Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-06-09
SOME MORE RAMBLING
Continued from last week


Thru the courtesy of an Oklahoma friend l did not
to Tulsa by the special but went Is miles
country to another ralorad and thence to Tulsa. would
not have missed that ride for good deal take it
again for twice much.
would not have believed than automobile would go
thru the places we went. For the whole distance the
socalled road deep sand, red, by the way, and
very much like the soil the iron range. 1t had been
ripped and torn of all sembance to road where
attempt had been made at sometime to make road
Little attempt had been made to grade the hills.
tain popular breed of automobile is advertised to climb
the court house steps, but if you would combine the
court house steps and the brick pile at the Merchants
addition with of City Manager Sverts reserve piles
of gravel thoroy mix with few charges of dynamite
wash bare with torrent and expose couple Of oil mains
and dump hundred barrels of crude oil over the mess
you would have fair sample of the places climbed
and down. This is exaggeration) All this is on
the richest spot of ground the globe and the only
explanation is that every busy with oil that
has any time to build roads. After entirely
out of the oil country and into the agricultural country
found good roads, and they said to be good the
distinctively farming sections of the state.
One can hear any number of tales of great wealth
CURED thru great trbuation in the oil if you
dig around you get the stories of great dsappont
ments too Some sink their last penny and all they
beg borrow and get dry hoe while with others
their luck changes just when they go farther One
told me about sinking we'll and getting sxtybarrel
flow. He of better we'll short distance
that he ruined that sank another and got dry
hole newspaper friend actually owned forty in the
midst of what is the oil field and traded it for
Country Campbell Press. The forty is worth a
million.
In Oklahoma l picked ripe strawberries and noted
potatoes in bloom and various vegetables about ready
for the table. 1t is great state agriculturay-the
and the cotton being especially interesting to
The cotton is raised almost exclusively by the negroes
because white tho necessary
in the Cotton is planted in and then
thnned with hoe when about two feet high. Summer
days in Oklahoma said to be very lit IS
80 while there, but the nights comfortable
account of the cool breeze from the Gulf of Mexico.
In the window of a drug store at Drumright,
noticed hundreds of boxes of liver pillsenough to fill
BARREL and inquiry learned that liver trouble is
aiIment The altitude is only about 700 feet and
is given the
And, by the wa leaving Drumright the
chauffeur drove the refinery for gasoline and him
pay 20 cents gallon for it, He told % cents
up town. Harry Quigley gets his gasoline from this
field and sells it here for 20 cents)
No in this country expects gasoline to be
any cheaper tho why should be % cents in Drumbght
with 1000 producing wells within sight of the post
ofice) and 20 cents in Morris is than tell
Coming home the Frisco 1 noted at a point in
the northeast of the state number of rigs drilling
and on inquiry learned that they testing out a
body of lead Great state, is Oklahoma, rich in all
of opportunities, and the finest people there
anywhere