El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-03

, the f1u amount. we would all be
! losers 7 do not take such chances
because I do not have to take
chances these good days. II Is pretty
I generally known now that whatever
I undertake I carry through It IS
equally wen known that the Abner
Davis Plan means giving every in
weston all the value his dollars viii
acquire. and that - all any mans
dollar can do.
make no definite promise IN ad-
vance I set no certain goal to be
reached I place no limits upon my
/ activities and field OF action because
limitations only hinder and hamper
and make Il hard 10 succeed
on THE GROUND FLOOR
II you. are going into the oil busl-
ness you must depend upon Someone
When you join hands and dollars
with ne you have but one TO depend
upon I have no lOOpholes and VIII
never try to shift responsibility. You
can take me at my word, play the
game with me as oil men play 10 on
honor and on the ground floor.
EARLY EDUCATION
know the value OF a dollar as
well as any man who ever lived I
was born upon a poor Virginia farm
At a time when SO per month was
the highest price paid for farm
labor received my only book learn
ing 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
have since sat in the councils OF
finance and have rubbed shoulders
with the men OF millions have
dined with the idle rich and danced
with danes clad in silks, and then
have slept IN the tent and eaten
from the bucket OF the grub-stake;
and II had the power 70 say 10
Time. Turn back the hand OF the
clock OF life. let ne have my life
Queen Transport me back to the
farm. let me wade in the babling
brook and smell the new mown hay"
/ would dance with childhood's
blushing maidens in the gingham
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 the men that
have met on earth. and these are
things that make me want to work
and harvest natures hountiful gifts
that may help make the path easier
for some who. like myself, believe in
truth and that honor yet lives, even
though Il is most often found under
the shirt OF the poor. So II I can
die with the right to have carved
upon a simple slab OF stone the
words. He made good" 7 shall feel
that I have left 10 my children the
proudest heritage possible TO bestow.
ABNER DAVIS.
Getting in at the right time IS al
most as important as getting at the
right place I got into the Pecos oil I
country very early IN the game after
81 Ia
be brought in I feel confident from I
what have actually seen and from I
all investigation that this Is the I
right place for big profits from leases ]
secured at the right time and at the I
right price and also for big profits i
from wells to be drilled. and conse- Z
Quently from the refinery business z
as well as the other angles OF the |
oil game.
BY getting IN early I am able to /
get large holdings well scattered and I
therefore play the game as al the /
big operators play it. yet on a COM I
paratively small cash outlay.
THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO WIN
AND WIN BIG IN OIL I
The following may be taken as the I
summary OF What's What" from the /
standpoint Of the experienced oil ]
man. oil well driller. lease developer.
refiner and all round pioneer in the
valuable experience that 7 believe en-
ables me 20 work with almost a GER
-ainty OF wonderfully profitably re-
results
Fortunes are actually made IN
many instances over night But my
experience is that fortune comes
after a great deal OF hard work and D
from months and even years OF prep
lration, by getting leases scattered
where many other people are drill
ng, thereby helping to develop your
property. and while IL is true the
ictual fortune Is usually made. or at
east brought into being overnight, i
lr in a day. there were many days
u weeks between the time the money I
vas invested and the time the for
June began flowing in oil
You understand. ] feel that I have
made a success and IL was done by
lard work-not good luck-it was
he result OF years OF hard work
md then capitalizing actual ex-
1erience and bringing enough peo-
lie 10 my support to keep me going
III these years. II Is almost certain
hat every dollar nv friends raised
-nd let me use the first year OF my
III career was wasted. largely from
ack OF experience and knowledge OF
he game.
The money these friends and the
'ublc furnished me the second year
vas very largely lost through drill
ne operations that were not well
managed.
The third year began 10 feel the
.andicap under which ] was working