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Show ID RUSH NUDE FOR OILFIELDS Klondike Scenes Re enacted During Stampede to Arkansas Gusher BbDORADO, Ariz.. Jan. 13 Scenes of California In the forties, of Cripple Creek and of the Klondike are being re-eoaOtcd hefo modernized to n great extent, it Is true but typical of thi i raving of men for Kreat wealth quickly attained, nil is the answer Eldorado, a week ago was a quiet, cunsci'i .it i e town of ::,00i) inhabitants, manifesting some Interest In the pros-pi pros-pi etlng for oil in the vicinity, but primarily pri-marily intent on pur.-iilng the even tenor ten-or of its way as a farming community. commun-ity. Today Us population, Increased by brokers, scouts and Investors, has trebled and every man and woman, and ' 'i 'he children of the town are, In their opinion, potential millionaires. (,i - in k BItt IUGHT TV Monday afternoon a well drilled by Dr. Sam T. Busey, blew In as a Rusher Rush-er of oil. mud and water, spouted from the mouth with ft roar that could be hi ird for miles and attained a height of 25 feet above te top 'of tho derrick. der-rick. The word spread like wildfire and the rush to the mw oil field bo-came bo-came so great that special tmins were necessary to care for the traffic from all directions. Oil men of many years' i expi-rienc- and u: ibted veracity rs- tlmated that the Wall's capacity is srv-or.il srv-or.il thousand barrels a day and some, estimates have gone as high as thirty thousand barrels. Tin. in Idea m ae minds of every one, however, le that Uk gusher has proven the presence of a new oil field and the first field discovered in Arkansas. Ar-kansas. BID iH;il FOR LEAS! - Hotel lobbies have been Converted into curb markets where leases are bought and sold at almost fabulous prit a When a seal Is vacated a doz-in doz-in men scramble for It. Restaurants c.nnot provide meals, for all the visitors vis-itors .md hungry men form lines extending ex-tending outside the doors. Hotel and restaurant prices have not been raised. rais-ed. tic man sold a lease within a mile Of the Busey wall "tor $ 1 , 0 0 0 an acre. Five hutidred dollars an acre for a l"iise is considered a nominal price If the property Is w'tliln two miles of :ne gusher, and leases situated 8 far as six miles distant bring as hlghi as $J0U an acr-. i m ROOMING. The Iittle Rock Chamber of Com-; mi rce has established a branch office., here. The Hot Si ring Chamber of Commarce has sent representathxs who are scattering hand bills declar- ing Hot Springs to be the logical cen-j ter for oil interests headquarters. Big wholesale and retail houses of the; state are opening np branch houses here and one company has shipped In more than a score of portable houses to be erected for naWcomi rs An enterprising farmer Is adding to his income by stationing himself and a team of mules at a mud hole be-iwi'. be-iwi'. n the Busey well and Kldora 10 and Is offering his seTVtdes to auto-lsts auto-lsts to j.ull them ojt of the ho)f 1U-Is 1U-Is kejit busy. Possibly the calmest man in town Is Dr. Busey. an oil man of eighteen years' experience In Colombia. BollV-I BollV-I La, Mexico :ind most of the fields 1 ' the United 81 ties, who made his first real strike when the gusher blew In Monday. |