The First Eight Months of Oklahoma City.
FIFTY-TWO DAYS AFTER THE OPENING.
June 15, 1889, fifty-two days after the organization of the city, the following census was taken by the Gazette:
Children ................................. 736
Women .....................................721
Men .....................................2,681
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4138
Ten percent. for omission ................. 439
Outside limits of 640 acres .............. 327
Transients ................................ 419
Soldiers .................................. 600
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Total population, 5,923
HOUSES IN CITY LIMITS.
All frame ................................1,131
Part canvas and tents .................... 472
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Total occupied houses 1,603
BUSINESS.
Groceries, 34; drug stores, 21; dry goods and general merchandise, 28; flour, feed and commission, 11; hotels, 10; boarding houses, 20; bakeries, 10; restaurants, 37; ice cream parlors, 7; barber shops, 14; confectioneries, etc, 21 meat markets, 15; pumps and wells, 3; blacksmiths, 9; stone yards, 2; brick yards, 7; lumber yards, 27; banks, 4, capital $2,000,000. deposits, $120,000, paint shops, 9; tin shops, 7; furniture stores, 5; undertakers, 2; ten cent stores, 1; novelty stores, 2; paint manufactures, 3; clothing etc, 8; surveyors, 28; real estate, 29; shoemakers, 3; harness makers, 4; ice companies 2; lightning rod men, 2; roofers, 6: milkmen, 10; auctioneers, 5; physicians, 53; newspapers, 5; laundries, 11; billiard halls, 3; bowling alleys, 1; bottling works, 2; watchmakers, 4; gun shops, 2; dentists, 2; express wagons, drays, etc; 57; livery stables, 6; coal, lime etc, 1; music teachers, 3; photograph galleries, 3; theaters, 2; church societies, 5; schools, 1; fire companies, 1; news stands, 3; books and stationery, 3; wall paper, 2; secret societies, I. O. O. F., Masons, G. A. R., A. O. U. W., K. of L. and K. of P.
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