The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-04
.BoosTINcv IS a BUSINESS
PROPOSITION.

Just SUPPOSE for a moment tina
Chlckaeha were 4 city twice. thre'
times Or four times bier present size.
What would be the effect On proper
~ FalBezs What would be the effeci
on the business Of the cffys
You don't have 70 guess the answers
to these Questions Il isn't a matter
Of speculation All you have 10 Do il
tp 20 10 Oklahoma City. Wichita of
Fort Worth. Inquire the Falue OF lots
Ii any Of these cities and compare Il
with the price Of property similarly
situated 10 chiekasha. Go to the larg-
est stores and compare their volume
VI business with the business dc1e b.
the largest stores in chickasha. The
figures viii answer the above ques
lions 10 your saiiatactiOn
Nov. do you know any gDod reason
WHY Chickasha should not be TWO,
three Or four times her present size
Think as long and as hard as you
please, you won't find any On the
other hand you viii find an abundance
of good reasons Why We should double,
treble or quadruple our population
Surrounded by the finest agricultural
country on earth. we have every right
to be- a great retail center
Admirably located as q distributing
point for large territory. there is
every reason whx we should be a job
hing center.
With plenty Of raw material AT our
doors and With cheap water power, vie
have all the requisites for factory I
town
But-and this Is tremendous big
Dut7-dont gef the idea that because
we have all these natural advantages,
chickasha Is predesflned or foreordain-
q 20 become great city Many an
other town has bad the same advan-
tsgeg and never became much more
than turn In the road. and thousands
oE others have Just remained ordinary
towns always. It takes something
more than natural advantages to make (
q city. II
Fact Is that great cities are built by Z
men Of brains. energy and enterprise /
they don't Just grow up. like Topsy. .
TO make our natural advantages i
'erye the purpose they should, We must {
invest out time, our energies and our b
money in city building. We build 4 d
slty just like we build up a great pri-
rate business We look ahead and see
shat profits we are going to realize i
'arefully weighing the chances for sue /.
'ess Or failure, and then invest vur I,
iloney ia the propositions accordingly +,
We ought 70 know that II we don't IN. i
'est our energies and our capital, we /,
re not going to realize any profits. n
he value Of property in Chickagha and j
ne opportunities for maintaining the if
'psIness institutions of a large city !,
re not going to come about, ii we i
Ion't proceed To go after these things
4 business way.
When things are shifted and sim II
nered down, there will probably be i
alf dozen cities Of considerable mag +,
itude in Oklahoma. with numerous Z,
mall cities and hundreds Of fine I,
owns. Az the present time we are IN !
be formative Dcriod--the towns that !,
et . good lead now are going 10 hold !,
and become cities. The opportunity y
make city Is ours now, bur Il won't
g IN few years. Hence. the call
ONES to men with ambition, energy &C
nd enterprise 70 seek 70 take adyan- If
age Of the present moment, and to 90 Il.
bout # IN business way.
THAI Is why the Express insists that
q should perfect and strengthen our
7wn-bpilding forces right nov. That :
WHY We should have better organ
sasion Of our forces right now. We
annot conduct the town.bulldlng bust.
ess without business organization
q US lind out exactly how the com
lerciai organizations that are making u
feat cities are conducted and then ~
roceed 70 do business in the same Or 70
little better way in chickasha. ny
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