The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1908-11-27
THR0N6 81 6iffS!!yERs GysyEElRs
ATTEND OPENING
Crowds That Attend Opening of
South Coffeyville Was Far in
Advance OF Expectations.

South Coifyville, Ok. Nov. 27,-S( (pecial)
Yesterday. Thanksgiving Day. was the
biggest day in the history of this city and
one Of the bigeist days in the history of
Cofeyville, Kansas. The event was the
formal opening of this city. and hundreds
Of visitors were here from all sections Of
the country, more than a dozen states
being represented: Kansas, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa furnishing
the largest per cent of the visitors Beside
the hundreds who were here from abroad,
there we're several thousand people in at
tendance from this immediate vicinity.
The Etchen Brothers, who are the pro-
pretors of the three companies, The Kan
sas Land Co., The Big Land Co. and the
Etchen Brothers Land Co, which promoted
the new town, chartered a special train
on the NJ, X. & T. railroad and transport
ed passengers between South CofTeyville
and CoffeyvilIe, Kans. free of charge. This
train was run hourly between the two
towns, and il was we'll patronized during
the entire day. Besides this. the street
car line was taxed to its fullest capacity
in transporting people from the sister city
on the Kansas side Of the line to South
Coffeyville.
The opening of South Coffeyville. Okla
marks a new epoch in the history of the
Southwest Never before in Oklahoma
was town opened to investors with such
excellent prospects for future development.
Investors by the hundreds we're on the
ground and lot selling ran high. il requir-
ing an extra effort on the part of the pro-
prietors of the new town and their army
of assistants TO handle the lot sales. MANY
who came out of curiosity readily invested
in business or residence lots after they
had seen what South Coffeyville offered
in the way Of investments
From the time the new town was first
advertised. month ago inquiries began
to come in from interested capitalists and
from those desiring business and residence
until the advance lot sales
greatly exceeded the expectations of the
proprietors, and il was found necessary
le shut of the sale of the lots in this city
and in Cofleyvi.le. Kansas, last Monday
until the day Of the opening.
II was great sight to see the hundreds
'f eager purchasers hastily viewing the
ownsite, felsctine possibly business lot
'r perhaps a residence location before
'one early bird had caught the worm. and
very train during the entire day brought
n more visitors e tue city until by the ,
loon hour veritsble army was throneine !
he streets Of the prosperous young city. {
AT noon those who wished real feast :
vas given u platter Of the famous Okla /
omt barbecued beef and buns free for I
be asking. and although the supply was I
arge the crowd was so much beyond the [
Of the promoters that before \
Il had been fed the supplywas exhausted 4
There are possibly more Individual in
ucements TO iny9s; in South Conevfne q
han wese ever offered by one city before N
here Is no other town in TIE entire new ii
late Of Oklahoma chat has better raiiroad a
dvantages than has this city This alone 4,