The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-13

TO Investors: #
Good propositions do not wait long
For short time you have been OF.
fered a part OF this stock for develop.
ment purposes Some knockers ma,
ask: az Il Is such good thing, why
% not horne people take II ali2" But Il
takes millions 81 dollars to build up a
great national competitor OF the oil mon
poly A crisis was brought about a few
months ago ny this monopoly 10 aid its
henehmen 10 practically grab the oil In
the high grade Gushing oil fields. Prices
OF the refined products wsre lowered
around the local refineries and every-
using possible done to drive out Of the
oil business everybody but the trust. The
state and national officials that could
bring outer suits under state and ma
uonal antitrust laws are either afraid
OF the political power OF the trust or too
bnsy at something else--and so the trust
has clear field. Meantime the larger
part Of the great Usage Nation oil and
gAs fields will soon he on the auction
h,ock. During this crisis high grq
was put down as low as 2S cents per
barrel. Gasoline has been lowered in
the Middle West and advanced In other
districts Of the nation all In the same
Week. Crude oil at such prices would
he like corn at cents per bushel or
wheat Al Is cents per bushe
The so-calIed independent oil men are
the biggest noise makers and the poor
est organized body Of citizens in the
business world or course. they have to
fight the most powerful OF all the Grim
inal trusts.
The farmers are organized SO that
their corn and wheat cannot be taken
az conspiracy price. but, not so with
oil
Necessity Is the mother of invention.
When the oil monopoly started a war
on the Kansas producers a few years
ago. a group Of pioneer producers or
ganlzed The Uncle Sam OIL Company to
protect their properties and to build in
the Middle West a real Independent. pro-
ducina rsening and MARKETING Icom-
pany--a competitor Of the trust to be
worthy OF the name.
This company at times has been made
to travel rocky road. but the Kansas
pioneers are Of the staying kind and
haidships and persecution caused our
leaders to striye all the more determin-
edly.
The Uncle Sam Oil Company built the
first three refineries in Kansas and ok
lahoma. Built the first independent pipe
line in the Middle West. Our pipe line
. now completed and in operation for
151 miles 1t connects. two refinesies
in two states and lit of our oil wells,
md the larger percentage of our oil lands
and leases.
The Uncle Sam oil Company built and
has maintained the F'-st marketing
itations direct to the i.sople over Mis-
ouri OKLAHOMA an5 Kansas. 1t entered
his field as a pioneer--the first to de-
y the trust in this rich district in forty ,
ears.
The competition The Uncle Sam Oil I
company pioneered and has bravely {
has caused the people of the
fiddle West to secure a better grade Of
efined oils than formerly was furnished
nd also at a reduction in price of sew
raj million dollars.
The trust has secretly placed its
enchmen into state and federal offices
md then struck at lis with all its venom :
ided and abetted by officials thar
hould haveabeen our protectors. Big !
newspapers. investment journ- !
Is and up-llft magazines that are kept q
" the criminal rich to mislead the pub !,
c by false editorials and news COM !
merit in favor Of the schemes OF the !
Vail Street wolves have all at times :
pened their concealed batteries. But !
,ignl Is a mighty warrior and through !
all The Uncle Sam Oil Company has
increased its assets.
IT has thousands of acres of oil and {
as leases properly located In the big p
II counties In Oklahoma and over fif- 5
zen hundred acres OF decided lands G
The greatest high grade oil field in the
-orld Is In Range in Usage, Pawnee t
anne district In this Range our Com v
any controls two hundred acres of b
eeded land and has nearly three thous- tn