Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-28

shooting wells at Healdton would he
allowed, but that shooting into water
would be prohibited. This will knock
INTO a cooked hat the aspirations of
the OIL men who desire to blow up
good producing wells just for the fun
OF shooting into water.
II should be stated here that there
Is an old saying that "A good game
man always shoots into water, but
lhe credlt for gamencss has never
been claimed by any operator unless
he shot into water by mistake.
The new rules handed down by the
corporation commission are really and
honestly meant to benefit the oil pro-
ducer according TO a very limited num-
Der OF oil producers who believe In
conservation, but are generally thot
TO be principally to bee the purpose OF
building up political machine and
supplying lot of hungry office
seekers with jobs.
There is absolutely no rule that the
corporation commission can put in
effect that Is not based on common
sense, and there is no successful op-
erator-in fact, no one except "A COM
mon fool-who would do anything
around a well that would not abso-
lutely line up same. The only reason
then that the corporation commission
is going to boss the oil producer and
rofiner Is to build up a political ma
chine, and this they are doing at the
behest of the largest monopoly on
earth, who have lost control of the
situation in Oklahoma.
As soon as the corporation commits
sion undertakes to stop someone from
drilling on lease taken from Il farm
er who owns the land, there will be
trouble. The commission did not stop
drilling when oil was flush at Cush-
ing, and, if it had, Oklahoma oil pro-
ducers would now be getting about
go cents per barrel for their oil in
stead of $40 and the big premiums
most of them are getting.
The situation looks good to the poll
tician who would seek to further
hamper the oil man by rules and rcgu-
lations when, in fact, if the same poll
tlcian were to try to aid the industry
and build it up by taking off some
Of the tremendous taxes now paid by
the oil men and by defining some sort
Of lease form, it would be much bet
ter for all concerned.
There is no end to the nerve poliu-
clans in oklahoma have, and the only
way 10 Slop tnelr actlNlteS Is ny
federal Injunction, and right now. 1t
can be heard from at least one hun
dred large concerns that oklahoma
charters are going to be dropped inn
mediately and new charters under out
side states are to be taken i'm place
thereof. This win give them the pro-
lection of the federal courts, a mighty
good thing to have in these days Of
lease jumping and Of state intcrfer-
ence with the common rights of the
oil producers.
Now that war Is on, It would look
as tho the bunch at oklahoma City
would lay off of the oil men and al
low them TO contribute to the govern
ment of the United States instead of
paying taxes AT the rate of per cent
on the gross production, which tax
has piled up so much money that it
was finally appropriated by the legis-
lature with the consent of the gov
ernor, without even specifying the
amount, for good roads That is to
say, all that was left after building
all the institutions provided for by
the late legislature and every other