The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-29
AROMORE OUT OF THE KINKS,
A Good, Substantial Town With a
Good Substantial Citizenship.

Ardmore has passed the expert
mental stage and has become a
town of settled future. She has
braved the storms of three years
hard times and has come through
with flying colors.
Ardmore is so situated geograph-
ically that in the course OF time it
will make one of the best cities in
the entire southwest. In addition
to its geographical location it lies
| in the very heart OF some OF the
richest agricultural lands in this
state. Oklahoma is already noted
/ for the richness Of her soil and
/ there is not a place anywhere in
the state where the soil is so fer
tile as in the territory Immediately
tributary to Ardmore.
Realizing the importance OF agri-
culture to this city. Nelson II. Nc
Coy, when he assumed the duties OF
secretary of the Ardmore CONNER
cial club, initiated a crusade in the
interests Of the farm and the farm
er He did this knowing that to the
products of the soil everything
would be owing for the future heal
thy advancement of this city. In
vestigation showed him that this
section is pre- eminently an agri-
cultural one and that of all the
vast area of rich, tillable lands
in Carter county, not one-tenth OF
the acreage is today under the plow.
Acting upon the hypothesis that
if we want factories we must nave
population, Mr. Mccoy has devoted
great energy along the lines OF ad-
vertising Carter county to the peo-
ple away from hereto the people
who till the soil for a living ana
who would be apt to be interested
! in country where the best land
could be bought at a minimum price.
During the time that he has been
secretary of the Ardmore CONNER
rial club, Nelhon Mccoy has sent out
hundreds of pounds Of mail-circu-
lars and personal letters telling
those who might become interested,
about Carter county. And many OF
the letters which he has written
and the circulars descriptive or this
section which he has mailed have
produced results. More than one
farmer has come from some neigh
boring state in response TO the
true statement of conditions here
and he learned them from the COM
mercial clubs secretary.
Ardmore has, as was said in the
beginning Of this, been through
hard fight. This fall for almost
the first time since the beginning
of the money stringency in 1908,
good times and plenty are begin
ming to find an abiding place here.
Surrounded by the best of natural
conditions, this section has with
stood the financial storm of the past
few years much better than has
most sections. And the fact that
such is the case is evidenced by
I a. nf
business. Two years ago, when the
panic" was in full swing all over
the country, there was not a busi-
ness house on the west side of
Main street, between the Guaran-
ty State bank building and the A. c.
young Furniture companys store
that was not vacant, with possibly
one exception. Today there is not
vacant store room in this block
where the the monthly rental runs
from $50, the lowest, up to s125,
the highest.
And this is true all over. From
the Santa Fe tracks to the old
city park there is not a vacant store
building.
And the cause of this-more farm
ers. consequently more farm pro-
duce to he sold and more people
bringing their money TO Ardmore,
thus showing that Mr.. Secretary of
the Commercial club acted along
we'll advised plans when he devoted
SO much of his time and energies to
boosting the agricultural interest Of
Ardmore and vicinity.