The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-09

Hustling City Of Western Oklahoma
Possessing Advantages of Climate,
Location and BoundIess
Possibility.

tioA before Tho outside world News
papers. equipped With modern ma
ohinery and we'll edited, strive @
advance tho public Interest," and
there Is an activity about this north
west Oklahoma mclrnbolls that Is
good "a see and feel
BIC Trade Territory.
From commercial standpoint
Wo00wnrd has as large trade terri
tors as many cities ten times is size
the great noN country opening with
such tremendous increases N popula'
tlon and t1r attendant harvest sea-
sons following annually, the traffic
Quadfupling anE even more each
year. the products being shipped
through to Woodward, thence routed
out 70 eastern points. Following the
demand greai mercantile aud bank
ing institutions have been located and
the commercial importance OF WOOD
ward can not IN the least degree be
measured BY the population Of the
great plains center of wealth and
commerce.
Noted for tiealthfu Climate
Sometime ago the French govern
fnent sent out experts 70 Investigate
some 400 different points IN the
world where h Is claimed climatic
Influences stay the rayages OF eon.
sumption and hold out the hope oi
curing tho less advanced stages. The
dean OF that staff of scientists mott.
fled hts colleagues and country when
tho messengers were departing for
data That I'VE wish not b know
where man may spend his winters.
springs summers, antnmns, etc. but
domain Of some alzs where the
poor unfortunate may have a chance
20 live and be al least comfortable,
when the report WIS made the
great region trayersed had many
ifiends aud not one was prepared for
taS eattement that within llfty miles
east. west. south and northwest OF
Woodward, Oklahoma, was the only
real nope OF the man afflicted with
tuberculosis: the report adding that,
aside from an occasional "n0rthe,
Woodward had the best climate for
those with breathing troubles IN al
lie known world
Woodward cltlzenshlp, however,
depends not the least on her health
fulness for progress or population.
That citizenship has made a garden
spot out OF what was considered q
seml.desert domain: has bullded one
ot tie great subdivisions Of 0klaho.
ma cut there on those health bring
lng plains, and that citizenship Il
still at the helm. striving righteously
TO still furtherfenrich and build a
greater richer locality. mertorloue
ef al praise, and made sounder BY
sterling citizenship, as good as can be
found anywhere beneath the circle Of
the sun
Railroad Communications.
WI the building Of the direct east
and vest railroads. now bclng flnanc
ed 10 connect the great mineral belt
of The New Mexico Rocky mountain
feeltn ailh the states capital city "a
later connect with the east and west
routes 20 sd Louis and Chicago. the
two great inland cities Of the Ceuiral
states with water facilities, Wood
ward viii secure traffic facilities see
ond TO no eil9 out in the plains
country. and her people are awake te
The great Importance of the move
ment: singing over the trials which
must come 10 each new center ol
trade ere It evolves into a great
thsohblng artery OF commerce. hlesl
with advantages which can come
only 10 those places whore the radi
ating arms OF traffic reach out q
J gather In the products and dispense
ihose requisite necessities for th,
great producers while Al thclr work
1 Perhaps Oklahoma has no Othel
city so closely related to the bust
/ ness Of I I've states As Woodward
Colorado, Kansas New Mexico ant
/ TEXAS all have their trading rela
tlons with woodward and the inter
change Of state tradIns have hrongh
to the city 4 Cosmopolitan nopulace
anxious AMI ambitious to plIsia lrad'
relations to whatsoever point Of thl
compass may be utilized for the gen
eFuI good.
How Il Was Located.
Long ago. as we measure time on
here where ultles arc made IN 1
night but yesterday compared Will
our sIow going, gossip making neigh
hor to the east. when the wilderness
Of plain aud cattle we're the only slgl
| n0alR ouf on the plaina. two OF three