The daily sentinel., 1905-05-13
Barrel of Gold
Under DeBeque

How many people would take
pick and shovel in their hands,
even though unused to the work,
and make an excavation which
would require hard and strenuous
labor, if they knew that "A barrel
filed with gold lay in the earth,
which only needed uncovering that
il might he used?
Just such a barrel of gold lies un-
derneath all the country surrounding
DeBeQue, in the immense oil fields
that are bound to be developed there.
Ii is not the ordinary oil of everyday
use that has been brought to the sur
face at DeBeque: it is an oil that
carries larger body of paraffine than
any other discovered oil in the world.
This is a startling statement COM
mercially. Just pin this 20 your
memory: THE OIL OF DE BEQUE
RUNS "a PER CENT IN PARAF-
FINE, AND NO OTHER OIL DIS
TRICT ON EARTH HAS SUCH VAL
UABLE OIL. This sweeping state
ment is made by Isaac Garfield.
whose capacity for rendering judg
ment comes from a lifetime of eX
perience in the oil business. Mr..
Garfield started in the oil business
contemporaneously with the discov-
cry of oil in Pennsylvania. That was
in 1860. He was a resident of I'll
usville. He has followed the bust
ness ever since. opening up some of
the most extensive oil fields in this
country. He talks of oil and the ma
ture of the country where it may
be expected that it will be found, by
the card Certainly his experience
and his knowledge should be worth
great deal in the development of the
DeBeque fields.
He opened the oil field at Florence
in this state; has worked in the great
fields in West Virginia, Ohio, Kan
sas, Texas and is now consulting en-
gineer with some most extensive work
going on in Michigan and Canada.
He should be in Michigan right now,
but his faith in the wonderful quail
ity OF the DeBeque product is so
great that he hesitates to even leave
ii for week.
He told a reporter for The Senti-
mel this morning that Boulder is sell
ing its small output. that contains
only FOUR PER CENT OF PARAF-
FINE. TO WHAT is PRACTICALLY
THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY IN
THIS STATE FOR 50 PER BARREL
AND IS SHIPPING SAME TO FLOR
ENCE WHEN IT ONLY PAYS so
CENTS PER BARREL FOR THE
If the company pays 81 per barrel
for the Boulder product, with only
1 per cent of paraffine base, what
ought it to pay for the oil at De-
Beque. with parafiine base of "a
per cent?
Really, we have been sleeping on
our opportunities here. 1t may be
of interest to some to know just what
makes the parafiine so valuable.
Well. in a nutshell it is this: From
the parafiine is made candles, chew
ing gum, axle grease, vaseline, cos
moline Ia base for all kinds of
paints) and ten or twelve other valu-
able products. After the paraffine
base is extracted, then there remains
still the pure water white oil-none
better in the world
The Standard people are keeping a
close eye on the DeBeque field. They
have tested the quality and have gone
so far as to acknowledge its high per-
centage of paraffine. which even
startled them when the test was
made.
Isaac Garfield says further that,
with the immense gas pressure back
of the wells now being drilled at De
Beque, he is as certain as anything
can be that is hidden in the earth.
but from what knowledge is already
extant about oil and oil fields, that
a well of considerable capacity, run
ming many times more than ten, or
even twenty barrels, a day, will be
drilled at DeBeque.
The work now in progress there
should never be let to lapse for a
minute. The work there means as
much or more for this city than any
undertaking ever begun for the peo-
pie of the Grand valley. The Can
field syndicate, and especially the
Woods syndicate, are putting forth
every energy to push the work Their
faith is growing with the days, and
something that will surprise the en-
tire country, so far as oil production
is concerned. is destined for us
The water that gave so much trou-
BILE is now controlled. and from the
experience of handling it in the last
two weeks. will not bother any more.
Pin your faith to the DeBeque
fields of oil.