The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-20

threatening to call in ferocious
Texas Ranger, who is supposed to
eat up all evil doers. But his bluff
did not work, and he accepted the
price stated. Five dol lars an hour
for each machine would have been
fair. They had been in service ten
hours, and three hours to return to
Ranger would have made $3.50. That
is considerable money for two men
with but $1,000 worth of machinery
to earn in so short a time. 1t looks
like there were other profteers be-
side the packers. -
Labor Unions
Are reported strong and strenuous.
1t is related that two or three weeks
ago a Greek restaurant keeper had
an alteration with a we'll driller; and
in fracas the we'll driller had an eye
punched out. The next day well drill
lers in a body visited the place and
proceeded ,F
To Do Things
To that restaurant. They broke
it up in business completely, and then
ran the proprietor and his help out
from town. After that they went about
to all restaurants run by foreigners
and ordered them to make themselves
scarce, which they proceeded to do.
Transportation
Into the Desdemona Oil Field comes
over three lines of railways: Texas
Pacific, from Eastland and Ranger
on the north, at distances of eighteen
and twenty miles respectively: st.
Louis & San Francisco Railway, at
Stephenville twenty miles southeast;
and eleven miles south to DeLeon, on
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
way. A
New Railroad
Is projected and will be construct
ed shortly from Wichita Falls, on the
] Denver & Fort Worth Railway, about
eighty, miles north of Ranger
through the latter named place and
Desdemona, to Dublin, the junction
with the Frisco road with the M. K
& T. 1t will be about 140 miles in
length and will give great impetus
to the Desdemona region.
The new road will be built by Mr.
Jake Hamon who has made deal of
money in oil operations, and has all
the ready cash necessary to build and
equip such a road. He has laid out a
new townsite in the Desdemona region
at point about four miles south of
that place; and there will be big
auction of lots in the townsite of
lJakehamon, next Monday, September
%. The general concensus of opinion
that it will be quite good town.
Standard Oil The Pioneer
Before the world at large had be-
gun to realize the great possibilities
in the virgin oil field of North Gen.
tral Texas scouts for the Standard
Oil combination had made careful in
vestigation, and upon their recon-
mendation leases had been taken up
on many very valuable properties in
most if not al of the oil fields of the
Lone Star State by the Pairie Oil
/, Company. Magnolia Petroleum Co.
: Humble Oil Co., Plains Oil Company
Mid-Kansas Oil Co., and others Of
: various corporations into which the
Standard Oil dissolved when the Su
preme Court of the United State
: 'swhipped the devil around the stump
when it decreed dissolution of thai
colossal monopoly.
:: Early leases went very low in price
:: per acre; but all provided one-eighth'
: royalty from all production to owners
of the land. Later leases have beer
/ much higher. Some of them have
been mentioned already.
And now this screed has come to
p the
Basis Of All Activity
Hinted, a glimpse of which is giver
in the following excerpt from Fort
Worth Record.
''They are doing things in the Ran
ger field. Development there costs
$5OO,OO0 day. There are 500 strings
of tools now at work in the Ranger
and Desdemona districts. Vast ex-
lpenditures are being made for build
ing of pipe lines, tank farms, houses
for operatives and to handle develop
ments there are $500 motor trucks
at work, $40 day each being paid
for their services, or 100000 a day
They are doing things in the oil fields
of West Texas"
Oil Development:
\ Which to those uninitiated seen
I obscure and hardly understandable
men can know where to bore for oil
with reasonable chance to find it
yet to the geologist, and to those wht
have given any attention to thai