The Hallett Herald. (Hallett, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HALLETT HERALD.
VOL. III.
HALLETT, PAWNEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 1a, 1910.
NO. 6.
Third Road
For Hallett
Bmy Gltlsnn And Lot Owner
Should Put rorth Cvery Btttrt
lo band Thn Portnr Rallrond
Newspapers from Cqney, Kansas
to points fur south of Hallett are
heralding the glad news of the
proposed Porter radroad. Another
line by the same company is to
build from Caney southeast to Fay
••Neville, Arkansas. That con-
struction will start on both these
lines at once it a foregone con
elusion by all who are interested
in their construction.
Hallett is directly in the path of
the road' that is to extend south
through Osage and Pawnee coun
ties and the rattle of hammers that
is now foretelling the future of the
new and growing town of Hallett
will not have a tendency to drive
this line to one side or the other.
Hallett is going to get this railroad
just as sure as it comes within hail*
iug distance. The members of the
commercial club have their lasso
ready and will rope it in if it can
possibly be roped.
The Caney Chronicle of last
week and the week before had the
following articles relative to the
Porter road. One is a letter from
Senator Porter to the Chronicle and
the other is regarding a telegram
irom Porter to Geo. Wark of
Caney. Following is the Porter
Utter:
New York City
Chronicle, Caney:
Your pvmiry and request re-
Florida Vis-
itor Pleased
A Modkkn Baicx Plant.
Looks Like Factories
cefvcd, railroad construction will
liegin'soou after I reach home next
week, from Caney Southeast by
the Continental Construction com-
pany. I am detained here a few
days on business with the Carne-
gie Trust Company and Surety
Howl Company. S. M. Porter.
Referring to the letter to Mr.
Wark, the Chronicle has the fol-
lowing to say:
"Geo. Wark has received a
special telegram from Senator Por-
ter stitting that he reached New
York City Saturday evening. The
telegram gave no further particu
lars. The Senator will remain in
New York City conferring with the
Carnegie Trust Company and otb
rrs interested in the proposed road,
three or four days and will then go
to Pittsburg. He should reach
Caney within a few days, when no
doubt he will give out a statement
concerning the proposed road."
Anent the Porter road, the Mus
kogee Daily Times-Democrat pub
lishes the following special to that
paper:
"Muskogee, Okla., (Special)—
A brick manufacturer from Caney, Kansas, met wit!) (he commercial club last Tuesday evening and de
cided on preliminary plana looking to the location of a ipo,ooo capacity brick plant at Hallett. This man
means business and the chib and business men of the town have the matter well in hand to consumate the deal
giving Hallet this valuable enterprise. This will be the first of a series of plants to be located here this sum-
mer. Mr. Wolf has offered to pay freight on machinety and the club will secure the hill of brick and tile shale
just south of town. The low rate of gas that the townsifte company is able to offer is a great inducement for
all kinds of factories. Factories interested now are a glass factory, pipe factory and oil well drill and machine
shops. Copies of letters to the commercial club from these and other industries were banded into to the
editor this week. This open weather is moving things toward Hallett. They are as busy m the farmers are
with their spring planting and lots of good industries are turned this way and prospects were never better to
land some ot them. Letters from W. J. Hall of Coraicana, Texas are to the effect that a company is organ
ising with a large capital stock for establishing a foundry and machine shops for the manufacture of oil well
drilling machinery and that the company will investigate Hallett as a suitable location. These people have
the capital and avery effort possible will be brought to bear to induce them to come to Hallett. Last Thurs-
day the commercial club held another meeting and a partial report was made regarding the location
of the brick plant, but no definite point was aettlad upon. Soma reported propositions to donate land and
others were willing to be separated from their land# ft a sacrifice in order to.secure the location of this valu-
able industry. It is the general opinion of the ctfmM here that this plant will be the first to locate as the
proposition has been made on such liberal terms and the attention and hearty co-operation of all.
JEveryone is working for 4t and the company wants to .locate 'at Hallett whicfc .insures th«; consignation ot
the deal.
Mr. Gilhulen Racotnlaaa Thn ttany
Advantage* of tlaliatt. Sands
Word Back Noma to frf nda
Mr. G. F. Gilhulen of Century,
Florida, who owns lots in Hallett
and is here to see the new town and
beautiful sui rounding country, re-
quests us to say for the benefit of
his friends back home, who have
invested here and have not had au
opportunity to visit Hallett, that he
is well pleased with his investment.
And nlthough Hallett is still in
an undeveloped state, not being
large enough to have paved streets
and cement side walks, he consid-
State Senator Franklin ft>rter of
Caney, Kansas, has just returned
from New York with the annoiyice-
ment that he has interested French
capital sufficient to build two new
lines of railroad in Oklahoma, and
that work will be started imme-
diately. One of the roads to run
from Caney south through Osage
county and the other from Caney
southeast across the former Chero-
kee nation, touching Vinita, and to
Fayetteville, Ark., passing possibly
through Siloam Springs.
There has been considerable
preliminary work done on the latter
road already in the way of surveys.
With the additional capital that has
been interested it seems certain that
actual construction is about to be
gin."
Hallett has two of the best rail
roads in the southwest, the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas and the
Frisco-Rock Island systems cross
here, but the third road will make
the town that much better. We
Livery Dray and Transfer
GOOD TKAM8 AND HAFE DRIVKRS
BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS PHONE i LONG 3 SHORTS
DK1VKR SUNT WITH TEAM
WHEN DESIRKD
PASSENGERS CARRIED TO ALL PARTS OF THE
„ CITY AND COUNTRY. CHARGES REASONABLE
B. L. GILLASPIE, Prop.
are locating factories to ^ use the
natural gas ia turning oar resources
into marketable products and we
need all tba railroads we can
get to take care of the transporta-
tion. The factories need the rail-
roads and the railroads will be ben-
efitted by the factories. Every
factory we can induce to come will
be a puller for more railroads and
every railroad coming here will
be kn inducement for more fac-
tories to locate and with two rail
roads and another prospective
road—what more could factories
ask.
The most direct route this road
could take would be lo cross the
Arkansas river about half way be-
tween Cleveland and Blackburn.
Those who are familiar with the
topography of the country on both
sides of the river at this point, be-
lieve that there is not a more ac-
cessable point for a bridge and ap-
proaching grades. If this is a fact,
then the road will doubtless cross
at that point and would then come
to Hallett which would be directly
in its general course. If, howevei,
it cross at Blackburn, nhich many
think it will, the survey will mn a
little west from Hallett ami in order
to touch here the Porter road would
have to parallel the Frisco right-of-
way and follow it into Hallett.
And this is where Hallett would
need to put in its hardest fight to
bring the road here, as it would
have to deviate a short distance
from a direct line from Blackburn
to its southern terminus. Hun-
dreds of non-resident propel ty own
ers are ready to contribute to a nice
bonus to induce the compmy to
build the road here and it seems
certain that we ensi land it.
Hallett Has
Good Water
Good drinking water is obtain-
able at Hallett at depths ranging
from ten to 130 feet. Where it is
necessary to go deeper than twenty
feet wells are usually drilled at a
cost including casing, of about
seventy-five cents per foot. The
water here does not contain any
alkali. It is a very common thing
for our visitors to say, "Hallett has
the best water I have tasted in Ok-
lahoma." The altitude at Hallett
is 850 feet, being on the divide be-
tween the Arkansas and Cimarron
rivers.
The average rainfall is 34.65 inch-
es, or about the same as that of
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Three
fourths of the precipitation is during
the growing season, from March to
September, inclusive.
ers it a diamond in the rough and
finds a wide-awake citizenship
ready to develop and actually at it
now, adding one by one the insti-
tutions and improvements necessary
to make a good town. He said he
had traveled all over the state and
seems thoroughly conversant with
the details of all important cities
and towns of the state. He stood
on the grass plot in the bare prairie
where now flourishes the new
state's magnificent metropolis, Ok-
lahoma City, with a population of
over 50,000. When he was there
some twenty years ago he saw a
mere railroad stations with less
natural advantages than Hallett has.
Here he finds all the resources just
as represented to him in the Herald
and by the Secu.ity Land Com-
pany. A beautiful little town lo-
cated between two river bottoms, on
the divide, where ap elevation of
£50 feet sheds the rainfaU bdth *
ways, surrounded by a rid agricul-
tural, fruit and stock country; and
at the junction of the Misaouri,
Kansas & Texas and Frisco-Rock
Island railroads. He sees the gas
burning here in stoves and for light,
visited the oil and gas fields and
pronounces them very rich in these
natural products. He sees in Hal-
lett a future city of factories and
wide-awake industries.
Mr. Gilhulen met with the com-
mercial club Thursday night and
learned of the several factories that
are negotiating with the club and
townsite company for site ami
other concessions. He saw the
business-like manner in which these
contingencies were met and hearty
welcome and co-operation extended
to all enterprises for the up-building
of the new town. The school
proposition was discussed and he
learned that the beautiful site for
a high school had been selected
with ample grounds for campus
and that two districts had united
for the purpose of erected a large
modern building.
WHEN IN THE CITY STOP AT THE
HOTEL HALLETT
toenailing eat and "Clean
Transient Trade Solicited
RATES $1.00 PER DAY
BY THE WEEK $400.
S. R. Moore, Prop.
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Mason, J. E. The Hallett Herald. (Hallett, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1910, newspaper, March 12, 1910; Hallett, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc180223/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.