The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-10-31
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vindieation Ct Business Methods as Mr..
McGee Sees Them.


Editor Leaje--Thc earl days Of he
OH industry wee surrounded by many
dimcuues especially as respected prices
and transportation. have seen many
thousands of barrels of ON sold fo- ten
cents per barrel aud manX thousands of
barrels lost for lack Of trarsporta ion. !
have spent long series n years I'm the
oil business and in fact saw the first oil
produced at the Drake We, near Titus
Vile. Crawford county Pa. and since
that ime 1853, have beau interested in
the development OF an tn northern and
southern fields OF Pennsylvania. Ohio
and West Virginia ana o. that way be-
came familiar as respecting an the con-
di ions Incident to that great industry
During the days of the or Geek Pit
hole and Tidiuuto exelt. ment conditions
We're iu a wooful state in resoect 70
tran -por alton and It was not am un-
common thing in those days TO see
on the .0ad between E1teprise ANA
Garland. from five hundred 20 ono thou
sand teams ladened with petroleum from
the on Greek field Many hous2nd bar
rels were earl led out in boats. much OF
which was lost as navigation was bad
ON the creek People looked anNiously
for relief from this condition but none
came for "a long time an1 II was fair to
/ presume tina thcre would be no .eiief
/ from the then prevailing conditions.
The first pipe line was , gravity line
/ ON Doanis. run near Tidiouto which ran
OH to the Allegheny rail road and Ale-
ghany -ivcr. The pipe lae was some
/ two miles long controlled by Gmndia
u Nyhart This seemed TO stimulate the
belief that pipe lines cotld be made
available in handling aid The trans
portation of the vast petroleum product
being produced at his time 1S67-S.
In 1871 or 1872 the Standard OH COM
pany actively entered the field and the
p-ices Of oil since that time have fluct-
uated from .ime to time governed by
supply and demand and oil is furnished
to the great masses OF the people cheap
er by 100 per cent than 4 was when the
standard oil came in control Of the pro-
duct Of the various fields. I have paid
as cents to SiOO per gallon To- rehned
oil and now It can be bought at Pitts
burg Pa. for 12A cents PR gallon and
here IN Guthrie for 22h cents per gallon.
really see no great cause for complaint
lagain~t the STANDARD OH company. and
it was a; this time that the name OF
John d. Rockefeller comes into the
drama as the head of ths Standard oil
company.
Now an the products Of oil in an the
fields have looked to this company and
no other 10 take care OF heir interests.
When the Bradford field was opened up
the cry was: why doa't the STANDARD
hurry? Ou. oil is going to waste and
the Standard did hurry and ten inch
mains were laid 70 and from shat fell
and millions OF barrels OF oil Wee saved
to the producers that otherwise would
have hoen lost. John ID. Rockefeller did
this without ON cent from the pvoduc-
ing interests and I have no knowle ige OF
, even a woe of thanks FOR the perfo M
ance OF that gigantic task. which re-
Quired millions OF money and Infinite
patience TO accomplish the task. Whici
[ think was the hasest ingratiude, am,
wha. has hoen said OF the Bradford field
vs. equally true as TO the Mcdonald anf
Washington county fields, the wells pro
ducing from twelve thousand 20 hfteer
thousand barrels daily, which naturally
took some energy 20 save thei- output
The standard 90 this field built a city O.
twenty-five thousand harel tanks 70
! OH became low on accoul- of toe ia
creased production caus-i br the inn
mense flow OF OH from ths McDonal
, field and II can be safely said withou
. fea- of successful contradiction, tina
I running through am the diversified field
- OF au the industries -here never ha
I been any product or producing interest
more closely looked. aft"- than the o
industry. am of which has been accom-
z nlished by the Standard ON company
and at an times they hay made /; posi-
bic II anyone having credit balance
i. wanted their money they could go 10 th
office Of the Standard OH company am
= get Il.
c The great rouhle with the 2roducin
o interests has been spi-it Of belige-e1c
d. aud eNtrayagance The fr thing a pro
Queer would do when he became possess
l. ed OF an on wen was to declare war O
Il the STANDARD oil company, instead Of az
r. tending TO his business the men
n Che Standard company did, and this
tu.e OF the producers of the present da
8 10 great cXtet.
Now when the Russian Oh heid hro'
lose on the American producer az pf'