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Ralston’s Long Period of Watchful Waiting Is Over and She Enters an Era of Progress
THe Ralston Tribune I
Entered at the Ralston, Okla.. Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter
By Orrin L. Browning
Official Newspaper of the Town of Ralston. Progressive in All Ways
$1.50 the Year in Advance
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, February 1. 1921*
Volume V Number 15
Phillips Well Near
Bartlesville Sand!
The Ralston High School basket ball
1 « T*\ • J    L. team went to Fairfax, last Wednesday,
Next FortV-Eitfht Hours Should Decide the and played the high achool team at that
'    °    place, defeating them by a score of 21 to
Future of Ralston Oil Field and the !>8- Th' R^^.h.du-.ppo™,
MOT CLEMS rnt
High School Basket Ball Five
Defeat Osage Aggregation
Twenty-One toKighteen
Town of Ralston,
The Pbi’lips well u drilling again somewhere around 3150 feet,
and should top the Bartlesville sand before the end of the day.
Upon the findings in that sand depends the immediate future of the
Ralston oil field.
The formations encountered after the Skinner sand was passed at
3048 differed greatly from those found in the McCullough well at
a corresponding depth. After passing through a little lime, a stray
sand was picked up and the gas flow increased until it was neces-
Another Test Going
Down This Spring
Township 24, Northwest of Town, to Bz
Given Try-Out for Oil and Gas
Parties are here from Kansas working up a 1000 acre block
team outcli ssed in every way and sim-
ply loafed during the last half. Of course
Fairfax came forward with the usual ali-
bi. This time it was the old joke about
tl.eir best players being sick. It’s a cinch    .    _    ..    .    -    . ,    ,    * L
the whole team was sick after the game, leases in 1 ownship 24. northwest ot town, with the expectation ot
return |    Jown * wel1 to »“* ou* tl,a* ‘"ritory for oil <"• Ttle
they will have th<»e "be.t player." «ll    C.U, for . ri< on the jrounj by April JSth. ud ie conl'm-
with them. They'll need them.    j    ,    .
The Fairfax team really has some very    only upon the obtaining of a sufficient acreage of leases, which
good players and with a couple of years
training they should learn to play pretty it is understood is already assured.
*    Other than the White well in Section 34 aad the Loyeall well
in 33, this township has never been tested out. The White > well
NEW MUSIC STORE
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B. A. Pratt, of Newkirk, has estab-
lished a branch store in the City Drug
*    I Store at this place, and will handle the
sary to move the boiler to a safer distance. This was done last ,amoU8 Brunswick phonographs and a
.    j i r    • full line of Brunswick, Victor, Columbia
Tuesday and drilling was returned tne next day, and each toot the and other makes of records, as well as
drill went down served to increase the flow of both oil and gas. On ®^a*d^ee’r    o/player pianos,
Thursday the well flowed six times, spouting oil above the top of and
the derrick. Then the 900 feet of open hole began caving, and the lect reco ds from our line.-Adv.
drill was stopped -tn order to ran the six-inch casing. This work    FOR* SALE
1    1 w* i    \ 1    11    ^    i .    . •    Good six-room house a bargain if sold
was completed bunday and c rilling was begun again on Monday. ^ once. Enquire at Tribune Office.
The well looks better than evjr beforif. and tbe further develop-
moat of the field seems assured.
The oil reporter of the Tulsa ^/orld. who is generally consid-
ered on authority, reported the well last week as good 400 barrels
a 'day. He is a most optimistic chap, and we hope he s right.
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For Bale
A three-room house at a bargain. See
V. D. Eberwein.
Chilly weather these days—what.
Alfalfa hay for sale in the stack. See
Holmes south of town.
Bradley Kimbrough is up from Cush-
ing on business.
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The body of Mrs. Ivy Robertson, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Jones,
came in from -Mystic. la., Thursday.
Funeral services were held at the M. E.
Church and the body was laid to reet in
the Ralston cemetery.
Mrs. Ural Ross was down from Fair-
fax, Sunday, visiting relatives.
Rev. P. I. Dunn is assisting in the
Harry Hardware Store.
Trade with the Tribune advertisers—
they’ll treat you right.
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had five showings of oil and gas, hut the Loveall was • dry ho a al
the way down.
An old Government bulletin says that there is an anticline north
of the town of Ralston along tha Arkansas River, hut give# tha
opinion that owing to the 1200 feet of redheds and the great amount
of water therein, drilling would probably prove unprofitable.
COME TO RALSTON
A Town of Endless Opportunity
There is room here for livewires in almost ev-
ery line of endeavor. The town is beautifully
located, has up-to-date schools, fine churches.^
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Located in a loop in the Arkansas River, with low
lying hills on every side, Ralston is an ideal location
for the man who is seeking a permanent home. •*
Every Legitimate Business, Trade or
Profession is Welcome
COME TO RALSTON!
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