The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-05-07
Western Washington Oil Fields,

the Editor of the intelligence.
LEXINGTON, May 1.-Two weeks ago
! returned to my old home, not alone for
social purposes, but upon business con
nected 18th an enterprise in which | am
more or less interested, but my time
having been entirely consumed with
matters other than of Il business nature, |
| have been compelled To place the bus
mess in other and better hands and re-
sort to the use of your columns to in a
measure explain matters.
Western Investments and the subse-
quent reaping of enormous profits have
long held the careful attention of the
civilized world, and everybody is ready,
when Il new millionaire springs up be-
fore the public, TO sound his praises and
laud him as wonderfully successful
business man." when in fact nine cases
out of ten, the spontaneous millionaire
has merely had the nerve, and MATURE
HAS DONE Til REST"
The west to-day, perhaps, presents a
better,-at least Il more varied field for
investments than ever before, and no
sect ion is attracting more universal
attention than Western : Washington,
and especially the Puget Sound basin.
To enumerate and explain the various
openings for investments in this section
would prove Il ~Ilerculean task to persons
far more capable of dwelling upon the
subjects than !; and | will merely call
attention to the subjects closer to me
by means of personal interest.
Western Washington, in its tOpO-
graphical formations, is very similar to
Pennsylvania, and for that reason it is
universally dubbed
TIE PENNSYLVANIA OF THE WEST.
Not only is Western Washington SINH
lar to Pennsylvania i'll some respects, as
may be observed by the eye of the casual
observer, but in its hills and valleys are
daily being unearthed such minerals and
and other products ~imquanity and quail
ity as justify those best acquainted
with the existing similarity in calling
Washington Pennsylvania s twin sister.
In no respect is Washington more
similar to Pennsylvania than in those
which would indicate the existence of a
vast basin of petroleum, or coal oil.
These indications have long since at
tracted the attention of such corpora
tons and individuals AS the Standard
Oil Company and John ID. Rockefeller,
who have bought thousands of acres of
land in the district adjacent to the prop
erty now under lease by the Everett De
velopment Company, who have leased
selected lands to the extent of 5000
acres for the purpose of discovering and
producing oil, natural gas, stone and
coal.
II is the Everett Development Com
pany of which | wish to speak especially,
and it is in the stock of this company
that | would recommend Investment to
the readers hereof.
THE EVERETT INVESTMENT COMPANY
is a corporation duly organized under
the laws Of the state of Washington,
with a capital stock of $3O0,OUO, divided
into 20, 900 shares of the par value of $40
each. The promoters of the enterprise
are all we'll known business men of
energetic and wide awake dispositions,
| and none of them land | am personally
acquainted with them ALI have ever had
the faint of corruption or dishonesty
thrown upon their characters. After
months of exploration, and proceeding
upon theories that have never failed of
reward in the various oil fields of the
world, these men selected their lands,
quietly secured leases upon them at
nominal values, and proceeded III Il bust
ness-like N To organize and begin
the work of development. Within the
past month the very finest and most
complete boring machinery has been
purchased, and, | am advised, the actual
work of boring for oil and gas has begun
AT a point near Hartford, in Skohomish
county, Washington, Il promising young
city at the junction of two railroads. the
property in which town, by the way, is
under bond to this company.
The discovery of oil means more to the
stockholders in the company in Il finan-
cial way, and to the country surround
ing such place of discovery in the way of
settlement, than most people ii realize.
Suffice it to say, that a few dollars OK
| pended for stock i'll this company now