The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-26
Col. Willis George Emerson, Formerly
Of Iowa Has Something to Say
About the California Oil
Industry
MoRE OIL MORE IT'S USED
Edison Says the Worlds Fuel is
Bound to be Serious Question
Within the Next DECADE
The seabord Co.

Hon. Willis George Emerson. for
many years resident of Iowa, we'll
known as an author, now a resident Of
Los Angeles, Calf, is interested in
the California oil business. In the April
%, issue of the Los Angeles Times,
ne has an interview relative TO TIE
oil production that is not only enter
tanning but instructive. His many
friends will be pleased to read his
deductions regarding the most import
ant growing industry, and this paper
prints the article il full as follows:
The oil industry of California today,
presents q medley of ever-cfanging
hopes, many Of them being FULFILLED
and Others not yet crowned with sue
cess,
Surrounding the great .Lakeview'
gusiler that is daily adding something
like 10000 barrels Of very good gravity
oil TO the worlds supply, are hundreds
Of derricks. Most of the oil derricks
are already in pay of in the upper
sand strata. Since the big tgusher"
was brought In, many new derricks
have sprung up surrounding it like the
curved rim Of a jockeys cap and TWEEN
ty-four hours out OF each day with
drill and tools are stormsng the cita-
del Of perhaps one of the worlds
greatest oil pools.
To those interested In the oil bust
ness the great "Lakeyiewn custer is
worth trip to Maricopa and Midway
to see. A couple CT days since a new
gugher was brought in by the Stand
ard on section 80, adjoining the noted
section rs hill in Midway, directly
on the east, which. it is claimed. is
flowing from 1900 TO 1900 barrels
per day. A few more Of these great
gusaerg added 10 the list and the gov
eminent officials might have cogent
reasons for believing the oil produc-
ton is rapidly approaching if not al
ready arrived al a point where our
navy can be supplied with oil for her
iron-cIadders.
There are those among experienced
Oil men whose judgment and opinion
are entitled 10 more than passing con-
sideration VINO insist that the phenonl-
email increase Of the oil output during
the LAST few years is the best evidence
that the present prices of oil or even
higher prices Will ultimately obtain.
Il is pointed out by this school OF
reasoners that oil will become q sub
stitute for ali other and more expen
siye fuel for thousands of nlaaufactur.
ing plants. not alone in our own coun-
Try but in foreign countries. as well.
u Inc permanency Of sufficient oil
supply were assured, and. doubtless
would be used by the great nayies Of
tae world. Certainly it is the least
bulky and in other ways more de-
sirable fuel than any other for gener
ating steam.
To the adaerents Of this belief the
cry of oyer-production has no ter
rors.
Among the newer oil men operating
In the Midway oil district entertaining
these views, may be mentioned Col.
WINS George Emerson, president OF
Ae california Seaboard Oil COMPANY
that owns valuable lease On the ia.
NOUS section % hill" where II Is
claimed there are over 100 producing
Oh wells. Perhaps there is no other
male square Of land In the California
on fields that is better known IN III
men taan this particular "section
In q recent interview Col Emerson
among other things said. @Over-nro
auction is a myth. a Jack d lantern
70 frlghten the timid. The mora oil
produced the more uses fl will he mt
70 and the more manufacturing plants
rugged TO burn oil when once 6t,ad
up 70 use petroleum as a fuel ~
more pronounced and permanent .iII
be the eyerincreasing demand whiIa
in my opinion the scale Of prices viii
have an upper rather than downward
tendency Thomas A Edison tells us
that the worlds fuel is bound to ba
a serious question within the nexf do.
eade. therefore. oil IS a fuel viii como
more and more in demand and prices
VIII scale upward rather than down.
ward Tie salvation of the producers
OF OIL continued Col Emerson, lis the
Independent OH Producers Agency
The Standard, as is well known tc
every producer in California. is tho
arch enemy Of high prices being PAID
TO the producer and they are eve
ready TO take advantage OF the timid
but the cry Of wolf, wolf. has beer