The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1913-01-02
MANY GOOD THINGS CAME
TO GUTHRIE AND
STAYED
OIL, GAS AND ARTEsIAN WATER
= THINGS CERTAIN FOR FUTURE
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Count Is h Prosperous Condition
AMI Several Big Things in Sight;
All Working Together

closed Guthrie has little to regret ana
much to be proud OF, True we did not
win IN the announced result OF the
capital election, but we have the sat
isfaction OF knowing that the cam
palgn we made put our city in the
right light before the people of the
state, won us thousands OF friends,
shat the people were really for Guth-
rie and with an opportunity to vote
OH the capital question untrammeled
by party lines with ballot arranged
to facilitate and not to hinder anu
confuse voting they would give Guth-
ric a decided majority
Guthrie not or won the admira-
tion OF the state and advertised her
self fayorably to the entire nation but
aroused her own people to new spir
it OF activity and progressiveness and
unity that was alone worth all the
campaign cost.
usual activity for Guthrie and Logan
county. Not only have all the es-
tablished manufacturing establish
meins been unusually active but Sew
eral more Industries have been added
during the year, including large
mattress factory. two more broom
factories, an umbrella factory, third
flour and feed mill special corn
meal mill ana the re-opening of the
Farmers Cooperative gin and cotton
seed oil mill, which has been closed
pending the settlement of legal con
tentions among the stockholders and
making three OF these important con
Germs now in operation in Glllrie.
While the cotton crop was not an
unusually large one, the price has
been uniformly good and the farmers
have raised large and diversified
crops, and have a great abundance 0
corn and feed and they are marka;
ing larAe amounts of stock.
The large increase in the number
of cattle and hogs raised and market
cd here has caused the local packing
plant to enlarge its capacity very ma
terially
The Pioneer Cotton mill has had >
constantly increasing business eyer>
year since it has been started, ant
the regular employees now number
from l25 to 100. Their products are
nov sold in every state in the union.
and they have just filled an order fol
several cars of special twine for the
hop fields of California The coming
year will force the institution (
greatly enlarge its present capacity
The peach crop in Logan county
was one Of the biggest things in the
entire state this year. About 601 cars
were billed out from Gdthrie, besides
q number OF cars of canned ard cyar
GRATED stock. This season started
four canning plants with an average
canning capacity OF 5000 cans each
per day, besides number of smaller
domestic plants and several evaporat-
ors There will be large number
OF smaller plants ready for the next
crop and large canning and eyap'
Grating plant is sur to be started
here on the cooperative plan the com
ing season. The peach growers apd
growers of vegetables are determia
ed to save the entire crop another
year.
At the present time the horticulta~-
alists are unanimous in promising an
increased crop OF all kinds of fruit II
this county, and the growers are ae.
termined that none of it shall be al
lowed to go to waste. They expect
the coming year viii produce more
than l.O00 cars of Elbertas for ship
ping from Guthrie alone
There is deep, determined inter
est among the people OF Guthrie All
logan county over the gas and oH
prospects. Extensive leases have
been secured with the contracts that
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