The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-09
SHALL We HAVE
A COTTON MILF
M. L. ALEXANDER RETURNS FROM
SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER lNvES.
TIGATlNG THE PROPOSITION.

OF enthusiasm for the project of esta5-
fishing cotton mill in Ardmore.
In conference with Mayor Cotner,
who is also believer in the advisa-
bility OF such an industry, Mr.. Alexau-
der expressed himself as favoring
some immediate action, looking to the
raising Of sufficient funds to meet rne
proposition Of parties who will build
mill in this city il sufficient en-
couragement is given.
The following letters are in them
selves explanatory of the proposition
and also the views held by experienc.
ed operators on Ardmore as loca-
ton.
Walhalla S. c., June :, 1910
Daily Ardmoreite,
Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Gentlemen:-
While in South Carolina | wrote sew
eral men that | knew to be eXpet,
fenced cotton mill men, and gave them
the situation and general conditions
in and around Ardmore, and what |
thought about building a cotton mill
in Ardmore. Enclosed you will find
letters from W. G. Perry and Thos. J.
Martin. These men have been inter
ested in a cotton mill business for
w roppiN.
ing these letters snclosed, have seen
these gentlemen and talked with them
personally with reference to the mat
ter of building a mill, and they tell
me they will raise 100000 if the peo-
pie of Ardmore will raise 100000 to
build 100000 mill. They do not want
dollar bonus, but they want the
home people to put their money into
the enterprise so that they may have
the good will and cooperation of the
people where the mill is located in the
way of taxes and legislation generally
in both city and state.
| want to say to the people of Ard
more and Carter county that nothing
will help Ardmore or Carter county as
much as a 100000 cotton mill. Based
on past experience, a 100000 cotton
mill would pay an annual dividend of
s per cent and double its capital ev-
cry five years. If the business men
of Ardmore and Carter county want
to bring Ardmore out of the condition
it is now in, and has been for the
last five years, the quickest and cas-
lest way to do it is to get busy and
let these men come to Ardmore and
look over the situation and talk the
matter over in a business way, and
am satisfied that if the business men
of Ardmore could see the mills in
South Carolina that have been built
in towns not larger than Berwyn, Da-
Wis or Mannsville, they would get
busy, and we would build a 100000
mill in Ardmore in the next twelve
months. If they would only take the
time and trouble to post themselves
as to the profits and the many benefits
derived from the cotton mill we would
have no trouble in building a 100000
mill in our town, which would increase
our population from 5000 to 5000, and
increase the pay roll many thousand
dollars monthly.
1t is up to Ardmore to move on with
the balance of the cities of its size
in Oklahoma or lie dormant as we
have been doing for five years and let
the most energetic business men, the
most skilled laborers and the most
honored professional men leave our
town as they have been doing for
more progressive cities in our state.
We all know that we have lost some
OF our best business men in the last
three years on account of the dragging
condition in which Ardmore has been
going. II does not seem to me that If
our business men will give as a bonus
S25 900 to build hotel where they will
not take one meal a year themselves,
that we would have no trouble to get
these same men to take 100000 stock
in a 5000 900 cotton mill with one or
more of our best business men at the
head of the enterprise, with an eXper-
fenced and competent man as | know
Mr. Perry and Mr. Martin to be, to
assist in running it.
hope the business men Of Ardmore
will get together and see if We can
get one or more Of these men to come
to Ardmore, that me may get all the
information that We may want with
reference TO mills, labor, power ana
market for our goods. hope to see
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