Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-22
OIL MAnKnr ouoTArioNs
Welcome to
our CitU.

Tulsa extends rouuHo welcome
10 the oil administrator aud h.
party, and here Us hoping That NI
kequa can take tho uUe and ihr
trouble TO look us over and TO sis,t
an tho refining CcuJors Ia the midi
continent Held.
Mr. RcCul ussy find a widely d.
ycwlfied sentiment but hc Will also
find. N no Is looking for IT, tine real
reason that nCtuafp4 the TCUu"T Don
taking "A strong position for th.nHs
MS thCy arc. rather than Go accept
the suggestion that thrip i7 T.r.
gcctly obvious condition rcg..rr.
Immediate action
MB O'Donnel should find things
60 hts liking. as the vast fields u
northern Texas and ln Southwestern
oklahoma are being developed with
great speed ana are promiB,ng more
oil within sixty days than can hs
taken care ot by the pipe lines now
building
Mr. Bedford. who can with hIs
vast power help or hinder the sit-
uation. Is also welcome and he can
tell us in "A word why papers Ike
the Oil. Paint and Drug Reporter
having correspondents I'm all fields
are loudly pruClaiminE tnat there rs
absolutely no need OF government
control OF the oil business
MIR. Bedford is 80 big as TO have
n broad view "sumethiug we are not
credited with hero, but great dcal
depends on what he may say lA
talking TO the oil producers. rItln-
crs and mhrkctCrs. all OF whom
give him credit for patriotism, ana
Yet contend that We should be lett
alone
The gentlemen will find the altuo-
ton so much better hero than t''r-
where. although for months ih'io
has bean no information given "n'
AS TO the production or the on "'
storage that goes into the pipe iih'H'
and no accurate account nus "'
Kent Of the drilling Of Wells Nh'
II ever there was time WH'n ''.',,
information was ahaoiu''y H''"'''
A, c5I1pored with California tho
.t,,.tto, hero is q thoU7undioid id
h.,trr +, is far bottcr than on inc
.,Is co,gf nm ruite Of an the prunr
10 D,at ,,a Rave to contend WITH
"a q, srIfa gf the fact that guh".
',,a ts selling pt lcss money tan
.r, other commodity on tafh Hn'
,bc sifuatiou aid not even bthlu III,
look bad until We were threatened
Nh the rrop1auon that there IS "a
"r.nrsstion az rotincTs In the mld-
continent Cleld.
Thero are many Of these rcitner-
les that are shut down and many
have never started, but IL has come
from natural causes and uuul the
agitation for \ gravity basis In pur-
chasing oil, there was no Kick COM
ing TO any man.
surely there must be a plan that
can be worked out that leaves tho
OH producer and refiner 10 work
out each his own salvation. and TO
add as best he may TO the supply OF
refined and. most Of all, TO the sup
ply OF fuol oil.
u is not a time 10 put Into effect
theories that viii hurt tho 4ittle
fellow. not now. with tho big fields
IN sight and all waiting for "a mar
kCt.
Mr.. Rcuua's latest speech follows
II ia hopod he changes his own
viewpoint after seeing the great in
dustry that has been built up here.
We are confronted with a per
fectlv ohvious condition requiring
Immediate action. II may he en-
urey pussibla that We are In the
future going 10 undertake some
very much moro drastic measures.
Certainly wa shall II this war lasts
INrE enough. National necessity