Show W rapid growth of eagle city 00 i 0 oklahoma town that rose from the prairie practically affy la a Twenty Four hours now flourishing 4 and prosperous some time between midnight and an sunrise arise on dec dee 4 1902 a new town was placed on the map of oklahoma its name is eagle city and it has sev eral era thousand people by this time what was a stretch of vacant prairie on the evening of dec dee 3 had many residences and business houses in course of construction at sunrise on the ath it had a dally daily newspaper the eagle city star in operation on the latter day with several lumber yards restaurants hotels a long distance tel ephone estem system a big city hall with other accessories and accompaniments of civilization A city government will soon be att vork there uncle sam sams s mails are delivered in it with as much regularity as in any other part of the we t another name will be added to the count country rys s gazetteers in the politics and social economy of oklahoma territory and state henceforward eagle city will have to be reckoned with what would boone harrod logan robertson sevier and the rest of the founders of kentucky and tennessee have thought if they had heard of the establishment of a town in a few hours with connections with every other community in the united states and with most of the conveniences of civilization 7 what even would ahe he founders of kansas who came on the scene two thirds of a century after doone boone and his compatriots had done their work have thought of this feat of the citizens of lagle city in kansas case many towns were established after laborious preparation which disappeared in quicker time than they were created and have ion long since dropped off the gazetteers and the maps some ambitious kansas towns with imposing names back in ln the and 60 a are now corn fields history has forgotten them even tradition Is a little dubious as to the spots on which they stood but no such fate Is likely to come to eagle city lawton and several other towns to in oklahoma in recent yeara years hadas had as swift a rise as this latest the latest except snyder which was born a day afterward access accession fon to that territory a map all are on the map still all are flourishing in fact Oh oklahoma lahoma itself was a lightning crea titon the place that we call okia okla homa which at a certain noontime in april 1889 had not a single inhabit tant possessed a permanent tion of ZO 60 before sunset on that day with residences hotels ants stores banks printing office offices and the general equipment of a mod ern community its 61 people la in 1890 were found by uncle sam sams s cen sus takers in 1900 to have increased to probably they number or now exchange A |