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f.Farmers Are Now Dreaming of Six-Cylinder' Gars, Fat Royalty Checks, Etc., Because of Kansas City* Gasser.Special to Texas Oil Ledger.7 .*• 'Killeen, Texas, July lS.—With farm-ehs dreaming- of slx-eyllnder carp and fat royalty checks; with lease peddlers working overtime, always with one ear to the ground, as it wero for any vagrant rumor; with stories going the rounds to the effect that several big companies are buying acreage—the Killeen wildcat is showing unmistakable signs of shedding its stripes and becoming tame. All tills as a result of the Kansas City gasser, which has beon the center of the calcium for the past two weeks.There is no boom as yet; no inflated prices, with the possible exception of offset acreage; nothing of the wild and reckless days of a new born oil field— but there is an air of hope and optimism, which if “oiled’* up some will break into a boom on shorfc notice. Each day brings its .quota of visitors, small but business like, looking for information,, 011 Scouts Present./A 11 ri #“» lit ri I m * I-* n fil rtTf / ? A A P
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Texas Oil Ledger
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Sat, Jul 17, 1920
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