The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-06-01
y Letters From the People
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i WI. Reduer, are you one OF the chOS-
en- few who have been invited on the
y. /. to place your shekels in the
hands of few local business men to
drill for oil and gas in the vicinity of
kenneWick? Is it possible they have
not been around to see you yet-well.
they will no doubt, be around to see
you and let you in on the ground floor,
but before you get in on the ground
floor there are many things you should
give serious consideration.
Now, the company 1 represent does
not know am writing this article and
will not see it until it is in print, but
being one of the original movers of
the present seige of development, 1
am strong for good, legitimate devel-
opment by experienced operators and
do not want to see the public exploited
by inexperienced operators at this
stage of the game, as this stage is the
critical one. ass. Il. IL .1r-. g.
1 am going to lay out few facts
as l see them for the betterment of
the gas and oil development and as
guidance to some of you who may be
considering these many local propo-
sitions that are formed in night and
submitted the next morning. They all
look good on paper but it takes the
drill with an experienced driller and
management by experienced oil men
to carry the work on successfully and
insure you of a legitimate run for
your money. I will heartily give any
man or men the benefit Of my years of
experience in this field and am glad
to see other development companies
come in but do not want to see men of
limited or practically no knowledge
of geology or of the drilling of oil
wells who would not know an
anticline if they saw one or have no
conception of the cost of deep well
in this formation, start in to drill at
Kennewick's back door at this stage
of the game.
Some few years ago these same men
rushed to the Rattlesnake and staked
claims, expecting some company to
come along and prove the district, and
thereby making their claims of great
value with no effort or financial out
lay on their part. The company did
not come, consequently the few thous-
and dollars spent on sit-back-and-
play-a-cinch bunch of claims went up
in smoke.
These men have not attempted to
pioneer this project, but in reality they
are at present hindering the develop
ment of the field and with but one ex-
ception that l know of they have not
assisted the parent company to at
least prove the reported district. Re-
fused their support by pleading pow
erty; even after taking them to the
field on our many excursions, show
ing them the ocular evidence, even af-
ter the rigid investigation which your
representative body made at our office
i'm North Yakima, which investigation
put us beyond any criticism and prov
ed to the world that we were and are
worthy of your support.
Why should you place your money
in a wild cat proposition, to drill
where no geologist of any prominence
in the oil world has yet set foot. Oil
is not found in any old spot by boys
in mems boots, but is scientific pro-
fession and after conversing with sew
eral of the local promoters am sat
isfied that with two exceptions they
have never seen an oil well.
These same men who have given me.
hours of their valuable time in their
own offices allowing me to enlighten
them along these lines, have acknow-
lodged that our proposition means
more to Kennewick than any hereto
fore submitted and candidly say our
proposition is meritorious one and
deserving of support, but when it
comes to a showdown they plead pow
erty and say they have not dollar to
invest, but the moment / leave their
Offices they rush to the private Office
of their colleagues, enthused and say
1--WE have to get busy" and then the
next day they leave their respective
businesses and rush out and secure
lease or two, miles away from the re-
ported district and then ask you to
nut up honest hard-earned money for
them to exploit some nearby farm or
ranch with for oil, telling you what
they expect to do and of the millions
they expect to make for you when they
themselves have had no experience
and if it were not for my coming to
Kennewick and the information and
reports I have submitted to them they
would still be plugging at their re-
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