Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-11-14
Richest School District Had Tzuo
Oil Wells and q Socialist Board

IEMETA Okla Noy. I$.-ono
hundred boys ana girls, m most pa,t
the sons ana daughters of oil field
NDrkm, d, are now attending the
Pleasant ilill district school. about
five miles southeast Of pemcta what
BIS known AS the richest school dis
uict i'm the state. II also has another
distinction all the district directors
are active Socialists Since wealth
was attained, too, there are now two
sch"olhouses in tch two-acre yard,
moC"rn building having been erected,
ma the old and the new stand side
hN side.
It would Dee difficult matter tn
find such another SChoolyard any
whore in the world In several III
stances in the oil field districts or
oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana
ana other eastern states the school.
house yards have been drilled for on
ana gas, but this one is said to be
unique because of the vast amount of
equipment ON the property two oh
wells. flow tanks, stock tanks.
pumping station, a lease house, two
scHuolhouscs, and a location for
third Well
The two wells now producing on
this schOOlNurd have several offsets
on adjacent properties, and the school
houses are we'll surrounded by oil
wells i'm all directions II is i'm the cen
ter of one of the heaviest producing
sections OF the field, and development
in that ucighburhood has been rapid
ana unocasng But little playground
is left for the children, aud so at re-
cess ana at noon time they play hide
and seek among the dcTricks, dodge
the pipe lines at "blacll man, and
make use Of the tanks i'm the old
game of "auti-uNcr" And it makes
| little difference II the old yarn ball
| should fall into a puddle of oil, Tor
! the children of that community ahye
! learned that oil is the one important
! thing in the only world that they
| know.
Is Operated by Company.
The Pleasant nm school-yard oil
/ and gas lease is operated by an oil
|companN which took the name of the
| district as its own when "a state char
ter was secured during March, 1914.
| The oriElnators of the scheme to Sc
| cure "a lease on the yard and drill it
| for oil and gas were John II. IIadlcy
| Griffith, at that time an Cmployc of an
| Griffith, at taht time an ompluyo of an
| oil field supply concern. The former
| is now president and the latter secer-
! ,ary-trcasurcr and also lease foreman
of the Pleasant Hin oil x Gas Co.
| Both are former Housicrs. natives of
/ enc Of the oil field districts of that
state. and they came tn Oklahoma
| about the same time.
The oil field was being rapidly de-
/ Nclupud, and II was even then begin
ming to hc difficulty to acquire de-
/ sirahlc territory ON which to drill un-
, less enormous prices were paid fol
/ tine land or leases. Hadlcy and Grlf-
| nth had studied the situation care.
| my and finally determined that
/ there should be- "a schooNard ol
churchyurd somewhere in the oil dis.
uirt where an oil lease c.uld bc ub-
tanned. They found II moro arduous
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he sehuolyard lease and began drill
ling operations their property was
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