The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-23
|fl15 ABOUT TIE I0uh. Or Raf
WHAT w. c. WELLS THINKS AND
SAYS OF THAT GROWING cITY.
In q Recent lntervIew with Mr.. w. C.
Wells, who 10 q Real Estate aud In
s1raace Broker at Rolf. an Ard
m0reiee Reporter OuerIed:

you are manager Tor the tOWnSlte
company at Rolf, a new town on
the Frisco extension, and the ARD
MoREITE would like to have an ex-
preston from you regarding the
interview with MIR. w. B. John
son, which appeared in the ARD
MoRErrE of the GOTH"
All right, sir" said Mr.. Wells.
In the first place, l am not nor
have | ever been in the employ of
a townsite company in the Indian
Territory"
Have you not been selling lots
in the town of Roff4" was asked.
"Yes; have. | have been in
the employ of Mr.. Joe 7. Rolf
who owns the townsite of Rolf;
that he is a citizen of the Chicka-
saw nation and has been in peace
able possession of these lands for
II years. no one seems to question.
AS to Mr.. Johnson's interview, |
cannot see that any part of it ap-
plies to the town of Rolf any more
than it would to ArdmOre or any
other town on the Santa Fe rail
road. Rolf was town of four or
FIVE hundred people at the time of
the passage of the Curtis bill. and
recently we have had the good for
tune 10 have the Frisco railroad
build through our town, and they
will have their trains running to
This place by October 10. We also
have the Rock Island survey which
line is to be built east from Chick
asha via Pauls Valley through our
town, and Rolf is located in a very
fine agricultural country fairly we'll
developed. Under these conditions
it is natural to suppose that the
town must grow, and | must say
that under the most adverse cir
cumstances we are proud of the
start we have made, and believe in
a few years we will have a town
here that the Indian Territory will
be proud OF" "
Give us an idea of the progress
you have made, Mr.. Wells," was
asked.
Well" said he, we have a
townsite of about $40 acres and
the lots have nearly all been sold
to good class of people. | must
say that with my fifteen years ex-
perience in town building | have
never seen a better class of people
take hold of a new town than are
coming to this. We have sold res
idence and business lots to fifteen
or eighteen parties who expect to
become bona fde residents of Rolf
who are worth from $4,000 to
$75, 900, and the most of them |
know personally to be pushing, en-
terprising business men and You
may depend on it that we will be
in the push for all enterprises that
strike this part Of the country.
Now. | don't want any one to think
that / am taking issue with Mr..
johnson; l simply want to notify
the public that we don't belong to
that class of towns which he refers
to. we are simply adding to an old
town that was in existence before
tie passage of the Curtis bill, and
we don't think there has ever been
a time before or after the passage
of the Curtis bill that you couldn t
buy a lot in Ardmore if you had
the price, and | wish to announce
to the public that all parties look
ing for business locations or seek
ing investments where they will
get large returns ON their money,
will find it to their interest to come
to Rolf and look the situation over
at an early date, FOR unless all
signs fail we will certainly have a
boom here within the next few
months.
We have now about 1000 in
habitants and the town is growing
rapidly.
I'VE are putting in two addi-
tional cotton gins with a capacity
of IS bales each per day.
Messrs. Birge, Stanfieldy and
Trout are pushing their Oil mill
building so as to have it ready to
receive the machinery on October
Is.
I'VE have several brick and