The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-12-01
RED FORK OIL FIELDS.
Sig Excursion to Be Run There This
Month.

mOUNNs
In another coIumn Of this paper is
found the announcement Of an excur-
sion to the grea oil and gas field iate'
" discovered in the Creek naion at
he'd Fork, ]. r. There has never bee"
any doubt of the wonderful natural
resources Of the Indian territory, but
if there had been the proof that It Is 1
possibly the richest portion Of the
United States can be found I'm the con
ditions that surround Red Fork.
Red Fork lies at the Junction point
OF the st Louis and San Francisco
main line from Monette to Oklahoma
City. Oklahoma territory and Deni-
son, Texas, and of the Arkansas Val
ley and Western now being built be
tween Red Fork, and Perry and Enid,
Oklahoma territory. and upon which
there are now at work over three
thousand graders and other people en-
gagged in its construction with the
headquarters of the construction com
pany located at Red Fork J. T
In and around Red Fo k are to be
found deposits of lead and zinc ore,
cement and lime stone formations, and
coal in inexhaustible quantities, what
is known as strip pit having been
found at depth Of six feet about two
miles from the townsite or Red Fork,
having vein Of solid coal forty inch
es in dep,h and win be as near a per
feet bituminous coal a. can be found
in the southwest Besides the coal,
oil, gas. cement and l!me and zinc
ore and lead. there are fine forests OF
ash. oak, black walnut white hickory
and other hard woods that make Red
Fork a natural manufacturing center,
In addition to these advantages the
company owning and controlling the
oil and gas well now in operation at
Red Fork are making contracts where.
by they agree to furnish gas to man
ufacturlng institutions that locate at
Red Fork at a nominal sum for term
OF years. Within the past two weeks
there have been located under these
fiattering conditions two large brick
and tile plants a machine shop and
foundry, and other manufacturing in
stitutions are negotiating for sites and
fuel
The industrial department of the
great Frisco Railway system has TAX
en- charge of the work of securing
manufacturing institutions to be To-
Gated at Red Fork, and there are a
number of other institutions that will
undoubtedly be located through their
efforts at Red Fork in short time.
The excursion that will be given to
Red Fork VIII be commenced De
cember 18th and ticket will be sold
from all points in Oklahoma and In
dian territories and Denrison, Texas
at one fare for the round TITO. tickets
good returning December 2OG.. A
spscial train will run from Oklahoma
City to Red Fork on the morning OF
December 17.h, and on Decemb-
and lS.h there will be held an auc-
ton rale of four hundred town lots in
the original owncite of Red Fork,
and at this time these lots will be dis
posed of TO the highest bidder and a
warranty deed given for each lot to
each purchaser
Red Fork will be illuminated by its
cwn natural gas on the occasion oi
this sale and complete accommoda-
tiono will b. provided for all who wi
attend.
For further informa ion see the
nearest F. isco Railway agent or ad-
dress The Red Fork Development
company Oklahoma city, O. T. on
Red Fork, |. 4.