The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07
Figures That Talk
Showing the Wonderful OPP
portunities Offered Mdnu-
facturcrs in Guthrie.

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popular blue Day" brands. with
over a million mead Of cattle $4,000
sheep and 100000 hogs in easy dis
tance who dan forecast the wonder
full future Of the packing industry in
Oklahoma?
Cotton and Its Profits.
From themost reliable statistics we
find that the last years cotton crop
was 271 ,394 balls of 500 pounds each,
and not one pound was manufactured
in Oklahoma. The only item of the
cotton products used by manufactur
ers in Oklahoma is the seed, and es-
timating 1000 pounds Of seed to the
bale we have 135,697 tons This is
divided among ten cotton seed oil mills
in Oklahoma after the seed for the
next crop is saved. These mills rep
resent about s1,O0O.OO0 and are earn
ing good dividends for their owners.
Statistics from the department OF
commerce and labor prove that the
manufactured products Of cotton are
valued at over three times as much
as ,he raw cotton. If Oklahoma pro-
duced 1876, $4,000 pounds of cotton at
an average price of eight cents per
pound or s1O,S55,7 ,760 and the same
lcotton in a manufactured state is
worth S32.5672SO evidently the rail-
Iroads which carry back and forth
and the manufacturers i'm the east have
about S21.000O00 which might be
earned and held in Oklahoma. we
saw an invoice for some knit goods
the other day-the cotton was raised
in Oklahoma. the yarn was spun in
Massachusetts, the hosiery was knit
lin Michigan, and the people Of Okla
homa paid the freights and profits for
the privilege of wearing them out
General.
The larger share of the factories
in Oklahoma have been built in the
last four years and we have in Okla
homa City plants making all the fol
loving articles: Agricultural imple
ments. architectural and other iror
work, artificial stone, awnings, tent
and rubber goods, advertising novel
p ties, bank books, bottled goods, boxes
beer, brick, brooms, carriages cigars
coffee. candy, cooking oil, cotton see'
> oil. creamery products, distilled water
fences. flour furniture, harness an
saaddlery. ice cream, optical goods
: packing house products, paper boxes
e patent medicines, sash and doors, soaI
i trunks. vinegar and yeast
z These plants are all receiving a goo
S patronage and are making money. w
q have the raw material for the maxim
g of the necessaries as well as the luz
e uries Of life, and as Of the total worl
d ing people Of the United States "a
e are engaged I'm manufacturing as
Ii business. In Oklahoma the percen
a age Is only 6.7, comments are unne
n essary.
e Many things might be salu IN Ut
e way of argument for factories in o
lahoma. bu. as necessity is the moth'
of invention, the growing proninen'
.e of Oklahoma and statehood viii u
If doubtedly father and foster our man
Of featuring industries until our pc
centage has attained a normal stat
II Oklahoma, at sweet sixteen, WI
f. soon be a blushing bride, and as 81
rs puts On matronly airs and develo
IS along all lines the manufacturer W
lis leave the beaten path and worn ru
Of of the east and come to the larger Iii
as of the great southwest If were
oe prophet would ask no more pleasi
10 task than to fmetell the future of {
m manufacturing industries Of OkIahol
is, CITY. the center Of commerce in IL
ut land Of promise.
er In closing, let me make this 81
to gestion Let every person 10 OK
,p- homa use Oklahoma made goods. spe
ed good word for Oklahoma manf
tn turerers: If your town makes go
OF -four use fl; if some other town
se the territory roasts a good coffee
ng makes good candy and your town
al, no factory Of this kind, use the OK
he homa made goods Let the same spi
.gs prevail in an cities and we VIII in
ng few years show the world busy plar
all prosperous working men, possessed
he wealthy and happy homes