The Springdale news., 1913-07-11

The enclosed Item on cherfl es, clipped from today s paper, Tie Bal- les Weekly Chronicle, came in af- ter l Lad put in my "say-sos on cherries in this letter It will show to you (and also your box of cher ries if they arrive in good condition) what this country can produce and Is doing along the line. Wishing you all a big time" the fourth, I am,
 Very truly yours,
 c. l., Davis, Route No. 2, Box 7S.
 From Gushing, Okla. Cushing, Okla, July 6.-Editor News: Several former residents of your county and other parts Of Ar kansas requested me to write a few lines to your largely circulated pa Der 50 that their relatives and friends will have chance to read q little something direct from the town Of the marvellous oil pool, about the Indians of this locality and about some other matters of interest to them.
 The wonderful Cushing oil field was. until sixteen months ago in- habi cd by Jew humans out by los et wolves. some wld eatss and vi I turkey.
 The topography Of the TOW fam ous oil field is grand master piece ef Natures architect and landscape gardner.
 The pine miles iong and five niles Wide oil field, HOW dotted with hun dreds of SO feet high oa derrieks, is a parklike panorama Of wooded hills, grassy plateaus and dark, deep raylnes
 Tie marvellous oil and gas pro ducing field is now watered by Tiger Coal and Dog e eeks and 600 drilled wells supply the $S.000 humans with more than plenty of good, cold Wa ter
 Miles uppon miles of steel pipes connect the producing Wells with the four large pumping stations on lower Tiger creek, from where the oil is forced through pipes to tanks near the seven refineries in north Gushing.
 All the nitro glycerine used in shooting" the wells is made in Gushing
 The by products Of the petroleum are shipped to parafine and axel grease factories in Ohio The great abundance and exceeding eheapness Of gas will attract enterprising manufacturers 10 this place.
 Cushing's population in reased from l ,47o to 4,3So sinee last win ter, and the increasing and multiply ing goes merrily on.
 $100,0o0 for public impro emen s are being expended here lis sum- mer.
 Some of the younger Sac and Fox Indians of this region do some farming this season but several thousand acres of fine farming land lays idle because the discovery of oil attracted many tillefs of the soil to the oil field where teamsterS make from six to eight dollars a day and workmen get from two to seven dollars for ten hours work The Snake Indians own nest of the oil field They Ieased I 10 the oil kings, and receive rom $I00 to E$700 royalty a h per day Several whites also be anne suddenly quite rich. because they happened to own some Of the rocky =Ail'y apparently worthless and on Tiger, Dog CT Coal creeks
 The farmers of th.s region, many from Arkansas. are n good spirits, owing to the recent coRieus rains that will help produce big crops of corn, cotton, alfalfa and other valuable products.
 Cushing is on the Santa Fe and NJ. K. & T. railroads 600 big teams haul freight from here 10 the oil field The oil men put large sums of money in circulation here. 100 farmers Of this region get s5,- coo every month for the cream and milk they sell to the Cushing Creamery.
 Walter Barnes, the publisher and editor of the Cushing Independent, who lived several years in Washing ton county and published paper in Lincoln. sends his best regards, and he will gladly escort the edi- tor of The springdale News and sores of others of Arkansas 10 our oil field and the nearby cedar lined simarron river, if they pay ua visit