Weekly journal-miner., 1918-03-27
PUBLIC IS GIVEN RUN FOR IFS
 COLD CASH
UNITED CHINO HAS STAN DARD RIG AND IS NOW DRILLING FOR OIL ON ITS HOLDINGS WEST OF PUNTENNEY.
(From Sundays Dailv)

The ordinary man knows little about oil, even when it is in a can, and much less when he Is taken to an oil field and shown the indica- tions on the surface which point to the presence of the valuable fluid down several thousand feet in the earth. Such a situation is also Greek to a ncwspapcrman, and he is pre- sumcd to know a little about almost every subject under the sun.
 Like great many other things one must rely on the testimony oi experts and be guided by their ad vice When a man is sued or wants to sue. he goes to lawyer, not a carpenter, and when sick he seeks the physician, not a plastcrcr, in the hope that this man of science can prescribe a remedy which will effect cure of his ills. So if one is seized with desire to dabblc in oil or oil stocks he naturally first turns 10 the gcologiSt. the man who has studied the freaks that Nature has indulged in since the day of creations dawn and can predict with some assurance and certainty what can be found hid den in the dark rcccsses of the earth, and listens to what he has to say. Sometimes these earth doctors arc wrong in their diagnoses but their advice must be followed and more often is productive of results than otherwise. Such men as Dr. Etiennc Ritter has said there is oil in Chino valley and has advised going after it.
 Then the next safe step for the in, vcstor is to look into the personnel of the company followed by a close scrutiny of the manner in which the money. gathered from the pockets of the public, is being spent by it. The first vital point IS to ascertain whether or not the company has sufficient funds or prospects of them to carry its proposed exploration to a definite determination.
 All the above is preliminary to the tact that the United Chino Oil Com Dany on last Monday took a party of Prescott people to its holdings and 7howed them just what is being done there. It was not a stock-selling scheme. but more of an cxcmpliiica- ton of the old Biblical saving oi faith backed by works" \ dele gation from Phoenix, including two members of the corporation commis- ,ion. Messrs. Bctts and Cole, and Secretary Sam Proctor, also came and was shown"
 The Chino organization is going lbout its business in a way which ,hows good faith with the public \ ,tandard rig. substantial in every de-
 ail and equipped with all the neces- sary tools to penetrate the ground Or several thousand feet, Is in opera ion, spudding in having taken place 'ast Sunday
 The visitors were taken over the ground. shown the gas blowout and
 treated to an interesting discourse ,n anti-clincs. Of course those who had made a study of such things could understand, but it was inter sting to those not in the know" ;ust the same and convinced them hat the Chino Is not lon a fools 7rrand." The main thing, however, was the convincing evidence right on the spot that the Chino iS giving its stockholders a run for their money and ''totiug" square with the public and that is all anyone can ask ,ithcr in the mining. oil and other games whose success are dependent 70 q large degree upon chance.
 Amohg those guests of the man. agcmcnt upon this occasion were: Corporation Commissioners Bctts and Cole: Secretary Sam W. Proctor, City Commissioner George \. Nc Gcan. Fred H. Larsen. attorney; R \. Watkins and Craig Pottingcr of he Arizona Mining Journal, W. N. l.azcnby, office manager of the com. uany, all of Phoenix: N. E. Hazel. inc, Ed Block, D. II. Bilcs, w. A.. Drake. K. N Buchlcr, Miss Grace NJ. Sparkcs and representatives of the Journal-Mincr and Navapai, of Pres. ! cott