The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-15
FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA


Few people ulderstond tns enor
co.'s possibilities Of Oklahoma. From
an agricultural and mineral atandpolnl
tho state has bu four superiora and
ali0r those, but Texas. Will soon be
overcome by the great progressive
strides of the new state Oklahoma M.
lords more opportunity for dyegsined
farming than any other stats IN tho
Union save Texas and area
considered II surnases the Lone star
II all Of Oklanomaa acreage possible
oi being utilized we're under cuiIya
tlOn. II would present tAe following
for statlatIclans:
More Wheat lands tnan e.thcr pa
kota.
More fruit lands than California.
Equals Illinois grand prairie IA corn
lands.
HAS more timber tnaa Wisconsin
Michigan and Indiana combined.
Can cultivate as much ace land as
South Carolina.
More granite than Vermont New
Hampshire and Maine combined
More petroleum than Pennsylvania
West Virginia aud Ohio combined.
More marble than Nevada New
Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Is second in the production Of cotton
from u monetary standpoint.
More iron than any other state save
Pennsylvania: more copper than any
other state save Montana. !,
Second In gypsum.
More than Europe produces In lig-
product.
Fourth In developed kaoln, the fin.
est hreproof material known TO sci-
ence.
Second In cattle: third in money
4 products OF same.
Seven thousand square miles OF land
underlaid with coal, and few Of II
mines more than opened.
More Magnesla and dolomte rock
than all the rest OF the states.
More rivers with natural drainage
capacity than any other state save
Colorado.
Is sixth In the production OF pota.
toes
Is eighth in railway mileage FIRST IN
number OF miles In past five years,
trst In number OF systems started ~
1903.
II has the most equabie climate,
save California. " all the states.
Oklahoma Is first In productions OF
peanuts.
Second In production OF Canteloupes
i Third IN the production OF Water
melons and seventh In muskmelon pro
ductIon.
Ilt III first In tonnage Of alfalfa; third
IN money value produced
II In afth In vegetables, with less
than tenth OF the state trying TO cul
tlyate the garden products
With an acreage OF 6itieth Okla
homa IN tenth In the production Off
orchard products.
II IL tenth In barley, first II acreag,
were proportioned.
4 capitalization considered Oklahoms
leads all others In the amount OF mon
ey deposited In its banks.
II is first In purchasing its harvest
Ing machinery away from home.
II snrpasses any othe state II
growth from 1907 to August 1. 1909.
II has more miles OF possible gool
less Improvement on same than an,
state west OF the Missouri river.
Population estimated It's people pun
chase more Necessities from 0utsld
the state than all other states Il
the Union.
Producing sufficient food stuffs 4
, supply any three states OF the Union
,, our people purchase more from oul
side the state. population considered
: than any other state.
II has the third best natural par
in the United States.
Consuming more agricultural ms
chinery than any state save three.
manufactures less than any other stat
! west OF the Missouri and north OF tn
Ohio rivera.
: II is second In the manufacture Q
Portland cement
II is next 10 Texas In supplying In
Galveston wharyes with shipping.
= Population averaged. Il has secon
: largest church membership than an
y other state.
= 1t has the best equalization OF take
= private and corporate in the world.
y Great as It's cotton production
, Oklahoma Ia twentieth In the outpt
OF It's splndles; with no record OF
cotton mill falling to pay diyIden
annually.
Oklahoma raises more saddle hor
: es than than any other two state
:, without comment on Kentucky's fam
y Its corporations are more metho,
y lcally dealt with than any o, The state
= II is the only state OF the Unlo
= where rmallpox never leads to pc
; tilential crisis
= II has the best high school sy'
, tenn In the United states.
II has more cities which has
doubled In population since 1906 tina
: any other state or territory wltsI
! the Union
u II has the only river In the worl
that Is salty for more than 200 mile