The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-01-22

Equals Illinois grand prairie in
corn lands
Has more timber than Wisconsin
Michigan and Indiana combined
Can cultivate as much rice land as
South Carolina
Alore granite than Vermont. New
Hampshire and Maine combined.
More petroleum than PENNSYLVANIA
West Virginia and Ohio compined-
More marble than Nevada New
Hampshire and Massachusetts
Is second in the production Of COT
ton from a monetary standpoint
More iron than any other state save
Pennsylvania; more copper than any
other state save Montana
Second in gypsum
Fourth in developed kaolin the fin
est fireproof material known 10 sci
ence.
Second in cattle; third in money
products Of same
Seven thousand square miles Of land
underlaid with coal. and few Of its
mipes more than opened
More magnesia and dolomite rock
than all the rest OF The states.
More rivers with natural drainage
capacity than any other state save
/ Colorado
Is sixth in the prnarction Of pOta-
toes.
+ Is eighth in railway mileage; first in
number Of miles in past five years:
first in number or systems started in
1909
Oklahoma is first in production of
peanuts
Second ii production Of cantaloupes
Third in the production Of water
melons and seventh in musk melon
production
It is first in tonnage Of alfalfa; third
in money value produced.
It is fifth in vegetables, with less
than tenth Of the state trying to cul-
tivate the garden products
with an acreage OF fiftieth Okla
homa is tenth in the production Of or
I chard products
II Is tenth in barley; first, If acre
I age were proportioned.
4 capitalization considered. Oklahoma
leads all others in the amount Of
money deposited in It's banks
Oklahoma raises more saddle horses
than any other two states without com
ment on Kentucky's fame
II is the only state of the union
where smallpox never leads to a nesti-
lental crisis.
1t has the most equable climate,
save California, of all the states.
It is fourth in the yame Of its stream
fish products.
II Is first in purchasing its harvest
ing machinery away from home
4 Population estimated, its people Dur-
chase more necessities from outside
the state than all other states in the
union.
Producing sufficient foodstuffs to
supply any other three states Of the
union. our people purchase more from
outside the state population consider
ed, than any other state.
4 1t surpasses any other state in
growth from 1907 to August /. 1903
1t has more miles OF possible good
( dirt roads than any other state and
less Improvement on same than any
state west Of the Missouri river
1t has the third best natural park
in the United States.
Consuming more agricultural ma
chinery than any state save three. it|
manufactures less than any other state
west Of the Missouri and south OF the
Ohio rivers.
1t is second in the manufacture Of
Portland cement
It is next to Texas in supplying the
( Galveston wbarves with shipping
II has the best equalization Of taxes.
private and corporate In the world
Great as its cotton production is
Oklahoma is twentieth in the output
Of It's spindles with no record Of
cotton mill failing to r@ dividend
annually.
1t has the best high school system
In the United States.
It has more cities which have dou-
bled in population since 1906 than any
other state or terpitory within the
union
II has more money invested in Alas
la than than any other state save
Washington
II has the only river in the world
that Is salty for more than 200 miles
y has both ihe shallowest and the
deepest oil well IN the world
rs corporations are more method