Show TALL TALES 88 As told to FRANK E HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON champion of the oil fields ASK SK any texas or oklahoma olla oila driller chos the best beat in tits his business and hes certain to answer why kemp morgan of coursol course I 1 ask him why and lie he will tell you its because more unusual experiences than any other seeker after black gold ever did for instance there was the time kemp lost tits hla best drill ile he was working gln in soft ground but he noticed that the drill kept going slower and slower the farthier fart farther iier it went down pretty soon it stopped completely ely when kemp tried to pull it out it was stuck fast fait come to find ou that he had hit an alum mine and the hole had shrunk up lit around the drill so tight that even kemp budge it then there was the time a texas norther swooped swoop edd down own on kemps rig rg but it stop him no sir ree reel I 1 jle ho just kept on drilling and brought la in a 22 inch gusher it was so cold that them the oil froze as it spurted upward so there was a solid column of frigid oil kemp just took out hla his knife hacked backed it off in threefoot three foot toot lengths and shipped it to io the leftery on flat cars that was lq in texas but kemp hud had a funny experience once in oklahoma he drilled a well so deep that it tapped a rubber mine down in brazil she began to gush pure rubber so kemp just blew his breath on it to make it solid cut it off od in 11 foot lengths and shipped it to the place in ohio where they made tires for or trucks when the average driller brings in a duster lie he moves mores his rig away from there pronto but not kemp morgan I 1 re ne knew what a tough time the kansas farmers had digging pest holes ioles in the summer when the ground was baked hard so whenever hed strike it a dry hole hed just take his two hands bands pull it up four feet and two inches at a time and saw it off then held hed ship a carload of these lengths across the state line where they always found A a marlet market private Privat eLife life of jonah which swa swallowed I 1 IT jonah theorizes stanley it was a a bigmouthed big mouthed fish in northern michigan nia ills friend laddie captured the mai monster anster in 1030 1930 but decide what to do with it the size seemed to destroy the fichs fishs commercial value and imagine Ladd laddies les surprise says saya stanley when the first stranger to arrive bid a fabulous price for the fichs fishs scales laddle yelled solda then he re recovered covered his poise sheared olathe scales counted tho the money and gave them to the qt stranger ranger What ll you do with em asked laddie 4 im a spade manufacturer from moline ill replied the buyer rye lve got material here for spades odthe best chilled steel buyer after buyer paid staggering prices ifor different parts of the fish and laddle laddie says stanley get wise until a tremendous P price rice was bid and accepted for the fishs fichs SiO stomach mach the stomach buyer immediately silt open the fishs fichs belly and revealed the golden throne upon wille which h jonah had been b een seated during his long ong captivity its cheap at half the price stated the b buyer yer with pardonable satisfaction ng as he brushed a stray tin fin from tits precious purchase the despondent grasshoppers A A SEASONED SO maxim of the copy k 1 books Is that frequently a I 1 real cry does a person good leonard nailer baller once a nebraska farmer Is sure of it rain washed away the railroads aroundhim around i tits his nebraska lands the drouth hit lit him in squarely then the dust storms killed aillem every living thing then grasshoppers arrived ly millions and settled on his farms farms a thing for the hoppers to eat nut but they were too tired to move on and leonard almost lost hope As a last gesture however he rushed out anong the despondent ent grasshoppers and planted several sets seta of the stron strongest gestand and hardi bardl est onions ile he could buy to his surprise tile the onions matured quickly cly tile the moment their bulbs appeared above ground the grasshoppers pounced on them ate ravenously and burt burst into tears and that leonard recalls proudly is how my farms were saved the land was drenched by the tears of the grasshoppers and as soon as they had drowned themselves I 1 was able to raise a normal crop B 0 western newspaper Newt paper union I 1 |