No city in the Southwest excels Muskogee in natural advantages, healthful. surroundings, transportation facilities, educational advantages, civic righteousness, religious sentiment and its splendid citizenship.
It is located on a gently rolling plain, with natural drainage toward the Arkansas River, three miles eastward; it has an abundance of oil, natural gas, coal, wood, gravel, sand and building stone within easy reach; it has four lines of railroads extending out in eight different directions; it has a system of public schools not excelled by any city in the Southwest; it has numerous civic organizations, all vieing with one another and working harmoniously toward building up a
bigger and better city; it has twenty-two churches representing nearly all of the leading religious organizations; and it has an intelligent, public spirited citizenship which has demonstrated its utilitarianism by casting aside all personal and political prejudice and establishing a business form of city government under the managerial system.
Muskogee, in brief, has a population of 35,000, sixty lawyers, forty physicians, 260 teachers, twenty-four hotels, thirty automobile shops, seven banks, six wholesale houses, fifteen drugstores, fifteen furniture stores, eight dry goods stores, twelve clothing stores, ten shoe stores, twenty-five groceries, ten lumber companies, ten machine shops, thirty oil companies, two oil refineries, four packing houses, ten printing shops, two daily and weekly newspapers, and numerous
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