The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-22


Ohio, is making study of advant-
ages OF Dallas from the standpoint
OF eastern manufacturers who are
seeking more profitable locations forI
either factories or branches of fac
tories.
Mr.. Tope Is an indusial counselor,
which is comparatively new devel-
opment in the fields OF expert knowl-
edge. His business is to study and
analyze the business of manufactur-
ers. and, If they are losing money
| tell them the cause of the loss. Also
to seek locations for manufacturing
enterprises.
The question of bonuses or free
sites Mr.. Tope says, is eliminated
! from consideration and each point or
city is canvassed wholly from the
standpoint Of natural advantages for
the greatest possible profit to the
manufacturer
He has just finished It's tour
through the Old South, or that part
| of the South lying east OF the Mis-
sissippi river, and Dallas is the first
point he has touched in Texas In
discussing what he found on his trip
q
before reaching dallas and what Is
desired by a manufacturer seeking q
location Mr.. Tope said'
There is one universal law as OLD
as the hills, which dominates the
growth of localities or cities, and
that law is that humanity ever FOL
lows the trend of greatest profits IN
return for energies expended. the
yainly expended energies and mon
eys to develop lands, even to the ex-
tent of intensified acre-farming VAL
find sensible solution in the auto
matte settlement and cultivation
with intensified land values and Wltl
out any expenditure, comparatively
of moneys.
"Why should we hope to develol
farms until we have provided con-
suming market for what those same
farms produce? Until we have plant
ed here a population with the readl
cash to buy and pay for what thos'
! farms produce? Farmers can no
prosper by depending upon othe
farmers. Nor can they hope to pros
per by depending upon ong-distanc'
A markets Witness the proof OF TN
Z latter in the recent action OF NeV
York and other cities, which seek t
provide municipal commission ant
warehouses at nominal charge u
| the farmer, to save those farmers
from the enormous robbery of mid
dlemen in trying to market thel
produce even at short distances
provide a home market first, witt
lot of people who have the casl
to pay for what they must consume
!, and buy from the farmer, and assure
the farmer that he no longer mus
market on futures, and the settle
ment of these vastly rich lands Is
problem that will adjust itself. Farm
ers know that the greatest profits
come from the home markets, ant
will seek those points. as witnessed
in the reclaiming and intensiilet
farming at heavy expenses of the Oh
and worn out farms surroundin!
New York, Philadelphia and othe
cities. Farmers know where thel
profits are greatest, and when yo'
show him q market of CONSUMING
people with the cash to buy he i
there.
"And now you may ask. whenc'
comes this consuming population
with the cash to buy? Let us see
"We have about 100,0O0000 people
in the United States and only abou
Al per cent of them actually live OF
the farms, where they grow what the.
eat and what the other 50 per cen
eat. Hence SO per cent Of our pe1
pie are buyers of those commodities
But in Texas, for illustration, We
fini there are already twenty lone
growers for every thirteen buyers
Then what encouragement is there
for more growers. when the balance
of the trading is in favor OF localities
where buyers are in excess?
son the other hand we take New
York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, and We find they have
eighty seven buyers for every thir-
teen growers Now we can readily
see that section is favorable to the
latter. Especially, when We remem-
Der those same buyers directly and
indirectly control the expenditure OF
some sI4,O00.00O,00O annually in her
commercial trading commerce.
say. but in reality it is industrial
= valuac IN trading