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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (OREGON.) 



the Osage Indian reservations; immense deposits 

 of salt are found in Blaine, Woods, and Wood- 

 ward Counties, where are several Government 

 saline reserves; granite is found in great beds 

 near Granite and in Blaine County; and cement 

 beds are inexhaustible in the Keechi hills and 

 near Sterling. The oil strata are heavily charged 

 with gas. Plants for developing mineral products 

 have been erected at Granite, NV'ildman, Lawton, 

 Okea, and Bartlesville, Indian Territory, near the 

 Osage reservation. 



Portions of Oklahoma are heavily timbered 

 with oak, elm, walnut, pecan, hickory, sycamore, 

 cottonwood, ash, cedar, etc. Within the year 

 walnut timber has become one of the leading 

 products of the Territory. Oklahoma furnishes 

 a large part of the world's pecan-crop. 



Indians. The number of Indians in Oklahoma 

 is 12,893, a decrease of 26 from 1901. Nearly 300 

 Arizona Apaches are held at Fort Sill by the 

 Government as prisoners of war. Numbered by 

 tribes, there are 1,800 Osages, 220 Kaws, 557 

 Poncas, 370 Otoes, 54 Tonkawas, 638 Pawnees, 

 479 Sauk and Fox, 91 lowas, 1,722 Pottawato- 

 mies, 509 Shawnees, 2,808 Cheyennes and Ara- 

 pahoes, 1,134 Kiowas, 1,407 Comanches, 164 

 Apaches, and 940 Wichita and affiliated tribes. 

 The Osages are the only Indians unallotted at 

 present. They own 1,400,000 acres, and the annual 

 interest on their fund in the Government Treas- 

 ury is $150,000, making them the richest people 

 on earth, the per capita wealth being about 

 $18,000. 



Cities. There are 20 cities of the first class in 

 Oklahoma, with a population 36 per cent, greater 

 than in 1900. The valuation of town property 

 returned for taxation in 1902 was $11,629,198. 



Manufactures. There are 10 cottonseed-oil 

 mills and 250 cotton-gins in Oklahoma; 2 cotton 

 compresses; 228 grain-elevators, with a total ca- 

 pacity of 2,857,000 bushels; 48 flouring-mills, with 

 a total daily capacity of 8,760 barrels. There are 

 231 manufactories of all kinds in the Territory. 



Penitentiary. Under contract the Oklahoma 

 convicts are cared for by the State of Kansas at 

 35 cents each daily. There were 287 convicts 

 from Oklahoma in the Kansas prison the last 

 week in December. The Governor has asked an 

 annual appropriation of $40,000 for this purpose 

 for 1903-'04. 



The Insane. Under contract the insane of 

 the Territory are cared for by the Oklahoma 

 Sanitarium Company, at Norman, at a cost of 

 $200 per annum for each patient; the past year 

 cost the Territory $65,000 for this purpose. The 

 average number of patients was 299. 



Deaf-Mutes. These are cared for and edu- 

 cated under contract with H. C. Beamer, at Guth- 

 rie, at a cost for the year of $14,206.48. The high- 

 est attendance in the year was 60. 



National Guard. The Oklahoma National 

 Guard consists of 12 companies of infantry, 1 

 battery, and 1 troop of cavalry, with a total 

 strength of 825 men. The annual encampment 

 was at Kingfisher in August. 



Banks. The consolidated report of the State 

 banks at the close of business on Dec. 13, 1902, 

 showed 202 banks reporting, a total of 206 doing 

 business in the Territory; average reserve held, 

 50 per cent.; loans and discounts, $4,913.095; 

 overdrafts, $360,410; stock and bonds, $212,541; 

 due from banks, $2,926,689; cash on hand, $816,- 

 33; cash items, $197,356; furniture and fixtures, 

 $352,474; real estate and mortgages, $22,378; 

 total resources, $9,801,399; capital stock paid in, 

 $1,647,932; surplus, $186,432; undivided profits, 

 $403,138; deposits, $6,701,334; demand certifi- 



cates, $589,505; cashier checks outstanding, $39,- 

 074; due to banks, $153,314; bills payable, $59,- 

 721; bills rediscounted, $20,743. The number of 

 national banks is 66; average reserve held, 18.47 

 per cent.; total deposits in national banks, $11,- 

 028,635.23; average deposit per capita in national 

 banks, $22; average deposits in both national 

 and Territorial (State) banks, $37.67; total de- 

 posits in all banks in Oklahoma, $17,729,909. 

 The excessive amount of deposits held by the 06 

 national banks over the amount held by the State 

 banks may be accounted for to a large extent 

 from the fact that many national banks of the 

 Territory are used as reserve agents by the Ter- 

 ritorial (State) banks. 



Statehood. Oklahoma is claiming eligibility 

 to statehood. The claims are based on popula- 

 tion, education, and wealth. The Republican 

 party in Oklahoma made the campaign of 1902 on 

 the issue of statehood for Oklahoma alone and 

 at once. The Democratic party made the issue 

 single Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Terri- 

 tory. The Indian Territory is alleged to be un- 

 fitted for statehood at this time, because the 

 lands are still largely held in common by the 

 Indian tribes. Legislation looking to statehood 

 in the Fifty-seventh Congress was handicapped 

 by the conditions that grew out of the uniting 

 of the remaining Territories in one bill. There 

 were objections against Arizona and New Mex- 

 ico, which militated against Oklahoma. Recog- 

 nizing that ultimate single statehood with India a 

 Territory is inevitable, the advocates of imme- 

 diate statehood for Oklahoma are not radical in 

 their demands. 



Political. Gov. William M. Jenkins retired at 

 the close of 1901, and was succeeded by Thompson 



B. Ferguson, an original Oklahoman, of those 

 who made the run for homes. The " home-rule " 

 idea has been followed by the Government in the 

 appointment of all officers in the Territory. 

 Congress created two more places on the Okla- 

 homa Supreme bench, and Associate-Justice 

 M'Atee retired. Associate-Justices Gillette, Beau- 

 champ, and Pancoast (all Oklahomans) were 

 nominated bythe President. C. H. Thompson re- 

 signed as United States marshal, and was suc- 

 ceeded by another orginial Oklahoman, William 

 D. Fossett. 



OREGON, a Pacific coast State, admitted to 

 the Union Feb. 14, 1859; area, 94,560 square 

 miles. The population was 13.294 in 1850: 52.465 

 in 1860; 90.923 in 1870; 174,768 in 1880: 313.767 

 in 1890; and 413,536 in 1900. Capital, Salem. 



Government. The following were the Stale 

 officers in 1902: Governor. Theodore T. Geer; Sec- 

 retary of State and Auditor, Frank I. Dunbai ; 

 Treasurer, Charles S. Moore; Attorney-General, 

 R. D. N. Blackburn; Superintendent of Pubic 

 Instruction, J. H. Ackerman; Adjutant-General, 



C. U. Gantenbein; Chief Justice of the Suprene 

 Court, Charles E. Wolverton; Associate Justices* 

 Robert S. Bean and Frank A. Moore; Clerk, J. J. 

 Murphy all Republicans. 



The term of the State officers is four years, and 

 they are elected in June of even-numbered yeai 

 alternating with the presidential elections. In 

 June of all the even-numbered years members of 

 Congress, the Legislature, and a justice of tie 

 Supreme Court are elected. The Legislature hol( 

 biennial sessions, beginning in January of odd- 

 numbered years, and continuing forty days. It 

 consists of 30 Senators, elected for four years, and 

 60 Representatives. 



Finances. The valuation of property for ta:c 

 ation at the end of 1902 was $150.000,000. Tin 

 State tax levy amounted to 6.51 mills. Hereaftis 



