The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
ANOTHER GUSHER AT MUS
KOGEE.

Another oil well has been brough.
in at Muskogee. Not one of the little
fellows. but an old time gusher-a
well that is throwing and squirting
and pouring its hundreds of gallons
of oil skyward The Muskogee news
papers are sending forth the news
and the Muskogee Commercial CLUB
is telling the newspapers and the
people of the outside world of this
latest oil strike. And MuskOgee will
take a firmer position than ever on
the map and continue on its rapid
growth in population.
Did the people of Ardmore ever
stop TO consider the fact that Ard
more and Muskogee were incorporat-
ed in the same year? Did they ever
stop to think that oil has had more
than anything else to do with the
making of Muskogee into the city Of
metropolitan proportions which she
is today? And did they ever stop to
think that sleeping beneath the sur
face of :he earth within fifteen or
twenty miles of Ardmore lies one
of the largest oil pools in the en-
tire safe of Oklahoma. This pool,
from what biologists stsS,, follows
an anticlne in a southeasterly direc-
tion from Oil City to the very out
skirts of Ardmore. And all that we
need right here, if the citizens of this
city would only see it in the proper
light, is to advertise to the world the
oil fields we have IN the territory
tributary to Ardmore to bring about
the development of this oil--this giant
field-and have as consequence
within very short span OF years
city here that will equal in every
way, if it does not surpass, the me-
tropols of eastern Oklahoma,
Competition is the life of trade. If
this be true. then it is doubly true
that publicity is the soul, the body
and the sinow of both trade and de-
velopment. Ardmore and Carter
county may have all the wealth OF
Croesus lying within the bosom OF
her farms. her prairics, her noun
tains and her dclls, but unless pub
ilcity is given to it-unless the peo-
Ile of the commercial world learn
of what We haye-that wealth will
continue to lie dormant as it has
lain since the time Of the gigantic
uphoayals of nature which made the
western world, or will continue to
gradually drain into the Golfers of
one or two giant spectators who fat
ton and grow arrogant and rich at
the cost of the lethargy of the ones
Who should reap the golden harvest
Within the past week the Ardmore-
ite published a true story of the oil
situation in the country to the north
west OF Ardmore-the country sur
rounding oil City In this story the
half was not told. In mere words
and sentences built into columns Of
cold and ufeless type, no adequate
idea of the true conditions could be
giyen-No correct sense of ;he vast
body of ou-of wealth, the ,)limitable
wcalth--can be conveyed iu even the
most mrid newspaper story. The
bare fact can only be stated that
in Carter county IN the section &C
Carter county directly in touch with
Nrdmore, lies a pool Of oil second
to none in the state, awaiting the
coaNiug touch of development ana
the magic influence OF publicity.
And this development and this pub
icltv will make of Ardmore the mo
tropolis Of southern Oklahoma, rs
such development and publicity Of
the eastern fields has made Of Mus
kogee the metropolis of eastern Ok
lahoma.
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