The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-14
ChiCkasha Logical Point From Which TO
Supply Field; Must Have
Roads Says Oil Man
BRING SUPPLY
HOUSES TO CITY
Increase Population; Boost Business in
General; Unless Highway Made Other
Towns Reap Harvest

With the drills of several prospec-
tive oil wells hammering at the door
of production in the southwest Chick
asha district, the attention of oil men
has turned to the proposition of a
good road between Chickasha and Ce-
ment, and they are expressing won
der that Chickasha has not made
sure of such a road.
Declaring that Chickasha is the
logical shipping point from which to
supply the Cement field, e. 2. Allen,
an oil man of some 20 years of ex-
perience and who is interested in
holdings in western Grady county
and across the line in Caddo county,
stated this morning that at this time
Chickasha is absolutely sleeping on
her rights il immediate action is not
taken toward the construction OF a
good road between this place and the
Cement field
Illustrations Given.
By way of illustration Mr.. Allen
referred to several fields with which
the people of Chickasha are familiar
and pointed out the towns that are
profiting from the fields He showed
several sources from which the town
would derive revenues and declared
that money spent on a good road
would bring handsome returns from
the oil industry alone, always with
the provision of course that a good
field results from the development
at Cement
Take for instance, the fields
around Wichita Falls" said Mr. AL
len. THAT town supplies the Pc
trolia, Electra and Burke Burnett
fields. Now the oil fields from which
Wichita Falls benefits are all the
way from Is to so miles from the
town, yet the supply houses and ma.
terial yards from which these fields
are supplied are located in Wichita
Falls. Many people in Chickasha
who are interested in the Texas
fields know this to be fact.
Ardmore Another Example.
"Had the people of Chiekasha con
structed good road from this place
to the Healdton field three years
ago, it would have been a paying
proposition, for the reason that
Chickasha would have split the bust
ness with Ardmore Chickasha is
some 81 miles from the Healdton
field. Ardmore is about 35 miles.
Despite the difference in distance,
Chickasha would have gotten lot
of the Healdton business because
this town can offer so much better
railroad facilities than Ardmore
There is not a town in the state with
railroad facilities equal to Chicka-
sha.
Distance means nothing to an oil
man. That is, comparatively speak
ing. refer now to the difference in
the distance from Chickasha to the
Healdton field, and the distance from
that field to Ardmore. Understand,
am lot advocating the building of
a road to the Healdton field at this
time, simply mention these facts
as my opinion of the loss Chickasha
has sustained by not having such
road.
Big Opportunity Now.
"What mean to show is that there
Is a golden opportunity knocking at
chickasha's door right now. If the
business men and boosters here sim
ply sit idle and build no road to the
oil field that is going to be at Ce-
ment they are going to regret it.
Some ether town will. Anadarko is
much closer to the field than is
Chickasha. However, Anadarko can
not begin to compete with this place
for railroad facilities, For that rea-