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GUTHRIE, a city of Oklahoma, U.S.A, near the Cimarron river, 3om. N. of Oklahoma city, the county seat of Logan county. It is on Federal highway 77, has an airport (5oac.) and is served by the Fort Smith and Western, the Oklahoma (electric) and the Santa Fe railways. The population was 11,757 in 192o (2o% negroes), and was 9,582 in 193o by the Federal census. Guthrie is the trade centre for a large and productive agricultural region, specializing chiefly in fruit, poultry-raising and dairying. It has sundry manufacturing industries (with an output in 1925 valued at $1,241,367) including the first cotton mill established in the State. There are several deep mineral springs in the city, and numerous oil-wells in the county. Guthrie was founded in 1889. when Oklahoma was opened to settlement. It was the capital of the territory and the State from 1890 to 1910.

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