Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — FROM INDIAN TERRITORY. [ARTICLE]

FROM INDIAN TERRITORY.

Wann, I. T„Teb. 14,1904. Editor Jasper Co. Democrat: I would like, through the colums of your paper, to address a few remarks to inquiring friends, and would say that I arrived here all right and am at present located on a farm of 160 acres, 90 acres of which is bottom land, the balance second bottom and bluff. The bluff land produces a very good quality of grass for pasture or hay while the second bottom raises good oats, Kaffer corn or caue; and the bottom land, if a man can judge from the corn in the cribs and the stalks in the fields, I should say that there is but few places where a man could raise more corn per acre than here. Perhaps for the conenvience of those that might want to look up the place on the map I had better tell where it is located. I am located on California Creek, 2£ miles east of Wann, I. T. on the W. K. T., R. R., 9 miles north west of Seenepah, I. T., on the Iron mountain R. R., and 14 south of Coffeyville, Kansas, which by the way, is noted for its numerous gas and oil wells, also several large glass factories, and in fact everything that goes to make up a prosperous town. This country is more or less covered with numerous creeks and rivers which produce stock water in good supply. Most of the farms that have been taken up at present are located on some creek or river, as only such land that will raise good corn with a little oats and bay land, has been taken but there is plenty of land that is not at present in cultivation, owing to the fact that the high land is not productive for corn. But the time is not far distant when these vast prairies will be plowed up and be raising Kaffer corn and cane, as it is in western Kansas, which, by the way, produces more feed to the acre than almost anything else that can be grown. As to the climate, it is generally mild in winter, and not much hotter in summer than it is in Indiana. The. weather at present is quite mild for the time of year. Of course there is more or less wind here every day and sometimes, and in fact quite often, whips suddenly to the north and blows quite a gale, which is very disagreeable. The frost is about all out of the ground and if the