The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-09

of the popular makes of cars, and sales run very
high.
All lines of business are well represented.
There are several groceries, clothing stores, shoe
stores, furniture stores, hardware stores dry goods
stores, drug stores millneries and haberdasheres,
all OF which do great deal of business. The call
for the best in Pill things makes Pawhuska an ex-
ceedingy good town for the travelling salesman,
well as for merchants
The various activities connected with pc
troleum production and refining have increased
the volume of business in all lines, in Pawhuska
and IN Usage county as whole In addition to
this many new businesses which are more closely
allied with oil field development have established
themselves in Pawhuska and helped her growth
and prosperity more than the most optimistic per-
son would have believed possible a few years ago.
Additional business houses for the service of the
general public do not appear more rapidly than do
new lumber companies, machine shops and supply
houses. Three machine shops and three supply
companies have recently joined Pawhuskas bust
ness ranks, and other concerns Of similar nature
are now looking for sites.
The oil and gas resources Of Usage county, and
their development might be given columns Of COM
ment and the half would not be said. II is hardly
necessary to state that the development of these
resources Is Of the greatest interest to the United
States, and even to the world In addition to the
more immediate interest to the owners and lessees
. Of the oil lands of the county Though develop
ment is but little more than well started, Usage
county is already regarded one of the most
promising of the larger oil fields in the southwest.
If there were any doubt that opportunities to oper-
ate In the Usage are In great demand, an account
Of last Wednesdays sale Of Usage oil leases would
convince the most skeptica. The sale of the leases
upon 16,800 acres of land, in tracts Of 100 acres
each In the eastern portion of the county, totaled
S3 034 900, or an average Of $173.63 an acre. A
smaller number Of tracts In the west half brought
an average of $28.09 an acre. The following are
the larger sales: Testlog Oil Company, 100000;
Haverhill Petroleum Company, $l31 900; Gypsy
Oil Company-Phillips Petroleum CompanyMc-
Mann Oil Corporation-J. j. McGraw, Sal 900;
Rex Oil and Gas Company and Pyramid Oil Com
pany, 1854 900; Flesner Petroleum Company-Od
Dominion Oil Company, $l75, 900; Gypsy Oil Com
pany-Phillips Petroleum Company-E. p Harwe
and j. J. McGraw, S210 900, and j. H. Alexander
100000. At similar sale held last October, the
Gypsy Oil Company and allied interests purchased
one tract for the sum of 100000 While half that
figure the highest reached in the recent SALE
there is sufficient indication that development In
the Usage will proceed rapidly, since these leases
sold subject to the immediate drilling Of test
wells.
According to an act of Congress approved June
%, 1906 "The oil, gas, coal other minerals
cred by the lands for the selection and division Of
which provision is herein made are hereby reserved
to the Usage Tribe for period of twenty-five
years from and after the 9Th day of April, 1906
After this period. they become the absolute prop
erty Of the individual members Of the tribe. In
the meantime, the oil and mineral rights leased
as indicated in the preceding paragraph The two
lease sales held in l9lS-n March and October
nclLeu Jne usage lrlDe more lnAn Blk fnllllOnS OF
dollars Recent development in the eastern part
Of the county gave II better idea Of the confines
of the oil pool there, and had much to do with
the great interest in the leases in that section Of
fered at this last sale.
The future of Pawhuska is hard to forecast
yet it is impossible to believe that the city will not
continue to grow rapidly and steadily. The various
civic improvements now under way are being un-
dertaken with the idea Of making ample provision
for such growth. There seems to be no reason why
Pawhuska should not, within few months, com
pare favorably with such cities as Bartesville and
Arkansas City. Even if nothing done to en-
courage its growth, the natural advantages and the
constantly developing industries aside from the oil
business enough to insure an increase to two
three times its present size. And the oil activi
ties in themselves, sufficient to necessitate the
continued growth and prosperity,of city which is
now much more prosperous than it is often the
good fortune of any community to be. With the
foresight and preparation which the commercial
club and city fathers are exhibiting, the possibii-
ties of Pawhuska's future are truly remarkable.
When beauty and intelligent prosperity go hand
in hand, there is lStle left to be desired.