The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-23
THIS VERMONTER
ARDMORE BOOSTER
DELIGHTED WITH THIS SECTION
AND is INDUCING OTHERS TO
JOIN NEW ENGLAND COLONY.

NJ. d. Smith, prominent capltallsI
OF Northheld, Vermont, concluded
about two years ago that he would in
yestigate the new state OF Oklahoma
of which he had read and heard SC
much about, with the spirit of inyesti
cation upon him, and the New Eng
land propensity to become a pioneer
he packed his grip and in due season
alighted from the train in Ardmore
He became impressed at once. and
Immediately began to cast about fol
chance to enter business. He was
not long in finding an opportunity and
soon was conducting a real estate bus
mess and writing to his friends back
home" to come and get in while the
opportunity was right.
Yesterday Mr.. Smith was asked tC
give some of the reasons why Garter
county should be chosen by man for
a home. To this he replied:
What are some of the reasons why
Carter county should be chosen by a
man who is looking for a home? They
are many, chief among which are eli
mate, soil and opportunities.
Any man who will work will sue
ceed here. especially the farmer. He
can work on his land twelve months
i'm the year. He can raise everything
he can raise in the north and good
many things he cannot raise there.
In fact he can raise about anything
he will plant here if he will take care
of it. To illustrate how many months
plants can be grown here during the
year, will say that have had some
thing from my garden nine months
out of the last twelve.
"The climate is ideal. We have
inst about as many real disagrceable
hot days in the summer as the north
ern man has extremely cold days in
the winter, not to exceed a dozen.
The balance of the time overCoats are
not needed.
Good farming lands are cheap.
Four acres can be bought here for
what one acre of the same quality of
land can be bought for in the north
ern states. 1t will produce as much,
acre for acre with the same kind of
treatment. and the market Is Just as
good. Couple this with the fact that
farmer can carry on from one and
one-half to two times as much land as
he can in the north, Che can plow land
in place of snow in the winter ani
l. is easy to see why the man that
will work succeeds here. The man
who buys land in this county now
with Judgment, will make money on it
as long as he farms It, and should he
desire to sell he will be able to do
so and at least double his money
within five years. Land is increasing
in value every day and the man that
buys now is the man who will make
the money, or if he does not sell will
get good home cheap
The population of this county is
largely American. Very seldom does
one hear a foreign language spoken.
They are here from every state and
are the c'ass of people who. if they
do not find an opportunity, make one
They welcome the stranger and dc
all in their power to make him feel
at home.
"As for the churches and schools OF
Carter county and the state of Okla
homa. they will compare favOrably
with any of the older states. In fact
| believe that the schools of Garter
county are second to none in the un
ion, and one fine feature is that the
rural schools are as good as those
within the corporate limits Of thif
city. As for the churches of the diff
| ferent denominations, one has TO bu
stand on the streets when the bells
begin ringing Sunday morning ant
watch the throngs pass to the differ
ent places of worship to be convinced
| that the people of Ardmore are God
fearing. church going citizenship"
of the cast being so absorbed as t.
| become submerged in a sudden swell
of liquid Saxon sentiment such as /
said to ebb and flow about the NOR
remote quarters of Milwaukee. Blu
for the fact that everything is to b
done in German there would be n
danger here.