Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-04

done by hard work-not good lucl
lit was the result of years of hare
work and then capitalizing actua
experience and bringing enough
people to my support to keep me
going all these years. 1t is almost
certain that every dollar my friends
raised and let me use the first year
of my oil career was wasted. large.
ly from lack of experience and
knowledge of the game.
The money these friends and the
public furnished me the second
year was very largely lost through
drilling operations that were not
well managed.
The third year I began to feel
the handicap under which / was
working. trying to do big things
with little money and consequently
the overhead expense was eating
up the business.
/ have but one excuse to offer
for three years of poor results:
LACK OF EXPERIENCE
I have but one thing to thank
now for later successes: The truth.
Even though I did not have the ex-
perience in oil that would enable
me to get the best results, l had
gone through the school of expert
ence far enough to know the value
of truth and a square deal ! al
ways endeavored to tell the truth
to those thousands of people who
We're backing me with their saw
ings and they stuck with me.
LONG TIME TO GAMBLE
The fourth year began to show
improvement. / learned many
things. my friends learned that
they could rely upon me and they
stuck with me. I at last had
enough hackers. blue hackers
from every state in the United
States and from the islands of the
seas and foreign continents as Wet
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 a thought of quitting
until results had crowned my eff
forts. knowing that | was firmly
established upon the one solid
foundation of truth, and having
learned the business lessons, prov
ing the unfailing laws of average
as absolutely dependable the only
thing I had to do was to keep my
self nerved up to the point where
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 physi-
cal dynamos going at full speed
for these four years and even when
my brain tagged and eighteen to
twenty hours daily toll was telling
upon me. physically, l could always
look back snd see the thousands
of poor devils like myself who had
tried to better their condition 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, question his good faith, IL
you want to make him unconquer-
able, uncork the walls of calumny
and start wagging the vile tongues
of his opponents. When you do,
there springs up around him that
source of power supplied by nature
to man. Courage and determine
tta,. ..,I, 81, 60
ly important fountain of power,
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 knowl-
edge of the certainty of the work
ings of the law of averages and
nature.
LAST OPPORTUNITY.
Geology has been a study for
scientists for ages. Biologists have
for years depended upon their
knowledge of formation indicating
where oil should be found. If |
scientific knowledge is valuable or
II this science of formation is |
worth anything. then let us con-
slider. he anticline has long been |
recognized as the one favorable
spot on which to drill for Oil.
In this wonderful Pecos country
we find that by accident an irri-
slider. The anticline has long been
around the foot of some sand hills
the top of an anticline,
plainly the two sides of