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Arizona republican., 1910-01-07
A SUDDEN DEATH.

Mrs. Rosario Truillo died yesterday morning, after short illness. Heart failure was given as the cause of death. The funeral services will be held today from St Mary's Catholic church. and the interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery Mrs. Truillo has been a resident of this section for many years and the Tru- lilo family is well known and re- spected.
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07
A DOLLAR SALE.

Yesterday d special feature of the New York Stores big resolution sale was a dollar sale. It was a pro- nounced success. and in order to give everyone chance at it. this feature will be continued one more day-today. Read the ad. and learn the particulars.
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

A small payment down and a little more each month will buy a good resi- dence lot in GOldman's addition. The terms and price are such that it is a good buy for either speculation or a home See Griffen
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07
FROM IMPERIAL

George Taylor returned yesterday afternoon from Imperial valley. where he has been for several weeks. Mir. Taylor is feeding large bunch of cattle there this winter and says the steers are doing well.
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

Personal experience with a tube of Manzan Pile Remedy will convince you it Is immediate relief for all forms of piles. Comes up in a tube with nozzle attached ready to use and gives immediate relief. Can be ap- piled directly to the affected parts. reducing inflammation. swelling and itching. Guaranteed. Price
 LOVETT DRUG co.
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07
Character

Woods Liver Medicine in liquid form regulates the liver, relieves sick headache, constipation. It is partic- ularly recommended for Jaundice, Chills. Fever and Malaria. It's tonic effects on the entire system are felt with the first dose. The $1.00 bottle contains 2k times as much as the soc size Pleasant to take
 LOVETT DRUG co.
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

For shoe bargains go to Lukin Cash store. as we have placed a big line of odds and ends at a sacrifice
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

Navel Gull Oranges. s1.OO per box.
 Crump Hay & Grain Co
Arizona republican., 1910-01-07

A big line of the well known Victor gold shirts. regular prices from SIPS to s15e. an go at s0 cents each. I.ukin Cash Store.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
BEGINS INVESTIGATION
Joint Committee of Congress Begins
Threshing the Ballineer-Pinchot
Controversy.
(Herald Specially

Washington, D. c., Jan. 26.-The ad-
ministration probe into the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy began today with
a meeting of the joint committee from
the senate and house, and the taking
of testimony has begun. The inyesti-
cation promises to be the biggest over
hauling of government affairs since
the famous postoffice scandal of seven
years ago. CLAWS was summoned to-
day as the first witness, but all par
ties concerned will be heard before
the investigation closes. At least a
part of the committee will make a
trip west and to Alaska. The hearing
room in the senate office building was
packed long before the committee got
down to business today.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
EUROPE STORM SWEPT
Floods and Hurricanes Extend From Brit
ish Isles 10 Italy, Russia and 10 Gibraltar.

cant houses in the city for the purpose
of sheltering the homeless Robert
Bacon, the American ambassador, re-
fuses to leave his home, notwithstand-
ing that the lower part of the build
ing is five feet in water. Water fills
the basement, and the lighting and
heating plants have been put out of
commission. Even the house has lost
it's telephone connection with the out
side. All of the neighbors of the am
bassador are vacating their homes.
Almost the entire standing army has
been mobolized to fight the raging
floods and in rescuing the inhabitants
of the inundated sections of the city
A new danger arose today in the
encroachment of the water on the
city's gas plant in the Granelle quar-
ter, in West Paris Almost the entire
city uses gas from this plant for light
ing and cooking. Water is now two
feet deep in the basement of the city
hail. One hundred and twenty ma
rines and eighty auto boats, under the
command of naval officers, arrived
here today to assist in the relief work
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
Federal Grand Jury Begins Earnest
Probe Into the Packing Industry
of the Country.
(Herald Specially

Chicago, Jan. 26.-Inquiry by the
federal grand jury into the packing
industry of the country has begun III
earnest. Thirty witnesses, all EN-.
ployes of the various packing COM
panies in Chicago, appeared in the
federal building this noon in response
to subpoenas issued by United States
District Attorney Sims. No promi-
nent officials of the packeries were
called, as the government wishes to
be careful that none of the men
higher up" are provided with immu-
nifty baths. SecretaryTreasurer Snow
of the National Packing company was
the first witness to appear in the
building. He was called into the grand
jury room shortly after noon.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
GOVERNMENT ON COTTON
Special Report Issued Today Locates
Present Cotton Crop-Some In
teresting Figures.
(Herald Specially

Washington, d. c., Jan. 26.-The
special cotton report of the census
bureau issued today estimates the to-
tai supply for the four months ending
December 31st at 1921 Asa bales, as
follows: Held September LIST, 1,4S3,5S5
bales. Ginned during the four months
period, 9,295,0S5 bales. Net imports,
1874 bales; distribution, 1,747,244;
consumed, 3,774,714; exported, 1887
1877; held in mills, 54S.702; held in in
dependent warehouses and other
stocks, 1,123,607.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
MINES WILL Be OPENED
Cherry Mines Will Be Reopened and
Efforts Made to Recover Bodies
of Dead Miners.
(Herald Specially

Chicago, Jan. 26.-Following the ap,
preparation of one hundred thousand
dollars for the widows and orphans OF
the Cherry mine disaster victims by
the house committee, it was announced
today that the sealed mines will be
opened Monday to allow the recovery
of the two hundred and ten bodies re-
naming in the underground levels OF
the mines as a result of the holocaust
of several months ago. 1t is hardly
likely that any of the bodies removed
from the lower veins will be identified
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
IO|MhUN|TY BATHS NOW MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
In a Chicago caisson Today-Two
Were Overcome and Others
Went to Rescue.
tHerald Specially

Chicago, Jan. 26.-At the bottom of
a caisson ninety feet below the sur
face two men were asphyxiated early
sSeay and two others were overcome
in efforts to rescue the first two, and
are in critical condition. Peter Con-
roy and James WEIGH are dead, and
Harry o'Brien and George Onroy, fire
men, may die. Conroy went to the
bottom of the caisson in a bucket and
fell from it, and WEIGH went down to
investigate and also fell. The fire de-
partment was summoned and two of
the firemen were injured.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
(Herald Specially

London, Jan. ALPHABETICALLY all of
western Europe is today in the grip of
severe storms with billiards., hurri-
canes and floods that will cost the loss
of many lives and thousands upon
thousands of dollars in property. The
storms extend from the British Isles
to Italy and Russia and to Gibraltar
Ships are reported wrecked along all
coasts and many railrods are Grip
pied.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
Condition In Paris.
fHerald Sneciall

Paris, jan pa heavy snow is
falling, but being warmer is is, melt
ing as it falls. The weather bureau
offers no relief in the situation. 1t is
estimated today that 100000 Paris
homes are flooded and all of the fac
tories located along the banks of the
Seine have been closed down, throw
ng fifty thousand people out OF EN-
oloyment. The government today be
gan making acquisitions upon all va
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
INDICTMENTS WERE QUAsHEC
Against New York Publishers as to
Criminal Libel.
(Herald Specially

New York, Jan. 26-Judge Hough
today ordered quashed the indict-
ments charging criminal libel against
the Publishers Press company, pub
fishers of the New York World, which
indictments were the outgrowth of its
publication of charges rejecting on a
number of persons in connection with
the Panama Canal purchase.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
THREE TEXAS PLUMS
Shaken Down BY President Today In
Nominations Sent to the Senate.
CHerald Specially

Washington, D. c.. Jan. 26.-Presi-
dent Taft today sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Collectors of customs: James j.
Haynes, district of Corpus Christi,
Texas; Robert Dover, district of Fal-
furrias, Texas; Francis Lee, district
of Galveston, Texas.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-01-26
Regulated Confession.

Rochester, n. Y, Jan. 26.-James
Hall. reputed murderer of Anna Schn-
macher, repudiated his confession
when taken to the Holy Sepulchre
cemetery today.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
WHAT WILL 1T PRODUCE!

1t is interesting to figure what this
lease will produce when fully devel-
oped. If 10 wells produce $4,000 bar
rels, it might be said that 40 wells will
produce 100000 barrels, but this would
be wrong. 1t would be too small, even
though it sounds large. OF these 10
wells are drilled along the west
line of the property. where the sands
are not so deep or so thick. so that
the proportionate production of the
wells along the east side as against
those along the west side will doubtless
be nearly or quite two to one.
Some other way must be devised II
the possible. or even probable pro-
ductbn of this particular lease is 70
be figured out and the consequent earn
ings of the company are to be arrived
at, as since they have a perpetual
pumping privilege as long as oil is pro-
duced in commercial quantities, they
have a right to entirely exhaust the
sands. if possible. Some years ago the
California Promotion committee, under
the direction of Colonel l.. P. Crane.
issued circular, showing the amount
of oil in sands of varying thickness
and of varying saturatiOn of from 10
to 20 per cent.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
EXAMPLE NO. 2.

One hundred and sixty acres at So,
GOO barrels per acre would give total
production of 4,S00, 900 barrels. less the
royalty, or 1000. 600 barrels net, to the
company. At an average price for 20
years of IS cents per barrel the re-
turns would be $4,000, 600 Allowing
S1O0, 900 for the original cost of the
lease, $4,000 each for the drilling Of
40 wells, $4,000 for buildings, equip
ment pipe lines, etc. $360,0O0 for op-
Grating expenses-s1. 500 per month for
20 years-the profit for 20 years would
be $19O0,000
To which must be added the profits
of the company after the expiration Of
the 20 years.
For this example the expenses are
figured in very liberal manner and
the production per acre is undoubtedly
too low.
Assuming that the government esti-
mate of 10000 barrels per acre is too
low as applied to this particular tract.
which it undoubtedly is. and that the
20 per cent saturation table as given
out by the California Promotion COM
mttee is too high a saturation for this
district, which it probably is not, as the
sands here are conceded to be among
the richest and most prolific in the
entire state, it might be well to take as
a basis a point half way between the
two. The amount per acre on the 20
per cent saturation basis is 233,
barrels medium between the two is
131, $50 barrels per acre.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
EXAMPLE No. 1.

Using this table as a basis. and
figuring on an average known depth
of sand of I25 feet under this property,
we have the stupendous total of 81
900 barrels for the entire quarter
section. figured on a saturatiOn of
twenty GOD per cent. This may be a
high estimate of saturation. but it has
been exceeded in the Los Angeles and
Kern River fields, also at Spindletop
and in Baku. Russia Certainly, not all
the oil could be saved. but most of it
could. and even if only half were saved
and that half sold at fifty (50) cents
net. the total amount received would
be $9,324,000
Following along this same line it
would take a well pumping so barrels
per day, three hundred (300) days per
year, 1858 years to exhaust the oil in
one acre of oil sand. If this quarter
section is drilled up as intended. with
40 wells, there will be four acres in
stead of one to exhaust. which should
take four times as long, or practically
sixty-three (63) years
The United States geological survey
has estimated the production of the
West Side fields at $4,000 barrels per
acre. This is too low as applied to
this particular property, and has been
more than doubled in other parts of
the state on property not considered as
good as this, but for this illustration
it will suffice.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19

After the wells were drilled and
splendid production secured came the
question of transportation. The rail-
road was about ten miles away and
pipe was purchased for a line. A
brother in-law of Spinks, named Hart,
who had been mining in Alaska; was
to furnish the money to pay for the
line, but the ship on which he was
returning was lost, and while he was
saved, the gold to the value of nearly
fifty thousand dollars ($50000) went to
the bottom with the illdated ship
The company finally sold the pipe to
the Union Oil Company, who exacted
a contract for the oil for a certain
time and a pipe line charge of eight
tions on which they would come to the
company's relief.
Now comes the sunny side of the
story. The Caribou Oil Company, which
for a long time sold oil at eleven cents
and paid eight-cent pipe line charges,
have paid for their land, paid all de-
velopment and maintenance, and have
paid in dividends in the eleven years
of their existence SEVEN DOLLARS
AND SIXTY EIGHT CENTS PER
SHARE. Most of the stock was sold
at much less than par. and it is now
quoted on the market at fifteen dollars
and fifty cents (s15.5O) per share, and
cheap at the price.
The Sauer Dough, before spoken of,
was capitalized at two hundred and
fifty thousand (25O,000) shares of the
par value of fifty cents each. Their
early trials were something like those
Of their neighbors, and their profits
have been typical. Only portion of
the stock was sold, but on this stock
there has been paid, exclusive of the
three hundred thousand dollars ($3OO,-
000) paid for the land and the sums
necessary for development and main
tenance, dividends amounting to NINE
TIMES ITS PAR VALUE and is at pres
ent paying al the rate of ten per cent
per month. 1t should also be borne
in mind that while the lease is not yet
fully developed, it has produced suffi
cient oil, even at a low price, to pay
dividends amounting to $22,29 PER
ACRE.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
EXAMPLE No. 8.

One hundred and sixty acres at 49,
$50 barrels per acre would give a
total production of 21,096. 900 barrels
less the royalty, or 17,5SO,0 900 barrels
net to the company. At an average
price for the 20 years of rs cents per
barrel and with expenses of s110O, 900
deducted as in example No 2, the profit
would be $12,0S5. 900.
This, of course, seems large, but re-
member that the amount per acre has
been exceeded many times in this state
and that the Peerless has already pro-
duced. even counting their water
troubles, considerably more than half
this amount and is still producing a
large amount daily. This, too, in the
Kern River field. which has never been
large producer. from the standpoint
of individual wells, and where nearly
two thousand (2.000) wells produce less
than the five hundred (50O) wells of the
Coalinga fields.
Figured in any way it is certain that
this piece of property will produce for
it's fortunate owners many times the
amount of its capitalization and there
seems no doubt at this time that the
stock will soon command a figure far
above par.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
: A TYPE.

Perhaps for this article there is no
more typical company than the Pre-
mier Oil Company. While a compara-
lively new company only organized a
little over two years ago, 1t has already
made good. The geographical location
OF this companys land is almost in the
center of the field the depth of sand
and thickness are about an average, so
it will do admirably as an illustration
of what can be done with a good piece
of land properly handled and correctly
selected.
The company was organized in Sep
tember, 1907, by T. Spellacy, P. Z. Spell
lacy, G. ]. Berry, j. d. Thompson and
w. NJ. Wallace Mr.. Spellacy has been,
and is still, the president OF the COM
pany, while Mr.. Wallace is secretary.
The capitalization of the company is
one million (s1,O00.000) dollars. The
company purchased from the Union Oil
Company a one-sixth royalty lease on
100 acres Of land, being the southeast
quarter of Section "a, Township Twen-
ty GOD, Range Fourteen, for which they
paid one. hundred thousand s1O0,000)
dollars, one-ffth of which was to be
paid in oil. This has been paid.
The property is surrounded by such
developed holdings as the CIaremont
on the north. The American Petroleum
Company on the east, The Kern Trading
anu Oll COUlpdHys WHICH Is tue OH Qe-
partment of the Southern Pacific, on
the south, and the Traders and the
Inca on the west and northwest
Every foot of the ground is proven
and the history of the 10 wells already
drilled proves that the formation is a
blanket one.
The first well was started on Octo-
ber l, 1907. and was finished. be-
lated Christmas present, on December
&c of the same year. Since that time
the development has been pushed as
rapidly as the finances of the young
company would allow, until there are
at present 10 producing wells No. 9
and 10 having been brought in on the
same day. about two weeks ago. Two
more wells are now being drilled and
work will be continued until 40 wells
are finished. one for each four acres
The present rate of production, in
cluding the two new wells, which are
too new to be doing their best, is be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 barrels per
month.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
BY HVen G. Nichols, Editor of The on Industry
Where five hundred and fifty wells are producing
one and a quarter million barrels per month.
Where fortunes have been made and where
untold wealth awaits development

the McKittrick field. comprising some
seventy acres. and belonging TO ser-
eraI different companies. has Tor Jae
past year produced over three thouss
C 3,0OO) barrels per acre per mon l.
from forty-sfx (46) wells. some Of
which are eight years old
Some of the wells in the older part
of the Los Angeles field have beeu
producing for more than twenty yearS.
and having been drilled very close To-
gether have made in the nelghOorhoot
of one hundred thousand (l0O,OVV)y %,
reIs per acre. yet here the sand IS
comparatively thin and in no case is
there anything approaching thicknesS
of 125 feet, al in the Premier
There are several properties IN tne
state that have produced well over
10O. 900 barrels per acre. on smaller
tracts and the same rule should hold
good for both large and small hold
ings. the only difference being thai
there has not yet been sufficient tine
for the larger properties to be fun
developed for a sufficiently long time
TO be used as illustrations There are
many holdings that have produced
much more than enough oil TO accounJ
for a 20 per cent saturation- Notably
has this been the case in some of the
older parts of the Los Angeles Held.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
PROBABLE PRODUCTION.

1t is a very difficult thing to estf-
mate the probable value of an oil prop
erty like this one because we have so
little precedent to go on. There have
been very few leases of this size de-
veloped.
The Peerless in the Kern field has
produced enough oil to cover the entire
quarter section nine feet deep, and has
paid dividends amounting to over
Seven Thousand Dollars $4,000 per
acre. besides buying and developing 100
acres in Coalinga and a large tract in
Sunset, yet that company has only
drilled up one hundred and fifteen acres
115) of the original quarter.
The Merrill Crude in the Kern River
field has produced twenty-five thousand
(25,000) barrels per acre in tHfrty
months. and the Illinois Crude has uro-
duced well over one hundred and ten
thousand (110.000) barrels per acre.
and at one time actually produced
three thousand $4,000 barrels per acre
per month yet these wells were never
large, never so large as the wells on
the Premier by half. but it is the steady
output every day in the year that
counts
A tract Of land in the north end OF
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS.

Away back in the early eighties pros
pectors were attracted to what is now
known as Coalinga, by the seepage OF
oil and outcroppings of bituminous
shales, though the first prospecting
was done for coal. A shaft was sunk
and several tunnels driven into the hill,
and while some coal was developed, it
was not In commercial quantities or OF
commercial quality.
Some time in the early nineties, Row
land and Lacy. since grown rich by
their operations in the Puente Hills.
sunk several shallow holes and an
nounced their belief that the undulat-
ing hills of Coalinga were a vast store
house of petroleum. They were sue
ceeded by the Elkhorn Petroleum Com
pany, which soon passed out of exist
ence without having accomplished any
thing worthy of note.
In 1893 Barrett and Barrios of Fresno
organized the Producers and Consum-
ers' Oil Company and started the first
systematic work and drilling for oil in
this now wonderful field. Work was
started on Section Twenty, in what has
since become the world famed Oil City
pool. Three shallow wells were drilled
and some light oil was produced. The
wells were near the edge of the sand,
as has since been proven, and the pro-
duction from the three was probably
not more than twenty-five (25) barrels
per day.
Three years later the property was
sold to the Coalinga OIL Company,
headed by Joe Chanslor. now the presi-
dent of the. Associated Oil Company,
and c. A. Garfield. now a millionaire
several times over. director in the As
ISOLATED, organizer of the Mexican Pc
troleum Company and kindred organi-
cations, and one of the men who de-
veIoped the original Los Angeles field.
as we'll as Kern River. The trials of
many and varied. Lack of capital, in
sufficiency of equipment and distance
from the base of supplies were some
of the difficulties these early opera
tors had to contend with, yet with
the splendid tenacity that has ever
made the American pioneer conspicu-
Gus, with the bulldog spirit that would
not be beaten, these men persisted in
their efforts ana success crowned their
labor They drilled number of wells,
but only seven of them were produc-
tive, yet from these seven wells, after
paying all expenses for drilling and
maintenance, this company has re-
turned in dividends one million, seven
hundred thousand dollars (s1,700, ,00o)
in twelve years.
Then came the Home Company, which
drilled in the Blue Goose well which
became known the world around. This
was their third well. but came in first
a gusher. good for about eightshundred
barrels (S00) per day. This property
made fortunes for it's owners and is
still giving good productions of light
oil that commands prices considerably
in advance of the market.
From this point the tide of develop
ment swept both east and south, and
while this Home sand, as 1t is now
called, has not been encountered at any
other point, a wonderfully rich field
was developed in the east, even be-
fore the west side field that now pro-
duces fortunes monthly was even pros
pected.