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Little Dan often sings for his supper, but he
doesn't have to. The month of March saw deposited
to his credit $12,000 and every day he makes not less than $190.
Dan is the sun of James and Elizabeth Tucker,
children of slaves of the Creek Indians freed by the
Civil War.
By virtue of a treaty made between the United
States and the Creek Indians at Fort Smith, Ark., in
1866, slaves formerly belonging to the Creeks, and
their descendants, were given an equal share with
their former owners in the government allottment of
the old Creek lands in the Indian territory.
And that is how Dan Tucker now owns 160 acres
of land lying east of Cushing, Oklahoma, in the heart
of the newly developed Cushing oil field. The land
was allotted to him in a supplementary division made
by the government in 1905, and Dan had been enrolled as an eligible by his father.
For years the land was reputedly no account.
Two years ago, long after Dan's parents had given
up hope of return from the land, the Prairie Oil &
Gas Co., arranged a lease. Oil now is rushing out
of that portion of Creek like water from a lawn
sprinkler.
Dan gets one-eighth of the gross proceeds from his
oil wells and the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. does all the
work and stands all the expenses of operation.--
Indianapolis Ledger.Although Ignorant of the Fact, Farm Land Belonging to His Ancestors is Piling Up For Him an Immense Fortune
(Special to The Indianapolis Ledger)
Researched and posted by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
SOURCE: The Negro Farmer - Saturday, June 6, 1914. Published by the Negro Farmer Publishing Company, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. - Isaac Fisher, Editor and Business Manager
Cushing, Okla., May 6.--(Spl.)--Running wild and
irresponsible as a colt, little Dan Tucker, ten, a colored boy, living on a rocky Oklahoma farm of 80 acres, is ignorant of the fact that he is one of the
richest boys in Oklahoma.
Land Flowing With Oil