Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-27

its capacity and the company viii be
in a position to increase its profits
from the production within short
time. The oil is rising about Az
inches a day in the stump it Is being
run to at present"
will aggresate $4,000 feet In length.
Of which 5000 feet are exeaVated, and
on the south side 1900 feet, Of which
1905 are excavated. Three miles of
open bitches on the south side have
yet to be dug. At present water Is
developed at the north portal to the
amount of 35 600 600 to 40.000,000 gal
Ions daily. So far 1896 feet of the
main bore is concrete-lined.s ~ s#
1t is currently reported that plans
are en- foot for the establishment OF
a mammoth beet sugar factory In
Winnipeg. At the instigation OF the
Industrial bureau sugar beets have
been grown on farms near Brandon.
Dsuphin. Morden. Stonewall and Sell
kirk. Samples of the beets were sent
to the experiment station at Ottawa,
and the reports received from that
place are said to have been to the
effect that the saccharine content of
the Manitoba beets exceeded that OF
beets grown in any other province In.
Canada. --... = s,">..9 1
The Lord Young Engineering Com
pany is rapidly completing its build
ing contracts at Pearl Harbor naval
station. Two sets of officers quar-
tiers, costing about $4,000, have been
handed over to the department. Work
is progressing we'll on the double
quarters of marines, to cost SIS, 600.
Five of the IL magazine Buildings,
costing 100000, are practically fin
ished, and work has been completed
on mammoth oil tank. as well as
nearly so on a huge water tank. On
these works the company has EN-
ployed exclusively native labor, /
J. Oswald Lutted returned from the
Coast this week with glowing accounts
of the gusher of Lakeview Oil Co., Of
which he sold a great deal of stock in
these islands four years ago. He ex-
poets to see the company paying 81 a
share monthly dividends. A postcard
circular from the secretary of the com:
rany received yesterday, under date
Of June IL, says the well was still
flowing in excess of $4,000. barrels a
day. Although efforts to cap the well
had failed, the production was abso-
lutely under control and none of the
oil was being lost. 1t is estimated. the
circular says. that the company has
in storage nearly one million barrels
of oil. which will be marketable as
soon as 1t settles in the vast stump
holes into which it has been run. The
net May delivery to the Standard Oil
Company was 64,770 barrels. In CAPT
tai letters Secretary F. G. White en-
phasizes the advice sent on May Is,
Hold on to your stock"
Conflicting interpretations have
been given. locally, to the kilograms
received by the Star-Bulletin and
ago, to the effect, respectively, that
the railroads and Associated Oil had
won their oil land cases in the fed
eral supreme court. Some maintain
that the decision had respect to the
old land grants of the Southern Pa
cific, therefore did not cover the is
sues raised by holders of oil lands
whose claims had been supported by
the federal district courts in Wyom-
ing and California, as against the
Taft order of withdrawal in Septem-
Der, 1909. Others maintain that the
decision went to the merits of all the
western oil land cases, hence that 1t
is victory for Honolulu Consolidat.
ed Oil Co. among other developing
corporations. Color is lent to the
latter contention by a Los Angeles
dispatch of June 16, in San Francisco
papers by last mail, of which a con-
densed version had been telegraphed
to the local press. According to that
dispatch, suit was filed on the date
mentioned in the U. S. district court
at Los Angeles, Ito recover oil lands
valued at more than $50,000,000, in
Kern county, from the Southern Pa
ciic Railroad, the Standard Oil Co.,
and so other corporations and individ-
uals." 1t being added that this is
one of the series of suits in equity
instituted by the government to re-
cover lands which it maintains were
fraudulently obtained by the railroad
company in violation of the provisions
of an act Of congress in 1866, supple
mented by a joint resolution adopted
in 1870" and, furthermore, the Water
house dispatch stating that the Asso-
ciated had made good it's defense in
the supreme court, the inference
seems fair that the case decided was
on all tours with the rest of the liti-
CATION on the subject, therefore that
the oil land claims originating before
the Taft order Of July, 1910, which,
unlike the former one. was authorized
nv coneresS have heen eSta hlichnd nv