Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
Is STILL A MYSTERY
Real Estate Firms Are Ac-
tive and Country EX-
pecting Boom.
Special to The World.

here on the farm of A G. Rogers,
S-12-7. which was started several
months ago, oil men in every branch
of the business have flock, d here and
many of them remain. There iS not
a room in any hotel Men are sleep
ing on benches and porches and in the
yards about town, making trips twice
"A day to the well, two miles west.
The visitor who is unable to get
comfortable place to sleep ON account
of the crowd rises at sunup takes his
car or rig and hurries out to the well.
hoping to learn first of the newest
development ON his arrival at the
point on the road nearest the well,
three strands of barbcdwirc fence and
two husky guards keep him from en-
tering the quarter section where the
derrick stands mo smoking" is the
first sign to greet him. though there
Is no gas in smelling distance. Keep
out. this means you" is the second in
sCription in bold-faCed capitals. No
body gets in who does not know Mr..
Bennett and can't make Mr.. Bennett
recall having met him. Many are the
trips that the messenger boy makes
from the road to the derrick, carrying
cards and Letters of introduD tion, bit
marrow is the gate and few there be
that go in thereat."
j. G. Bennett experimenting the
drilling operation, is the only men
who has power to admit anyone.
Sitting in automobiles and in buggies.
or standing in the broiling sun, lean
ing over the fence, the crowd breath
lesSly waits for something to happen.
As far up and down the road as one
can see and on the top of the hill near
the handsome Rogers home, automo-
biles stand motionless all day. Oc-
casionally one will pull out. bound for
Paden or Prague, where its occupants
may get something to eat and return
Watchful waiting is all the rage.
Engine Long Quiet.
| For the first time since early spring,
| the engine was fired and the bit
! lowered into the hole Thursday The
cement with which the hole had been
| stopped was dri led out and the bit
struck bottom. That ended the days
ope ration The well flowed 80 barrels
! of oil said to be AZ gravity in the
course of 20 minutes and closed again.
The army of spectators went to town
for supper and oil dope was talked on
the crunstones of both nearby towns
until long after midnight.
! Up to the same pie counter the
/ inner man" required all sorts Of oil
I men to repair. Drillcrs and tOohes
hoping to be in a vast new field When
! it opened were there. Men with l1aSeS
| to sell and men with money to buy
leases were there. Attaches of the
3 corporation commission were there.
The old squint-eyed geologlst with
! dirt and experience and student
geologists with hard boiled shirts and
! tortoise trimmed glasses were there,
decorated with nice new leather in
strument cases, Men hoping to select
| q location for supply houses, oil scouts
frOh every company in the catagory,
and oil men of experience from east
ern and foreign fields were there.
The moocher. the CRATER and the
/ foreflusher were there too All in
! the same house to take their meals,
and all kidded the same people and
thought about the prospect of the new
oil field.
The drill bit had crushed through
the cap rock. The story of a quiet
! little agricultural section suddenly de-
veloping into a bustling oil field and
hundreds of struggling farmers be-
coming millionaires. was about to be
told. Bits Of sand from the bowels of
/ the earth were in everybOdy'S hand.
/ Oil from the well was on everybody's
! fingers and personal opinions were in
everybody's mouth. 1T looks like
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SAT- says one ma Shnu 10 Wv ~.
ing put lhe cement WhiGh was Put u"
this spring W stop the no'e, anu slt
sait iloWeu III iioih apoNe 1'Iu 10 Nv.
any lhulcatloIl 'ha' t,'S "'ll VuIh ou'
10 De SAT- water wen: says anothei
lhey are JuSt TWO ieeI III w oit
sand and nobody can tell whether 1t
VIII De wen OF not. II ioohS pau
Wnen the LOWS sIoW sl''''igi III, e.eiS
hile,' says sun another, taKc
/ u iat put III my ieaSe' 10 thc Ilrst
doliar ana cent remark. hho"
man VINO wants 1t, says 'ie quiet
| proWh-sklnneu man VINO mas hoI
spoken peiore' ihuS 1t goes unIii
they faii asleep on the grass ana rise
to rush cut to the well again.
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