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WESTERN OIL DERRICK, SATURDAY, APRIL lfc, 1920.
Western Oil Derrick
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buying any stock in an oil refiner) that i- pro-
posed to be built in one of the be'-t towns of Iowa,
about one thousand miles from an\ oil well
Tin- Iowa bankers will tell their farmer" friends
that the refining of crude oil is extremely profit-
able—provided the refineries have any oil. The
bankers also will tell the farmers that there is not
the remotest possibility of successfully operating
a refinery in Iowa, miles and miles away from any
oil field.
It is true that if a company owns an oil well
that flows a few thousand barrels of crude oil
each day, such a company can build and pperate
a refinery that will make just a- much money a-
is stated in the beautiful prospectus that the high- i
pressure stock salesman carries with him ill hi-> X
$8,(100 automobil e as hr skims along the highway1 X
of Iowa seeking new victims. J
But there are no oil wells in Iowa It i- a ♦
physical impossibility to operate an oil refinery in X
Iowa, haul in crude oil, and manufacture gasoline ¥
and other products tn compete with companies ?
that own oil wells with refineries located right at .?
the wells. •+<->•>*<*>*<■
There is no more chancc for an oil refinery to
keep out of bankruptcy when it has no oil than
there is for a meat-packing concern to run with-
out any hogs or cattle to pack.
If the Iowa law makers are wise, they will get
busy and drive the refinery salesmen out of tttat'
state rind tell them to go to some oil community to
sell their shares.
In the meantime the bankers of Iowa have !
something of a job on their hands to keep the
farmers of Iowa from being buncoed.
Big Oil Check
i Paid Auditor
X A check for $134,319.34 from
B. Shaffer, of Chicago, which
is payment of tax on income de-
rived from Oklahoma oil prop-
erty, was received by Frank (
Carter, state auditor of Oklaho-
ma.
The payment was made in ac-
cordance with the supreme court
decision a short time ago, and
consists of payment of income
tax and penalties for yearn 1916
and 1918. The check is the
largest individual payment ever
made to the auditor's office wince
statehood. Carter said.
port that the general has forty-four!
delegates instructed for him. Thi is
not quite enough, since there will be j
about 900 votes in the convention.
New York has. 1 think, eighty-eight
Hnd Pennsylvania seventy-six. Ohio j
has something more than sixty. Ho j
has Indiana; and Illinois about the (
same. Those five states will nomi
Xh;, t'
V
for Harding and Roosevelt.
Fver\ i>er-lnate tlle winner ahti the few 8cfttter"
son in Oklahoma who is engaged in the oil ,i, '>«"* " °* hein« l" tructed
dustry on a real basis is hostile to the lnuico meiii"1'gh' *et lnto the wu*on
who are trying to sell stock in an oil refiners that!r,Bht now' Th" banrt w"gon„ wt" be
is proposed for a locality that is so remote from lo"ied wlth roo,e" who wl" 8hout
the sources of crude petroleum that the whole
suggestion is regarded a~ a joke down here where
we have real oil wells and real oil refineries.
If the Iowa farmers will consult with their
bankers about this wild idea of building oil re-
fineries away up in Iowa, they will be wiser and
also richer.
Life Insurance
IF any person neglects to read the want adver-
tisements in the daily newspapers, he misses
some of the most interesting happenings con-
nected with the tragedies of life.
A few days ago we looked through the little
want ad< under the head of "Positions W anted"
and thi* is what we read.
I have been reading Champ Clark's
book. While I did not know that the 1
famous Missouri congressman was an
author, he seems to have written a
book which will have many readers |
I hardly think that William J. Bryan 1
will take much interest in the Clark
book, as this is what Champ Clark
says about Mr. Bryan:
"I lost the nomination solely through
the vile and malicious slanders of Col.
William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska.
It was on the fourteenth ballot that
William Jennings Bryan violated hi
instructions and by base and false in-
sinuations—to use no uglier word—
robbed me of the nomination to which
I wag entitled by all the rules of de-
cency, justice, honesty, common sens*
and fair dealing, as I had a clear ma-
jority on eight bollots."
—o—
It is less than two months until the
republican convention nominates a
candidate. Mr. Hoover is getting the
publicity and Senator Harding is get
ting the delegates.
—o—
One of the magazines recently
printed an excellent story about Dr.
Grayson, who President Wilson's
Going Up
In the last two weeks lease prices have gone up considerably in Southeast-
ern New Mexico, and activity is running high, due to the showing of the Illinois
No. 1 well in Eddy county, and the bringing in of the Bell well in Reeves county,
Texas, which adjoins Eddy on the south.
We still have some acreage which we are disposing' of, while it lasts, ai tlir
same old prices. Eddy county acreage, at low prices, is scarce. l>ut \\c ha\e
plenty of acreage in
Chaves and Lea
Counties, where development has not advanced quite so far as in Eddy count}.
Today is the time to buy it, while prices are low in these two counties, foi the
development is coming. According to present plans, there will be a good deal
of development in these two counties within the next six months, which will
mean another increase in values there.
Get in Now Ahead of Development
and wsh in for a profit later. We have leases in all the counties of Eastern New
Mexico, in 40-acre tracts or larger. Special prices on large blocks.
Get Our Maps and Market Letters of
Eastern New Mexico Development
Orcutt - Harris & Co., Inc.
A?
end the president was wise in choos-
ing the best medical talent that he
could find.
But the president did not continue
kls wise policy when he picked a few
"PIONEERS IN THE NEW MEXICO
FIELD"
Southwest National Bank Bldg.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Branch Offices:
First National Bank Bldg..
Roswell. N. Mex.
3018 Strong Avenue,
Kansas City. Kansas
huoard ft«ll Bid*
« *rw I
STOCKTON, CaV
TACOM
and Locust.
v d.—'Tourist N>wn CY
- Km Stand. Minth and Pacific.
TOPSJCa. Kan —Oxford New* Co.
Tul^nO-Medieon New* CQ.
Wit HlTA K*« -Baton Hotel
WICHITA FALLS. Te*a«-—Wpodhouae Cl^ar Store, St. James
. Hotel
YtWNO«TOWN\ Ohl«-rcd"ral News Co.
A New Bunco Game
SOME of our friends are writing to tis from
Iowa to ask about the new bunco gamf which
is being used in strong-arm fashion against
the farmers of the rich Hawkeyr Utc. It is gen-
erally known that the farmers of Iowa sold their
product- Ust x ear for S800.000.000 and it seem*
tl.Ht a few high-powered stock salesmen are mak-
•ujf efforts to dislodge -unit of the fund.- that the
io a farmers have tucked away in their strong
boms.
It >- the old game of offering to build an oil
-efinery—pro\ideil the farmers of Iowa will fur-
msh the money. The -tuck salesmen, be it known,
have precious little idea about turning crude oil
into gasoline.
Huhe farmers of l>'v\a | o.- t&> as much sense
a- they should have after being unusually «ucces -
ful in developing the finest farms in the world,
they will consult with the home bankers before
The advertisement may look innocent enough,
and probably it was read by thousands of persons
who did not -ee the tragedy of the thing. This is
what the advertisement meant:
THE WOMAN'S HUSBAND HAD DIED
WITHOUT HAVING A DOLLAR OF LIFE IN-
SURANCE
In these days, life insurance is a necessity. No
man should live a day without such protection.
When a man rents a house and buys groceries,
shoes and clothing, he has not finished his work.
He should include life insurance in the budget.
One of our judges proposed that no man be
issued a marriage license unless he can show that Physician. I)r. Grayson is one ot the
he owns a life insurance policy. This wise judicial I n'e('ic i men lB this country,
officer is William H. Zwick of Oklahoma City,
former member of the bench, now assistant at-
torney general of Oklahoma.
These few words are addressed to any man
who is without life insurance. Would you, Mr.
Satisfied Citizen, like to die and force your widow ethers, lie chow an editor to be sei
to advertise for a position? If you leave her uu'retary ot the navy. Just why this
life insurance that's what is certain to happen t" appointment was made, no one seems
her. to know.
Why not take out a pol^ y today ? I he insut The", the president picked otlier
ance offices are always open. So arc the want ad u""n without any experience to handle
columns always open for widow s who have no life his government jobs. He named \>om
insurance policies in their favor. masters that knew absolutely nothing
about managing the mail service. Like-
Cuba is in favor of prohibition—for the United *',e ,n n>' other branches. . . , . , th
; If the president had used the stni' den transposition of a negro from the i es to be one of the best if not
wisdom in choosing all his appoint class of a poor fsrmer to a millionaire
e.es as he did in naming his Physi oil man. Two others can he men-
elan. we would he getting better sen tioned in connection with the develop-
ice in all departments of government ment the wonderful Held in Clai
' borne Parish. One of th«Be is Wil-
I have seen a lot of funny political ; llam t'hatman, who is drawing a good
campaigns, but never have I observed fat check each month from royalties
ditch a wonderfully humorous situation for oil produced on his land, and Wil-
as the one which developed a few day, llam Hardy, another-negro, upon whose
ago in the Michigan primary election land the Frost Oil company hap four
These llnex are beiug written before wells, which It is reported were re-
uil of the Michigan returns are in bu' centlv sold for $1,500,000.
t don't have to know the final figures
Date 1920
ORCUTT-HARRIS & CO* Inc.,
Southwest Natl. Bank Bldg.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Gentlemen:
Kindly send me information as to leases
in Eastern Xew Mexico.
Name - -
Street
Citv
W.O.D. 4-10-20
company and others have some of the
best producers that have been drilled
in the shallow sand in the Homer field.
Still others are being drilled, and no
dry holes have yet resulted on Jack-
ton's land.
This is only one instance of the sud
OILTON DISTRICT
BOOMING AGAIN
Oil.ON. Okla Aprit 10—What prom-
State-, as people from this country travel tc
Havana to leave much money in the liquor ,-tore-
w hich raise- the internal wealth of the island.
The Huge Taxes
A FEW days ago The Western Oil Derricl
gested that the govrnment acquire all of the
liquor in warehouses and sell the stuff at
market values, making available the sum of six
billion dollars to apply on our enormous national
debt. •
, . , . - - I (ion i n«ve 10 nmiw i tie imo. upnivr .
Bankers do not look with favor on the sugges |o( of (u„ ou, 0( ,he NUchlRan We,tern 0jl DerrlcK cl.„ified ads
ion. Neither do prohibitionists. .. —
tion
After they have paid income taxes, luxury
taxes, profit taxes, and some of the rest of the
taxes about three more years, possibly they w ill
feel mope inclined to let the government engage
in th< saloon business tor fifteen minutes in efforl-
to reduce the national debt.
If any better plan can be found that will lighten
the tax burden and save annoyance to busines-
in«n now would be a right good time to make tin
fact known. I'nle-- -ome action i* taken quickly
the taxes will get vorse, bigger and more complt
cated.
One citizen sent his «uit to be pres-ed each
week: the cost was fifty cent®. Then the pres-er
grrw chestv and raised the price to seventy-five
cent- The citizen announced that hereafter he
would have hi- suit pressed once a month instead
of once a week. The pre--er now get- seventv
five cents a month instead of two dollar.-. If we
had a few more -ttihborn citizen-, some of these
reckless prices would be broken quickl\.
POLITICAL RAMBLINGS
iN STATE AND NATION
BY X RAY
contwit It seems that a man named brin* home the bacon.
Herbert Hoover is a candidate for
president on the Republican ticket
But Democrats; want Mr. Hoover to run
for them, and up in Michigan som -
ten of thousand voters cast ballou
for Mr. Hoover on the Republican
ticket and a lot more thousands voted
for Mr. Hoover to head the Democratic j
ticket.
Presumably Mr Hoover's campaign
manager* feel like moukeys these
days, unless they are too sober to see
the fuu of th thing.
So tar ab ihc Republican leader* of
the nation are concerned, it in as-
sumed that the> are laughing up th ir
sleeves. They never took much stock
In the Hoover bushiest, and now they
see the finish of Mr. Hoover at the
hands of individual voters. It is my
opinion that the Hoover supporters are
the kind of fellows who rarely take
any part In electiora. but come out
once in every ten years to have a little
fun.
very best—oil fields opened in Creek
county is showing up in southwest of
the northwest of 29-19-8 by the Texas
company. The well was drilled In late
last week into the Bartlesville sand;
the first report brought to this city
was that it was a dry hole and a num-
ber of big lease holders in that section sand in the field east of Oilton and
oi the country felt rather blue. Dur thai it will develop to be the senen
ing that day and night th# drillers de tion of the Mid-Continent field. One
oil. The well \^as cleaned and b.
noon of the second day it was discov-
ered that a big pool had been found
east of Oilton, which according to ex
perienced oil men has all the earmarks
of being the best find of the season.
The well is flowing steadily and is
making better than 1,000 daily, with
the sand practically just touched at
2.673 feet, which is several feet deeper
than the Wolverine well in 36-lfl S.
It ifi said that with the drilling in
of this wel' it has proven the territory
to be a good pool in the Bartlesville
cided to go a little deeper and it was
then that the pay was found.
After going down 16 feet farther
they got the pay in good shape, but
n slight cave-in stopped the flow of
of the thing* that makes It look sc
good and promising for th* future is
the large amount of gas found, a surs
indication of a good producer whei
found in the Bartlesville san4.
oklahoma, one of the state's smartest
politicians, says that if the republican
convention falls to nominate Mr.
Hoover, that the democratic conven-
tion should name him to head the
democratic thket. This is rich and
will bring some wrath from democrats
down on the head of General Barrett
If Hoover la nominated by the re
publicans, that party is certain to __
l>emoorau who were enthusiastic iname me as his running mate. There 8HRBVEPORT. L* April 10.—
about Mr Hoove, a tew weekj ago j- jU8t as good a chance for both of Charley Jackson la a millionaire. Hia
now look \sith contempt on the former for either Yet the newspapers little farm oc: ted in 14-21-$. in flai-
food administrator 8o far as 1 can
see. Mr Hoover Is
win.
Judging from a conversation which
I overboard a few days ago many
iemocrntji are mad at Herbert Hoover
'or statins th-t he would accept the
rer ubMcan presiden ial nomination If
t sho i d be ffered him
It appear that : nuni er of demo Mr Hoover i« a very fin
trnt., bad come to be 1 • v that if Mr «l 1 can no reason for condemn \cn**>n wl I turn ?b« big show ove. t
Hoover should b-1 \ uated by the ,r,P him fcr deciding that In the future Hoover T ;. onv.-ntion will do
democratic convention tint victory ic wll' be a republican. nothing of ih« kind.
woniri bt easy. Wheren. with Hoover Vet I look on Mr Hoover's ctrndi
not available tiure as l0 be oir.e ;a y with much humor He ^ now General Wood hu been favowd
uncertainty uuwe i ■ as to Unposslblr ? # « <}«mocrat|c cand date, wi h few delegates from oui* of thv
picking any on- tfho hik a ve to . although Adjutant Ctneral B-.rctt of . i *iler st The new*. r.
WELLS HAKE NEGRO
OIL MILLIONAIRE
tonttnue to boost Mr, Hoover, evident-
man jv thlnkln- that the republican con
br -n«> Parish. u<>w
Ing wolls on It.
emong the )arf'k*
Tiro of the v
Oecfrg? Ha inl, eac
tion o appr\\imaielv
and the Louisiana
corporation, ihr Arkan
has many
no of the*
producer*
produc
i being; i
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