The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-11-05
OFFERS ATTRACTIVE INDUCE
MENTs TO MANUFACTURERS
HAS VAST HIDDEN WEALTH
Only a Little Of Her Natural Resour.
ces known-Has OIL and Gas,
Alone Sufficient for Fuel for
Generations

Guthrie Okla, Nov. "A compar.
atively few years ago none Of the
cotton raised IN the southern states
was consumed within their borders.
/ the entire product going to the north
ern states or foreign countries to be
| manufactured into cotton cloth. rope.
twine. yarn etc. With the establish.
ment of cotton mills throughout the
south. 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.OOO bales
of the 1907 crop were consumed in
the south as compared with l.I93.0O0
or 100000 bales less in the north. In
the increase of home consumption of
cotton Oklahoma stands second in the
list of southern states. \ very small
portion of the cotton crop of the
state Is however consumed therein
and there should be six or eight cot
ton spinning mills established within
the state during the coming year. II
has the raw produce. the fuel and
the market for the manufactured pro.
duct There is certainly nowhere
any better or more inviting oppor-
tunity for the investment of capital.
Prof. Charles y. Gould professor
of geology in the state university, of
Oklahoma, what has been making a
special study of the states mineral
resources says in arecent report:
Oklahoma has a vast amount of
coal, but II the state did not have a
ton of coal, the oil and gas, If proper
ly utilized would furnish sufficient
fuel TO last many generations"
The young state is enabled to offer
attractive Inducements to manufac.
turers In many lines.
The new state of Oklahoma produc.
ed 100000 barrels of oil last year.
the value OF which added to it's gas
product was greater than the combin.
ed gold and silver production in any
American state, erritory or posses.
sion.
The last report OF the Nil Produc,
ers' Association shows ne...y 1000
: 600 acres in the state of Oklahoma
, leased for oil ana gas development
= About 130,000,000 has been invested
! in the Oklahoma field, which has been
opened but few years. The state
geologist in a recent report says: Al
the present time no one knows the ex
tent of the 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 destln
ed TO become the largest and mos
: prolific so far discovered on the con
tinent."
The question of establishing ;
great irrigation project in the ex
treme northwestern portion of Okla
. homa is again being agitated, and thu
federal government will probably in
vestigate the matter thoroughly II
the near future. 1t Is interesting Il
note that the state institutions Of learn
ing have nearly ! 100000 acres o
land in Texas and Cimarron counties
selected there because of the belle
y of the officials OF the Territorial
!, school land department that grea
,. irrigation scheme was feasible ther
and would sooner or later materialzt
= making a large portion of this lam
very valuable. With an enormou
reservoir, such as the conditions taer
seem to indicate possible. establishe
on the upper waters Of the Cimarror
land that is now worth but fey
dollars an acre would increase 4
value a hundredfoll AMI the school
and colleges OF the state be benefi
ed accordingly. Oklahoma has 10 he
actual credit in the national irrig'
tion fund over $4,000 900, and it onl
requires the proper effort to demon
strate to the government that the pre-
ject is feasible to secure the startin
| of work that will be OF untold benz
/ fit to the state as a whole as well a
II to the residents of that portion {
II the state where the works will b
II constructed and the water supplied
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