Arizona republican., 1902-08-12
MR. LEViTY BREITWISER
Champion Liar Turned Loose on the
 Citizens of California.

J. P. Breitwiser, who has been su- porirtendcnt of the Comeback oil com 1 pany ever since the company was or- ganized, is TOW out of . job 4 meet 1 ing of the board of directors was held 1 Saturday night. when it was decided to remove aIr. Breitwiser. The directors are rot satisfied with Mr. Breitwiser's actions. Ee went to California without the authority of the directors. and it was concluded that as he was already there he can be saved the return trip here. W. D. Tanner. who has been boring the well for the water company and also the well for the Tempe water works, has been elected to fill the va carey. MT. Tanner will alsc act as secretary of the company. vice ". C. Ec-tcr, who was only holding the place temporarily. as he las other duties which prevent him from acting in the capacity of secretary.
 Sirce his absence on the coast 3,r , Breitwiser has not been idle. but has found time to write an article for the Pacific Oil Reporter.
 The article in iquestiCn is q literary gem. and Mir. Breitwiser attempted to be facetious. but failed. His diatribe On the excessive heat only holds him up to ridicule. lie is a very poor initiate. of Bill Nyc from humorous stand pCi-t. but as q liar he may think hiIH ce.f eligible to trot in the fc0tstep~ of -trranias C. old. The effusion is deli ci7usly rich, anI q person knowing the ge1tleE.an would not think that he had s3 much rare h;inlor under his belt. Mir. Ercitw;Ser starts off the article, which took him week to think cut, ill thc following; manner:
 ''I re1d in the Pacific Oil Reporter i that the brethren Of Riverside. Cal i were having thei" troubles with the | heat at that point. The stltement was l that it burned the cable, and that the cable was on exhibition in San Fran cisco to prove the statement.
 T can give you some pointers on toe ! heet in Phoerix. and state some facts which lay Riverside in the shade. ii ] such thing as shade can be found in Arizona
 Tn the first place. We were rot fcol- i ish enough to buy manila for our ma l chine. but a rineteen-strand wire rope, i with copper strand in it. Here was l the mistake. for the sun melted the l copper strand. and new We have q IcCppcr-coatcd cable. which We ran through q twerty-foot box made C i tWClVe-inch plank and filed with ice l We are having TO furtner trouble now. i The derrick had to be covered with asbestos to prevent burning. and has ! q pipe Up each leg through which ice i water is turned every hour to sprinkle 1anc Oil used on the bolings burns readily if put Cn in the regular way, so that each box is fitted up with q lubrica;or, to "revent same. We are i nplating digging 9 cellar under the derrick for cold storage room in ] which to store monkey wrenches and such tcois, out e which the handles burn readily. and which We now handle with gloves packed with ice.
 one cf our directors is the ice man. and has had the climate made espe- cially :or his benefit. CThe reader nut t net forget to laugh here.)
 Our boiler is fired up every morning and runs all day, the sun keeping up steam thereafter. but We had quite sl 1 time to prevent the smokestack from l melting down. Belts are out of the question. so We use sprocket chains to drive the bull reels and the sand reels
 A sand storm is had each day for cur benefit, and this is where we use the sand reel, as you may guess. to keep the derrick clear of sand. and to sand the machinery to keep il from slipping away from the company. The ! sand is plainly visible. but the air is eH hot that steam escapes into it in it's original and invisible state, and many people think We are not running when We are. CThe reader must take three , iced lemonades and turn on the fan for a few minutes. as il is growing very
 WarmD
 MT. Eroitwiscr continues:
 We riGged up 9 fan over the driller
 and started it up. only to find to cuI
 great surprise that a great hole melted
 through the floor fifty feet. and had
 been drilled by the hot air from the
 ;an, and section Of the hole will he sent to any one doubting the statement
 CThis was an excellent opportunity fol
 Mir. Breitwiser to bury himSeID.
 The drilling of wells with hot air is
 not original with Arizona. but has beer r.. ctiCsd to a great extent in California
 and elsewhere. We can give many
 ether evidences of the climate here
 auch a. feeding the chickens cracked
 i'a to rrevent them laying soft bollec
 eEEs. lighting cigars by pointing th.
 weed toward the sun, raining water al
 rc'idy heated fir steam purposes.
 We have seen eggs brought in tiirr
 were lying in the sun during the day
 that were soft boiled. and We have hlC
 them start to hatch on the shelves o
 the cook house. and we have seeI
 chickens matched from eggs lying oI
 the shelves.
 The thermometer registers as higl
 as l20 degrees in the shade and 115 q
 midnight. and We have driven acros.