The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-12-19
BEAUTIFUL MARIETTA
A Hustling and Growing
Town.
HAS 1900 IN POPULATION
1t Has Churches, Schools, Lodges
and Many Other Good
Advantages.

MARIETTA is situated twenty-five
miles north of Gainesville and nine
teen miles south of Ardmore, Indian
Territory, on the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe Railway, and has a popula-
tion of l, 500. The town was incorpo-
rated in 1898; has the finest water in
the world and is noted as the health
lest town in the B. I. T.
Its people are clever;eociable, moral
and intelligent and always ready to
extend the hand of welcome to all
citizens who may wish to cast their
lot with them.
It's schools are second to none in
the Territory, with competent corps
of teachers.
There are two churches, seven Sc
cret societies-A. F. & A. NJ, o. E.
S., K. of P, I. o. o. F., Woodmen
of the World and Woodmen Circle.
There are three good hoteIs-Flor-
entine, Marietta house, Myers hotel
besides numerous private boarding
houses,
Our business men are: Blackburn
& Jones, general merchandise; S.
Westheimer & Co., general merchan-
disc; J. r. Holland s. Co., general
merchandise; Hicks & Hagan, gro
ceries: Stevens, Kennerly & Spragins,
hardware: White & Rice, hardware;
three confectioneries and bakeries;
three restaurants: Chancellor Bros ;,
furniture dealers; one tonsorial par
lor; one harness and saddlery shop;
oCe tin shop; two blacksmith shops:
four carpenter shops; three square
and one round bale gins; two cotton
yards; two livery and feed barns; one
meat market and one millinery store.
Marietta is fast becoming noted as
good market for farm products.
For several years she has been known
among grain dealers as the best grain
market on the line of the Santa Fe in
the Territory. This year her cotton
receipts will exceed 80, 600 bales, thus
placing her second only to Ardmore
as a cotton market. The reason for
this is that our merchants and business
men have always shown the greatest
liberality to the farmers in their
dealings, paying the highest market
prices at all times for all market
products.
A feature of the development in and
around Marietta is the noticeable
Improvement in the grading of cattle
of late years. The first impetus to
this was given by Mr.. Jerry Wash
ington, who several years ago began
buying and breeding registered stock
Today he has one of the finest herds of
registered Hereford and Durham cat
tie to be found anywhere in the Terri
tory and the people generally in this
section are profting by his example
to improve the grade of their cattle.
Marietta's most treasured water
supply comes from deep wells, of
which four have been dug, producing
an inexhaustibls supply of pure,
cold, soft water at q depth ranging
from 200 to 276 feet Evidence exists
at this depth of an artesian supply
and it is certain that flowing wells
could be had by boring to a depth OF
800 feet. Surface wells also abound,
giving good water at depth of twenty
feet or less. It is certain that an in
exhaustible supply of water can be
had here for manufacturing and in
dustrial enterprises.
The surrounding country is the best
in the Territory. We have fifty miles
Of river frent on Red River and in
this bottom lies the best land in the
Territory. Our farmers this year beat
all previous records in crop raising,
though a failure has never bcen
known,