The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-06
INDUSTRIAL ARDMORE
The Ardn1ore Traction Company Great
Factor in the Building of Greater A rdrore

Greatest and most successful of
the recent enterprises of Southern
Oklahoma has been the development
of the Ardmore Traction Co, Of
this city.
II has just completed over six
miles of the most modern and up to
date standard guage electric street
railway which with its cars. "a half
dozen in number and of the high
est and most modern type as to
equipment finish and efficiency ever
turned out from the shops of the
General Electric Company. aud the
American Car Company. their build
ers. and the car Company's beauti-
ful park of over hundred acres
stands unrivalled by that of any
city in the southwest and so thor
oughly has Donald Fitzgerald. its
genius of finance and constructive
powers done his work that he has
not only succeeded In giving Ard
more this street railway system and
beautiful park, but has kept his com.
pany out of debt with its bond issue
in its own treasury and additional
assets consisting of over four hun
dred thousand dollars worth of choic-
est city addition property lying along
its lines unincumbered and free of
obligation.
The story of the propositions
aborning in its boldness of design
and brilliancy of development and
execution to its present degree OF
perfection, TO person unacquaint.
ed with its operator aud not a per.
sonal observer OF the facts and
movements OF the Traction Com.
pany's affairs. as have been the citi.
Zens of Ardmore. would in It's re-
cital, appear more like chapter
in the Arabian Knights, than real.
ty of the present work-a-day age.
4 little over three years ago Don
aid Fitzgerald, from so Wall St.
New York. dropped into our city
then in the Indian Territory-On
his way to Texas, where he had
other railway interest He was re.
plete with data covering every feature
of Ardmore's development and bus
mess. collected as carefully as they
do things on Wall street. He knew
that Ardmore was then the largest
cotton market In the world. from
the supply grown on its adjacent
territory. that 1t was located in the
center OF the richest oil and gas
fields in the world: that it's adjacent
supply of hardwood tlmbess: Coal ot
the highest grades, iron ores. includ.
ing manganese gypsum. raw ma
terial for cement. lime, marble. gran.
ite. limestone, fire clay. kaoln
glass, glass sand. asphalt, fuller
earth and the various shales all
practically ineXhaustible amounts.
That right in at the citys door in
the canyon of the Washita river
lay the giant power of the south.
west, sufficient to supply every city
in Oklahoma with electricity on the
most economical basis to develop
and manufacture the foregoing
into the various finished products
for the worlds consumption. TO the
greatest terms of advantage known
TO any city on the continent. Too,
he knows precisely the surprising
agricultural powers of the rich ter.
ritory around us where Is raised
in abundance all the varied crops
of the northern and southern lati.
tudes.
Mr.. Fitzgerald came. too, with
statistics and data showing the ship.
ments of freight and passenger daily
for the preceding ten years. both
in and out of Ardmore over its vari.
Gus steam lines, the bank clearing
deposits and withdrawal OF the city's
various banks, covering a period of
ten years and the daily postoffice
receipts tor like period He knew.
too, the rainfall, temperature, wind
velocity and soil analysis of this
territory, and he had carefully com.
piled the ever changing and growing
table of values of the city's real
estate which showed that all the
real estate within the city OF Ard.
more had for the last ten years