Story of the City of Borger
by Kimzey Davis, Huber News, June, 1951.

Borger was just a blank space on the prairie until oil came gushing from a wildcat well in 1925.
         Almost overnight thousands upon thousands of people rushed to the area to get a part of the new wealth. Towns under the impetus of promoters, sprang up all over the prairie-- each competing for the role of being the principal city. Due to a number of factors that are now unimportant Borger emerged as the champ and became the Mecca for the fortune seekers….
         Another cleanup by the Rangers, followed shortly by the worldwide depression of the early 30s left Borger with a population in 1930 of a little more than 5,000 or some 10% of what it had been only four years earlier. But this was the bottom.
         By late 1935 and early 1936 industry in and around Borger began to accelerate the rate of expansion.