The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-14
(By VIM. HEARD, Representative Of
the Manhattan Oil co.,

Even since the Santa Fe first
pushed her iron trail from Kansas
City to the southern borders of
Texas, chance travellers from the
north and east have had an eye on
the matchless beauty Of the Chicka-
saw country, of which Ardmore is
the metropolis, and was then a strug.
Cling little village of only a few hun
dred souls Their l1t2reS. then was
largely sentimental. They were charm
ed with the vastness Of everything
the incompatible beatty IF that vas;
domain of the cattleman, and here
hester, and it was due largely 10 that
element of citizenship that Ardmore's
agricultural resources were brought
before the people of the country at
large. The discovery of oil in the
northern part of the state some
twelve or fourteen years ago, led to
a wild rush of prospectors form
PENNSYLVANIA, West Virginia, Illinois
and Ohio, and in the territory to the
north was found so much petroleum
that it has been within compare
lively short while that the Healdton
district has attracted any considera
BILE attention.
With the advent of production in
this part of the state, gives practical
assurance from a logical business
standpoint that Ardmore is destined
to be the center or the headquarters
of what promises to be one Of the
most extensive oil districts in the
mid continent field, and which is de-
fined today as comprising a large
part of Carter, the eastern part of
Stephens and Jefferson county and
comprising many thousand square
miles of territory, and with the de
yelopment started and that which is
under contemplation, gives ample as
surance of Ardmore's prosperity for
many years to come. Ardmore is not
nor never has been a 'mushoom'
: town or a promoters football, and
had the discovery of oil never been
made she would always have ranked
with the states most foremost towns
as a shipping center of cotton, corn,
potatoes, hay, alfalfa, and other prod
ucts which have made America the
feeder of nations. The oil industry
comes as an unexpected blessing to
many, although there are people here
who have long since believed that
from geological indications ArdmOrol
would some day be what she prom
ises soon to becOme-an oil center.
With all these good things in store
for Ardmore her citizens should ever.
keep before them the idea that cap
ital must be attracted by a favorable
attitude toward business propositions
where the element of chance plays
so important a part as the produc- |
ton of oil. Ii takes initiative and
common sense of many practical ex-
perienced operators to make an oil
field, and much of the element of
speculation must be eliminated before
the large experienced operators are
really going to be interested in this
district as against the more proven
districts to the north.
Any thinking person may easily
conceive of what the development of
oil and it's associated industries will
do for a city or community by the
study of the advantages derived by
such cities as Tulsa, Bartlesville.
Muskogee, Collinsville, Okmulgee and
and many smaller and less
important towns in the northern part
of the state, which depend entirely,
or almost so, upon the oil industry.
In any of these towns business con-
ditions are such as to exceed the
most sanguine hopes of the town
builders.
If Ardmore keeps alive and abreast
of few conditions, such as her
enterprises always rises to, there is
no question in the mind of anyone, :
buS that she will be the base of
supply for several supply stores and