The Washington herald., 1912-06-02

they were cemented together in single
corporation"
Are the old fields in the East bsIns
| exhausted?''
II saw a statement recently thai the
average daily production in the Bradtorl
district was three-fourths Of a barrel TO
the well. The production in the Appa-
IIachian field is only s5,OO0 barrels every
twenty-four hours from 10000 wells. One
Of my wells, yielding two-thirds Of bar
rel a day, is twenty-eight years old II
is worked along with twenty-three other
wells by a single gas engine, and the
flow in the aggregate brings one consid-
cradle money. There are prophets who
say that the oil will eventually be con-
sumed. That may come to pass. have
noticed. however, that when the supply
in one place falls on, new fields are
found. Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, snd
Illinois came in as Pennsylvania declined.
Then followed Texas, Oklahoma. and
California.
There VIII BE Plenty of OIL.
Great lakes and little lakes Of oil are
in The earth Many have been found
and almost pumped dry. Others viii be
ldiscoverd, no doubt. Out In Ohio ve dig
post holes, as they are termed. from
200 to 800 feet deep, while IN West vir-
ginIa we must drill ten times that dis-
tance. One man will get oil and another
man Just over the hill will get nothing
but water. In spite Of the uncertainty IN
the business Of producing oil, there Is a
constant increase in the supply and wider
uses are being found for II all the time.
The United States pumped 100000
more barrels OF. petroleum in 1911 than IN
1910. There was an increase Of SOOo.eOO
barrels in California, the greatest oil re-
gion in the world, but a loss Of 100000
barrels in the Appalachian fields. A large
part of our oil is shipped abroad. mainly
by the Standard, and immense quantities
OF Texas oil, which is heavy and black.
is made into gasoline for automobiles,
while the residue is burned as fuel The
engines on the Southern Pacific Railroad
use oil instead Of coal. Formerly The
Standard discouraged the burning 6f oil
for steam-making purposes. Thus, with
its larger and more varied uses, the sup
ply Of oil grows from year to year, and
there is no reason, in my opinion, TO fear
that by and by there will be no oil at
all"
Why" I inquired. did you rush on
to the Klondike?''
Because, I suppose, a stampede for
gold is not unlike a stampede for OF.
had lived, you see, in a region where
men rushed into the open and took
gamblers chance with nature. Great
news trickled out OF Alaska, and then
the movement toward the Klondike
started. / left Seattle on the first boat
and walked over the mountains from
Skagway, carrying all that had on my
back. A trapper on shipboard. going up.
liked me because I pretended to believe
his personal yarns about grizzly bears
and panthers.
Left His Gun Behind.
q" Sonny he asked me- Just as was |
about to enter ChIlkoot Pass, what are
you going to do with them two wea-
pons?
Defend myself, Of course an
swered.
Let me see you draw he said
81 fumbled, but soon, as thought had
: gun in each hand The trapper smiled. |
Leave 'em behind, sonny, leave 'em be-
hind. Why, they'd have you buried and
4 tombstone over your grave before you
we're ready for your first shot
TT was good advice and my load was
reduced three pounds. Early as I was,
I found all the lower claims on Eldorado
Creek staked on. White men with In
iian wives had already been in the
for some time. 1 hadn't much
money and. finding no gold, went into
he business Of chopping and selling
wood. Three Of US went up the Klon-
like River and hoated a raft down be-
lore freezing weather. We sold the
wood for s65 q cord. A gambler offered
ne $40 a cord in real money and SIS
n chips. but passed the proposition
ip. Gambling was better than mining
lnless one had q claim like Carmach's |
which paid him $4,000 In three years.
{ was not unusual for a man to sit
lown at a gaming table with $4,000
worth OF dust in a bag.
The profits OF my transaction in wood
,nabled me to get a claim high up on
he banks Of EldoEado Creek I thawed
'ut the gravel in my cabin and paid for
he opening Of the mine as I went
long Some Of 1t yielded me 800 q
'ucket A Cornell man, the second oar
n the university boat crew. ran laun-
Try and charged 81 for washing a white
hirt. No one but gamblers and fools
Vore collars or cuffs. But. that was no 8.
ountry for q permanent home, ana
here was a young lady at Titusville 7
7hom wanted to marry Returning
o civilization, became an oil pro-
ucer and not an oil roustabout around
derrick The only difference between
producer and roustabout Is that the
ne has little capital and the other
asn'I"
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