Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1901 Page: 2 of 8
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ARTICLES,
STATIONERY,
SUNDRIES.
G. R. GOODNER, Mgr.
GRANITE DRUG CO,
Dealers In
PURE DRUGS
PATENT 0- PROPRIETARY MEDICINES.
OILS,
VARNISHES,
PAINT
BRUSHES,
IF YOU
IF YOU
IF YOU
IF YOU
IF YOU
WANT...A
WANT...A
WANT...A
WANT...A
WANT...A
Our
prescription filled, a bottle of good cough syrup,
liver regulator, blood purifier, sytem renovator,
nerve stimulator, Jerusalem overtaker,
rat or dog exterminator, hair ^vigoratc>r
pain eradicator, or any other kin
in a first-class drug store
Store is The Place.
DON'T FAIL TO VISIT OUR STORE. GRANITE PRUG_COMPANY
======== ~^ANITE, OKLAHOMA.
WE INSURE ALL COURTEOUS TREATMENT AND EFFICIENT SERVICE.
PIONEER DRUGGISTS
not in obtaining customers but in
keeping goods on hands to supply
their customers.
FOR
facts that speak
themselves.
In the early part of the month]
of June 1000, Mr. K. C. Cox, tin-
owner of the original town site
sold his first lot in the same j
month the rail road company runj
their first train into the new town.
Now on this the lirst day of Feb
ruary 1001 there are one hundred
and twenty business houses and
two hundred and twenty six resi
denres in the city of Granite and
many more are building. Two
cotton gins have turned out 3,500
bales of cotton while 2,500 bales
have been marketed here coming
from the country surrounding the
city making a grand total of 6,000
bales of cotton marketed in Gran
ite this vear. These bales have
brought on an average of 50 dol-
lars each, mi'king a total of *300,
000 that has been disbursed in the
The Rock Island rail road coin^
pany has done on an average of
254,698 dollars worth of business
every month.
There are five lumber yards in
the city all strong, wealthy linn*,
and all combined have absolutely
,been unable to handle the trade
! As fast as a ear of lumber would
arrive it would be loaded onto the
; wagons of the customers and
hauled awav.
1 The hardware stores have been
doing an average business of
j $0,754 per month. The grocene
merchants have done an average
business of * 12,867 per month.
The bank began business after
the town was starti d and pretty
well under headway and yet with
a capital stoek of *10,000 shows
by its sworn statement deposits,
to the amount of *02,678.74 at the
close of business, December 19tli
1900.
These are facts and figures in
vestigate them for yourself. Take
down your map. run your eagle
eye over the Southwest Oklahoma
vou will see that Granite is on the
west border of the famous Kiowa
and Comanche country. I/iok a
little farther still you will see that
it is the only rail road point on the
west border and by reason of that
CHRIS HI HER.
The Pioneer Hardware Merchant.
J
GRANITE WHEN THREE MONTHS OLD
fact is bound to be the outfitting
point for the homeseeker am
boomer who goes into that new
country.
Buv a ticket for our city over
the Rock Island branch from
Chickasha and you will ride over
the famous country. Keep your
eves open and you, will see that all
up and down the Washita river as
far west as Mountain View the
Indian has already settled and
undoubtedly will take his allot
nients where he now resides. If
you want to get on an Indian allot
'ment which yon can not hold set
tie down there, or if yon want to
get among the Indians settle there.
But if vou ^ant to make your
race for a farm, be sure and be
away from the Indians. Come to
Granite and make your race from
a live active city.
ITS POSSIBILITIES.
So mufh for what has been done
now as to what may be done.
Granite is right on the line of
the proposed Kansas City Mexico
and Orient railroad or ns it is mor
commonly called "The Oriental "
The proposed line from Kansas
f'ltv to the Gulf of Lower Call
fQinia, this road can not build as
its proposed route and miss Gran-
ite.
Then there are its oil and gas
propositions yet undeveloped while
there are several companies in the
field with an avowed intention of
developing these properties. The
Oklahoma natural gas light and
heat company under the manage
ment of Mr. K. R. Suppe former v
of Parsons Kansas, is operating
their drill about three miles from
the citv and have reached a d.ptli
of about one hundred and fifty
feet with spleudid results.
Then there is the brick clay aid
shale in abundance. Some of tlie
clay and shale has be n sent to
Buycyrus, Ohio for a test with th.
result that as fine a quality of,
pressed and vitrified brick were
turned out as can be found on the
markets of the country and last
but not least are the mining propo
sitions.
The Wichita mountains have
been famous for many years for
their rich deposits of gold, silver
j and copper but owing to the fact
that the mountains were on an In-
I dian reservation nothing has ever
been done toward the development
A. R. CRAOIN.
J D. MORSE, Attorney.
of these rich mineral deposits.
But since the treaty with the
Indians has been ratified and the
act opening up the country for set
tlement has passed congress, pros-
pectors from all parts of the "rock-
ies" have been pouring into the
country and staking off the choice
prospects.
Granite being the nearest point
to this valuable mineral deposit
is also the outfitting point for the
I miners and prospectors.
It is a web known fact that for
mouths building has actually been
retared by the fa A lire of the five
large lumber yards here to supply
the builders with material; as high
as 100 cars of lumber has been
unloaded and sold here in a single
day. • This is no idel tale of fic-
tion. Hundreds of prospectors
who have visited us in the last
three months and all the residents
of the city can testify to the truth
fulness of the foregoing state-
ments, every train brings to the
city from ten to fifty business men
and farmers looking for opportu-
nities to invest, and ninety-nine
per cent of those who come buy
before they leave.
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Brinton, P. Y. Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1901, newspaper, February 1, 1901; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc403770/m1/2/: accessed June 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.