The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-01-23
NEW STATES MINERAL
WEALTH UNBCUNDED
Stands for More Varied In
tereStS Than Any State
of Southwest

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The manufacturing industry is the
one that is never finished, and one
factory begets another The com
mencement OF the Portland cement
factories in. one section OF the state
has really Just begun, but following
ir the wake is the men who want to
Ntilize all Of the minerals cf our
state. These factories make state
maker of prosperity as he receives
rich The skilled artisan is the real
quick returns for his skill and he is
an ideal homebuilder
Out on the plains OF the state. where
for two decades the COW man and the
tiller have struggled fer supremacy,
il was loGf ught the factory could
not endure cry little timber, and
coal almost two hundred miles distant
made the prospect OF factories seem
and the manufacturer wanting gypsum
most drear But there Is a new deal,
has turned his attention to Western
Oklahoma, while the maker of fire
proof material finds the dead ciays Of
the third surface TO his liking and
easily obtained.
The foothills Of the Wichitas abousl I
in that kind of limestone needed most
for the decorating OF artificial granite
and crushed marbles. made freproof
by the use Of the silicas of the semi
arid portion OF the state
The manufacturing era OF the new
state has yet to begin, insofar as con
Germs the great industIins. Thoee
now in existence have been enormous
~ successfully, but the smoke stacks
OF commerce are really TO be a part
OF our state, and then coming means
millions of new people, and billions
fos improvements.
Within ten years the farmer OF the
state win find It impossible to feed the
people who have followed the flag Of
cheap production. and thousands OF
acres now used for grazing will be
utilized by the intensified farming Of
vegetables. making ten acres yield
more dollars thar we now get from a
balf-section.
Oklahoma stands for more varied
interests than any state of the king
dom known as the Southwest, and she
has acreage sufficient 10 handle and
bring wealth to twenty millions of
people. Five or six decades ago the
residents near the great arteries OF
commerce complained they were 50
close 10 the cities their lands were
taxed too high, while they got the
same for their rentals as did those
further away.
AT this time these same lands. sci.
dom rich to commence with, are worth
thousands of dollars per acre, and
they can not furnish the green vege.
tation SO needed by the dwellers in
the bee hives of the factories in our
great cities.
With the sunshine and fertile soil
the cheap fuel that of necessity at
tracts the manufacturer. we are pre-
pared to enter into prosperity that
will end only with time itself, and the
guide lights Of opportunity should be
ever bright that We might utilize each
chance, and be ready for the things
which follow after
With all the lower order Of minerals
IN paying quantities, and boundless
acres for the growth Of cereals
climatically situated for the best frui
ton Of all crops, Oklahoma OF nee
cessity must crowd the line for first
place, and an undaunted unconquer
able spirit of the new state viii avail
itself OF all these opportunities.
The railroad of the rich and thiclly