Arizona republican., 1919-03-19
TEXAS IN GRIP
 OF LATEST MAD
 BOOM FUR OIL
Wild Tales Come Out Of New-Found Fields-For- tunes Made In Day-Sec Hand of Fortune.

Tcxas is again in the midst of 1 ircu2icd ol boom Every traveller that arrives from the lone star state has new story to tcl of the boom, and ev- cry Tcxas paper received has some thlng Co add about it. According to even tn" most conservative reports, Texas ls al the present time in the most ol the greatest oil boom since tbe Kansas -Oklahoma fields were struck H l'w yeass ego.
 Mauy petsnns see che hand of fate iu the new hi- oil strikes in Texas, and poMt ou that every time an oil famine threatens the country some new ticll Is opened u1 and comes ,o the rescue Ftst it was California. Then. four years ago it was the great Gushing field in oklahoma, the larges, yct found in this county. Then came the northern oklahoma and southern Kansas fields. Now it seems Texas Is rushing To tho front with fields no one ever dreamed of
 Tte ol boom .n Texas has now been In cNistancc a few weeks. and in that time. everybody who has seen it has caught Inc fever To go near the fields. say those who have been there.
 
 excitement thc mad rush after real and unreu'lzsd prosperity that has drawn every one in the oil districts into its turmoil With the exception or Splndlctop years ago. it Is said, no ol boom in history has ever been at- tended with such elemeys Of stam- pcde and fury as that now on in north ccr'r ral nll western Texas.
 Two things m the boom stand out as cv 'rcmes. siv those who have tak- on time tA look the situation there over S-0 iobbing and promotion, rank and rotten arc spreading out lkN fast- growing fungus. On the other hand the Standard oil and oth- er huge companies are steadily fight in- their way into the district spend ing millions of dollars for leases and development.
 Tales of Mad Scramble
 Tho tales that comes out Of the oi fields where tho boom is at it's height indicate thc mad scramble that is go- ing on They tell of the village scav- cngcr who happened to have ten acres ot land that he could not get rid of; they found oil on it and now his in- come ie a thousand dollars a day They tell of ranchers whose ranches were hardly good for anything. ant now they are pouring out money lik, water.
 Before the oil boom started tn, people that owned the land were no very particular about it. l. is gener ally unfit even for grazing. Now. who ever owns even an acre Is looked upoi by his fellow citizens as a most for tunatc creature. While the boom ha, already made fortunes by inc score i is vet hardly started. and no on, knows how far it can go. Those wh' have land or stock are clinging to it those who have not arc trying tt Y get it.
 Tho people who have made the mos money out of the boom are reported as regarding it as sort of huge joke They did not expect it. but now tha it has fallen upon them, they take il their money and laugh at their goo, fortune The little towns Of Range and Burkburnett. perhaps the tw most important in the fields. hay Jumped almost over night into tn metropolitan class. with motor car by the hundred and money to burr Fort Worth and Fl Paso are also feel ing the heat of it. with the town ''full' and money free and easy c spending.
 Almost everybody that has returne from the district however. can poir out one thing. So far as the publi knows. no ono has lost money on th boom. That IS because tho rich strike and hauls alone are shouted out [ tho world. while no one has time { talk of the failures. in the mad rusl
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 BROTHERS ARE ACCUSED - Rs West and Richard West. charged wit simple battery will be given their tri; at 10 o'clock Friday morning befor Justice Wheeler. C. J. Pollard is tf complaining witness.