Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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TWENTY-SECOND YEAH
No. 6
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY,
JUNE, 20 1913
(l.oo per rm*a,
guthrie is becoming
center of the
oil industry
Four Derricks Going up Within Radius of
Ten Miles—Four More Farther Away
COUNTY FAIR IS ASSURED
A real old time county fair is assur-
ed for Guthrie and 1/Ogan County this
fall, September 16, 17, IS, and 19- It
will be held in the new Athletic Parle
and Fair Grounds to be established at
the old electrict park adjoining Min-
eral Wells park on the south
Exhibit buildings, live' stock pens
an dstables, speedway and athletic
field will be constructed at once and
everything be In readiness for a fair
which will not be suspassed anywhere
In the state.
\ committee is now at work on the
premium list which will include prem-
iums for every known product of the
home, field., farm or garden and in-
clude many novel and unique features.
Guthrie ia becoming the center ot cident and the Fallis Co., southeast of
.. ,■ tho ixntntr nn this week Guthrie, has recently changed con-
Oil prospecting the going up this week tractQr3 and the well l3 agaln down to
of four derricks. its 3,000 feet, from its 900 feet, where
The Schwarts-Dunn Company, of it met with cave-ins and pipe break-
Pennsylvania is unloading its oii-dril- ing> that delayed progress so long.
ling outfit seven miles northwest of with the beginning of actual opera-
Guthrie, across the Cimarron, on the tions by the Guthrie companies, there
Jim Kuhn farm. The company has i8 a renewal of activity in the leasing
6 000 acres of leased tands In a solid of lands and many companies are be-
body and has also absorbed several ing organized on the sly. There are
thousand acres In Crescent townslilp. also men In the field 'looking
This company has been a producer on around,' and not talking much. There
a. large scale in Pennsylvania and are many rumors afloat that it was
West Virginia for many years. It ask-; attempted to Sefip this field and not
sd for no bonus, nor the 3ale of stock let it develop until such time as the
to local parties. It made a contract, "powers that be" see fit to push this
to drill on securing the leases on lands far west. These rumors cannot be run
from the farmers on the usual royal- to the ground. There are men who say
ty contracts. They had experts go ov- that the Chandler, the Fallis and the
er the ground and are assured that the Mulhall wells are all "finds, but it is
section is within the oil belt not to the interest of the big produc-
The Cimarron Valley Oil Company ers to have independent fields deveiop-
loined issues with the Pleasant Valley ed beyond all calculation, a* it would
Company and made a contract with take control of the price of the pro-
Chan'ite ansas, parties to drill two duct out ot their hands. They 0ta 1 rn
hole3 One of these is on the Cimar- that all prospectdiggings are kept
ron Valley leases, on Carter's farm "tab on" by the large producers, and
six miles northeast, the other in, that professional diggers keep them in-
Pleasant Valley, nine miles. Three formed These men cla m that when
different experts w ithout knowing of. an oil field is discovered in consider-
eacn other r work located the anti- able extent the syndicates have to
" — L — — i)uy them out in self defense.
Others claim there is nothing in
this theory, that any body of men that
has the means, the grit and the right
field, cut. succeed in finding oil.
Which ever theory is right, Gutli
rie is destined to be the next oil field
excitement Material is unloading ai)d
men are going in earnest equipped
with money and leases to test the
field Those who pretend to know
say this is destined to be the greatest
oil field in Oklahoma
fought fob harvest mev
To decide who got "Hands" Kansas
Farmers Battled with fists.
cline formation where these holes are
to be sunk. The unloading for this
work began this week.
Across the Cimarron river from
Pleas, iit Valley, in Payne county,
Paradise township, a company is un-
loading a rigging outfit to begin dig-
ging. A company near Orlando north
of Guthrie, lias closed a contract and
bought fachinery.
Near the northeast corner of L<o-
gan county, near Ripley, the three
wells continue to go down without ac- t
Panama Ca<>al to Give Big
Impetus to Cotton Manu-
facturing in Oklahoma
Hutchinson, Kansas, June 24.—Two
swarthy Kansas farmers squared off
in an improvised ring this afternoon
and fought with bare gists—ftpd there
was no delicacy in their blows—for
the services of a group of fifty harvest
hands. , , .
But. the victor o fthe battle lost—
his prize was stolen fro mhim.
An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Pe
train brought the men into town this
fternoon They were claimed by rep-
resent at Ives of two towns—St. John
and Ellinwood. When one side prom-
ised certain wages, the other went one
better The bidding continued until
was decided that medieval customs
would be resorted to—the best man
would get the workers.
So Fritz Reinholdt was chosen to
represent Ellinwood. The St. John
farmers chose Zacli Tyler. The ring
was set off and the train waited the
result of the battle.
The fight was an exciting affair, The
two farmers untrained in ring tactics,
fought as though the prize at stake
was a maiden's hand. Slowly Rein-
holdt weakened and Tyler kept after
his man with wicked punches. Finally
the Ellinwood representative gave up
St John had won the harvest hands_
But while the St. John farmers stood
cheering their fiistlc hero the Ellin-
wood men resolved upon strategy.
They "set' em up" to the workers and
offered all sorts of inducements.
The promise of refreshments, how
ever caused a number of work s~
ors to board the train in a hurry
was ready to start and each Ellinwood
farmer seized a couple of harvest
hands as they mounted the -steps. He
1 held them until the train disappeared
down the yards. The St. John farmers
lost thirty harvest hands that had been
won in a fair fight.
FARMS TAKE WINGS I* KANSAS
Several Methods are Suggested to pre-
vent Soil Blowing.
Prom the Kansas Farmer.
Soil blowing is one of the most dif-
ficult farm problems of Western Kan-
sas. Its chief causes are the prevail-
ing high winds, the depletion of hu-
mus or decaying organic matter, ex-
tensive wheat ralsiug and incorrect
handling of the soil.
The winds of course cannot be con-
trolled. Therefore, when humus is re-
moved year after year in growing
crops without returning straw, or
green manure crops to the land; when
the native sod Is broken up and large
areas are farmed extensively by shal-
low plowing and surface disking,
leaving no intervening strips of un-
broken land; and when crops requir-
ing a level seed bed are grown In pret
erence to intertilled crops such as sor-
ghum or corn which may be grown on
land more or leas rough, blowing nat-
urally results. In fact, some districts
in Thomas, Gove and other counties in
Western Kansas have become almost
unmanageable in regard to soil blow-
ing. . ..
The department of agronomy of the
finisas State Agricultural College for
some years has advocated certain
methods for the prevention of blowing
The most important of these are the
preservation of humu3 by returning
straw and manure to the land, using
it as a surface dressing on wheat fields
during the winter; Increasing the hu-
mus through the use of green manure
crops such as rye preceding the sum-
mer fallow; cultivating summer fal-
low with shovel cultivators such
the ordinary 6 or 12-stiovel cultivator,
or the beet cultivator or with the alf-
alfa renovator or other implements
which leave the field In a rough ^in-
stead of pulverised condition. Cul-
tivating only when the ground c°u-
ains moisture but is not wet, and
giving only sufficient cultivation to
keep down weeds and preserve a soil
mulch, is also suggested.
The department also recommends
summer fallowing with the lister in-
stead of plow and disk, or summer
fallowing by plowing twice, once In
the spring and once in the summer,
leaving the geld in the rough; using
inter-tilled crops such as kalfir, milo,
other sorghums and corn in place of
so much wheat and preparing the land
by listing east and west or at right
angles to the prevailing wind, instead
of by plowing. These methods have
been used efficiently in preventing
blowing at the Western Kansas Ex-
periment Stations at Hays, Garden
ity, Dodge City, Tribune and Ogallah
fqr several years.
f/ft mer indulges
vn annual waste
t of $1,000,000,000
Failure to Rotate Crops Leads to Barren
Fields and Exhausted Farms
n
(By Elliott Flower In Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald.)
Who gets the money?
Why, the farmer throws away about
billion dollars of it annually.
Somebody ought to get that and
nobody does get part of It at any
rate, for the farmer has to buy back
much that he throws away. Inciden-
tally the farmer has to get the money
lo buy back from that which he sells.
country can continue indefinitely to
ship out its fertility. The end mint
come at last."
Fifty millions from one state. And
there is no reason to believe that
North Dakota Is any worse than any
other state In proportion to its grain
acreage. A billion doesn't seem such
a big estimate for the whole country,
does it?
Then from the experiment station at
get
ua usual the consumer pays. If the University of Minnesota we
the farmer were a bit more provident this: "Where wheat Is a continuous
AEBOPLANE BEAT A FLEET
Guthrie has the only .cotton manu- of j
of them are small plants as yet, but | Gnnbonts I'ut to Flight by
are all expecting extensions to fol-, Bombs from the air.
low the canal's opening. Altogether ^
in Texas there are sixteen cotton man-
ufacturing plants. These are located Douglas, Ariz., June 21.—complete
at Belton. Gonzales, West, P^?1- City, victory in today's battle_with Mexican
facturing plant in Oklahoma. Re-
cently the stock was increased $o0 000
and Mr. U. C. Guss bought $J5,000 of
it. This nmkes the capital stock now
Invested $227,000.
The main building is 400 by 80 feet.
There is Installed 6,000 spindles
machinery
GIRL OF 11 SAVES A TBVIN
Dallas McKinlev. Corsicana. Sherman federals at Ortiz, near Guaymas, was
, 1 r hale* nf cotton per Cuero, Denison, Bonham, Waxahachle, (.iaimed tonight by the Mexican con-
It converts 15 bales of cotton per Vaboro Breham Itasca and Wether- stUutionailist junta here. According
day. "j ' fPcnatrhes from Ortiz, Didier Mas-
It has 130 persons woik 1 ng a day.^ fo^kUihon,a has one such plant, the 8on, FrenCh aviator, employed by the
Mr. 1 . C. Guss will be active y ,,, neel. , otton Mills of Guthrie; Ar- rebels, created havoc on the federal
gaged in the company as ^nan kansas has one. at Monticello: Missou- ai(l. by dropping bombs on the decks
rector, while Mr. J. E Douglass is kansas nas o ■ ,s and Kansa8 clty; of tw0 Mexican gunboats. Masson for-
still president, general superlnten ritwo, . ^ oakland and Wis- ced them to flee from Guaymas har-
dent and salesman. „„.ro0nnndent' consin one at Janesville. Only the bol- and take refuge in the open seas.
Corb Sarchet, sijecial corresi oude^ consino , Guthrie and Janes- According to dispatches over wires
•jittered throughout the rious other cotton ware .
Mississippi river (•„!.. it is understood, is planning the
lit increased manv times following erection of another cotton
ssa3ss3s mmFM
States Tii' "11* ^v-two l itv and lawton, but neither has . e
plants now
country west
cording
of such
western
plants,
twenty-two city
both
\ aluo
?rag
emp
A
now
are
icludlng
al employed In
average value of
of $11,000,001
the plants i
,000, and til
d at the san
eat majority
located west c
in Texas, and tw
cost and
operation.
1500.000, or
. The av-
. estimated
me capital
n built.
World's Supply Depot.
[ believe the Mississippi Valley will
perience a big impetus in cotton
• liufacturing, following the opening
*ures
thesi
plants,
islsslppi,
Canal," says .I.E. Doug
•esidi nt-mannger of the I'ion-
lon Mills at Guthrie. "In fact,
industries of all kinds will in-
, of till
which are in the hands of insurgents,
Masson also dropped bombs Into the
federal intreuchmenfs. One dropped
yesterday, it is said and killed fifty-
two federals.
The federals, under General Ojeda,
are reported retreating on Santa Rosa
Sonora, in disorder. All sources of in-
formation in Northern Sonora are In
the hands of rebels and no communl-
1 it ion with Ojeda's forces can be had.
The rebels say If Ojeda is captured
he will be shot in reprisal for his
butchery of insurgents.
The Insurgents confident of carry-
ing Sorora. are planning to organize
ii additional force of five thousand
men to invade the states of Slnaloa
find Chihauhua.
When n Bridge Burned a Child Stopp
ed an Iron Mountain Flyer.
Hot Springs, Ark., June 20.—Pass
engers on the fast Iron Mountain tiain
running between Kansas City and Hot
Springs owe the fact that they are
alive tonight to Bertha Key, 14 years
old who with her parents, lives on a
farm two miles from Iionsdale, ten
miles from this city.
Shortly before two o'clock this af-
ternoon, Bertha and her little sister
took a walk down to the creek. Ar-
riving at the stream the child was hor-
rified to see the bridge in flames. She
saw the rails were twisted and bent
and realized the Kansas City-Hot
Springs Flyer would be along in a few
minutes. Telling her sister to return
IO their home, a short distance away,
and summon her father Bertha ran
til) the track, climbed a high embank-
ment and awaited the approach of the
train.
In a few minutes it came around
he would have more himself and we
would have to pay less. That would be
very nice all round, for a billion dol-
lars Is a whole lot ot money. Divided
up among so many of us It may not be
so dreadful much, and It represents
only a part of tho increased cost of
living, but it is a very tidy sum, lust
the same.
Standard Oil woudn't consider It too
small a sum to save. Show Standard
Oil how to save a billion dollars and
vou can have a million for pocket mon-
Yet the farmer throws it away!
I'erhaps that seems too large
aste to be credible, but there are
nets In plenty to warrant the esti-
mate. For It is purely an estimate of
course; no one has counted the money
and no one could possibly say within
thousand dollars or a hundred thous-
and dollars of how much it exactly
totals, but there Is evidence to show
that the estimate Is not so desperately
far out of the way.
To understand it, it Is necessary to
know of what the loss consists—the
form that It takes—and the calls for
a brief explanation. It may be dry
reading for a minute or two but it is
not intended to give any treatise on
farming and the man who pays the hill
ought to be willing to dig into a few
facts for his own understanding of
what he pays.
You cannot grow wheat year after
vear on the same land without a sim-
ultaneous improvishment of the soli
and dimunition of the average yield.
A few years of such courses will lead
to barren acres and exhausted farms.
A bushel of wheat takes about 30 cents
worth of fertility, nitrogent, from the
soil In,which It was grown . This fer-
tility is shipped out o fthe country
with the wheat. Certain other crops
will put It back, but they will be a
long time putting it back If the soil
is greatly exhausted. It is not necess-
ary here to explain or what those
crops are or how they should be ro-
tated. It is the fact thnt continious
growing of wheat does do this that is
important, and,in spite of the advice
of experts and the work agricultural
experiment stations and other edu-
cational agencies, continuous wheat
growing on the same land Is the cus-
tom in a large part of the country.
The farmer who does this either
>•<> to buy his fertility back in the
" fertilizer, for
crop for eight years the loss ot nitro-
gen is 1,700 pounds per acre." and the
value of ultrogen is 16 1-4 cents ,a
pound.
Figure It out for yourself. It com-
es to the tidy total of $27,625 for one
acre, enough to buy another farm,
where this practice is continued, as
it has been and still is continued in
inanw districts.
Then Canada estimates her loss at
half a billion dollars which Is really
the best basis to figure on for the
Canadian conservation commission has
made an exhaustive investigation of
the subject. The commission reports
that "If the farmers on the average
hroughout Canada farmed as well as
the fifty best farmers whose farms
have been surveyed, the result would
be the doubling of field crops from the
lauds now In use within three years.
And the valuation of the feed crops ot
Canada ranges from half to thre -
quarters of a billion dollars annually.
Again you can figure It out for your
self. It would take three years to re-
cover from the effects of improvident
farming, but the result would be tre-
mendous.
Canada, remember regards Uncle
Sam as the horrible example of waste
in this respect, and Canada, even with
her admitted waste, averages five mow
bushels of wheat to the acre. Consid-
ering this fact and the comparative
acreage of the two countries under cul
tivatlon, together with the fact that
Uncle Sam has been longer engaged
in impoverishing his land, does a bil-
lion dollars seem to high an estimate
of the annual loss?
If it does, add to It the fact that the
American farmer, speaking generally,
Is the most improvident in the world
with his farm machinery and there Is
a big annual loss from neglect or mis-
use of that.
About here some one will hob up
and say that the figures are all wrong
because any such increased production
would knock prices silly.
Well It would—if It came suddenly
and it would affect prices it It came
gradually, which is the only way it
can come. But the farmer would make
more on his Increased yield and the
consumer would pay less, which ought
to be satisfactory to both. As for the
loss, it is only showing what the far-
mer throws away at present prices.
And i fthefarmerdl dallaskedofhim,
| which the consumer pays or else
■quenc
lessening of
acreage and yields A few far-
doing this would be of no con-
but a great number of tliem
; it materially helps to lift the
of living.
No
this improvident
sam.
arc!
V*
nearby bent. The child frantically. hiB land deteriorate and become
waived her sun bonnet and the en- j productive, ill which case the con
gineer applied the brakes. When the , sumer also pays for tht
train stopped the engine was within j
eight feet of the bridge. i
When the passengers learned who
bad saved them they took up a collec-
lion for the little heroine who was
. IV modest. It is said $100 wasl
raised for her.
I don't think you should give me
this money," the child said, "for what |
I did. It would have been awful if
the engine had gone on the bridge, and
I didn't want to see any ot you hurt.
Any girl would have done the same
thing." .
A man whoso nnme couln not he
learned accompanied the child back
to her home. He had his camera with
im and took a picture of Bertha and
her parents.
I intend to see that the Carnegie
ero commission hears of this, he de-
clared.
form of commercial ^^ he WQU,d only be averaging per acre
,,n ' v. 11 at England averages now.
\ealn it will be claimed that the far-
mer could not market any more than
he produces now, and there are some
excellent authorities, not engaged in
fai ling, who hold the same view. The
marketing facilities are not what they
will be shown later but they certainly
increase with increased business. Any-
let's see wlis
farming costs Uncle sam.
Uncle Sam himself will not 111
a guess, although he admits that it is
a tremendous sum and shows his re-
cognition of that fact by spending
large sums of money to remedy
ditions. He says through of soils
he has "no definite Information or
figures showing the monetary loss to
the country in general or in any one
locality due to unwl
tivatlon or handlii
pre
ent purpi
and so
find
ae
con-
that
i n traced,
er throws
er pays t
lately pa:
- hill. The
all bills.
II I? I'HrWM'M
FARM PIlODpCTf
nould
sheaf
of soils'
r, which 1
11 the sub
might b
He
nrows
ect of
done:
1)|{. SHARP PBESSIDEXT GUTHRIE I
1914 MEETING.
Guthrie not only secured the next;
eetlng for the Oklahoma Eclectic
edical association, but also was hon-
ored by the selection of a Guthrian for
resident.
The following officers were elected,
'resident. Dr E. G. Sharp, Guthrie;
first vice presirent, Dr. A, G. Athey of
aBrtlesvllie; Second vice president,
Dr D N McCarthy, El Reno; third
vice president, Dr William Taylor,
Perkins; secretary. Dr. Franklin P.
Davis, Enid, former secretary of the
state board of medical examiners and
treasurer. Dr. T. h. I>eachman of
Richmond, Okla.
WOMEN DISCUSS PLAS8 FOR BIO
FALL FAIR.
The Womens Auxiliary to the Far-
mers Institute held a meeting at the
city hall Saturday and discussed plans
for participating In the county fair.
The ladles are deeply Interested In
the success of the fair and will not
only make exhibits but have appointed
special committees to help work up an
Interest In all departments of the fair.
a good deal of light
loss by showing wh
The farmers' co-operative demon-
stration work, now carried in twelve
states employ 37" traveling agents
and ha? many thousand demonstration
farms If has proved by result on
thousands of farms that preparation of
tho soil so as to make the best seed
hed adds 100 per cent on the average
;crop on similar lands with an aver-
age preparation in the old way; that
planting o fthe best sefed makes a fur-
tlic r gain of 50 per cent; and the shal-
low frequent cultivation produces an
increase of nnothor r.O per cent; mak-
ing a total gain of 200 per cent or a
c rop three times the average crop pro-
duced on those farms where the plans
and methods of demonstration work
I have not been adopted."
I That covers a pretty big stretch of
ountry and shows a big, although ln-
li finite loss as compared with what
It also gives
da
kroon
it
pos-
place
rye or a bundle
the county fair
Tulsa and Oklah
Keep theiwin
slble and if you have no sulfa
lo keep them no'ify J. A. Farquharson
federal farm demonstrator, or Fred U
Wenner, Secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce and they will have the
Jipeclments properly cared for.
TUSKEGEE BAND CONCEBT.
By far the best concert band music
.riven for manv years was that of the
Tuskegee Institute band, orchestra
and glee club, in the Guthrie Theat-
er Wednesday night. Prof. Perry,
principal of the Guthrie Separate High
School, conferred a great pleasure on
those citizens who heard these men
. • ined In that great school developed
In Booker T. Washington. Besides
rendering the "Poet and Peasant" and
William Tell" overtures, its sympo-
sium of Southern melodies, both vocal
and Instrumental, were exceedingly
fine and in excellent taste.
the land might produce, ii amu e"" nimnw rnn\ T\ T OGftX
some Idea of the efforts being made UNO WING RnOOM (OHJ U]
.ten this loss Tt room com, a new crop In this coun-
Professor Thomas Shaw of St. Paul tv Is being grown ^uite extensively la
an authority In agricultural matters Is l,o*an County this season, and the f r-
more definite with r gard to the loss • mers are plan tin 'v ^f-VacroD
"1 estimate," he says, "that In wheat broom corn, expectlngtoralsea crop
and flax alone the state of North Do- yer this Beason, which thu tar
kota Is shipping out each year fertll- been very promising The crop al-
Ity to thi amount of $*0,0*0 000 No ready planted la In good condition. .
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