Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-08

Ia ~ me out OF the picture, DuL
boost the best town in this part
of the world" said r. NJ. McFarlin,
when he was asked for some data
about his oil operations and about
his connection with certain enter
prises in and around Holdenville.
This is one Of the few towns that
you can say anything good about and
mighty little that is bad. | have lived
here for long time and, perhaps.
know as much about the home folks
as the rest of them and yet my tudg-
ment is not in the least prejudiced,
because, as you know, 1 am inter-
ested in many other places in Okla
homa and outside Of it, particularly in
Tulsa and the Cushing district But
when you get right down to cold and
unalterable fact, you will find that
for the man just beginning life for
the man looking for a good and
wholesome place in which to rear his
children, for the man looking for a
place to invest his savings, knowing
that while there may not be any
meteoric increase in values, there Will
always be a dividend, | do not think
that Holdenvlle can be beat. Don't
take my word for it, but go and see
for yourself. Don't go to Holdenville
expecting to find boom town, a city
that has been built overnight, which
may blow up just as rapidly. Don't
go there expecting every man you
meet to try and sell you a town lot
or shares in some blue sky or blue
jay oil company Just go down there
like you would go into any place which
is built and which is building for the .
future on the solid foundations of COM
mercal integrity and reasonable
promise. Ask the secretary Of the
Chamber of Commerce any question
you want and when you come to
check him up you will find he has
Understated the proposition instead Of
exaggerating it,"
1t must be understood outside of
Oklahoma, because everybody in Ok
lahoma knows Bob" McEarlin, that
whatever Mr.. McFarlin says is good
in the market for. 100 cents on the
dollar. Any bank in the state will
take him at that every day in the
year. He is one Of the men who has
been ever in the forefront of devel-
opment, systematic development, the
kind which believes in the good old
theory that the pennies make the
dimes and the dimes make the dol
lars. He has not accumulated an
enormous fortune by accident or to
that indefinable quality which some
people call luck, but through the
exercise of those principles Of eau
tion and patience which inevitably
win. That is why he is the NC" Of
est producers of crude oil in the
world and why he is so largely in
terested in banks and farms and fac
tories and things. In the Mel Man
Oil company there are very few stock
o holders. In the list there are only
five given. They are r. NJ McFarlin,
j A. Chapman, p. A. Chapman, E. p.
Harwell and II. H: Rogers
Although Tulsa claims the company
as its own and although the general
offices are located there, you will find
the names OF McFarlin and Chapman
in everything that is worth while in
the making of a town. And what is
rare, and as refreshing as it is rare,
they are using their money not for
the purpose of monopolizing any, in
dustry, but rather for the purpose
of assisting young men of ambition
and brains to make success of
things. one of the men who man
ages an institution in which they are
interested told the writer that neither
Of the Chapmans nor Mr.. McFarlin
had been in his place for months, al
though they had frequently been in
Holdenville and that though he had
frequently met them on the streets,
1t was merely in a casual way. They
received the monthly or weekly re-
ports and IL any comment was made