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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (18004)	7/12/2001 2:46:42 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

I mention it because it is a 5 star hotel, a seeming incongruity in a sea of rusticity. You miss all the local color at those star places. "A.P. Borger, a townsite promoter of Tulsa, Oklahoma, secured a tract of 240 acres and founded Borger (sometimes called "Little Oklahoma") in February, 1926. One visitor described it as "a wild, 'rootin-tootin,''snortin,'hell-raisin,'place," one of the most notorious Texas oil-boom towns. Its two-mile street was lined on either side with helter-skelter buildings-a "Betty Jane" Hotel, "Murphy's Dance Hall," a "Dewdrop Inn," a "Stagg Billiards and Pool" hall, one- and two-story rooming houses, ugly hot dog stands and chili "parlours," barber shops, "entertainment dumps," drug-stores, a bank, hardware stores, and groceries-all like the setting of Dawson's Klondike gold-rush days. But by the close of the year Borger had a population of between 10,000 and 20,000. The near by oil field's development brought thousands of workmen with their families, and in addition, there were other thousands who came, ready to engage in any enterprise, legal or illegal. The result was that Texas Rangers finally took charge and brought order out of chaos much as they had done at Ranger and Mexia." OIL! TITAN OF THE SOUTHWEST By Carl Coke Rister Norman University of Oklahoma Press 1949