The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-04

OF helng ullllNcd We're uANeE CultlEa
tion, A sofa prqsent gse allowing
tor stpiisasssihs llfs'4
More Wheat lands y1sn ether pa
kota. ap
More trait lands than california.
Equals Illinois grand pralfle in corn
lands.
Has more timber tols Wisconsin,
Michigan and Indiana combined
Can cultivate as much rice land as
South Carolina.
More granite than Vermont New
Hampshire ana Maiue combined
More petroleum than Pennsylvania
West Virginia aud ONO combined
More marble than Nevada New
Hampshire ana Massachusetts.
Is second in the production Of cotton
from a monetary standpoint.
More iron than any other state save
Pennsylvania; more copper than any
other state save Montana.
/ Second in gypsum.
More than Europe produces In lig-
product.
Fourth in developed kaolin, the nm
eBt hreprooi material known TO sci
enee.
Second In cattle: third in money
products OF same.
Seven thousand square miles OF land
underlaid with c0al. ana lew uf a.
mines more than opened
More MagnesIa and d0lomlte rock
than all the rest of the states.
More rivers with natural drainage
capacity than any utner state say.
I Colorado.
| ls eighth IN railway mileage first II
number OF miles In nast five years
flrst In number Of systems started IL
/ 1909
Is sixth in the production or pota
toes
II has the most equahle climate
save California. of all the states
Population estimated It's people pur
chase more necessities from outside
the state than All other states i,
the Union
Oklahoma is first IN produalloa d
peanuts.
second IN production OF Canieloupes
Third IN the production OF Water
melons and seventh in muskmelon pro
ducti0n.
III Is first IN tonnage OF alfalfa. thirc
In money value produced
H. IL dfih in vegetables. with less
than tenth Of the state trying to cul
tlvate the garden products.
With an acreage OF fiftieth Okla
homa is tenth in the production Off
orchard products
1t Is tenth In barley, first II acreage
were proportioned.
capitalization considered Oklahoma
leads all othes In he amount OF mon
ey deposited In its banks.
It Is hrst IN purchasing IT'S harvest
Ing machinery away from home
1t surpasses any othe stale II
growth from 1907 to August /, 1909.
It has more miles Of possible goot
less Improvement on same than any
state west of the Missouri river.
Producing suffcient food stuffs tC
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 parh
in the United States
! Consuming more agricultural ma
ohinery than any state save three Il
manufactures less than any other state
west of the Missouri and north of the
Ohio rivers.
1t is second In the manufacture ol
Portland cement.
1t Is next to Texas In supplying the
Galveston wharves with shipping.
\ Population averaged. il has seconc
largest church membership than any
| other state.
1t has the hest equalization OF taxes
private and corporate In the world.
Great as its cotton production II
! Oklahoma Is twentieth in the OUTPUT
OF its spindles; with no record OF g
cotton mill falling to pay dividen,
annually
4 Oklahoma rufes more saddle hors
es than than any other two statel
without comment on Kentucky's fame
Its corporations are more method
ically dealt with than any Of the state.
II Is the only state OF the Uuioi
where smallpox never leads to pes
llential crisis.
It has more cities which hav.
doubled In population since 1906 thar
any other state or territory within
the Union.
II has the best high school sys
TEN In the United states.
1t has the only river In the worl'