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Panoramic Mailing Card
Bristow, Creek County, Oklahoma

Submitted by Glenda Argo  <argo2@mindspring.com> Sep 2001

Glenda made an attempt to read the names of the businesses in hopes of helping others

Starting on the left side of the photo where the notation "Bristow, Okla." appears, you see two horses and buggies parked near the sidewalk,  between them is a shop 

? M. Wolfe Co.... name is printed on both windows on each side of the entry
Moving to the right... the corner building near the street lamp reads
"F. H. Groom - The Best???" on the side of the building
at the top of that same building is "1902 - J. S. Carman and Son".
Now we move to the right side of the photo....
building on the corner I see "Bank" in the window on each street, but no name
next to the bank, looking right, reads: "J. N. Tidr???Co."  it appears to be a clothing store from the advertisement in the window
next to the clothing store appears to be the "City Bakery"...print is very faint
store farther to the right is "Palm"....could be a drug store maybe 
building on the far right is the "Stone" building

[Follows is the information from the back of the card]

Mailing Card

STAMP
One cent without writing

Two cents with writing

SOME FACTS ABOUT BRISTOW ON THE FRISCO

A beautiful little city, in the geographical center of Creek County, the richest oil county in the state.

Located on the Ozark Trail, the great continental highway and automobile thoroughfare.

Boasts a population of 2500 and has ample inducements to make home for double that number.

The town is fourteen years old and one of the lustiest youngsters of its age in the state.

the fame of Bristow's 99.6 per cent, pure city water has traveled from coast to coast. Tulsa looks to Bristow for much of its drinking water.

During the cotton season just closed,  Bristow cotton gins and cotton oil mills paid the highest price for raw cotton in the state. This is no idle boast. It is a well known fact among the cotton buyers and growers of the state.

Bristow is the home of several men who have made large fortunes in oil and cotton.

Besides having seven cotton gins, Bristow is the home of a mammoth cold press cotton oil mill, representing an investment of $75,000. The buildings are all concrete, and practically all supplied with metal roofing. Its products are cotton seed oil and cotton seed cake.

Bristow is the largest cotton shipping center in Creek County, and the marketing center of the farming country thirty miles square. These facts have earned the name of the biggest Saturday town in the State of Oklahoma. Few Saturdays pass without street congestion in Bristow.

In the last three years drilling operations have never ceased within a radius of 15 miles of the town. A fifty-barrel oil well, two miles south and one-half mile east of the corporate supplies a local refinery (The Continental Refining Co.,) with crude oil piped from the well. The bitterest pessimist in the town won't leave, because he has a hunch that some day Bristow will make a big oil strike and earn an honored place on the oil map of the state.

An 8,000,000 cubic foot gas well located four and a half miles from the city supplies gas for a commercial and domestic purposes.

Among its manifold blessings can be named two live newspapers, five churches, one about to build a new house of worship; two schools, one high school, feed and chop mill, broom factory,  steam laundry, three banks, one hotel, two theaters.

Postal receipts for the past year in Bristow have show a consistent and steady gain.

Bristow is a hot-bed of good road boosters. Last summer, business men and professional men, declared a three-day vacation and spent the time in labor on the roads leading out of the town. 
Merchants subscribed liberally and co-operated with the farmers of the community in building good dirt roads.

One of the beauty spots greeting passengers on trains is a grass plot and flower garden, a monument to co-operative effort by the Commercial Club, the Civic League and the officials of the Frisco Railway.