The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-26

bonus was being raised by the prices
asked for il when the right OF way
is 10 be purchased. He recounted
the advantages OF western outlet
for our traffic and travel, pictured
the development Of oil and asphalt
and dwelt At length upon what it
means TO have a man like Ringing
terested in the welfare of the county.
/ BY Mr Ringlings having come Lere
such men as the general manager Of
/ the Western Union. general manager
/ OF the Pullman Car company and
the general manager of the New York
Central Railway company have in
vested in large acreage of lands in
the county. In all twenty-fcur OF the
most prominent financiers of the Uni
/ ted States have secured holdings here
and tAeir interests being here means
a greater development than We have
yet dreamed Of.
The next speaker of the evening
was President pro TEN OF the State
Senate Judge Chas. B. Kendrick.
The subject assigned him was the
building OF the proposed interurban.
Judge Kendrick made a most happy
speech. From a minute acquaintance
with the country for the past twenty
years he drew in clear outlines the
development made and dwelt upon
the character OF the citizens OF SOU
thern Oklahoma. In speaking of the
interurban he said in laundering
tones that il was not proposed
road but real live interurban that
would reach the oil fields, the asphalt
beds, and would develop the farms OF
the country more than any other
source. His remarks were heartily
applauded. In speaking of the asphalt
he said one concern had agreed TO
give them $500 tons of asphalt freight
each month and this is only one
among many producers of asphalt in
the county His remarks were again
greeted with cheers when he said
the dirt would be flying within thirty
days.
Prof. Cottrell of the Rock Island
confined his remarks to agriculture.
ArIyr hni
the greatest receiving station in the
world for cotton, for being the great
est distributing point in the world
for bran. Carter county is noted for
having so per cent of its lands titled
by tenants. He referred to the sta
tistics giving the average yield OF
cotton and recounted the triumph Of
the Worthy boy of Baum in raising
four bales of cotton from two acres
and said it was the worlds record for
the year.
The most instructive address OF the
evening was by P. c. Dings, president
of the Guaranty State bank in which
he discussed the oil and gas situa-
ton. He made the statement that
geologists from California had been
over the field and they have pronounc-
ed the Carter county field a replica
of the California field which is the
greatest oil producing area in the
world. He said the people here do
not realize what they have and then
recounted what the oil boom meant to
Beaumont and intimated that the
same conditions would prevail here.
Two reasons have contributed to the
SLOW development of the field. First,
no great gushers have been found
as yet TO excite the operators and
second, no means of transportation
have been provided. The pipe line
he said, would be conveying oil with
in the next ten days. Some of the
largest oil producing companies of
the United States are now entering
the field and the Carter county field
is now the bright spot among all oil
producers He said there was no 9th.
er oil to compare with its quality for
fuel purposes and that as a fuel five
barrels of this oil is worth ten bar
rels OF the refining oil. He urged the
county commissioners to build a road |
to the field and encouraged land |
owners to give leases to operators as
that is the only method by which |
men can be obtained to make the
necessary developments.
President Ringer made good for
the order talk in which he outlined |
the harmony between the farmers
and merchants, the wagon campaign,
the kafir campaign, the cotton cain
paign and referred with pride to the
picture OF Ernest Worthy which adorn-
ed the wall OF the banquet hall.
Former County Attorney James H.