The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-17
Av|S,MURRAY COUNTY
ONE TOWN THAT HAS THINGS
COMING ITS WAY
Cny Eugene RAY

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/ the town Davis up ON the Santa Fe,
/ thirty miles from Ardmorc, north. and
seventy from the state metropolis,
south
That's Murray county over tbers,
aud Davis Is the metropolis OF the
county, and that's GOOD enough. Okla
| homa city rs greater as the metropolis
than many other cities are as capitals
had Dccn to Davis often before,
/ but failed to make the acquaintance
OF it, people. until ! went there last
Monday for the Ardmorete That
Davis population is Of democratic
turn of mind. chiefly, but not wholly
/ SO. Tor there are some citizens there
OF u republican bent-Io, 30 n
! but what there are of that class are
nightly good folks. and just an ordi.
nary mortal. like this rambler. can not
| tell one class from tother To him
they all look alike
Things must come my way says
| Davis. and Davis knows that politics
do not bring things. Davis knows
/ that folks. not politicians, bulld IL
! town.
/ som, one has said-and 50 have /
! that 10 other statc-no other terri
! tory of Oklahoma's siZc-has As little
poor land in it as Oklahoma has be
! licve that nine hundred and ninety.
nine thousand. nine hundred and nine.
| ty.nine acres. in every million acres OF
land In Oklahoma. are rich in soil. and
! I believe that nowhere else In the
state Is there any richer land than
this In Murray county surrounding this
town Davis drove ten miles out to
take a look at II, and. 10 a down east
cner this Dayis.Murray.county land Is
a marvel.
why sir, ! am told that one man
out there one MIR Lon Willis, living
two or three miles out--"cleared." last
year. $500 on rented land. Mr.. VII
lis. It is said, used only one plow, but
had some day hands as he needed
them And now mind YOU. Mr. Willis
Is no longer renter; he has his owr
! plantation now. his own home. May
the good Lord continue To be with hi,
sort. There are Il f,N thousand acre.
OF such land In this section OF Mur
ray county
That is whore Davis is But there
more. There is mineral businc.u
les, than ten miles out. to the west
In the Arbucklc mountains. Davis Il
. the shipping point for this minera
! supply and IL is waiting for a ran
road from here 10 the mines wher,
there will be- a smclter copper, zinc
. and. they say, gold have been discov
! cred Judge Robnctt of Ardmoro, Mr.
. G. l.. Mcclure and others are in o.
70 the development OF these mines.
Now. about three or -four mile,
' south of rayis they are actually put
' ting in a hundred thousand dollai
! crushcr say They" because die
not go down there and get all the de
tails, but in passing ON the train
saw the crowd AZ work and 1t looks
like hundred thousand dollar en-
: terprisc. and more besides
The foregoing embrace Davis chie'
dyantages-farming on as good land
as there is in the United States; stock
and cattle raising. the mineral or,
q supply. and the rock crushing bust
ness. The town has its electric light
b plant. water works system, etc.
ont west FOR ten miles is country
% neighborhood of greater resources ant
greater wealth than any other hav,
visited. They have their school o
forty pupils. Or. T. 7. Howell. ma
: tive. has there a country home un
surpassed In grandeur by any tina
writer has seen, Nearby is W VI
Moore, a young married man OF grea
possessions. Indeed, Il is said that !
half dozen men out there have pos
sessions that amount to half a millioI
dollars Thos. Grant, Thos. Grant, Jr
and G, NJ, Grant are farmers and stocl
men In that section, real estate mel
, and bankers In Davis, pauls Vale,
and Wynnowood Resides those men
/ toned are John Butterfly and brothe
and that old and esteemed citizen
. Uncle I;rad Camp. and ", II, H. My
ers, merchant At Fort Arbuckle an
his boys, and SO on.
Nearer town is Matt Wolf. a wea
: thy farmer and real estate owner. /
, town are Nelson Chiglcy and M
, h,N, Mac, IhS,l.y onl N\,-a,, Ont.