The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-09
SOME FACTS ABOUT
STATE Of OKLAHOMA

be overcome by the great progress
sive strides of the new state Okla
homa affords more opportunity fol
diversified farming than any Other
state in the union, save Texas, and
area considered, it surpasses even
the Lone tSar state. If all OF Okla
homl's acreage possible of being
utilized were under cultivation, Ii
would present the following for sta
tisticians;
More wheat lands than either Da-
kota
More fruit lands than California.
Equals Illinois grand prairie in
corn lands.
Has more timber than Wisconsin,
| Michigan and Indiana combined.
Can cultivate as much rice land
as South Carolina.
More granite than Vermont. New
Hampshire and Maine combined
More petroleum than Pennsylva
mia, West Virginia and Ohio com
bined.
More marble than Nevada, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts
Is second in the production of
cotton from monetary tandpoint
More iron than any other state
save PENNSYLVANIA: more copper
than any other state save Montana.
Second in gypsum.
Fourth in developed kaolin, the
finest fireproof material known to
science.
Second in cattle; third in money
products of same.
Seven thousand square miles of
land underlaid with coal, and few
of its mines more that opened
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 sixth in the production of po
tatoes.
Is eighth in railway mileage; first
in number of miles in past five
years first in number of systems
started in 1909.
1t has the most equable climate,
save California, Of all the states.
Population estimated its people pur-
! chae more necessities from outside
the state than all other states in
the union.
oklahoma is first in production
of peanuts.
Second in production of canta-
loupes.
Third in the production of water.
melons and seventh in muskmelon
production.
1t is first in tonnage Of alfalfa;
third in money value produced.
1t is fifth in vegetables, with less
than tenth of the state trying to
cultivate garden products.
With an acreage of fifteenth Okla.
homa is tenth in the production of
orchard products.
II is tenth in barley, first If acre
age were proportioned.
capitalization considered, Okla.ho-
ma leads all others in the amount
Of money deposited in its banks.
1t is first in purchasing its har-
vest machinery away from home.
1t surpasses any other state in
growth from 1907 to August /, 1909
1t has more miles of possible good,
roads, less improvement on same,
than any state west of the Missouri
river.
Producing sufficient foodstuffs to
supply any three state in the union
our people purchase more from out
side the state, population consider
ed, than any other state.
1t has the third best natural park
in the United States.
consuming lIOlc dl
chnery than any state save three.
it manufactures less than any other
state west of the Missouri and north
of the Ohio rivers.
1t is second in the manufacture OF
Portland cement.
1t is next to Texas in supplying
the Galveston wharves with ship.
ping.
Population averaged, it has sec
ond largest church membership than
any other state.
1t has the best equalization of
taxes, private and corporate, in the
world
Great as its cotton production is
Oklahoma is twentieth in the out
put OF its spindles; with no record
of a cotton mill falling to pay a