The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-23
HAVE THE ARBUCKLES
BEEN SLANOEREO?
LIONS OF WEALTH LIES DOR
MANT AWAITING EMPLOYMENT
OF THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS.

Davis, Okla, Oct. 23.-When Prof
| Chas. y. Gould, former state geolo
sist declared in no unmistakablo
! language: Il have never seer; any
minerals in the Arbuckle mountains
did he know, or docs he know today
much about the processes nature fol
loved here for long geological ages?
nd he know tNa: ,hesc gigantic
forces were upleashed in these noun
,ains in unparalleled grandeur, aud
in almost solemn infinitude, until the
submits lowered in lofty peaks TO
OF that dosolate age? Upon the soli-
tude Of their perpindicular peaks the
suns RAYS first glistened when the
vapors OF the eternal past were aTcp,
away.
Submerged and Re-submerged
When the Rocky Mountain systems
We're forced from the bowels OF the
earth to their present dizzy heights,
and the Arbuckles and Wichitas--
the lost prairie oifsprings of the
mighty Rockies, were raised from
their subterranean bed, great de
preston followed in the Arbuckle-
Wichita country. 1t was then that
fissures, and seams, and great
breaks occurred III the massive for
nations of the Arbuukles, and the
heavily mineralized waters. gases,
and molten liquid, found their way
upward toward the surface, impreg-
mating all the formations with which
oxygen and the chemical qualities Of
the suns rays could come in con.
tact, with mineralized salts.
!, was in the late Mesozc and the
early Cenozoic eras. that the Ar
buckles We're swallowed mp in the
raging waters of the earth. 1t was
during their submergence at this time
their present naturalization took
place. Man OF the shapes and ir.
regular ribs of their everlasting
slopes We're fashioned.
Proof in Grea. Abundance.
Has Prof. Gould. or any other sc.
ologist OF note, examined the
peaks in the Arbuckles. known as
East and West Timber Hills? Ii
they have they will be forced to con
TESS, if they are biologists. that these
prominent SUBMITS are still holding
lofty sway. over all the surrounding
heights, md scattered fragments OF
proof OF some of the most lasting ac-
ton OF the clements. The appalling
destruction and the awful havoc Of
mconQuerable waters of his later
sea in sweeping about the bases of
these twin peaks is prone upon their
rockbound sides to this day. Mineral
lied rocks and foSSillferous forma-
tions belonging in depths thousands
of feet, are here on the surface in
ineXhaustible abundance. mineral
lied zone belonging to the early ST
lurian and the Ordovician is here
strewn over. the surface and extends
a thousand feet downward to the Ig-
neous rock stills of the earth through
ont territory many square miles in
extent
The Arbuckles Slandered
That the Arbucltle mountains have .
been grossly slandered by men who /
assumed to have the intuition and .
farsightedness to gaze down deep into /
natures mysteries. and without even
a casual look, cry out from the house |
tops: ~ hope there is plenty of
mineral thCre but l have not seen .
it,"
Is it not about time that scientists.
so-called, were made to see them
selves as others see and know them
VIII our own state biologists turn
The scientific light of day on to the
rough and rugged hills southwest of
Davis, Murray county. Oklahomh, and
let the people know the truth and
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