Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-07

brated in novels descriptive OF tne
soil and the social life of the region
in which all roads lead to in Lex
ington.
Irvine, in Estill county has become
a substantial town. but mainly be-
cause of large railroad yards es-
tablished nearby after the oil devel-
opment. Beattyville, the county ( at
of Lee, the largest oil producing
county in Kentucky, and among the
largest producing sections in Ameri-
ca is little changed. HI station
is three-quarters of a mile from the
oil fashioned mountain tavern that
has been the leading hotel since the
large modern hotel became a school
when the boom subsidized. No light
burns in the office of the taVer
late at night. 1.-The boys have been
doing some shooting lately" was the
explanation. Elaboration of that ex-
PLANTATION revealed survival OF old
conditions under which it was deem
ed safer not to use light u-nnecessar-
lily, attracting attention OF village
~errorists full of moonshine whiskey
and the spirit of sport.
MANY Lee countians, benefic1ar1es
of oil, left the roadless section OF
the state never to return. Inc ell
fects of the exodus are less appar-
ent in Monticello, in Wayne, the old
est county in Kentucky, ecaus
WAYNE is a foothills county in which
there is good land and a modest
mileage of roads fit for automobiles.
Yet Monticello, an old oil center, re-
mains a small town.
Two Glasses Enriched
Kentucky oil enriches two classes,
the landowners who are, wise enough
or lucky enough, not to miss their
opportunity to participate in the
| profits of wells drilled on their
farms, and oil companies which as a
rule are not founded upon capital
owned in the oil region. .
Kentucky's oil resources are as yet
not fully Known. Much of the terri
tory has good agricultural
destined perhaps to produce more
wealth in the long run than would
| come from oil wells. But immediate
wealth from oil has cause many
| farmers whose soil is fertile to lose
interest in farming and to neglect
their farms.
The search for oil is not unlike,
in point of excitement and hard
ships enduring, the search for gold
, Oil rigs, cumbersome equipment FOR
| drilling wells, are dragged in by OK
1 en- or mules to points 40, SO, 60
| miles from railroads in wild cat
| fields where the drilling may or may
not pay. Such experimenting, done
! sometimes by adventures whose IL
| nancial collapse follows failure to
strike oil, is extremely costly, but
one gusher is regarded as good
ground for belief that others VIII De
found in the same territory. Inc
prospect is always appealing because
striking a spouting flow of Oil is IKE
striking pay dirt in ar Alaskan
gulch. ~
of the types of humanity found IN
a goldfeld, including the adventurel
who must make good or walk away
from the scene of his failure, the
gambler who comes to fleece the Tor
tunate, the girls, not all of then
Youthful, whose like followed tnt
army of Xerxes and the rush OF sole
seekers to the Yukon, and whose Sis
Observation-Disclosures flock to Louisville
when the Kentucky Derby is run fol
$4,000 at Churchill Downs.
Agricultural development is
healthier growth and a more lastlEs
source of welfare. In the Cumpe
land oil pool there is arge oppor
tunity for agricultural developmen
which at present is Impossible pc
cause of lack of transportation u
railroad, highroad or river:
Along the Cumberland River Their
ia a block of eight counties who'll.
untouched by railroads and almos
wholly without improved pubii
roads a strangely retarded but pc
tentially fruitful region. Oil well
will not make it p%opulous, but wit
agriculture and adequate transporta
ton IL would blossom like the rose