People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — A Letter From Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

A Letter From Oklahoma.

McKinley, Okla., Dec. 10, ’94 Editor Pilot:— Thinking thu your readers would like to hear something from OKlauomo, 1 write you this letter. I lefi your place Nov. 12, at that time there was a heavy snow storm ragi ig but when I arrived at Guthrie on the 14th, I I found quite a different climate ' from the one I baa left. We i nave as yet had very few nights 'hat the ice has frozen; not a day since I have been here but one could be comforiable in his shirtsleeves. lam now 25 miles south-east of Guthrie in the lowa reservation. Jack Owens, you readers all know him, and I went hunting to-day and killed a tine two year old deer. Deer and turkey are quite plenty here. The Country here is very rolling and in the bottoms and valleys the soil is very rich. I read an item in your paper last winter about Rev. Peter Hinds’ cows bawlinir to come I back to the green fields of Jasper, I have seen those same cows and they seem perfectly satisfied with the green glass and fine climate of this beautiful country. The city of Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma, is on the H. T. &S. T. ruiiroad. It was five years old last April, and has a population of 12,0' .0, has three good flouring mills, two cotton gins, good water works, electric lights, nine churches, four large brick school houses, several large wholesale houses, a tine opera' house, three banks and four first class hotels. Most all the business bouses are buil’ of white and red sand stone or pressed brick, and range from three to five stories high. Guth rie has the best buildings and the most of them of any town o’ its age I ever saw. I am well pleased with this country and also with the people. I do not

expect to start New Year’s day i and drive back to Japer like; Rev. Peter Hinds did last year, 1 but I expect to stay long enough to look over the country and be > convinced that it is good be- i fore I return. As for crops I find corn going from 50 io 90 bushels per acre, wheat 35 to 40, oats some fields as high as 100 bushels per acre and potatoes 1 never saw the land that < <»uld beat it. As regards price-, wheat 45 cents, corn 40 and 42, oats 2.) to 30, hogs *3 75. (four 2nd grade 151.10 per hunured and as for dry goods and groceries, they are cheaper here than they are with you. I think Oklahoma was rightly named “The Land

of the Gods.”

W. H. BEAVER.