EARLY OIL DEVELOPMENT IN HUGHES COUNTY

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    Binas Hostettler was an outstanding oil and gas attorney in Hughes County. Binas came to Holdenville from Washington D.C. in 1923. Binas wrote the following in the 1960s and today we want to share part one . . . The oil development moved into Hughes County from the North and Joe I. Cromwell of Muskogee, “flanged up” a block of oil and gas leases about 4 ½ miles northwes...

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