The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-07
OTLMEN GET RICH QUICK.
Men Driving Autos In Indian Territory Wh
walked Not Long AGO,

TULSA, I. T., Oct. 0.-Many men have
found thep pot Of gold in Territory oil fields,
IL is not unusual to see a mar driving a
big French auto who was content to walk
a few years or weeks ago. As one OF the
camp followers said:
Down here they eat feathers to-day and
chickens tomorrow. You want to keep
on the good side Of the whole push, be-
cause you may be asking some OF the busted
one for a Job before the week Is out
And 1t Is wen so.
Two years ago the Glenns were real
estate agents in Oklahoma City. They
heard of the oil country. They came broke.
They tried to persuade people to 60 in
with them, but their enthusiasm was not
OF the contagious kind.
So they peeled their coats and went to
work themselves. doing their own work.
They discovered the famous Glenn pool
a short distance south and west Of Tulsa.
Now they have dozens Of wells, hundreds
OF people working for them, and when
they want to go to st. Louis. or Chicago
and cannot get to the station in time the
trains wait for them.
They a coolies OF money and thew
are making coolies more every month.
Everything they touch runs to money.
Then there's Charlie Hammett. He
difted around following the booms at Jop-
lin, Beaumont, California and Thunder
Mountain, but could not connect with the
double eagles some way or other.
When he landed at Chelsea. over In the
Cherokee country. he was all in. But he
got q few options and went to work. That
was less than twenty months ago. Now
Hammett has more money than he ever
thought existed.
Everybody in the oil country know,
who A. M: Clark is. How A. NJ. Clark came
to the oil fields nobody knows. Everv.
body knows he did not have any money.
And everybody knows that he has il now.
be started in up in Kansas when Chanute
was the mecca Of the man looking for
Russell farm valued at 5000. The next
morning he sold the farm to a man named
Baxter from Illinois for $4,000 and an
interest IN the stock company which Baxter
was forming.
The rest Of 1t was easy. He repeated the
operation all o the line till he has moro
than S25O,OOO invested in real estate. and
how much more nobody knows. He was
one Of the first men to see the value of land
In Chautauqua county, Kansas, and at ono
time he had 5000 acres Of leases there
which cost him about rs cents an acre and
which he sold for hundreds Of dollars an
acre.
Harry Scott came to Kansas az pipe line
man for the Standard Oil Company more
than six years ago. He quit the Standard
and went to work for himself along In IOOs.
All he had when he quit was some nerve
and some clothes. Now he is one-half
owner OF the Alameda Oil Company, whioh
was developed by some st. Louis people.
owns a whole torpedo company all by
himself and has other investments.
Most OF the new rich in Kansas and the
Territories are the wildcatters, the people
who leave the beaten tracks and discover
oil pools where no oil was ever heard OF
before. They are the gamblers In the
game.
All the oil towns nave proepered through
the prosperity OF the wildcatters. It Ia
easy come, easy 60 with the most Of them,
They put up big buildings, they help to rave
streets, they help to build railroads, thew
add to the value Of real estate. The same
nerve which carried then into waste placee
for their fortunes makes them take chances
in the towns which would give the average
man pause.
And Of the hundreds and even thousands
who ave come to Kansas and the Territories
with lots Of money INC are now working in
the stores and on the leases for a bare living?
That Is another story.