The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

is absolutely saturated with optimism as
! we'll a OIL
The oil. by the way. does not hesitate
to hit your nostrils. but your system is
as equally affected with the optimism.
When an expert oil man desires to test
the quality of crude petroleum he sticks
his finger in the oil and then sticks the
finger in his mouth, licking it with a
relish prOportionate to the quality Of the
oil. But the visitor prefers to smell 1t.
With true Western hospitality. visitors
TO the oil fields are treated royalty. and
had the pleasure of eating ravenously
iat a rough but plentifully laden table
before starting back to Boynton.
Real Romnnces OF Luck.
Aside from the business interest one
may take in a visit to the oil fields, he Is
also bound to be interested in the many
stories told of men becoming rich through
lucky strikes and judicous operations in
the oil fields. These stories sound like
romances. but most of them are true.
which is another proof that fact is
stranger than fiction.
Listen to some of these stories and you
will not cease to wonder at the optimism
of the people of Oklahoma. For the sake
of saving space. / epitomiZe few.
Harry Denton. of Muskogee. purchased
the f. Yarhola lease in the North End"
of the Gushing Pool for $3.50 about four
years ago and later sold it for $1,000, and
he was satisfied with that profit. The
Carter Oil Company recently paid John
II. Markham. jr.. sl.2OOOO0 for the same
lea. What do YOU think of that per-
centaGe in the increase of values in the
short space of four years? Can you beat
it?
\ Muskogee real estate man owns 160
acres in western Muskogee County. A
well came in north five years ago and he
refused $500 bonus; a dry hole followed
and he couldn't have got 81 an acre. A
well came in southeast two years ago.
and he refused an increase of So. 600 bonus.
and a buster was drilled still nearer him
and he. concluding to SELL couldn't get
$50 bonus. A well came in on the east
si1c within the last six months and he
leased the land for s.. 600 cash.
A few years ago NJ. S. Musselmem, n
Syrian. now living at MuskoGee. was sold
a sorry piece of land in Northwest Creek
County by an INSCRIPTIONS land dealer.
who made 500 on the trade. The land is
now the Mussemem lease in the heart of
the north end at Gushing, and Is worth
perhaps s1.COo.OOo. from which Musselmem
receives regularly his one-eighth rayalty.
He has already received one fortune from
the old shallow-sand wells on the same
land
NJ. NJ. Brown, of Haskell. got stalled in
that town five or six years ago, after the
'blowup' of the Baldhill pool, and spent
his time drilling dry holes for four or five
years. He and several other Haskell peo-
pie took lease down in what Is now the
Cole pool. in MuskoSee County. a few
months ago. They now have three wells
producing 100 barrels daily. Brown may
leave town IL he wishes
Grant Stebbins. of Tulsa. president Of
the Gladys Belle Oil Company. is said to
have drilled thirty-two dry holes in sue
ccssion. After which he got big produc
ton in Tulsa County. at Inola, in Rogers
County. several good wells in MuskoSee
County. and nowadays cannot drill a
well without getting at least gas. Incl
dentally. he is just starting $4,000 resi-
dence at Tulsa.
A. A. Richards, president of the Tulsa
Oil Producers Association, drilled two
dry holes on l60-acre tract at Bird
Creek. on which there was already one
dry we'll. before the fourth well got a
small production. The fifth we'll was
good producer. and from this came the
start of the heavy production of the Ber-
gen and other companies in which he is
interested.
Meets Officer. of the Company.
returning 10 Muskogee from the
Boynton field that night, passing en-
route the blazing fields of the Timber |
Ridge pool with its tall torches of
burning gas, l tumbled in bed at the |
Sewers and slept as only this prairie |
ozone can make one sleep. and IL was
not until next morning that met the |
Muskogee representatives Of the Okla
homa Oil Company. who. as previously |
stated. are NJ NJ Jackson. field man
ager. who Is also a director in the |
company, and James L. Powell. the |
legal representative in this |
city.
The company's Muskogee ofices are |
on the nth floor Of the Barnes Build '