The Pulaskian., 1921-06-23
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The meaning of the word Fl Do rado'' is City of Gold" and though the town has borne this name since 1 l847 it was not until last January that 1t actually became a city of gold, and even the streets are now being sprinkled with oil, which is liquid gold. There are great lakes of ii, and il is flowing down every little branch. Yes, there is oil in Fl Do rado, and millions of barrels of it. Some people never believed in fu- ture for Fl Dorado.
 Amongst these doubling ones were two editors, who were in line in front of me as we walked up town. One of them was 82 years old, and the other is just reaching the prime of l life. Both of them left Fl Dorado just thirty-three years before to a day. The old man pointed out property which he had owned and sold. ''That place over there" l heard him say, T sold for $500. l do not suppose that it could be rented today for $500 a month.
 This was time of coincidents, for at noon the chairman of the enter tainment, with watch in hand, called on Mir. Stout, of the 5. W. Telegraph and Telephone Co.,, to stand up with his family, which they did At this hour and this moment and this sec ond, nine years ago, MT. and Mrs. Stout were married here" As suited the occasion, there was great ap- plause, for Mir. Stout and his com pany are very popular with the news paper people. At every convention he extends to us the free use of the long distance phone, and but for my timely use of this privilege l would have had to hunt a different lodging place at l o'clock in the morning, when I returned to Little Rock.
 A fine luncheon was served us at the Cottage Tea Room and from here we were driven through the orchard of derricks to see what an oil field looks like. We did not see a we'll spout at close range, though I did see one at a distance. It merely looked like smoke from a big manufacturing plant or a big fire. Fortunate we were in not being on the same forty acres with 1t, or we would have been covered with oil. l was driven over rough roads with Frank Henderson and two newspaper men from near Fort Smith, in a car by Mir. Lochrie, of the Fl Dorado World, new morn ing paper only six days old. We got late start and never did find any of the other cars. We got stuck in mud hole of oil and water, when some of the cars would have found Us, but l warned them of what was ahead. had gotten out to walk to the station, and met them The first car was in charge of Mir. Spring of the El Dorado News. Of course he was awfully sorry for his competi- tors misfortune. l thought 1 had a hard luck tale to relate when I got back, but all the rest were so busy with their hard luck stories that I could get no one to listen to mine.
 The trouble with Fl Dorado is it is a new place and they are not broke to work double, just like the team we got to pull us out of the mud hole. When the driver would tell them to go one would go one way and the other the other, and the car would not move an inch. Then we got a team of mules and it was the same way. The animals don't know one another and neither does the driv- CT know them. So 1t is with the peo- ple If you should ask man on the street the way to some place he would reply, T am stranger here myself. Can you tell me the way to -" Also 1t Is the same way with the streets. They are strangers to the citizens and much greater strangers to work, for amongst the derricks none have ever been worked. Down in the business section of town the city has rented out parts of the streets for lunch stands, real estate offices and various other purposes, while at one place, at least, which we passed through, the enterprising tenant of a lot had erected a toll gate and all who passed through had to pay him for the privilege. As there was no way of getting around except going through his lot, all paid him.
 We'll, you must excuse our auto trip going wrong, because the people are strangers to one another, and to their roads even, but they will soon get acquainted and then you will never have seen team which pulls together as well as they, but just now