The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-01-24
Facts You Should Know
About Oklahoma

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the state has But four scperiors and an
of those. lui Texas. win soon be oyer
come by the great progressive strides
of the new state Oklahoma affords
more opportunity for diversified farm
ing than any other state in the Union
save Texas. ana area considered ~
surpasses the Lone Star state II an
Of oklahomds acreage possible of be-
Ing utilized were under cultivation,
It would present the following for sta
tisticians
More wheat lang' than either OF
she Dakotas
More fruit lands than California
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.
More 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 to sci-
ence.
Second in cattle; third in money
products of same
Seven thousand square miles OF land
underlaid with coal, and few Of its
mines more than opened
More magnesia and dolomite rock
than all the rest Of the states.
More rivers with natural drainage
capacity than any ether state save
I Colorado
+ Is sixth in the production Of pota-
toes.
4 Is eighth in railway mileage, first in
number OF miles in past five years;
first in number Of systems started in
1902
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
4 1t is first in tonnage Of alfalfa; third
IN money value produced
1t is firth in vegetables with less
than tenth Of the state trying to cul
liyate the garden products
With an acreage OF fiftieth Okla
homa is tenth in the production Of Or
chard products
1t is tenth in barley first ii acre
age were proportioned
Capitalization considered Oklahoma
leads all others in the amount o.
money deposited in its 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 unioi
where smallpox never leads TO pesti
lcntial crisis.
II has the most equable climate
save California, Of all the states.
III Is fourth III the value or its stream
fish products.
1t is first in purchasing its harvest
ing machinery away from home.
Population estimated its people pur
chase more necessities from outside
tie state than all other states III tb'
union
Producing sufficient foodstutfs Il
supply any other three states Of th'
union. our people purchase more from
outside the stare population consider
cd, than any other state
1t surpasses any other state II
/ growth from 1907 to Angus !, 1909
1t has more miles Of possible goo'
dirt roads than any other state an'
less Improvement on same than anl
state west OF the Missouri river
It has the third best natural parl
in the United States
Consuming more agricultural ma
chinery than any state save three
manufactures less than any other stat
vest OF the Missouri and south Of tn
Ohio rivers
It is second in the manufacture o
Portland cement
1t is neys to Texas in supplying W.
Z Galveston whaves with shipping.
1t has the best equalization of taxes
private and corporate IN the world
Great as its cotton production
Oklahoma is twentieth IN the outpu
( Of IT'S spindles with no record oI
cotton mlll failing to pay diyiden