Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-26
OKLAHOMA, F0RTY-EIXTH
STATE. ENTERS UNION.
Is the Richest, Most Populous and
Most Promising of All Her
Predecessors,

With the proclamation Of President
Roosevelt Saturday, notifying the
world that new State had been born,
Oklahoma took her place in the sisters
hood of Uncle Sam. The new State is
the richest and most promising ever ad-
mitted to the American Union. She has
half as many people as all the thirteen
original States combined when they
achieved their independence. BY ac-
tual count of noses she has six times
the population of any other State ever
received at the time of admission into
the Union. She has fifty times the
amount of wealth that could be claimed
by any of her predecessors at the be-
ginning Of their State life, and has,
what not one of them could show, all
the arts and sciences. the improvements
and progress that go to make highly
civilized commonwealth, from wireless
telegraphy TO the skyscraper, from the
telephone to chemical farming More
than million and half persons claim
the new State as theirs, and it viii not
be long after the census is taken in
1910 before the 1900 OOemark will be
passed. All the old States have sent
their best blood into Oklahoma to give
it cosmopolitan life, and, no matter
where you are from, Il you travel with
in its borders you will find your own
people. The farmer from New England
is there raising cotton side by side with
his northern crops; the Louisiana
planter has taken homestead and is
growing alfalfa and wheat, and the
Pennsylvania and Ohioan are digging
coal or boring for oil. while the Califor-
MAN and Texan are gaining wealth
from mills or railroads or electric
plants. Thee are thrift and push and
energy everywhere. If Oklahoma has
any lazy residents, they manage to con-
ceal themselves for the whole p0pula-
ton seems on the move continually.
Spots that were grassy prairies are
busting towns to-day; yesterdays
towns are cities now the hotels cannot
build additions fast enough to accom-
MEDIATE the travelling public, ard the
railroads, strive as they may to add
tracks and rolling stock to their equip
ment, are simply unable to keep up
with the constantly growing volume of
freight and passenger traffic.
Up-to-dateness seems 10 be the watch
word of Oklahoma's people in the rural
| districts as we'll as IL. the populous
cities. Every farmer has his windmill,
gasolene engine or mechanical water
power for supplying his house and out
| buildings, and many own automobiles.
Telephones bring them into close COM
mupication with the towns, and the
rural free delivery bears daily mail to
| their doors. Oklahoma can raise any
thing which grows between the Cana-
dian border and Florida and Texas.
The cotton yield to the acre is greater
than that in any other State or Terri
| tory in the Union.
| After the proclamation declaring Ok
| lahoma q full-fedged State the only
thing remaining to be done to signify
| its being made complete member Of
the Union will be the setting of its star
in the flag. Under the law this can not
be accomplished until the Fourth of
July, 1908.
Only three of the territories now re-
main, Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico.
The probability is that one or both OF
these last-named will soon be admitted
to the United States, and then every
section of the country except Alaska,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines will be represented in the Senate.