Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-04

to cost $4,000. water works, an electric
light plant. two more movie theatres and
one of the finest 'honky-tonk' dance halls
in the Oil country. A 'Honky-tonk' dance
hall is one where the proprietor FUR
nishes the booze and the girls, and you
furnish the money There is a small one
there now, but he is only taking in s.oo
or $500 a day, and the spenders are In
sistng on something grander and mors
elaborate. -
The day left. the first bath tub i'll the
city arrived and they organized quite 4
street parade to escort it up to tie doc
tors house.
One man came to Shamrock with the
intention of building church, but from
the last report he is going set. but in an
casterly direction.
So the next time you sit in the Colonial
or the Opera House. and see Il Western
picture, with all the fine edges. fights
and all. don't laugh to yourself and think
how improbable it all is, but just re-
member that in Shamrock. Shannon
Township, Creek County. Oklahon1t, you
can see the real thng-oniy take up
! from me- and don't start anything. for
if you do, all your friends will ride
slowly behind you, bat you'll be in the
first carriage, and won't hear the speak
ing.
AS l was walking down 'Tipperary
Road to get the Tank line out OF
, town. l saw "A huge crowd around .
| street fakr and mixing in, saw that he
WAS DEMONSTRATING the non-eXpl0siNe
| properties of a new explosive. He hit il
with hammer. dropped it on the
ground, threw it in the air and caught It,
and as there was a well about ready te
! he tired he finished his demonstration by
shooting the we'll" as it is called. Ii
the Gushing field they drill from 1245 e
| 24QN feet for their oil and after they hit
| for IA while there is gas. water rocks ans
sand in the air, until the oil starts flow
! ing Then if the flow dies down, they
put in the drill hole 100 pounds OF dyna
mite, then a layer of sand, then pour II
some nitro-glycerine. and some more
sand. | was standing within - feet o
| one well when they shot it. The tim,
| fuse. eXplodes the dynamite, and the dy
| Mantle eXplodes the ntro-glycerine. an,
| the latter does the rest. Although th'
could feel the earth culver and tremble
! and in about two or three minutes th'
! sand and dirt came out of the drill hole
| and then came the oil. This time the,
| had hit "gusher" and the oil went int
| the air in a stream 200 feet high. ant
| when | left town it was still flowing,
, But it isn't all thus easy. One fellow
named Davis has sunk II wells. and eacl
! one has been dry WE'LL and it cost
from $4,000 to $1,000 to sink a well. I
| seems to me that it is this element o
chance that draws the men; they know
that they VIII make or lose fortune
! People who have seen New York
| white Way think that it is bright
with it's thousands of electric lights, blu
they should see Shamrock at night wit
its natural gas lights. They Just run
pipe into the air from a gas well, tur
! on the gas, touch a match to it. an
you have a gas light 20 or so feet high
and the flame two or three feet thick. an
the gas is plentiful that they don
shut off their torches of fire" when day
light comes, but they burn all the time
| 1t is no doubt. one of the most pic
turesque. and the youngest city in tn
| United States.
]. s. RANDALL.