The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-09

HIS plNttlS' HlduN III p4lN VI 'l'N
oped, leaving with our boys, who are
things which induced the making
OF the contract.
Big Companies Come In.
After the Gainesville refinery
demonstrated conclusiyely that the
Healdton oil was good for refining,
and after the producers demonstra-
ted that there was plenty OF oil un-
der the red beds, the big corpora
tions, or most OF hem, went in.
And they have stayed in all the time
and are there now. With the pos
sible exception OF the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company there is not
big concern engaged in the oil in
duStry in Oklahoma which has not
invested in Healdton production.
The Carter Oil Company, the Gyp-
sy Oil Company, the Magnolia Pc
troleum Company, Ohio Cities Gas
Company, Empire Gas and Fuel
Company, Cosden Oil and Gas Com
pany, Sinclair Oil and Gas Com
pany, Atlantic Petroleum Corpora
ton, Producers Oil Company, all
of them are right on the job and
they have faith in the future OF
Healdton just as they doubted in
the beginning that the district would
ever amount to much.
And now HealdtonI has the pipe
lines to Texas and north to Gushing
and around and it is going to have
shortly one OF the biggest lines in
the state to carry the oil all the way
to New York harbor and Point
Breeze and Baltimore without a
break, carrying it to the great lakes
and across half a dozen mountain
ranges. Within less than a year
Healdton will be as well hooked up,
so far as transportation facilities
are concerned, as any district in the
field. And it will have a market
for every barrel OF oil produced.
| but DuIeTenIldl NeIlldlnS.
Still, with all the mutations of the
industry, with all Of the pipe lines
building, with all of the develop
ment which has gone on during
the past six or seven years, with all
of the tests that have been made and
all of the testimonials that have been
given as to the rehnable value OF
Healdton oil, that differential of sc
cents a barrel, like the laws of the
Medes and PersianS, remains un-
changed and apparently unchange-
able "We must stimulate produc-
ton" cry some of those who are
afraid to go to bed at night because
they wake up in the morning to fine
a shortage in oil. I'VE need higher
prices il the government is going tC
get enough oil to win this war; de
clares another element which is al
ways dissatisfied with marketing
conditions. Yet there is Healdtor
producing more oil right at thi'
minute by 5000 good barrels da!
and nobody ever asks why it is tina
-, they do not try to stimulate produc
tion around Healdton by an adjust
ment in prices which, if it did no
entirely obliterate the ditferential
-. would at least remove a part o
the burden which Healdton ha
, , been carrying uncomplainingly 70
all of this time. Why not rails
/ Healdton to the place of Electrt
= and other Texas towns just acros
- the river which are getting 81 TO
n their oil
-. Differdatials are hard to get ri,
of. Like death and taxes they ar
. almost always with us. And the
are always regarded with a sort o
Superstitious reverence by the un
initiated. For instance, the investo
. in the east or north, when he look
i at the prices of oils and finds tina
with the exception of Corsican
heavy Healdton oil is the cheapes
in the United States, east of tn
! Rocky mountains, is almost sur
/ to get the idea firmly in his hea
y that the only reason for such
II condition is that Healdton oil
a the least desirable product in tn
II country. That was one of the steer
h est hills which the Healdton boost
n ers have had to climb, but the
e have even got over that one an
n are now on the level ground wher
< the going is better. Except thu