The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-04
DR.. Shops Restorative

Chanute and Humboldt it was custom
airy to do all development work through
the agency of corpora lions, but in this
part Of the state the individual opera
tor is largely in evidence, and the
profits. being concentrated in the hands
of one man instead of being scattered
over the country, are more easily dis
cernible.
Fortunes like those of West, Porter.
Noble and others are almost visible to
the eye. Nearly all OF them came to
Peru a year ago, some of them before
that, and in the language of the sport
ing fraternity, showed the whole stack
into the pot Many of them had only
a very small stack, just a few chips,
but whatever they had they put it in
and now they are reaping the harvest
which comes to the man who has nerve
and judgment at the same time. There
are corporations here, but they We're an
afuerthought- The corporation in this
district followed development, whereas
in the northern end it preceded develop
ment.
For the size of it Peru has as much
ginger as any town in the country.
When a man came here with a PROPOSE
ton to establish a glass plant the nee
essary $4,000 to secure the plant was
raised in such short time that the
promoter was sorry he did not make
the demand $40, coo. 1t was the same
way with the second glass plant and
the brick plant. There was a little
meeting here some weeks go and the
people decided that a good town should
not live on oil alone and that they need
ed some factories and a tin bucket
brigade and things like that. To decide
was to ask and a commercial club was
organized and Immediately began to
get busy They have the two glass
plants and the brick plant to be going
on and bringing money to the town
during the summer and still they say
they have only begun They are also
looking forward to the building of the
state T6006TV a means bringing
money to the town.
AS to the oil industry the sentiment
here is all one way. It has been rep
resented by John O'Brien and others
that all of the agitation against the
Standard in Kansas came from a few
stock jobbers in Chanute.
I'VE have heard of only two men in
this whole section of country" said
Charles Noble, q large operator, who
are not in thorough sympathy with the
movement which was begun here in De
cember, which resulted in the Organi-
zation of the Kansas Oil Producers as
ISOLATION and the passage of the laws
by the present legislature for the pro-
lection of the oil industry. We are all
opposed TO the policy of the Standard,
we all suffered by the shutdown Feb
ruary 10, and we are suffering yet. The
Standard is running about 1,500 barrels
Of oil day from this district, but this
is just a fraction Of the production We
believe that the laws passed in Topeka
viii result in the bringing to this state
Of number of independent refneries
and give US a competitive market for
our oil and that is all we desire. The
producers at Peru and Sedan have been
supporting the associa ton Loyalty and
enthusiastically and they are doing 1t
today"
1t was ascertained that some Of the
oil in the tanks of President West OF
the Kansas Oil Producers association
has been run by the Standard within
the last few days