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Show r Wllle vait fortunes are being piled p la oil speculations In Teias not all aucctts Is reached In this way, writes a correspondent from Deaumont, the eentir of the oil region Dullness enterprises en-terprises of all kinds are paying well J wal In a restaurant the other day a plain looking affair that didn't aeem to bt worth 1300 and the owner sat by a deak on which was apiead out 111,000 In smsll bills and coin. I aiked him what he kept so much money In his lce tor, and his answer was: "Hsvj to do It stranger. Everybody arocsd hero Is uilng IJOO and 11,000 bllla" I have a doien or so of them Ihruit at me every day, and I mutt have the change handy " At night ho locks the desk and gore home feeling secure In his wealth. Ilefore the boom this man was deeply In debt. Now his receipts are from 11.700 and 12,000 n day, and he's got all kinds of money A barber had a two yean' Iraae on a building that la worth probably 11.000. One ot the oil speculators wanted It for an office, and gave him 18,000 to move out. Men who came here with great aumi of money cannot keep doubling It In leas tlmo than it takes to tell It Men who came here with a little amount ot money to Invest In any kind of business busi-ness cannot easily go broke and stand for more thin an even show ot making flsfi fortunes. Smm Women sre coming In from all see- mkw tlons dslly and are Investing In board- jfifj Ing houses, laundries, etc, while not a i!Ki few are Investing In the oil, No town aM ever enjoyed such a boom and what Is HH better promises to be permanent A (LSI curious fniture about It all Is that thmo already here are endeavoring to keep dark tho possibilities so that there will be fewer to divide the vast wealth with. Hut this effort has not succeeded at all and every train brings In Its load of prosperous looking men and women who havo the dough and are looking for chances to mske more. |
