The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1902 Page: 1 of 12
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The Chandler News.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, JANUARY 9, 1902.
NUMBER 17.
The Average Weekly Circulation of The News During December Was 1509
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Get Better Acquainted.
TT IS becoming more apparent every day that
^ the editor of the Purcell Register struck the
key-note of the right plan for removing ail preju-
dice between Oklahoma and the Indian territory
when he suggested the motto, "Get better ac-
quainted." The people of the two territories are
getting better acquainted, and, as a natural result,
they are surprised to find how far they have mis-
understood each other and how little each had
known of the magnificent resources and bound-
less possibilities of the other. They have dis-
covered that the opponents of the union of the
two territories have shrewdly managed to foster
this prejudice as an aid to their purpose and have
either knowingly or ignorantly created many
false impressions. Getting better acquainted is
doing much to decrease the opposition to single
statehood. There are still some newspapers in
the Indian territory which represent Oklahoma as
a barren, poverty-stricken,,tax-ridden community,
inhabited solely by criminals and candidates, but
such papers are so narrow in their vision that an
acquaintance with the truth would not lead them
\ •'oeak it. We are ashamed to know that in
< also, there are some newspaper men
1 he poverty of the Indian territory
i 'anket Indian and train-robber
; ;dents 01 that country and
' '•o-to the Indian
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enjoying inai rignt, but thai . .ssue. We
want a big state, equal to the best, and will have it.
Railroad Building.
IT LOOKS very much as though the coming
year was going to witness the breaking of all
records in the amount of railroad being built in
the terrilories. Last \ear was something of a
record-breaker, too, for that matter, for, while it
may not be generally known, it is a fact never-
tne-less, that Oklahoma and the Indian territory
contain more than one-third of all the railroads
built in the United States last year. This means
that while some of our friends in the East may
still be of the opinion that this is a vi'd and un-
settled waste, the capitalists who are looking for
good investments have already discovered that
the terrilories stand at the head of the list in the
opportunities presented, and that, disregarding
the alleged menace of Oklahoma's territorial
form of government and the Indian territory's
entire iack of government, they have invested
here in new lines of railroad half as much money
as in all the rest of the nation. Perhaps the best
part of this object-lesson is found in the fact that,
so far, the investments have proven satisfactory
to such a degree that they will be still further
extended during this year. If statistics were
available it might be found that in many other
lines of industry the terrilories have distanced
the states in a like degree. The railroad build-
ing is now getting to a point where the interests of
the several systems are beginning to come in
conflict, and we may look for either some lively
< competition or some big schemes of consolidation,
^ome of the proposed lines may be only bluffs,
.. ,e hope to set mar" of them constructed.
They not only increase the shipping facilities of
the territories, but they develop the country.
It is Up to Chandler!
1\T EARLY every day we hear an expression of
* ' surprise from some of the many strangers
who are coming and going at the immense amount
of business that is done in Chandler and the
general substantial appearance of the town. As
a matter of fact Chandler has not suffered from
hot-air advertising as many towns have. It
might at first thought eem a misfortune for the
town to have had its merits and achievements
heralded less loudly than other towns, but it cer-
tainly is no cause for regret that our visitors find
a better town than they expected rather than one
that failed to come up to their expectations.
There is of course, no reason why Chandler
should not be a good town, and there is every
reason to believe that Chandler will be a still
better town in a very few months unless her
people lose the nerve and enterprise that have
never yet failed them. The test is likely to come
soon, for Chandler will have a hatd time to hoh
her own if she allows one or two lines of railroad
i to miss her by just a few miles. No one can
doubt any longer that the Santa Fe railroad is
going to build a line through Lincoln county. It
will either pass through Chandler or pass within
a few miles of Chandler. It is no longer a ques-
tion O! whether we need additional railroads or
not. It is a question of whether we can afford to
have our market cut off by another road which
does not come to Chandler. This matter will be
up to the people of this town probably within a
short lime. When the time comes there should
be no hesitation to see what our neighbor will do,
or will not do, but let eveiyone who has the good
of the town at heart do all he can, and quickly.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1902, newspaper, January 9, 1902; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117526/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.