- with a good deal of cornmelit, has been go- fice lino\\rs the importance of accurate ing the rouucls oi the newspapers lately: bool.rleepiilg i01- success. If such a mall "K\-ery far~urrboy n-nuts to be a nclrool teacher, erery school tet~eher hopes to be nu editor, every editor would goes to thc country he will not guess at like lo bc a bruker, every bnllker would like to be a trust magnate, aud erery trust lnllgunte hopvs solue day to o\\-11 cveryll~inglike the inajority uf thc farmers a f~lrlu :lud ha\.e cI11ckcn6, cows nud pigs aud horses to do. He nil1 farm according to business look after." And this is not only true of the trust metliods, linowiiig what each article costs magnate but uf tl~ousandsoi people in ev- him to produce. In this \\lay he will soon ery city in the land. Tired of the turinoil Icarn to plant so as to economize on Iabor of the sirenuous life which daily saps their and gct [he most profit. Success in agriculture as in any other stren~tli\, and leaves thcn~ mental and physical wrecks in the end, there is a long- business depends on the man. The farm ing in their licarts for the country-for a offers lots of room for developmci~t. The place where they can rest their weary day is passing wllen a farmer thougl~tit souls. They have a few hundred dollars \\.as necessary to cultivate large tracts of on deposil in the bank but thcy do not land. I-Ic has learned that Lhe more land linow how to get a iarm with it. Used to he cultivatcs the more will be his es- reading. of what big farms produce, they peliscs, wilho~ita proportioilate increase have cvme to Ixlieve lhat a man must ow11 in profits. illally acres and a big stock of impleinents The country 1;ceds small farms and lots and many horses and mules before lie can of thein. Big farms, wilh tenants, can not succeed. 'I'liey do not rcalize that it takes be said to be psofilable. What has Been only a few acres, if well cultivated, to sup- and is yet a great draw back to agricul- port a family. Ii he doubter will take the tural progrcss in Mexico is that all the time to investigate he will be astonished good larming iand is held by a few big at the income of the truck gardener in the land!ortls. The tenants on these hig ha- sub.lirbs from only an acre or so, or, may- ciendas are rcduced to serfdom. In Eng- be, only halE an acre. land whei-c tllc land is tlivitletl among ti- A farmer boy may go to the city and tled estates, llle evil cffecls of such an ar- make a fortune in business enterprises as rangement are most noticeable. For lie develops h~itwhen old age begins to vearr L!ie country population kept gravi- creep upon liirn you will generally find tating to the towns at such an alarming him stowed away in some snug cottage rate that the land owners became greatly on a iew acres of land in the country. He alarmed. The matter mas looked into and has learned ill the city what he never bc- alter the investigations the conclusion was lieved while he was a boy feeding stock evideill that if the population was to be re- and plowing-that the farm is the best tained in the coiintry, the big estates after all. Many farmer boys have would have to bc divided into m~allfarms kone to the city and acqi~ired business and sold to the tenants 011 reasonable habits and then returned to the countr!r tcrms. i\4any big land owners are doing later on in life, and by applying business that now. principles, transfornled the old run clown There are in the United States, as ev- home farm and made a great success as cry one Iin~nr~,no estates sin~ilarto those farmers. in foreign empires. One often hears the It is the city man with busincss training city man say: "I would go to the countrv who is needed in thc country. The great if T Iit~ewwhere to go. All the land is need of agriculture is the application of taken up." exact business principles on the farm. True, most all the good farming land is r FHSCB SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

taltcn up imt clown in the southwest in whether it rains or the sun shines, to be. Missouri, Ol

Say, get a small farm "and have chick- lure is the backbone of all business. When I ens, cows and pigs and horses to look af- the farmer raises good crops there is pros- 1 ter" alld be illdependent and free, get up perity abroad ill the land. But let there ! in the morning \vhen you want to and work when you feel like it. Be lcadcrs in be a crop failure and all lines of business the improvement of the soil, for agricul-

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HUNTING PARKS IN OKLAHOMA.

Nothing is too good for the Oldaho- tein's branch line running between Enid man. In the past it has been that nothing and Vernon. This hunting site, estab- was too difficult for him to conquer, no lished through the enterprise of Charles hardship too great lor hiin to endure, and Huutcr,owner of the townsite and a tow11 now when he has comnienced to rise builder of more than local fame, is greatly . . -\

Scene near Roosevelt, Oklahoma. above it all, he is talhg time to enjoy patronized by all Ol~lahoinans,as well as himself. persons from the Indian Territory, Texas, As a result of this feeling, game pre- ICansas, and elsewhere. In a few years serves, summer resorts, pleas~rre parks, more it is believed that this great hunting are being established all over the Terri- region, bordering as it does onto the fa- tory, but at no one place has the hunting mous \Vichita Mountains, will be much fever gained such a stronghold among the visited by St. Louis and Kansas City citizens as in the new country-that is the sportsmen. Kiowa and Con~anchecountry. The num- Hunting in the Wichita Mountains ber of hunting parks in all parts of Olda- yields almost as many exciting and daring homa has increased greatly, especially encounters with game as in the Rockies, in the past two years. One of the finest although the wild game is not quite so nu- parks in the Territory is the one at Moun- merous. In the game parks around tain Park, Oklahoma, on the Frisco Sys- Mountain Park, such game as wild cats, FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 77

,, yu.,~~,crs,and the cougar are not alto- leave the borders of their own Territory - gether unknown. Eut turkey, deer, and and do not in the first place deem it nec- cd? mame are found in abundance. essary. They therefore are only too happy rles Hunter, who is townsite agent to accept the game parks at home and t Bes line, now a part of the Frisco therefore from the time the trees begin to system, has for some time had in view the yellow in autumn until after Christmas establishment of this game preserve near time, the Territorial sportsmen are busy his several towns and for the accommoda- shooting game and catching fish from the

Scene ou Otter ~rehk,near Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

tion of his friends of the Territory in hunt- streams and in the woods of the parks. ing and fishing season. There are many Besides the park at Mountain Park, men high in the business and industrial there is also a park at Roosevelt, on the life of that young Territory who are just Bes line. In fact all along the Frisco in beginililig to find time to leave their the neiv country, and adjacent to the Wi- places of business in the fall and take a chita Mountains, there are many such month or more hunting and fishing. hunting preserves for the use of the new Many of them are too loyal to wish to Olilahoinans.

VICE VERSA.

I never see my rector's eyes- He hides their light divine; For, when he prays, he shuts his own, And, when he preaches, mine ! -Smart Set. 98 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. POCAHONTAS, ARK.

One of the most thriving towns in the there. The story of the foundation of Po- Elaclc river country, along the Frisco Sys- cahontas is one of the best tales of early tem, is Pocahontas, Ark. It is the county day politics; seat of Randolph county and has a popula- The county con~missionerswere author-

tion of 1500. 11 has eighteen substantial izecl to select two places for the county business houses, two fine public school seat and then leave it to the voters which buildings and churches ~i various dcnon~i- they would have. The commissioners se- nations. It is a manufacturing town in lcctec-l Pocahontas and another spot near wood supplies and the largest bending a fanlous spring eight miles distant. A works in Eastern Arkansas are situated man by the name of Bettis owned the I FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 79

present location of Pocahontas. The elec- tuercially it is as live a towin for its tion was held in the summer of 1536 and size as could be found anywhere. All of the contest between the partisans of the the mercantile lincs arc well represented, i two sites was a lively one, but Bettis knew md its finaixial institutions are strong and a thing or two. On tl~eday appointed for proq;perous. Thc town also has one of the the election he gave a free barbecue which largest creaineries oL the state, and also a he had advertised by r:;nners throughout huge cold storage plant. the county. Nearly every voter in the All ol the churches are rcprcsented in

Bridge over Black River. Pocahontas, Ark.

county went to Kettis' barbecue. ,4nd this pretty littlc city. The 3Ietllodist and that settled it. Pocahontas won. the Roman Catholic have fine cdifices of Pocahontas is surrounded by a fine ter- worship. ritory, being a large cotton niarliet, as well It is also a heavy sli~pping point for T.S lumher. Its schools kre of the best. Ju fruit and berrics in season. As an indica- addition to the public schools there is n tion that the tow11 is OII the upgradc, its large Catholic Convent, which is well filled pop~ilationhas nlore than doublcd in the with pupils throughout the year. Com- last ten years.

DOUCT. ANNE TIRGINJA CUJJBERTSON. When lashes drooprng iie On cheeks of softest rose, Ah, how demure and sly The wonted aspect grows, When lashes drooping lie! And yet, until he try, No man of surety kt?ows X7hen lashes drooping-lie I FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CHOCTAW NATION. By' W. R. D. The Choctaw Indian Nation, one of the Experienced miners say that the richest Five Civilized Tribes of the Indian Ter- I~eclsare those yct to he uncovered along ritory, will shortly be opened to white sct- the Frisco System south of the Boston tlement; that is, a portion of the ian& Mountains. There are a number of rich may be purchased from the Indians. Just asphalb mines at Moyer Spur, on the now the Choctaw Indians are filing upo:~ Frisco System. These mines are owned their homes at the rate of several hunclrcd by the Eusch family of St. Louis. per day. Each Indian is entitled to 320 Timber lands in the Choctaw Nation lie acres, of which he must keep 160 acres for along the main Texas line of the Frisco a period of 21 years. The rest of the land System, in the Boston Mountains, and also he can sell, with the approval of the Secre- on the newly opened Arkansas & Choctaw tary of the Interior. This land is rich an3 road. Between Hugo, I. T., .and Nndill, fertile-that which is not underlaid with in the Chickasa~vNation, is one vast tract coal and other minerals. The land of the of fine timber land. This timber land may Choctaw Nation is classifietl as follo~vs: be leased from the Indians at present. By 3,755,606 acres of farming land, 254,050 the payment of a royalty of $1 per one acres of hilly land (this being good for thousand feet, the oak, walnut and pine grazing purposes), 1,436,052 acres of tlmber may be hewn and marlictcd. The moimtain pasture land, 512,097 acres of usual profit is about $15 per thousand mountain land, 992,001 acres of pille tin- feet. ber land. Considcral~lelead, zinc and other ores Tl~eChoctaw Nation is the largest of have been fo~tndin the picturesque Boston the Fivc Tribes, and its citizens are the JtTountains along il:: Frisco Svstem, but ~icliest. Many of the citizens are inter- the lndinns that own this land rcfuse to niarriec', and "squaw" Inen ow11 consider- work tile property until thc gnvernmcnt able of the richcst mining lands. The has awarded them a title in fee simple. mineral lantl5 come under a special clause, Tim thcre is no danger of losing the ho~vever. The "squaw" men have been mines. Hundreds of car loads of rich prai- largely instrumental in the upbuilding of rie hay are shipped from the Choctaw Na- the Nation. Most of its mineral resources tion every year and sold by the nrhite men are at present undeveloped, and but little who have leased the land at a small price. of the timber land has been cut. This wi!l Five-year leases can be made, the price of open fortune-builditlg opportunities to rental ranging from 50 cents to $3 per an- hundreds and thousands. The time to num per acre. These leases are all ap- visit the Choctaw Nation for business pur- proved by the Indian agent and cannot be poses is now, while the tribal gove,rnment invalidated. Many white farmers are mov- is in process of dissolving and the Indians ing into the Choctaw Nation from North are selling and leasiilg their lands as rap- Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and the idly as possible. South to take advantage of these offers. The coal mines of the Choctaw Nation Unimproved land can often be rented free rench from north of the Winding Stair of charge for the first year to do slight im- Mountains, near Atoka, to the Arkansas proving and makes the property all the line. There are rich coal mines at Poteau, more raluable for the Indians. on the Frisco System; Hartshorne, on the One of the opportunities now offered to Choctaw, Oldal~on~a8i Gulf, and South shrewd investors is the purchase of dea,d RTcAlester. Indian claims. Every time a redskin dies FRlSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE, .- his head right reverts back to the tribe call drive a bargain to suit his own notion. and is offered for sale by the United States I \\;as at a town named Bochito, on the at $1049. The purchase of this head right Frisco branch, between Hugo and Madill, entitles the owner to select 320 acres of ,ccently, when a white man sought to 01)- land in the Nation, any place that he may tain certain information from a full-blood find an opening. Often a head right is Choctaw. I was riding with a sisteenth- found to be worth $10,000, depending en- blood Choctaw, who noticed the negotia- tirely upon the luck one has in getting tions as they progressed. good or poor land. "He can't get that Injun to do any- A few years ago millions of cattle thing," remarked nip friend, "unless he roanled over the Choctaw Nation. Tlre produces something to please the fancy land rented for seven cents an acre four of our full-blood friend." years ago, while ten years ago range was And sure enough lie did not. The white free for the use of it. Now good pasture man came back and sat down in a car seat cannot be had at any price. for the land is beside us. He was told that a drink of all in process of allotnlent and no cattlr- whisky might do some good. man can find a large body in one tract. "But it is against the law to give In- The herds are simply running here and dians liqtlor," the pale face said. there, and most of the large herds have "It is not against the law when no one been sold. The clays of cattle ranching in is loolting," the sixteenth-part Indian as- any of the five Indian tribes are no more, sured. though at one time the Indian Territory The white man then went forward and was considered the richest cattle cot~ntry told the full-blood that his grip contained on earth. Some of the largest dealcrs in a bottle of ~vhisliy,and that he would like cattle were the IVil~onGrothers, until re- to leave the grip on the rear of the train, cently owning 10,000 head and pasturil-g and wanted him to guard it to the next their lterds in the eastern portion of the station. The Indian did guard it, but lie Choctaw Nation; J. J. McAlester, ~vho must have taken several sips, for he was owned 50,000 head and had pastures cov- good-natured after that and talked very ering ten miles square; J. H. Miller, ~vhose satisfactorily. herds ran in the McGee Valley, and num- Two thousand feet of brick frontage is bered from seven to fifteen thousand; T. now i\r. ~u~terof Eoswell, who pastured his in course of construction at Okla- homa City. The Postal Telegraph company large herds in Jackson County; J. H. is stringing its wires into the city and Featherstone, of a town of the same name, wending its way across the territory from who owned 3000 head, and many others. Most of these cattlemen have disposed of Texas to Kansas. their herds and have taken to the raising Kay County has been the banner wheat of fine blooded cattle. G. W. Scott of San Bois and C. 0. Overstreet of Cache are county for some time, b.ut Greer County, well known because of their herds of fine it is claimed, will offer it a strong fight for blooded Herefords. In fact, about the that honor nest year. Immigrants are only lie:-ds one sees in a trip over the coun- going into Greer County very rapidly in- try are blooded cattle. The long horns deed and overturning the rich, loamy soil. have all been shipped to far western Texas and New Alexico or sold to the packing Oklahoma is malting a strong endeavor houses. to have its appropriation for taking a cor- The Choctaw Indians are a shrewd ele- rect report of the crops increased from ment of that country. There are but few $1,500 to at least $6,000. It is a move in full-bloods in this tribe today, and they the right direction for the advancement of are far from ignorant. Even the full-blood the territory. 82 E?RISco SYSTEM MAGAZINE. THE FRUIT BELT OF NORTHWEST ARKL4N SA.S. By W. R. DRAPER. T\vo of the greatest fruit-proJucing Lowell, 95. Considerable of this fruit was counties in tlie United States are Benton dried nncl evaporated, which lessened the and \Vasl~ington, in northwest Arkansas. quantity, but increased the- income of the 30th counties are penetrated by the Frisco growers. Last year the shipments from System, and the shipping of fruit from Jiogcrs alone were as follows : App!es 1-hese two co~~ntiesusually occupies thc (grecn), 1 IS cars ; apples (evaporated), 19 ; entire attention oE the pcople cluring tlie peacllcs, $9 cars; stra\\7bcrrics, '3. [all and winter. As a rest~ltof the boun- Therc are five hundred barrels oE applcs tiful fruit crops of thcsc two counties, the In a car, worth about $1..50 per barrel, or cilizcns generally are wealthy, prosperous fifty cents per I>us!~el. The net profit of and contcntcd. This portion of the state the fruit growers around Rogers amounts is truly the most wonderiul fruit section of to $300,000 per annrm. 'l'he frr~it is the Soutliwcst. 'I'here are many largcr shipped to all parts of the country, and fruit ranches in 3fissouri, but none more ovcr three huntlrctl fruit firms arc rcpre- prodr~ctive. sentctl at Iiogcrs ill thc buying season. In P,mton Clounty there are 1,870,000 Six to fifteen cars loads of fruit per day apple trees, and in TVashington County arc shipped out via the Frisco System. I,.?.-ii),000. Tlic orchards are owned by That there is a pod profit in iruit grow- the citizens whc run them, and as soon lng is cviclenccd by the following: Fifty as a man has made sufficient money to re- fruit trees grow on one acre of land. r , tire lie sells his orcliartls and mows to lhese trccs arc sct from 24 to 30 it2c.t to\\:11; \\rliile his successor proceeds to grow apart. Tlic average yicltl per acre is iiii!) rich in turn. There are ilo renters in these I~ai-rcls,\\rhile some trees will grow twi, or i~vocounties, despite the fact that land tlircc barrels. ITo\\.cvcr, from the average is nnlic too chcnp. In the past twenty-five orchard ten years old, from $GO to $100 ycars the northwest Arkansas fruit belt worth of apples are gathered every year. has bccn increasing in popularity. Sl~chproperty can bc purchasecl for $109 In 3901 there were shipped from Rog-- to $72.5 per acre, with a clear title. ers 395 cars of applcs. The same year Thcrc is plenty oE property near the forty-six cars of Elberta peaches and tliir- to\v11 of Rogers, ~~nimprovetl,of coursc, ty-eight cars OF strawberries were shipped that can bc bovglit for $3 to $GO per acre. from t17~same station. In 1001, from the 'I'his land is first-class for thc c~~ltivation county of Rentcn, 2000 cars of apples were of fruit. Of a quarter section of this hilly shipped? bringing in to the apple-grower land, lying alongside a nioulltain range, $1,000,000. On an average year it is said fully one hundred acres will produce good that thc three thousand fruit-growers of fluit. Refore an orchard will bear good the comty realize a net profit of nearlv fruit and pay returns, it must be at least' $1000 per capita Erom their orchards. five years old. TVIicn a trce is six year:: Some of the farmers make $10,000 every old it will run from one to two bushe!?, season, and never toucll their orchards. but when it is ten years old it will produce The apple shipments from various sta- from one to three barrels, or thrice as tions along the Frisco Systcm, in 1901, much as four years previous to attaining were as follows : Rogers, 335 ; Hiawsee, its full growth 37 ; Rentonville, 160 ; Cennerton, 239 ; De- 1 was tallcitig with R. L. Nance, mayor catur, 45; Siloam Springs, 203 ; Gentry, of Rogers, and a fruit buyer in that to\^ 807 ; Grobctt, 90 ; Garfield, 30 ; Avoca, 01 : for fiftecn years or more, and he says that EWSCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE.

in fivc !cars 11e expects to see the fruit additional. In the orchard were apples, b~lsinessof Rogers more tl~andoubled. grapcs, berries, etc. J. S. Miller, living "1ns;ead ol shipping out five to fifteen ncar Rogers, gathered 500 bushels, or 800 cars of fruit per day in season, I espect to cmtes, off two acres of peach trees last see a whole train load of apples, peaches year. He sold the peaches for $1 per and berries Icave here every clay," sail1 crate. His net profit ~vasS5 cents per Rir, Nance. "Elbcrta peaches antl Ben crate. The orchard was less than fivc Davis apples are the principal fruits grow1 years old. The peach crop in Benton in the col~ntiesof Ecnton and Washing- County is good tlirce years out of five. ton. Genton County has earned the repu- The fruit industry is one of tlie fcw good tation of producing more apples tl~aiiany reasons why that section is rapidly filling othx county it: tl~eUnited States. The fip with settlers. Benton County is a good peach crop in these two counties runs a all-a]-ound fanning region, aside from its ful! crop three years out of five." orclvrd.;. It is 2 vcry hcalthy locality, Some of the largest iruit growcrs around I2cing 1300 fect above sea Ic\-el. The val- Rogers are W. R. Cady, who o~vllsa 190- leys are rich in growing grain fields, wldc acre orchard ; IV. C. Atlair, who owns 109 the mountain sides are used for grapes and acres; J. 0.\\racle owns 60 acres, M. f~ uit-growing of all kinds. Wl~eatlyowns 80 acres and others own As to climate, the northnest sccrion of smaller farms that pay nearly as large re- Arkansas cannot be excellcd anytvhere. trrrns as thesc places. The Wing estate The county \vas settled years before tl~c owns SO acres, which, it is said, money n3r, and some of thcse old mansions are cannot buy, thc profits are so large and yct found in the heart of the woodland. ccrt:~;n. Cotton plantations owned by men of the Onc nf the richest men in t!mt section old $orit11 are here found, some of the is Ah-. \IT. !i. Milles. who o\vns IS0 acrcs, fields yet being tenclcd by thc clesccndants most of it being in fruit. Mr. Miller told of t!i? ncgrocs who refused tl~eirfrccdonl, me that he was one of the pioneers on when it was tendered them. Eenton County, comiilg there prior to the I am told by ail old-timer in Benton railroad, and he has since remained stead- County that the days never grow warmer fast to its wonderful possibilities. Mr. than ninety tlcgrecs, and the high eleva- hliller, after working hard to get a snlall tion always afforc!~a good I~secze. Certain orchard stnrtcd, addcd to it cvery ycar, un- it is illat no fincr water can bc foullJ til a few ycars ago he moved to town to anywhere, 2nd the trecs that grow along spend the rest of his days in ease. He is the mountain sides can be help11 and sold worth several hundred thousand dollars, at good prices. Some pine and white and is identified with all things that tend onli are found, and considerable red oak to bdiup Benton Co11nty and Rozers. timber may bc bought cheap. The tiinber As to some of the instances of fortuue- lznd sells at $5 per acre, and yicltls tim- building off the fruit farm, I may relate ber worth as much, wliile after thc land t!~personal success of a few Renton Coun- has once been cleared it is I\-orth $15 an ty gro\vcrs. When R. H. Patterson last acre to the owner. The average rainfall year sold tlie fruit off his thirty-acre apple is about forty inches, and there are no orcliard for $3000, or $100 pcr acre, he did crop failures. The two fruit failures in n~tconsider the price any too high, antl the past quarter century were due entirely to prove good his assertion the dealers to the cold weather of late spring. But as recently rendered a statement to him a rule the evenncss of temperature, both r\l~ereinthey profited about $30 per acre. winter and suinmer, makes Renton Count!: Major Maybcrry of Lowell made a net a delightid spot to call one's home. It is profit of $3000 off ten acres two years ago, a fact that the climate here is that of the znd sold tins off his pram vines for $40.3 North and South combined, while the old FRISCO SYSTEM lVLAGAZINE. inhabit3nts have just enough of the south- been placed in operation at Rogers, and ern hospitality to make one's visit there llandles 1200 bushels of apples per day. worth while and cause you to wish that The cost of the plant was $4000. Fruit is you were remaining always. Owing to the taken to this place and ru11 through sev- mountain spurs running into the countrJr eral different machines, first the peeler, there are springs of pore water everywhere. then the bleacher, then the slicer, and latel' There is scarcely a farm that does not tossed into a large drying room, where, by have a pure spring of water upon it. The a dry heat process, the fruit is evaporated water is noted for its many cures, princi- in sixteen hours. The industry of ship- pal among the cures effected being rheu- ping dried apples is quite a gigantic one, matism, asthma, kidney trouble and liver and is carried 0111 at Rogers and Spring- complaint. dale, alter a wholesale fashion. Dried There are thousands of acres of govern- fruit is much more compact and brings a ment land ill the co~untiesof Senton anti higher price. Applcs at the evaporator sell at about twenty cents per bushel. Washington. This land may be settled 'I'here is an opening for plants of this kind upon under the hon~esteadact, and paid at sevcral points along the Frisco System, for at the end of five years. The bottom in Ccnton County. At Bentonville therc lands and the fruit lands may be had is a pcach brandy distillery, said to be the cheap!y, while ranches ior cattle and sheep largest in the United States. The Elberta are found in abundance. peach males fine brandy, hence peaches As the fruit industry grows in Eenton and grapes are used in large quantities and \Yashington counties so do other en- for brandy and wine-making throughout terprises. A fruit evaporator has just liorthwest Arl

THE OSAGE INDIAN RESERVATION OPEN. The Osage Indians, the richest redslcins civilized of any of the Southwestern tribes. of the West, are soon to become citizens They work but little, although they are of Oklahoma and voters nuder the flag. advancing slowly and assuming more and Their lands udl be thrown open to white more the manner of their neighbors. For settlement-that is, the residue lands-for several years the governincnt has beell the Inclians have agreed tliat the reserva- taking more and more of the power away tion sliall be allotted to them. The 1,;00,- from these Indians, as administered 000 acres of land in the reservation are tl?rough their tribal council, and in this rich in agricultural and mining resources, way placing them in contact with pale- while the woods abound with game and face nlethods. the streams are filled with fish. Bird McGuire, delegate to Congress The greater portion of the Osage cou11- from Oltlalioma, has interested himself in try is now leased to the cattlemen at low the opening of the Osage reservation, as rates. The Indians secure about $40.000 well as the government past~lrereserve in per annum from 25 cattlemen who con- southern Oklahoma, and he will petition trol the grazing leases. The Indians also Congress this winter to take action and have several million dollars on deposit at open both reservations. Oklahoma has the treasury in Washington, and every reached that stage in her development man, woman and child of the tribe draws where these Indian lands must be thrown '$50 interest money every three months. open to allow the farmers to have full The Osages are the least industrious and power over the soil. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 85 FARM DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST. BY ITr. R. D.

The southwest is today a nation of there have bought homes and settled home builders. Those who have taken down for the remainder of their lives. In up their abode upon the broad plains of Kansas, where the people a score of years

, Oltlahon~a,Kansas, Texas and the Indian ago were bent on getting away, are found Territory, are not the restless boomers of a well content class, especially aniong the a score of seasons ago who moved about agriculturists. constantly in their prairie schooners, and Despite the fact that the southwest is who had no permanent home. The con- today far from being sparsely settled, stant stream of humanity that has poured government land experts claim that by

In Pioneer Days.

into the south.west in recent years has modernized systems of farming- that are been a crowd o f sturdy agriculturists and going into vogue, and the combination of town builders, 11nen who had come to stay. the cattle ranching with crop growing, the What more (:onvincing proof than the southwest will support a population of fact that out of 80,000 people who settled twenty million additional people. These in one state in ome year, 70,000 of them re- people are going into the southwest at the .. . rnarned and voted at the first election. A rate of from ten to twenty thousand a gigantic increase for a con~munity,was it month. Since the railroads have organ- nit? But such was the case. ized cheap excursion rates frorn the mid- CMahoma has shown remarkable dle west to the southwest the farmers rwth in recent years and most of the from all parts of the United States have ~usandsof homeseekers who have gone clamored for an opportunity not only to 86 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. gaze upon but to settle in the land of sun- with ranches in the Creelc Nation, became shine. Even in far away New England rich in the southwest. He is worth per- colonists arc organizing into bands to ein- halxa amillion dollars. W. E. Halsell, of igrate to the southwcst. The opportunities \/inita, I. 1'.,owns 180,000 acres of graz- for the home builder are many. Cheap ing !and in the Panhandle of Texas. He land is in plenty and fortunes are bcing ac- settled in the Indian Territory a poor cumuIated every season on the farms and man. hieycr Harff of San Antonio, Texas, ranches of Olclahoma, Kansas, l'exas and is today worlh two inillion dollars, having Indian l'erritors and Missouri. made it all in careful management of a Individuals have grown rich in farming cattle ral~~hin Crockctt County, which in the southwest in recent years and the he continues to manage in the new farm- opportunities are cven better now than rai~chfashion. John Kennedy of Corpus ever bcfore. The succcss oi the Miller Cristi, l'exas, o\vns 400,000 acres in south- T3rothei-s \\-it11 their "101" ranch in north- western Tcxas. Ile started a score or ern Oklahoma has alrcacly bcen related more of years ago with nothing but ad-

Indians at Work.

in these pages. Thcir ranch comprises inirablc perseverance. Ed. C. Lasatar has 50,000 acres of ranch and farm land which a herd of 20,000 steers the year around, yields them from $75,000 to $100,000 pro- roaming over Duval, Star and Higald fit annually. John T. Stewart, who owns counties. He secured them a11 tl~rough scveral hundred farins in Kansas and forty faith and hard work in the section of do- or fifty in Oklahoma, and is many times main where he is a man of great power a millionaire, made it all in wheat growing and affluence today. W. C. Greene and and thc buying of land when it was cheap. a number of capitalists in the East have He went to Kansas thirty years ago with recently formed a corporation to buy only a few hundred dollars, and by implicit seven inillion acres of land in Texas for faith in the soil he made himself rich. hl. farming purposes. David Ranlrin of Tar- M. Sherman, who owns 40,000 acres in kio, Mo., started farming on a small scale Western Kansas, accumulated his fortune thirty years ago; today he is a million- in thc ranch business in that section, Mr. aire, having made his money by close ap- Mr. H. Spaulding, a wealthy cattleman, plication to the soil. Scores of others have FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE* 87

been equally successful in fortune build- marcli of civilization is due to congestion ing. of thc cattle business, its crowding into a Siiicc the rapid settlement of the south- snlall area as compared tu former years. west the cattle busincss has lost its once Rut the cattlemen are mal

Farnli~ixin the Oz:uks

the strictest of business judgment if pro- ranchcr allows three acres. Better blood fits arc to bc realized. The business of is being bred into the range cattle of to- cattle rancl~ing,especially in the south- day. So tlie cattle ranch of today is not west, where land is more and more in de- a catile ranch at all, but a farm run on a mand, is no longer the mere t~irningloose large scale. Take a 50,000 acre tract of of vast herds upon thc plains, and allow- land iornierly ~isedas a cattle ranch. Not iiig them to fatten and prosper of their less than 15,000 acres of this would now own accord. From the time the small be in cultivation and 5,000 acres in alfalfa. yearlings are placed in the barnyard of The remainder in pasture land. Old ran- the modern cattle ranch of the so~~thwest,gers would have scouted sowing a portion until driven out of the stock car at the of their pasture in cereals for feeding pnr- yards of the marlteting place, their owners poses, but here is where the farmer- are ~indera constant strain. The onward ranchman today accumulates his wealth, 88 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE

A visit to the cattle and farming coun- With him later I attended some of the try of the soutl~wcst of today is not frontier functions. They mere conclucted without pictiircscl~~eintcrest. The scenery according to the rules of well organized is beyond ordinary description. The peo- society, and in the ranch houses, even the ple arc hospitablc, the air fills one's lungs cowbops came to the table wearing coats, and clcars the most clouded brain. Mod- and usink the best of manners. Nowadays ern ideas have been adopted in every- the only really rough dressed people are thing, the rural south~vestis indeed more tenderfeet who come out clad in bucltskin modern than one would believe who has suits with the purpose of living the life of never paid a visit to it. The people are These fellows industrious, and there are few who sit in the cowboy of other days. the shade of their sod huts on a hot sum- are "guyed" so unmercifully that they soon mer's afternoon gazing at mirages on the adopt the fashion of the natives. Despite plains and dreaniiug of good times that the fact that the west is yet far from are to come. Thc sod huts are few and thickly settled they have an excellent sys- far betwee11 while the era of prosperity tem of social amusements, and life is far for which the pioneers waited and suf- from dull or lonely. The people are liv-

On an Oklahoma Wheat Ranch

fered, has already arrived. The virgin ing a happy lifc, accepting the problems soil is yielding to their efforts. of life after the fashion of a philosopher. I hoarded a train one clear morning in To the veteran tourist in the southwest, micl-summer bound for the cattle ranches the recollec~ionof train travel brings hor- of short-grass Kansas, a typical cattle rible fancies. Even the railroad men ad- country of the present day in the great mitted the roughness of their tracks, the southwest. There were crowds in the dirty coaches and ill-accommodations bare coaches-people in modern styles of along the line. But they could not well dress. Women whose bearing bespoke afford any better, for travel in early fron- cultured training boarded the coaches tier clays was far from brisk, the only bus- along the line, men who were said to be iness ol extensive revenue coming from rich cattlemen appeared in the plain dress the transportation of cattle to the markets. of common citizens, and cowboys wore These mixed passenger trains had a none of the fancy trappings of frontier schedule which few of then1 followed. days. On the train that carried me out was They were apt to stop along the way and a young man whose relatives owned an shoot prairie chickens if an opportunit~ extensive ranch. He was a University was presented. Cattle trains nearly al- student, and dressed in the latest mode. ways took the right-of-way. But now what FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. a change has been wrought. The Frisco tlzrs, who have their troubles and the System, with its famous fast train, the business affairs that need quick transrnis- "Meteor," ploughing through the south- sion to other parts. west, and other railroads with their fliers, The subject of irrigation has assumed the man who wishes to go from one town national importance. The arable portion to the nest barely has time to become of public domaiu has been exhausted. well arranged in his seat before he must With the enormous influx of foreigners, get off again. The coaches are equipped seeking homes in our midst, our rapidly in elegant fashion, the engines that draw growing population has forced attention these trains are of modern pattern and the to the vast area of land practically value- work that the railroads in the southwest less without water. The national govern- have to do is something marvelous. ment should provide streams for the arid The trainmen stick close to the motto regions and relieve the congested farming of speed and schedule time. The addition population of certain sections of the East.

Rice harre~tin Texas, near Houston.

of so many new towns along the lines of President Koosevelt said recently that the every railroad has caused this severity government desired to settle the arid west, upon the part of the railroad men who to dispose of this land to settlers who were once so accommodating as to stop would build homes upon it, and to accom- between stations and allow passengers to plish this water must be- brought within alight nearer their place of residence. Nat- their reach. So it seems that the govern- urally both passenger and freight trai5c ment will do something after all. Con- have increased since the settlement of the gress passed an act in June, 1902, which country. Thousands of additional helpers provides that the receipts from the sale are required, and stations that one year and disposal of public lands in sixteen of ago were cared for by one agent must the states and territories shall apply to the needs have several to say nothing oi one construction of. irrigation works for the man to attend to the telegraphing, whic11 reclainlation of arid lands. A restriction likewise increased with the influx of set- is placed on the sale of irrigated lands and FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. that is no one person shall acquire more far southwest more than it does to Ka11- than 1GO acres. sas, Ol&homa, Indian Territory and 'I'hc southwest is not troubled so badly Texas, but there is no doubt but that irri- with arid lands allhough there are thous- gation would redeem and make more fer- ands of acres that would be made more tile many thousand acres even in this sec- fertile if water were provided. The rainfall tion of the West. Sixty million acres of in all of the states travcrsed by the Frisco vacant public land in the West can be re- System is regular throughout the summer. claimed by irrigation if the government Kansas a few years ago was called a home talies a hand in this proposition, which is of drouths but bumper crops have beell likely. 'I'here arc altogether 600 million produced there in recent seasons and it acres of arid land in the great West, but seems that the elements will smile once of course not nearly half of this can ever more upon the fields of the sunflower re- be lilade suitable for farming. Congress gion. One thing is certain-forests are has already taken some action in favor of natural reservoirs, and since the growing the system of national irrigation, but of trees on the plains of Kansas and Oltla- some Eastern senators and congressmen

Gathering the Kansas sheaves. homa, thcse two sections havc becn vis- arc righting the proposition because they ited with more rainfall than before the bclicve the supply of farm products and trces were there. High \vinds in Kansas lxef cattle is alrcady in excess of the de- haw softcnctl to gentlc zcphprs, a11 be- inancl. In other words they are fighting cause of large forests that have been al- againsl the settlement of the West, Icnow- lowed to g-ro\v in thc pastures of the ICan- ing that it will take settlers from their own sas agriculturists. So instead of irrigat- districts. But the chargcs they make are ing, llie astute farmer of the plains com- entirely \vithout warrant. West of the mcnces to gro\v trees, which is cheaper Rockies and living on the Pacific slope and more lasting. I

VACANT LANDS OF THE SOUTHWEST.

An unprecedented rush of immigrants Alabama, 1,258 square miles; Tennessee, to the South and West in the past few none. years naturally leads to the inquiry, The smallest area of vacant public land "Where do all of these people settle?" in any Western state along thc Frisco Sys- With a little investigation into the es- tem, or any state in the West in fact, is isting facts about land in that section oi I

In addition to the ravage of the cattle the fact that there are no lands but where and sheep owner upon the grasses still an- wells may be dug deep enough to secure other class of persons are seeking to cheat an abundant supply of water. One of the the government of the public domain by favorite n~ethodsof irrigation in Texas, stripping the forests of their richest trees. along the territory adjacent to the Frisco Thcre are millions and millions of acres System, is the use of canals. Land in of rich forests, miles and miles from the Central Texas now worth $5 an acre is be- railroads, that are unowned and vacant, ing watered by irrigation canals and made so to speak. But at the same time settlers worth iust three times the same amount. living in that vicinit)- are cutting down the Canals forty to one hundred miles long trees alid disposing of them, pocketing the and carrying as much water as an ordi- proceeds. Much of this is being practiced nary river, are being installed all over Cen- in the Southwest, so common report tral Texas. The Colorado river, with its avers. steady flow of pure water, affords excel- But the richest opportunity for the lent basis for irrigation ditches. homeseelicr who desires to settle upon The public lands of Texas never be- public land is to go into that portion longed to the National Government be- where there is grazing land to be occupied cause of an arrangement made at the time free of charge-except for the filing fee. Texas was admitted to the Union. Great Of the many million acres of vacant land portions of this state land have been given in the entire United States about six hun- aivay to various public enterprises but mil- dred million acres is a level, open and tree- lions and millions of acres yet remain and less country. Although there has not been that which has becn disposed of may now in the past enough moisture to warrant be bought at reasonable prices, because the growth of trees, grasses and herbage the cattle men who own it are selling out. of one kind or another are easily sustained by the slight rainfall, cver increasing since In a recent estimate lnade by a govern- five years ago. ment land ekpert, it was said that the Of the 2S0,000,000 acres of land in Southwest had been settled to a more thor- Tcxas 260,000,000 acres are devoted to ough extent in tlic past five years than the grazing; in Olrlahonia there are 20,000,- original states were settled in one hun- 000 acres of pasture, rapidly, however, be- dred years, following their first organiza- ing convertecl to farming; in E(ansas 15,- tion. 000,000 acres, whilc in hIissouri and Ar- The settlement of these vacant lands is kansas the vacant land is foulld in the tim- not urged by any land agents, the re- ber and mineral section. sources of the area are not exploited by One of the great problems of settlement any railroad company-due in the first of Western public lands has been the wa- place to the fact that few have ever visited ter supply and source of the same. The them and studied the conditions and again irrigation proposition has been considered that no land agent would be allowed to in Congress for years and Sl(i.O00,000 has realize any large profit in locating settlers, recently been made available for the pur- therefore the magnitude of the vacant pose of developing the seini-arid lands of the South and West. This does not imply lands in the Soutl~west has never been the lands along the Frisco System, due to dwelt upon with much vehemence.

THE COMMON FATE. Dan Cupid limped into his office, All battered and bruised mas his head; A bandage and splints graced his person- "I umpired a love-match," he said. -Smart Set. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. COLONY VEGETARIANS.

Unique settlement in Northvest Arkansas fruit lands and its sirnplc purposes in life.

Pathfintler Parli, comprising eight ~IIOLI- bring every humall bcitig who desires to salltl acres of land in Rcnton COLIII~Y,along ~1:li~lclall the lacul~icsinto thc path lead- the Frisco System, in north\vest Arkan- to thc fn!lest physical, mental antl sas, has bccn set asiclc for a most uniq~~e,spirlt~~a! tlevclop~ncnt. It tcaches peopl(l but ivorthy, purpose. Edgar Wallace Co- lion7 to fced 11po11 natural life-giving nal~lehas colonized this tract oi rich fruit- things Xati~rehas provided, nonc of which Earmi~lgland with a sect of peoplc \vhosc arc pic-masticated, pre-tligcstecl or pre- creed is simple antl whose mission is to assimilated 1)y artificial process. It den]- blaze the \\ray to cvcry successiril condition onstratcs tl~cdevitalizing effects and tleatl- in life by a principle of equity. The colony cl-ti~iginflucrlccs of tl~ccook stovc and t!le has grown vcrj7 pop~llarwith north Arkan- hash purvc!.or. Tt tcaclles people how tn sas people, and Mr. Conable, who has jl;sl livc on food.< that carry the highcst livi~?g ~noveclhis publishing plant from l?os\vell, vita! propcrtics. the living clements of Colo., to Ke~7,Renton County, Ark., say:; which arc not ne~~tralizcclor extracted by tlmt the success of his vegetarian colony is ttlc 111?nat11ra1proccss of cooking. Tt a:s~~red. They will develop the soil and tcaches that fruits, n~ltsand uncooked ce- make it their iut~~reho~nc. The teachings rcals a:.e thc diets for man." oi PI-of. Conable are rather unique, ant1 Asidc from these teachings, which see111 h~.vc been called advance thoughts by to take well with a large following. Prof. tlioie not in favor with his ideas. That Co~lab!e proposes to cstaBlish at his col- the plan is a sllccess anlong certain peep!? 011~7 technical schoois in the ineclianical no onc can doul:t, for thc teacher of t11is antl higher arts, \vhcre the );ot!ths of the doctrine has surrounded himself antl his colony may Icarn trades, professions anc! advocates with all that is good in lilc. ant1 art. Occulir science will Ix taught, as wi!! they rcceive a great dcal of attentio~: from physical and nicntal culture, in keeping the public prints and tllousands of follow \villi the idens of the professor. 3lills, fac- crs. torics and 311 branches of industrv wi!l 111 describing their creed, Mr. Conable iollo~the devclopn~cntof this land. Fast- Fays: "First of all, I to teach illg a1?:1 cold baths are uniclm facls among pcol~lehow to li~,the waj7 to attall1 tl~e thcse pcop!~. higlicst state of mental and physical dcvcl- Frol. Conable does not believe in lcilling opment. This cmhraccs extended period.; nnytl~ing,evcn to snakes: and he \\rill es- of fasting for purification of thc hotly an4 pel from the colon17 any man or woman the cli~nination oi diseax and disease(! who is caught in thc act of rlestroying life. contlitions. Tt contcmplatcs the non-~1.c Soanimal food :1111st1)c eaten. 'rllzi-e ar: of nlcats, alcohnlic stim~lla.ntsa~ltl tol)acco. 2.000.000 follo\vcrs 6f this crectl in th:: It teaches complete niastery of one's Cnitctl States. The SOOO acres of IantI \\rill se!f, that no living t!lina may br tlei)rivctl he worked as a husiness proposition by of life the Creator has given it. Jt teachcc Prof. Conable, who inaugurated a colo~ly people to live in the fullness of Gotl-givc11 on similar lines near F!ot.\~cll, Colo.. until po\vcrs vcstcd in all life. It teaches men he ioi~ndtllat Arlcansas was a much more I a!~tlwomen the way out of tile (-lea(!e~~i~~gIavorcd spot. effect. of physical escesses, 2nd estahlisl~es It is propcsctl to lease a certain portior. them on a planc of living that will not tol- of the fruit-gro\\.i~~gland to thosc \vho de- crak lust in anj7 form. It contctnplates sire it-not more tlm ten acres 'to an! and teaches a mode of living that wilI o!le family. Any industrious family in this FIQISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. scclion can maLe good money from ten square, with ten-foot ceilings. There are acres of land., The whole concern is run halls nine icct wide running through the as II st~lcIicompany, ailcl to lease ten acres house each direction. As the house sits one nlust buy a certain anlomt of stork upon a slight rise in a beautiful valley, in the company. The business of the col- there is no time, even in the hottest part ony will be to grow fruit and berries prin- of the season, when there is not a coo!ing c+ally. I q~~otefrom the description of brccze. Trees From fifty to seventy feet Prof. Conable the home located 1111011 this high are found in the yard. There are sev- propcrty : eral commodious buildings in connection "Tlw Ilomestcatl is a giant in stature, with this home." built in style of most Southcrn honies h great nmly persons arc joining the prior to thc war. The house is a two- colony, and the SO00 acres will undoubt- story fra~nestructure, containing ten edly soon be well occupied by these thrifty rooms, each o~lcof which is cightccn feet people.

OVER THE LINE OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AND WESTERN RAILWAY. In I~uilclingits !ines here and there reaching from Red Fork to Perry. As across the South\vest the Frisco System soon as the track is laid to Enid, which a:\vClys c1;ooses territory that is a trade- jvill be in Scptcmber, it is espected that 1)ringc.r it opens lie\vs ficltls to tlle farmers the construction company will turn that antl offers new opportunities iorto~vnbuiltl- portion over to the Frisco System manage- ers. Con~mc.rcialismis alwa\;s considered mcnt and trains will commence running. and in this the Frisco System has heen 'The grade has I~ccnmade all the uay to more than ~LI~CCS~~LI~.Tllc line of the Ar- Rvard and the track is being laid at a rapid liancas Jrallcy & 11-estern, a branch of the rate. The construction is being superin- Friwo Systcnl, that i. being built froin tended from Enid. Red Foi-I; to Avard, Ol.rlalioma, thence to The Arl;ansas Valley & Western crosses Dcnwr, Colo., is through a fcrtile section the Santa Fe at Perry and Pawnee, the of Oltlahoma. The district is not only Rock Island and Frisco at Enid. the Den- fertile, but it is thickly settled, penetrating ver & Gulf at Fairmount, and tlle Orient an old community and marly to\v~~sof vast and the Choctaw & Northern at Carmen. commercial importance. In India11 Tcr- The road, leaving the Creek nation, cross- ritory the road goes through the Creeli ex the Cimmarron river and follo\vs the di- nation, thence into Paynr County, Oltla- vide between the Salt Fork and the Cim- homa, thence through Xohle, Garfield and marron through the central portion of Ok- lahoma. into Woods County to A~ard,thc present The soil is a ljlacli sandy loam antl pro- terminus. Some ol the good to\vns along ductive of cotton. ~vheat,corn and other cc- the lme are Enid, I'awnec, Perry and Car- rcals of the Southwest. Alfalfa is grown men. Towns that are building en route are to an enormous esteilt along this line, Carrier, (;oltra, I-Ielena and several others. which on that account has bee11 dubbed the Mr. T. S. Cllambers, townsite ageut "Alfalfa Route," and is so kno\vn among ior the road, is building these towns. Olilahomans. It is a rich acquisition to From Red Forli to Avarcl is a distance the Frisco System and offers to immi- of two huntlrecl miles. About seventy grants and those conung into the Territory miles of track have been laid, the road now a ripe field of business elldeavor. 96 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. SOME BIG TREES IN NORTH ARKANSAS.

Fabulous wealth lies in the big trees of for posts. The linn timber is also verv fine, the north Arkansas forest. Some of thc averaging sixteen to thirty-six inches in big trees of that section are worth hun- dianteter and upward. Linn trees are dreds of dollars. What would you think of usually a thrifty growth and the quality of taking up a piece of Government land, pay- the timber is good. These trees grow quit? ing only $14.00 for the filing fee, and upon tall before branching, thus making ;r long this land finding several trees that would bodied tree. The denland for linn timber run 1,000 feet each? In addition to the big is on the increase, as it is largely used in trees the whole area is covered with tiinber the manufacture of vehicles and for other suitable for making railroad ties. In fact purposes. by dint of labor this land that may be ob- "There is not a better grade of ash to tained practically free, can be made to pay be found than grows in North Arkansas. several hundred dollars per acre from the Most of the as11 trees are of medium size. timber resources, and in addition after the The best grade of red or pencil cedar land has been cleared of the forest it is abounds along the streams. Walnut and worth from $15 to $25 per acre. Patents cherry are unsurpassed in size. One firm for these wild lands are being much has shipped out more than 1,500,000 feet sought after. of walnut bought and shipped by other I was tall

h Ihriving'Jlissor~ri to\\.ll of todnv tllnt ins bmvcly riwI frolbl tile drnlolitioll of n c)clollc illld is t':16t 111:11~~11~ Itself a tlmrt for u vast ilidustrlnl field.

More than twenty-three years have bought as low as'$;5 an acre, \vhile $5 will passed since Marshfield, the county seat pa!; for the clearing, five dollars ior the of Webster county, was swept away by a stock and planting autl in seven years or terrible cyclone in which eighty-five lives less you have a full bearing orchard bring- were lost and every house in the town was ing you in $100 to $300 per acre per sea- >, razed to the ground. Only the lots were son. lhe failure of fruit is unlster cou~ityare increasing in acreage since the northern and eastern farmer has com- menced to invade the domain of the cave dwellers, and ndls and elevators are going up all along the Iirisco line in this and other countics along the Uplift. In har- vesti~ig season thousands of bushels oi wheat are hauled in and dr~nlpedinto the elevators. has been built. There is nothing wonder- The town is on a boom and is offering ful in re-building a town in twenty-three inducements to eastern and northern peo- years, lots of them in Oldahoma rise to ple to settle there. The town would af- such standi~igin a week. But imagi~iea ford a mill antl elevator, a canning factory, pl~l~liysort of people it must have re- quired to come bacli and toss the bones of their dead out of the way to lay the foun- dation for a new ho~ne. hfarslifield, on the day of the terrific cy- clone, had 900 inhabitants ; it has the same number today. Eight hundred of these passed through the storm and when you see a man minr~sa leg or arm it is not al- ways due to his brave war record, but the fact that the wind pounced upon him \\it11 s~~ddenlnry on the terrible afternoon of April 18, ISSO. The town is out of debt and so is the county, the people have plenty of good roads, a fine court ho~ise,public schools Court House. Maislifield. at every cross road, land sells as low as $7 an acre and as high as $100. hiIars11- and a drying and evaporating pla~it. The field and the Webster county are in the goat industry could bc iollo\\~edwith great big led apple belt of the Ozarli region and profit in Webster, ~nainlyior the clearing there are any number of fine orchartls of the underbrush and raisi~igthe price around Marshfield. of land, ii for no other reason. Land s~~itablefor orchards can he Devil's Den, t\\.cIvc miles south of tlic FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE, town, is onc of ~liemany unique forma- given rise to the belief that this is the out- lions of the earth in Webster county that cropping of an underground river that has made it a ccntcr of geological re- flows tllrougll the entire Ozarli range. search in years past. This den is located ~l~~ water is very cold and never cllanges in a ~ieceof ragged, flinty land, skirted ill ,inter or sLI11111ler. These ulliclue cav- 'Y strip 0' timber. TI1' crater is 150 erns are found all tllrough the mouniaills feet in dianieter, and no bottom has ever been found. It is about fifty feet to water I'llt Den is One of the strangest alld from this LlndergroLlnd often and attracts many visitors throughout the comes pieces of cedar timber, which has summer.

AT THE GATES. MERIBAH PHILBRICK-REED.

,tiillere canx to the ga:cs that are high and wide A man and a woman fair to see; "Livin~and loit, or doomed and dead," (Thrie were the words the woman said), "Whither thou goest I follo\v thee." And the nian, as he bent to her lips' cool \vine : "\\'e who are joined by the right divine, Joined in heaven or hell shall be."

Ilut hc \vho gl~ardedthe portals wide Lang-l~ed-for he knew that the nian had lied.

Hand in hand to the thrrshold red, Craven and culprit fair to see; nut one drew back. "For my soul's sake," (These were the words he faltering spake), "Enter first, as tho11 lovest me." She raised the latch, and her lips were aflame ; "1 tine tlie scorching and mine the shame ; Sweet is the cup ul?ich I drain for thee."

The gates swung out wilh a mighty moan As the \\roman, smiling, passed through- alone. -Smart Set. FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 99 THE INDIAN TERRITORY GIRL. BY MISS ORA V, EDDLEMAN, Editor Twin Territories, Indian Nagmine.

That the Indian Territory girl has bee11 should she not become all that is expected misrepresented and n~isunderstood is a of an intelligent American girl? fact well known to those acquainted with It is tr~lethat deplorable conditions ex- conditions in Indian Territory. TVhy it ist among the numerous tribes of Indians

Xiss Leota Crabtree (Creek). has been ; not so difficult to answer in the Western states; it is trrie that the as whjr it s110~1ldcontin~ie so. People women of these tribes are often ungainly naturally do not expcct the daughter of in appearance, are dirty as to "ho~~selteep- the aborigines to have cleveloped into tlic ing." and are prone to disdain progressive- intelligent young lady she is-yet, why ideas, clinging to the customs of their 100 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. -- iorefatlicrs in many instances. But are them rear their daughters in comfort, if there not wli01e settle1iie11ts of wliitc peo- no1 luxury. The girls of the Indian Terri- ple in the Unitecl Stales who are non-pro- lory have splendid educational advantages, for all the tribes support excellent schools. '1 \\Triter in tlie Cl~icagoJournal has the following to say concerning tlie sc1iools of tlie Cherokees: "The Cherokee I~idia~imay well claim to be civilized. Here in 'Z'ahlequal~ are two schools wl~ichwould do ample credit to Boston, Mass.-and these scl~oolswerc iountletl by the tribe fourlecn ycars Ixforc tlie Civil War broke out. The boys' semi- Imry is in the building put up at tliat time. while tliat for tlie girls is a fine largc hricli builtling crectetl in ISST to rcplace thc original, wliicl~was clestroyctl by fire. 1:i the male seminary are 180 boys ranging in age from 7 to 19, whilc in the girls'

Nrs. Agnes 17. Colhnrt (Chickasaw) . gre+sivc,who do not takc advantage of tlic opp~rtunilicsIleld out to them-who re- pul,e atlva~iccmentand cling to wornollt customs of speech and manner, and where the women are uncoutl~and unattractive? Tlic Indian Territory girl is an entirely tliffcrent I~cing from thc world's idea of her. She is not for a momcnt to Le com- pared ivitli the crude Indian opposctl to atlvancement, for, be it laown, tlie Indian Territory girl belongs to the Five Civilize(1 Tril)cs. Thesc tribes have ever stood for progress ant1 civilization. Of old, so his-

tory rccords, the warriors were brave a.; -_/ tlie hravcst, antl true as steel lo (heir hon- Xiss Erin Murrnp (Choctaw). or. Totlay, tlie noble Clierokces, thc hravc Choctaws, the progressive Cliicka- scl~oolarc 2Od girls of siniilar ages. All saws, the stern Seininolcs, antl the wealthy arc mcmberh ol ~licChcrolcce. tribe, antl :I Creeks-all have good homes and most oi brighter looking, trimmer, more intelli- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. gent lot of young people will not be found a magazinc articlc, she said, "Oh, I \vould in a 1,000-mile journey." \villingl~-let you have it, but every time 111)- picture is published as that of an 111- tlian girl I get such abominal>le Ictters from 'greeney' ) oung iellows in thc states, \\antiiig to write to mc or to marry mel" Thc scorn in hcr eyes would have properly "sq~ielchetl"such "greeney young iello\vs" co~~ltlthe! havc seen her then The a\crage girl of tlle territory coin- ['ares vcr favoral~lyintlcctl \vith hcr wllitc cousin. Hcs figure is crcct and graccflil,

JIiss Stedham (Seminole).

111 view of this fact-that Ihc Intlians oi the Tnrlian Territory are really civilized in every \vay-\vhy (lo people persist in tlieii- erroneous opinion of thc I~itlia~i?'erritor) girl?

Miss Agnes Bishee, n "white" girl of the Territory.

llcr c!.cs Ibright antl intclligcnt. She ii tastcful in thc selection of her clothes, bc- i~lgsure that they are "the latest" as to mode ant1 fahric. Slic cxcels in music, is an interesting con\~crsationalist,and her wholc appcarancc is tllat of thc wcll-hretl, ctlucatctl, slylish hncricaii $1. Yct in Mrs. Mal-el W. Andcraon (Cherokee). llcr veins flows thc I)lootl of warrior foi-e- \\ihcn I aslicd a certain attractive young iathers, antl slle is proutl to trace her an- Cherokee girl for her plloto to be used in cestry to the aborigines of America. And 102 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE, -- for this blood of a noble race she is mis- sometimes asks herself whether it is not the understood and ~nisrepresented- is peoplc of the states who lack education- thought incapable of advancen~entand af lack 1inowledg.e of an important spot and the refinements of womanhood. Is it any an important people within the great wonder that the Indian Territory girl United States?

LEBANON, A NATURAL HEALTH RESORT. One hundred and eightly miles from St. infused into the place and with the organ- Louis aftcr one ha5 been whirled along ization of a summer resort at HaI-IaTonIa the Ozarlc Uplift, higher and higher with Park, a short distance away. Lebanon is each mile farther from the World's Fair certain to take advantage of the influx of City, you come to Lebanon. This, once a settlers and progress everywhere 01)- far-famed health resort, sits out upon the served along the Frisco System. For a

npid orchard near Lebanon, 310. plaicau of the C)zarli range and commands numbcr of years an immense sanitarium attention by the widtli and cleanliness of stood in the west portion of the town and its strccls and the surrounding beauty of was visited every year by hundreds of thc houses and hoincs. Lebanon has been those afflicted with rheumatism, for which for years notable as one of the cleanest the waters round about the town are fa- and prettiest httle towns in the state and mous. This sanitariun~ burned to the sucli is the .fact, one will admit after an ground a few years ago a~ldhas not since horrr's drive about the city. bcen re-built. The city acquired pos- Lebanon has for years rcnlained in thc session of the water and lighting plants cven tenor of its own way, not sceking to last ycar, paying $23,000 for the plants. progress until recentIy, new blood has been The bonds issued to pay lor these two in- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. dustries sold ior $100 above par, so excel- bcr ol big orchards rvuncl ahout thc town lenl is the credit of the town. Tile water attest to tliis fact. great 111an)r llL,nters serves town is pumped fro111 a stop off at Leballoll on tll& .\\ray tll1-ougll depth oi 1,000 fcet and is pure and cold. the stale for the puspose of lir~ntingduck, The town is 1,280 feet above sea level and healthful, rt is in center of a of which there are millions on tlie lakes great fruit shipping country and a num- south of the t0~11

KANSAS. "BD-ISTRA-l'EK-AS1'I'~lii~." BY GEO. W. BlIONN.

"To the stars through difficulties" was parapl~ernalia; tlie iUort11 and tlic Soul11 the sig~iificantinotto selected by Kansas in \$:ere inarsl~allingtheir hosts ior the im- order to express the ordeal aiid difficulties pciiding coniiict oi war's desolation. At the Territory encountered in taking her the close of liostilitics they began repair- position as one oi the states of the Amer- ing and rebuilding liomes, opening up ican Union. For twelve years tlie turmoil farms, building towns and cities, railroads and Moody slriie raged by and between and maiiufaclories, soon malting "war's what wcre then styled the "Kailsas Jaw- desert" to blossoiil as Llle rose. hawker" and the "Missouri Border Ruf- Whatever costs the most seems to lie fian." 'Twelve years of "blood letting" by closest to the liuman heart; so the love of these unofkicial, unorganized bands of agi- a peculiar people, who were impelled, per- tators, waged with relentless fury."Slavery haps, by different mulives, came to Kan- extension" was the bone of contention, sas, beautiful and picturesque Kansas, for- pillage, carnage and bloodshed the result getling and forgiving all pas1 differences, of those terrible days. immediately pre- the feuds aiid strife through which they ceding the great civil war. "Bleeding had passed, unitedly combining their ener- Kansas" became a household word from gles to the developiiient of tlie young state ocean to ocean, the significance of which, that had talien her position anlong "the to this day, is frequently associated with stars" through great dificulties. Imnii- and referred to in connection with the his- gration poured into Kansas from the tory of Kansas in her great struggle foi North and South, farms were taken and admission into the Union. opened up, railroads built, mines opened, In the niidst of ail these scenes of excite- churches and scliool houses erected, towns ment, turmoil and strife Kai.sas was born and cities sprang up as if by magic, and took her proud position in the sister- trade and commerce grew, the cattle hood of states on the 29th day of January, grazed upon a ('thousand hills," while 1861, as a free state, and chose as her mot- peace and prosperity blessed the inhab- to the significant words, "Ad-Astra-Per- itants of the valley. After the crimson Aspera," signifying that she had taken her clouds through which Kansas passed had position upon the "field of blue" as one of rolled away, under clear skies she began the stars in the constellation of states her race for supremacy by a greater devel- "through great difficulties." Immediately opment of her vast agricultural, liorti- after the admission of Kansas into the cultural, n~ineral and natural resources Union the portentous war clouds that that the lavish hand of the Creator had himg like a pall of gloom over the nation placed within their grasp. The inhabit- broke in all tlieir relentless fury; the ants of this young state soon realized that tocsin of war was sounded, troops were in order to fully develop these vast re- rushed to the tented field, factories were sources of wealth, railroads were indis- started for the manufacture of war's grim pensablc to bring them in touch with the 104 FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. - -- --

world's l~~al-licts,and in the attainment of grcal quantities in Cherokee Co~~nty,in their highest idcals ; licncc Kansas became the soutlicastern part of the state, Galena enthusiastic sllpporters of ncw lines of being its capital, and is the veritable city railways, I>clieving them to be potent fac- that "Jack built" witli which the rugged tors in the development of the state. Cap- hills of that section abound. Salt and gyp- ital, cvcr on the alert for investment, sum arc produced in large quantities and graspcd the opportunity, built railways csist in never-failing amount in different perineating all parts of the state, th~~splac- parts or the state. Xatural gas, that great ing ali of her diversified ilidustrics in touch blessing to mankind, is produced in un- with the markets of the world. failing qnantitics in the south central por- Kansas is a fair land to look upon; its tion of the state. This industry is as yet hills and dales are beautiful and pic- in its infancy-new wells of great power turesque, gently undulating in the eastern and force of flow are being brought in part, rising into larger swells or niounds as daily. Large manufacturing institutions you approach tlic southwestern part of the attracted to the "gas fields" by the cheap statc or the level plateaus, li110wn as the fuel offered from nature's storehouse, are great wllcat belt. Kansas abounds with now humming with illdustry-zinc fac- beautiiul creciis and rivers fringed with tories abound-glass factories are numer- timber and artificial groves; charming ous-foundries-machine shops-cement parks are to be iound in all parts of the works and brick plants all over the "gas state, rich in picturesque beauty. Kansas I~elt,"employing thousands of men. Oil is soil is rich ant1 productive. Bountiful har- found in different parts of the state in such vests are annually gathered into garners- large quantities that it has drawn capital- corn, wheat, oats, KafIir corn and barley. ists iron1 all the great oil fields of the Two hundred million bushels of corn are United States, who are investing largely gathcred each year from the corn fields of in oil lands, thus aiding the development Kansas, while the yearly yield of wheat of this new Kansas industry. Oil is being approximates 100,000,000 bushels. Oats produced in such quantities as threaten to are produced in great quantities and yield rival the justly celebrated oil fields of a splendid dividend to the producer. Kaf- 13ennsylvania. The Standard Oil Com- fir corn and alfalfa thrive and do well, and pany is in the state establishing refineries, are entensively raised and cultivated with building tanks, laying pipe lines to the splendid results to the husbandman. Ap- outlying fields, and are now piping the oil ples, peaches, plums and apricots are ex- to their refineries to be prepared for the tensively raised--large orchards are to be marlets of tlie world. This company has seen on every hand, yielding bountiful recently completed a large .oil refinery at crops to tlie horticulturist with lucrative Neodesha, a flourishing town in the center returns for his investment. Blaclcberries, of the oil fields upon the Frisco System, strawberries, raspberries and grapes are and have laid pipe lines to the celebrated extensively and successf~~llypropagated in oil fields of Chanute on the north, Peru, such quantities that the state is justly Cane)- and Bartlesville on the ~0~1thand P~OLI~of this great industry. Employ- are now carrj-ing the entire output of the ment for thousands of people at good Kansas oil fields to their Neodesha re- wages is assured each year by the berry fineries. Recently they have purchased a raisers of the state. Truthfully speaking, q~iartersection of land to be lino~nas the Kansas to the horneseelwr is the veritable "tad;" quarter, upon which they propose "land of promise," made so by the prod- to erect a "city of talllis" to hold the entire nets of its fertile soil, genial climate and output of oil from the Kansas field. The grand possibilities. Kansas is rich in its great number of large tanks now in use mineral productions. Eituminous coal is are totally inatlequaie to hold the oil out- mined in many counties in the state, mill- p~~t,and the Standard Compally are now ions of tons yearly, furnishing .constant building thirty-six additional tanks of im- employment at good wages for about 25,- mense proportions, three of them to be 150 000 miners. Lead and zinc are mined in fcct in tlia~ilcterand tl~irt~rfeet high. Thir- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. 105 - ty-three to be seventy-five feet in dian- Thc magnificent prairics of Kansas are cter n~ldthirlj. feet high. The oii develop- clotietl over \\lit11 I~eai~tif~dhomes ul mod- ~iie~itin Kansas is yet scarcely one year em arciiitecturc. wit1 finc barns antl all old. Kansas, her educational institutions, convenient appurtenances. These homes charitable rciormatories and pcnal insti- are neatly and some of them elegantly fur- tutions, comparcs most favorably with nishctl, maliing rural life upon a Kansas those oi states twice her age. Her State farm very pleasant antl enjoyable. Tile Gniversity, State Kormal, Colleges, Agri- iarmers of Kansas, their sons and daugll- cultural College, Training Scl~ools,County tcrs, dress in neat and as fashionable at- High schools, with a public school system tire as do the citizens of its towns and second to no state in the Union, are the cit~es. Many people from other statcs Kansans' pride. These with the numerous somci~o\vlmvc imhibcd the idea that Kan- theological schools and collegcs of almost s?.s and her people are on the verge of civ- el el y religious denomination serve to dis- ilization, and do not enjoy any of the com- pe! iiliteracy antl place her citizenship up- ~OI!S a11t1 blessings oF modern times. If on an intellectual plane of development this class of "doubting Thomases" would seco~idto no sta1.c i:~the Union, regardle;~ but bid farewell for one brief summer to

of age. 'The charitable and penal institil- the "worn-out" llills antl "moss-gro~vn''- tiom oi the staw are in harmony with her villas and visit Kansas, view its elegant other institutions of rapid developi~~ent,towns and cities, the happy and contentctl and are models in their res~ectivelines oi population, these false ideas of Kansas state institutions. The national -govern- would vanish and they could see us rnent has been wry liberal in il~ecrectioll in our stage of progressive advancement. of E'ost Office and Custom House build- To all such we say come and see us ; see us, ings in the larger cities of the state that ma- as we are; take a ride upon our splendid tcrixliy assist in giving the pu'oli*: ulilities railway systems ; see our vast fields of gol- as landnlar1,s of progress along thc higl!- den grain waving in the sunlight; gaze up- way of civilization. Xo state has better or on our corn fields, yielding 200,000,000 more commodio,;~1lo11ses ot' worship th~n bushels annually; bellold the verdant Kansas, crected and maintained by as zeal- fields of alfalfa, clover and Kaffir corn: ous and progrcssivc a menibership as ca,l g!ance at ollr extensive orchards laden Ile found an\ w11e1-e in the United Statcq. with luscious fruit; pass through our "ber- ill1 crceds and denominations of religion;- ry fields," pluck some tempting berries arc represented nit11 public houses of wor- and satisfy that prejudiced appetite of ship aati an cducated ministry turned out yours that "good things" really do exist

by our colleges- antl institutions of learn- west of the Mississippi River; stop off and ing. Kansans in the building of their towns rest your wearied body, put up at one of aid cities tlccmcd it to be as indis~ensable our h100,OOO hotels. gaze up and down tlic to have a cl~urcl~erected among its first wcll-pad streets and behold blocks of buildings as a blacksmith shop or gro- brick ant1 stone business houscs carrying cery store, so great is their love and ven- magnificent stocks of up-to-date goods; eration for the hand that has -puidetl and hear tlic hum of n~anufact~~ring- industries; guarded their footsteps thus far on life's get on hoard of one of our modern elec- ruggcd \yay. >[any of the rninistcrial tric strcet car lines and scc a typical west- brethren of Kansas have attained s11cli cn- ern ci~y1)y "clcctric light " Resume your viable reputations for eloquence and pow iourncy, bel~olcl the smoke from yontlcr er that they have beencalled to and are now factory; see ?lie sons of toil. grim wit11 acceptably filling pulpits in the larger cities smoke, making zinc; see thc eyes of In- of the castern states. No longer are we fesno peeping out through the retorts ; be- couipelled to go East for teachers. the- I~oldthe sulphuric flame, fee1 the intensc

olog~ans, scientists, statesmen, doctors, heat and imagine. , you are near Satan's lalvycrs and ('fakers." for, owing to our Tcingdom; pass out and cool your heated s~~pcrioradvantages, they are "turned out" brow in one of those delightful Kansas in Kansas. hrcezes ; sec that derrick pointing hcav- FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE,

enward; approach it and feel the invisible cars ; Scammon, 1,475 cars ; Cherokee, 900 current rushing upward with terrific force cars. Smaller towns in Cherokee and from a six-inch tube, it is natural gas as it Clrawiord Counties 1,500 cars, the total emerges iron1 nature's storehouse in the approximating 180,000 tons. These fig- bosom oE mother earth, and realize what a ures show that about one-half of the coal blessing it is to mankind; see those other outpnt of the State of Kansas is produced derricks with large tanlts near by, the oil h-0111 the mines located in the Counties of as it spouts up the aperture and flows for Crawfr,rd and Cherokee, both of thcse miles through a line of piping to a re- counties ranking near the top in the list finery, where it is prepared for the mar- oi agricultural counties, outranking all kets of the world; see yonder tipple, grim others in the production of coal, lead and and black; get on the cage, go down into zinc, the greatest wealth producers in the the bosom of the earth 100 feet; see the state, and furnishing e~nploymentto about miners by the thousands digging and 15,000 men. bringing to the surface nill lions of tons of Kansas has more miles of railroad than "black diainoncls ;" visit our foundries and any state in the Union with one exception. machine shops and brick yards; see our With all of her extensive trunk lines of people in lloliday attire; then return to railmys, at certain seasons of the year it is your home "away clown east" and tell your with difficulty that cars and motive power friends that things out West "verily do can be had to convey the vast products nlove." of the state to the markets of the world. 'I'llc State Geologist gives the following Railroad development is the best indicator official statistics of the mineral resources of a wealth-pruclucing territory, for where of the large operators of Kansas for the 11-ealth abouncls there you will find rail- past year : Cituminous coal production, roads, the great arteries of trade and corn- 5,230,433 tons, valued at $G,799,5(i3 ; nat- mcrcc, without which it ~vouldbe impos- ural gas, value $800,000, this industry be- sible to develop the Southwest, which has, ing at that time in its infancy, now through the aid and assistance of these amounts to about $2,500,000; oil, valued public carriers, become the wealth-pro- at $360,357. The oil industry when these d~~cit~gportion of the Unitecl States. statist~cswere made was less than one The Frisco System, through the wise year old, the production now being much foresight of its promoters, built its lines greater, a~nounting to fully $2,000,000. through the state in such directions as to The output being constantly increased by include within its trackage thc finest agri- many new wells "brought in" and new cultural and wheat-producing portions of fields opened up. Salt production, 1,270,- the state, with several lines running 000 barrels, valued at $762,609 ; gypsum through the coal, lead, zinc, gas and oil plaster production, -I 9,217 tons, valued at fields of the south central portions of the $200,178 ; building stone production,$529,- state, giving it a carrying trade of freight 157 ; brick production, $1,200,000; lead and and passenger traffic unprecedented by zinc production, 40,000 tons, valued at $1,- western railroad lines. One division of the 043,724. The value of these various min- System enters the state near that 'great eral productions aggregate the total enor- western n~etropolis,Kansas City, running mous sum of $20,222,132. With the out- clue south through the finest agricultural put of smaller plants not included in this portions of the state, passing through Wy- report, including the much greater devel- andotte, Johnson, Miami, Lynn, Bourbon, opment in the oil and gas fields, will easily Crawford and Cherokee Counties, thence incrcasc the grand total to the $25,000,000 through the beautiful Indian Territory and n::ir!i. on to the Gulf States. The St. Louis line The following are the shipments of coal of the System enters near the southeast for the month of November from the corner of the state, passing in a north- towns reached in the great coal belt of westerly direction through the Counties of Southeast Kansas by the Frisco System: Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgom- Pittsburg, 1,750 cars ; Weir City, 1,600 ery, Wilson, Elk, Greenwood, Butler, FRISCO SYSTEM MAGAZINE. -

Setlgwicii, liarvey, IZcno, Rice, Ells\vortli, Cowley, etc. Along tliis line are situated the great lead and zinc mines oi south- eastern Kansas, its great coal fields of Clierokce and Crawford Counties, the great natural gas and oil fields oi the state. Neoclesha, where the Standard Oil Com- +om the pany's refinery is located, and to which all St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the oil irom the Kansas field is piped, is located upon this line ; thus this great Sys- September 8th, 1903. tem oi railways brings all sections of the state, with their varied industries, in close connection wit11 the two greatest markets oi the Wcst, St. Louis and ICansas City. Kansaus cordially invite all homeseekers, capil-alists, manufacturers and others seek- ing to better their condition to visit thcir stntc, sce the vast agricultural and mineral realities and be co~ivincedthat Kansas has s~iperiorinducements to all seeking homes or investments of any other portion of the Southwest. It was the writer's privilege to settle in Cranford County, liansas, in the Spring of 18'71. At that time the pouplation of the county was less than 2,000. Now it con- tains over 43,000 industrious, prosperous and happy people. Then the face of the country presented a beautiiul prairie waste, unbroken by hedge, orchard or grove, its virgin soil untouched except in spots where the pioneer had built his hut or sod house; now the whole face of the country is in a high state of cultivation, (lotted over with beautiful farm houses, barns, orchards and groves, with good roads leading to all the important to\vns and cities in the county. Five trunk lines of railroad run througl~all parts of the country. Less than 10 per cent of the land is waste land, not susceptible of cultiva- tion. Crawford County has within its bor- Free hooklet on request, ders seventeen towns and cities, ranging BENSONIZERCOXPANY, from 350 to 15,000 population. Pittsburg, 417-19 N. Seventh St., St. Louis the chief city of the county, has a popula- tion of 15,000, weH-paved streets, miles of brick blocks, electric street cars, with all modern improvements, and a $100,000 ho- tel. This city was founded twenty-five years ago, and is noted for its vim, energy, push and business. 9 Restaurant DOUGLAS., LACEY & GO. st.,c,l..l.,.c,ass (Jfembers iVm York Consolidated Sloct Ezchawe). SCHRAPS for iadiedand-~entlemen Bankers, Broke-, Fiscal Agents, 66 BROADWAY& 17 NEW ST..NEW YORK. Visitors to the city cordially Solka 177 la ISR, lnelurlro, Ifanhallso Llfe III

N. E. Cor. 7th and Locust Streets, St. Louis. W. A. GARDNER & GO. (Snccessors to COBB dt GARDNER) I COMMISSION MERCHANTS, (r6rah, Provisions, Eattao, Stocks, Etc. Main Offlce, 317 Chamber of Commerce, I Branch Office, 318 N. Sixth Street, 1

QORDON C. JlcNEIL, President. ROBERT P. McNEIL, Sec'y & Treas. I Telephones: Bell, Nuin 1032-A. Kinlocll, C-2088. 1, McNEIL PRESS zD-4 BRICK GO. I 1307 Chemical Building, ST. LOUIS. I Illinois Brick Co. Chicago, Ill. Proprietors Columbus Brick Term Cotta Co., Columbus, 0. I Newbern Brick Works, Newbern, Ill. Tiffanv Ensmeled Brick Co.. Momonce. Ill. I

MOREHEAD, RANDOLPH & to., COMMISSION BROKERS No, 1 Madison St. MEMPHIS, TENN. STOCKS. BONDS. COTTON. CRAIN and PROVISIONS

Our facilities for handling out-of-town busilless are the best in the South. We have private mires to New York, Chicago and New Orleans. We also have private wires covering Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Our private telephone exchange con- nects us with all points East and West of the Mississippi River without a moment's delay. We Solicit Your Business. and prevent all diseases and ail- ments among STOCK and FOWLS. Warranted to Cure A complete and perfect ren~edy inallcases. C C v* c* =*

HORSES, MULES and CATTLE-For Colic, Cati~rrh,I)iphtherin, Worrtis, etc.. use in. Colds, I)isteinper, Wornls, Grubs, etc., ter~~illlg.For Lice, npply extori~ally. give intrrnally. For Galls, Sores, Woiindu FOWLS-For Cholern, IJal)es, Pilb, lloup, of all kinds, Stiff Joints, Rheninatisin, I)iphtheritic,Xites, Lice. Fleas, tund Ibiset~we Hide-Bound and Sninneg, apply exlemrlly. Germs. HOGS-For Cholera, Blind Staggers. Scours, DOGS-Will cure Nange uud destroy Fleas. FOK SALE BY ALL DEALERS. Main Omce, 3 16 Front St., Memphis, Tenn. JAMES BLACK, ISAAC T. COOK, Contractor and Builder. Manager. Cole Mfg. Co. II c/ FINISH XASUYACTUl

Farm and Log Established 1862. Wagons. THE Incorporated 188% JAMES & CRAHAM WACON JAMES & GRAHAM WAGON COMPANY, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

ESTABLISHED 1864. OFFICERS (NATIORAL BANK No. 336 ) C. W. SCHUI,'TE, Presidetit. JAS. LEU, Vicc-I'residcllt. C. Q HARRIS, Cashier. C. B. BROOKS, Ass't Cashier. The First National Bank DIRECTORS OF MEMPHIS, TENN. S H. Brooks. C. P. Fkrnsworth. 1x7. I. Cole. N. Forttaine. Capital and Surplus, 93300,000. J. N. Falls. W. A. Gap. Deposits, - - 932,500,000. James Lee. J. ?nark% Henry LuehrtnattnT. K. Riddick. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. R. M. McLeau. C. W. Schultc. John H. Sullivan. J. W. Wynne.

Drugs, Tobacco and Neurasthenia Patients Drunkenness Received and treated in strictest privacy at JAMES' OLD HOMESTEAD SANATORIUM, Raleigh Avenue and Frisco Ry., MEMPHIS, TENN. Dr. Sanl'l Morrow, the Medical Director has successfully treated over 12,000 patients. Home treat- nieilt for ally of the above habits will be supplied when patients carmot come to Sanatorium for treatment. Established by Chas. B. James, Lhe pioneer in establislhg ir~stitutionsin the South for the scientific treatment and cure of Drunkenness, Drug Addictions, Tobacco and Neurasthenia. Write for literature arid book containing indorsement of U. S. Senators, lawyers, doctors, min- isters and leading business men. WARRIORMINING STOCK ADVANCES

TO $2.00A SHARE ONDECEMBER 20th.

This is positive-after December 20th not a share of Warrior stock will be offered for less than $2.00 a share by the company. The advance would be made at once, but the directors decided to give a few weeks notice to those who have been figuring on buying stock, but have not yet closed the deal. About six months ago Warrior stock advanced from 5c. We stated then that the advance would occur on a certain day. We had to refuse orders for over 300,000 shares of stock because they came too late. Don't be one of the late ones this time. If you don't buy stock NOW you'll regret it sure. To those who already own stock we say BUY more-to those who think of buying we say DO IT NOW-to those who know nothing about "Warrior" stock we say INVESTIGATE QUICK and BUY QUICK. Warrior Stock is Offered until December 20 at 10c a Share -After that Date Not a Share Sold for Less than $2.00 by the Company.-

MAKE ALL CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO

THEWARRIOR MINING CO., 302Continental Bank~~dg,, st,Louis Full particulars of Warrior Properties, Prospects, Officers, Directors, etc., free for the asking. Write us. Bradley Realty Bank C. A. CLEMENT and Trust Co. Springfield, Mo. MUSEOGEE, - - - IXDIAN TERRITORY. Capital, $260,000.

75,000 Acres for Lease. Jeweler and The Land Company of Indinn Territory. Forty Creek Citizens are the stockholders.

Silversmith, Write lor Bradley'" Oulde and Boctlou ?lap of Creek Nation, in colors. Finest map 01 its kind publisi~ed.price 33 cents. Write lor Bndlsj'n 1Iaooal. statistical information pcrtaioing to Diamonds, Indian Territory. Rlllcs and Rc~ulalionalor sale of land. Hlatorieai data and trentier with the Five Civilized Tribes, price Loose and 81.00, including map.

Mounted, ColIections, Aajustments, JIercllntile Reportu. Collections made anywhore in the United States. ESTABLISHED 1mZ. Fine Jewelry, Attorneys at Law. Notary Public. Sterling National Law and Silver. Credit Co, 11111 ORDER TIidDE SOLICITED. COLLECTION AGENCY. We act us Executor Fire Losses Adjusted, Guardian or ~rusto& Stocks Negotiated. Call advisit our Any Legal Bnsiness Promptly Attended to. store when in thecity. Abstracts Furmshed. Suite 15 Laclede Building, S. \I'. tor. 4th rod Olirc Slr~ts, Phone. Yain 40m-A. ST. LOUIS. The New Washington Kinpbiglna~aud \Yashin,atou Hnulorsrd, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Shreveport, Birmingham, Meridian, Jackson, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, New York, Washington, 1 Northern and Eastern I Points.

ABSOLUTELY P Pullman and Dining Car Service. Accommodation for Transfen Rates No Higher than othc For Rates and lnformatlon apply to STCICTLY FIRST-CLASS SERTlCE. TABLE D'lIOTE DII,YBRS. J. C. CONN, D. P. A,, Chattanooga, Tenn. Arrangements can be made. and Parties. T. P. A,, Birmingham, Ala. RSON, CS. P. A., Cincinnati, 0. JOHN #.o\~ '€4, Green, Gold and Brown Train

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Improved and Uilimproved Farms for Sale FOR SALE IX THE 100 Missouri Farms 100 Productive Fruit Belt Pr11i1. Grain, St,oclc and Pn~~ltry. OF MISSOUKI. Write for free list. W. J, CH ENEY, J. J. FORESTER, St. James, Ma. Nest door to People's Bank, CUBA, MO.

all kinds of farms-fruit, grain, I I HAVE S~OCI- and wild knds for sab I I Victor Wm. Rietz Realty Co. I Dent, Crawford and Washington Counties, REAL ESTATE AGENTS-FARMS A S~ECIALTY. Write for particulars to Make you terms to nuit. C. H, TURNER & CO., St, Louis (IRirc-271; S. Broadway. ST, JANES, NO. CUBA. MO. \\'rite for Land Circular. Mention thle paper.

M~SSOUR~FARMSSendformybigbargain , list of ftne farms for sale. I have a 36U-acre black prairie farm: fnir improvements; price 51.5 per ncre. A flne 4&acre fruit farm in hearing: good Im- provements, price S7NJ for wholo farm. Timber lands for an investment. iklild, healthful climate. State your wants. I "PUT ME OFF ATSNYDER" W. A-KOONS, I ST. JAMES, PHELPY CO.. 310. I Snyder is the big division town at the junction of the 0. C. & \V. and the REMOVAL NOTICE. B. E. & S. (both Frisco lines), in Kio- -- wa Co., 0. T. If you have not seen it, The Walter A. Zelnicker Supply Co. of St. you have missed an opportunity for Louis, niapufacturers and dealers in Railway, choice investments and business loca- Mill and Factory Supplies, annonnce that their tion. Write us for plats and particu- branch office in Houston, Texas, has been re- lars. moved to 603 Binz Building. Mr. H. E. Miller, who for many years has been in charge of the I FriscoTownsite Co.,OkIahoma City,O.T. office will continue as manager. PocahontasXAliiUFACTURERS Bending OF Works, I WAGON WOOD STOCK, OAK AND HICKORY SPOKES, BENT RIMS

AND HARDWOOD LUMBER, CAR AND TRACK MATERIAL,

J. C. JIILLER XaAager. POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS.

MY .b2MBZTZOA? "PINTSCH LIGHT" IS to become an In use on 120,000 cars, 5,000 Locomo- ILLUSTRJTTOR- - - We can arsist anyone ta realize tives and 1,700 Buoys throughout the their nmhitlons. "Smlmles With world. the World" is the name of J hook of ours dealln!: with thc better cduca- don of rnen and worncn This STEAM HEAT psgc book is hce. It sho& you ho: duriny epsrc tinm to lmmmcan 11- By the Jacket System of Hot Water lu*t&tor. ~d.'-\\'rller. .lour- Circulation. Direct Steam and Direct nnlht, Proofrender. Book- keener Ftenoprnpher, Eleo- Regulating Systems. All Types of &rlclnr: Eleetrirnl Englnrer etc. hlchian thc profcsaionin whid Steam Couplers. you are intelrsted. and we \dl in- cludc somevaluablu Inforlnatiun pa- taiuirw thercto. The Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., Correspondence 160 Broadway. New Pork. Institute of America BRLYCH OFFICES: Box8iY SORANTON, PA. 1016 Xissonri Trust Bldg., 1017 lonadnock Bldg., ST. LOUIS. CHICAQO. POOLE BROS., I 1 HUTTIG SASH & DOOR CO, CHICAGO, I I Manufacturers and Dealers in High Grade Mill Work 1 Railwav + Printers, I MANUPACTURERSOF and Stock Goods.

gest special work factory in the country. Conductors' Pnnches, ST. LOUIS.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK GEORGE MUNSON, 5 a ... . 606 Bank of Commerce Bldg., ST. LOUIS. Q PUBLISHER Horse Show Monthly, Columbia Theater Program And other High-Class Medlurns. General Advertising Agent.

PRESS WORK A SPECIALTY. LAWTON, - - - - - OKLAHOMA. COMMERCIAL PRINTING PRINTERS OF THE WES COMPANY

Railroad and

Printers, Lithographer! and Blank Book Makers.

#OLX OWIlR. AN0 MAWU~AOTURlR~01 lO.IOYY WAY-BILL rluAID Tl88UK FILI AID .lNDIl.

ST.Lours, Mo. I WAREHOUSE AND STATIONERY STO&ROOMS. N. E. Corner Third and Locust Streets, W. E, WOODS. T. B. NOORE. THEO. C. SHERWOOD. Crescent Lumber Co. WHOLESALE LUMBER. JIANUFACTURERS OF Yellow Pine Lumber and Catalpa Fence Posts Make a Specialty of Railroad Ties, Bridge Timber and Car Sills.

512 & 513 Keith & Perry Bldg. Write for Prices. KANSAS CITY, MO I D. G. SAUNDERS LUMBER GO. I I WHOLESALE I I ello ow Pine and Cypress umber 1 I 401 & 425 Keith and Perry Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. I

W .H .Pickeriug,Prest. Will A .Pickering,V.Prest.k Gen.Jlyr. T.31 .Bai-ham.Secy, W.J Foye,C+eu.SalesAgt. W. R. PlCKERlNC LUMBER COMPANY, PAID UP CAPITAL, SL,000,000. lIm~l'actorcrsLONG LEAF YELLOW PINE. ANNUAL CAPACITY, 75,000,000 FEET. MILLS, PICKERIXCS, LA., BARHAN, LA. Gcnrrnl Officen, 319-314 Keith Z Perry Building, KANSAS CITY, 310.

1 L. 31. Bar~md, W.D, Scoble, J. W.Graham, W. H. H. Jleyeers. M. P. Welton, Rest. VicePrest. Tiwns. Sec'y. Genl. Xgr. I Missouri Copper Mountain Mining Co. I CAPlTAL STOCK, 8 l,5OO.OOO. The property of this company, comprising 7,428 acres, is in Crawford, Washington and Franklin Counties, Missouri, two uiiles from Sullivan on the Frisco System, 68 miles from St. Louis, ill the center of Southenst Missonri ore belt of the Ozark Mountains. A limited anlourit of Treasury Stock is offered for sale at 50 per cent, for the purpose of couipleting a first-class concentrating plant alld further developing the property. After conlpleting the mil1 110 stock will be sold below par. For detailed inlo~uuctiouor subscriptioil for stock, communicate with M. P. WELTON, Gen'l nanager. or W. H. H. MEYERS, Sec'y, SULLIVAN, MO. SEDALIA, MO. ITEXAS - RANCHESFARMS / D. J. EHRICHT, We have several large bodies of land in ~mmigration Texas Farms Brown, Coleman, McCullough and. Concho Agent for and Ranches. counties, suitable for Colonization purposes. These counties are considered the best stock- farming sections in Texas. Special induce- Real Estate, Loans, Steamship Tickets. ments offered to settlers in Brown and McCul- lough counties. Look at the Frisco Map. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. I Write for price list and more detailed information to I Der ein3ige beutfqe Ganb unb MELTON & COUCH, W. T. MELTON & CO.. &inmanbernngs=Ugent in norb~&e~as. Brownwood, Brady, I Tex. Tex. I SHERMAN, TEXAS. CITY NATIONAL BANK, I KANSAS CITY, flISSOUR1. I SAXUEL W. JURDEN, President. and $ 3607000* & & OFFICERS: JOHN 8.WILES, Vice-Pr?sident. Deposits, = - Z,~OO,OOO. JAMES 13.STREAIV, Cashier. Muskogee Title and Trust - - Company, Chemical BuMdlag, Muskogee, Ind. Ter. ST. LOUIS, MO. We make Abstracts and Guam rantee Titles to Real Estate. Act as agents in making good and safe loans and investments. Refer to any Bank In thls Clty.

I LUMBER I Hobart Lee Tie Company Producers and Jobbers of Long Leaf Pine, Railroad Ties, Piling and Short Leaf Pine, Fence Posts, The territory covered by the Frisco System is Fir, Oak, Cypress, their field of production. Oak and Cypress Piling. Office, Bank of Springfield Building, SYRIXGFIELD, NO.

Red River Timber W. S. & J. S. FOSTER, 1 Company. DEALERS IN Operating on the Frisco System, Railroad Ties, Posts and I Oak Timber, Cross Ties, Switch Bridge Timbers, Ties, Bridge Timber, Piling. For information apply to Hardwood Lumber, C. W . MILLER, General Manager, HUGO, INDIAN TERRITORY. JASPER, - - ALABAMA. I

1. F. Mason, President, Jonesboro, Ark.

Jo~tcsboro,Ark. MANUFACTURERS OF E. J. Mason, Herndon, Ark. Secretary, Big-Bay,Ark. HARDWOOD LUMBER. Portia. Ark.

Write to McLean If-&;, If-&;, a GOOD HOME Brothers, Hardy, The Heart of the Ozark Fruit Belt. Arkansas for prices and descriptions of farms and The 6ner~tapples (World's Fair Premium Chicago) fruit lan& in the APPLE AND PEACH BELT OF the flnest flavored peaches, and beat the worid on dean! NORTH ARKANSAS near the Frisco railroad-Jlem- est, most luscious stmwhrrries: took flrst premium at phis Route. We have iarms tor sale at prices to suit the Atlanta Exposition on tohacco. Have the largest spring onarest. Write us for what you desire. Enclose stamp of water in the world. Send for our land lists. MCLEAN BROS., 1;; ,;rep$. COOPER & WOODDELL, Mammoth Spring, Ark. Sharp County contains 670 square miles. population 1800,12,199. Lands,City Property, JIining Stocks, Stocks of Qoods, BARDY, Sharp County, ARKANSAS. Fruit Lands.

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS, W. GI. Howard. Chas. R. Clarke, See's. Fruit, Grazing and Mineral l~nds. Arkansas Fruit Lands "TBE LAND OF THE BLAIR & CO., Eurelrn Springs, Ark. BIG RED APPLE" Real Estate. Abstract and Loan Aaents. CLARKE & HOWARD,

Immigration Arkamma OUGHT TO OWN SOME- Agents for Fruit Farms. THING IN FORT SMITH.

FadshedIniormatfon, Free Maps on Application.and Pamphlets - Real Estate find Loao dgnts Corrcspondeoa Sohiled. You Send three 2-cant etamps for colored county map of Arkanuse. Write to JOE H. LINDSEY, the Land Agent. SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS.

W.E.Trone. Benton County J.D.Jnm". Real Estate Land of the Por Advertising space in this Company. Big Red Apple. Magazine, address E. P. O'FALLON, We have 8Ll the BARGAINS end are doing Manager, Third and hcust, St. Louis. ninety per cent of the business in our line. BENTONVILLE, ARK. L. E. KARNES & GO., Office next to Citizens Bank. Reference, same bank. This is a hustling, wide awaku city of 3.W inhabitants, all white, located on the Frisco System in Benton County. in the center of the Apple Orchard or America. has earned the name by shippmg iu one year 28 w' strawberries, 45 cam peaches. 275 cmr green npples. ti3 cars ekjorated np les, and put 100 cars of apples in cold storn e. Rogers has 3 schools, 7 churches. 3 news apers. 2 railroads B hm&s electric lights water works planing and aour miliq harrel and stave factories, etc. &is n5th mountaiu Air, spring water, plenty hf timber, mikes tFe city a most dsirahle location for a home. Correspond with L. E. KARNES Sc CO., they mill give all information.

-= -= WE SELL ARKANSAS LANDS Arkansas Farms F~O~~"i"Corn aud The safest and most profitable Vegetables. in Little River County, the richest investment to be found. Write us your wants. county in the State, and the cheapest lands. I GREGG & HOUGHTON, H. M. MclVER, JONRSBORO, - - ARKANSAS. I I FOREMAN, - - - ARICAXSAS.

IMPROVED AND UNIMPROVED LAND IN EASTERN ARKANSAS, ~~~~h~as":i~:L,',o,s.b'ny~ltl",PP,,.E~ fnrm land eso bc had fur ,?Ill to .?:G - gFr narc: ur~lml>rovedfrom 3 lo ,513. Land for Inrcrtora in trects lo suit. 1W1 to :iO,(Y)O acres. P1ent.v 01 ahito and red oak. guel cspr~aeand ardaood on this unimproved !ard I hare the halldlin-7 of some of the beat land in the state, and wilh IY gears' aett1111cxperiknce gi;,es me in- formation that is worlh someth~ng. Correspoudanee soli%trd. OEU. C. PETERS, Joacshom, Arkmmw. C In RANDOLPH F. M. DANIEL, BUY co" ARKANSAS. Cash Merchant and Produce Dm&, Itre have improved and unimproved lands for sale. Write us for particulars. I)IAMXOTR SPKINQ, ARE. SCHOONOVEB & BROWN, Real Estate to Exchange for Stock I POCAHONTAS, ARK. I I of Goods. LAND FOR EVERYBODY.A We have many choice homesteads and deeded lands for sale and One Crop of if you are looking for a farm where you can produce three to four crops a year-where you can raise wheat, corn, oats, cot- in Kiowa Co., ton, all kinds of vegetables-where the climate is the most Oklahoma, soil, healthful in the U. S.-pure water and plenty of it-write to us, Branch Offices: Nountain Park, 0. T. Roosevelt 0. T. entire farm. Harrison '0. T. FOSTER & ELLIOTT, Lone oh, 0. T. Dealers in Real Estate, HOBART, OKLAHOMA.

Farms Ranches, O kla homa9 Grazing Lands, Indian UnimprovedLands, for sale Territory, cz lease on the ACRES OF FINE most favorable LAND IN THE... Leases (sE & terms. a a a a I have some of the finest farm lands for lease at IOe, 91.00 and 61.26 per acre, for one CREEK NATION. to five yeare, and a chance to buy. Will lease or sell in any quantity. Prospectus M. W. LYNCH, Stroud, Okla. for the asking. Office in Hotel St. Louis. INDIAN TERRITORY LAND CO. Land and Write for Particulars. Immlgratlon Reference MUSKOGEE. I. T. I Agent Stroud State dank. I BLACKWELDER CO.,I I OKLAHOMA FARMS. I

AND- Immigration Agents for Frisco System, OKLAHOMA CITY, 0. T.

I Washita County, Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA, Raised in 1902, 25,000 bales cotton, 000.W~bush. wheat FARflS Comanche County. 1,250,OUO bush. corn, from one-fourth of the tillabd This is the best section of 8. W Oklahoma for cotton land in the wuntv. If you want a farm for a home wheat oats etc fruits and vegetables. We ha& I that will pay you'20 to 50 o/, on the investment, write to some $ the finest'k~msfor sale at 85 to SW per acre. Write or call and see us. Immigration HOWARD & LEE, Agents. ,isen,, IUBEI, IleCRdCKES Rc WISSEL, I CORDELL, Washlta Co., OKLA. I FREDERICK, OKLA. I I OKLAHOMA FARM LANDS. I We have land listed and for sale in all parts of Okla- homa and em give you information al~ontany section of the( Territory; save you money, save you time, save you traveling, and set1 you what you want at right 1 Dricc. Write us your wants enclosina st am^ for redv. I Shawnee 1;oan G; ~nvestlnelhCO.; Inc. We mean 5 acres in Box 432, KANSAS CITY, NO. Oklahoma for 1acre in the old States. Distributing Olliccr: Oklai~oloaCilp, Shawneo. Okls., Wiohita, Kse. I I I - -- I We also mean 5 acres that are each just as good as any G. B. Thompson. C. A. Blue. 1 acre in the old States. I 6, B, THOMPSON REAL ESTATE 60, 1 We can ccshow you." Oklahoma Farms, Real Estate Loans Collectiom and I Insurance. Write fo; list or 'come to Nardin and let us show you. 1 Robinson & Powers, I LAWTON, OKLA. EXCELLENT OPENINGS FOR INDUSTRIES exist ill the South and Southwest along the many lines of tlle St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, and mailufacturers in tlle North aild East who are dissatisfied with their present factory location would do well to correspolid with us regarding desirable openings. LIBERAL INDUCEMENTS

are offered by many towns aid cities in the Southwest to secure the location of reputable iildustries. Cheap fuel-both coal arid natural gas-can be had at a number of points, and this iten1 should be especially attractive to glass plants, iron-working industries, and all other factories desiring cheap fuel. The Industrial Department of the Frisco System has recently published a booklet, entitled

6b OPPORTUNITIES,'' which gives full information regarding all towns and cities along the Frisco System, and the various openings for business houses, mills, factories, arid in- vestments of all kinds. If you are in- terested in tlle Southwest it will repay you to send for a cop57. M. SCHULTER Industrial Commissioner,

Ummcrtial Building, ST. LOUIS, MO. ISIAAQ LAN Farm Lands and Fn I AM A MISSOURIAN Southwest Missouri is the finest country on me map. I and Newton wnnty is the finest spot in the country. and mill show you the We have prairie timber level land rolling land land best bargains on earth in farms. free from rock ahd land &ith rock heland for 'corn I wheat oats fiax timothy. the hest l~ndfor red SAMPLES : clover'and tde best fruit land in the United States- fine C streams of the finest water. All ends of grain, hit , 80 acres, Webster County, near Conway, Mo., and ve-etables are raised in abundance Odler men on Frisco R. R., 40 acres in cultivation; are mabg from One H~mdredto Two '~undredper 200 trees in orchard; fine spring; home cent. on their investment every year. Why don't you? buildings; price, S200. Don't ou believe it? If not, how are you going to find yt? %y coming and seeing for ourself of course. 160 acres, St. Clair Colinty, Mo., all in cultiva- The trip won't cost you much anBit will do you good. tion, good house, barn, orchard; price, $30 Write me and I will see that you get low rates over all per acre. Easy terms. railroads, when you get to Neoaho I will show you over the country. - 1000 other farms for sale. Write for farm list. MeEnm:{Bank of Neonho Neosho ~avinphnk, Immigration W. E. MINTON, First National Bank of Agent. Neoaha.- -~---. 200 New Eaglmd Bldg., KANSAS CITY, NO. ISAAC LANDERS, Neotho, Newton County, Mo. / A HOME IN THE OZARKS L ' IS A JOY FOREXWR. I --In South Mlssourl Land. Mv list eontalna fresh. clean I Wrile us for jnst what yon um~t.We will promptly barpalns In farms. Local aggntu in all towns. %@nuti- and cheerfully answer every letter. Call on us. We fuI up-to-date .o&a nap of Xls8auii, Krnlu Arkan- wlll gladly shorn you over the city orthrough the coun- [ sas. or Oklahoma. and bix list of fanur.either Qtate.1Oc I try Tru~tin us. Our lon list of properties and our stainpa or silver. ' eatensiro acquaintance in t%is part of the state enable I LoTT, VHE' LAND MAN,.' us to serve you intelligently. 122A West 8th. Kansas City. 310. I C. ,4, HUBHARD, 220: St. Loniy St.. Springfield, Mo. FINE HOMES FOR ALL Along the Frisco System, West Plains, Howell Go,, Mo, IN iTISSOUR1, KANSAS, OKLAHOllA AND TEXAS. Is the center of the famous fruit belt of the Farm, Fruit, Timber, Coal and Qrming Lands. OZARKS. Cheap STOCK and GRAIN farms Write Ira for 11111 Information. for sale. Reliable information furnished by LOCKE & LAWRENCE, nI N. Y. Life Buildiua. KANSAS CITY, YO.

WRITE THY WHERE SHALL WE CO? Go to the so~tlthernslope of the Ozarks, "the Land of I'ruits and Flowers;" Mo. Land Fr Immigration Bureau Go where the climnte is healtdlful nnd delial~tfal; Go where you can plow e.irc?rj.rnoiith in theyear; For their great list of Missouri Lands. Go whore IRlldk. are still cheap; Go where you can get a home of your own for a A. J. RHODES, Manager, little money; Go to the I'crst OiRce today and send us your ad- 601 New England Building, KANSAS CITY, NO. dress; Onr New Ihok will tell you all about it. - I(. C. llAHK%.iI k UOUPISK. West Plalna. no.

Springfield, Greene Co., No. 1 xAi\'Y SPECIS In pin, stock and hjt farms, B~G~~~rn bonthmest Missouri. Home WM. D. SHEPPARD, Room 214 Baldwin Bldg. of the Big Red Apple. Mild Real Estate, all kinds. Some choice l~argilmuln 5. 10, clfmate. Homeseekers rates First and Thlrd Tuesda s W)and 40 arre trilcts, near city. of each month. v~aFrisoo System.- A wstal card All ' get particulars for you. CITY PUOPISRTY A SPECLA1.TT. One m0 acre tract, near R. R., with 3,(MOapp!e trees, 1 L. \V. JOHNSON, farm well improved, a rare bargain, I MT. VERNON. LAWRENCE GO.. MO. vrite me for p:~rticnl:rrs. 1 Otace in Lawson Bldg., S. W. Cor. Square (2d Floor).

Property in Springfield, Missouri, is in the hands of

R. H. TREVATHAN, 1'OX I)IT,IILS Ak TO r te hi. Ledlcr Blnck, SPRINGFIELD, MO. ADTERTISIKO RATES IS THIS 3IAGAZISI TVRITE: TO E. P. O'PALLON. Jlnsncr:~, PO TULRD ASD LOOUST STS., Southwest mssourl ST. LOUIS, 310. Stock, Grain and Fruit Farms, -WRITE- A.B.Crawford,SpringfieId,Mo, L 1 NEOSHO, NECVVTON CO., MISSIOURI. I Remember NEWTON CO. has PRAIRIES VALLEYS BOTTOMS and ALI, KINDS OF LANDS. It costs you nothing to see them. If you want any informhtion befor; hand, write us. Laud is cheap and sold on easy terms. ALL I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THE TRAIN. Send for "HONESEEKER AND INVESTOR.1'--- J. V. FLEMING REALTY COMPANY. Farm, Orchard Lands, Mining Lands. All kiuds of Lands. correspondence solicited. KING & CHANEY, growing and stock raising that an other county in Farm and City Property for Sale. sonthweat Missouri. Svrinefield. t%e countv seat. is We have good BARGAINS and are doing the prottlest city of :W:lkM 'i>eo~)it,in the &~~thw&t. For deswil~tionof Sl~rir~gtioldand the collnty and price a nice business in our line. Write list, write to, enclosing stamp, us for complete information. A. W. OLLIS & CO., lm~$~fon SPHISGFIELD. 510. LEBANON, Laclede County, MISSOURI.

LEBANON, MO. - ere where the 6.000 acre orchard is being planted by the Des Moines Co. Here is located the celebrated magnetic well. and the best town between St. Louis and Springfield. STILLWELL, CROW & CO. Can fit you out with anything from a t.own lot UP to 15.000 acres in a bods.

If you want to buy or exchange for a Real Estate farm ill the great Southwest, I J. HaQUINN Agent. write us, ANY INFORMATION WANTED AS TO FARMS. PRICES AND SALES, PROMPTLY C.B. RHODES GIVEN IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES. COMPANY, Olliti~in Pjnnt Ilalding, LEBANON, no. Land and Emigrant Agents,

400 Heist Building, Kansas City, Mo.

C. C. NELSON & CO. Fort Scott, Kansas.

Money to loan or1 farm lands in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.

LAND INVESTMENTS. I place investments in undeveloped timber mineral fruit and ranch land of &Iiasouri and ~rkansis. I had realized fr;m 100 to 1,000 per cent pro0t for clients on land investments in this rapidly developinp section. Write for my beuutifullv jllustrated dexriptlve lib- ture wlth map of the Wh~teRiver Valley. WM. H. JOHNSON, 308-8 Baker Block, SPRINGFIELD,MO.

LacIede County, If you want a Missouri, cheap farm or On main line of Frisco, 180 orchard in this miles southwest of st. Louis. most desirable farming region, call on us, or write for our price lists of bargains. J. m. Ra6USD & GO., Lebanon. hlede Go., no. Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Farms. Kansas City Real Estate.

INVECLS I MECNT 00. Business Property, Investment Dr.RICndRD hest. We do a General Real Estate and property, suburban lyacts, ~~d~~ WAQUdDE. Sec'y &. Trtas. Brokerage Business, buy, sell and exchange hotels, rooming houses, Homes. Farms and Ranches Phone / Bell, 3373 hed. stocks merchandise stores and a specialty. Home. 3996 Main. 1 businbss chances of all kinds. Rents Collected. Taxes Paid, Insurance Placed. Loans Secured, Our Specialty. Farm lands and the cnre of non-resident property. 119 East 8th, KANSAS CITY, MO.

I FARMS, RANCHES, I 1 3,000 Farms and Ranches I And mild lands. Tell us what you want we have it. For sale on easy terms, $1 to $26 per acre, in Mo., 600-acre improved stock farm 9'5 per a&. 1,KO-acre Ran., Colo., &k., Okla., I. T. and Texas. We ranch at S ,per acre. A larse'list of all sizes and price3 answer all inquiries promgtly . Write for list and Fiuest of climate. state where you want to locate. hmlninration \V. J, ADAN8 & CO., DIXON 6r SHATTUCK, Springfield, Mo. AWI~. .,., feBldg.,KansasCi~.

farm and timber lands MARSHFIELD, MISSOURI, in Missouri, Arkansas County Seat of Wehster Connty. and Lonisiona, farm and grazing lands in THE REAL APPLE COUNTY. Kansas and Oklahoma. Also the finest stack and grass land in the State. It We Have If you are looking for will astonish you to know how cheap these good lands any of these mnte ns for list. are. State what you want, we wlll furnihh photo- graph and description of a farm that will MISSOURI LAXD & IXVESTTEKT CO. sul-elysoit~ou. cflSe& shelton, Altman Building, KANSAS CITY, 310.

Do you know that there is lots of money in raising Rice, atill that investments in RICE LANDS Rice lands are verv ~rofitable? Within 20 IN THE miles of Housto~~,;lA Railroad Center ad Gulf- - Pnrt nf 'l'ranq- - we can sell vnu rich. ------7 - ---- ,------, I snmoth land at $10 to "per acre, close to railroad station. This lalid produces eror------I I COAST COUNTRY OF TEXAS mons croDs of Rice. Alfalfa. Sugar Cane. 1 Oats, Vegetables and Fruits. The climate is very mild and pleasait all the year. The wat'er i5 pure and soft. The rainfall plentiful. Blue stem grass grows two tons per acre. Stock live ou the range all the year. Join ow low rate excursion January 5th, and go vitli iisand see these lands. Railroad fare refunded to purchasers. Write for our booklet "Facts" about Texas. THE TRACY LAND AND EMIGRATION CO., I Wichita, Kansas, RaQ, Texas, 421 New York Life Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. DO YOU WANT TO TRADE Lawrence County 1 Your stock of merchandise, livery stock. income prop erty or farm, for a good stock and crop f;im near Kan- sas Clty? IF YOU DO THE BANNER I We have some excellent bargains, whose owners will consider nn exchange, and your property will be con- Wheat, Grass and Fruit County in sidered as Southwest 7vIissouri. SO MUCH CASH. Write and tell us what you want and what you have to For Particulars addrSess offer. OVER 100 FARMS TO CHOOSE FROM. Lawrence County Land 60, 1 Send at once for om free list ol Western Mlssourl and Eastern Kansas farms, for sale or exchange. ATKINS & M IacDONALD, Send 10k for Pocket %17-%18Shaidley Building, KANSAS CITY, 310. YUP or M~ssouri. Aurora, Mo. I Lb Wriu Irr pda md ldptbm. CSood land, fruit of all kinds Ddrying a specialty flue grass land withegood spri$ water at from $16 io W p$ p$ acre. Speaal conrtes~esshown to land seekers. rite me before coming West, all information cheer- REAL ESTATE. fully furnished. Address, Flne Farms in the great Arkaneaa Valley and Eastern ffinsaa and Ranchea in Weatern Kanses WICHITA, KANSAS.

I PUMPKIN Fine Farming Lands. I Large Hist of highly improved CREEK farms in this valley on reasonable I CHENAULT BROTHERS, I VALLEY terms. Write for circulars and FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. -.. full information. I I IN MASTERS & BOTTORFF, Farms for sale in the best section of KANSAS Mound Valley (Labette Co.), Kas. Southeast Kansas and Southwest Mis- In the QZWBelt. Immigration gents for Riseo system souri. Call on us if you want a good farm, or write us telling what you want. We know we can suit you in this section you can't leave your Wife's of Kansas or Missouri. We have all If Relations, don't come to Linn kinds of farms, from an 80-acre tract up County, Kansas, for you will to several sections, for sale at reasonable surely buy a farm of E. P. McCarty 1 prices, and on reasonable terms. & Sons if you do. &' rdf & rSt

Mudd Pneumatic Track Sander Llnstrom Non-Freezing Syphon Pipe Western Pneumatic Bell Ringer Saling Metal Draft Beam Acme Plpe Clamps. Car Doors WRITE TO WESTERN RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO. J. H. WRIGHT & GO., ST. LOUIS, MO. Real Estate Agents.

For Homes in The New South- A. A. Einney. U. L. Jackson. 1 west, or business I I I chances of any kind, call on or address, I LESTER L. PRICE, 1 Muskogee the Metropolis 1 CHICKASHA. INDIAN TEIIRITORY. Is practical1 the capital of the Indian Territory. It is here where The Dawes Commission and Indian Agent d who have charge of the alloting and final dist~ibutio; - of all the Indian land in the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw Chickasaw and Seminole Nations are located. The fir& of KINFEY & JACKSON have been in the Real Es- tate bosmness In Jluskogee for the past ten years and Sequoyah Land & Investment Co. are thoroughly conversant with all Indian ~itles. They make a specialty of city Property and always give Has 25,000 acres of fine farm lands their customers benefits of ' snaps." Look them up. to lease, for a term of five years, at It mill be money for you. the rate of 6Oc to $1 per acre per year KINNEY & JACKSON, CLAREMORE, - INDIAN TERRITORY. NUSEOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY,

In one tract on Frisco System, suitable for Angora Goats. We also have thousands of acres of choice improved and unimproved agri- Acres cultural aud grazing lands for lease, at very low figures. Timber Lands ! Yes ? Correspolideiice solicited. Colored maps mailed free, describing country and railway systems iu the Cherokee Nnt,ion, Indinu Territory. Address Southwestern Investment and Construction Company, TAHLEQUAH, INDIAN TERRITOILP. $100.000 Worth of Muskogee City Property -=FOR SALE. This is improved or unimproved on easy terms. No better investment in the Southwest to-day. Come, see and be convinced, or write for full particulars to LANNINC, DAVIS & CO., 217 East Broadway, MUSKOCEE, I. T. Ih~reacutallvesof the Lannlns-Ueddea Xlnlo~and Dorelo~mentCO. 60,000 ACRES RICH ALLUVIAL LAND

Partly Cleared and partly Second Growth and

Madison Parish, Louisiana,

For sale in large and small tracts, Caldwell & Smith, Memphis, Tenn.

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