Show Land Too Poor for Crops Enriches Owners s With Number Numb r of Farmers in Desert Country of Ka S Become Millionaires KI 41 I WICHITA Kan June 27 Desert Desert land landof landof I of anSaS so poor that the soil would I Inot not respond to the touch of the plow I Ihas has made a group of oil millionaire among farmers who could not sell their I land lanel and who could not borrow enough 1 money money to move away That's That s another i I romance of oil which is stranger than any Aladdin's tale I How would you like to own a farm I that would not produce a crop of grain How would you vou like to offer the farm I Ifor and find no buyer j for 10 an acre cre How would you like to again offer the I farm at 5 an acre be refused and then I have oil have wealth thrust upon you to the tune of millions of dollars when a big oil company compan brought forth great gushers gush gush- gush I ers era Yell Well that happened in Kansas I There was a man named Peder Paul Paul- son He came to Butler county dozens I I of years ago lIe He obtained land west of or ofEl I El Dorado But it was poor land and I rocky withal He was naturally thrifty I with his foreign inborn gift but he 1 got sick at heart after years of hard work trying to make his big land I pay payout payout ay I out well Take STake it it Peder Paulsen said time and again to prospective purchasers for 10 an acre The offers otters were I turned down He Ie began to think l it wasn wasn't n t worth half o of ef that A few months after Peder Paulsen began to consider asking 5 an acre he refused an offer of or for a half interest in his oil rights on only a part of his land Oil had been found on his land oil in big quantities MRS UHS SHUMWAY A Y RICH i Mrs Mary Shumway a widow had hada hadI a quarter section of land on the railroad railroad rail rall- road between Towanda and El EI Dorado She wanted to sell seIl out Making the theland theland land pay was a a. heartbreaking proposition proposition proposition tion for her When officials of Gypsy Oil company came to her in 1916 to lease her land land she wanted to sell it to them She of offered Ie red it cheap a few dollars dollars dol dol- lIars lars an acre But the Gypsy people just wanted to lease They began de de- de Nos 1 2 2 3 3 4 and 5 S came at I hat r In all big 0 ones s the last probably a h the biggest gusher the state ever Sever saw 15 barrels a day or so initial The rhe Gypsy jerked their big executive offices es up to Wichita Ichita with their general manager manager man man- ager er and of working out of ot this headquarters Big lawsuits evolved from the tile sudden wealth of Mrs Shumway who was well nigh 1 dered Joe Porter had some of the land in inthe I the vicinity Porter already was arich I Iman man and didn't care about leasing his I land land land-didn't didn't consider It worth much I anyhow But the Carter Oil company I kept after him They made him one of the richest men in the state The Tile land he let them have was comparatively poor Down in the great stretches of ot Chautauqua Chautauqua Chautauqua Chau- Chau and Montgomery counties where there were big tracts of the same country for which the tile Oklahoma OEge is famous oil had made oilmen richer than kings There came the Elbing Gibing field Prank Frank Eyestone had some land along the tho I creek for which he had never held aVery a a. avery avery very high opinion Here came the Gypsy again and leased him up They I brought In big oil wells along the edges I of or his land and while the they probably lessened the mere surface value of the tile I farm they made Eyestone and his descendants descendants de de- de- de comfortable for years to come The and the were others Along came geologists and the farmers farmers' I in a few months prodigiously prodigiously pro pro- swelled The Paris land in inthe inthe I the south end of the Elbing field would never amount to much people th but hut It has amounted to so muc I Its lease Is valued at the tile subject of litigation 1 GOOD LUCK LUCI Up Lp In the valley of Doyle cr Cre Creek tween Peabody and Florence In em ern Marion Marlon county there lIved a bored John E. E Covert He h h haV acres split up by the was almost unproductive except 1 the banks of the stream He trie trieU to do right b by his wife and ter Mary Later he lost hIs It Itter Then when he died and his lowed him In a a. short time things ed dreary reary for Miss Mary Covo Buffalo Dufalo NT N. Y lawyer named got interested in Marion Marlon count Standard Oil officials tint drilled a well and the was discovered It led to an Inc t. t more than 1000 a day for the tile r ter tel who had become a schoOl t tin in the meantime There can came derricks to the land of W. W E B L The Tho oil flowed over OVO his ham riched him and the family moved moved J from the smelly fluid and th the thelt I k boilers boners mf r The Urschel oil il field spread land whose fertility was not est in the world It made poor s. rich and wealthy persons richer came to the Hyde pool poGi In weste weste i j county on land which had bee beet mainly as pasture land landt ut ef for anything else l This Pills thing of poor land bein being often orten enriched than good come a tradition in the oil Industry And oilmen m have v com this saying There h are r huf hunS of wells drilling In Kansas tog M. M what has been hitherto land for the fee holder The Tile ont oll past has acted as a magic age ag enriching the tile land and the pock land owners as if it were late denly applied to a region in a bl gallon gatlon project And Anti scores of oP ope op are drilling wildcats in western eastern and southern Kansa KansaS ing to make more p pay |