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VOL. A v 11. Trip to Oklahoma and Return Messrs. Furr and Morris Highly Entertained by Oil Magnates—lnteresting Sketch of the New Country On May 18th we left Maysville having been presented with tickets aud other expenses for the trip. Of course anything given to these two gentlemen as a present is thankfully accepted and apprecia ted. We found a delightful country along the way, enjoying much ol the scenery during the two days travel. The country seems dry and dusty, but after crossing the Mississippi river the country has had rather two much rain, cspe cially all through Oklahoma. We arrived at McAliester on May 20th at midnight and were met by Messrs. Mattocks and Jones aud royally entertained by them at Busbee Hotel. McAlester is a city ol about 20,000 population lo rated in the coal mining and oil district aud a veiy beautiful and prosperous little city. Early in the morning we took a team and started for the country to begin looking over 17,000 acres of laud owned by these gentlemen and their associates which is lo cated in several different counties. We drove northwest about lft miles to Seipio a splendid little inland town and on our way saw many fine farms and ranches and thous ands and thousands of horses and cattle. They called our attention to many hundred acres of land ow ned by them that day and were 1 very tempting alter they had quoted us the prices, which were merely a song as compared to prices in the older states. We returned to Me Ales ter that evening and went to Kiowa that night which is a Isautiful little prairie town about the size of Maysville, and a fine stretch of prauie as far as I could see covered with cattle, horses aud tine fields ol wheat, oats, corn, cotton, and various oth ei crops. Early the next morning we proceeded to drive again and the first thing shown us was a well being drilled lor oil, which was a great show for us. It requires much more expensive and heavier machinery than 1 bad expected to do this work, but you may know that to drill a hole one to three thousand feet deep would require the right kind of tools and men who know' their business to do this work. After they had shown us several thousand acres of their land we heard a roaring similar to that of a steam engine which appeared to be in the far distance. We were told that this noise was from a gas well which we did not believe, but after driving alxiut a mile we came to it aud found that it sure enough was a large gas well aud Morris said: "I want to go away from here, for there is plenty of ground for me to stand on that is not in a quiver.” I, too, was alwjut ieady to get away but by these gentlemen assuring us that our lives were really not in danger in the least, we ventured up nearer the well. To prevent the “cap” on the well blowing off again they w ere allow ing a small part of the gas to es cape all the time which served as a safety valve—this escaping gas caused all this noise that could be heard for miles around. This well’s daily production is twelve million cubic feet which is worth SofiO.OO per day and there were nine other wells within a mile of this one with about the same pro duction each. This was certainly a mystery to me to see this gas com ing out*of the ground with such great pressure, which pressure is Supposed to remain the same for jnany years. BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL | We then rode lo a squaw-man s house to cat our lunch and lccd our horses and he insisted that he have dinner prepared for us, but i we declined as w e had brought our i lunch along with ns. He then asked if we would like to have some butter milk with our lunch and w e accepted ol this hospitality and it must have been line judging from the amount that Morris drank, which was only eight glasses and il there is anything that he’s a good judge of it is buttermilk. So we ate our lunch among the joke and laughter of the several cowboys standing around and counting the cow-boy saddles hanging on the jM'gs of the smokehouse numbered nine which is one of the principal assets of the cow-boy. For tear that you will not understand what a squaw-man is, I'll tell you: lie is a white man that has married an Indian girl. These Squaws as a rule are very beautiful which is a good inducement for the white man to Marry her. And another minor j attraction is that he, his squaw wife, and each of his children are given land by the government aud the results of which he and his] family own about three thousand acres of land a part ol which is be ing cultivated and the oilier covered with cattle and horses. W c saw four hundred of their cattle in one herd. We then proceeded on our journey and at about four o clock at rived at Cairo where we took a tiain for Ardmore on whi h we all took seperate seats and the con doctor immediately came through land Mr. Mattox handed him the | tickets and pointed out myself to him and told him that the other j one was furth'i r back in the car land I told the conductor that tin other fellow was the ugliest man on the train, that fellow back there with a mouth like a fly trap from Georgia. The conducton ask me if I was his brother. An we were sailing over the beautiful prairies much to my surprise I looked back and saw Morris setting by a beali- I fill Squaw maiden and she was singing to him in Choctaw and he seemed to enjoy it as though he understood one or two w ords of what she was singing—it wasa love song. We arrived at Ardmore at about 8:30 on time and early next morning took an automobile for the famous Uealdtou oil fields w hich is said to be only six or seven months old and is the biggest oil field for its age in the world. The oil field was about 33 miles from Ardmore and it was a very beautiful country ali the way with very fine fields of crops, horses and cattle, but not nearly as many cattle and horses as we had seen the day before. Looking over this beautiful scenery, rich beyond imagination, Morris said he wished that like Jacob of old, he might claim it for a heri tage for himself and his children. Alter one hour’s ride we came to Wilson which is the terminus of a branch railroad aud the principle shipping point for the oil fields. This town is only seven months 01-l and now has a population of five thousand. We then proceeded to the fields proper which was about 8 miles further and we could see the several hundred derricks for the oil wells long before we reached tke field. The town in the immediate oil field is know as Rag town aud has a population about j 3,000 people a hich is said to lie the largest town in the United States without a post office. There are over three hunlred _ oil wells iu and arouud this town Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County. Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Friday, June 12, i9!4. |and iu nianj places they areas j close together as four hundred feet. ; When the oil is struck in these ! wells, it often spouts from 100 to 200 feet high and runs ail over the ground until the well can be got fen under control. Some ol these wells produce as much as six i thousand barrels per day. There I is so much oil produced in this field that the pipe line (one of which runs to the gulf of Mexico, SOO miles,) and the railroads can't handle it, Therefore many thous and barrels h ive gone to waste. You can see many large lakes ot oil all around the town. A few days belore we were there one of the large lakes broke over and thirty thousand barrrels of oil was lost, which is a common oc ciirrciiec in an oil field like this. Some of the largest wells in this field are on an i ighty acre tract owned by a young man, whoab.ait eight months ago traded a small meat market for it and it is now es timated to be worth more than two | million dollars. Many others have done os well w ith small iu vestments ami some even better. From what I could learn they have louml oil in almost every place they have drilled in Fastern Okla homa. We had no serious accidents un til we reached Healdton and it happened to our conservative Mr. Morris when he was standing on the hank of an eartheru rase voir w hich contained 200,000 barrels ol oil. He seemed to doubt its being real oil so he ventured a little too near the edge of the mighty lake of oil. His feel found liis foun dation Very greasy which landed him far out in the lake of oil. He soon lose to the surface and alter desperate efforts we succeeded in pulling him out aud hastened to the “Big Limit” hotel which was a tent and readily found a change ol clothing except underwear, so Mattocks was mediately sent out to pui chase some for the greasy victim, lie soon found that union suits were the only thing to be had, so they were very quickly handed in to him and after waiting an un reasonable length of time we went iu see how he was getting along. We found him with Liie union suit on hind part before and he doing his best to button it iu the back, which is impossible for any man of his build and age, so we im mediately set him right and again started out on our .sight-seeing trip which was great. We arrived at Oklahoma City Saturday night and found the most beautiful city I had ever seen and we had a very enjoyable stay there. By the way I was about to forget to tell you about our taking din ner one day with some Choctaw Indians. They had a nice little residence and the Squaw woman evidently was a good cook judg ing from the splendid dinner she gave us, and they had four very beautiful and attractive children that were very interesting to me. It is a characteristic of Indians to never laugh around strangers, so after dinner Morris was making a desperate effort to make the Indian laugh and he failed until we were hitching up the team to leave and the Indian said we use to use hick ory bark for hamestrings in the early days, and Morris said, “that,s nothing, Furr there wore a hickory bark necktie nearly all of his life” and that tickled the iu dian so much that he could not hold in and almost bursted his sides laughing. One of the greatest surprises to me on the trip Was to find the cow boys the kind ol boys they are. I expected them to have guns buckled to their sides and uneducated and a drinking roudy bunch, but iu itead of that as a rule they were well educated and high toned fellows, aud the j population as a whole iu Okla ! homa seem to be composed of the very best class of people except the indians, but they are just about as highly respected as the white people, for they all have plenty of money and many of them more than they know what to do with. For instance the Osage Indians are the wealthiest tribe of people in the world. Another surprise to me was to see no drunkness. The week I was in Oklahoma, I did not see a drunk man, nor one even drinking 1 that 1 could tell. 1 think every body out there is too busy making money to get drunk. Practically every little tow n out there, regard less of how small, lias a large brick school house, in fact everything seems to be progressiveness in Ok lahoma, and they are the most hospitable I oversaw. They spare no time or money in showing you what they have and what they are doing. If you complain about taking up their time and spending money on you, they mer rily say that they need more money, brains, muscle and women and that this is the only way they know how to get them- A1 together this was the most delightful trip of our lives. We We were royally entertained by our friends and were surprised to find so much solid improvement and so great investment of capital. This country must one day become the most wealthy and attractive section your great United States. Respectfully, P. F. M. Kbit it. A Card Editor Journal: —Junta word, please, relative to Mr. K. J. Dyar’s article in last week’s Journal on the Frank ease. In the tirst place, ninty fine pel' cent of the people of Georgia believes Frank is guilty. In the second place public senti ment grew against Frank as the trial progressed and the evidence pointed uneriugly to him as the murderer of little Mary Phagan. In the third place, the effort to have lion. Hugh Dorsey to run for governor is not prompted by “sentimental rot” as Mr. Dyar suggests. Everybody knows that Frank ha l unlimited money at his com mand and everything that was for ,-aie was bought but Dorhky was Not For 8a t.K. That explains the sentiment be hind Dorsey. Mr. Dorsey came out of it without a smell on his garments. There is no doubt u my mind that there was a conspiracy entered into by Frank’s lawyers, Wni, J. J.urns and the daily papers of At lanta to create a public sentiment in i'avoi of Frank. For weeks there was not a line in the Atlanta papers except it was favorable to Frank. It was at this stage of the game that Tom Watson butted in and what he did for that A t’anla bunch was a God’s plenty—l hey are not over it yet, they are s.ill stunned! Mr. Dyar can mention Tom Whit son’s name m connection *ith Tom cat and Tom Tit but all lovers of justice and fair play thank him for his part in the Frank ease. Reader. Look! Read! $1.50 buys the best WASHING- MA CHINE on earth. Will wash fall tub of clothes in 8 minutes. A Two cent stamp will place one in any home on ten day's free trial. Write to-day. Van’s Distributing Agency, Lula, G-a. Hollingsworth Everything dry around here. Some of the folks have gone to the singing and some stayed at home. Harvest time is here, some are cutting their oats while others are letting the “goats” eat them. Prof, and Mi's. John T. Wise visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Smith, of Cornelia, Sunday. Messrs. John Nunnaly aud Ed Horton attended the singing at Enon Sunday. Don't think they went on the train. Mr. Connie Watts attended the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Macon the past week. Esq. J. W. Cochran ol Washing ton, was in town Saturday. Mr. Luther Caudcll says there is one real pretty girl in V\ Rings worth. But says she caiytl return the compliment. In fft>Bs case I would say there’s no' “taters.” Mr. John M. Caudell attended preaching at Broad River Sunday. Miss Bulah Crow, one of Com merce’s good looking young girls, is spending this week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Dalton. Mr. John Elic Stephens has pur chased anew buggy. Look out girls. Mr. Billie ltumsey informs ns that he has already placed his ap plication for an “automobile” to be delivered 2 years hence, soouer or later he says all the boys will be riding in autos instead of walk ing. We congratulate you Billie. It seems that our friend Mr. Dyar is opposed to Mr. Dorsey running for Governor, should he decido to run. One thing sure it takes a man with “brains” ex perience and a lot of common sense to handle a case iu this manner of the Frank ease and to but up against a set of lawyers like Luther Rosser and Rube Arnold and' es peeially our noted sleuth Detec live Wm. J. Burns and the while “shootin match” can’t even rake up enough evidence to justify the solicitor in making any comment on the states side. Now if he is working so hard in this case for a very small sum of mouey. What would lie do if he was elected gov ernor'! The people of Georgia says just as he is now doing DEFEND the good old state ol Georgia. Mr. Buel Moats accompanied Miss Cicero Nunnally home from Sunday school Sunday. W r e were somewhat surprised at Mr. Connie Watts Sunday evening for he actually went home with Miss Donie Duckett from the sing ing. He didn't say whether he a-ked her for her company or whether hejust walked along, any way he went. “Nul sed,” Mr. Thorough Nunnally went down the road Sunday, “some where.” Everbody in this section are in terested in hunting honey bees, for there are several hives of bees in the woods, but nobody knows from whence they came. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reyton of Cornelia, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. E. G. Watts a short while Sunday evening. Mr. and ilrs. Albeit Duckett are receiving congratulations of their friends upon the arrival of a baby girl, who came to their home Friday. Messrs. Bart and Young Duckett filled their regular appointment Sunday at Mr. E. F. Stephens they say they have to cross aeieek five times within a huudred yards to get there. Never mind the crei k boys il the water is not to high. Eev. Freeman Rice attended Sunday school at Harmony Sun day aud give a good lecture in re gard to Sunday school work which was enjoyed by all. Mr. M. O. Scoggins was in Ath ens this week on business. Mr. John N. Hayes has given up BOYS AND GIRLS NOTICE! Miss Elizabeth G. Holland Mr. J. K. Giles, who have charge of the Boys’ and Girl’s Club work in Georgia, will be at Homer on the 20th of June to instruct and aid the Club members and all others who will come. The public is cordially invited to be present, and 1 very e irnestly insist on all the Club members to come. If you are really interested in better farming and house-keeping, eoine and learn all you can. Very respectfully, J. T. Wise. LAND FOR SALE 300 acres Unimproved Timber Land at #3 per acre, located in Habersham, Stephens and Banks counties. Also fodder, corn, cows, hogs, etc. T. S. Wei.i.s, 2-t Baldwin, Ga. Dr. Gr. H. DUNLAP DENTIST Commerce, - - . Georgia. Offers his professional services to the people of Commerce and sur rounding territory. Work done lay or night. ’Phone 12(). NOTICE By request. Fletcher Durham will preach at Grove Greek church the fourth Sunday in July, at eleven o’clock. ■ - Automobile Trips to and From Lula Leave Lula 7:JO a. in. Ar. Homer 8:30 Returning Leave Homer 11 a. m. Ar. Lula 12: m. T. M. PATTON. FAIRBANKS-MORSE ENGINES It is useless for you to go to a city, jiay your expenses, and a higher price, when you can pur chase what you want in the follow ing line right here in Maysville. Frirbanks-Morse Engines Use father Gasolene or Kerosine Electric Light Plants For Town or residences —any ca pacity Water Systems of All kinds Itescvoirs of any capacity Cypress and Metal Tanks Feed and Grinding Mills Wood saws or any machinery that would be needed to use with an engine. H. 7. PARKS , Maysville Garage. DENTAL NOTICE Dr. D. M. Snelson, of Toccoa, will be at Baldwin the first week of each month prepared to do den tal work in all its blanches —office over the Bank. his position at ('ornelia as foreman of the water and sewerage system and will locate here and engage in the farming business. Work on the Jordan bridge is under way at this time and a good bridge so they say will be built, and will be completed probably in 10 days or two weeks. “We diun’t get one before we needed it.” . A party went a fishing a few days ago and saw some fish play ing in the water and become so ex cited he threw his hook, bait and line in the water and went home as usual without any meat. 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