Tulsa World from Tulsa, Oklahoma • 75

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I'WWBWWrXiBT'aHIIIBMgEater 't" 1 Shawn Leoffler left and Leroy Martin of Well Service one of the few oil service companies still In the Glenn Pool area pull a submersible pump for repairs The Glenn Pool the impetus to Oklahoma's oil boom was discovered In 1905 Black Gold dreams played out in oil patch all hell broke loose and the Ida Glenn flowed mightily over the derrick top over the crown block high into the air above and with a mighty angry roar came into its own: The Ida Glenn w'lts in Oil man Robert Galbreath iuoted in the book Pool" By Kelly Kurt Associated Press KIEER Oil's mighty roar has fallen to a whisper in the field that made Okla homa famous Cattle graze in pastures where black geysers once blew and sturdy homes rise in neat rows where derricks once sprouted like trees Dreams of riches bom in the Glenn Pool nearly 100 years ago have given way to simple hopes for financial survival The shouts of that opened a centu ry have been replaced by dire predictions as it comes to a close is certainly not the future of Okla homa and probably never will be says Dan Gorin chief economist at the state Commerce Department The doubts are played out in the Glenn Pool a 40 square mile reservoir of high grade crude about 10 miles south of Tulsa Dan Richmond introduces himself as Uplands vice president of ex ploration and production and then chuck les dryly do less and less of both" he said The first well spewed to life on Ida farm in 1905 sparking an oil boom here that reached more than 20 million barrels at its peak in 1908 Bar rels couldn't be made fast enough But Richmond said only an estimated one third of the Glenn Pool has been tapped still a lot of oil and ways to get it out" he said just need higher prices" The small Tulsa company shut down 40 of its 300 wells here during the past year as oil prices tumbled Prices as low as $8 a barrel over the winter silenced pumps across the state But oil has taken SAPULPA HISTORICAL MUSEUM Associated Press IR spk 1 1 TOiS'i TSrsMt bl' 'J Oil spews from a Rice Oil Co well in the Glenn Pool field Oklahoma on a wild ride since its discov ery The first commercial gusher came in 1897 in Bartlesville But histori ans point to the Glenn Pool as the dis covery that gave birth to an industry It brought wildcatters money and pipelines Between 1901 and 1933 Oklahoma pr duced an estimated $5 billion worth of oil said Kenny ranks author of "The Oklahoma Petroleum During the good times oil built man sions towering office buildings art muse ums and university buildings Endow ments set up on oil money from early wells continue to fund scholarships and philanthropic projects an ongoing legacy that will be there for future generations of Oklaho ranks said During the downturns rural towns have seen their main streets crumble Cities have watched major oil companies See OIL 3 Home on the range Pulling together in pastured poultry operation By Sonya Colberg World Staff Writer COLLINSVILLE No cattle bawled at the last roundup on the Doug ry farm No cowboys waved their hats or leaned down close as their horses gal loped after racing hooves and horns Instead squawks pierced the crisp air as some of the nine ry children scrambled with their father through snowflakes flopping chicken after chicken into old laundry baskets A power outage caused by the March snow storm meant they had to con tain 400 flailing wings before die farm looked like the loser in a pillow fight No chicken would be fro zen before its time ry de cided The family collected the birds in a make shift pen with no top and put it in front of the wood burning stove to wait out the cold ry 41 stationed himself in a nearby chair so he could make sure the chickens didn't fly out onto the blue and aqua carpet Daddy fell asleep and some got out and they pooped all said Ad riana 16 told said her mother Vikki ry 37 that he needs to have a back up plan for next time all part of producing pastured poultry The ry family raises anunals on 10 acres near Collinsville and is one of few families in Oklahoma who have pastured chickens They are an anomaly in a state with a $403 million chicken industry sprouting facilities large enough to grow out 80000 chicks at a time The rys raised 1400 chickens last year The fam ily believes tnese nome grown chickens are a good alternative to those raised in the dusty ammonia laden unnatural condi tions of the large farms The unusual pens are among the first things you see when you drive up and turn into the farm past the white mailbox hand painted with the letters Desire arm" The chickens live in each of four white washed wood and screen pens measuring 8 by 8 feet About half of the top of each pen is covered with corru gated tin and the rest is screened or left open so the birds can soak up sunshine The bottom of each pen is left open so they can eat bugs and grass Every day the children lift the pens to a new spot on the lawn so the white Cornish Cross chickens can peck around on fresh ground picking up na ture's offerings in addition to eating commercial non medicat ed feed They fertilize as they go and no accumulating pile of chicken litter a problem with the big farms that has been linked to damaged watersheds Two year old Micah calls the pastured chickens MIKE SIMONSTulsa World 'v KMI 5 TjL 'L tC Hi ML' aS Jgl v7jfe 7 Vf SK ij? A 'LrL Arr M0 Left: Adriana ry feeds the chicks as she carries out her routine chores on the acreage near Collinsville The family raises and sells pastured poultry ar left: Erika ry makes sure the older chickens have plenty of water as they feed inside a portable pen MIKE SIMONS Tulsa World chicks are low low stress because they are not all cramped together like they are in the big (commercial) houses They get fresh grass sunshine and said ry a UPS truck driver makes for a better chicken It really does make them happy A chicken circled outside each of several boxes trying to get back in with box mates after flying out the pulled back screen Without being told 6 year old Jonah put down a puppy grabbed a chicken with some missing feathers and tossed it back into the pen Tlie chicks arrive by mail from a Missouri farm and live out their first two weeks in a light bulb heated wood box inside a shed Just as the chicks move out of the ugly partially feathered out stage they are tranferred into the pens on the lawn They stay there until they are butchered when they weigh 5 pounds or more at 8 or 9 weeks of age a family affair right down to the butchering Each member is assigned a task from jugular vein slitting ry as chicken executioner to chicken pick ing Jonah pick up the Jonah said cheerfully The heady operation began about five years ago when the rys got their first farm animal brother brought to their new fann a black and white speckled rooster named A nanny goat named Dovie joined Speck and the farm has since grown to six goats six geese 10 hogs two ducks four turkeys and 30 laying hens not to men tion the 200 chicks in the shed and 200 older chicks on pasture together too said Erika 12 get See POULTRY 3.