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...worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
...week before the application of martial law, U. S. oil production...
After one week of martial law, Oklahoma production fell to 264,500 bbl. per day, after two weeks was estimated below 120,000 bbl., a drop of more than...
Only field affected by Governor Sterling's martial law was the East Texas pool where production before closing ran up to 738,050 bbl. or almost half of the entire Mid-Continent output. With this field pinched out temporarily and the Oklahoma shut-in, oilmen figured a reduction of 40% in the total domestic supply this week. Governor Sterling was expected to lift martial law after 30 days when the Texas Railroad Commission, under the new conservation law, would prorate Texas oil production...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, lines held tight in Governor Murray's oil war. After eight days martial law had failed to budge economic law and Oklahoma crude was sellins at 52? per bbl. Governor Murray announced that two refining companies (Champlin and Cushing) had offered to pay his price of $1 per bbl. if he would remove guardsmen from their wells. "If I'm convinced the offers were made in good faith. I might allow them to open up," mused he between spits of tobacco juice as he set out for a week-end visit to Texas...