The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

Portable inside and are utilized as boarding
places by the hands. Only timber enough
is cut away to make room for the houses
and barns, and the women folks tie the
clotheslines to saplings in the woods
klondfke now has a store, barber shop
pool room, telephone office, an oil well
supply office, and two oil companies
offices. Later there will be a postofice
and perhaps a saloon. Mail now comes
from either Marshburg or WatsonVille
each three miles distant from Klondike,
and both just off the oil helt
The leaseholders are not the only people
who have made money out of the oil BOOM
1t is curions fact, that with one or two
exceptions all the land embraced in the
pool is owned by women. Mrs. HOtchkiss
OF Bradford is one of them. She was a
widow in straitened circumstances when
the oil boom came. Her husband bought
warrants No. 5.572 at a tax sale several
years ago. Before he died he told her
never to part with it unless it became
absolutely necessary; that if she kept it
the chances were that an oil field would
be opened in that section of the country
some day and then the 100 acres of wild
land might bring her a fortune Her
daughter taught school and by carefully
economizing they managed to retain the
title to the wild land. 1t was on this lot
that Mallory & Co. drilled their first big
WelA and for year Mrs. Hotchkiss has
had an income of not less than $50 a day
and sometimes as much as 500 a day
Lot and warrant No BIOS are owned
by Miss Louise Wilkinson and her brother,
Samual Wilkinson, of Buffalo. The land
was Willed to them, and inventoried as
practically worthless. The royalties from
the 90O-acre ridge lease have amounted to
as much as $3.50 day, and will roll up
into fortune.
The richest lease of all Is owned by Mrs.
Haffey of Bradford. 1t consists of 1872
acres, and is called the Jugular Vein lease
because it is located in stheuverv richest
part of the pool. She sold one half of her
royalty to Mallory & Rathbond for 81 600
before the first well was drilled Her one
sixteenth interest in the lease gives her
an income of $3.50 month, and it is daily
increasing. The Duke estate of Wellville
N. Y, owned big tract of stripped timber
land in the jacksonville district and is
realizing daily royalty of $50 barrels of
oil.
There is no Sunday al Klondike. and If
as the busiest little shanty oil town on the
globe at present There is plenty of gas
from the wells and at night the corduroy
road that winds among the trees and farms
the only street that KIondike can boast
of is lighted by gas torches that blaze In
front of the houses and barns Fifty
teams are kept busy hauling oil well sun
PiieS' anu sIhal army OF men are
employed in cutting roads through the
woods to the new locations picked OUT for
the wells, in building derricks. LAYING
Oil and water lines, erecting tanks. and
drilling the wells.
The oil is bought by the Standard OH
Company and by Senator Emery's in
dependent line; both companies have
branch lines to the new pool So perfect
has been the pipe line service that scarceIv
a barrel of oil has run to waste. Tankage
is ready before the wells are finished Al
soon as the drill taps the sand the wells
begin to flow. When the drill breaks tho
crust the connections are made, and the