The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-03
GLANCE: Al.
NEW
STATES
GREAT
RESOURCES

A comparatively few years ago none
of the cotton raised in the Southern
States was consumed within their bor-
ders, the entirc product going to the
Northern States or foreign countries
10 be manufactured into cotton cloth.
rope, twine, yarn. etc. with the es-
tablishment Of cotton mills throughout
the south, a gradual change has been
brought about until as shown by the
figures of Secretary Hester of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, during the
season just closed 2.193. 600 bales of
the 1907 crop were consumed In the
South. as compared with 1.l93,0O0 or
220.000 bales less In the North. IN the
Increase Of home consumption of cot
ton Oklahoma stands HeuOnD ia 1at
list of southern states. A very small
portion of the cotton crop OF the state
IL. however. consumed therein and
there should be six or eight cotton
spinning mills established within the
state dlring the coming year. II has
the raw product the fuel and the
market for the ma9ufactured product.
There Is certainly nowhere any bet
Ter or more inviting opportunity for
The Investment of capital.
Of geology in the state University OF
Oklahoma, who Eas been making "A
special study OF the states mineral
resources, says In q recept report.
"Oklahoma has vast amount OF
coal, but If the state did not have
ton OF coal, the oil and gas, If properly
utilized, would furnish sufficient fuvl
10 last to- many generations"
The young state Is enabled to offer
attractive Inducements TO manufac-
turers in many lines.
The ney' state OF Oklahoma prodnc-
ed 40.000.C00 barrels of oil last year
the value of which. added TO its gas
rfodaation. was greater than the com
Lined gold and silver production in
ony American state territory or pos
session
The last report OF the oil Produc-
ers Association shows nearly 1,000,-
N1 acres in the state OF Oklahoma
leased To-. oil and gas development
About S15.000,cQ0 has been invested
in the Oklahoma field which has been
opened but a few years. The state
geologist in a recent report says; AT
the present time no one knows the ex
tent OF tho field or the amount of oil
that may be produced but, judging
from present developments and the
stratigraphy and structure of the
rocks in the regions yet undeveloped
one is safe in making the prediction
that the Oklahoma oil field is destined
10 become the largest and most pro
life so far discovered on the contin.
ent".
The question of establishing a great
irrigation project in the extreme north.
.f 10. An,
being agitated, and the Federal Gov
comment viii probably investigate the
rlatter thoroughly In the near future.
II is interesting to note that the state
institutions Of learning have nearly L.,
l0O. 900 aties OF land In Texas and
Cimarron counties. selected there be-
cause of The belief of the officials Of
the Territorial School Land Depart
ment that a great irrigation scheme
was feasible there and would sooner
or later naterialize. making n large
portion OF this land very valuable.
with an enormous reservoir (such as
the conditions there seem TO Indicate
possihiel established on the upper
CimHron. land that Is now worth but
few dollars an acre would increase
IN value a hundredfold and the schools
and colleges OF the state he henilitted
accordingly Oklahoma has to her
actual credit IN the National irrigation
fund over S8,0oO.0O0, aud 1t only re-
Quires the proper effort to demonstrate
"a the Government that the project is
feasable 70 secure the starting of work
tnat viii be of untold bonofit TO the
state as a whole as well as to Vie resi-.
dents OF that portion OF the state
where the works will be constructed
and the water supplied