The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-01

and iron foundries, along with cotton
mills, cotton-seed oil mills, gins, and
canning factories, are to be found in
various sections of the commonwealth
all fourishing financially, so far as the
writer can ascertain. The exports con-
sist of corn, cotton, live stock and
lumber, coal, and coal oil, Oklahoma
being now the richest oil bearing
field. in the United States.
The pulse of any city's progress is
to be found in its commercial status.
Its heartbeats may always be relied
upon as indicating either healthy or
unhealthy tone. If that be true, then
Vinita stands .orth as an exceptional
ly healthy city. Further, there has
never been boom fever. The growth
Of Vinita mas, from the time that it
was located-from the time it started
as a little hamlet, until the present,
been progressing slowly but surely I'M
til it has reached its present bigness.
A great neighborhood Of farms
touches this city on every side, and
there has been for some time a sense
of largeness, and not only that, but
feeling of expectancy, as if great
destiny awaited the region. People
here do not stumble against each 9th
er just at present, because there is
room in this wonderful country for
thousands of farmers who understand
farming on modern scientific princi-
pies; in other words, small farms cul.
tivated on intensive lines. The untold
! millions of wealth represented by the
soil and the products of the soil has
yet to be unfolded. But that day Is
near at hand. Things move rapidly
in this electric age. Modern methods
are so rapidly superceding the old
ways of doing things, that the "old-
timer" finds himself left in the rear
of the procession, a long ways off from
the main body, and he is wondering al
ready at the smallness of his cohSep
tion Of the possibilities that are be
ginning to manifest to his dull vision
Contrast today with the condition
of affairs prevailing but decade ago
See what mighty progress has beer
made, and what marvellous changes
have transpired in that short space
of time: The writer. and many others
who will read this paper, can easily
remember when there were few farms
as compared with the present time
They were like great plantations
scratched over, and yet even then, and
with such primitive methods, they
produced wonderfully Even then
some twenty years ago, Vinita was the
center Of phenominal trade. We con
trast that past of two decades ago
with the present and behold what
hath been wrought? Wilson street
from almost end to end is daily crowd
ed with wagons and vehicles of every
sort, and the street is biockaded with
lpeople seeking the wares of the thrifty
merchants. On Illinois avenue the
same stirring scenes may be beheld
We would like to show the reader
of the Chieftain what the approxi
mate annual sales OF her merchants
are We can cite but a few of the prin-
cipal of our tradesmen. The leading
mercantile establishment of the city
does nearly one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars worth Of business pei
year. This immense amount Of busi
ness was done during the year 1909
The firm expects to exceed this by at
least $4,000 more before the last OF
December. 1910.
The annual bank deposits reach the
enormous total per year of one nil
lion one hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars.
The freight business done here by
the two railroads. will average about