The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-14
ONLY AN INFANT

The people of Ardmore have a re-
sponsibility ahead of them at this
u time. II is the greatest responsibility
that has ever confronted them. 1t is
not a responsibility that calls for
donations, but a responsibility that
carries with it a profit upon invest
ment.
That responsibility consists in
keeping Ardmpre built TO a degree
that will care for the needs of the
city. The boom days of the oil fields
brought a vast number of people to
the city, they were people who were
/ looking for big profits, they needed
| homes and they needed living rooms
and they began bidding against each
other for these accommodations, and
rpices for rent became too high.
There is no condemnation for anyone,
| but at the same time Ardmore as a
whole might have been unnecessarily
injured The oil industry has just
has but beginning point The Santa
I'e and the Healdton fields are not
all the fields that will be discovered
Others will follow and possibly great
er fields are yet to come. People
will keep coming to Ardmore for
years to come. During these years
the population will fuctuate more or
less and the responsibility of this
people lies in keeping homes and liv
ing rooms for the people, so that the
city will not become overcrowded,-I
so that rents will not go too high, |
so that reasonable prices will pre-
vail and there is always profit in
reasonable prices.
At this time, there is an oil activ-
ity along Red river from Nocona to
Denison on the Texas side and from
Waurika to Willis on the Oklahoma |
side. New fields are a reasonable |
certainty, Ardmore will naturally be
the headquarters of the oil men. We
need not expect to get all the bust
ness, because every town in this area |
will get some of the business, but |
Ardmore will retain its place as the
main oil headquarters for the south |
ern fields and nothing but the most |
palpable and criminal neglect can |
take that prestige away from the city
and there is absolutely no danger Of
any such misfortune Detailing the
people of the city
Proper work on the part of the
press of the city, proper co-opera
tion by the men who own property
proper cooperation upon the part of
the city administration, proper CO.
operation upon the part of the county
officials, in the matter of roads and
easements will keep Ardmore in har-
mony with the oil interests, and it
will soon be realized that Ardmore
has just begun to grow. /enn Pool
had been in for two years before
Tulsa began to grow. Tulsa was built
on SOC oil When the first field there
began to go down, there was a feel
ing of encouragement, People
thought they saw the fading of the
oil business, they thought the men
who had made Tulsa what it was
then would soon move away
But one day they awoke to the
real stuation-that the oil business
was not ephemeral, that it had come
to stay, and today there are 72
miles of Oklahoma in that portion of
the state where one can travel and
never be out of sight of oil wells.
The same conditions will prevail
here. The same energy is being eX-
pended here. Ardmore is as certain
of being a bustling oil town as there
is oil in its trade territory, and these
people might as well make up their
minds now that they will keep up
with the procession and build town
in keeping with the business they
must attract,-and hold.