The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15
SUPPOSING OKLAHOMA HAD
NORTH CAR0LINA'S ADVANTAGES
WHAT 10 You Reckon She Would Do With Them Gallon
latng From What She Has Done With Her Own
Bon Butler Asks '
BlON III. BUTLER.

EdetOru, Dec. III watched with
interest the visit of the committee
RON the State Press Association to
he State Board of Agriculture a few
3lys ago 10 urge the Board of AgricuI-
t1ire to lend a hand in the encourag ge-
Went of immigration 30 North Caro-
Ina. AS i read in The News and OBJ
server the report Of the conference I
called to mind an experience years
ago in Kansas. and the results that
nave followed one mans efforts as an
Immigration agent although he had
no intention Of ever inducing im,ni-
grafton.
When was printer in Kansas
~ 1884 opposite me at the table at
jhe hotel where l lived sat a tall, trim
fellow who made II lot of fus for the
United states government, for he was
capt. David j.. Payne. "OkIahOrna
Dave Payne, they called him.
like to look at what Dave Payne
pat on the map of the United States
Along about that time the people
II tho East spoke of the Indian Ter
ritory We in the West called to the
Nation" To Payne the nation was
the white mans hope at that time,
and he was constantly trying to lead
settlers into certain parts OF it with
The dream of developing it. AS it was
an Indian reservation the government
troops were constantly chasing him
oul of the country, and he was more
Or less Of hero and more or less of
an outlaw. But Oklahoma is a fact,
Payne is a hero, his memory is per-
petuated, and his State is an example
81 what American enthusiasm can do.
Example of State Building.
oklahoma is the liveliest example
81 American State building that We
,a1 ~. II a
did not live to see the territory opened
aud organized in 1890. 1t started out
with a population Of 61,S34 people,
;nGt is twenty-four years ago. Today
II has more cities of ten thousand
people than North Carolina has, and
y has one city with close to seventy
live thousand people or twice as biz
as North Carolina's s biggest city 81 the
last census
subsequent counts of population
have included the Indian reservations
with which count Oklahoma in ter
years had grown TO almost eight hun
dred thousand. and in another tel
years had more than doubled its popu
iation.
Now it is only necessary to MAKE
two or three comparisons betWec1
oklahoma and North Carolina t.
bring out the point l am after. From
1900 to 1910 Oklahoma Increased IL
population over u hundred per cent
adding more than eight hundred
thousand people. In the same perlo'
Worth Carolina increased a little owe
three hundred thousand. In that tim
II North Carolina had held all tn
Peopic born in the State limits sh
would have increased more than Sn
did North Carolina did not draw a
many people from other States as sh
lost to other States. oklahoma drev
me large bulk OF her people iron
other States. While North Carolln
was suffering q loss of her natlv
born population Oklahoma was at
Tartins six or seven hundred thou
"and people born in other States.
In twenty years Oklahoma ha
drawn from other States inhabitant
- Duild up more cities ana DlSSe
'ities than North Carolina has bee
3b'e to assemble from other state
mo from her own State i'll = hundre
'ud fifty years.
Oklahoma and North Carolina.
fossibly you think there Is q resl
son for this discrepancy, in the pro
9reSs Of the two States. There IS, pu
u Is not what you think. Ii is 10
because Oklahoma is better Secl'o
~ country to live i'll, for Norm Narc
INA has the call over Oklahoma
practically everything that makes pro
sress possible Oklahoma has oil an
SAS at the present time. That Is IN
one sole advantage which Nature ia
given the State over North Carolina.
Compare the two states Okla holn
IS a good State. North Carolina is
"hoie lot better. and IL the lonS ru
tiil leave Oklahoma far i'll the darl
lust now Oklahoma is moving Ioi
"ard by the light OF a most re1narh
aole example OF hustle.
North Carolina has u better clllna.'
seventeen below, Zerc and 104 aOoV
- the record at Okla ho-na city. Tila