Red River County Review (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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THE RED RIVER COUNTY REVIEW
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 192J
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LOl THE POOR INDIAN
NOW RIVALS CROESUS
By W. T. KRONSERG
(Prom Dearborn Independent)
"Oil opetrators, and Osages'' is more
than alliteration; It Is the gist of all
life and talk around Tulsa and
throughout the broad belt of Easternj
Oklahoma. In the order named they ;
are as complete aB "the time, the place j
and the girl," "Stop, look and listen," j
or any other set of triplets—oil, op-!
erators and Osages. v • j
Oil built Tulsa; oil operators make!
their headquarters in Tulsa, and call
it "the oil capital of the world;" the J
Osage race comes to Tulsa to spendi
its royalty allotments. A metropolis |
of 113,000 created from a village of1
3,000, and that within a span of 20
years—that's Tulsa. It reminds a vis- j
itor of an overgrown country lad who;
decks himself In his Sunday clothes j
and steps out on Thursday night. Not j
that it Is of the yokel type. Far be it j
from that. Tulsa is a patron of arts.!
She has one of the finest and best
equipped high schools in the country |
and a reputation In the theatrical pro-
fession of furnishing the coldest audi-
ences in the United States, with the
To add the last
touch to a delicious
salad...
Season your salads with a
mayonnaise made with Mrs.
Tucker's Shortening.
Just melt two cupfuls of
Mrs. Tucker's and pour into
lightly beaten egg. Add half
a teaspoonful of mustard, a
teaspoonful of lemon juice
and vinegar, some salt and a
pinch of paprika or cayenne
pepper. Inexpensive, easy, this
makes a delicious dressing.
This is but one of the
countless uses for which Mrs.
Tucker's is incomparable. A
pure vegetable shortening,
it imparts a delicious cream-
iness to all cooking and bak-
ing. It has all the richness of
butter and none of the heavy
greasiness of lard. And it
goes further than ordinary
shortening.
Get a pail of Mrs. Tucker's
from your grocer today. It is
made exclusively of choice
cottonseed-oil. You can be
absolu'ely certain that it will
I be absolutely sweet and fresh.
' The air-tight feature of the
new pail makes sure of that.
Inters'ate Cotton Oil Refining
Company, Sherman, Texas.
A merica's finest
cooking fat
possible exception of Boston. This
last should be convincing. Tulsa is
not a city of dullards.
In Tulsa at present construction
on two great churches, a Mos-
lem temple, several commercial struc-
tures, a big hospital, and plain* for a
big Catholic academy have just been
announced. Several skyscrapers and
a magnificent Masonic temple have
just been completed and a water sys-
tem that brings the streams of the
Ozark Mountains, 65 miles away, to
the home taps of the city was recent-
ly finished at a cost of J7.500.000.
Tulsa is still growing, and while It
grows Tulsaites talk oil, think oil and
dream oil.
It is recorded that petroleum was
first discovered in 1846, in Pennsyl-
vania but a legend persists anion?
tribesmen of the West that tends to
convince one that the presence of oil
was known to the Indians probably be-
fore! white men stepped foot upon
this continent, though the red men
did not know Its nature or value.
There is a legendary tale, which has
so plausable a sound that oil men
who have lost tanks of oil through
lightning stamp the story as genuine.
The legend is as follows:
Many moons ago, during a violent
storm, the Great Spirit thrust a long,
luminous arm out of the sky and
touched with His finger a pool of
water upon the plains. Immediately
from the pool a flame flared up and
Illuminated tho surrounding country.
The natives gazed upon this phenome-
non in awe and looked upon it as a
sacred fire, offering sacrifices to it
and conducting, within the circle of
its glare, the fire dances of the tribes.
Eventually, as the story goes, the Man-
Itou of "the winds became angry be-
cause of jealousy over the attentions
paid to the "fire god" and descended
with a furious roar upon the sacred
pool, wiping out the flames and ex-
tinguishing the blaze forever.
It Is deduced, as you have already
surmised, that a pool of surface oil
was Ignited by lightning and that the
blaze was extinguished when a "twis-
ter," more or less common to the cen-
trla plans, passed over the spot and
smothed the torch as easily as one
might blow out the flames of a lighted
candle. Thus, it seems, that while the
squaw cut and carried wood and
gather the buffalo chips, and rubbed
the fire sticks or struck the flint to
produce the spark that furnished fire
for warmth and cooking, under the
'nrth where she sat, even upon its
surface, lay Inert the wherewithal, in
the form of gas and oil, to furnish
limitless fuel and fire.
This story is not written to fever
the imagination of the speculating
public. "A flyer In oil" Is quite fre-
quently a flight to disaster, and In-
vestments in new companies are, nine
times in ten, financial catastrophes.
Investigation in the field is all that Is
necessary to convincei on this latter
point. The map of Oklahoma is dotted
with the signs of the cross the emblem
adopted by map makes to indicate the
dry holes that have 'been drilled. An
operator who should know told the
writer that if all the money that had
been invested in Okluhoma oil were
It is our constant aim to incre£tee and
better our service to you.
The best edvertisement we have is the1
friendship of this community.
First National Bank
of
Clarksville
"The Bank of Better Service"
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ceives approximately $10,000 in oil
royalties annually, but few there are
who do not spend it as fast if not
faster than It arrives. Under the
wing of a government that has re-
tained for them this title to the min-
eral wealth underlying the reserva-
tion laud the Indians are prosperous.
However, unless additional legislation
is enacted, the mineral reservation
clause terminates ill 1931. and tho
! rights will then revert to the holders
of .the land titles, many of whom are
whi*" men who havei purchased th
land from the Indians.
Thus the wheel of destiny turns,
and it seems that the white man h
I fa tad to disposses, a second time, the
! red id.in in America.
1 Its Easy to Pay for a
Chevrolet.
THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR
On the first day of Chautauqua is the most talked of. big musical feature of tho past season,
by Ellsworth Gilbert and Is the greatest of eighty com punier he has organized.
It is directed
placed in a pile alongside all the mon-
ey that has been made in this oil,
the two heaps would be about equal
True, the blue-sky laws of the state
provide that drilling operations must
proceed where stock is sold for that
purpose, but in many instances holes
are drilled at enormous cost to In-
nocent and unsophistlcate speculators
when the promoters who employ them-
selves with handsome salaries that
come from the stock issues, have
foreknowledge that the drilling will
result in failure. However, stories are
tojd in Tulsa of instances where pro-
moters of this type have accidentally
stumbled into oil pockets where dry
holes were expected, and they were
unceremoniously tossed into the leg-
itimate oil business and remained in
it as long as that particular well main-
tained a profitable flow.
Of course, the operators who are
gathering the big percentage of oil
from the bosom of old mother earth
are legitimate business men who have
no time for the so-called "blinking"
operators. Few of these legitimate
operators work as Individuals. They
form powerful syndicates with mill-
ions in reserve. To lllunstrat what
an operator with limited means is up
against in the Osage country: First,
he must secure a lease of potential oil
land and to do this he must bid
aganist big operators in an open auc-
tion conducted by the government. As
the bonuses alone on these leases
reached the staggering sum of $2,000,-
000 at the last auction, some idea of
the problems that face the little fel-
low can be gleaned. If he is lucky
enough to strike a pool in his drilling
It costs from $18,000 to $50,000 to
complete his pumping equipment.
However, in the event he strikes oil
and erects his derrick, his troubles
have only commenced. The very mo-
ment his gusher conies in the big
mutuals become Interested and they
Immediately sink offset wells to tap
lils supply. Then his production falls
off and he must sink another wefl or
two to get all the oil he can from
the pool before it is exhausted or be-
fore the big companies empty the
pocket. These efforts of our pros-
pector now represent an enormous
outlay in money and he is destined to
secure only a small percentage of the
oil from his lease, because the big
operators by this time have four or
five pumps erected on adjoining lands
that are doing their best to drain the
pool. Operators in the oil fields have
become too intensive and extensive
for the lone operator. It is strictly
a millionaire's game today. As one
oil man explained It:
"It is like an enormous no-limit
poker game. The operator must
stand ready with his chips to protect
his hand, and only a few that sit In
the game are financially able to stay
with the cards until the show-down."
The fact is borne out by the record
of failures that have strewn the oil
fields with financial wreckage during
the past few years.
The syndicates are. financially able
to work every wrinkle of the game
to their advantage. They establish
enormous tank farms, where, when
over-production forces down the price
of crude, as Is the case every so of-
ten, they store the oil, and when
production falls below stipulated de-
mand th9y release this supply of low-
priced crudo at the prevailing in-
creased prices. The oil business—
the crude touch and go business of a
few years ago—has developed into
an Intricate science, which only the
-wealth of a Croesus can command.
Through all of this exploitation
runs the. thin thread of Ironical fate
that has followed the red man since
his first contact with th ewhltes. All
of the oil that comes from Oklahoma
fields is taken from lands that were'
set apart in allotments to the Indians. I
Gradually It is coming back into ttie
hands of the white men. It is am
inexorable process, and soon the red i
man will have been absorbed in the ]
great melting pot. The government
has done its part to protect him— j
throwing safeguards around him, re-
serving his mineral rights, and so on '
but the restless, improvident nature
of the race hastens the inevitable.
Happily, the government reserved
the mineral rights for the Osage
Indians until 1031. His fee he can
dispose of if the deal is satisfactory j
to his guardian or guardians, but the
mineral rights upon the lan-d remain
w.'th him.
The present Indian population of
Oklahoma is 119,225 and the annual
income of thrae tribesmen is approx-
imately $40,000,000. From these fig-
ures it is easy to see where the Osage
tribe gets its reputation for affiance.
We mention the Osage race particular-
ly because these Slouxian aborigines
are the most fortunate of all the tribes
that received government allotments
in Oklahoma.
The Osages, always hostile, were
classed as savages when the allot-
ments were made and received as
their portion a great section of the
wildest lanlds of the state. Within
this reservation lay the Osage hills,
undulatory land, worthless for the
ordinary pursuits of agriculture but
ideal for stock raising and grazing.
To the five civilized tribes went the
more fertile and—at that period—
more valuable^.plains sections. The
Creeks, Ch erokees, Chlcksaws, Choc-
taws and Seminoies that composed
the latter settled down to pursuits of
agriculture, developing the land and
establishing the cotton raising indus-
try to some extent. Not so with the
Osage tribe. These Indians were rest-
less and discontented, and frequent i
raids over the border Into Kansas and
other depredations caused no end of
trouble prior to the discovery of oil i
on the reservation.
Tt may be well to explain here thntl
on thei allotments awarded to thot
members of the five tribes the miner-J
ul rights were reserved for each in-
dividual. This plan was not followed j
with the Osage. The mineral rights
on their reservation were held in j
common, and this accounts for the
universal prosperity of the tribe.
Royalties from the entire reservation
are distributed pro ratio to these In-
dians.
But when prosperity came to the
Osage, common sense and reason fled
from some of them. Few have re-
tained their property rights. They
had no taste for toll (with •thousands
In white man's wampum pouring In
upon them. Many are the tales told J
of the imprudent eccentricities of \
thei gilded Indian, and to some ob- j
servers his utter demoralization and
ultimate extenctlon as a tribe and na-
tion seem inevitable. The men of!
the tribe have, in most cases, become j
big-paunched and indolent. Many of
them dispose of their land allotments,
move into town, where they employ
members of the white race to cook
for them and to attend their house-
hold needs. They erect modern homes
and lavishly furnish them, and then
pitch tepees in the yards, where they
dwell. In the latter case, the white
lads of the town turn a pretty penny
acting as water carriers and chore
boys for the red men. They rldei in
only the highest powered and costliest
of cars, and drive them, quite fre-
quently. while under the influence of
badly distilled corn liquor, with dis-
astrous results.
The eccentric antics of the royalty-
rich Indians furnish endless amuse-
ment for the residents of Tulsa and
other cities near the reservation in
'which is stored a bonanza in oil. A
full dress suit, accompanied by white
sombrero and cowhide boots, is the
habiliment of the young buck, while!
the squaws come to town on shopping,
expeditions, arrayed in satin slippers
and silk stockings, with blankets
drapnd askew, over their shoulders.
If is not an uncommon sight to see
Indians, whose cars are parked at th'1
curb, sitting on the sidewalks with j
their backs against modern office'
buildings, gazing interestedly, if not
a bit contemptuously, at the passers-
by.
Each member of the Osage tribe re-i
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Bryce, A. T. Red River County Review (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1925, newspaper, June 5, 1925; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292792/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.