Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 16, 1905 Page: 1 of 16
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TIIIJ OIVIJ DOWN-TO-DATB FARM PAPKK (>1a OKLAHOMA ANI) INI). 'L ivK
Vol. XIV, No. 10
Guthrie, Oklahoma, Wednesday, August 16, 1905.
50 Cents a Year
Oil at Daris.
Davis, I. T., August 7.—An oil syndicate
came to Davis last winter and proposed
to drill a well within a few hundred feet
of Hie city limits on condition that the
citizens would subscribe lor $2,000 worth
of stock in the first well, which they
agreed to very readily. It now developes
that these oil men have satisfied them-
selves that oil and gas exiists in paying
quantities and they have decided to aban-
don the original plan. They reached a
depth of about nine hundred feet and
found considerable oil and some gas. This
was was demonstrated beyond dojbt. The
people who subscribed for the Mock are
■now asking what has become of their
prospective millions in oil profits, and the
oil men are not here to answer their
questions.
Since the Hennepin Oil and Gas Co., a
corporation of Oklahoma City, struck oil
and gas just west of Davis, the people
here feel that someone has either tricked
them into makiing subscriptions or pise
they have been hoodwinked out of a
great chance to become oil magnates.
Your correspondent learns that these
people who feel aggrieved over the •failure
of their oil venture have never actually
paid in a dollar of their subscriptions,
owing to the fact that sixteen hundred
and fifty feet was to have been drilled
before the subscriptions became payable.
There are two oil derricks standing at
Davis which gives the town the appear-
ance of an coil town, and strangers fre-
quently ask about it. The first well drill-
ed here was under contract between lo-
cnl parties and a Texas drilling outfit,
but they went down only five hundred
•feet, and quit. They found some oil and
gas, but it was believed at that time
the quantity was too small to warrant
further development. The second crowd
drilled to about nine hundred and quit.
These last men struck something very-
good, and the people of Davis believe
they are only a part of the Standard Oil
crowd and will soon be gobbling up every-
thing in sight.
Forestry Experiments.
Washington, D. C.. Aug. 11.—The fores-
try service has begun a series of experi-
ments to determine the value of the scrub
pine for paper making purposes. It Is
hoped that this timber can be utilized to
relieve the demand for spruce, which is
.very heavy. Tree plantations made by
railroads are also being studied by the
service, with the view of gathering stfch
statistics as success or rallure as may aid
it when caled upon hereafter by railroads
to supply plans for other work in forest
extension. The plantations of the Bos-
ton and Maine and of the Norfolk and
Western roads have first been taken up.
The scope of the studies will include the
principal roads east of the Rocky moun-
tains which have had experience in tree
planting.
Uintah Lands.
Washington, Aug. 11.—Acting Secretary
Ryan, of the interior department, today
said the department had taken cogniz-
ance of the complaint that there had been
a withdrawal from entry of lands tin the
Uintah Indian reservation in Utah, which
are not necessarily in the conservation
of the water supply and that the question
as to the advisability of withdrawing all
the land designated had been taken again
by the department. He said that the
withdrawals had been made for reservoir
sites, and for other purposes connected
with the reclamation of the arid lands
and for those purposes only, in the in-
terest of the Indians or the general agri-
cultural development of the country. Ho
added that the action had been based
on the recommendation of the geological
survey.
Mr. Ryan referred to the anxiety mani-
fested as to whether the lands in the res-
ervation which had been set apart for a
finest reserve would be open to mineral
exploration and entry and sai.l that while
the department had not found it neces-
will be prolific, and that fever is lia-
ble to break out almost at any time.
Mr. Holconib says that if the govern-
ment will irrigate the ground, by run-
ning large ditches through it, thus
taking off the sipe water, apd pre-
venting the salt water from the gulf
to saturate the ground, then there
would be nothing for the germ to live
on, and the yellow fever and other
diseases wiuld disappear permanent-
ly. He has studied the conditions
surrounding several seaports in Hol-
land, and find that where this course
was pursued, towns that were once
yellow feer enters hae now become
healthy places, and no more fever of
any kind has been known.
The East's Provincialism.
New York Post.
Mr. William Allen White writes enter-
tainingly of the invasion of the West by
Lawson to "teach it the iniquity of the
money power." The reason why the
West listened to him at all is that it is
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Wheat in the Cimarron valley on th e line of the Denver, Enid & Gulf road
in Oklahoma. This field yielded twenty- eight bushels per acre.
sary heretofore to .formally pass on this
question, there is no doubt that such
lands not otherwise reserved are open to
the operation of the mining laws as other
lands in forest reserves are under the
general law.
Spanish Farmers Starve.
Seville, Spain, August 11—The condi-
tion of the farming community In this
province is becoming desperate. Thou-
sands of laborers being without bread
or other food, have Been reduce^ to eat-
ing the roots of wild plants. Bread riots
are reported to have occurred at many
places where bakeries were looted.
The local authorities are appealing to
the national authorities for help.
A Geologist's View.
Oklahoma City, Okla., August 11—
Vvhile on his way through the south-
west, where he is making a study of
conditions relative to the reclamation
of land, B. F. Holcomb, a geologist
and scientific expert of considerable
note, of Boston stopped in this city.
He had something to say about the yel-
low fever in the south. He claimed
that only one thing could stamp out
the disease and prevent any recur-
rence of it. He says as long as the
salt water from the gulf is permitted
to moisten the ground, which is a
low smarshy swamp, disease germs
"immensely tolerant of the provincialism
of the East." The East thinks the West-
ern crank a villain; the West simply
smiles broadly at the Eastern crank.
As for the grand Dawson panacea—ev-
erybody to sell out on one day and give
Wall street a dose of it$ own medicine—
Mr. White says that the. West's attitude
was like that of the colored woman be-
fore the tempter who asked her to fly
with him: "You go away, niggah; you
insultin' me. I let you know I ain't dat
kind a lady, and beside, bow fur you
'spose we gwine to fly on fob bits?" With
as much good humor as good sense, Mr.
White adds another illustration:
"If the West should unload all its
stocks and bonds on the market in one
day. its effect would recall the street-car
strike in Strong City where the two driv-
ers of the system leading the two mules
of the system came surging down Main
street in a raging mob that tied up the
traffic until the company found two
more mules that would go without driv-
ers."
Logan Fruit Growers:
The Logan County Fruit Growers asso-
ciation met in the commercial club rooms
yesterday with a large attendance ami
deep interest was manifested by those
present. The returns which have been
coming in from shipments are three to
'ten times as large as are usually receiv-
ed and the shippers are feeling good.
The question of a picnic for the coun-
ty association came up, but was not final-
ly acted upon. It is understood that the
fruit growers association of other towns
in the county will unite with the one
here, Kdmond and Crescent, already hav-
ing intimated that they would join in the
picnic. Members of the local organization
will go to attend the Crescent picnic.
An effort will be made to get a big
meeting about November 1st, of all the
peach and cantaloupe growers o«f the
county, so that the acreage for the com-
gin year can be determined. It is hoped
that there will be acres so that ship-
ments in car load lots can be made. The
plan is to ship to Baltimore, where they
can secure $."i per crate. It will cost $2 per
crate to ship and this leaves more profit
than if shipments were made in smaller
lots, and the returns are more certain, if
there is a largo enough acreage next
year a room will be opened in Guthrie 'to
receive and pack the fruit where the in-
dividual growers are not able to do so.
The local association expects to place
an advertisement in the best fruit grow-
ers and commission men's papers in the
country so that they will be able to sell
stuff right on the car before .shipping it.
Fight a Mad Hull.
Enid Events.
The Events received the following
story from a subscriber living near Hen-
nessey:
While out in a pasture one afternoon
last week, two girls, Bessie Alvis and
Bessie Buchanan, aged respectively 13
and nine years, were met by a large 6-
year-old Jersey bull which had been in-
furiated by frequent jeerings previous
to this time. The younger girl was the
victim of his rage. Their only weapon
was a small stick they happened to have
in their hands. Bessie Alvis might have
easily and safely escaped but she stepped
between the maddened animal and the
other little girl only to be tossed over
the bull's neck and then up in the' air
again at intervals.
Meanwhile Bessie Buchanan escaped
home unhurt leaving her rescuer to
struggle alone the .'jest she coul 1. The
scene was out in the ooen away from
fence, tre j i.r shrub*..
There was no hope of escape for Bessie
Alvis unless she could persuade the bull
to leave, and I his, tli iugh very diillcult,
she did af'. r being to <*>4 here and
Hen , maul.'d an 1 bruise! fr im htctl I.
foot. The attacks of the bull were finally
resisted and at lengUi given up, by the
} irl thrusting her ling -rs into his ryes
^rd seizing hall if toe eyeoad i'h*^
1*1*11. niter taking l.is e.i/'ng, began toss.
ing the enwj ariiad whl.h were nut
iar distant. TM> gavo l:-s< l chnnce
to escape. She succ ejed in ren.-hir.g
home, about ->ii> hilf mile distant, at
dark, completely exhausted. Bessie wes
unable to resume her dutijs for s-everal
v'teks.
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