Arizona republican., 1920-04-04

money and consequently the overhead expense was eating up the business.
 1 have but one excuse to offer for
 LACK OF EXPERIENCE
 I have but one think to thank now for later successes: The truth. Even though I did not have the experience in oil that would enable me to get the best results. I had gone through the school of experience far enough to deal. I always endeavored to tell the truth to those thousands of people who were backing me with their sav- ings and they stuck with me.
 LONG TIME TO GAMBLE
 The fourth year began to show inn provement I learned many things, my friends learned that they could rely upon me and they stuck with me. I at last had enough packers, true blue packers from every state in the United States and from the islands of the seas and foreign continents as well.
 Truth is the foundation upon which the world itself is built. The laws of average are the basis upon which all business undertakings must depend for success.
 Working honestly and diligently with never thought of quitting until re- suits had crowned my effort, knowing that l was firmly established upon the one solid foundation of truth, and having learned the business lessons, proving the unfailing laws of average as absolutely dependable the only thing I had to do was to keep myself nerved up to the point where I could keep on going. This was accomplished by the thousands of knockers who were all the time predicting failure for me and that the next week would be my last.
 This was the force in nature which kept my mental and physical dynarnos going at full speed for these four years and even when my brain Jagged and eighteen to twenty hours daily toll was telling upon me. physically. I could always look back and see the thousands of poor devils like myself who had tried to better their corldi- tions with their hard earned dollars through their confidence in me and upon my word. that would again stick with them and win for them
 If you want to test a man. put him to the test on his honor. if you want to make him fight all the harder, uues- uon his good faith, if you want to make him unconquerable, uncork the vials Of calumny and start wagging the vile tongues of his opponents. " hen you do, there springs up around him that source of power supplied by nature to man. Courage and deter whcih when fed by that important fountain of power, confidence from his supporters, there IS nothing on earth that can chain down or prevent success for the man with an understanding of the power of truth and the knowledge of the certainty Of the workings of the law | of averages and nature
 LAST OPPORTUNITY |
 Geology has been a study for scien- | lists for ages. Geologists have for | years depended upon their knowledge 1 of formation indicating where oil | should be found. If scientific know edge is valuable or if this science of | formation is worth anything, then let | IS consider. The anticline has long been recognized as the one favorable | spot on which to drill for oil.
 In this wonderful Pecos country we ind that by accident an irrigation fitch cut across the plains around the oot of some sand hills uncovered the op of an anticline, showing plainly he two sides of the structure with plainly as a stone wall. This left no ioubt about the anticline and there vas no doubt about the location of its lpex or top.
 This anticline was found at a point relatively similar to the Tampico oil ield, so the geologists and experts laim. it being at the foot of great Hope or in a basin, where the great of oil is to be found. Vow the country was found that howed that the natural conditions xisted for an oil pool.
 The anticline was uncovered and hus the sure and certain earmarks f an oil structure were brought to jew.
 Then a we'll was drilled at the right lace on this anticline to find oil, ac- roding to geology.
 The we'll struck the oil sand in rich ay. at only $50 feet, although this