, 1922-02-25
Turns Attention to Still
Another Prospect. Hopes
Are High


told them about the escaping gas that
raised n casing in the well
Accused Of sailing" Well
They did not believe him "csrruth
IA saited h we'll" they said He
has brought oil from StraEn and
could not find oil. how could Car
ruthT-
Carruth was not for n minute dis
Outraged. He knew what he a and
ne knew that somewhere. somehow.
someone would back him. He toe
ottles OF his oil and he sent them
broadcast to everyone he could think
Of what might DO Interested Two
men showed an interest in his propo
ilfion. Those men were p J. johnson
ana T. NJ. Does. the former of Gle
burne, Texns. and the latter OF 1fidlo-
THAN. Texas.
They came to Desdemona. ano with
group of local people headed by Car
nth. won't out to tho well. Carruth
owarcd his bottle into the hole and
REV 1t up filled with clear. green oil.
lohnson and Dees admitted that IL
1oked good. A skeptical townsman
I'd Tom Does aside
I'VE believe he said, "that thai
ell was 'srlted-' We think Cazrutt
-arried the oil down here from strawn
nd poured It into h hole" Does sal
iothtng. carruth had impressed him
n mS,. who vas absolutely square.
ana who would not think OF sailing"
IN Oh well He went up to the well
nd, striking n match. held it over
he open casing. A ,use flame shot
ID high over their heads n burned
clear and bright
Tom Dees stepped over to Carruth
ind held out his hand. "carruth." he
aid, II don't know how h oil got
INTO that hole, but I 10 know that
no living man could put h gas in
there 1 am with you"
Hog Crock Company Formed
That mornings visit to h well re
suited In the formation Of a company
hat was to become the most famous
OIL company in the world. A com
pany tha was to usher In the first
-caI oil boom In the state of Texns- A
company that was to make n village
Of 200 population grow into n brist-
ling oil city of 5000 population. and
thus turn n desert into a land richer
than the Garden OF Eden. For that
company, conceived in b brain OF
Hog Creek" Carruth.- and carried out
ioy himself and his associates, one OF
whom, Mr.. johnson. has since diet.
discovered the world-renowned Des
demona oil field. and brought In the
go -~-r ->t tn tAre u~~- 80 sf ftAIi
The capitalization of the company
was not much. and h men who head
ed IL were not promoters. They knew
nothing about watering stock. and =
they had known they wcul not hayf
done it They sold their stock wher
ever they could and to whomsocyei
they could. Carruth sold 1t to his
friends. Tom Dees sold it to his
friends and B. J. johnson sod Il to
his friends. until finally all OF the
shares of the Hog Creek Oil company
were outstanding. Then they startef
their first we'll the well that was to
make on history.
You know the rest Of the story Of
this company. The Hog Creek We
came in as a tremendous gusher. 1t
ushered in an oil field that was cor
sidered to be tho richest n in the
world. 1t was the first deep oil field i
North Texas. 1t was the first oil Held
worthy of the name In all Texa.s- 1t
was one Of the greatest oil fields in
the world.
You know. too, what the HOS Creek
on company did for Its shareholders.
After It brought in its well. Crruth.
Tom Dees and b. j. johnson sold the
cornpany's holdings to the Magnolia
company at a price that enabled
those three men to pay every one of
their shareholders a tremendous prof
ft-s1o.135.oo in cash for every 500
invested,
Efforts Rewarded.
Thus the dream OF 'Hog Crock"
carruth came true. and thus his Wis
ion was realized.
He saw a veritable forest OF hum
dreds of towering OIL derricks spring
up like magic for miles all about the
Village ind even clustered in amongst
the little buildings that comprised the
TOWNSHIP. Several. that reared their
despatched crown blocks to the sky,
were actually located within h back
vard of the tiny barber shop in which
he presided for so many. years-he.
the plucky Carruth-oil man-barber-
whose practical knowledge of the oil
business. whose superhuman stick-to-
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