The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-10
You
Should Know

What do on know about OIL. Gasoline
and Petroleum.
The Oh business is divided into four
distinct hranches-produeina, refining,
Transporting and marketing.
Do you know that the consumption Of
Gasoline. Kerosene and the many BY
Products Of Petroleum exceeds the pro-
duction Of Crude Oil. therefore making
the Oil business an attractive money
making business2
DO you know that more men are de-
voting their time, energy and money to
the oil business today than In any
other line of industry
Do you know that more men are be-
coming wealthy and fewer men are go
ing broke In the on business than In
any other Industry
Do you know that the reason for this
Is that when Il Company brings in a
well hat Is a gusher and make mil
lions over night, that they have added
10 the nations wealth and no man has
been made poor by reason of their
making millions? This is practically the
only business in which wealth al and
Is rapidly accumulated by n man
without being another mans loss,
DO you know that the greatest OIL
fields in the world today ara IN West
Texas, and that twelve months ago
West Texas was drouth- strlcken-her
farmers were unable to meet their
debts or hold their cattle, then on was
found at Burkburnett and Ranger, aud
today oil leases are selling at from
$500 to S25, 600 an acre where the fee 70
$4,000?
DO you know that millions are being
paid to men who a few months ago
could not pay the mortgage on their
farm? You "A now drive for two hun
dred miles In West Texas and never be
out OF sight Of an OH derrick,
DO you know that the West Texas on
Field IN the small Investors opportu.
nifty; the stringent corporation laws and
antitrust laws Of the state Of Texas
keep the big Companies and the COM
hines from controlling the situation
William G. Steffey, the house fur
nisher,' has just returned from the
Army service with the following mes
Il have been over the Texas OH fields
and know the above statements to be
true"
/ attended the second officers train
Ing camp at Fort 0glethOrpc, Georgia,
and was there commissioned n licutcn-
ant. remaining in the service until a
short time ago, when ! received my dis
charge at Fort Sill, OKLA, near the
Texas line, ! carefully investigated the
new Texas OIL fields and saw for my
self. | found that almost every one IN
Texas and Southern oklahoma were
making none in the oil business, and
! wanted TO get In, too, so | IN
v~estlgated q large number OF CONF
panies, their officers, their proper
ties and their manner Of dong
business, and among the companies
| Investigated was the Federal on
q Refining Company. This company
Is operating in Oklahoma and Texas
with offices at $50 Liberty Nalional
Bank Building, Oklahoma city, OKLA,
and col Main Street. Fort Worth. Texas
They are operating one Refinery at
Cushing, Okla, and are now ConKtruCt-
ing a large refinery at Fort Worth,
Texas. This Refinery is what Is known
Kerosene, Gas oil, luhricating on,
Parafine Wax and Coke, They will
build n Refinery In the Burkhurnett
: Field and one In the Ranger, Texas,
Field. These plants making Gasoline
to the Fort Worth plant TO be refined
into LubriCatlng oil, Parafine Wax and
Coke, The plant at Fort Worth VIII
own its W trackage to accommodate
150 tank cars, They own AIS acres OF
very valuable Oil leases In the Texas
field, will produce their own on; own
their own gathering lines and tank CarS,
handling the on business from the welt
10 the consumer. This Company Is not
an experiment, hut Is a going concern
now making money, and managed by
men Of experience IN tile OH business.
became acquainted on this trip
with Judge II. b.. Welty, its President
and General Manager, aud made u
lltibhkh llNtHAlbd ltoi " NNiA 10 w lA'
integrity and ability in this line of
business, and from this lnVestigatton'
found him capable and honest, there
fore I am satisfied that the Federal
OH & Refining Company Is one Of the
safest, most reliable, money making
companies now operating in Texas,
have become interested IN this COM
pany, and after becoming Interested,
prevailed upon Judge Welty 70 come to
Memphis and spend last Thursday and
lsrl1gp mttb ma NN{th thu pRNult thaf
the Company expects TO open a dis
tributing office here, and have given me
a contract to sell a limited amount of
tho capital stock at par, $1,000 pei
share, and I am going "a offer 1t TO my
friends because | believe In IL.
In the past | have sold YOU house
furnishings and gave YOU your moneys
worth. now | want to sell YOU Fedora
OIL a. Refining Company stock, which
know to be worth the money, and be
liovd II to be the best Investment on.
p~ortunity you have ever had, II 70,
want further Information about tht'
Company and its President. write Chic
Justice Sharp, supreme Court Of okla
homa. oklahoma city, Okla Liberty
National Bank, or the Guaranty Bank
of Oklahoma City. okla. First Nationa
Bank. of Cushing, Okla the Chambc.
Of Commerce, the First National Bank
the f. a NJ. Bank, or the Fort Wortl
oil Exchange, all Of Fort Worth, Texas
the Bradstreet Company, or r. g, pui
Company. viii be for the next tel
days at Room 265, Peabody Hotel, /
YOU are interested, write, phone or CONT
and see me, II you do not have III,
time to write, phone or come, just III
out the following application for an,
amount you want from 5000 to $4,000
and mail 10 me with your check, or
you prefer you may mail direct to tn,
Compauy's office at Col Main street
Fort Worth. Texas. and your ccrtiticat
of stock will be mailed to YOU direct.
can use a few live statesmen, boil
ladies and gentlemen. Call and SEQ m
and talk the matter over,
WM. G. STlGFFEY,
Room 255, Peabody Hotel, Memphis
Tenn,