Here are two pics I took last time I was in Noble County.

Dead Tree in a Golden Field

Swabbing in a Herington Well

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OPEC’s President blames everyone and everything – except OPEC itself – for ever-expanding oil prices.

OPEC president blames oil prices on ethanol, weak dollar: reports - MarketWatch.

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Trees City was founded by the legendary oil finders Benedum and Trees.  These two wildcatters had moved to north Louisiana after finding large oil fields in Oklahoma.  They discovered the field in far northwest Louisiana for which the town was named.

Trees City quickly became a boomtown complete with churches, honky tonks and a post office.  During the height of the oil boom, twenty-five thousand people lived there.  Today it is little more than a memory.

Thick trees, vines and creepers cover most of what was once a thriving city.  Permanent steel towers, constructed on site for the drilling of a single oil well, still peek up through the tall trees.  Even the post office is gone, located now at the Oil Museum in nearby Oil City, Louisiana.

Benedum and Trees sold their interest in the field to Gulf Oil for a million dollars, an enormous sum of money at the time.  The amount pales compared with the vast riches recovered by Gulf Oil.  It doesn’t matter much now.  Where roughnecks once toiled to recover Mother Nature’s dark liquid bounty, only ghosts wisping silently over Jeems Bayou still remain.

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