The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-11-13
NONE so RICH
AS OKLAHOMA
Horace H.s.Hagan'S Glowing
Forecast Of TerrilOry'S
Brilliant Future.

Kansas City Star The prospects
for a brilliant future were never so
pronounced in any section of Uncle
Sans domain as presented at this
very hour in the territory of Oklaho-
ma, said H. H. Hagan of Guthrie,
yesterday, who is in the city on bust
ness. III one dare venture an opin-
ion touching the outlook for l.ext
years wheat yield, the figures used
TO express the yield Of last year viii
be inhnitestimal when next years re-
port is made We have enjoyed gen
tle yet copious rains. which appear
TO have been general in scope and
our chief crop, wheat, has been ma
teially benefited To be frank with
you, one can not be too enthusiastic
.iu praises Of that spot called Oklaho.
ma. Twelve years ago Oklahoma was
devoid Of financial standing: today
she exhibits forty national banks with
total resources and liabilities amount
ing TO s12,2259372s, together with
state banks showing s7.437, ,1S1.O4. an
average for the state banks of SIS
per cent. and undivided profits and
surplus of 43 per cent, as against our
sister territory whose population of
long standing with rich traders, ex-
hibits today fity-three national banks
with resources and liabilities Of So
35S, S57, trife less than g millions
in favor of Oklahoma.
In Fine Financial Condition.
why, in Guthrie alone the Capitol
National bank has touched the million
dollar mark; with three close com
petitors, to say nothing of a similar
condition obtaining in Oklahoma City.
A healthy financial atmosphere per
meates throughout the cities of less
Importance in the territory To con
vey faint idea, | will Isay that there
has been returned for assessment.
and upon which a tax has been levied.
262 035 head of horses, valued at s4-
4S6,569; 90, ,5Sl head of mules and
asses, vlaued at $1,186,SS4; 617,752
head of cattle, valued at $11,54S,615:
42O07 head of shee pand goats, valued
at s54,419; 277.2S9 swine, valued at
S6S2,S26. Large as our area is, with
only 4612.7Os acres of land reported
the total valuation has reached the
handsome figure Of $50, 464,6 ,696, with
a tax levy of only 71a mills on the
dollar. You must know that without
the addition of the three new coua-
ties that oklahoma's area is SS,715
square miles
Just stop long enough to go with
me along the line of education, if you
please. We have one university man
ned with a splendid faculty that com
pares favorably with those of other
states; one agricultural and mechani-
cal college that Is rapidly closing in
upon Kansas for first honors in this
class of educational institutions. We
have an agricultural and normal uni
versity for the elevation OF the negro
along general lines. We have two
normal schools and third in course
of construction, as also a preparatory
-chool for the university. These last
two will be completed early in the
approaching year II might be well to
add here that each OF the institutions
of learning received from the last
legislature handsome appropriations
aggregatlng u million dollars. Nor
has the commo nschool been by these
people overlooked, for here we show
3 scholastic population OF 12S,79S and
each city and town of any proportion
have erected splendid school build
lngs, substantial. well ventilated and
modern in every detail, with high
schools, recognized by the higher in
Of the various states. The
district school house, so often neg
leoted even in older states. and usu-
ally made Of logs, has given place
here to the modern frame and stone
building
Statehood From Population.
q refer again to the financial con-
dition, since it might be of interest
The debt Of the territory, including
everything amounts TO S549,O00 This
includes $4,000 bonded debt, the bal
ance being in a class OF paper known