Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-30

citizens OF high standing to inVe6ti-
gate the pension roll OF Maryland
The Worlds Work for July.
! Portrait Of q Lady in OH.
"The names Of men who have made
fortunes since a sea oil was discov-
cred under CALIFORNIA; crust" writes
Bertha H. Smith in her series What
Women are Doing in the Wes07
in the July number of the Sunset
Magazine. "are known the length and
breadth of the state and beyond. Men
like to have it 80. But only now and
then does the public hear of Emma
A. Summers, who for twenty years
has been a power in the Los Angeles
oil field and who has today perhaps
the largest individual oil producer in
the world. Alone, with Eher own
money, she produces a thousand bar
rels day. and in addition she buys
enough oil to supply contracts aggre-
eating two and a half million dollars
a year. When oil was discovered in
the vicinity Of Los Angeles Mrs. Sum-
mers hao in the bank 500, earned by
teaching music. She put this, and
like amount furnished by another, in
an oil well. And it went in so deep
she doubted ever getting it out. With
| it went $1,000 more, for her credit
was good. Bad luck was followed by
more bad luck. And the climax came
when the casing and tools went crash
ing to the bottom of the we.4. Only
the man drilling the hole was left on
top. Day. after day Mrs. Summers
stood In the hot sun by that we'll. Night
after night. by the light of faring
torch. she lowered over it, as If iii
were sick babes cradle. The pros
pect was dreary. but Mrs. Summers
had pluck and she knew there was oil
in the we'll, and more than three thou.
sand dollars worth of hardware. Att
last the hardware came out of the
we'll. then the oil, and Mrs. Summers.
encouraged. went on drilling wells I'm.
til she found herself $4,000 in debt.
with only her music teachers fee to
pay the bills. When found myself
$4,000 in debt says Mrs. Summers, =,
4 thought that If ever got that
paid and as much more in the bank
would be glad to quit. But when I
got that much l found that interest |
on it wouldn't pay the expenses of a
family of seven. so I concluded to
keep on For twenty years she has
worked at killing pace. All told, she !
has drilled one hundred and fifty.five
wells. In the old days she had a room
in her home set aside for business; to-
day she has suite of three offices
in one of the biggest blocks in Los
Angeles"
The Red Book Magazine, July, 1911. |
The July issue Of the delightful Red
Book Magazine seems to US to be the !
best thus far issued. Unlike the con.
"story publication" the Red |
Book appears to concern itself solely |
with that class of fiction which one
might expect to find in the important |
miscellaneous magazines. Its au-
thors in every instance are those to
whom the editorial doors of McClure's
The American. Everybody's and the
Cosmopolitan are open. Thus, the
July issue leads off with a delightful
tale of young Northern
er's conquest of southern girl in Old
Virginia. The author is Emerson
Hough, Seumas MacManus offers the
first of four appealing stories of Done
gal in Barefoot days." Mary Heaton
Worse in The Persistent Type" is
concerned with the development OF a
prairie town, and Susan Glaspell also
writes a observation-disclosures story
that will get into consciousness of
more than one married couple. A
baseball story on new sort is, "The