Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
In GREASE" RICHES
|I W BY MILLIONS
/ FARMER FOLK
I've Daily Income in Ex-
1 what They Earned
Before the "Oil
| Strike.
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TpXdS.-llSIS
0na, Of the awakening o.
lance sno Of srS illustration ,t
Is, aa0 r,,ral village growing
hao pd before its inhabitants
ga anu thev are not all in a
ize sn nsona-. the name of a
p e;r1 that once romped over
slddl v 'aiae of this shaggy
anu :, west Texas-scarce
! If f. three stores and a vii
81 , VI the oil men came.
~ ! railroad, thirty
J from h.v the county seat, 1t
mped-up little sealawag ;n Oh ;+ a
IN. IN is satisfied HsfS' with its cir cir
ers Sunday schools, day
literary gts societies, play par
inner REVEALS, and It's con-
r s'9i%e Of the peace and farm
opened that a man named an,a
4 a farm there was a geoio-
E,ct + It happened that the
Il happened that the e
:. 80 If Ranger pointed
and and that oil men followed
|, lead. It happened that a
drilled on the Duke farm
i produced oil to the ex-
several 1s thousand barrels. a
tantily the region about be,
s avn as the Duke field, and
sdemona-which some pugna-
rsons have unsympathetically
through the use OF the ap,
Of Hogtown-was trampled
almost completely forgot
he outside world.
was a happy name, in spite
Fact that dukes have about
nut out of jobs in the ma
dukes, and in the exultant
kks that followed the oil dis
10 less than a doben oil COM
Eprang into existence herald
nselves unto some measure
as different vintages ano
Of this capitalized word sug'
Of royalty. One of them
led the heart Of the duke anc
sly slapped it on the face OF
Ind Desdemona lay low.
Desdemona was not long low
more persons of every class
" to the development of ar
settled there. The Duke vel
III a monster that it drew
DIS of interested persons ant
Ids Of curiosity seekers. A big
the whole of the west Texa:
Fict went thither one day OF
Desdemona's main street
tended. On it were built, in
and ragtown fashion, hotels,
pnts, picture shows, banks,
stores, drink stands and 9TH
sssary establishments.
streets were opened and
y-built shacks soon lined
Building made rapid progress
was too slow. Tents solved
blem. One of them is a hote]
the west end of Main street
Re lined along alleys, just in.
broken-down fences put there
Ter days. Old-time residen.
h steep sloping sideroom roofs
X chimneys, with yards full Of
y lilacs and red roses, stand
nclent grounds CALAMITY, near.
" front door opening upor
Of new lumber and behind the
fhe roar Of gas wells and the
pa the chug of drilling mach
thriving Oil Town Now.
Pndred business houses are IL
\ Desdemona. Night and day
eets are filled with moving
come OF them, khaki-clad anc
FED, clean-shaven and booted
P Pm, from big population cen,
Nher belong to geological
scouting stats, leasing agen.
= others drill wells, dress tool.
P,ng. drive teams, propel jit.
Pr ~ sodas. and others seen
|a'l dav long. Snrinkled in tn,
Pre- the newlv-rich from thu
aus "tt'ng the Juice II
n Luslne stv'e TO polished, high,
Y cars. splitting the crowd:
n. .,. from their horns. awk,
'elX'~ ~ the wheels this way
l. III p.t'"o fragrant cigars ane
rrr dlSnlayin" full-garhed ev.
''s :" evidence Of nros.
,me rather glories in +hei,
\, |, lor one discerns that these
y :. women . have suffered diver,
l.. am all their concomitart
'"s during long wears Of toll
'' ,. apprehension. Now the
! 9. water isn't So important.
th are a doben wells producing
f;o,s scrscov sauoaks and thu
hon how wing I'M again the in.
,o u"ana,ries Of this unincorpor
onss village. and tn,
i s% i r :, that there is not ;
e,r; me entire region. A hun
! MIS- NAV he counted from ;
cow wan street. and thnir trir
Nbo. "ste the rim Of the ho~i.
4 'r ~ IS Known as the Krcw,a,
IN t'd as much as 12.O0(
NO, nar;a , record of 1000 barrel:
;r.a vets Monster Gasear.
owu rsrsstlng Of them all-savt
IL Nners Of actually PRODUCTIVE
was the Cosda,
vith;nl arm Of $. r. Carru+h. 81
M stones throw of tn,
mo n MS was a monster passe,
i sa'd was nrod,,cin0 a,