The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-20
Canvass Of Southwest Brings Glad
Tidings Of Good Times Com
ing and Business Gloom
Goes Glimmering
CALAMITY CHORUS
SINKS INTO SILENCE
Prospects Of Bumper Crops, Heavy
Exports, More Building and
Increasing Industrial
Activity Shown
BY United Press.

Dallas, Tex, April 2O- Prosperity
lin big, bright capital letters-is
sweeping the southwest. From every
section of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
and Arkansas today came the glad
tidings that good times are at hand
and that the spectre of financial strin-
eency has vanished in thin air.
A canvass made by the Unitea
Press shows conclusively that this
vastly rich country has no calamity
howlers, and that the ledger at the
close of 1915 is going to find the fig
ures on the right side-not alone in
the business mans counting room but
in the humble farm house and the
laborer's modest home.
Bumper crops, enormous exports
and imports, increasing building, more
whirring mill wheels in industrial CEN
ters-these are signs of the times as
reported unanimously from group of
optimists, whose optimism is founded
on good, solid, substantial dollars and
cents reasons.
The expression hard times isn't in
the vocabulary OF the sunny south
west. In great shape is the most
frequent report from all quarters.
Down at Galveston seaport, leading
business men say the city never was
in better condition than it now is.
Exports and imports from its jobbers
are making the port hum. On every
hand is the sign prosperity.
New Orleans, another important
port, says depression is an unknown
quantity. It's textile mills are whir-
ring night and day to keep up with
war orders. The city's largest depart
ment stores say their business is
larger than ever-and folks don't
spend money in department stores
unless prosperity is abroad in the land.
While the small farmer of the state
didn't get as much as he expected for
his cotton, prices of other products
scared, and he's now in good way.
Grain, mules, horses. as at Galveston,
are swelling the port export list-and
| New Orleans is so confident OF the
year ahead that she's extending her
public belt trackage and is erecting a
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eral million dollars.
In Houston, mills are feeling the re-
turn Of boom times. A canvass Of the
city's leading industries show, with
out exception, that here, too, is every
| evidence of the big round dollar and
the full dinner pail.
i From Amarillo, in the grain coun-
| try, comes report that should glad
den the heart Of every farmer: wen
have eight million more bushels Of
\ wheat this year than last"
| And, then. another big prospect of
adding to the general boom times in
tas Panhandle is the discovery of pot.
ash-the valuable fertilizing material,
the supply OF which has been shut off
by the European war
'The greatest wave Of prosperity In
the history of this country is sweep
inc. central west Texas writes cor
respondent from Ballinger. Hard times
howlers are nowhere to be found II
that section, says the writer. Big cot
ton and grain crops. enormous exports
! of poult and pork have left theil
stamp on the fruitful section.
} And, just by way OF showing th'
t men folks that they aren't responsible
) for all Of. the good things that ar
{ gladdening the central west part .
{ the state, the correspondent added:
ell "The women on the farms Of thi
: county viii gather not less than hal
J, million dollars worth Of poultry an
j. eggs this year double last years ou'
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