The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30

Juarez Il Is human beehive
pcrhaps one should say an ant-bcd.
considering the fact that 1t sits flat
on the prairie For over mile It's
broad Broadway runs parallel 10 tho
tracks. intcr@cctcd now ana then Ivy
thoruuEhflres of picturesque title
shot Gun alley Bradlcy's Corner.
Iicu's highway etc.
OIL field nborcrs work hard and
play hard. Grinding toll Is theirs by
day ana whom night comes they
sock recreation So dance halls, the
atcrs and softdrink stands flourish:
also picture shows. OF which there
are dozen \ universal Nnll went
up recently when the only girl show
I'M town. the Lyric. burned That
was hard hluw.aw worse than the
loss ot a whole block OF other build
iugy Hut thero are many other
means of diversion and Juarcz has
them an
Beyond Jdarc2 lcs tho oil fold
From the train, drawing into McNin,
ono sees hundreds OF dcrricks lifting
their skeleton irlmts toward tho
clouds Golden Lane" is the rriu-
ciph oil thoIouFhtarc. Hero tivul
dOrr.,ks line the road on either side
ana march away until they disnu-
pear over the rim of the horizon
This rond marks the northern limit
ut the Humphreys interests and
the beginning OF the rival operate, o.
holdings. 10 has proved ono Of TIA"
r.chcs areas IN the field, So, Hs fast
as the invaders put up their dcrrick4
the home forces huyc been obliged
To- start offsets. for the oil lies iu
one vast puui underneath, and plain
Us "a man D. sleeping un his rights
t he allows the precious fluid 90 be
drawn Co the surface only through
his opponents wells Golden Lane
tx three miles long and has score
Of producing wells.
Jake Thumpson's Luck
ono ot the richest tracts north ~
Golden Lame belongs to Jake
Thompson. Jake mover expected an
thi9 n" was just u plan. hard
working and coutrnt,d farmer. Nv
INK at Lost Prairie, u neighhorhood
as unpr,tcutiou~ IA its name. down
In the lower end of tho county. But
Mrs. Jake was ambitious. She
yoarncd To give the children oppor.
tuuitlcs chat Lost Prairie did not Ar-
ford. Hence the movo to Mcxia.
reckon 1t must have bccn all of -
miles thut Jake and tho covered
wagons trekcd to satisfy Mrs. Jakc's
Waiting ambition. And / am not able
to stnto whether II was satisfied
then or not for the years wcro hard
and lean, the well dried up, the barn
burnt down Hud the mules died.
Jake had taken up 400 acres of
prairie lnnd, and he was 80 dis
encouraged he'd have given It an
away II he could have found any
body to unload 1t on. Things sure
were breaking hard for the Thomp-
sons lIui why dwell on an un-
lovely picture? Jako's ninth well
came IN the other day. making 1i.-
200 barrels OF flush production
Just now they nrc paying Mr..
Ihompson more money in a day
Than he thought was In the world
prior 10 1921, and II IL were not for
tho automobile dealers and the
citrus fruit land agents who clutter
up his front yard his troubles would
be over.
And ! could 10 on onumorating
them cndlessly--those to whom
McNln has spelled money. There liz
Professor Reid, tho village peda-
gogue, whose stock In trade wns
spelling, and yet who never In HIS
Widest flights of fancy thought that
the ll7-acrc farm he managed To
buy on the Tehuacana road would
speII riches for him. Up until last
year about all the farm ever spelled
TO Professor Reid-what will renters
taxes, droughts and boil weeyll-
was trouble. Now tho professor
threatens to be obliged TO charge
MS specially from orthography to
mathematics In order to keep track
of his royalty checks.
These tales OF the golden fleece
came To tempt a callow and untried
Jason living In Mexla. Let us call
hlm Young Jackson, because pnrt