The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-22
A KANSAS OIL FIELD
The General Manager Is a Former
Garrett COuntain.
o the Editor of The Republican.

In my last letter l said l would give a
description of the Eldorado oil fields in
my next letter. which will now try to
do, but before doing this l want to say
little more about Oklahoma.
| have discovered that Oklahoma is
very much like Garrett county, Mary
land especially the region around Oak
land, except that it is on larger scale.
The low level praires are very similar
to the land around Weber's and Pleas
ant Valley only much more extensive.
the high prairie is much the same as
the land around Sunny Side on the hills
between Oakland and Mt Lake Park.
The hills, and there is plenty of them,
are like the hills east of Oakland, not
being quite so high and equally as rock
ey or more so. The trees on these hills
are much smaller than our trees, the
cattle much larger. The roads are
deep dust trails, the bed being dust and
sand dug cut so much with hauling that
they are difficult to get over. They
have very poor roads outside the towns
and cities.
The country is very dry; the grass
dark brown, water very scarce, all of
which seems to be enc of the character
istic of the country. In talking with
an old settler about the dry weather a
few days ago, he told me the following
story as true one, you may judge.for
yourself as to Its merits.
Many years ago two brothers came
to Oklahoma to make their fortune in
the cattle business. and the first year
happened to be dry and hot and dusty.
Their little crops were failures; many
of their cattle died; their money was
gone; their supply of food was almost
exhausted and it was decided that one
brother was to stay ard look after
this small property while the other was
to go east for money and food, so he
started without money, but with plenty
ofnerve and small bit Of flour in a sack
After he had devoued the flour, and
lust before he came to the railroad, he
came across the bones Oft man. possibly
an Indian. These bones he put in his
floursack and carried them on to the
railroad. When he got on the train the
conductor demanded his fare east. He
burst into tears and SAID, l have no
ticket, neither have | money, my
brother and | came out here together
He died and requested that l take him
home in the east, to bury him. The
conductor demanded that he be shown
the body, where upon the cattle man
emptied his flour sack on the car floor.
With chokeing voice the conductor
said: you shall go as far as this roac
goes" 1t is said these men are very
wealthy cattle dealers today, and il
this story is true they had the nerve
But l am forgetting Colorado, the
great oil town of the West.
Eldorado is the county seat of Butter
county, Kansas, and is the SECOND
county north of the Oklahoma line
From Eldorado, south and little west
is the great Eldorado oil field, which
has been in operation for two years anC
up until this past summer they haC
found no real large wells although there
had been drilled several thousand well:
of various capacities up to two or three
hundred barrels.
The following is the story told of the
great Trap Shooter Well. A party haC
drilled well near the trap shooter:
shooting ground, which was dry in the
known sands. He then sold the we'll t
the party Of sports who owned and op
perated the clay pigeon game. They
all being game kept on drilling with the
result that a few months ago they
struck the sand that was about 30OC
feet deep. The well began to flow al
the rate of from 20, coo to 25, 600 barrels
per day. Since that time the Empire
Oil Co., has bought in two wells each
of which are making above Is, 600 bar
rels per day. The manager of the
Trap Shooters company is Geo. L.
Kimmell, formerly of near Oakland,
and his wife was Miss Marie Grusen-
dorf. who is also Garrett county CIR
and whose parents now live at Edge,
wood near Hutton. The position held
by Mr.. Kimmel is one of the very best
positions in the Kansas oil field, as his
company has now taken over other
properties until they have a com
bination of properties representing a
$50, 600, 900 corporation.
The large wells are found in low
droves in the structure of the oil bear
ing formation, the domes being lower
than the water around them and tn
water collected in the top of these
domes when tapped is forced out by
the pressure at wonderful rate.
However all these domes do not con-
tain oil, Some may be too low and con-
tain water. In others the sand NAV be
too hard and fine to contain tn oil, and
after the peolopist has poada q tboro,c,b