The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-12
FAcrs LOU oKlAAoMA

all OF those, but Texas. will soon be
overcome by the great progressive
strides of the new state. OklanOMa a..
Tords more opportunity for diversified
farming than any other state Ia tns
tlnlon Save TeKas and area
c0naidered IL HurDahes The Lone sIafl
II all uf OAlai0mas acreage possible
0i being utilized we're llndefsicpltfAA 4.
tlun. II wupld ptssspnt ite r1lla~fnY
Tor HtatiatihiAila
More Wnskt.lAnas tlAn sIiusr na
k0tA.
More rfuit lands than California.
Equals illinois srknd prairie In corn
Iands.
Has more timber tnas wisconsin
Michigan and Indiana combined
Can cultivate as much rice and Es
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.
iA second Ia the production Of cotton
from q monetary standpoint.
More iron than any other state save
Pennsylvania: more copper tkan any
other state save Montana.
Second In gypsum.
More than Europe produces In lls-
product.
Fourth In developed kaolin, the ia.
est hreproof material known to sci.
ence.
Second in cattle: third Ia money
products OF same.
Seven thousand square miles OF land
nnderlaid with coal, and few OF II
mines more than opened.
More Magresia and dolomite 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.
ls eighth In railway mileage first III
number OF miles In past five years; /;
hrst in number OF systems started In
1909.
1t has the most equable climate,
save California, OF all the states.
Oklahoma Is first In production OF
peanuts.
s'econd In production OF Canteloupes
Third In the production OF Water
melons and seventh In muskmelon pro
ductien.
'lt Is first In tonnage Of alfalfa: third
In money value produced.
II is fifth in vegetables. with less
than a tenth OF the state trying to cul
tivate the garden products.
With an acreage OF fftieth Okla
homa Is tenth In the production ofp
orchard products.
II Is tenth In barley. nrst II acreage
were prop0rtioned
Capitalization considered Oklahoma
leads all others In tts amount OF mon.
ey deposited IN its banks.
II Is first In purchasing its harvest
Ing machinery away from home.
IL surpasses any otbs state IN
growth from 1907 to August |, 1903.
II has more miles OF possible good
less Improvement on same than aay
state west of the Missouri river.
Population estimated It's people pur,
chase more necessities from outside
the state than al other states in
The Union. lNh
Producing sufficient. food stnffs "a
supply any three states Of the Union
our people purchase more from out
side the state. population considered
than any Other STATE
II las the third best natural psrk
In Tue United states
Consuming more agricultural ma
chinery than any state save three. II
manufactures less than any other state
west OF the Missouri and north OF the
Ohio rivers. iD
II Is second 10 the manufacture OF
Portland cement.
II Ia next to Texas In supplying tn.
Galveston wharves with shipping.
Population averaged. Il has second
largest church membership than any
other state.
Il has the best equalization OF tares
private aud corporste In the world.
Great as IFS cotton production u
Oklahoma Il twentieth Ia the output
OF Its splndles: with no record OF q
cotton mill failing to pay y dividend
annually.
Its corporations are more method
ically dealt with than any OF the states
Oklahoma raises more saddle horA
es than than any other two state,
without comment on Kentucky's fame
II 10 the only state OF the Uulor
where smallpox never leads to pes
tilential crisis.
II has the best high school sys.
tenn In the United states.
II has more cities which have
doubled In population since 1908 thar