The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-25

better TO tell just part of the oil news
and leave the part ont about price
reduction, | shall certainly be glad
to do it.
Mr.. Franklin said in his speech at
the court house at the last meeting
that the field was in a 'deplorabie"
condition. and The Ardmoreite quoted
him. ] do not call to mind that |
have ever used such adjectiyes in
describing the situation.
When one of the early wells was
brought in. report from Waurika in
the Dallas News and in the Okla
homan called 1t a 5000 barrel well,
The men who were new in the busi-
ness told me 1t was surely making
that much oil Wnen the well was
gauged. 1t made about 200 barrels.
When Nels EspersOn, an old oil
producer. saw my reports on that
well. he said | was the first new
oil reporter he ever saw who held
his head so well. and said he wanted
his name on The Ardmorete mailing
list.
Every oil producer and every roy
atty owner and ever field worker and
every citizen where oil men reside
would make oil worth big price if
they could The whole state machin
cry has tried to hold the price up.
George Henshaw and Attorney Cen
erat West have especially worked to
this end They would have succeeded
if they could.
The Ardmoreite had as well with
hold news of the low price of cotton
az the low price of Oil We have no
way of influencing either commodity
No such power lies in the press of
any city, no matter how large or how
inIluentIa, the paper.
have tried to tell 'the oil news so
the man in Oklahoma City, Tulsa,
Houston. Dallas, Fort Worth and the
scores OF smaller towns where this
rGper Is read for its oil news, would
know the condition Just as we'll as
if he were here.
have put more energy into the
work than any other oil reporter in
this state. Meetings held have been
reported in detail, so that the man
who did not attend the meeting
would know just about as well what
happened as the man who did at
tend. That means work, and | have
done It.
A story is told of sale once
made by the Manhattan Oil company
1t had big holdings and wanted to
sell but did not want the Standard
to get them so the company sold
to London, England parties, and the
money TO pay for the properties came
from London. After the deal was all
closed the Standard moved in and
took charge of the p.operties. This
company has its agencies in every
city in the world. have an idea
the company pays very little atten-
ton to any press, and none whatever
to the country press.
have a great deal of patience
with the men who think The Ard
moreite has not pursued the proper
course. If knew how to make the
situation any better and to help the
producers and the farmers there,
who have the royalty, and the people
here, who would benefit by having
plenty of money in the town, | would
be willing to work without eating or
sleeping to accomplish that end for
my neighbors and for my town.
The talk has been just as persist
eut that Mr.. Franklin ruined the
Healdton field, as it has been that
The Ardmoreite ruined it, have
heard it numbers of times, and from
different people, but have never
published news nor tattled news to
disrupt the situation, and cause men
to fall out" with one another.
There are two factions OF oil men,
at least there are two here. These
reports have been praised at one
time by one faction and condemned
by another and vice versa. The old