Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-03-21
Can't Tell From Calendar When
Sunday Comes In the Oil Fields

sorting over the mail 10 get letters
ana papers from his Iormrr home
town, and the men in line wait pa
tiently their turn. And although this
has been the custom now for six
weeks, not "a single piece Of mail has
been reported stolen or misplaced.
The bread line, whore men
scramble for an opportunity TO buy
bread, is a daily feature i'm Oilton.
The local bakery works day and
night shifts, truning out loayes all
the time, but 1t is not sufficient TO
supply the demand ana frequently
flVo-cent loaves bring as high as ten
10 fifteen cents each. There are now
more than 5000 people in Oilton with
an additional 1000 working in the oil
field, which lies at the towns front
door, and many of these form the
daily bread lines waiting for the
baker to turn out the next make.
Some Of the men in the lines are
scalpers, buying several loaves and
| then selling them at an advance.
An interesting daily feature, too, IL
the long caravan of ighters-the
lines Of wagons that are bringing in
the supplies for theiown and the field.
This feature will be done away with,
in great part, with .ne completion Of
the Oil Belt Terminal railroad into
Oilton, an occasion that will be cele-
/ brated during the coming week. As
the teams pass the horses and mules
ara dripping with water, for they
, have just fOrded the Cimarron river.
There are one, two six and even eight
horse teams, and in case il is a mann
moth boiler for the oil field twelve
horses are required to pun it across
/ the river and up the slope into clifton.
Occasionally, sandwiched between
loads Of casing and merchandise,
[ there is prairie sChOOner-sOme
family coming into the Greek Indian
country from the north. The sides of
the wagon cover are raised so that the
women and children may see the
wonder oil field for the first time.
Many Buildings Being Erected.
Many buildings are being erected
The total is six hundred for the first
six weeks The sound Of hammer ana
saw are drowned only by the clanking
Of steel in the building Of $1,000
barrel tanks for the storage of oil.
Between two hundred and three hun
dred of these are now being put up,
just on the outskirts OF the town.
/ Eighteen hundred cars Of lumber are
now i'm transit TO OiltOn, according to
William Murdoch, traffic manager Of
the Oil Belt Terminal road These are
distributed along the railroads
throughout this section Of the state.
Much Of this lumber, Murdoch says,
will be unloaded Immediately. The
difficulty in getting lumber has de-
layed building since the first day.
When it is considered that every
eighty steel tanks, Of $1,000 barrels
capacity each, represents an eXpendi-
ture of $LOOO,O0O, some intelligent
idea can be obtained Of this one fea-
ture Of the big Gushing oil field, Of
which OiltOn is now the only railroad
town. With the tanks now building
the total number within this field win
be close to seven hundred, or a total
expenditure for this sized tanks alone
OF approximately $S,750,00O. Millions
Of barrels of crude oil are now stored
within the field.
Oil Field Is Worlds Wonder.
No other field in the world has pro-
duced so many large wells on so
small an area as has this field in the
OiltOn district. In fact a thousand
barrel well here is considered a baby.
The fields immensely can be under
stood when it is realized that two
thirds of the states entire oil produC-
lion comes from the Oilton district
and at that the confines of the field
over one-fifth Of the proven territory
has been drilled up. The most valu-
able tract Of oil land in the world the
Eliza YaT'hola allotment, one and one
half miles south of Oilton, is within
this district 1t now has daily pro-
ductiOn OF more than 10000 barrels.
one WELL which made l2,466 barrels
daily, is the biggest producer the state
has ever had. This tract in size is
not quite quarter section, as one
corner Of il is cut off by the Cimarron
river Experts claim the Gushing
field will yield 10000 barrels a day
for the next two years perhaps
longer
II is this wonderful amount of and
continued activity in the oil field that
has resulted in the elimination of
Sunday as the Sabbath day and added
it to the list of working days. In fact,
so far as known, there is but one oil
man who insists upon the Biblical OBJ
servance of the Sabbath. lie is j. NJ
Critchlow, formerly a Free Methodist
minister and oil man of Pennsylvania,