Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-09
TRUE STORIES OF SUDDEN
WEALTH IN OIL FIELDS
Luke Horton, of Texas, Wanted to
Buy Diamonds by the Quart.

Buy Diamonds by the Quart.
Texas oil we'll drillers are fond of tell
ing the story OF Luke Horton, of Wichita
County. When the discovery we'll came
in on Luke's place 1t came in spouting a
thousand barrels a day. Luke, who hap
pened to be at the rig, stood up with the
drillers and watched her cut up for
few minutes and be complained:
you have spoiled two acres of my
pasture
Your pastdre!" snorted Buck Kelly.
Amt you in for an eighth OF her worth
100 bucks a day, and 80 wells on 200
acres is $4,000 a day-that's the rent on
your pasture"
Pete" said Luke to his little boy, "go
tell your ma to get in out of the cotton
patch right now. Tell her to wait sup
per for me- for I'm going to town and
order house with 10 rooms and a quart
of diamonds"
''Yas. sab, I'll sell this land" said old
Joe Simpson when a buyer sought to pur-
chase his fee, but is getting $500 day
from 1t right now"
How does $4,000 sound to your" ven
tured the buyer.
Huh, look heah, white man, you tell
me IL dere's anything bigger'n millions
en- III tell you II is gwine to sell you
dis LAM" growled Joe. But the purchase
was never made, as the buyer left old
counting his money.
After the evil luck and the department
mad cornered the Osages into the rocky
hills OF the headwaters of Bird Creek and
The Caney the leanest acres of the Indian
country, the operator came to dot the
hills with derricks. The evil star of the
osages had set and fortune OF green
oil gnshed from the rocky ravines of their
country and the once despised Usage
came into the efrulgence OF $1,000 a year
for every man, woman and child.
But for oil field romance we must Yield
the laurel branch TO our Aztec Latin
neighbors. Pioneers of the Mexican fields
know well the story of the Peralta fam
lily. In the old days wandering Gringoes
from the Tuxpam Railway survey used
to soJourn at Patrero del Llama hacienda
in the Buena VIA Valley and drink
native beer fromSbon Braulio's meagre
store. which with the surrounding acres
OF pasture and jungle. made a compe-
tence sufficient to supply Don Braulio ana
his son with sandals and his comely
daughter Guadalupe with cotton dresses
II was a surprise to all Gringoes down
there when Ed Parsons, the locating en-
gineer, fell enamored with the charms Of
Guadalupe, when he Wooed and welded
the pretty little Mexican maiden. He
brought her to camp, where she patched
his clothes and fried his bacon
After the Dos BOGUS we'll came In In
1907 the Petrero del Llano ranch became
the prize OF biologists and seepage men.
The English Pearsons leased 1t and IN
1910 struck the worlds greatest gusher |
near the old ranch house.
The Peraltas in one night came into an |
income of $1,000 day. Parsons left the |
railway to represent the family at the |
companys gauging tank. Christoforo. |
Don Braullo's eldest son, sprang into |
prominence as a member OF the Mexican /
Senate Don Braulio increased the stock |
In his big store and INDUCED in the ex-
trayagance of a phonograph. His first
struggle with 1t was disappointing. II
would sing. but he could not understand
Il.
1T would work better" suggested Par
sons, when he looked at the record en-
titled Yankee Boys In Blue" III you'd
buy Spanish records. 1t doesn't trans
late, you know"