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% ■ .'.i'.'# jSi'UfciwWlL -,-rampjmPiSIS4*! rlt;\Um'jMx-VySarah Rector, a Ri«hM l^jro Clftld,Mm Wealth !*, Royalties.'■ vi. When the officers of' the'; 'United, States . allotted to Sarah; Rector, --.a. Creekfreedman, eleven years; ot'*gb,; a ■ Jtdw fragment Cimarron rtrer lots in;- seationa -6- and i, township -18 north, tange x east. containing about98 .sores theidlotment wah supposed to be practically worthless and this land, would,-pi^bably never hate b®®».selected by any adult allottee of thewiiCreek-'tribe; with- .the: extension of thi Oklahoma, pil field came a demand for wildcat oil territory and thus If was that in October, 1918, B. B. Jones, of Bristow, who had secured a lease' on Sarah’s river loti, dropped' a drill; in; 'in'. open pool that has made .history in the Mid-Continent field.' The first well developed cim® in at 3,000 barrels of oil per dayrWithoil above-thedoitermark this gave-'Sarah,, who received * royalty- of ©ndieighth, an'income from this one well alone of something over 1375.00 per day, which is some pin mohey for an eleven-year-old negro girl.,. When the drilling- was . son-tinned on - the ■ 96 acres and 23 pros-dueing gushers were brought , to with-.Sarah Rector lease became one' of the best knoWn in the field and the result,to that.two of the busiest men to, this aection; are 3d?- T. J. • porter,. of Beeland, Okla,, Sarah1 a guardian, and Mr. Edward Curd, of Muskogee, her attorney, .and their business consists largely in finding good, safe investments for the immense sums monthly to be placed. ' to Sarah’s credit as rnvnltfAR on the -oil frOm. : these ■ 2S
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Gulicks Weekly Review
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Sat, May 09, 1914
Page 7
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NA, 06 Sep 2023
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