Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota
June 30, 2008
By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer
BEULAH, N.D. - Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.
When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it.
“I told them if they hit oil, I was going to buy a Cadillac convertible and put those big horns on the front and wear a 10-gallon hat,” Stohler recalled.
He still drives his old pickup and wears a mesh farm cap — but it’s by choice.
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