Show town vanishes in in four short years streets where business once teemed now deserted leeray tex four years aars ago lee ray had inhabitants boasted of theaters banks hotels dance halls churches schools and a chamber of commerce now kow it has only broken windows in the few deserted buildings left standing on silent streets the boom came in 1020 with tile the discovery of oil leeray was lust open prairie then but within six months there grew B n city pulsating with the hie colorful vivid life that marks every oil town ton within a year salt water flowed lowed into the wells and none of them turned out big producers the in habitants departed almost as suddenly as they cume came ninny many tearing down dow n buildings and shipping the material and others hauling buildings over oe aerland land rland to new locations postmistress on job rut but decray lived while it lived it hild had its full share of exciting times with more melodrama than routine but all the lie actors have hae gone all but one INI mrs rs llla ella meeks po postmistress Is still here mrs meeks rui runs is tile the post office and a little store which serves the station agent and about 50 farmer folks near by most of whom were eie there here before leeray nourished leeray still possesses one feature of which no other town may boost Iti lylee Is the post office name it lies ilea midway beti between veen cisco and am drecun en ridge in a bowl between two mountain ranges find and the lie townsite te hit lias an altitude of nearly 1800 feet however IIo wever mrs mecks Is optimistic she still boosts for decray she pictures for it a rosy future just look at this beautiful townsite did you ever see it a better the asks we have the mountains close by and an elevation of 1 feet we have a railroad good water and natural gas this would make an ideal place for ft a hospital it ts is a great cattle end and poultry producing country right now low I 1 am in 11 on a scheme for getting settlers from florida and it il Q lee of cisco la is planning to bring in poultry people from the and establish the biggest poultry plant in the cant give lots away seven hundred abrev a Keady have been 0 een obtained for it and wo e want more mor e in tile lie big days lueray once had a chamber of commerce dinner that I 1 attended and they discussed big things for the city well I 1 given up yet the oil men said that the lie old residents were too penurious in charges for pipe lines and lenses and a nd for labor they said that it was waa that killed the town business lots on main alain street once told eold for 2000 and now you cant give them away but that wont lost talk about healthy heill thY cl linc why we had only two natural deaths in four years and the physicians were the first to begin to leave 11 st six wells at lienay are still producing but they ore are small affairs yielding elding from six bis to ten barrels dally from the file doorway of her little unpainted store where slie she resides and boosts mrs mocks looks out upon the ho palace hotel a brick structure mies elioso windows are broken and which now is 1 silent debris marks the site ot of for foi mer wat buildings along the street |