The Holbrook news., 1918-12-13
SOphOcles Continues
 His Investigations


 lation to Hetty Green when
 tell yu that after digestin' Ma
 jor's report there wasn't any
 more doubt in my mind as tc
 what I was agoin' to do than
 there is Bill Bryan's when he is
 asked to take the nominashun,
 and even feelin' hathaway about it I perceeds to assimilate even more infermashun seein' there's
 no chance to charge fer excess baggage.
 Havin' been in Goldfield an
 Tonopaw an some few other
 camps at the time they was
 malin' their bid fer "place in
 the sum-, as me friend King ud
 say, and havin' watched tn fin
 ished and effective practices O
 some O. tn gradooate Angelenos
 1 was tellin' yu about, I decides
 thet while a money belt might
 be all right, still I'd better git
 acquainted with the cashier O
 one uv the banks.
 So 1 goes over an after provin' that the name 1 uses now is real Iy tn one the glued on with
 Holy water and belongs exclus- i've to me, I deposits my roll. Knowin' that tn average bank CT is some conservative in boost in. investments I kinda starts ths conversation pintin' toward tn oil field, havin' the same con- fidence in his suggestions as I'd have in askin' a cop where's a safe place to stay in tn city.
 @Yes sir," sezzee, cordial like, we believe we have one of the largest oil fields in the country right at our door and the banks are doing all they legitimately can to foster the wonderful in- terest that has been aroused. We believe thoroughly that sue cessful development is not only possible, but more than proba- ble." Kinda high brow talk, but, as I've told yu, I'm eddicated an I assimilated all the gent eluci- dated. Con1in' right back, like me old friend Nat Goodwin, an willin' to hook up agin, sez, sWell, Mister, kinda felt thatta waS asou5 it myself an bein Q stranger hereabouts Pm kinda absorbin' all the infermashun 1 can. Now mabee yu can tell me whut is a causin yure smilin' confidence" Certainly, sezzee, wipin' his specks on a twenty dollar bill, For many years back there has been talk of this being an oil country although nothing was done to prove the belief. The recent dropping off of some of the older fields, the growing de mand for oil and the high place and price of this commodity"
 1'm tellin' it like he sed it even if 'tis wors'n muckin' to do the job) awakened the citizens of this community to the opportun- ity they had so long neglected and brought others who had known of the evident indica- tions. The initial evidence was so good that money was raised to hire the service of Biologists Major and Hager by different interests. These gentlemen stand high in their profession. Their reports were such as to encourage immediate activity, and taken in conjunction" q'm glad I don't have to spiel this) l "with what was formerly known of the field was conclusive evil dence that development was more than justified. It was found that the formation was what is known as the Pennsyl- vania Formation in which the largest and most profitable oil deposits have always been dis that there is an i'm mense drainage area and that the formation is sealed. In ad- dition to this, the local indica- tions which the layman may ac- tually sec" Right here, when I'm hard put to it to put all this cargo aboard and gaspin' for breath like, a gent comes in an interrupts m friend tn cashier, givin' me quite a breathin' spell. After tn gent had gone the conversashun is resoomed. "As was sayin' when inter sezzee, ''the indications that you can see for yourself | are quite interesting. For in stance there is a water well not far from town that has contin- ual scum of oil on the water and | when this well is pumped the oil increases to a very noticeable extent, indicating that as some Assure is relieved of the water the oil follows it into the well. There is no doubt as to it's being oil as it has been carefully anal yzed more than once.
 e ftoT. the initial endorsement |