The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-12
OKLAHOMA At
COM, CONGRESS
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TO quote a few specific examples:
Oklahoma has enough salt water go
ing to waste to make 100 carloads
OF salt day, yet all the salt used
in the state comes from Kansas,
Michigan and Louisiana. There is
enough limestone in Oklahoma to
burn all the lime that the world
will ever use, yet practically all
our lime comes from Texas, Arkan-
sas and Missouri With as good
shale as any state possesses, practi-
cally all the brick and terra Gotta
and other clay products used is i'm
ported from Kansas and Missouri.
Oklahoma has as good granite as
can be found in the world, yet in
our cemeteries are monuments, and
in our large buildings, pillars and
cap stones OF granite from Scotland,
Vermont and Massachusetts, but
plactically none from Oklahoma.
With the largest deposit of gypsum
in the United States, a considerable
amount of our gypsum plaster comes
from Kansas and Texas. With Port
and cement rock enough to supply
cement for all the world, We have
but three cement plants and much
of the material we use comes from
Kansas or Texas There is, in Okla
homa, but one cotton mill, three
glass factories, one power plant and
six small oil refineries. We manu-
facture no shoes nor clothing. With
in the last year. two packing plants
have been established in Oklahoma
City. There are few canning fac
tories in various parts of the state
and most of the towns of any size
have creameries.
1t is safe to say, however, that at
the present time, not 10 per cent
Of the materials used for building,
food or clothing by the people of
Oklahoma, are manufactured in the
state. There Is no state in the
union where opportunities are bet
ter where greater returns may be
made on investment, or where the
people are more willing and anxious
to give support to legitimate manu-
featuring industries. We appreciate
the fact that the last of those in
industries is part of pioneer con-
ditions. We accepted these condi-
tions when we came to the new
country, but because we were will
ing to accept these conditions, is no
reason, in itself, why we should al
ways be willing to live under them.
AS soon as plants and factories are
established, and mines and quarries
opened, and the workmen necessary
to carry on these industries are here,
our farmers will be able to raise a
still larger variety of crops and will
receive higher price for the same.
Education.
No Southern state has a greater
number of state schools than has
Oklahoma. The head of the educa-
ton system is the State University
at Norman. The Agricultural and
Mechanical College Is at saltwater
and in addition there are six district
agricultural schools. Six state nor
NAL schools are located respectively
at Edmond, Alva. Weatherford. Tah.
lequah, Durant and Ada. There are
university preparatory schools at
Tonkawa and Claremore, and girls
industrial school at Chickasha. Agri-
culture and domestic science are
taught in all the common schools
OF the state. Most counties now
have consolidated rural schools. The
work done in the nigh schools is up
to the standard The requirements
for admission to the Freshman class
of the State University of Oklahoma
are. with a single exception, higher
than for any other Southern state
university Graduates from the Uni
versity of Ol1lkahoma take rank
along with those from any institu.
tion in America
The People.
In opening a conversation with a
stranger in Oklahoma it is not
necessary to talk about the weather.
The proper thing is to ask, Where
are you FROM" 1t isn't always
considered good taste to follow this
question by, Why did you leave?"
or What was your name back
there?" We're all from somewhere.
The oldest native has been voting
less than year. Oklahoma is
meeting place of the clans. The
Northern farmer and the Southern
planter live side by side. The
Southerner harvests a wheat crop
each year and the Northerpn man is
learning to grow cotton. The de-
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