The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-09
DEVELOP
MINERAL
RESOURCES
AND PROVIDE HOME MAR
KET FOR OKLAHOMA
FARMER
IMMENSE POSSIBILITIES
AWAIT DEVELOPMENT
Practically Everything Raised
in Oklahoma Is Shipped
Outside The Safe


The people OF Oklahoma are just
ly proud of their state, and take de
light in saying that ii will produce
greater variety OF crops and con-
tains greater number Of valuable
minerals than any area of equal
size In the United States This is
all true yet the people have not
come TO realize the immense future
possibilities locked up In the state.
Take the matter OF farm products.
Al the present time practically moth
ing but three staples, corn, cotton
and wheat are raised The corn is
led to hogs and cattle. which are
shipped to Fl. Worth, Kansas City
or Chicago the wheat is shipped
direct TO Chicago, or ground into
-four which is shipped out of the
state. The cotton Is shipped to New
York and Liverpool by way OF Gal
weston. In certain regions potatoes
are raised but they too are shipped
away from home. chiefly to nortnern
markets. Practically everything
raised in Oklahoma is shipped out
side of the state
Why?
Largely because Oklahoma has no
home market
Al the same time tne farmers OF
Oklahoma are not raising the crops
which yield the most profit, such as
vegetables, berries and fruits.
Why?
Because Oklahoma has no market
for these things.
If only staples are raised, the soil
of Oklahoma, fertile as II is,, will
eventually become exhausted
Obviously some method must be
devised to produce a nome mart ,
not only for the so-called staples. but
for other things as we'll
How shall we secure a home mar
ket? By developing our mineral re-
sources Instead OF sending out of
the state for all the manufactured
articles we should produce as many
OF these things as possible in the
state. Every dollar that goes out
side Of the state only swells the bank
deposits and pays taxes in some
ether state.
Some day not very far away the
people of Oklahoma will wake up to
the fact that II pays better to manu-
facture her home products than TO
pas tribute to other states for the
material which she might produce at
home but does not Take the matter
OF lime for example. There Is
enough limestone in any one OF TWEEN
ty counties in the new state to make
lime to supply the world, yet prac-
tically all the lime comes from Mis-
souri,, Arkansas or Texas. We send
money out of the state to buy lime
and thereby add to the revenue Of
should be kept at home and added
to the total wealth of Oklahoma. So
it is with many other products, such
as building stone, brick, gypsum,
plaster, Portland cement, terra cot
ia. malt asphalt. sewer tile, and the
like. With unlimited quantities of
raw material and fuel in plenty 10
manufacture 1t we continually send
away from the state for these prod.
ucts
We wonder why taxes are so high
We censure the railroads for exorblt-
ant freight rates. We devise ways
and means for regulating this trou
BILE As long as we continue our
present policy of shipping in manu-
featured products, that might be
made at home while we send cut our
farm products we will never reach
orr best development. II is time
that Oklahoma were manufacturing .
| her raw products.