The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-10-18
Stony Kansas Farm
Yields $4,000
Barrels
DAVIS. GETS $4,000 DAILY VIZ
Former Local Resident Could
Not Sell Farm; Paid Taxes
and Wins Wealth

TROM NIGHT Waterman at a
- mine - affluenee and $4,000 per
day income reads like a chapter
from we'll known popular mag
azine. But truth is stranger than 1c-
ton Charley Davis, miner, prospect
or and one time rancher in Kansas
| finds himself the possessor of wealth
! beyond the fondest dreams and all
through no toll of his own
Dame. Fortune plays queer tricks and
none are quite SO queer as those play
ed in and about the average oil camp.
Old stony farms, from which the hope
less owners with difficulty grubbed out
a mere existence, have later opened up
their fountains of wealth and poured
forth riches untold. This is just about
what happened to Davis.
Begged Wife to Sign Deed.
Mr.. Davis came to Burke 13 years
ago from "a dried up farm in south
Kansas. He was disguised with farm
life and could see no future in scratch
ing around over the rocks and scanty
soil of the farm If he raised crop
the chances We're strong against him
that grasshoppers or hot winds would
beat him to it before he could get the
stuff into the granary. He was for
selling the place but no one would
buy Once he had an offer of $1,000
and rushed to make out the deed But
Mrs. Davis baked. She had put more
than $1,000 worth of worry in on the
place and was not going to Quit that
easy, so she refused to sign the papers
and with tears in his eyes Davis went
out to explain to his buyer They kept
the place and paid the taxes just why
they could not tell themselves.
Foreman at Tiger Mines
They came west. Davis became out
side foreman at the old Tiger al. Burke.
From there he went to the Standard
and later was night Watchman at the
Morning for several years. Two years
ago they moved to Oregon to try
ranching in the willamette valley.
They held on to the ranch in Kansas
and still paid taxes. Then all at once
things began to happen in the Sun
flower state. Some inquisitive genius
snooped around until he found indica-
tions of oil.a He kept on snooping un-
til he interested capital and put down
some wells.
Lake of Oil Beneath.
The world knows now what result
ed Kansas proved to be right on top
of a lake of OIL Down a couple or
thousand feet, after drilling through
some 500 feet of rock salt oil was
awaiting an owner. Stony farms be-
came wealth producers and new mil
lionaires were created over night.
In this whirlpool of excitement But
ler county led. Some one began dig
ging and oil gushed forth. Davis re-
membered his farm and he took trip
back to investigate. Some one offered
him a tempting lease and royalty and
he took it up. His lease called for from
800 to $1,000 per acre and he was to
get per cent of all oil produced on
his place. At last reports from the
Towanda News, published in Butler
county, the Carter Southwestern COM
pany was getting $4,000 barrels Of oil
daily from the Davis eighty, and oil Is
worth a little better than 81 per bar
rel. 1t is sure Davis will not worry
about the high cost at the beanery any
more. All he has to worry about is
his income tax. His per cent earns
$4,000 per day and will as long as the
oil flows.
The Miner Is always pleased to hear
of the good fortune of some old-time
Coeur dAlener and especially when
they strike it in the ground. They are
creators Of new wealth and that is
what the world needs today. 1t Is
clean money.
County Produces Enormous Amount.
The production of oil in Butler coun-
ty, Kansas, today is around $4,000
barrels every "a hours. New wells are
coming in almost daily which will soon
swell the production to 100000 barrels
per day. This means something bet
ter than a half million dollars per day
added to the worlds wealth.
The moral to this story is evident
If you own a rocky, rnout farm
back in Kansas, hold on to it and pay
the taxes. 1t may never be worth a
baop-.huf gain il NAV Dame For