The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-06
Recently Burned but Is
Rapidly Doing the
PhoneiX Act.
DANCERS AID CHURCH
Cement Plant, Railway and
New Oil Discoveries Make
Boom More Effective.
BY C. NJ. sARCHET.

worth is shaking off her ashes.
cleaning up the debris and starting
smother climb upward this week.
1T is the second start within four
years, for the town was but that
pge when fire wiped out the four
principal business blocks about six
~ DAYS ago, leaving her people
without place to eat and almost
without a place to buy--for there
..ycrc only two stores remaining when
!. the blaZe was finally extinguished.
together with the bank. "A pool hail.
the postoffice and tho telephone sta
tion.
Dilworth was established. in the
center of the northwest Kay county
oil field late In the fan OF 1915
There were several blocks of bust
neg structures, a lot OF homes and
the people were contented. for 1t
became Immediately an excellent
trading polnt---the supply center for
all the oil field that stretches for
many miles in all directions.
railroad had been Completed and
brought TO the town the supplies
and material for the surrounding
territory.
The contract for six fireproof
buildings was let this week aud 9TH
hrs will be started Immediately. ac-
N 4 ording to Tom UT, the station
Agent and one of the towns wheel
Norses. The American Lumber COM
Fnany, which had consolidated all
the four yards of the town. was wip-
ed out completely by the fire but has
reesta blished and is putting in
hardware stock in addition--a stock
that is greatly needed wherever
there is oil activity.
pirst.Day Men Are Builders.
The fact that Dilworth is rebuild
ing is due entirely to the men, who
came here in the first days and
helped lay out and build the town
and made money. They realize that
Il is an excellent trading point and
with all the oil activity coming back
II will start anew with an establish
cd business--an asset that 1t had to
acquire at the outset. In addition
10 being an oil center the town Is
located also IN one OF the most fam
ed wheat growing sections of the
state.
Another thing that is having a lot
20 do with pilworth rebuilding Is
the discovery recently OF another
productive oil sand. at about $500
feet. that is increasing development
rapidly and promises to bring back
all the fame, II not more. that this
district once had. II will mean.
proximately every hole that has been
drilled in the entire field will be
duplicated in order to reach the new
sand.
1t was the Mccaskey- wentz peo-
pie Of Ponca City who made the
discovery, about mile south of Dill
worth. where this one concern has
several sections under lease and
where hundreds of rigs now dot it's
h~1I
one 10 the new sand) was brought
IN about month ago. making L.
600 barrels. and now new rigs are
4 going up rapidly along side the
ones already standing. Every loca-
ticu on tho McCaskey-W tracts
will he redrilled and all the rig
material and other supplies are
hauled out of Dilworth. Since the
Wentz discovery. too, 9th
or companies are getting busy and
this summer win no doubt be the
busiest that the Dilworth locality
has ever witnessed.
4 Monster Gas Field.
II n due TO the Dllworth commun-
itv That the people Of Kansas. and as
FAR east as Kansas City even. have
had natural gas during the past few
years, for this has been a monster
natural gas production field from
tne iirSt ana Is SUN making seVerdI
hundred million cubic feet daily.
Tho Empire company practically
controls the gas output and nearly
all of 1t is plped northward into
kansas. Originally lot of tho gas
Nfrom this field went to northern OK
Nlahoma towns and some is still go
slng to Enid through a purchase con-
tract by the Oklahoma Natural
company. Dilworth has had her
own gas supply thus far from the
wells drilled on the townsite by b.
y, Jones, a number OF years ago.
The headquarters in this field for
the Empire company Is at Dilworth.
where all the employees live. and
the oil field camp Of the McCaskey-
Wentz company Is located also just
south of town
The construction Of tho greatest
cement plaster plant in the south
wesfis also under way at Dilworth,
where the American Cement Plast-
er company of Chicago has several
sections Of land under gyspum lease.
The deposits are unusually heavy,
as hundreds OF test holes have
shown, and Il will take a big factory
10 handle the product. The en-
p'oyes OF tho plant will live in Dill
worth, arrangements having been
made by the oil Field Short Line
railway TO furnish motor service 10
and from the factory.
The Railroad 10 Braman.
The oil Field Short Line, which
connects Dilworth with the outside
world leaves the Arkansas city
Enid line OF the Frisco near Peck
ham and is now being extended