Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-24


sale Of liquor on all premises and yes
sells controlled by the United States
has again been introduced, NJ ss5
THE IMMENSELY OF STANDARD
e OIL ARTERIES II
In the January American Magazine
Ida M Tarbell, writing Of Roosevelt
vs.. Rockefeller" describes the won
derful pipe line ssytem Of the Stand.
ard on Company. She says:
The pipe line system which gath
ers and carries away the Kansas oil
is hit a section of a system 4O, 00G
miles long. II 3ssS
This huge river Of oil feeds as 1T
runs all the great Oil refineries of the.
STANDARD Oil company Its plants at
Kansas City, at Whiting. indiana, at
Lima and cleveland, Ohio, at Buff
faio and Ilean ,Pittsburg and Phila:
deIphia, on New York harbor, at Bal
timore.
EFT is a magnificent and perfect
system of draining and distributing
all the oil taken from the earth. Ma
ture herself has, no more perfect
drainage. SYSTEM in the streams and
rivers of the Mississippi valley than
the pipe line system 81 the STANDARD
Oil company. and she runs her system
with vastly more noise and destruc-
tion than it does.
This system renders to the mem
who produce oil well nigh perfect
service. You are poor adventurer,,
wildcatting on a distant hill, you
strike oil-notS in quaint tiles, only a
moderate amount =-but still oil, and
| If you are in the field at all. or IN d
spot which shows any signs of ever
being field, almost before morning
the pipe line crew of the STANDARD Oil
company Is at your derrick, putting
in pipes to carry your little supply
| into its great drains. ItNcosts You
nothing. They put in the pipes, they
run the oil, they pay youathe market
price for your product If YOU hap
pen to- be in one of the early fields,
the oil taken belongs to Won until
you wish tossell it. You receive for 1T
a certificate which is as good as gold,
in any market of the country
=
Last week saw what viii probably.
ltbe$ the final meeting Of the Inland Wa.
terways Commission, the body that
was appointed by the president and
for which Senator Newlands has:
sought legislative endorsement at the
hands of congress The report Of the
commission probably will be ready
for submission to the president i'm
mediatelg after the Christmas recess,
when congress ,reconvenes on Jan. g..
The fact that Representative Theo-
Idore 3. Burton, chairman Of the COM
| mission and also chairman of the riv-.
lers and harbors committee of the
house, endorsed the $50, 600, 000-a-year
| policy Of the National Rivers and
! Harbors Congress at the recent CON
vention Of the organization, as taken
to mean that the report will advocate
the appropriation OF an unusually
1 large sum for waterways development
4 during the coming year Phere is lit
4 tie doubt but that congress will give
4 the commission a legal existence. Ths
National Rivers and Harbors Con.
gress, which is preventative Of the
eminent of the country on this work
of Internal imp oyement, adopted re-
solutions at it's convention urging the
appoi ntment of just such commits
sion The congress has great irif1u.
ence with the national legislators
This lis due to the fact that it declines
4 abs olutely to advocate any individual;
q policy Of improvement hut stands
sponsor Tor q general policy to be I'M
der aiken by the government
Sjis S--1----- .s55s }B.; Il
Some very pretty little christina
Temin ders have been sent out by Nv
I "A. Gordon, secretary Of the North
western National Fire Insurance com
I pany Of the state at Valley City. The
reminders are dressed III appropriate
holiday co1ors and contain an apt sen
timent for the Christmas season.
!, G@isa