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run j the to i Go it cFollowing Is a Synopsis of a!-._____ LSmall Folder wKicK Will BWHftT OUR CITY REALLY ISUsed ky tke 25,000 Cluk in Advertising Ada.Ada, a town of 5,000 inhabitants town of thriving industries, imposi business blocks and fine residences town inhabited by a people of culti and refinement from all parts of t Great Southwest, is located in the t treme north-east comer of the Chicl asaw Nation and has been designat the county seat of the newly creat county of Pontotoc.Less than ten years ago the grou upon which this prosperous city nlt; stands was a great wide prairie. B this section of the Territory demand a market center, and now instead the lonely yelp of the coyote and t rattle of an occasional prospectoi wagon, we hear the steady tramp progress. Where only a few years a the white topped prairie schooner the pioneer rolled westward over a di trail, the palace car carries the travlt; er over trunk lines of railroad. Ti ground over which the Red Men only few years ago hunted wild game (thlt; so plentiful) and lived in lordly leisur is now converted into productive farn tended by prosperous husbandmen.Ada is in the great coal and oil be or the Territory, and test wells a now being sunk. Gas is also plentif and ere long it will supplant othlt; fuels for domestic and manufacture purposes. Large deposits of other mil erals, such as asphalt, cement, coppe and lead are known to exist, and cai ital is needed to develop these natur, resources. A $500,000 Poftland cemei plant is practically completed and in mense auantities of this eommodil will be shipped out daily.To the capitalist, the laborer, tl farmer, the artisan, Ada and Pontot( county send up the Macedonian cr *'‘Come over and help us.”Among the realities of our town-those good things which we alread have—are An ice factory.Machine shops,A flouring mill.A $40,000 hotel.Bottling works.Seven churches.Four cotton gins.A steam laundry.Fire department.Cotton compress.Ice cream factory.A canning factory.Brick and tile plant.Three national banks.A cotton seed oil mill.Two job printing offices.Electric light and power plant. Splendid system or public schools.Half a dozen loan and trust com panies.antes.One daily and iwo weekly news papers.Waterworks with forty-acre reser yoir and abundance of water.The most active and wide-awake com mercial club in the Territory.Three railroads—the Frisco, the M K. T, and Oklahoma Central.A cement plant which, when com pleted, will employ several hundrelt; hands.The good things in immediate pros pect for Ada are Oil and gas.A cotton mill.Two more railroads.A modern opera bouse.An electric street railway.
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Ada Weekly Democrat
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1907
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