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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-01

ducing wells in Sections 2 and 50. The rail-
road enables US to make a great saving
both in obtaining supplies and placing the
product upon the market. at So per ton
less than IL has cost i'm the past.
We now offer a limited amount of treas
ury stock out of lOO,W 900 shares which were
set asid for the purpose of meeting the
final payment on this property. Stock al
ready sold has been placed among a large
number of conservative business men, and
we offer an opportunity to join them I'm an
investment on favorable terms.
We wish to again call your attention TO
the fact that we are not selling stock for
prospecting on undevelOped land. We have
a producing property.
The stock of this company, which we are
now Offering at 80 cents per share. will be
increased during the month of December.
and as the work on new wells progress
and the dividends increase with the produc-
ton and the demand we fully expect to
see the price of this stock placed at par or
higher within a year.
The demand is unlimited and as this
stock. and we have property capable
of supporting 100 wells, the investor
can easily figure the returns on his invest
ment and also estimate the prospective
price that Pacific Oil Company stock will
bring.
This is not an investment of a few
months or a year, but one that will bring
larger returns for years to come. This is an
opportunity that is worthy of your investi-
cation. We present here the facts collected
by the original investors In this property
and gathered from the most reliable
sources.
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on us for Full Particulars 4 HSHE ~ OHE SSEREH EAHE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA

The Los Angeles Times recently gave the
following good advice as to what intending
investors in oil companies should ascer-
tain:
"First-In regard TO the property OF the
company, it's area and location, the pros
poets of obtaining oil thereon as judged by
honest and disinterested experts, and
whether the property is owned or leased.
Also, whether the title to the property is
good, as titles to oil Ian in southern Cali
fornia have been, in many cases, consider
ably mixed of late.
~"Second-The amount of capital stock in
the company, the price at which ii is Of
fered TO the public, the amount of stock In
the treasury and the relative value of the
net selling price of the total stock to the
cOmpany's holdings.
Third (and by no means last)-The char
acter and standing of the men who COM
pose the board OF directors. When the
ness men are seen at the head of an oil
company it is prima facie evidence that
the enterprise is at least worthy Of careful
consideration"
In answer to the first of these conditions,
the Pacific Oil Company wish TO state that
they have 100 acres of land in the famous
Sunset field in Kern county, California. AS
the best proof that it is oil land we
point to the fact that we now have one
well which flows 80 barrels per day. This
we'll is located in the southeast quarter of
the southwest quarter of Section 50, Town
ship u north. This is surrounded by other
wells owned by the following successful
companies: Jewett, Blodgett & Beal Com
pany on the north and west; Pitsburg Oil
Company on the east and the Monarch Oil
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Large Returns Are Now secured by
Oil Companies from the Sale
of By-PrOducts.
INDIANA OILS HIGH STANDING
BY y 1T TILL MIDNIGHT
STATESMEN ARE MADE.
The oil Industry Offers Great Induce
ments to Investors Many
Big Fortunes Made.

"OH is the magic word of the day. Cap
italist and worker, rich and poor alike,
thrill at its mention. To the men dreaming
or sudden wealth it is as full of delightful
meaning as the "open sesame which
transformed the ragged Ali Baba from a
mendicant into an Oriental prince of riches.
To the practical investor. slow 10 give ear
10 e~nticing prospectuses, chary of belief in
Investments from which returns are large
~ dependent upon faith in things which the
eye cannot see and which the ear cannot
hear, il is become a monOsyllable full of
opulent possibilities approaching in potency
consolidated Gas" Sugar or General
Electric" IL fascinates the rich man who
can sign his check for a round million, and
Il dazzles the poor man who has accumu-
lated a rainy day fund I'm the savings
bank. 1t is become a spur 10 conversation
for even the most silent. and a subject Of
unlimited possibilities for the lOQuaciOus.
II Is discussed wherever men meet. In Of
fees. on street cars. around cafe tables, in
homes and in clubs the mention Of oil is
pretty sure TO start a discussion as TO the
relative riches OF the great fields OF Texas,
California. Indiana. Ohio, West Virginia
or Pennsylvania People are getting oil
wisdom rapidly. and are a-ccumulating a
vast store OF information where before they
confessed 10 the vaguest OF ideas. Almost
everybody nowadays has at least a few
hundred in oil stock, and has discovered
many interesting facts about oil. The aver
age man can hold forth on "distillates,"
"parafine base and asphalt base as
learnedly as an oil expert. and has found
out that there exists as much difference in
oil as in a woman's moods.
HELD QUEER IDEAS.
II is perhaps not too much TO say that
some years ago. before popular interest
was aroused IN the recent phenomenal oil
strikes. people in general held queer ideas
about oil. The wcrd was associated in
the popular imagination with high derricks,
the Standard OIL Company. kerosene lamps.
ans with a raw potato covering the spout,
and objects OF familiar use. Its illuminate
Ing qualities were about the only ones
widely known and comparatively little was
heard or the other uses OF oil which now
bid fair 10 be as profitable "a the illumi-
nant quality. The value Of it's products
had not touched the imagination and peo-
pie thought m9stly OF oil as a light pro-
ducer. Newspapers. advertising prOspec-
fuses, magazines and other mediums Of
spscahc intelligence have pointed out clearly
that while the iiuminant quality stin re-
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MES and thus PROVING THAT EVERY
ACRE IN THIS TRACT WILL PRO
DUCE OIL. Well Nc. l was drilled on
the southwest corner OF this land, bringing
in one Of the largest producers In this dis
trict. The plan of this company is to drill
ONE WELL TO EACH ACRE and not
make the mistake Of drilling wells so close
together as to drain each other, thereby en-
failing unnecessary expense.
We would call your attention to affidavit
IN the body of this advertisement, sworn
to by Charles S. Maine, secretary of the
Royal Sunset Oil Company, setting forth
that the entire output Of that company is
being sold at rs cents per barrel. For the
Of the public. 1t should be
stated that the Pacific Oil Company is the
successor company, having purchased the
entire property and holdings of the Royal
Sunset.
This affidavit was sept as part Of an in
vestigation pending purchase of the plant.
This oil is being sold to the refinery at
Sunset, two and one-half miles distant, at
IS cents per barrel at The we'll for refining
purposes.
The refined products ,of this oil now find
a ready market in the East and West.
THIS OIL is MORE VALUABLE FOR
REFINING THAN FOR CRUDE FUEL
OIL. After paying IS cents per barrel, the
sale of the refined product produces g
handsome profit for the refinery. This oil
produces 80 per cent. asphaltum, which
compares favorably with other high grades
of asphalt, and finds a universal market at
SIS to $50 per ton for street paving. A bar
rel of Sunset oil weighs, approximately 1856
pounds, and will produce 16s pounds of
asphalt. At an average of $3.50 per ton,
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Company on the south. AS TO the title to
our property readers will note letter of
Cashier A. H. Blodgett, of the Kern Valley
Bank, of Bakersfield, Cal.
Answering the second pointer" TO pros
pective investors the Pacific Oil Company
is capitalized at 100000, of which 100000
will be sold. Any one with a knack for fig
ures can perceive for himself our ability to
pay large dividends as we sink additional
wells. The one well now earns net over
$500 per month. This alone pays over 6 per
cent. dividends on the market price OF
stock issued. We guarantee that. as stock
is sold we will sink additional wells and
will increase our dividends accordingly.
To the third pointer of the Los Angeles
Times we merely call attention to the men
who comprise the board of directors Of this
company. These men are known TO you and
with a proposition that is not perfectly
sound.
We give below a brief account of the his
tory and prospects of this company.
Well No. l was drilled in January, 1901.
At a depth of 800 feet the oil sand was pen
etrated and the first fifteen minutes the
well flowed 300 barrels of oil, before it
could be controlled. After the head was off,
the daily flow averaged 25 barrels. This in
creased as the sand was cleaned out of the
hole, until il has reached an average of 80
barrels per day, with every prospect of
doubling the output when the well is put
on the pump. A ground reservoir OF 1900
barrels capacity was constructed to in
crease the tankage of $50 barrels formerly
prepared.
AS stated previously our land Is sur
rounded by the land of paying oil compa-
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this means s1.49 per barrel of oil for as
phalt alone, aside from the lubricating oil
and other by-products, which alone will
pay all the expenses of refining and mar
keting.
For this reason we are always assured of
a profitable market on account of the rich
ness of our oil. AS wells are put down,
however, and our supply warrants. we ex-
pect to do our own refining and thus the
stockholders will reap not only the profit
now made by the sale of the oil but also
that made by the refinery. Investigate this
matter, write TO us for particulars and
verify them through banks or other agen-
cies which are thoroughly acquainted with
the situation. WE COURT INVESTIGA-
TON.
A four-barrel well is a paying property
what about a 50-barrel we'll? This, too, a
at least ninety barrels when the pump is
put on.
Figure for yourself and remember that
another we'll is to be started at once. We
will not stop at two wells, but will continue
TO drill them as fast as conditions war
rant. THIS MEANS INCREASE OF DIVI-
bends AND INCREASE OF STOCK
VALUES.
OUR TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
The Sunset field has been developed un-
der adverse circumstances All material
was hauled by freight teams forty-five
miles. The SUNSET RAILWAY was sur
veyed from Bakersfield last spring and is
COMPLETED and in operation since Nov.
20, having a terminal point within two
miles of our property, and it is the
intention to extend this to the large pro-
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urn away. remarking something about

turn away, remarking something about
Wildcat" mining schemes.
The consequence has been that the oil
fields OF California have been developed en-
tirely by men of moderate means. This
means that the 100000 worth of oil pro-
duced in 1900 was divided up among men
who were poor before.
But these days are changing. Capital
moves slowly, but when it once starts 1t
carries everything before ii. The men hold
ing the wealth of the East are realizing the
fact that in certain proven fields an eX-
penditure is not a speculation, but an In
vestment that will result in an income a
hundred-fold greater than could be earned
in ordinary commercial projects. These
men are going West and they are taking
their money with them. They Will, In the
near future. control everything avail
able. They will be able TO develop proper
ties as close corporations and hold the prof.
its to themselves. What chance will the
poor man have then? Very little. All he
will be able to do on an oil property Will
be TO work on it at so much & day 10 help
make some wealthy man wealthier.
To-day the poor man has his chance 1or
wealth. If he neglects to take dVantag
of the opportunities at hand, how many
hours will he not spend in vain regrets!
Investors who will use reasonable dis
elimination in separating the good from
the bad, investing only in those legitimate
companies whose wells and oil lands are To-
Gated in favorable districts, with railroad
facilities, and whose management is con-
sentative and honest, with experienced su-
perintendence of the property, will. in a
great majority of instances, secure very
large returns from their investment.
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Drear November Days.

Long the sun has been imprisoned
BY a clouds gray. misty gloom:
Long the rain has been fast falling.
And no riffs the skies iIlume.
Ger the death Of earth's bright beauty
Winds with iteration moan
Plaintive dirges well in keeping
With the rains sad monotone.
Trees with branches gaunt and leafess-
o poor trees! but late so fair
Stand in groups about the landscape,
Shuddering in the wintry air;
And / fancy / can hear them
Whispering OF those happier days.
By the present desolation
Filled with sorrowful amaze.
Yonder stream is slowly yielding
To the subtly growing thrall.
That will hold it's waters captive
Till springs joyful voices call.
Tender leaves lie bruised and trampled
On tn unsympathizing ground:
BY the sometime b~lossoming wayside,
Not a flower to be found.
Fields that fam would sink to slumber
Under shelter warm and white.
Seem to make mute protestation
'Gainst their bare and plteous plight.
Does not earth. in truth. 1 wonder,
Weary OF those days Of rain?-
IT'S so hard for human beings
To bear patiently lies pain!
o TO see clear skies / hunger.
l. who so love gladstone day.
How can / forbear 10 nlurmur
DER the bitter. long delay? -
Hush. my heart! although 'ts cherries
Everywhere within thy view.
Just beyond thy small horizon
HAPPY. skies cen nov are blue:
Oh, who knows but that tomorrow
VIII rejoice In sunlights gold
God rules over all. as ever.
And Will not always withhold.
Margaret Manning.
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.

4. M. time is in BLACK hgures.-Trains marked
thus: .Daily. s-Sleeper. P-Parlor Car. O.
Chair Car. D-Dining Car. t-Except Sunday.
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SOLOMON JEWETT President QhbGs Code Used) S A BLODGETT. Cashier
kerr ALL BANK
BakeIfHdC Cal, April 1901
Leon Phhpps, Esq, Victoria HoteL Chicago ILL.,:
the Royal Sunset" 1now the Pacific Dill Col beng the 5 E u of the S w. "a of
Section g. situated in the Sunset Oil District beg to say that a most intimate knOWl-
edge of the district and parucuIany of the lands above described jushfes us in rec
ommendng it in the strongest terms as being hrstIasso oil ad
The M in Sections 2 II I'M IS are as goda as te bestn the Sunset District ad
the equal of any in the State of California
Th@e lands are very productive and absolutely all right
know of our Owl knowledge that thya are good l remain very truly yours,
il a ELODGETT. Cashkr Los Angles. Cal. Sept a. 1901
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INTERURBAN TIME CARD.
UNION TnACTlOS LtNhS
station tI0 Union Block. " Maryland :

Trains leave Maryland and Illinois streets Al
AIS a. m and hourly thereafter until ILL.,
p. m. for Anderson. Muncis. Alexandra. Ma
rion. Elwood and way stations. Limited trains
for Muncic without stop. except at Anderson.
leave 1880 and 1870 a. m. fs39 and 1.30 d. m.
Fare on these trains. soc 10 Muncie. Coo 10 Al
derSon.
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LAKE ERIE a WESTERN *. IL.

Toledo. Chicago and Michigan ex..-..t70 .o3
Toledo. Detroit and Chicago. lim.."12.2O t325
Muncie. Lafay'te and Laporte spec.t5.Ho tlOzS
INDIANA, DECATUR * WESTERN R'Y.
Decatur and st. Louis mail and ex.-..fsO t425
Chicago express. p fz4U
Tuscola accommodation ........t3- 80 flOl5
Decatur & ST. Louis fast ex. sc...-ll-lO HO
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S A Townsend, ESQ, Indianapolis Ind:
pmy is selling its entire production to the Jewet & Blodget Oil Company in Kern
county at 10 net per Dbl at the we'll Very truly yours.
CHAS S MAINE, Secretary Of the Royal Sunset Oil Co.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9TH day of September 1901
CAROLINE WELTE,
Notary public in md for county of Los Angeles STATE of California
NOTE-The Pacific Oil Co. has purchased all of the properties and holdings of the
Royal Sunset o Ill Company. together With sn conuactsm fore output
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BIG FOUR

City Ticket Onice, No. L L. Washington St
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We will do as we'll a. the best-we expect to do better. We have
he strongest we'll II the field and welcome investigation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04
Testing Their Courage.

"One time in order to test the cour-
age of a Bengal tiger and a liOn," said
a we'll known Snowman, 1--WE placed a
shooting cracker in the respective
cages and fired the fuses. AS soon as
the fuses began to burn they attracted
the attention Of both animals, but in a
widely different banner. The lion
drew into a corner and watched the
proceedings with a distrustful and I'M
easy eye. The tiger, on the contrary,
advanced to the burning fuse with a
firm step and unfinchirg gaze. On
reaching the cracker he took his paw
and began to roll it ove the floor, and
when it exploded beneath his very nose
he did not finch, but continued his ex-
animation until perfectly satisfied. The
lion betrayed great fear when he heard
the report Of the explosion and for
quite a time could not be coaxed out Of
his den"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04
Administrators Sale al Auction.

The subscriber will sell at public auction
in the Village of South Glover, Saturday,
November l6, 1901, at l O'Clock in the after
noon, the following described property;
All the real estate owned by the late Flora
f. Gray Of said Glover, good two-story dwell
ing house with ell alta ched, aud barn and
sheds. Said buildings all in best of repair,
and painted inside and out. Supplied with
good running water. ! acre of land with
house and SO acres IL mile away, the latter
suitably divided into moving, tillage and
pastCrage, and has a fine econd-growth SUI
gar orchard. At the same time and place I
will sell 4 cows and a quantity of hay and
oats. Also some household furniture, con-
sisting of chamber sets, etc.
TERMS of sale made known on day OF sale.
Dated at Glover, this 26th day of October,
A. D., 1901.
1915 E. STANTON, Admir-.
E. A. NORTON, Auctioneer.
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twenty seats" And again he says.
There was Il rainbow round about the
throne
The two former imply a circle; the
last, either n circle or n semicircle. The
seats facing each other. the angels fac
ing each other. the men facing each
other. Heaven an amphitheater of glo-
~. circumference Of patriarch and
prophet and apostle. circumference of
Scotch ~Covenanters and Theban legion
and Albigenses. circumference of the
good of all ages. Periphery of splendor
unimagined and indescribable. \ cir
Gle. y circle.
But every circumference must have
a center, and what is the ute of this
heavenly circumference? Christ. His
all the glory; his all the praise; his all
the crowns. All heaven wreathed into a
garland round about him. Take off he
imperial sandal from his foot and be-
hold the scar of the spike. Lift the cor
onet of dominion from his brow and see
where was the l%aceratiOn of the briefS.
Come closer, all heaven. Narrow the
circle around his great heart. o Christ,
the Savious! O Christ, the man! o
Christ, the God! Keep thy throne for
ever, seated on the circle of the earth,
seated on the circle of heaven.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is shifting sand.
copyright, 1901, Louis Klopsch, n. VI
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The Guinea Pig.

The guinea pig is an absurd little an
imal for a number Of reasons. and one
of the most remarkable absurdities
about him is his name. He is not a
pig Of any kind or any relation to the
pig, and he has nothing to do with
Guinea. He is a kind of rat, and his
native home is South America.
Why he should have been called a
pig no one knows unless it was on
account of the slight granting noise
that be makes, and the word guinea"
in his case may be a corruption of Gui-
ana, where the animal has sometimes
been found, though it was first brought
from Brazil.
His real name is the cavy, and by
hat be should be called. In his wild
state he is quite differently colored
from the domesticated animal and
lacks the spotting of white, black and
tawny color which the tanned cavy Of
ten has.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04
Church Companionship.

The young man who abandons the
church voluntarily cuts himself off from
the most exalted thoughts that can en-
ter the human heart. He pits himself
out of the company of Raphael and Ru-
bens and Thorwaldsen when he might
live in the atmosphere that made them
great. If Michael Angelo and Sir Chris
topher Wren and lingo Jones welcome
him at the door, Mendelssohn and Bee
thoven and Bach greet him as he en-
tiers. The organ may be spawned and
windgalled, the choir may be an aggrc-
cation of tuneless tyros, but if the
young man has brought any worshipful
music in his soul into the church the
same uplifting sentiments that inspired
the Messiah" and Elijah will sweep
the chords of his heart as the or
ganist touches the keys or as the choir
clears it's collective throat and sings
"Old Hundred."-Rev. Francis E. Clark,
D.. D., in Ladies' Home Journal.
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Application of Guardian to Sell
Real Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF Or
- LEANS, S.. In Probate Court held at
Newport, in said District, on the 18th day of
October, A. D., 1901.
Charles Fisher of Irasburgh, Guardian of
Carrie May Fiber of Irasburgh, in said Dis
trict, a minor, makes application to said
Court for license to sell the real estate Of
said ward, to wit: Being said wards interest
in the late home place of Anna Somers, late
of said Irasburgh, deceased, situated in said
Irasburgh: representing that the sale there
of. for the purpose of putting the proceeds OF
such sale at interest, or investing the same
in safe securities, will be beneficial to said
ward.
whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that
said application be referred to a session
thereof, to be held at the Probate Office in
said New port on the 9TH day of November,
AID, 1901. for hearing and decision thereon;
And it is further ordered, that all persons in
terested be notified hereof, by publication
of notice of said application and order there
on, three weeks successfully in the Orleans
County Monitor, printed at Barton, VT, be-
fore said time of hearing, that they may APP
pear at said time and place, and, If they see
cause, object thereto.
By the Court-Attest,
42-A K. w. SPEAR, Register.