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interest on Territorial funds amounted to $27,- 

 074.00; balance on hand Dec. 1, 1901, $372,105.32; 

 increase for 1902 of $276,334.83. The total 

 amount of warranted indebtedness on Nov. 30 

 was $684,176.69; deducting the balance on hand 

 in treasury would leave only $35,799.39 indebt- 

 edness, or about 6 cents per capita. The year 

 was the first in the history of the Territory in 

 which the inpome from taxation was sufficient to 

 pay the running expenses of the Government and 

 a portion of the accumulated debt. During the 

 year $168,414.33 of warrants were redeemed; the 

 interest paid on these was $28,894.89. Territorial 

 funds are deposited in banks which have been 

 made depositories under authority of law. Funds 

 are protected by securities required by law. War- 

 rants were issued on the treasury for $406,989.- 

 68. The delinquent Territorial tax, covering 

 eleven years, amounts to $232,597.55. The as- 

 sessed valuation of the Territory is $72,677,423. 

 This amount represents only about one-fourth of 

 the real value of the property when estimated 

 on a cash basis, which would be about $300,- 

 000,000. 



Education. The amount spent by the Terri- 

 tory from various school funds in the treasury in 

 the year for educational purposes amounted to 

 $246,850.19; for two years past, $465,828.61; for 

 all other purposes in the two years, $362,692.97. 

 In the year 2,278 public schools were taught, 

 with an aggregate enrolment of 116,971, and 

 $502,277.65 was paid to teachers. There were 

 1,802 pupils graduated from common schools. 

 There was apportioned during the year among 

 the counties, as a Territorial common-school 

 fund, $267,105.14. The fund for common schools 

 arises from the leasing of Territorial school lands, 

 and in the year the receipts amounted to $614,- 

 905.55 for that fund. 



The new building for the State University, at 

 Norman, has been completed at a cost of $90,000. 

 The main building, completed several years ago, 

 was burned recently, with but $35,000 insurance. 

 The total enrolment in 1902 was 359. The faculty 

 consists of 30 members. A gymnasium, costing 

 $10,000, is under way. The geological depart- 

 ment has reported on the geology and flora of 

 the Territory, and is now collecting material for 

 a report on gypsum and salt deposits. The uni- 

 versity geologist has been designated a federal 

 geologist. 



The Agricultural and Mechanical College, at 

 i Stillwater, has resources amounting to $53,000 an- 

 nually; of this, $37,500 comes from the Govern- 

 ment out of the Hatch and Morrill funds; $15,- 

 000 goes exclusively to the experiment station, 

 solely for experimentation and the publication of 

 results^ the enrolment was 435, with 20 gradu- 

 ates. In the year $45,000 was expended in addi- 

 tional buildings and equipment. 



The Territorial Normal School, at Edmond, 

 had an enrolment of 483. Three additional build- 

 ings have been necessary to accommodate the 

 school's growth. 



The Northwestern Normal, at Alva, had an 

 enrolment of 593. It has an income of $40,000 

 annually, and much new equipment has been 

 added. 



The Southwestern Normal School has been lo- 

 cated at Weatherford, and bids are asked for 

 the erection of the building, costing $53,000. 



The University Preparatory School, at Ton- 

 kawa, began its first year Sept. 1, with an enrol- 

 ment of more than 200. 



Throughout Oklahoma a system of separate 

 ools is maintained, 

 he Colored Agricultural and Normal School, 



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at Langston, had an enrolment of 211. It is also 

 partially supported from the Government Hatch 

 and Morrill funds. 



At Chilocco the Government has an industrial 

 school for Indian children, the attendance being 

 about 400. Government schools for Indians are 

 also maintained at Absentee, Arapaho, Cheyenne, 

 Fort Sill, Kavv, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, 

 Rainy Mountain, Cantonement, Red Moon, River- 

 side, Sauk and Fox, and Seger, with a total en- 

 rolment of more than 2,000. 



There are also 4 mission Indian schools, with 

 an enrolment of 225. 



The fund for the School for the Blind amounts 

 to $7,193, remaining in the treasury inactive; 

 the number of persons who would be beneficiaries 

 of this fund is too small to warrant any attempt 

 toward an institution for them. 



Railroads. In 1902 568 miles of railway were 

 constructed in Oklahoma, the greatest number 

 in any State of the Union for that year. Im- 

 portant extensions are being made by several 

 roads. There were 1,413.23 miles of railroad re- 

 turned for taxation in March; also 179 miles of 

 side-tracks. The assessed valuation of railroad 

 property amounted to $6,339,462. The building 

 of 5 railroads simultaneously into Guthrie is an 

 illustration of the amount of work that is being 

 done. Twenty-three railroads were chartered in 

 Oklahoma in 1902, with capital stock exceeding 

 $25,000,000. 



Commerce. There were shipped out of the 

 Territory in the year 6,442 car-loads of cattle, 

 18,593 of wheat, 210 of corn, 308 of oats, 65 of 

 castor-beans, 2,252 of hogs, 700 of cottonseed, 

 1,209 of hay, 4,842 of flour, 391 of horses and 

 mules, 1,846 miscellaneous, and 164,653 bales of 

 cotton. The imports amounted to 1,091 car-loads 

 of farm machinery, 1,862 of flour, 2,883 of home- 

 seekers' goods, 7,225 of coal. Oklahoma annually 

 exports thousands of car-loads of flour and wheat 

 to Europe and South Africa. 



Live Stock. There were returned for taxa- 

 tion in March 280,939 horses, 58,142 mules, 959,- 

 816 cattle, 38,308 sheep and goats, and 189,218 

 swine. 



Population. The assessors' returns for 1902 

 show Oklahoma to have 541,480 population, an 

 increase of 153,149 over 1901. Estimates now 

 place the population at 600,000. 



Public Lands. This year 3,068,502 acres of 

 public lands were homesteaded, leaving 3,777,883 

 acres still open for settlement under the home- 

 stead laws; more than 3,000,000 acres of that are 

 in Beaver County. Congress will be asked to 

 extend the free-home measure over all these 

 lands. 



All the 2,055,000 acres of school lands, the prop- 

 erty of the Territory for the support of schools, 

 are now leased, the rentals for 1902 amounting 

 to $300,000. 



Agriculture. The wheat-crop of 1902 amount- 

 ed to 30,000,000 bushels; corn, 65.000,000 bush- 

 els; cotton, 10,000,000 bales; potatoes, 150.000 

 bushels; melons, 170,000 crates; peanuts, 50,000 

 bushels; oats, Kafir-corn, sweet potatoes, broom- 

 corn, alfalfa, sorghum, timothy, clover sugar- 

 beets, and all manner of fruits are grown in 

 abundance. 



Farm Lands. There were listed for taxation 

 in 1902 6,344,662 acres of farm lands, an increase 

 of 1,792,815 over 1901. 



Resources. The Wichita mountains produce 

 copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, magnesia, calcium, 

 cobalt, nickel, manganese, barium, antimony, 

 arsenic, aluminum, sulfur, and oil. Extensive oil 

 developments have been made at Granite and in 



