The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-08
Days in DepeW Are
Recalled by Pioneer NOlU
That Oil Is Booming TOWn

Tho new oil development adjacent
to Dcpow I'm Creek county, is maxi
ing the hitherto little town of De-
pew aspire for the title OF a city.
w. +. Malley a prominent citizen
and business man OF Depew has
written and published a most inter
esting review OF the progress and
growth ot his community during the
past 2l years. The sketch IL
filled with interesting data and is
a survey Of that section OF Creek
county.
The sketch Is az follows.
1T was nice, clear. cool morn
ing after u heavy frost the night
before on January 10. 1901. that
took q walk down the railroad from
BrIstow to look at some land that
Boyle told me about the eve
ming before. | had then been living
In Bris'ow for some time. owned
real estate there that / bought I'm
April, 1899, when 10 was q small
town. II was about four Years old
then and had many nice houses and
some nice poplc.
"On looking over the map | found
the land was the north half Of
t-l5-Si. about eight miles west of
Bristow and alongside the railroad.
During the walk Of eight miles, /
counted four farm houses That
was the extent that civilization had
penetrated this country At that time.
I called in at one healthy looking
old log house about three -fourths
OF a milo east Of hero TO get a drink
and found q man sick I'm bed. Il was
Fred G. Knapp. lie was rlnching
there then.
walked 20 New site.
THAT afternoon I looked over tho
land but unable TO find the numbers
| went to the section house, and
talked with a Mrs. Sloan, who di-
rccted me to the section lines. hut
failed 10 land at dhe right place.
A Il was near noon, | walked un
the railroad and took dinner with
MIR. and Mrs. G.. W. Jobe, who own
ed a cattle ranch near here then
and whom | knew from trading IN
a store NJ Tryon. Lincoln county
whore 7 clerked for several years
After dinner a horse was saddlcd
for me and Jobe sent me "a
the center stone on the east line
of 6-16-S. From there ran the
line 10 the southeast corner. thence
one mile west to the southwest cor
rode northeast across the preson
town site and scared up large
bunch OF deer and wild turkeys
Those peace loving wild animals re,
maincd In my neighborhOod for sew.
cral years, but were finally driver
out by more warlike population
In looking around that Afternoon
u occurred to me that this was tht
place that Ponce de Leon looked foi
in vain 400 years ago when search
ing for the fountain Of eternal youth
III he had found THE place and tool
n bath In the waters OF Little DeeI
Fork he nigh: he living now. Blu
he was not familiar with geography
and took the wrong trail and hi
train was derailed.
1T also occurred 20 me that Thu
was the most logical place for {
good country town. II was sur
rounded by Ia large tract OF gooC
land, which. when put in cultivation
would yield abundantly. Most OF tn
| land was dcnsely covered with tim
I Der, much of Il suitable for CONNER
| Cial purposes and about as wild
country as that around the Gardel
OF Eden the morning after crea
| tion.
Good land, good water and elf
mate, wit ha good class OF people {,
work and save is what makes a goo,
| community.
while in Bristow on January 30
1901, | drew up n petition for n pos