The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

 areas of lands that they will buy; maps are ready and printed. We want you to study them and think over the fact that we own AND HAVE THE DEEDS TO THE OIL AND GAS RIGHTS ON THESE LANDS, and the deeds are open and subject to inspection.
 Bear in mind that this is cheap leased land proposition. It royalty to pay, no lease to expire no hurry-up- before- break fast game to play to get little cash or lose something IT MEANS WE OWN THE GOODS and we calmly sit down and fold our hands and do nothing with it, if see fit simply wait How about these wildcat com panes who are flooding the state with litera ture SELLING STOCK BY SHOWING PIG TURES OF GAS WELLS THAT ARE ON LANDS WE OWN Do you take stock with them, do you join us? We have the goods Go see the wells look into our ownership and see with your eyes who is who and what is what Under the laws governing this coun- try, if tell you own lands when We do not what is the result? It Is Uncle Sam's duty to close us up, and you can rest assured that Uncle Sam is his job The irrespon- sible stock promoter is being watcher more closely today than before by the AUTHORITIES. Now, is it not well for you, if you have money to invest to KNOW THAT TT IS BEING INVESTED WITH A LEGITI- MATE, HONEST, STRAIGHT ENTERPRISE here at home that you can investigate fully in z every way, than to invest in problematie schemes in the west fn Mexico?
 Another very strong inducement to you should be the fact. that if you invest with us, you are helping indirectly build up and improve every community carry natural gas into. This, to mind is desirable. Build build, inn prove, create, grow, expand, should be the motto of every true and loyal Southerner. Are you doing this?
 Why would it not be wise for your commer ca1 or business organizations to start a move ment to make city that would be marvel to the world?
 Let me- as the Agent of our Company, tell you how to do it. First, send delegation of hundred more of your members to rep resent you have them to go to the gas wells with me my guests at any time any date that suits you. Have them to examine carefully the gas wells, then have them to ap- point committee to examine the titles to the oil and gas rights the lands we have. Then have the committee to report to the organiza- tion what they find Now, if their report is K favorable to us go step further, convert your body into @ working organization, and make it the duty of each member to either buy from sell for us, one of bonds for one thousand dollars, and turn the cash to John L. Parker, our Treasurer. Do this by January 1st, 1911, and before the 1st day of May 1911, we will have you a pipe line built into Birmingham and natural gas ready for de- livery
 In my minds eye I of those who would be hurt financially jumping up and saying prove your gas field first, let's take chances" My answer is, YOU ARE TAX
 
 following statement, and see if right, and then make your fight on my proposition.
 FACT ONE: Gas well No 1 was brought in last DecembeE the gas and the pressure is good now then. Since then. wells Nos 6, 8, g and 10 have been drilled. The pressure and flow in all very much alike. This part of the field is no guess work; the gas is there From those wells more than ten million feet : a day can now be utilized. This gas, if brought here and sold for thirty cents per fI,n.,e eox,1 .;A At ,,I1 1,;, thousand dollars day to the Company and every foot would be consumed by domestic Now, fully twenty cents thousand would be profit, or seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars the first year.
 NOW, WE COME TO FACT THREE: That is the pipe line be built here for less than nine hundred thousand dollars from the gas wells. A sxteen-inch line is what we will build, line that will convey fifty mill lion feet per day. This line built for nine hum dred thousand dollars used for year would sell for fully fifty per cent of cost four hundred thousand dollars more, if aban- doned. Now, if it cost nine hundred thousand dollars. sold for four hundred thousand dollars, the loss would be five hundred thousand dol lars, yet the profit gas sold would than offset the loss. So if you never brought : in another well. as a community, you would be better off by two hundred and thirty thou sand dollars for having followed this course. Not single cent would have been lost by the {. venture, and the community would have en- joyed for one year gas that contained over ONE THOUSAND HEAT UNITS PER CUBIC FOOT against the artificial gas that doubt is much, if any, better than half so rich in heat units, and for which several times as much per thousand Is being paid by the con- sumer.
 Now, I have tried to make my statement plain. I could not make it shorter Do you understand it? If not, call your organization together and call for and will come and try and show them what mean.
 : \ Now. again, it is folly for the 'knosker" to say prove the fied;" my contention is that it is proven, and have proved by the actual spending of many thousands of dollars that I either fool to throw away money or was satisfied in my mind to back my judgment with cold hard cash, and I am stp backing the same judgment in the se7ne way
 Now, state it publicly, and am so satisfied that am right that do not hesitate or falter $ when I say I know we have a gas field. do not lay any claim to being a scientist or a geologist oil expert, I simply claim to have good, clear, common everyday, hard horse sense, and if any man who has this qual- = ity will go to the gas wells, he will say that is gas field proven beyond a doubt The , area is still to be determined and the only way to do that is with drill. Now, if will all get together, stay together, pull together, the natural gas s&e will see a city free from smoke, sfree from trouble over the heat, light $iHr labor problem in securing same. We should
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