The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-20

all expanding as a result OF tho bic
field opening up south of Tonkawa.
while Lamont, Medford, Wakita,
salt Fork and Deer Creek are
spreading their sails. anticipating
that wildcat development through
out Grant county will bring in pools.
blackwell Is being benefited by the
Tonkawa and Deer Creek activity.
as we'll as by various wildcat tests
In different directions from that
city, while both Nardin and Peck
ham are expecting results from sew
eral OF these. Several wildcat tests
around Newklrk are reviving spirits
there, Kildare and Uncas are watch
fully waiting, and on to the eastward
nav Clty Shidler, DeNoya. Apper-
son, Burbank and Fairfax are all in
race for the grapes" that are
coming with the extensive develop-
ment IN the western Usage.
Billings, Covington and CARRIER ex-
perienced very satisfactory results
from several fields In their immedi.
ate Viclnities. and all have bright
prospects to come from new deyelop.
ment. Dilworth grew overnight.
when the old northwestern Kay
county field was in it's boom days
and Peckham felt It's oats for a
time. but the principal points to
benefit from that development were
blackwell and Arkansas City. Both
OF these are viewing the horizon
again with hopeful countenances,
whereas several towns Just north
across the Kansas boundary are taxi
ing on an oily atmosphere because
OF blocks OF acreage assembled and
tests starting and the names OF Cald.
well. Cedarville, Drurv and Hunno-
well may again hl, m in the
newspaper datelines, as they did
when they we're the ends of the
railroads In the old cattle baron
days. Hardy. In northern Kay coun-
", and Foraker. Frankfort and
Gratnola, In the northwestern Usage,
are all cxpectant.
And while the present develop
ment Is In progress throughout this
Ponoa City district there will be nu-
merous old names become familiar
again-towns that sprung up at the
opening of the Cherokee strip. back
In 1893. and then returned as n rule
to the soil from which they sprang.
Autwine, which used to be Virginia
and Tyner, Rhetta and Bodoc
(shortened from Bois d'Arc), Kill
dare and Uncas, Ceres and Polo,
Otoe and Whiteagle. Eddy and
Owens. Whltvroch anu roru, sol
dani and Remington, Bressie and
Belford. Masham and Leila, Rambo
and Sumner, Longwood and Bach
elder.
Longwood Has a History.
OIL even, for various reasons, has
resulted in making several northern
Oklahoma towns change their
names. Bigheart, first christened for
the old Usage chief. is now Barns
dali; Whizbang is DeNoya; ingalls,
(Which was known because OF tho
big outlaw battle pulled there) has
been renamed. and Bliss is going
through the necessary red tape to
become Marland. Both Bigheart and
Bliss take the names OF the oil
magnatos who have made their ex-
pansion possible.
The old crossroad town of Long
wood, where one of the many wild
cat tests Is to be made this spring
In the Ponca City district, came into
the limelight a number OF years ago
and was emblazoned In the date.
lines for several days because of an
unprecedented postoffice robbery be-
ing staged there. The old town,
which never consisted of much more
than a general store with post
office attached, was located about
nine miles northeast OF Ponca City
on n star route.
The farmer-postnaster was inter-
rupted one day by the entrance of
two rather we'll dressed young men
who introduced themselves and then
informed the postmaster that they
had come to take possession OF the
office. They presented papers that
a.ns N..1 80 H. 1fe til . n.
doubling their genuineness, he gave
possession. And these two men
were actually in charge OF tho Of
flee for several weeks, taking for
themselves all the money that came
in prior to their being apprehended.
They were arrested. tried in the fed
eral court at Guthrie, and sentenced
to terms at Leavenworth. They
were brothers.
Kildare, where two or three oil
tests are starting in the near flu
ture, is another historic point. Il.
was one of the string of towns that
were plated by Robert l.. owen,
now United States senator. just prior
to the opening OF the Cherokee strip
in 1898. owen meant that II would
be the shlretown OF Kay county. But
in the long run owens plans were
lliNdIltu ny IlOhc oilllNIl' NiltH htG-
retary OF the interior in Cleveland's S
cabinet, and instead OF the towns
that owen had planned being on the
map In conspicuous places. the towns
OF Newkirk, Perry. Enid, Blackwell,
Pond Creek and others bloomed.
Red Rock, which Is to be the CEN
ter of several tests, was the first
railroad station established by the
Santa Fe when II built into the then
Indian Territory, back In the sos,
and 1t was the stage and freighting
point for all places within distances
of so to 100 miles In all directions.
Everybody took the stage at Red
Rock. and for many years 1t was "A
real cowboy border-day town.
Bliss, which Is to become Marland
because OF oil, has been moved three
times by Miller brothers OF the l01
Ranch, who own the site. but they
maintain that II is now permanently
located.
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