ARDMORE, Okla., city and county scat of Carter County, 100 miles south of Okla homa City, on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, C., R. I. & Pacific. Saint Louis & San Francisco, and 0. N. M. & Pacific railways. The soil is well adapted to fruits, cotton, corn, cereals and forage crops. There are only three months in the year when range cattle must be fed, the climate, abundant rainfall and the fine grass making ideal conditions for stock raising. The production of gas is becoming more and more extensive and important. The Healdton oil field, as reported 8 Aug. 1915, has a total of 311 wells with a production of over 85,000 barrels of oil daily. The gas production of the same field shows 300,000,000 cubic feet a day. Ardmore's industries include a cottonseed oil mill, cotton compress, an ice plant, machine shops, brick plant, mattress factory, electric light and power plant, two planing mills, oil re finery, flouring mill, cotton gins, cigar factory, paint factory, bottling works, paving plant and asphalt brick plant. The machine shops of the Rock Island and Frisco railroads are located here, and Ardmore is the general headquarters of the Oklahoma, New Mexico and Pacific Railway. The city has three national banks and
one State bank, with a combined capitaliza tion, surplus and profits of nearly $4,000,000, an increase of $1,850,000 since 1 Oct. 1915. Ardmore has 12 churches for whites and 4 for negroes. The public school system is especially well organized and intelligently administered. The school population totals about 2,500, the enrolment 2,343, and the average daily attend ance 2,048. The high school, costing $150,000, is a handsome structure and the pride of the city. There is also a fine Catholic parish school, and the government school for Indians is lo cated here. The city is under the commission form of government the officials being a mayor and four commissioners. The annual income of the city is $140,000. An artificial lake, covering 300 acres, furnishes Ardinore's water supply. The entire plant, including 1,400 acres of land, is owned by the city. Pop. (1916) 12,500.