The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-20
CARTER COUNTY OIL
BUSINESS GROWING
OIL MEN FROM PENNSYLVANIA
TO CALIFORNIA INVESTIGATING
FIELDS HERE.

The week just past has marked a
season of the greatest interest and
activity which has been shown in the
oil fields of Carter county since the
story of the true situation has leak
ed" to the outside world. Notwilh-
standing the fact that parties most
heavily interested have been busily
engaged in denying that there is more
than a very little oil here, people who
have made fortunes in this product
of nature have seen fit to come here
and make personal inspections, and
investigations. And having made
those inspections and Investigations
they are investing-and investing
heavily.
The matter of suppresseing the "oil
news of this county has been worked
successfully in the past. By this sup
preston big operators-those who rep
resent the hundreds of millions have
been enabled to gobble up thousands
upon thousands of acres of oil lands
in this and adjoining counties and
to gobble them up on almost their own
ltllnS. Dul lulo COllullloh past ht
pitcher of deception has gone once
to often to the we'll and has, at last,
been broken upon the stones of
truth. Oil men who have made for
tunes in the Pennsylvania fields, in
the California fields, in the Beaumont
and the Tulsa fields have read the
statements which the magnates have
given out through the mouths of their
confederates, and reading them, have
figured it out that where there is so
much smoke there must be some
fire. They have come to Ardmore
and from here have gone to Oil City,
They have covered practically every
foot of the ground every acre be-
tween here and that city of pumps
and derricks. They have seen the
smoke and seeing it, they have found
the fire. They have found the sto-
ries, which are not mere flights OF
fancy nor the Munchausen dreams of |
some versatile newspaper writer who |
types his display of fireworks as an !
outlet for his own vivid imagination.
Within the past ten days hundreds
of acres have been leased to parties
fro mthe Texas fields and from the
fields of Kansas and of Northern Ok
lahoma. Experienced operators these
men are-men who know oil when
they see it and who know whether a
pump running twenty strokes to the
minute and keeping a two inch pipe
filled hour in and hour out in convey
ing the oil from the pumps nozzle
to the storage tanks, is only pumping
five bn rrn1c t., | .
really pumping two hundred. They
are men who, to use a slang, but a
true and trite expression, are hep
to all the ins and outs of the oil game.
They can "stall' themselves and they I
know when others are 'staling.' And
hey have found that the big operator {
n this field has been "stalling.'
1t has been given out by parties
who know, that inside the time of the
passing of the summers months over (
me hundred rigs from as MANY in !
dependent operators win be working (
IN the leases which have been taken '
Turing the past few days. One com Q
)any whose representatives were J
lere from Texas the latter part OF {
he week Just past, will ship machin- s
0i' Sboiiudiu u 1850 Ill anu Will nave
several drills dropping down to the oil
lool within ten days. Another con- !
'ern will have six wells in drilling /
within as many months Other ccm- |
)anies will govern themselves by the II
'eports of their agents who have been I
tent here to investigate-and it can a
'e truthfully stated that in all cases /
hese reports have been everything G
s as represented" d
The Ardmoreite has gone to con t
iderable pains and expense in the y
natter Cf getting information on the
rue condition in the oil fields as Il
hings have heretofore existed. After
citing this information it has given
to the world and by doing SO has Z
'orked in the interest of this city,
f this county, of the people gen
rally and of the development of this I
ection of Oklahoma-of the develop
lent of the millions upon millions
f barrels of oil which lies a seething
ubterranean lake of wealth awaiting
ne touch of the drill to pour out
pom the surface of the earth and TO
eturn a stream of gold to the owners
( the lands under whose surface it r
ow lies sleeping. .....