Show BONANZA TEXAS GUSHERS CAUSE BIG STAMPEDE I I Four Hundred Wells Drilled in Townsite Lot Values Values Values Val Val- ues Mount l Special Burkburnett Tex Feb Fob 8 For S.-For For more than seven Re months hundreds of ot oil wells ells have ha been drilled In and around the townsite and only ten or eleven dry boles found No o man l knows exactly how man many wells are aro In the the field but estimates place the tho number around producing and OO others drilling There Thero has been no failure In this field of ot re recent recent recent re- re cent dato It Is practically a sure suro shot In tho the Immediate vicinity of or tho the Burkburnett and the field Is gradually g being extended In all directions I Oil Production l Doubled d dA A fair fall Idea of or tho the rapid development going on ma may be gained from n IL com cont- comparison parison of ot production as follows For Forthe tho the week ending December 14 1918 1913 the production here was barrels while to for the week weck ending February 1 I six elx weeks later It was barrels or more morn than double This Is s tho net result up to now of or the bringing In on July Jul 26 2 1918 1915 of ot tho the big gusher usher on tho the theS S S. 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L Fowler farm just north and northeast northeast north- north east cast of the corporate limits As soon as tho the news spread that a big gusher had been struck tho the greatest S excitement excite excite- ment prevailed in Texas But even then but few tew citizens dreamed of ot tho the magnitude mag mag- of or tho the possibilities that lay In storo for this tails sections section A summary of events that followed soon after It b became became be be- came camo known oil had been found In payIng paying pay pay- Ing quantities appeared In a recent Is- Is issue suo sue of or tho the Burkburnett Star as follows follows fol tol- lows Development nc Begin With nearly all acreage within three throe miles of ot taken up Ul tors and promoters began leasing leasing- town lots latA and forming companies for the drilling of or wells on the tho townsite The Thc northeastern quarter of ot town being nearer tho the Fowler well wen and nd on the same anticline naturally leased to best advantage advantage ad nd- vantage o for tor a time Much discussion was indulged in regarding the advisability advisability advis advis- ability 1 of or drilling for oil 01 inside the corporate limits of ot the city Considerable Consid Consid- erable talk taUt of ot trying to prevent same b by legal nl action was heard but town lots continued to lea lease e and leases continued continued continued con con- to advance in value da day b by day Ono hundred dollars bonus a 1 residence lot was offered for Cor tho the most favorably located town realty As tho the days pas passed ed Into weeks and tho the news of ot the bl big oil all strike in Burkburnett was carried I Into n to every nook and corner of or tho country country country coun coun- try and the crowds gathered in town leases mounted and higher his and soon as much as 1000 was offered for foot Coot residence resilience lots Leases later went to a lot Those who fortunate enough to own acreage a adjoining tho the townsite In that part of or town leased for handsome handsome hand hum some figures early carly In the game Same and within a few Cew days das other derricks be bean began began be- be gan an to appear in that part of ot tho the elt city and other rigs were put to work to pen pen- the abdominal regions of ot Mother lother Earth Within two weeks after the tho bringing in of or the tho Fowler well wen the northeast part of ot tho the was thickly set with oil derricks Crowds Clod On Overrun City Cly Tho crowds that flocked to Burkburnett Burkburnett Burk- Burk burnett during the months of ot August and September filled the tho buil buildings and 51 sidewalks and at times almost blocked the streets All hotels cafes cares boardinghouses boarding boardinghouses houses and rooming houses were B soon on overrun and thousands of ot people wont to Wichita Falls and other neighboring towns to stay at night Laborers and others who could not go to other towns for accommodations compelled to todo todo do flo tho the best possible under the tho circum circum- stances Scores of or them slept in church and school buildings many found shelter shelter shelter shel shel- ter In garages s and anel barns while an uncounted uncounted uncounted un un- counted number slept in the open Conditions generally reminded ono ones of at the tho gold old strike In Alaska as reported b by tho the writers of that period Included I among amons- the thousands s who flocked the tho streets were tho those o who had lived ed hero here heroin herein in other da days day's s 's many of whom owned ono one or moro more lots in tho the townsite The They were elated to find that thousands of dollars had hall grown onto tho the value alue of ot their property almost overnight Friends and acquaintances ot or other da days s 's people who had hall been separated b by hundreds s of or miles man many statelIne state lines lIne mot mat on the streets almost dally daily |