The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22
GASOLINE FAMINE
PUTS MANI CARS
on WAITING LIST
kCtS ChOo Choo Supply Is Practically Exhausted, Working
Grave Hardship on Newspaper Workers.

they might fTisk about town. going from
point to point, at a minimum speed. l
understand that the office has only re-
Gently ordered a new sixty-two-horse-
power machine for my use, inasmuch as
the forty-horsepower type which L have
now is well worn.
Many people who live at remote dis
tances-three or four mles-have from
time immemorial insisted on the presence
of a reporter in person at the christening
OF a baby or party at which Miss olga
was to receive a token of her friends
esteem prior to her departure for Boston,
where she would enter the Conservatory
of Music, as a cook.
The managers of the up-to-date dailieS
were forced to see the necessity of equip
ping every reporter with an automobile
and a chauffeur. Presently we hope to
have Wallets, but that has nothing to do
with the gasoline situation. | most de-
vOutly pray that the gasoline famine will
not affect my new machine 1t is such
a convenience for US reporters, don't you
know, to have private automObiieY
Rockefeller ought to be more considerable.
seeing, too, that he's a member of the
Press Humorists' association.
BY the Political Editor.
AS I understand it. the process of the
merely the production of hot air. If
that be so, / am glad that the calamity
that befaJlS us by reason of the gasoline
shortage comes at this time, for 1 have
partment there will be no lack OF hot
air.
BY the Telegraph Editor.
Well, I suppose this means another in
vestigation of the Standard Oil trust. L
am getting pretty well sick of handling
these billions of profits every night, and
I had hoped there would be let up. The
gasoline shortage in Salt Lake, however,
1 can see plainly makes it incumbent up
on me 10 inquire in to Mr.. Rockefeller s
I asaI dc
BY the Mining Editor.
! I knew it was coming AS long as six
months ago 1 predicted that there would
be a shortage of gasoline unless the Jack
| Game oil fields were properly and imme-
diately exploited. / was told at that time
/ by a man who saw a prospector looking
| for quartz mines who had seen a burrO
/ Just out from the Jack-Game district, and
the mule had oil on his hoofs. There
/ was the chance for people to get in and
/ avert this catastrophe. If they had taken
/ some of the advice that ] did not take
! and in quantities even of the smallest, j
am quite sure that the autOmobiiists of
/ Salt Lake would not face the crisis with
/ which they are now confronted Tnere
are any number of mining men on the
| exchange every day who can tell you
/ hoy. to circumvent this octopus that is
| separating US from our gasoline. If
were doing 1t, ] would acquire large
! tract of oil territory and extract the
! petroleum vapors, making gasoline and
! thus beating Mr.. Rockefeller at his own
game.
BY the Society Editor.
/ What? You don't mean to tell me
| there is no gasoline in town? Why, the
/ idea it's perfectly ridiculous. Here l had
/ A half dozen auto parties for the Sunday
page and some mean, detestable man
| spOiis them all by cutting off the gasO-
! line supply. 1 don't believe there is any
wasn't invited has a pull with the oil
/ company and has taken this means of get
/ ting even.