The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-21
Ardmore, Tuesday, March 21, 1871
HUNDREDS OF NORTHERN FARM
ERs COMING TO SOUTHERN
OKLAHOMA.


A colonization scheme which was
formulated in Chicago and in whlch
capitalsts in Kansas City are also
interested will result in the purchase
OF a large acreage of lands nj souIh-
ern Oklahoma. Ardmore will be the
central point of operation. but LANDS
will be purchased In Carter, Love
Johnston and Marshall counties, the
investors are after agricultural lands
strictly. they have so far made no
purchases in the prospective OIL beit'
but have bought lands that are best
for agricultural purposes.
The former cashier of the Bankers
National Bank of Chicago in discuss
ing the plans of the company said
there was no estimating the value oil
the organization of his company TO
this portion of Oklahoma. His plan
is to secure vast acreage or land
and to induce northern farmers to
come to southern Oklahoma and as
he expressed 1t employ northern
methods of agriculture These lands
will be sold out in small farms and
much of il will he planted to alfalfa.
The company first thoroughly inves'
tigated this country with reference
to alfalfa and other forage crops
and they pronounce it an ideal coun'
try for stock raising and for forage
crops Of nearly every kind. The
movement means hundreds of new
farmers and hundreds of new farmers
mean a greater agricultural produc
lion and a greater Capitalization OF
wealth in these counties, 1t means
bigger and more prosperous cities
dt means grain elevators and feed
manufacturing plants for Ardmore, II
means getting more out of the soil
n greater production to the acre
lands when its merits are known will
be wonderful.
Another member of the company
said the people in southern Oklaho
ma are rich and do not appreciate
it. Lands here that cost from 81,
to s25 an acre grow the finest crop
in the world, the best money making
crops. and yet the people here ar
slow TO appreciate the wealth of tn
soil, and when the Carter count
lands begin to sell at 800 an acr
instead OF S15 then the old timer
will want to hire some man with
kicking machine to administer then
deserved punishment. In speaking
OF the oil field, the Illinoisan sal,
that he observed outsiders were max
ing more purchases than the hom
people. There are sherman, Texas
Topeka, Kansas, and Dallas, Texa.
people in these fields today lookini
out for purchases, and n crowd o
Ohio people will be here before tn
end of the present week. The Obi,
people are in the state now and vii
he here to look over the fields. Thi
is another instance where the loca
people do not seem to realize wha
wealth the county has and are al
lowing the oil and gas lands to fal
into the ownership of others.
The Blair Oil company, which wa
the first to enter the Muskogee field
are preparing to develop their pror
critics are developed that transporta
company states that when their pror
critics are Geveloued that transporta
tion fcT their oil will be provide
for either by rail or pipe line.
More interest is being taken i
Carter county agricultural lands an
in oil lands and in city 2ropert
than has been taken since the land
were allotted in severalty anon
the Indisns.