The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-13
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DON LAMB SPENT A YEAR IN
SOUTH AMERICA FOR THE
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF
NEW YORK.

Don Lamb, who left the Healdtor
field year ago to go to South Amer
lea for the Standard Oil company OF
New York, has returned and is ir
Ardmore visiting with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lamb.
Mr.. Lamb spent year in Colombia
The Standard Oil company's camps
are located 90 miles from railway
transportation. The company is
drilling three wells in that country
When Mr.. Lamb left there, one of
these wells had reached a depth of
100 feet, another 2025 feet and an.
other 2l50 feet. None of them had
found any oil showings, but drilling
was in progress on all of them. The
company is also starting a fourth
well. 1t has obtained a large acreage
| and is spending vast amount of
money in wildcat operations.
Where Mr.. Lamb was located, is
just 500 miles north of the equator,
and warm weather prevails there dur
ing the entire year. That country
has no roads and the underbrush is
so thick that the Standard Oil com.
pany in building roadway II miles
in length was forced to clear some
thing like 100 miles. On account of
the thickness of the brush II is
impossible for engineers to make a
survey OF the country. He states
that deer are plentiful in that country,
and also that tigers and tiger cats
abound. The natives all go armed
with knives to protect themselves
from the tiger cats, which frequently
make fight.
The Standard people have establish
ed five camps in Colombia and have
3S Americans at work there. Be
sides these Americans a large num-
Der of natives are employed. The !
natives receive SOC a day and Mr.. |
Lamb says that from five to ten of
them are sent out to do a job where
only one American would be sent. |
They are lazy, Inefficient, and shirk
all the work that is possible. The
men of the lower class wear only |
breech clouts the year around and go |
barefooted during all seasons of the
year and perform their labors dress
ed in this garb. The children Of both
sexes up to the age of 10 years go
entirely naked, the women wear more
than the men, and have some
idea of modesty. From twenty to
thirty natives live in one bamboo
cottage, and their food is of the
kind, and it does not re-
luire much labor to support them in
the manner in which they live.
Cartagena, Colombia, has popula
ion of 10000 people inside the walls
and about 10000 on the outside. 1t
IS an old city, and the walls were
Quilt about it for protection. These
walls are 20 feet thick and about
l6 feet in height No attempt is
made to use these walls now for pro-
.ection, but each town in the coun-
.ry has it's own guard of soldiers.
rhe largest guns which they have
ire Of go calibre and when the Amer
cans attempted to import some 40-40
they learned that the gov
did not permit any ammuni-
ion to be received larger than their
army is equipped with, and the am
was confiscated.
The intoxicants in that country
consist chiefly of a red rum, which
sells at about 35c a pint, and a
white rum, which sells for 20c. Both
If these drinks are very strong and
resemble alcohol of this
country. The country has a fair
lass of home-brewed beer, but it is
lever kept on ice, and the Americans
lid not enjoy it for that reason.
An idea of the excessive import du-
les imposed by that country is illus
rated in tobacco purchase that was
made by the boys in the camp. They
lid not like the native tobacco for
and sent to the United
states for $14 worth of Bull Durham
moking tobacco. When it arrived
here, the different duties which had
0 be paid on the product raised the
rice to $126.
Clothing in that country costs just