The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-17
CARTER COUNTY'S
OIL PO0LL|M|TLES
DR.. A. G. WHITE, WHO is FAMlL.
Jar WITH CONDITIONS IN 9TH
Err SECTIONS, INVESTIGATES.

ter of the vast pool of oil underlying
Carter county are becoming known
to the outside world, parties who are
posted in oil lore are coming into
this city and county daily. And al
ter coming they are making careful
investigations--are studying the geo
logical formations and the actual
output OF the wells already in pro-
duction here.
Among those who have visited Car
ter county during the past few days
is DR.. A. G. White of Springfield,
Tennessee. Dr White is the father
OF Mrs G. w. Richards, wife of Prof.
C. w. Richards, superintendent Of
the city schools of Ardmore. Dr.
White has visited this city before,
but never Investigated the oil pos
sibilities because he knew nothing Of
them. Upon this last trip, however,
DR.. White was shown a copy of the
write-up of the oil fields in the Oil
City section of Carter county After
reading the story the doctor thought
that the writer either knew what the
conditions really were or else was the
champion Munchausen of the twen-
tieth century. Determined TO find out
which of the two hypothesis was
the correct one, the gentleman Sc
cured an auto and made a quiet lit |
tie trip OF investigation to the fields. |
Upon his arrival there he visited the
different wells of the field. He
saw the vast tank, or reservoir, in
which the oil from the Santa Fe
fields, accommodating faster than pipe
line and tank cars can handle it,
is stored. He saw the famous
" "Babcock No. 2" which answering the
call OF the pump, running twenty
strokes to the minute, throws out
daily flow Of two hundred barrels
Of golden walth; he saw the multi
tude of other wells connected and
Dubping; he say the great number
)f derricks surmounting the thun
iering, humping, walking beam
'igs and the whirring rotaries as they
5ouged and ground the atoms OF
'tone and sand from the bosom Of '
he earth in which they had slept for
ems of hundreds of centuries. And
eeing all this, the gentleman return
ID to Ardmore and stated that even
he most pyrotechnic flights of the
uthor of the article in the Sunday ,
Ardmoreite had not told half the v
tory.
Dr. White is native of the state :
# Texas, but was raised in Tennes-
zee. But while he has resided in
mother state to the one of his
firth, he has watched, since young
the development of the
reat southwest. Once, and some
ines oftener, each year for the past
hirty-five years, he has visited this
ection of the union. He has seen
he great state of Texas develop un. q
il it is now an empire within it. :
elf. He has seen the trackless plains II
i've way to the onward march OF q -
settlement while railroads =
ave thrown their bands of steel q
here in years gone by the laboring h
tage coach and the creeping freight II
'agon wended their weary ways; le D
as seen the live cities of progress b
upplant the prairie dog towns If
he days of the frontier while farms
ave blossomed where once the rat
er colleagued in a venemous inti- C
lacy with the chipmunk and the t
rairie own--But even after seeing r
Ii these magic workings wherein /
,ality has succeeded the magic CT C
lie lamp of Aladdin, the doctor Is t
to say that southern Ok C
homa is the most wonderful coun- {
y, filled with the most wonderful
sources and teeming with the
'eatest possibilities of any section
? has ever visited. Railroads aud .
l." the doctor said, sis all that '
rdmore needs to give her pop- -
alton of twenty-five thousand souls ~
less than five years time. You -
I'VE the oiI-it will be but a ques-
On of time until the railroads will
me. Only advertise your oil-ad- h,
rtise it and it will do the rest" -.