The Sapulpa Light. (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 228, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 21, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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rus sapulpa ljqht
With Pleasure
We submit to our customers ar.d the public
the accompanying official statement of the
financial condition 01 this tar.k at close of bus-
iness June 23, 1909.
We are proud of the progress we havt made,
and feel that our published statements justify
the confidence placed in us by our customers.
We always have room for new Accoints.
Let us have Yours.
American National Bank
Strong Sapulpa, Okla.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
"nited States Bonds
Premium on U. S. Bonds
Furniture and Fixtures
Deposit with U. S. Treasurer
Bonds and Warrants
Cash and Due from Banks
$ 137,253.56
25,000.00
1,125.CO
2,000.00
11,250.00
50,303.10
97,316.00
Total
148,£69,10
$314,247.66
LIABILITIES
Liberal
Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits
National Bank Notes
Deposits
Total
« 25,000.00
11,719.OH
25,000.00
252.S2S.56
$314,247.66
The Sapulpa Light
crop, there is a glut of wheat at elc- from seven to nine cents for the same produce at a round 1-2 billion dollars
vators. railroad, water front, A large haul. You, Mr. Town Man, and you. a year. Half that cost is waste, sole-
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proportion of the crop goes in storage. Mr. Farmer, pay for the unnecessary
These storage charges amount in a waste of those bad roads, the town
grain center like Chicago to as much man by extra cost of what he eats, the
as nine ctnts a bushel in a year. On 1 farmer by lessened profits on what he
<'tsb)fahed errry day except Sunday at
Sapulpa.oklahoma. Minnesota's wheat crop, storage sells. The same reason explaius why
charges mount up to o million dollars; the town man pays $1.25 in spring for
Subscription
Ten cent* per week,
/ear in aulvance.
Pour dollar* per
on the two DakotaB, to twice as much potatoes which costs from fifty to
O. M. IRE LAM. Editor
PKH K PAID FOR HAD ROADS
and bo for every grain area on the seventy-live cents in the autoumn.
continent. The farmer .does not pay That may not be as striking a way
those storage charges at water front, of showing what bad roads cost as if
The speculator does not—he adds you went out in vonr motor car and
j those charges to the telling price; and ruptured a pair of $00 tires; but it
The He*l in the lireat (iranarj «I the "]a" wh0 Pa>'s ,s "le buyer—you, affects more people.
( ouiitr)'* Wheat Supply j ^,r' Town i,an. who eat dear bread all If you want to know what bad roads
| because some mud road back in i j cost the country as a whole, keep in
AgneB ('. I.aut in Collier's Weekly. j hoosler state has not been graded up mind that American fanners are pay-
The west Is the great granary of the I pr0|ieil>'' iiB twenty-three cents a ton for haul-
As a matter of fad, America's coun- log .when European farmers are pay-; owjng to g(.ant t jn sprlug_and
try roads are so notoriously bad that ing from seven to nine cents. Now. you have an expfn8e a bmion
It costs nioe to rahul a ton or wheat the Interstate Commerce report shows dol]arg a yfar agafnst ,)ad rQa(Jg Qr
from farm to market than to ship that the railroads yearly haul 2fi5 rail- ! on a hasis of 80 n,mion 1)0pulati0n a
thul ton from New York to Liverpool, lion tons of farm produce, and that the: )ax 0f ^12 50 -i vtar which everv mail
America's country roads are so bad average haul from farm to market or! woman and child pays for bad roads,
that It costs llie American farmer the whole country Is nine and a frac-' The result of bad roads are yearly
wheat supply today; and In the West
wheat must be rushi d to market In the
clear, dry autumn days when the pralr
ie roads are hard as flint. If the far-
mer held his wheat over, past the dry
weather, In the most counties he simp-
ly could not deliver during late au-
tumn raliiu or early spring break-up
When roads are 11 churn of mud. The
result Is, for three months after each
ly owing to bad roads.
Look squarely at the facts!
Two hundred and fifty million dol-
lars a year wasted on bad roads,
which the farmer and consumer joint-
ly pay!
The charge to haul wheat from New
York to Liverpool, :',100 miles, is 3.5
cents per bushel. The charge to haul
a bushel of wheat from farm to market
9.4 miles, is 5.11 cents! The storage
on wheat at water fronts, !) cents a
bushel a year. Do good roads concern
you?
Total up the whole cost of bad roads
the waste on haul, the storage at water
fronts, the ixtra price paid for food.
ADAMS & GRAHAM
Extraordinary Sale on men's
and young men's sui\s.
They are all our high grade
clo;hes, far.cy worsteds and
light patterns
25 Per Cent on the
Dollar
$27.50 Suits for $20.60
$25 Suits for $18.75
$22.50 Suits for $16.90
$20 Suits for $15.00
$18.50 Suits for $13.90
Tggaa ^
ADAMS & GRAHAM
Men and Boys' t Furnishers
A
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relation to the good roads.
One can hear the snort of derision
from a skeptic as he asks if the inter-
state s should wake up.
With access to market and beBt rui
ing prices, net returns increase and
twenty-three cents to haul a ton, when Hon milts. Put the cost of hauling at
It costs lie HJngllsh or the Belgian or a round $2 a ton for the nine miles,
the French or the German farmer only and you have the cost of hauling farm
: tolls of $12.50 against every person
j who eats farm produce. That yearly !
waste would build 200,000 milts of No.;
An Inviting Spot
These Days
The coolest and nuitt uniting spot these niirni days Is SIMM (Mil l: U>-
HITIOM n llli lis splendid slnide. SFOI OUKK AUDITION Is u fmnrite re-
treat of I lie lieu! afflicted ones and hp Iiiuc sold sereral lots to persons who
Here attracted to NPOCOUKK by the shade and altogether pleasant out-
look and were so pleased that tliej bought lots and will make SPOCOtJEK
their hollies,
SPOI'timH lias mail) attractive features, any one of which would he a
talking point for other additions. •
NPOt OUKE Is situated high, overlooking Ihe city and beautiful oil lields.
NPOCOOKK lias no inosi|ultoes, no niuhirla, no swumps. See us about
tills beautiful addition.
BRUNER INVESTMENT CO.
Fisher-Ritchey Bldg. Office Phone 186 Res. Phone 51
1 macadam roads every year; or in ten :
years would turn every country road'
into such a highway as the Romans'
famous Applan Way. basing the cost
at the very highest average of $5,000
a mile. Though macadam roads some-
times exceed that figure, owing to i
special difficulties of swamp or*brldge '
work, on easy grade near the source j
of the rock bed. the average has come
as low as $2,000; in New Jersey, for
instance.
The beauty of the relentless scheme i
i.f things is when we mend our ways 1
—In this case mend our roads—Nature
not. only wipes out the deficit, she
puts a plus to the account where there
used to be a minus. Supposing of the
2 million miles of roads in the United
States, all were improved instead of
only 7 per cent, what would be the
result to the farmer and consumer?
First of all, Ihe big deficit of waste on
haul, on storage, on cornered prlcts—
wiped out! The minus goes off Ihe
national slate and the plus conies on.
The good road moves Ihe remotest
farm right next to the market. A farm
twenty miles from the market on an
all-the-year-round good road is nearer
] market than a farm seven iniks away
on a bad road. Truck fanners In .New
Jersey and Long Island can haul their
produce to market, thirty miles, cheap-
er than they can ship by railroad; and
that produce nets, according to well
known averages, as follows:
Fruit, $80 per acre; flowers, $2,000
per acre; corn, $8 per acre; wheat, $
per acre; oats, $7 per acre; vegetables.
$42 per acre.
Out in the lJakotas and Minnesota
and Manitoba they haul their produce
thirty and forty miles :but they can
haul It only when the roads are dry in
the early fall; and at that season the
price is lowest. The farmer along the
good road can command the best price
by hauling only when the price Is best
and he can also raise the produce that
giveh biggest net returns. ffltyou
would learn why a whole family can
live ami llye will off an acre In Hol-
land and Helgium and France, when
a family often falls to live well off a
hundred mid sixty acres In America
study that table of farm averages In
nice is with good roads your Dakota farm lands jump in value. It is an
farmer could grow flowers at $2,000 j actual fact, wherever good roads have
nil acre! No, it is not; but here is gone, land has increased in value from
the inference: With good roads, your! $2 to $9 an acre. In Jackson County.
Dakota farmer- who, under present Alabama, a bond issue of l-I million
conditions, drives hub-deep In gumbo dollars built 125 miles of macadam
mud during spring—could market his "road. The selling price of land was
crop when prices ruled highest. In- from t« to $15 before the road wa«
stead of selling his wheat at 70 and SO built. On the completion, land values
J cents in the fall, he could sell it at $1 went up from $15 to $25. In Bradley
[during the winter and in the spring. ('• unty. Tennessee. land values ad-
\ need from $0 to $15 and $30.
Another curious but perfectly natur-
al result of good loads is population
Buyers buy more readily when they
can market easily. Take these figuies
In twenty-five counties, where there-
was only 1.5 per cent of improved
roads, the population decreased in the
I (1'rices of $1.30 and $1.50,-which Mr.
Hill predicts, I eliminate because Ihe
; cornering which brings such price
largely the result of the bad roads,
which throw an entire season's crop
into the hands of the speculators.) An
additional price of even 25 cents a
! bushel would mean 15 million dollars
I more in the pockets of the Minnesota
farmers, 20 million dollars in the pack I „7
Ms of the- Canadian Northwestern
farmer, a similar amount to the far-
ten years from 1SA0 to 1!)00 a total of
800.
In twenty-five counties, where 4"
mers of the lJakotas, and to the wheat r'fr cent "f ",e loa(ls were improved
J farmers of the Pacific Coast. Purely the population increased in the same
-as an investment, the wheat farming period 778,000.
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Irelan, O. M. The Sapulpa Light. (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 228, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 21, 1909, newspaper, July 21, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc151656/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.