The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-12
THINGS LOOK GOOD
Says NIT. Payne Concerning
 Early Work on Deep We'll

EdrlT w Ork OIl DeCP w Ell
 There has been considera ble activity in the Screen Forest oi fields" during the past week anc progress has been made in the matter of securing desirable leas. es.
 Thomas Payne, the moving spirit of the enterprise, has been over the ground several times during the past ten days, having had in his company some other experienced oil operators, who have sized up things and gone away without confiding anything to the public.
 On Monday Joseph Galbreath of Tulsa, Okla, was over the proposed field with Mr. Payne, Mr. Galbreath is a man who has made his million at the oil busi ness. It was he who first tapped the famous Glen Pool at Tulsa and became famous throughout the Southwest as the great oil developer. What significance his visit has here We do not know, further than it shows which way the wind is blowing. Galbrcath is man who is kn ,wn to have no ,i-ne 10 fool away. In a conversation wiih Mr. Payne, he 'old us that things are coming his way and that he con- fidently expects to be in posi- tion to commence work within a very few weeks.
 "As far as I am concerned," said MT. Payne, "I am ready 10 wire for my drilling outfit any minute. 1 have my arrange ments already made at Tulsa to begin loading on short notice.
 Within week from the day this lease business is cleaned up l will unload here four car loads of machinery and appliances necessary to putting a we'll down. Within thirty five days from that time, barring accidents, I will have a well down 2600 feet-then we will all know what we will know.
 ''I learn that some people have misunderstood my proposition here. It has been stated that I agreed to go to work on we'll when 2000 acres of land was leased. This is not correct. I merely agreed to pay for leases secured when the 2000 acres was covered. I am protected in my contract in the matter of begin. ming work for twenty years, pro- vided 1 pay rent.
 "But you may rest assured there is going to be no disap- pointment about when work is to be commenced. 1 am just as anxious to begin the big job of sinking a we'll as your people are, and more. All I want is to close in this lease business. We are scattered over too much territory, the land covered is not compact enough. l want a good body of land surrounding the place where 1 go to work, and as soon as this is done I will be Johnny on the spot There is no reason why this matter should not be brought to a final test soon after the first of the coming year. I know I am going to get these leases. It simply takes time. Nobody will consistently stand in his own light long. I like to give people time to consider. Patience is just as necessary in the work of securing oil leases as anything else. If a few fellows would hang up their hammers we would have no trouble with the farmers. Their hearts are in the right place as a general rule.'
 Changing the subject a little bit, MT. Payne showed us let ter from a real estate firm at Pine Bluff which seeks to inter- est him a giant oil prospecting scheme there, the proposition, as he considered it, being a very liberal one-much more favora ble to the operators than the one he offers here-but he assured us he has no inclination to consider it at the present time and will not soon unless there should be an unreasonable amount of time yet taken up in closing up the mat ter of securing leases here.
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