The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-12-21
WILL.
SOOTHE: OIL
MEN
Worlds Oil Center Will
Shift From Mexico to
Russian Territory, Accord
ing to Capitalist.
By HELEN ATGUR.

Staff Correspondent Federated Press.
New York, Dec. 81 ITO American
Oil men stung with fury at Mexico s
rumored favoritism to British oil
interests. comes Washington D. Van
dcrl.p with healing balm. The world s
center OF gravity may shift from
Tampico to Baku, and the war which
lis to be waged between Great Brit
ain and the United States for the
worlds Oil and the mastery OF the
worlds seas, with one swoop has
taken in the Far East and tho Black
sea.
I-enine started something when he
granted to Vanderlip's western CAPT
talists exploitation rights i'll Siberia
Leninc knew that Edward l.. Do
heny, Americas veteran oil pros
pector and lord Of the Tampico oil
fields, was 'grub-staking Wander
lip. Lenine knew that the terrify-
ig scope of America oil competition
with Great Britain was driving closer
panies and the Standard Oil, and
that soon there will be only two vast
companies squabbling oyer the body
Of the world--the Royal Dutch Shell
BRITISH and the Doheny.
!, Rockefeller interests.
Lenine has the most precious com.
modify in the World----oif. In Kan.
I chatka aand the Saghalien island
there are rich oil deposits. Japan and
Great Britain have been doing dark
land desperate things to get that ell
Lenine turned it over 10 America.
From rich Baku and Batoum, de-
velored by French and British
money, Oil is gushing. Conquered and
nationalized by the Soviet govern
.ment, millions Of poods Of petroleum
are being taken out Of Baku every
month and piped up to Moscow. Brit
ish ships hover wistfully in the Black
jsea and British hopes circle around
the great oil tanks like plaintivo
birds. But the OIL goes up the Volgs
| to Moscow.
1. Lenine has told Vanderlip that il
this barter game Russia proposes Il
| buy from America every year $ l.,
| 600, 100000 worth OF harvester ma
chimes and printing presses ant
sacks and iodine. She viii pay fo
them with riches from her soil. Sh'
will send to American tankers oi
| from Ballu.
|, Edward Doheny's Oil tankers
laden with petroleum British capita
/ developed, can sWagger past Britisl
mcn-of-War in the Dardanelles, up t.
! Havre, where q pipe line has alreaa
/ been laid TO Paris, and where TIL
! Standard Oil has made an allanc
with French banking interests. Rus
4 sian oil can be made TO will Amerl
cas- large foreign contracts, leavin
Mexican oil for domestic consuml
ton.
Kan chatka Oil may soothe the de:
perate irritation with which our o
men received the news that Provi.
ional President de la Huerta spel
tho. last hours OF his administratio
in giving away Mexican, Oil lands
| friends, who i'll turn sold them
British and Dutch interests. DE L
Huerta federallZed zones 10 mctei
wide on each side of rivers, navigab
and unnavigable, VIC are told by 4
unidentified but indignant "officl
source" in Washington. American
with oil fields in Mexico claim tll;
by this arrangement a, friend of
La Huerta's g. armed with FEEDER
! drilling concession" drilling in Il
J federal zone can tap rich oil pools
the adjoining American oil fields.