The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-25
GETS IN A MANS BLOOD.
cI Men the Real seaouin cf the
World.

/ sarlesville, :. T., July 25.-The oil
man Is The real Bedouin Of The world.
He is "a greater traveller than the Arab
O fthe desert ever was. Go TO Pennsyl-
vanla, to Texas Il California. TO Jaian
or to any other place where there ave oil
wells and YOU win frd he s'rie twes.
YOU will hear the same talk Of working
barrels pulling rods and all that sort
OF thing
A man who would drop down at nan-
COON tomorow-ard Rangoon 's "on the
read to Afaldalay. where she n, ing fishes
play. or into kufosah or into Tamau-
| lipas might expect to find old man John
H. Galley. John Markham. j. G. Mcdowell
or Hugs j. Brawley. THE" Barnsdall
1t gets into mans blood. ne follows
the derrick and the screech Of ihe slHtkle
rods naturally. lie can't holp it. rake
the case OF John II. Galley There is a
man who has large fortune, and be
needs no more OF this worlds goods lie
has ar Independent fortune. Yet II an
oil field should be discovered tomorrow
in Knmchatka, of in the snow and ice,
John "A. Galley would be one OF the first
men on hand and he would have the sec
ond or third derrick erected m she oil
fclds.
John Markham Is another of The sol
diers Of fortune He toied and sweated IN
the syaups OF Texas. drilled unpr9fit
able holes spent his money and came TO
4 Kansas Then he went to the Territory.
Before that he had been All over the
world. And he knows things. tIe knows
4 what the East indians drink in Rangoon
10 umench their thirst He also knows
how they live in the temperature Of 10
degrees IN the shade and he knows o her
things which have helped him 10 succeed
In this country.
John McGrady canny Scot, has
drilled wells for the japanese government
and has drilled wells for the Standard
on IN Japan He has been all over the
world this driner iie knows the size
/ OF pipe. the size OF the casins and the
cost Of the well in every oil ndd IN tho
woilc
Then there is "Bn' Myers. lie is
sometimes called Windy Bin" lie has
manufactured powder lcr the Ur.eu
States fleet ia the Mediterranean TO
salute President Loubet OF France and
he has done other things OF note, lie
| has certificates of honor from the
| lShedive of Egypt-Ae drilled some oil
wells for the standard OH company In
rat country ana Sot into trouble thcr' by
/ --he Is also an officer of the lodge Of
honor OF the sultan of Morocco.
Bit Al,n Is ana'h,T Of 'he hlchc
rot,ers a., hes bren m McIic0 md In
ndil lie car eivt you che formation
Of the wells In Upper Burmah or The
wells In chelsea, okla. with equal flcil-
/ ity And q ls an one 10 him where he
is SO Ions as he Is putting down The
holes.
"Dic.y' Fowler is mother Sic has bso't
an through thc Pepsaylvanh aelds and
the Ohio and Indiana fields and be can
| spin yaris by he nous. t,c 1nows how
the eiycerin man lt Bradford was blown
up and low the other glycerln man cs-
capped. how tne springs Of one Of the
gycerin wagons were located under tEe
can. and how the other fellow had his
spr nes ttrer i"ches 10 the right and
thus saved his lie.
Hugh l3ru Nlev has been viii u.e oil
companies iu Pen1s,Nania, TeNas and
Kansas, FOR more than ten vears Sow
he is in the gas business. hut he has
been around the world in the OH BUSH
ness
]
uotters in the Oh business Hc has been
in the hyacls fields In Alaska in the
beaumont fields. in the Louisiana o. Ids
in the Mexican fields and now De has
made "a fartme in Canfcinit ana fctif,d
l--tempoUrliy No man who has ever
got the fever in his bones retires from
ihe oil business permanently.
There Is also AZ. l.. Lockwood his real
name Is Mapuis Lafayette--who has done
an the Oh 6elds and is now IN Kansas
He Is an OLD man as years go srayhead-
Cd and with son old enough 10 vote
two or three times. ana set he is stm
following the nag II adventure. sun az
ter the pot OF gold which grows at fhe
rtinbows FOOT
Il gnes that WAY IN the Oh husintgE
You meet man at Nagasiki, you meet
the same man az Half Noon bay. you
meet the sarle man at Santa Maria, and
then again you meet him on the road
10 Aandaiay.T Young and ola. freshinan
and posi- graduate. saint ana sinner. an
the Oh men follow The sans road and