The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-07
FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA

GUS possibilities OF Oklahoma. From
an agricultural and mineral standpoint
the state has but four superiors aud
all Of those, but Texas, will soon be
overcome by the great progressive
strides of the new state. Oklahoma af-
lords more opportunity for diversified
farming than any other state in the
Union sa) We Texas, and area
considered 1t surpases the Lone Star
II all OF Oklanoma's acreage possible
OF being utilized were under cultiya
tion, 1t would present the following
for statisticians
More than Europe produceR In lig-
product.
More Magnesia and dolomite rock
than all the rest of the states.
More rivers with natural drainage
capacity than any other state save
Colorado.
Is eighth In railway mileage first in
number OF miles in past five years;
trst in number OF systems started in
1909.
Is sixtd IA the production OF pota-
toes.
1t has the most equable climate.
save California, OF all the states.
Population estimated its people pur-
chase more necessities from outside
the state than all other states In
the Union.
Oklahoma Is first In production Of
peanuts
Second in production OF Canteloupes
Third in the production OF Water
melons and seventh in muskmelon pro
ductlOn.
olit IL first in tonnage of alfalfa; third
iB money value produced.
1t is fifth In vegetables, with less
than tenth Of the state trying to cul
tIyate the garden products.
With an acreage OF fiftieth Okla
h0ma Is tenth In the production ofp
orchard products.
1t is tenth In barley, firHt II acreage
were proportioned.
It Is first in purchasing It's harvest.
lag machinery away from home
capitalization considered Oklahoma
leads all others in the amount Of mon
ey deposited In it's banks.
It surpasses any othe state In
growth from 1907 to August /, 1909.
1t has more miles Of possible good
less improvement on same than any
state west Of the Missouri river.
Producing sufficient food stuffs to
supply any three states Of the Union
our people purchase more from out.
side the STATE, population considered,
than any other state.
1t has the third best natural park
In the United States.
Consuming more agricultural ma
chinery than any state save three. 1t
manufactures less than any other state
west of the Missouri and north of the
Ohio rivers.
It is second In the manufacture OF
Portland cement.
Population averaged. 1t has second
largest church membership than any
other state.
1t is next to Texas in supplying ths
Galveston wharves with shipping.
Great as it's cotton production is
Oklahoma is twentieth in the output
OF It's spindles; with no record OF a
cotton mill falling to pay dividend
annually.
1t has the best equaiization OF taxes
private and corporate in the world.
Oklahoma raises more saddle nors
es than than any other two states
without comment on Kentucky's fame
Its corporations are more method
ioally dealt with than any OF the states
1t is the only state of the Uuion
where smallpox never leads to pes
tilential crisis.
1t has more cities which have
doubled In population since 1906 than
any other state or territory within
the Union.
1t has the best high school sys-
tenn in the United states.
More marble than Nevada New
Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Is second in the production OF cotton
from monetary standpoint.
More fruit lands than California.
More iron than any other state save
Pennsylvania: more copper tkan any
other state save Montana.
1t has the only river In the world
that Is salty for more than 200 miles,
Equals Illinois grand prairie in corn
lands.
Has more timber thar Wisconsin
Michigan and indiana combined.
Can cultivate as much rice land az
South Carolina.
More granite than Vermont New
Hampshire and Maine combined.
More petr0ieum than Pennsylvania
West Virginia and Ohio combined.
Seven thousand square miles qt land
underlaid with coal. and few of 1t
mines more than opened.
Second In gypsum.
More Wheat lands tnan either Da
kota.
Fourth in developed kaolln, the in-
eat freproof material known to sci
ence.
Second In cattle: third In money
products of same.
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