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

town and spend their time thinking
something more about than the
coolest place on Little river to go
fishing 1t Is fine for the fish and
rather tough on the fishermen but it
is good for the town.
If young men and old middle-aged
men ana somewhat aging men who
want to get in on the ground floor
and get in right get right under close
to the mudsils and sit tight and help
make one Of the most prosperous, and
o one Of the most attractive cities to be
found in all the southwest. If you
pitch your future at Holdenvlle you
cannot make a mistake.
When one comes to Holdenville and
talks to these people right down at
the grass roots he finds an astonish-
ing lack of that viCariOus spirit which
CharaCterzcs so many other building
communities which are just sprOuting
their pinfeathers and trying to fly,
You may talk and talk and talk and
you will not hear one word in dis
paragement Of Wewoka, Weleeka, Nc
Alcster or any other place within a
would naturally think, because Tulsa
has tried to induce three or four Of
the best citizens here to move there
that HOldenVille would sort OF make
dog eyes at Tulsa, but the contrary Is
the case When you mention one OF
the nearby towns the average citizen
Of HOldenVille, instead of getting out
his hammer and proceeding to ring
all the changes of the anvil chorus,
Immediately begins to tell you all
about tho other town and you Will
find that the statements are literally
and absolutely correct and can be de-
pended on. There Is wise, farsighted
policy in this which commends itself
only to business men far above the
average in acumen and experience
with the world. The theory Is that II
HOldcnville cannot secure the invest
ment the closer 1t is made to Holden
vile the more chance Holdenville
stands of getting a piece of money in
the future. whereas il driven entirely
away the chances Of Holdenyille
ever clutching one dime Of the money
are exceedingly remote.
Perhaps this is the reason why mono
of the other towns are knocking Hol-
denville. They are all dwelling to-
gethcr in a spirit of ueighborliness,
they all visit around and have good
Old conference once I'm a while to see
If they can not do something through
united effort for the whole section, o
everybody helping everybody else and
thus everybody helping each other.
1t Is in these broad lines that Holden
Vile is building for the future. 10 Is
on just such a platform as that that
success will come and ii Is coming be-
cause such a policy carried out by the
men now at the helm in this town
cannot fall to succeed IL never has
and # never will Just because, as the
little girl said "it can't" Just write
It down I'm your book for reference
almost, any old time between now and
the same otime next year that you are
going TO see something doing in this
town down here in the great county
OF Hughes. the people are coming and
the factories are coming and the rail-
roads are coming Whether they get
the oil or not and here's hoping that
they do, because they deserve it, they
are going TO build a city. They have
started right with the right men at
tho head and they are going to keep
on going right till they have attained
that measure of success which Will
satisfy the craving Of desire.
About the first question which any
man intending to go into the manu-
featuring business asks IS: How about
your power ana your tuelf 10 WnlCu
the average citizen OF Holdenville, or
any old citizen for that matter. uB-
hesitatingly answers: Why, we have
got all the power in the world fur
nished by Little river, a perpetual
stream and with enough power to run
all Of the factories which will be To-
Gated here within the next hundred
years or so and by that time we will
all be dead and the coming genera
tions can wrestle with the question OF
power. When II comes 10 fuel we are
right at the entrance Of the shafts OF
somo OF the biggest coal mines In the
state and Il is our boast that, whether
our expectation that this Is going to
be great oil-producnE district ma
terialize or not, we still can Furnish
the fuel as Cheaply as any other city
I'm the state Remember that our fuel
supply is not so fluctuating in price
as the price of fuel Oil. but has been
rather stationary for a number OF
years and the probabilities are that
It VIII remain stationary. We are not
offering free fuel In fact we do not
believe that Is the wise policy. But
whatever we may lack in the matter
OF cheap fuel. and we do not admit
that there is any difference, we make
up in transportation facilities and a
territory already developed and ready
for some people to come along ana