The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-23
INDUSTRIAL cARElEssNEss

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Oklahoma produces too much. has
too many natural resources and has
too much prosperity for as rapid de-
veloninent of its manufacturing in
dustries as necessary to keep an even
step with all our other material pros
perity.
In this state there are so many
needs Of factories that an attempt
TO enumerate them briefly is next to
the impossible.
Briefly, the following oltput from
Oklahoma factories may be had, in
no few instances the product far In
rear of the active demand
Ice, flour. tents, books, furniture,
cigars, cheese, brick and cement block
candies, mattresses, cement, vinegar
cider. harness. cornice, oyeralls, slate
roofs, monuments, drain and sewer
tile, iron work of all kinds, piping,
crude oil products, tless than haly
by-products obtainable from Okla
homa stills) certain lines of wagons
and buggies.
But the list Is even deceptive; If
one-tenth of the farm wagons, plows.
mowers, reapers and other farm i'm
plements used in this state were
manufactured here, there would be
employment for more than 5000 skill
ed laborers each v Crk day of the
year; at an average wage of $123,000
per week; one-third of the consump-
tion OF iron and bridge work made
in Oklahoma would still create more
astonishing figures-while the man
ufacture Of fire-proof building mater
ials for our state alone would furnish
employment to $4,000 people, To say
nothing of the fact that we are one
of five states of the Union having
all the basic material required to
construct a fire proof building from
foundation to cupola without using
outside products.
We have the consumptiye capacity
to utilize the products OF OF 100000
more skilled laborers than now en-
ployed, TO say nothing OF the consump
tion Of that army of the highest class
citizenship possible in an industrial
state.>
We, pay, shipping out our raw ma
terials and having the manufactured
products re-shipped to us, a toll SO
q ieat that no statistician would be
believed should he take the time to
compute.
The city Of Guthrie, according to
state reports, is the greatest manu-
featuring municipality Of this state
Its factories pay dividends; are
busy night and day; yet not one OF
them has been able to supply the de-
mand for its products, nor have the
owners been able to increase the ca
spacities of their institutions fast
enough to meet the requirements OF
the. trade.
The same is reliably reported from
/. the next factory district, Bartlesville-
Dewey. Combined with population
that is trebling each half decade, a
demand for the products of almost al
lines OF commerce, Oklahoma has the
cheapest fuel and the largest supply
of il, oil any state in the Unionl-
there is no more reason why the west
ernmost city of mo Mans Land
should pay out money for coal, than
there Is justifiable reason for the
county Of Kay purchasing its break
fast food from Michigan. A few gas
pipe lines across the state, factory
here and there to make up the pro.
ducts OF our own SOIL and the great
ollgas-cereal producing state of Ok
1ahoma VIII be In position to have
advantage OF commerce that viii in
crease with the years until second to
none-be monarch of a commercial
civilization that will make surround
ing states honorably envious, because
they. have not those natural products
with which TO compete.
Why not lance the boil of CONNER
cial aarelessness and make from that
present diseased part the soundest
and strongest bulwark of Oklahoma
greatness2 IL means millions more
of people, billions of wealth and a
prosperity as undying as our en-
lightened age.