The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
the LIBERTY LOAN
NOW BEING SUBSCRIBED


The response to the government
appeal for the Liberty Loan has been
most gratifying all over the United
States. and the indications are that
the two billion will be subscribed in a
much shoter time than has before been
anticipated.
Notwithstanding the wall OF coun-
less number of calamity howlers which
we have always with us, the country
as a whole Is in a prosperous condl-
ton. and there is money on hand.
Travel over the middle west. where
there is no particular boom and
note the banks in all of the small
towns. These banks all look, and are
prosperous, and it takes prosperous
community to make prosperous
bank showing.
Take trip to the southwest-to Kan
sas and Oklahoma and Missouri, for
instance, and you will find some
boom business, due to the high price
of oil and minerals demanded by the
present day-not all demand created
by war conditions, however
In southwest Missouri you will find
the lead and zinc industry booming
and mines being worked to capacity
Prices Of lead and Jack" are now five
six and even ten times as high as ever
before. The demand for this metal
however, is due to war conditions in
measure, and lucky is the man OF
woman who happens to have min
eral lease or own piece of rocky
side hill land in the district.
In some cases, farmers who fol
years have hung on in vain hope that
the side hill farm would f1atten out ano
the rocks disappear, are making good
money picking up float" lead and jack
and carting it to the railroad stations
where it has been bringing from S6(
to $50 a ton. 1t does not take many
chunks of free lead the size of ones
head to make a tOn-and there are
many such chunks lying around il
the gullies of the Ozarks.
In Oklahoma and Kansas, oil is king
and when one remembers that Oklaho
ma cities, such as Tulsa, Bartlesville
Oklahoma City, Ardmore, Muskogee
and others were built on 50-cent oil
and oil now at or near 50 barrel, i
can readily be seen that there is some
thing doing in that country in thu
money market.
Kansas, always a big wheat state
now produces over $4,000 barrels o
crude oil day. In 1915 she only pro
duced about 1000 barrels a day. Okla
homa now produces about 10000 bar
rels of crude oil a day. This means
money for some one and lot of it.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city of les
than $4,000, there are over 200 mel
worth from $4,000 to s30,000,000. ON
man has an income of over 100000 ;
day, and another group Of five mel
last winter sold half their holdings fo
S35,000,00O The banks of Oklahoma
especially of Tulsa, show almost un
believable statements, and there il
money, money-but not everywhere
for it costs money to live in that coun
try, and if you have no money and d.
not know the game, as Abe Martin
says, "stay out"
Yes, our great country over which
waves the stars and stripes ha
money, and we have the men with thu
'innards" to back it up, and we cal
fight little, too, at that If Uncl'
Sam wants money, we will let hin
have all he wants.
io 10 nfh n
parts of the country we may not have
our menof millions such as Frank A
Gillespie, Jack Crosbe Constantin
Bob Mcfarland, Ben McLain, and 9th
ers, but we have money and perhap:
more happy, contented people, for We
are living in the garden spot of the
earth and have many things that they
do not have in Oklahoma, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and other states to make us {
happy and contented people.
We eat and sleep in security, anG
have the best, and for pleasure We
have our lakes, and woodlands an6
pure air, and when we want a refresh
ing drink we do not have to mortgage
the farm for the price, and then dodge
cops and revenue officers and craw
through half a mile OF sewer and give
three distinct knocks on a cellar door
to get what we want
Watertown and vicinity-the mer.
chant, the manufacturer the business
man and professional man and the
farmer, will respond, and will buy
Uncle Sans bonds If Uncle Sam asks
them to. for the country has done all
for them, asd the Uncle Sam paper is