The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-21
Writ, Okla, Improves Conduct

The following letter from the no
'torious "Ragtown" of the Healdton
field appears in the Oil and Gas
Journal of date of August 16:
Writ, Okla, Aug. 1.-Two years
ago when this town started on its
gay career, it "was sure tough" to
quote the language of the adjacent
oil leases. 1t had any of those movie
towns made famous by the eminent
Bill Hart, backed off the dump for
downright wickedness. Babilon,
an early day oil hamlet back
in Pennsylvania was Sunday school
picnic compared with Wirt-even If
the late Ben Hogan was the leading
citizen of the said Babylonian ham
let. Drumright, a modern petroleum
city, has been and is still about as
bad as they make 'em, but in pro-
portion to its size, Writ had Drum
right faded. Tulsa is a great big
overgrown oil village and it surely
is bad, Judging from what one reads
and hears, and there are other places
that might be mentioned, but in
Writ, toughncss has been intensive
and insistent.
Murders, robberies, gambling,
bootlegging "and ct cetera,' as Cor
poral Keefc would say, were estab
lished customs. Municipal regula-
tions were conspicuous by their alb
sence. 1t was a go as you please
place in matters advocated by the
City-beautiful movement. That ac-
counts for the pied street map which
instead OF running lines at right an
giles and other respectable directions,
merely followed the lines of least re-
sistance. The architecture of Writ
is picturesque and varied-chieily
the latter.
The town has acquired reputa-
tion for evil that is spread far and |
wide and it will take some time to
wash this reputation out, but it will
be washed out if the present self
acting reform movement can be kept
moving.
The high jacks are gone; the card
swindlers are invisible; the frivolous
vampires have fluttered afar. There
are rarely any local shooting fatal
ities. Sanitation is bit shy, but
it may come some day. The high cost
is with us, but that is nothing
specially unique. owing to the war
which was started by Beastly Bill OF
Berlin.
\ man need not expect to be |
robbed so suddenly now as he was =
in nights agone. He need not expect
to hear sounds of wasSail in the {
cleaning next door. People are t
sober. t
Writ, being in Oklahoma, can rev. {
er expect to become a Puritanical |
town. but it is certainly headed in I
the direction of rectitude. We can !
not reform our streets, but we can |
reform our conduct. a
The Humble test in section IS c
2s3w will be finished as gasser i
owing to inability to mud Off the
gas. and 4 new hole will be started {
for oil. The we'll will make about I
100000 cubic feet Of gas.
The Jamerson test in section II, !,
2s4w. is expected to drill into the Il
sand today. This test is be +,
ing drilled for Roy NJ. Johnson and II
Writ Franklin. h
The Plains Oil and Gas Com y
pany'S No. Harding in section o, h
2sSw, is drilling at l,450 feet. y
The Dempsey Oil and Gas Com i
oany. in section 80 ls5w. is shut in q
II 500 feet as a gasSer. The rig will Il
DC moved to section S3 ls5w, about in
,ne and one half miles west OF the h,
yasser. "
Doughitt & Melton No. 3 in sec o,
ion q, 2s4w. is drilling below 800 #. St
OF
The Gypsy oil Company is drill
ng No. ! in section Is 2s4w.
The 77-Bar Oil Company is start NJ
ng well No. in section p 2s4w.
The Mckinney Oil and Refining
Company. in section 80 ls6w. is drill T.
ng below 1900 feet. and expect to :.
nd the pay at about 1000 feet. ~ ~
In the Duncan Field
The Magnolia No. ?. in section p
SOW. is drilling at about l.l00 feet.
10. ; in the same section. is drill re
lg at 1900 feet.
The Carter Oil Company. in sec
on ls9w, is drilling below 1000 nc
.et. 10
XII
The c. & 6. Oil and Refining Com
any, in section ? 2s9w, IS drilling loi
about 1000 feet. m
The Ranola, in section IL lsow is