The Collinsville News. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1910 Page: 1 of 10
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THE COLLINSVILLE NEWS
VOL. 12~
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COLLINSVILLE, OKLA., JUNE 9, 1010.
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NO. 5
$1.00 Per Year.
PROTECT THE TOILER and PRODUCER.
Clubing Rates Made
MW IUS THE IESICMT
Wheat, Oats, Potatoes
Onions Or Any Other
Farm Product
The News wishing to advertise
the agricultural resources of Col
linsville and to stimulate the in-
terest in the production of bet-
ter crops has written several ar-
ticles on samples of grain sent
to us. The following letter is
self explanitory.
June 4th, 1910.
Mr. W. L. wright.
Dear Sir.—
I am sending you
four heads of oats from my field
runing from 82 to 87 grains to
the head. If this is beaten I
will come again. I would have
sent a larger head but my boy
mistook the larger head for a
shock of oats and fed it to the
horses at noon.
GEO. W. WARE.
Mr. Ware sent some wheat,
which is five feet in heighth and
both wheat and oats can be seen
in our office window.
Mr. John Haddock, candidate
for County Commissiner, brougt
in a head of oats, five feet high,
containing 85 grains per head.
We have not counted the grains
but any one who wants the job
can have it. All three of the
samples are at your disposal.
J. E. Henderson on Mr. Ware’s
fa. m, came in Wednesday with
three heads of oats that had 98
102 and 106 respectively to the
head. Mr. Henderson and his
wife stated they had counted
a large number of heads and
had an average of 87 grains per
head. He also stated that the
wheat sent in by Mr. Ware was
from his crop.
F. M. Bussey reported that he
had a head that had 109 but for-
got it when he left home but he
will bring in a sample next week.
Uncle Jasper Chaney brought
a fine bunch of onions to this offi-
ce the latter part of last week.
He is not in the oat contest but
will contest for honors in the ve-
getable line.
We will gladly publish a re-
port of oats wheat or any other
agricultural or horticultural
crop, but we will possitively re-
fuse to say any tiling about what
you are doing unless samples
are left in this office.
We have had io show several
people on the oat que>tio^. Au.
tlientic reports will benefit the
country.
(ME AMK HNISIK
All citizens realize that the cat-
tle and hog industry of Col ins-
ville amounts to no small sum
but few are cognizant of the fact
that it amounts to two hundred
car load of cattle and twenty car-
load of hogs per year with a total
value of $230,000.
There is scarcely a week dur-
ing the shipping season that
there is not from one car to a
train load of cattle and hogs
leave this point.
The fact that six men living in
and near Collinsville, who are en-
gaged in this business and have
a total approximate investment
of $400,000. is a big item.
There is shipped from this
point, annually from 4,500 to
5,500 head of cattle and about
2,000 head of hogs. The cattle
average about $40 per head and
the hogs $15 per head.
Another item of interest in the
live stock industry is the horse
and mule market. Judge John
H. French sold this year thirty
head of three and four year old
mules at an average of $137.50
pear head. There were, accord-
ing to the best information ob-
tainable, about twenty more
head sold at private sale that
were carried out of the country.
Besides this there was the de-
mand for stock for a large influx
of people to this country from
other states.
Chris Breeden shipped one
car of horses to Arkansas and
shipped one car in from western
Oklahoma besides several small
droves that he has brought in
from nearby towns. The most
of these he has sold to farmers
who have moved intotbis country
this year.
John Haddock, J. K. Hill, H. E.
Ellingwood, C. D. Evans and W.
A. Downey shipped a train of
'twenty-one cars from this point
to the Kansas City market last
week.
MUI VN CAN MICE A Sound Busi-
ness Proposition
OUR
Piece Set
S Mission Oak
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FURNITURE.
To Be Given Away
8 Thursday of each week
JG. L CARPENTER.
ftirs, Pewits, Apples III Berries if All Kiris
Cuke Grawi ii AhuriiKt-Deiii
slritri i) N. H. Priill.
Last week Mr. Pruitt brought
the News a bunch * of large,
mcious raspberries, so the News
scribe went down Sunday to see
what he might see and this is
what he saw.
When Mr. Pruitt bought the
lot six years ago there was
nothing on it. Now a comfort-
able home nestles among shade
trees that are seven inches in
diameter. Beneath these trees
is a green carpet of. grass. I n
the rear of the house is a sum-
mer bouse of the sweet scented
honey suckle.
The garden is 40x60 feet but
on that he -raises more vegetables
than the average farmer does on
an half acre- He has four rows
of tomatoes three feet apart and
four feet in the- drill. These
have been pruned and will be
tied to toe trellis. They are rm'WTTS'F’fi
three feej^high and have tomatoes
from the smallest up to two
inches in diameter. They have
not as many tomatoes at present
as they would have had had they
not been pruned but will bear
more prolific in the summer.
Basing his estimate on last
years yield he will have 30 quarts
of catsup and three dozen quarts
of tomatoes. He has a row of
raspberries thirty five feet long
from which they have gathered
several quarts of berries and
will get more. He also has
fifteen feet of young vines that
will bear next year and a row
of young blackberries. His
first crop of peas has been pull-
ed up and the second crop is up.
He has bunch beans six inches
long, radishes, cabbage, in fact
anything that can be found in
the garden line. He has musk-
mellon vines two feet long.
In the fruit trees, he has a
seedling peech tree, two years
old that has several peaches on;
apple tree, first crop will
make a fourth of a bushel; a wine
sap, second crop, one-half of a
bushel; Arkansas Muscadine
grapes: Cherry tree,second crop
made two gallons; many others
too numerous to mention.
Mr. Pruitt is employed twelve
hours each day in the store dur-
ing the spring and summer, and
fourteen hours in the fall and
winter. Mrs. Pruitt is positive
that they save fifty per cent on
their grocery bill by the canned
fruit and vegetables.
This is a demonstration of
what every family could do in
this country if they would. Any
thing in the horticultural or vege
table line can be grown on Col-
linsville soil or in the contegious
territory. Mr. Pruitt cannot de-
vote more than one hour per day
to his garden at best but this,
with what help his wife can give
him, they save at leaet $100 per
year and they have a purer and
more wholsome food. This is
not an islated case as there are
other men that are working on
the same line. If Mr. Pruitt
and other men who work every
day can do this there is no ex-
cuse for anyone not living like a
king.
how the State of Oklahoma Can Build Its Capitol
Without a Cent of Direct Taxation.
It can buy 2,000 acres of land near Oklahoma City at $300 per acre.
The cost will be $600,000.
It can reserve 40 acres for capitol purposes.
This will leave 1,960 acres.
Each acre will plat into eight lots.
This will make 15,680 25 foot lots.
Each lot will sell sell for $300.
This will make a total of $4,704,000.
The commissions at 10 per cent on the lot sales will be $470.4000.
Other expenses may amount to $100,000.
It can pay back to the State Treasury $600,000.
This will leave a net balance of $3,533,600.
You would give $300 for one of the lots, wouldn’t you?
The net balance would pay for an elegant Capitol.
It would not cost anybody anything except the people who
bought the lots. „___ . __
THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA CITY RAIS-
ED A LARGE SUM OF MONEY TO PAY THE PACKING HOUSE
“ONUSES. /
On May 19.1909, it bought 570 acres of land.
They cost $185,000, or $325 per acre.
It was platted into 4,388 lots.
Lots numbering 2,274 have been sold for the sum of $632,707.50.
This paid the bonus of $400,000 for the Packing Plants.
It repaid the investment of $185,000.
There is a cash balance on hand of over $18,000.
There remains to be sold at the book price of $528,500. And
acreages price of these was $87,733.54.
Some of the lots sold for $125, most of them for a larger sum.
Would you prefer a lot in a Packingtown to one near the Capitol
of the state?
If so, the capitol lots would be worth more than Packingtown
lots and sell for larger-sum of money.
The Packingtown proposition was a success, because the addi-
tion of the packing houses to Oklahoma City made a demand for
more residenc# lots,
The Capitol Ifbcation pi*oposition will be a success, for the reason
that the location of the Capitol in Oklahoma City would create an
additional and far greater demand for choicer class of lots and
they would be sold to supply that necessity.
Will the people of Oklahoma cast aside facts and figures such as
these, listening to the cry of Guthrie, “to wait a little longer,” per-
mitting an opportunity thus afforded to be delayed, until it is too
late, and they are required to tax themselves for the purpose of
erecting a suitable state house?
We think not—that is, if we know beans when the bag’s open.
And most of us flatter ourselves that we do.
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Collinsville Girl Graduate
Miss Bettrina Stillwell, whose
early childhood was spent in Col
linsville graduated last year
from the Columbus University
of Ohio with high honors. She
has held an important position
this year in the Kansas City
schools. She is a grandaughter
of Elder and Mrs. Burton and
she has many friends here who
will be glad to know that she has
made good in the stenerous bat-
tle of life.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
The Pure Food Grocery is all the name im-
plies, a Pure Food Grocery. Can you ask
more? Everything clean, pure, fresh and
wholesome, a store without that offensive odor
usually found where a variety of vegetables
and other perlshisables are kept for sale.
Clean, floors, clean windows, clean shelves and
tidy clerks to take your orders and see that
they are filled in the proper manner. Have
you ever noticed how your fresh vegetables
were delivered to you? Were they put up in a
neat clean package to protect them or were
they thrown into a dirty delivery basket with
out a wrapper? Notice your next packages
from the Pure Food Grocery.
Yours truely,
PURE FOOD GROCERY.
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Wright, W. L. The Collinsville News. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1910, newspaper, June 9, 1910; Collinsville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173035/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.