The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-08
EXCITEMENT
OVER OIL IN
NEW COUNTRY
LawlOn People Stake Over
One thousand Claims.
CONDITION OF NEW Town
Goods Are Selling Cheaper
There Than 10 Kansas.

Lawton. 0. T. Sept. ITO be accur-
ate there is no oil excitement here rs
yet. but there is peculiar dumb interes,
in OH thar might be called excitement
YET looks nothing like the Chicaso wheat
pit or the New York stock exchsuse
nocr
Several hrms have united for an eaort
to learn what there Is beneath II esur-
face. ana are sinking a prospect hole a
block north. and two blocks west Of the
land office. The hole IS being put down
in the center o. the street A iarre arm
Is an work and Just What is there IS being
found out. The drnI is horse power
machine, but larger than ordinary ven
drills ana has four horse capacity.
when q sumcieat depth is reached TO re-
quire IT,
Two days ago when work begun in
The morning. oh was found iu tae hole.
There was 40 doubt about o. liz Was
there. and was suppose io have oozca
n during the nisht. aud IS considered
wei drllers stated that o. least a barrel
81 on had collected. and gathered IN Ike
Quantities each succeeding night
AT frst there was not = great amount
% attention paid 90 the well. but yes
terday and today a large crowd stsud
abogt the driu and Eagerly watch the
cleaning out process when The drlu IS up.
The soil Che driu IS waffing iu is a dark
a.
OF stone mingled with H. The hole Is
now about 81 feet iu depth.
Yesterday the country surrounding
Lawton bad the appearance ~ FAR
western boom town in SIS embryo stage.
In the afternoon The entire country WIS
dotted with men stalking mineral claims
everywhere indiscriminately. and tho
prairies are thoroughly spriukied with
hits Of white paper on little short stakes
showing whore someone has made mo-
uentary claim % a piecc ~ land. Out
OF Thousand of these pot more than
two or three wil ever he seen aRaln by
the men who drove them Iu places
there are from ten o. afteen stakes wits
81 tho area NJ an acfe. tut there b ao
sguabhinr
Tho United States Military reserva-
larger portion ~ these prospectors but
81 IS quite noticeable and significant
fact that by mr the rswcsf stakes ore
f1und where walking s. most dincuit.
Piowed land ou che schol reserve south
of Fori SIN ana especially weed patches
are practically exempt
Tho mercantile conditions SIRE practi-
caly unchanged Potatoes are selling
Z ID
even soH far 81 The supply Is ar -
exceed tha demand many rushing upon
thr nfarket. each nth an ample supply.
caused the eiut sud thers has been con-
siderable money lost one man iooslnF or
entire car or potsfoeT which decayaf
before De- WAS ehia 20 dispose ~ them.
The supply is em sufficient f1r several
weeks
corn has dropped 20 e. having been
u5a oats are noe plentiful hut several
cars are reported ou rae track af Fort
EGI. ,hey w'f retail ~ Bout @e missed
feea ard Soar Gre steeGv end demand
fair p-icea The market Is f1H and in
com d itue oFerwocked. $50 better
IS % De- BAD save hulferine or o'eo. Two
or threc eairies arc roaming n fau
capac.u the denauf being greater than
the supply fhe prices being far per
ralioa Groceries sra hardware are
vcu Supplied demar5ing standard prices.
There 81 alro p ao18 Tlal' 70 furniture
ia town Drr goods avs shorf ~ ser.
cIofhi-F seife from orsrhaeia ar1 cheap
underwear gthtsInanle
THO Rock Island track a now wiihu
r. Httfe oecr 1870 miles ~ tawf07. arf
r-IF oasta fer Contractor U1fmsn 20
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