The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-10-12
STATEHOOD AGITATION
ATTRACTS CAPITAL TO
TWO TERRITORIES
WILL DEVELOP RESOURCES
Keeping Pace With PhenOmi.
nal Building Activity.

Oue result OF tue great auNhlt tlSlnS I
which Oklahoma received though the
tatehood agitation has been the at
tracing Of foreign capital, which will
help deveEp its great natural re
scarcet
One of the most important ol the
new industries. now being established
throughout the new state is the man
moth cement Giant to be located in
Ada A plant Of large proportions
viii be Installed by the company,
which was organized eveTal weeks
ago by Hunungt n Ind. parties with
capital stock Of S3o0000 The nten
tion is to employ from $50 TO 200 men
the capacity of the plant being 1000
barrels daily
/ In order to secure this ind stry the
people OF Ada voted bouus of $25,O00
in city bonds and agreed to build
! fftyacre lake C. furnish water power
for the new plant a. l.. Beck is rresl-
dent of the company. A. b. Whitaker
T. vice president and r. r. Winter
smith. secretary and treasurer: all
are OF Huntington other stockhold-
ers are Edwin Harter. OF Huntingdon
H. p Harter and Miss Margaret Nc
Kinley. of Oklahoma City, Two hun
dred and fifty acres OF cement land
has been leased by the company and
it is expected to have the plant in
operation within the next six months
The citizens II lei Reno have sign
ed contract via. G. d. Moore. and
his associates OF Huntington, Ind.
ana East Liverpool. Ohio, for the con
sruction of 100000 pottery plant
in E Reno. TO give employment TO
me $50 or SEQ hands The company
agrees to begin work on the plant
within sixty days and to have it in
operation within fifteen months
Moore and his sociates have given
sufficient bond TO guarantee the con
tract Eighty acres Of land, within a
short distance OF El Reno, were donat.
ed T. Moore and his associates to pull
the location OF the pottery
The Great Western Glass plant has
commenced operations at Bartlesyille,
and within the next month forty
shops employing $50 people will be
established in connection with the
factory The weekly payroll for fory
shops will amount 60 S1,700. The
construction of a 100000 zinc smelter
AT Bartlesville has also been com
menced by Dee Lanyan and associ.
ate at Neodesha, Kas, and Bartles-
vile. 1t will be a four-block plant at
first. although the contract with the
Commercial club, which secured nat
: yrai gas tor the company at cents
per / .000 feet, calls for an eightblock
plsnt. II will employ eighty men at a
monthly pay r-ll OF $4,000
The citizens of Tulsa have also
landed a zinc smelter and rolling mill
employing several handred men from
the start The company is composed
Of local capitalists, known as the
Tulsa Feel and Manufacturing COM
pany but in reality representing
eastern capitalists The citizens of
Cleveland are also working ON a plan
10 pun a big glass factory. Glass
sand in Pawnee county IN the neigh.
borhooI of Cleveland. attracted much
attention az the Louisiana Purcha q
exposition at ST. Louis last year. and
was the ,aIse Of bringing glass manu-
facturers of Indiana and West Vlr-
ginia here TO investigate and invest
James Frampton and other capital
Is from Wisconsin have closed a
deal with citizens of Ardmore TO be
gin a mammoth brick manufac turing
liant there within the near future;
utilizing machinery which is now ON
the grognd and belonging to Ardmore
citizens.
A proposition TO connect Shawnee
and intermediate towns with the gas
fields Bartlesyille and Tulsa is be-
ing pushed by company Of eastern
capitalist with Robert r. Wood Of
Shawnee, as their representative.
Franchises are now being secured
with the variogs towns along the pro
posed route, the plan being to pipe
the natural gas TO all these towns and
g Shawnee.
Peter Foley. 4 Farsons Kas.,
owner Of the elecuia light and ice
rama act-ring plants at Tishomingo
. mas completed the arrangements Ia
dam the Pennington creek and gener
ate water cover There Is plenty OF
fau to the stream and also plenty OF
waite;
All olnds Of coal can he hough al
I rght prices Of W. p. sheriff phone 55i