Bisbee daily review., 1920-04-04

whatever l undertake l carlS, through
 It is equally well known that the Abner
 Davis Plan means giving every investor all the value his dollars will acquire and that is all any mans dollar can do. UNAAMPERED
 l make no definite promise in advance.
 get no certain goal to be reached. place
 no limits upon my activities and field of action because limitations only hinder and hamper and make it hard to succeed. ON THE GROUND FLOOR If you are going into the oil business you must depend upon someone. When you join hands and dollars with me you have but one to depend upon. l have no | loopholes and will never try to shift re- sponsibility. You can take me at my
 word. play the game with me as on men 1 play it on honor and on the ground floor. EARLY EDUCATION
 l know the value of a dollar as well as any man who ever lived. l was born up- on poor Virginia farm at time when
 s10 per month was the highest price paid ! for farm labor. I received my only book 1 learning in a log school house where split logs were used for benches. and that was before the days of benches with
 backs, or country schools with desks. HE MADE GOOD
 1 have since sat in councils of finance and have rubbed shoulders with the men of millions. I have dined with the fdle l rich and danced with danes clad in silks.
 en from the bucket of the grub stake
 and if had the power to say to Time. i Turn back the hand of the clock of life ! let me have my life over again." would 1 say to the Fairy Queen. Transport me ! back to the farm. Let me wade in the 1 babbling brook and smell the new mown
 hay" l would dance with childhood's s | blushing maidens in the G;ngham and
 home made shoes. ready at any time to
 meet the great beyond. happy in at least
 one friendship. that of a faithful dog. | rather than suffer the disappointment in
 men that have met on earth. and these are things that make me want to work | and harvest natures hountiful gifts that l I may help make the path easier for , md that honor vet lives. even though
 it is most often found under the shirt of
 the poor. So if can die with the right | to have carved upon q simple slab Of
 stone the words. He made good" shall | feel that I have left to my children tho l proudest heritage possible to bestow. i ABNER DAVIS. | Getting in at the right time is almost
 as important as getting a the right place.
 l got into the Pecos oil country very early l in the game after 1t looked almost sure 9 well would be brough in. I feel confi l dent from what I have actually seen and | rom all investigation that this is the i right place for big profits from leases 1 secured at the right time and at the | right price and also for big profit from
 wells to be drilled and consequently
 from the refinery business as wall as the | I0thar angles of the oil game.
 1
 large holdings well scattered and there | lore play the game as all the big opera tors play it. yet on q comparatively small
 roeh outlay.
 THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO WIN AND WIN BIG IN OIL The following may be taken ns the summary of Whats What" from the standnoint Of the experienced oil man. oil well driller. lease developer. refiner and
 all round pioneer in the oil business with years Of costly vet valusbl" experience that believe enables me to work with
 almost certainty of wonderfully profita- bln resnlta
 Fortunes are actually made in many in stances over night. Rnt my e~perinnce is that fortune comes after a great deal Of hard work and from months and even years of preparation. bv getting leases scattered where many other people are drilling. thereby helping to develop your property and while it is true the actual fortune is usually made. at least brought into being overnight. or in a day. there were many days or weeks between the time the money was invested and the time the fortune began flowing in oil. You understand I feel that have made a success and it was done by hard work-not good mck-it was the result of years of hard work and then capital- izinE actual expriencc Snd bringing enough neople to my sunDort to keep me going all these years. II is almost cer- tain that every dollAr my friends raised and let me use the first year of my oil career was wasted. larGely from lack of eynerience and knowledge of the game. Tho money these friends and the pub lie furnished me the second year was very largely lost through drilling opera tiors that were not well managed. The third year Negan to feel the handicap under which I was working.
 trying to do big things with little mon
 ey and consequently the overhead eN- persa was eating up the business. I have but one excuse to offer for
 three years of poor results:
 LACK OF EXPERIENCE
 have but one thing to thank now for later success: The truth. Even though I did not have the eNper'enc" in oil that would enable me to get the best
 results. had gone through the school tof experience far enough to know the - lru