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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-04

Do you know of any company that started drilling five
days after their organization without waiting for the stock
be sold?
Have you heard of any company except OSAPLE-BURK
that has choice location in the proven Burkbunet
Field near flowing wells averaging from 1000 to $500
barrels of oil day9
OSAPLE-BURK is strictly an Ell Paso company. organ
lied and managed by of the leading business men
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-04

- AXE A LOOK at this
4 cut on the left, made
from an actual photograph
taken March 18th. It shows
the liquid gold" coming
from the Adams Gusher.
OSAPLE-BURK is only
$50 feet Qess than a city
block from this flowing
well.
Let us ask you these ques-
lions: Can anyone else
show you actual photo
graphs Of big producing
wells as NEAR as OS-
APLE-BURK2
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
SENDS TRAFFIC
Man To RELIEVE:
OIL CONGESTION
Daily Production of This Texas
Oil Field is Now $4,000
Barrels.

Assistant Superintendent G.. d..
Johnson of the Texas & Pacific rail
road is in Ranger this week, and
will spend a large part of the time
there from now on, in an effort to
solve the congestion problem, accord
ing to a report from Ranger.
Mr.. Johnson will give special at
tention to the handling of freight in
the local yards, and will try to expe-
dite the movement of freight into the
local yards and see that it is prop
erly handled there, and unloaded with
dispatch.
Announcement is made from Ran
ger that all plans are complete for
a new freight and passenger station
there for the Texas and Pacific The
The railroad company agrees to open
a $50 foot crossing at Main street,
a 60 foot crossing south of the new
station, and 40 foot crossing at the
Mid-kansas Oil & Gas company's Of
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
RECEIVERSHIP ASKED.

The Big Burk Oil company No.
2 is in trouble. The stockholders
have cooked up bunch Of grief for
Stonewall Brown, promoter. pres-
dent and trustee of the Big Burk No.
and number of other companies,
j. A. Ault and number of the
stockholders of Big Burk No. are
suing for receivership and alleging
Encouragement. 1t is claimed by
the stockholders that the company
brought in a 500 barrel we'll in Jan
uary of the present year and in
April a second we'll of 100 barrels
was brought in for the company. With
all of this production it seems tina
the company is not on very sub
stantial financial basis, according to
stockholders and they are wanting
some sort of satisfactory adjustment
made. A meeting of the STOCKHOLM
ers has been held.-Texas Oil Critic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
JUST ONE YEAR AGO FIRST WELL CAME IN AT
BURkBURNETT, AFTER DRILLERS HAD DESPAIRED
Enormous Fortunes Made in Field
Since Fowler Well Gushed Golden
Fluid on July g. 1918 ~

This, however, has been due to
"crookedness" on the part of the
companies, to encouragement and
to Instances where the enthusiasm of
promoters have carried them beyond
the line Of production with the re-
suit that "dry" holes have DEVELOPED.
500 Yields $4,000.
Altogether around one hundred
companies have paid dividends dur
ing the past year, some of them sew
eral times, the percentage ranging
from rs to 300. Companies in some
instances where the property and
production was sold out, have paid
very large returns. The Fowler COM
Ipany, which brought in the discovery
well, paid $4,000 for each 500 inves-
ted. The Marine Oil company stock
holders realized $175O on the 500.
while those who held stock in the
Burk- Waggoner we'll came cut with
S3,33333.333 on the hundred. Other
deals OF less magnitude have been
made and quite a few large transac-
tons are now pending.
All these results. however, have
not all come from the original town.
otoS Pooi' FhilCCilci ana All even more
extensive field has been opened sew
eral miles northwest of the town
which is larger in area, with wells of
greater capacity and producing a
higher gravity of oil. In fact the
limits of the new pool are not vet
defined to the north and west and
indications are that it will extend
across Red River into Oklahoma.
1t was in April of this year that the
Burk-Waggoner well, three thous-
| and barrel gushcr, came in four
miles from the productive western
limits of the townste pool, and in
TERRITORY that had been considered as
no good bv the wise ones. The Wag-
goner pool in less than three months
has outdistanced all other pools in
this section and the end is not yet in
sight. The wells in this field range
in size from 1000 to $500 barrels
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

|Ae FIFI \ HAS PROVED A REAL
| Fl DORADO SINCE FIRST CUSHER

Every we'll that had been drilled in
the immediate vicinity had proven a
failure.
But Fowler finally succumbed to
his wife's entreaties and organized
the company among his neighbors.
When the we'll was brought in a
gusher, there ensued wild scramble
for acreage and town lot drilling
campaign unequalled in history.
Acreage scared with the result that
tracts were subdivided into very
small parcels. Half a city block or
less was sufficient for the promotion
of company.
Hundreds of Rigs Up
Within very few weeks there
were hundreds of rigs at work and
the wells began to come in. Oil ex-
changes sprung into being until
Michita Falls, Fort Worth, Dallas
and other towns had each half a
Dozen
The "little fellows" had their in
ming in Burkburnett. 1t took from
$4,000 to $4,000 to drill we'll and
many of the wells paid for them
selves in few days. When the pay
ment of dividends begun, not only
Texas but many other states con-
tributed hordes of spectators.
A summary Of dividends paid be-
tween the discovery and May 1, 1919,
showed that seventy-one companies,
with total Capitalization of $2,999,-
900 had paid dividends aggregating
$7,458,650. This list, which is fairly
completely up to the time when new
discoveries to the northwest divert
ed attention from the townsite and
its immediate vicinity follows.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

daily, depending upon the depth to
which the sand is drilled or to the
proximity to the eastern and south
ern lines of production.
So abundant has been the product
ion in this section that the entire
capacity Of the pipe lines and the
shipping facilities have proven made
quate to handle the output and only
this month it was necessary to shut
down for a short period to permit
disposition of the accumulated sur
plus. Even now there are wells
ready for completion, which must be
delayed pending the erection of stor-
age tanks or pipe line connections.
Three Million Barrels Monthly.
The combined field is now produc-
ing more than 100000 barrels of oil
per day, or 100000 barrels month.
The oil, because of the high gravity,
has been selling at a premium, but
figured at the market price Of 1925
barrel, gives a monthly income to
the field Of $6,75000Q, or more than
80 millions year. This does not
take into consideration the millions
paid out for leases or the large sum
ISdiiHSu IIOIIl bIlt ItllHlIS liluuStIy
Several millions have been invested
in leases alone, a number of tran
sactions running into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Only the past
week G. G. Wood, one of the largest
local independent operators pur-
chased from j. B. Evans in Block S1S
in the edge of the Waggoner pool as
thus far defined, 40 acres for a con-
sideration of half million dollars.
Other transactions have been made
involving two and three hundred
thousand, while there are innumer-
able small deals ranging around five
to ten thousand dollars an acre.
There are at the present time ter
refineries operating in the county
with daily crude oil capacity OF
around $4,000 barrels, each of which
Continued on page two
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
TALKS OF
ARKANSAS OIL
POSSIBILITIES
Former Mayor of Little Rock
Believes Liquid Gold Under
Surface.

Little Rock, Aug. Former
Mayor Charles E. Taylor, who re-
tired in April-entirely voluntarily
as he did not seek re-election--has
been known for several years as an
advocate of the develop
ment in Arkansas of it's possibilities
as an oil producing state Since his
retirement from the office of mayor,
he has given much of his time to in
vestigating at first hand the resour-
ces of the state and has connection
with copanies, which have holdings in
the Burkburnett and other fields in
Texas. When asked by Graphic
Reporter his opinion of the possible
outcome of the extensive effort which
is now being made in Arkansas to
find oil, he said
Like all good citizens of Arkansas
am interested in the development of
the natural resources of the state.
Just now the minds of all seem to
be. centered on oil. Wonderful prog
ress is being made, new oil fields
being discovered, millions of dollars
from all parts of the country are
being invested and hundreds Of thous-
ands Of barrels of oil are flowing
daily from the oil wells of our neigh
boring states. Many people are
being made Independent and some are
becoming immensely rich because Of
this development of oil lands.
Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Okla
homa, Texas and other states around
us are experiencing an era of pros
perity caused by oil production, the
like of which has never been known
in the history of our nation
| believe--and my belief is based
on the reports of noted geologists--
that Arkansas has hidden in it's dark
underground vaults millions of bar
rels of this liquoid gold.
(Cont'cued on page two,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
FOWLER, FATHER or
|IrpKRI1RNETT, HAD
| FIRM FAITH.
| Tried to Raise Cattle
essfully, Then Turned to
| Drilling-Now
Rich.

|worth, Texas, Aug. Is. L.
I the f. father of the Burkbur-
III III is a firm believer in the
= compensation. For years
fbod farmed and had tried to
/ t t,de at the edge of the little
|r Te town Of Burkburnett:
suffered from drouths and
|orms. His business ventures
ed to pay more than a 'lvell-
BOWLER had an idea tn; + he
|be compensated for his losses
| hardships. His wife held to
1 more strongly than he did:
|lief led to the organization of
Eler Farm Oil company which
IN his holdings at the edge of
III and brought in the first
July rs, 1918.
Fowler pursued her belief in
Urine of compensation to the
4 certainty that the "compen-
was to be had through oil.
|eemed to be very little reason
I've that oil would be found on
Irm. There were dry holes to
Eth and others to the south.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

bpsorJ. Ill burkburnett.
n P,,i Gt fortunes had been
w W. ,nurrkburnett and of course
he 1 hea thousands there whom
fo raa missed. But MANY Of
tn .0 di their Compensation"
|had discovery of "New Burk.
Fiji b zen conceded that the town
hbla O9 eol had been the widest
| heroi or wealth in all history.
!. were new records to be
k-Wss,a,aatoe in April when the
m;lass well, five and one.
cons;l northwest of the townsite
hcatss ' ts to be in strictly
|ba,,,.,1t territory, came in for 3.
] sasas daily. There followed II
|HerrSSssslon the Golden Cvcle.
|nine uo on Of the Humble Oil &
\ Il. s"Um:nn.anv, the Hardin Ma
1lllland interests and !
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
$7,45s,650
s2,99e,OO0

number of others. All Of these wells
made better than $500 barrels. The
Texas Chief, brought in a little lat
err. was even larger.
From that time up to the present
big wells have been BROUGHT in almost
daily. The average production was
far above that of the TOWNSHIP wells.
Nearly 80 square miles of territory
has been proved up and there is no
indication whatever that the new pool
has been defined
Acreage Prices Soar.
and acreage prices across the river
in Oklahoma have scared. Several
deals have been closed for these Ok
lahoma lands at a price of $4,000 or
more per acre.
New locations have been made by
/. the score and it is estimated that
500 new wells in the field will be
So
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Continued on page two>
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Wont'cned on page two,
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Continued on page twO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
GOefhaIS
Approves

IT is proposed to drive this tunnel by the
use of a shield az feet in diameter-the
method most commonly employed in driving
subaqueous tunnels in soft materials The
material under the Hudson River is a soft
silt and sand, overlaid by still softer ma
terial of sewage origin, which is almost
mud complicated by the ledge rock which
is occasionally encountered In a shield
having diameter, of 26 feet there is diff
terence in pressure at the top and bottom
OF ten pounds per square foot This makes
1t difficult to guard against blow-outs and
other accidents caused by the difference in
pressure at the top and bottom of the shield.
The 42-foot shield which it is proposed tn
use for this tunnel will make the danger
rof accident proportionately greater. The
diameter of the shields used in driving the
Hudson tunnel was II feet: that of tho
Pennsylvania tunnel shield % feet inches.
the largest ever used under either the Hud-
son or the East River.
The project has received the approval Of
General George w. Goethals, who linked the
Atlantic and Pacific with water. Two wears
and s11,500,000 would make the proposed
yehicular tunnel an actually, he said re-
Gently.
; "A question which has been brought up
IN connection with, vehicular tunnels for
motor driven vehicles which should be con-
sidered,7 said General Goethals in a report
submitted to the New York and New Jersey
hudson River bridge and tunnel commits
sions, "since it has been asserted that
such tunnels arc not practicable, IL based
on The belief that, carbon monoxide will
DC present in dangerous quantities. The
'ns'dions effects OF tho poisonous gases are
not 70 be deprecated The fact remains.
however, that motor vehicles operate
through the tunnels under tho Thames
River without disastrous results, and these
have no artificial ventilation That tho
tunnels tn question have not the length
Of the proposed Hudson tunnel In scarcely
valid objection, since by ventilation the
sections OF tho formsr can be duplicated In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

plains, "but generally heard that it
points to widespread state of mind A
harmless way Of thinking, it seems, but is
it? In the first place. it's dangerous reason
ing, because in many cases it's untrue.
Physically, is man benefited by weeks of
living in filthy, kneedcep mud, by the strain
of twelve, fifteen twentyfour hours of
eXerton day, by the nervous shock of
mine and she'll, by being gassed? Mentally,
is he made more efficient by being reduced
to q brainless cog IN the wheel, or more
sensitive to the finer things in life by
months of monotony of camp routine, and
by the squalor and filth of the trenches,
with neither time nor any but a rare OPP
portunity for keeping up his acquaintance
with books and friends? Morally, is a man
better fitted to live among men when he has
graduated from the most thorough college
in the world-wherc a human being learns
to look complacentlN at death in its most
hideous forms, and the life of man isn't
worth the snap Of finger? We have been
struggling up through years to an ever
Higher Standard of Living' to plunge a
man back into the life of savage is far
from comforting a blessing upon him. Ask
the soldier himself"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

roofs Of Breuilles, it was sometimes COM
forting to think Of that dugout's proximity.
Shells of various dimensions, ranging from
the II to the $50, passing in the majestic
curve of their trajectory, used to drop in
those woods with lively detonations. Some
times you would think that the German re-
membered the snug little building, with is
boardwalks and rustic.steps. and, remember
ing, resented our Intrusion. If you cared
for exercise, brisk walk up one of the
twisting little byways would bring you to
the northern edge of the trees to pleasing.
rolling bit of ground, ending at the hill,
from which you could see Breuilles in arts
tlc panorama. You could often get to the
top of the hill without much difficulty, pro-
vlded you were careful not to let your head
appear above the crest. Sometimes a straw
shell or so would splash. up brown earth
from the greensward, but aside from the
noise of the artillery it was a quiet place.
When you stop to look back on it, those
were the good old times''-the evening by
the stove in the neatly walled dining room,
with cup of black coffee and piece of
camoufaged salt beef; the lively rush for
the gas masks when the motor horns rent
the welkln; the uncertain Journeys through
.underbrush the, late afternoons, when the
leaves were yellow. in the slant autumnal
sunshine, and you ploughed knee deep in
mud to a pencil point the colonel had marked
on the map. Strangely enough, the stark
horror and the dread is gone-from most
of it. When you look hack on them, those
interminable. night marches, when you
hoped that each turn in the road would lead
q n Ia 70 tub orsoT Itr1o
termined you SHOULD spend the day in con-
cealment, even those had a certain pict-
uresqueness. 3 Being a simple life, it
took surprisingly little to please you. 1t
may even be this simplicity that makes the
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past peculiarly appealing among the
plications that we plunged into so gladly
when stopped off the Hoboken
pier In the midst of puzzling whether
to buy a pink tie a green one, a soft
collar or stiff one, gray coat some
thing in blue serge, there comes subcon-
scious thought that perhaps it isn't worth
while after all. Is it possible that we gently
begrudge ourselves the time when we had
only one suit of clothes and didn't care par
ticularly whether we had mud on it or
not? Can it be that the irregular cadence of
artillery is refreshing to think of after a
serenade of automobiles, hand organs and
concrete mixers? Perhaps not; but just the
same, once called it "hell of a war;"
and now we think of it with affection or
something close to it. A strange contradict
tion it is-just as hard to reconcile as somc
selections from the speeches our su-
periors made before and after. After all,
they tell you, it was wonderful expert
ence.
Yet bark to the 90. J. r." who has gone
so far as to express himself in forceful
phrase in third of q column Of "The New
Republic" Regarding that stuff about the
experience: "a trivial expression" he OK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
No Danger i'm
Lack of AR

However, there can be no question apeSs
the use of the tunnel for vehlcular traH'
after it is completed. Lack of ventiiasi0s
is the only objection which could be raised.
The Blackwell tunnel, between Tilhury SUI
Gravesend in London, was opened IN iss'
to vehicular and pedestrian traffic and pss
been in use ever since. It's total length =
6,2o0 feet, of which 1900 feet is under sas
Thames. 1t has not been necessary 70 -.
sort to artificial ventilation. The natu,s'
ventilation through tho tunnel and w
shafts has been ample TO keep the -
sufficiently pure"
The distance between the veasilsuus
shafts on the proposed tunnel is about o'svs
feet.
Notwithstanding the difficulties, ND
Schaeffer believes that the use of the tuH,
mel Is perfectly feasible and that there ness
be no hesitation about undertaking its coz
struction from that point of view. In GU.
GLIDING, however, he recommends that Ne1.
plans, specifications and estimates for sv's
n tunnel be approved by n COMMITTEES IS IS
competent engineers before coatrass 81
awarded for construction.
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had at least the advantage of demonstrate
ing how many super1uous conveniences are
wrapped around the Standard. Even our
miitaristic critic admits it was q univer-
sity, or rather a college.
Only few, think, learned to look COM
placently at death. The cheapness of life
added a certain value to living which
wrought life into a higher standard Not
many who stepped out of the smoke barrage
returned home Abysmal Brutes. Nor was
this phenomenon entirely due to the nom
combatant organizations which labored to
bolster up morale. In the curriculum of
the war itself were varied courses in re-
spect, sympathy and consideration for
others. Ask the soldier himself if there
weren't.
Yes, we, the cogs in the autocratic military
machine, have grumbled at our lot, since
grumbling is always enjoyable occupa
ton. We have cursed the unfairness of it;
we have gossiped about the regulations; we
have complained of our food, our officers,
our quarters, our military justice. SYM
pathetic publications have flung open their
columns to the river of plants, and the
river still flows on. Naturally enough some
one who hasn't been over (and possibly
wouldn't have wanted to very much, any
way) drops the paper with comforted sigh.
"Well," he says, 81 guess those soldiers
have had enough of it. Catch them fighting
in another war!"
And here is the funny part of the whole
business. Suppose there was another wsr
tomorrow. Suppose they wanted that dis
banded army again, the army which is re-
joicing in its freedom of action and its
freedom of speech, the army that is thank
ing its lucky stars that all that is finished.
Would they join Up again, knowing the life
as they do, the dull routine, the reduction
to branlessness, the immnence Of death,
the fetid squalor? Mind you, their eyes
have been opened; they know, or ought to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

Well, suppose you do ask him. I don't
think he would give the answer that 80. J.
f." expects, unless he is bewildered by that
Higher Standards
"That guy was never over" he would say
and let it go at that Say what you want
about it, the soldier feels that the war is
peculiarly his own. He is apt to resent
criticism from an outsider as might be ex-
petted from one who has been "a brainless
cog' for SO long. Narrow mindedly, per-
haps, he believes that he knows more about
1T than the ones who never spent night in
the trenches. His point of view is regretta-
bly, BIASED.
he did learn little over on the other
side, in spite of the absence of books or
time to read them. He learned that at
times other things more important than
personality. There was forttude out there
in that squaor; he learned it with the mud
as his book instead OF tract on social
duty. He learned it WE'LL he learned it
quickly. He profited also by frequent ex-
amples of generosity and sacrifice that the
occasion manufactured more readily than it
was fabricated in the regions of the Higher
Standard The Life of Savage, the exist
ence on the marge of the Slough Of Despond,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

vehicles, would provide ample capacity fore
number of years.
Should additional tunnels be required, il
would be advantageous to locate them ss
different points This would provide direct
routes between certain points and cause less
vehlcuiar congestion at the approaches than
II the entrances and exits were all located
at the same point. In fact, greater distrbu-
ton of traffic would be made with smaller
tunnels. If each tunnel were used ex'
clusively for one-way traffic they could be
located at different streets, so that there
would be no interference between traiDo
moving IN opposite directions and the corr
centration of traffic would be less.
THE structural uncertainties of the new
features cast an equal uncertainty upon the
cost. Three tunnels, providing capacity
Tor six lines of traffic. constructed by the
ordinary shield method and lined with CAST
iron segments, would probably cost 30 per
cent more than the estimated cost of the
proposed tunnel.
Should the proposed method not be sue.
cessful it would require the beginning Of
the work all over again, with the loss OF
time and money expended on the plan pro-
posed.