The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-17
SUMMARY Of
CONDITIONS 8
THAT CONF FR0NT
If THE SANTA FE CARRIES OUT
PRESENT PLANS THEY WILL
GIVE ARDMoRE DIRECT CON-
NEcTioN WITH OIL AREA.

ike some moves were DeluB ndut
that will be ia the way of Ardmores
growth into city which We had
hoped to build.
But with a steadiness of purpose we
must work out these conditions so
they will be made to serve this city.
When we have dug down under the
surface of these conditions there is
nothing to sorely discourage this city.
From the best information the Ard
moreite can obtain, it is the plan of
the Santa Fe railway Company to
build a line from Lindsay south
through the oil area of Carter county
and on TO Ringing in Jefferson coun-
ty This line will be from 40 to As
miles in length. The Santa Fe has
given a great deal of thought to the
proposed line. 1t Is serving its own
purposes best as much as it would like
to build direct from Ardmore.
The vast majority of freight han
died to an oil field consists of products
of the steel mills. These products are
well casing, engines and steel tanks.
The Santa Fe knows better than we
how those shipments can be routed and
the company evidently intends to have
those shipments come by way of the
Shawnee freight line to Pauls Valley
and from there by way of Lindsay to
the oil fields.
BY building on to Ringing where
il will make connection with the Ring
ing road, the Santa Fe will have an
other line between Ardmore and Pauls
Valley so that in time of floods the
Washita river will not delay either
freight or passenger traffic. The line
from Ardmore TO Pauls Valley which
has been in operation many years, has
proven to be a very expensive piece of
road bed 1t is rendered expensive
on account of high water in the Wash
ita canyon. The proposed line will
serve as loop to obviate the Washita
canyon in cases of emergency.
II the Santa Fe is determined to
proceed with the construction of this
line as it has planned to do, Ardmore
should busy iteslf seeing that one of
these two things is done: That from
the oil fields a direct line be built into
this city, or that operating privileges
are given over the Ringing road so
that Ardmore can have direct rail
connection with the fields
BY co oning direct to Ardmore from
the oil urea, the Santa Fe could build
up vast tonnage from the asphalt de-
posits and from the cement, But the
thing which will most likely be done
is to have Santa Fe trains operated
also over the Ringing road and in
that way passengers can be taken di-
rect to the fields and also freight can
be handled out of this city without
any delay.
Ardmore has also been somewhat
nervous over the chance that either
at Ringing or at Fox new county
would be formed. The organization
of a new county including the oil
fields would cause us not to waver
and make us fight still the harder to
build a city.
In this connection the Ardmoreite
has made an investigation that has
revealed facts of interest to Ardmore
/ Under the constitution of Oklahoma
any new county organized must have
| 400 square miles of taxable area, and
the counties from which lands have
been taken to be used in forming &
new county must have an equa
amount of taxable area. This provi
sion in the constitution fixes thing
here so that new county cannot b.
organized for many years to come
So much of the lands are non-taXabl
] lHdi fVN Suudlt AdhhNt w thha'
from Carter. Stephens and Jefferso
, counties and leave that much taxabl
area in the counties from which land
have been taken, and this cannot b
done for probably fifteen or twent
years.
No city is justified in saying thi
IL it sits still. all things will CON
to il. Cities like individuals must Gu
tivate humility and industry and goo
sense in order TO keep growing. Ar
more must not be idle for momen
We have wonderful opportunities, "
are the oil headquarters of what prom
Uses to be the longest lived and greatel
oil area in Oklahoma. II is the grea
est opportunity that lies at the doc
of any city in all the southwest Di
couragement never built a city, b'
eheerfulness and faith and work hay
built them. Ardmore must see u
bright side of the propositions thi
| oonfront ne anI our naonIa rnugt haX