Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-05-25
V. S. Pease Tells of Trip to the
Land Where Oil Fills The PeO-
PIES Pockets With Gold
HIGH BUILDINGS
FROM FLUID WEALTH
Some Trains Run Eighty Miles
Without Stop One Woman
Wound Up, Passenger Thought

Speaking of hot weather, Il is not
thermometer stood at so, and when
l arrived here yesterday noon the
weather was very comfortable They
have had no such temperature as Wis
tied BarabOO last week, and the old
timers here are complaining about Il.
A friend of mine took me for a stroll
through the business section after
breakfast this morning, and he kept
on the sunny side of the street. II
just suits me- But am not boasting,
for when summer sets in, expect all
will be different.
While walking about the city. nv
friend kept me busy with stories of
the fortunes that had been taken from
the earth in the form OF crude oil. II
is safe bet that 80 per cent of the
high buildings have come from for
tunate holdings in oil lands. And
some Of the fortunes are ample, be-
lieve me. But more about this. the oil
industry, when | get down into north
eastern Texas, later in the week.
where a big new field is being opened
up in which some of my old-time
friends are interested
Great Shipping Yards
Down through Illinois, between Chi
cago and Fort Madison. Iowa, is one
of the best farming sections in Amer
lea. Strange to say, complaining
was hardly well started And by the
way tell Sank county "a mers taat
did not see a tractor in the field in
all the 851 miles between Chicago
and Oklahoma City. There was a lot
doing, for work on the farm is back
ward there, as it was in Wisconsin.
but the kerosene horse was not work
ing. And there are few silos In all
that distance. Evidently there are
few dairies. But beef mutton and
pork producing stock was numerous
enough. In the stations along the
Santa Fe, were great yards for ship
ping stock, but from the train | saw
nothing that looked like a creamery.
Pastures were green for there has
been lot of rain. Here in Oklahoma
they had rainy period that lasted for
IL days, Of which as many as four
days were given over to a downpour
without interruption or cessation.
Aside from the signs OF a backward
spring, the most homelike thing |
saw along the road was the irrepres-
sible cigarette bills. The same old
sport that embellishes billboards in
Ia Il
smokes. Is down here and was all the
way. Can't lose him. He always had
a friendly look; as l meet him here,
| feel like going up to shake his
hand
Eighty Miles And No Stop
This country of ours may be broke,
but If one may Judge by the volume
of travel on the coast trains, as well
as by the stream that is pouring into
the oil fields of Oklahoma and Texas.
he will be slow to think that the
times are hard with all people. The
train on which / left Chicago COM
prised 10 cars-great, long S0-fcot
coaches. And the Santa Fe is running
many of these big trains each day It
gives good service and makes fast
time. The train in which I came
through ran so miles in northern Mis-
souri, without a stop. Limited trains
down here are so in fact, not alone
on the timecard.
Not only are there many people go
ing about, on these long trips, but
they are nearly all carrying lunch bas-
ketS. With six sleepers and three day
coaches on the tram, the dining car
got scant patronage, although the cars
were well filled. l saw many lunch
baskets. ample in capacity and
strength, to carry fruit jars of pick
les, jam, and sauce" for the trip.
ChickeI, prepared in advance for the
Journey was on many a table in the
sleepers, and some had thermos
bottles of coffee brought from home.
These evidences of thrift were not all
In the day coaches; they were IN the
Pullmans, where tables are provided.
She Was Wound Up
There was a fine old gentleman
aboard, one of the kindly, friendly
sort, bound for California" to visit
his daughter. He wore a blue flannel
shirt, either because he liked II. or
as a background for a new pair of
white galloses. He was very approach
able and had many innocent obserya-
tions to make regarding the peculiari-
ties of his fellow passengers. / recall
sun remark he made concerning a