File:Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa (1922) (14593073139).jpg

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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f miles and salt was hauled away bv the wagon loads.The huge salt kettles used, came from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,and were transported down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers andup the Arkansas and Grand rivers to a ford near where the Salinabridge, east of Pryor, is now located. The country now comprising Mayes County furnished no lessthan four Chiefs for the Cherokees and many of the Councilmenand Senators. AGRICULTURE A ride over the county will reveal to the observer the same reli-able crops of corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, alfalfa and potatoesthriving here much the same as in older grain and livestock states.The visitor will see the rolling prairies, the rich creek and riverbottoms and the timbered uplands. If it be the late summer orautumn, he will see wheat or oats stacked or straw piles in everydirection. He will pass loaded wagons hauling the grain fromsteam thresher to elevator. Other teams are hauling baled hay, ofwhich thousands of tons are shipped each year. He may be sur-
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IN THE GEAIN BELT OF MAYES COUNTY, 1917 MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 567 prised to learn that wheat makes from ten to forty bushels; oatsthirty to eighty bushels; corn twenty to seventy bushels, per acre;alfalfa from three to five cuttings a season. He will pass fields ofcowpeas, kafir, milo, feterita, peanuts, and other crops that may benew to him. An occasional field of cotton will be seen. MayesCounty is on the northern limit of the cotton belt, and a fewthousand acres of this valuable crop are grown here. Our visitor will learn that the winters are so mild and open thatplows run every month, that oats are seeded in February, corn isplanted in March, wheat is harvested in the first half of June, pota-toes are maturing by June 10th, and a second crop can be grownfrom the culls of the first. Pastures are green nine months of theyear and stock feeds on the tall prairie grass throughout thewinters. FROM UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT The following statements about Eastern Oklahoma are

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