The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
BY W. =. Kerr.

RlNGLlNG, Okla, Sept. 0,--(Spe
oial)--There Is revised version oi the
scripture which says that the cattle
on a thousand hills are thine" The
word "anticlncs" superocde, the word
hills This version applies to several
states oi the middle west and west but,
more particularly to Oklahoma, The
reason is found in the fact that there
"a no, A county among the seventy -eigh,
IN Oklahoma that has not been pros.
pected oinr oil or gas, and only few
remain tha, have no, been test. pune
tured by a drill II IA not improbable
that there is not county IN the state
that hasn't some oil and gas a, well as
antiollncs,
Stock Mlesmen in travelling over
counties tar removed from producing
fields find IN discussing oil that there
il dry hole" somewhere near the
scene oi the conversation. lie usually
finds ako that a banker, 4 doctor a
lawyer of some other person OF that
community spent practically everything
he had in that hole The average Of
conversations like this do not end un.
III some one proiicrs the suggestion
that the we'll was not drilled deer
enough for = thorough test OF such
wells one often hears that there /, a
mystery somewhere Perhaps the drill
crs. paid by some big concern. found
oil and never lc, the owner Of the tract
know about Il Probably the company
drilling the hole decided, after entering
an oil sand, to lay low until il needed
to develop the new field it discovered
Maybe a well was purposcly ruined ior
money A hundred shred, Of mystery
may be surmised about the oil industr
in nearly every Oklahoma county,
Towns Build between Suns.
Validating has caused migra,ion'
almost equal to- some OF the runs ioI
public lands In Oklahoma Ccr,ainl,
II has built quite number OF rng,own,
between suns. "1hc mex, big strike
10 talked Of as nonthalantly AZ once |,
was In the mining sections OF the Rock,
mountains, Houses are left on runner
that they may be skidded TO the mex
developing field Lots are leased no
purchased, and families We, along scAnt
lily that moving equipment may be don,
with all the celcrity possible.
The trend OF validating during III,
last lew Years has been TO the west il
Oklahoma. This was started primaril,
by discovery OF the Ilealdton field an,
extensions and deeper sand discovcfie
IN the fields Of Clay county Texas
Wildcatting developed An important pro
ducing area in the region OF Newkirlt
Blackwell and Ponca City Within IN
last year il brouah, In what promise
to be one OF the best Oklahoma pro
duccrs in Garfield county |, found
great gas field in the region OF Fo
and another near Walters, In Co,to
county.
Boom Strikes Many Counties
, II caused the expenditure OF not les
than $1,000 600 for leases and drillin
operations in Stephens county II mad
expensive explorations in Garvin, Nc
Claim. Murray, Marshall. Love, Grad
Comanohc and Caddo counties. /, en-
tered Texas MI blocked acreage up
1000 acres in Young, Palo Pinto, Ar
cher, Jack, Montague, Stephens an
Hardeman counties, II caused muc
expenditure in test wells IN Cook an
Grayson counties.
In all these operations geologists lie,
the way, They found everywhere fin
face formations and characterize,
sands as being akin to those Of cstab
lished Oklahoma or Texas fields. Som
big operators secuted northwest iron
Garfield county and test wells arc drill
ing or soon will he drilling in Wood,
Woodward, Harper, Alfalfa and Tcxa
counties Grca, blocks of leases hav
been obtained in other western Okla
homa counties. Among those in whicl
there Is much interest is Tillman, II
which several big companies are op
Grating
II Geolooists rereptly have travetss,