Volume 2 , Issue 8

Oklahoma's Climate

Letter to Editor written by George Rollins, Alva, Oklahoma and appeared in the Souvenir Edition - Alva Pioneer, Friday, Jan. 1, 1904, Vol. 11, No. 16, Alva, Woods Co., Oklahoma. W. F. Hatfield, Publisher Daily and Weekly Pioneer editor, sold the "Souvenir Edition" in 1904 for 50-Cents. It was printed to celebrate Alva's tenth anniversary since the opening of 1893. Printed as it was in 1904.

Dear Editor:

Thinking some of my friends in the eastern states would like to know how I like Oklahoma, will say, I like it here on account of the climate. We have short winters and cool summers. We don't have to work so hard here to make a few dollars as you do in the eastern states, and we don't have to wade around in the mud, or work when it's thirty degrees below zero, and we don't have to work six months to raise feed for our stock the other six months. We turn our cattle out on the wheat pasture and they make their own living through the winter. This country is best adapted to wheat, oats, alfalfa, and fruit.

We have a nice orchard, with most all kinds of fruit, plums, pears, apples, peaches, etc. If you are at the World's Fair don't forget to look at the exhibit from Woods county, Oklahoma. You will see some of my fruit there sent by C. F. McKnight, World's Fair Commissioner of Woods county. You will see there wheat that made 50 bushels per acre, oats 75 bushels per acre, barley that made 50 bushels per acre, and we think the best fruit in the United States, except California.

You will see the photograph of my house on this page, I own 880 acres of land. I am raising cattle and farming; have some nice alfafa, and will sow more next year. If you want to know mroe about this country come out and see for yourself. If you come, you will locate with us.

Yours Respectfully,
George Rollins, Alva, Oklahoma

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