Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-12-23
Stop the Drill.

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Who is responsible for the criminal
waste of one of our most valuable pro
ducts-oil2 Out of 1926 wells completed
during the month of November, produc-
ing II, j6o barrels of oil daily, the Stand
ard Oil Co. completed S6 wells produc-
ing 4323 barrels, or 37.4 per cent of the
new production for one company-a
company largely indebted to the pro-
ducers for its existence Do they re
quire this large increase of oil to enable
them to deliver refined to their custo-
ners at fair price, or to furnish bread
to their families? Or is it for another
purpose to depress the comm odity of
their patrons in order to buy from them
at nominal price, and In the end force
them from their business?
They start out with only 15S wells for
December. What excuse have they for
drilling this number of wells when they
claim the market is overstocked with
oil2 They come forward with denial
of having mixed Ohio stinkoil with
Pennsylvania crude in order to destroy
its value, will they 90 little further in
their denial and expiain how it is that
their mixed certificates are 65i cents
per barrel, whilst Pennsylvania crude is
o5 cents, at the sametime?
They pay only 65 cts for it, claiming
that to be the price of the world, and
will they explain their predictions of
the oil marked signed Student? If not
to depress and control the oil market.
These predictions are the most infa-
nous and sacreligious of all the schemes
by which the producers OF oil haye been
robbed. Their right TO make large do
nations to the churches, of this, we have
nothing to say. provided they get the
money honestly, but when it comes to
say that at the beginning of time the
price of oil for today was fixed, and the
price list given to the Standard Oil Co..
is infamous, sacreligious and an insult
to the Creator.
These predictions have been publish
| in the Derrick from time to time when
ever they wished to swindle the pro-
ducers, the last of which has just ex
pired, predicting that oil would be a sale
on every rise, up to Dec. Is.
There is remedy for this-the State
has some rights and duties to perform.
1st No oil should be mixed whilst in
transit or storage and the certificates
should state kind of oil under a heavy
fine.
I'd graduated tax should be levied
on drilling wells. say for the first 2
wells 81 each. for the next 5 800 each.
the next 10 5000 each, next 10 $500 each,
next 75 50, 900 each and all over 100
SIC, 900 each-drilled by any one person
or company in any one month.
Producersl The situation is before
you The Standard allies begin the
month with 218 wells in all fields under
| way with Student and his predictions
| in North Carolina, holding the price
list for oil made out by the Creator at
the beginning of time, as they would
have us believe, with Ohio stink oil in
| the west, which markets at 65 cts and
Penn a crude S5 cts.
Let them drill their wells.
Let Student promulgate their ancient
price list.
Let them mix Lima stink-oil with
| their oil and sell it cheap.
But STOP the drill, and they will
soon find that wasting their best fields,
| without getting your oil.
Stop the drill. So long as you fur
| nish 66 per cent of the oil at So cents
per barrel they can use it to fill their
cheap orders, and hold their own in
| tank to bear the market and at season
| when your oil is exhausted then the
consumer will have to pay for it.
Stop the drill-in their endeavor to
over-reach you they scored II failures
, out of total of 10, wells drilled in In
diana, in the month of November.
Stop the di.ill-in their endeavor to
| over reach you they predicted the price
of oil in advance Student" in the
| the Derrick
Stop the drill-in their endeavor to
overreach you they had Lima oil made
| good delivery on certificates, on New
York Exchange
Stop the drill-in their endeavor to
| overreach you they are drilling 21S
wells.
Stop the drill-in their endeavor to
overcome YOU thew drilled l12
wells in all fields adding to the produc-
| tion daily 5343 barrels. Let them add
but stop the drill, the end of the field is
drawing closer every day-let them
drill
Stop the drill-save your territory it
| is valuable.
Stop the drill-wherever the pure
Penn'a. refined oil is put on the market
| the Ohio mixture drops in price. it
won't bear comparison; people don't
| want it.
Stop the drill the daily production
of oil is given at about 10000 the diff
ference in price paid by the two pur-
| chasing agencies is 3 cents per barrel
| or $71 900 per month. Will Mr.. Joseph
Sheep explain to us whether this is 6
theft or whether it is honest and just
and in accordance with the price list
made out at the beginning of time by
| the Creator, and withheld from the
producers line, or how he arrives at the
market of the world, do You take
Penn'a. oil worth S5 cents and Ohio
oil worth AZ cents making S1.27 and
divided by would only make 63t cents
for the mixture, give us the formula of
your mixture.
Iwould like to know by what right
you take three cents per barrel from me,
and still further let me know why you
do not pay me the value as set by your
selves for pure Penn'a oii-tell me the
difference in your method from that
| employed by Jesse James. l was once
| robbed by a highwayman he let me
| look into six shooter and then asked
me to hand over my valuables, did so
There was no deception, no prophecy
| by student that the Creator had fixed
my tax at the beginning of theme no
story that ] was paying the market
price of the world-fpr my life, no, it
was straight goods, he said that was his
price and to be quick HI