These latter spread to the four points of the compass, and the printing presses ran hot to meet their demands.

A flood of money flowed into their pockets.
While this boom was at its height a new pool, vaster and richer, was penetrated and the world heard of the Northwest Extension of the Burkburnett field, a veritable lake--an ocean--of oil.

Then a wilder madness reigned.

Daily came reports of new wells in the Extension with a flush production running up into the thousands of barrels.

There appeared to be no limit to the size of this deposit, and now the old-line operators who had shunned the town-site boom bid feverishly against the promoters and the tenderfeet for acreage.