Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . ressurethan any of the others in the county, and which gives every assur-ance of being of longer life, as the sand is found in the upper strataof the Mississippi lime. In addition to the above there is a good gas field west of Clare-more, also north and east of Claremore, which has for several yearsbeen supplying the domestic consumption of the Cityof Claremore. Claremore, Chelsea, Foyil and Oolagah have for years
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . ressurethan any of the others in the county, and which gives every assur-ance of being of longer life, as the sand is found in the upper strataof the Mississippi lime. In addition to the above there is a good gas field west of Clare-more, also north and east of Claremore, which has for several yearsbeen supplying the domestic consumption of the Cityof Claremore. Claremore, Chelsea, Foyil and Oolagah have for years beenamply supplied by local gas only, with every assurance of an amplesupply for years to come, and in addition all the heat and power ofthe several cities of the county has been supplied with local gasas well as a large brick plant at Claremore, and another at Chelsea. FINANCIAL CONDITION OF ROGERS COUNTY Rogers County has an area of about seven hundred and twenty-eight square miles. The total assessed valuation for the fiscal yearending July 1, 1920, was $16,733,605, this assessed valuation rang-ing from $10 per acre and up, from the pasture lands to the bestfarming MISSOURI PACIFIC DEPOT. CLAREMORE MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 597 It lias forty-one school districts, all of which have good schoolbuildings, using from one to twenty-five teachers. They are all insplendid condition financially, all of their bonds and coupons beingmet when due. Most all maintain a nine-months school. It has about one hundred and twenty-five miles of state roadsand most of the section lines are open and passable to the public. The county received for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1920,from ad valorem levies $539, and from miscellaneous sources$154,, making a grand total of $693, CLAREMORE Claremore, the county seat and principal city of RogersCounty, is located in the south central part of the county at thejunction of the Missouri Pacific (Iron Mountain) with the
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