OKLAHOMA 



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OKLAHOMA 



THE FARM 

 Calves sold 

 Peaches 

 Coarse Forage 

 Potatoes 

 Kafir Corn, Maize 

 Broom Corn 

 Garden Vegetables 

 Alfalfa 

 Wild Hay 

 Poultry raised 

 Horses sold 

 Butter 



Swine slaughtered 

 Mules sold 

 Eggs 



Cotton seed 

 Oats 



Swine sold 

 Cattle sold 

 Wheat 



Corn 



OKLAHOMA PRODUCTS CHART 

 figures Based on U.S.Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annually 



50 40 30 20 10 THE MINE 



Petroleum 

 Coal 



Natural Gas 

 Zinc 

 Head 



THE FACTORY 

 [Flour.Grist 

 | Cottonseed Products 

 Lumber, Timber 

 PrintingPublishing 

 Bread, etc. 

 Found ry.Machine-shop 

 Manufactured Ice 

 Milk Products 

 Brick .Tile 

 Slaughter! ngj^ching 

 Sheet Metal 

 Artificial Stone 

 Wall Plaster 

 [Marble .Stone 

 Leather Goods 

 Brooms 



the state area is farm land, about two-thirds 

 of which is improved. The Indians still own 

 many of the large ranches, which are leased to 

 white men. In the middle and eastern sections 

 the soil is very fertile, and large crops of wheat, 

 cotton and corn are raised. In the acreage of 

 cotton Oklahoma now ranks sixth among the 

 states, and holds the same place in the amount 

 of cotton produced. The annual output of cot- 

 ton now exceeds $45,000,000, and the annual 

 corn product is valued at $56,000,000. Pota- 

 toes, two crops of which may be grown on tin- 

 same ground in a year, hay and forage (chiefly 

 alfalfa), sweet potatoes and other vegetables, 

 sorghum cane, tobacco, flowers and nursery 

 products are also important. Oklahoma pro- 

 duces large quantities of apples, peaches and 

 other orchard fruits, grapes and watermelons. 

 The state ranks sixteenth in crop values. 



About one-half of tin Panhandle in the west 

 is irrigated, and government projects include 

 an additional 100,000 acres under the Cimarron 

 system in Beaver and Woodward counties and 

 under the Red River project in Kiowa and Co- 

 manche counties. 



Forests. The western part of the state is 

 almost bare of trees, but in the eastern section 

 the woodlands cover about 12,500 square miles. 

 Yellow pine, the chief softwood, is the most 

 important timber of the state, and oak is the 

 principal hard wood. There are large groves of 

 walnut in the lower valleys, and much red 

 cedar, which is principally used for fuel, grows 

 in the south. During the last decade the for- 

 est products have increased to three times their 

 former value. 



Minerals. Oklahoma ranks seventh among 

 the mineral states of the Union, and petroleum 

 is its chief product. The development of the 

 great oil resources of the state has been remark- 

 able since 1904, when the production was greatly 

 UK reased by drillings in the Osage Indian res- 

 ervation. One of the wells in the famous Glen 

 Pool near Sapulpa has a flow of 1,000 barrels a 

 day. In 1915 occurred the almost incrediNc 

 production of the dishing oil field in Creek 

 County, where tin- pool produced at the rate 

 of 6250.000 barrels a month, mop than 

 was produced during a similar period by any 

 of the greatest wells in Russia, th 



