The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17
MORE GRASS IGNORANCE
ABOUT STATE INDUSTRIES
Oklahoma City PAPER Displays
Alarming Density In Refer
ing To Cotton Manu-
featuring In State

More den e ignorance Of the states
cotton manufacturing interests is
shown by the Oklahoma City Okla
ktman of Jan lG under the caption
Cotton Mills Of oklahoma" Quite
recently another Oklahoma City Iaper
displayed similar obtuseness and ig-
ncrance, and the following letter rel
ative to the matter is pertinent,
Editor LEADER very much ap-
preciate your good efforts to give
publicity to the great accomplish
ment that has been made in demon
suatng that cotton manufacturing has
been made a success in Oklahoma by
tie good results obtained by the Pio
naer Cotton Mills, at Guthrie, Okla
homa. Although these articles in your
good paper have been given wide
circulation in the state and the results
obtain at Guthrie are already, indeed,
we'll known | am surprised to see
arother article published in the paper
at oklahoma City, The Daily Okla
homan," of the this date under the
heading Cotton Mills in Oklahoma" "
and more especially surprised to read
the ,antence therein: SO it appears
% be a good time to introduce cotton
manufacturing into oklahoma
1t seems inconceiyable that a thing
known all over the state of Oklahoma,
and in fact all over the United States,
4 at cotton manufacturing has al
ready been introduced into Oklaho-
ma is not known by tE9 author OF
tese articles at oklahoma City thir
y miles from where the Pioneer Cot
| ION Mills has been successfully man
| ltacturing" cotton for more than ten
Years and to such an extent as en-
ables it to develop natural cottoI
from the raw state into the manufac-
| tured state to an amount Of more than
| five thousand bales per year. This
accomplishment is demonstration
hat is beneficial not only to Guthrie
| but to the entire state of Oklahoma
| md proves that the eight hundred and
| ifty-one thousand bales of cottOr
raised in oklahoma in l9l7, could al
| have been manufactured in this state
! md delivered to the consumers at q
iaving of many hundreds and in most
\ tances many thousands of miles o
freight both ways paid on the raw
otton and on the manufactured pro-
duct, in getting that cotton finally il
the hands of the consumers, if there
| lad been established and developed
nough cotton mills to manufacture al
| .he cotton raised in the state of Ok
thoma within the state.
1t seems to be the best argumen
to convince the readers Of the Okla
l)man that cotton manufacturing
enterprise can be made a success il
oklahoma would be to cite the ONT
enterprise that has been entirely fos
cred and supported by local enter
prise and local capital at Guthrie ant
had been established and develop9
There is no need to philosophize a0ou
bis, when this one successful expert
ment can be cited to the people o
this state, and this demonstration
he best proof and the best argument
and, why it will be persistently ig
nored in the repeated references tt
his matter, it is difficult to under
stand | don't know any better sery
ice that you and | can be to the peo
PIE of this state just at this time
than to call this matter sharply t
their attention. In doing so we viii
! be serving the entire people Of th'
! etata nc UpIl oc Our own community