The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-27
LEAVING FOR CAMP
Upon reaching camp see Red cross field

: ment and who gained just a fair living Along came the experts and prospectors who were sure they discovered evidences that beneath the soil of his farm there were deposited great pools of oil There upon an arrangement was made witn .,.m bv which he received a few thousani collars ia case for the lease and a guar antee of a certain royalty in case OH came from the wells. This farmer, dressed in overalls and of perfect sim- plicity of manner, not having any sex consciousness, ws-s crossing the street lo Enid when the attention Of one of the New York business men was called 10 him by a banker. This banker said that the farmer was receiving royalties amounting to $500 day, and he did not know what to do with the noney.s The only extravagance which he permitted himself was investment in automobiles. an1 he had accumulated five of them
 which he was fond of driving. one upon oile day, and another the next
 A PATHETIC INCIDENT
 When Oklahoma was opened up by the
 
 the civil war took up a parcel of land and with his wife went to live upon 1t. He built a sort of shack of a farm he-isa and he cultivated the soil There were no cEi,drsn nor any near Of kim but ,nls ol>>rrr. couple lived in happiness upon tub = 'ased farm. apparently not desii- i.g any more of the worlds goods than th1y possessed.
 Then < experts. the men of science. and the prcspectors appeared and after
 Investigation began negotiating with this aged farmer. They paid him some. casf. for leaseho-i. rights and agreed to pf., him certain ,rcysJtias in case tae wells which tire, planned to drive yieldea oil Now tha, farmer and his wife aie receiving u-Lrly $-.U day in royal ties, fur the wells spurted forth oil 90 , that thousands oft barrels came from them every aas Yet this aged couple continue to live as simply ana as unos- tentatiously as they always had, appar- ently net knowing what3to dc with their money except to put it into the bank. and having no children or near. kin they must Le wondering what will become of the money after they have passed away.
 The oil fields Of the Enid district are now yielding so richly that a reVenhe If S750O0,0vO day is reported on high authority tc be furnished by them. Of course, where prosperity of that kind IS associated with oil production there IS no temptatlon to attempt to persuade the public to make investment in oil stocks The Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil coni- pany, which recently developed unex- pectedIy, a.most accidentally. wonder ful oil producing property in Texas, IS seefing no market for it's stock, nor will any of it be offered for. sale. The prom lse of permanent rich returns IS sunl- cientlJ good to prevent any of the holders of the stock from offering it for sale That is true of the Enid district and therefore speculative activity of the kind which has sometimes caused distress and disappointment to many persons who were persuaded to buy oil stock at low figure ooes not characterize the Enid district. It was as recently as 1916 that test well was drilled in the extreme eastern part of Garfield county. northern central Oklahoma The chief reason for exper- imental well digging there is to be found in the fact that the pioneer farmers hal obsedved that gas was escaping, from the soil The attention of some experts vas called to this, but they, reasoning from the precedep.s and the text books, declared that tfele was no oil in com mercial quantities beneath the surIacc. However. the pioneers decided to make experiment. They started operations. and in the fall of 1916 the drill puncture oil sand to which was given the name of Hoy sand" because these operations these operations were undertaken upon the so-called Hoy farm" At 1000 feet oil began to flow. yielding 90 barrels day immediately second well was drilled l500 feet and it also yielded oil. so the pioneers were persuaded that ,i' and propably great oil pools are far be- meath tEe surface. perhaps 20Oo feet. The oil that flowed was of the highest quail ity, running at about g degrees gravity. So one after another the pioneer farm CTS and others who ventured into the dts- trict began drilling wells and the atten- tion Of the geologist was called to the discovery After careful investigations the geoloeists were of the common opin- ion that these oil pools extend from FL dorado Kan. through Texas and into Mexico One of the pools is yielding D. 600 barreis day. one of the wells is yield ing 1000 barrels a day For the country at large the discovery and operation of these new and wonderfully rich oil fieidS is of importance, stnes t will remove