Arizona republican., 1920-04-04

not take such chances because ] do not have to take that kind of chances these good days. It is pretty generally known now that whatever I undertake 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.
 UNHAMPERED
 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 limitation only hinder and hamper and make it hard to succeed.
 ON THE GROUND FLOOR
 If you are going into the oil busi- ness you must depend upon someone. When you join hands and dollars with me you have but one to depend upon. 1 have no loopholes and will never try to shift responsibility. You can take me at my word, play the game with me as oil men play it on honor and on
 EARLY EDUCATION
 I know the value of dollar as well as any man who ever lived. I was born upon poor Virginia farm at a time when S10 per month was the highest price paid for farm labor. received my only book learning in 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
 l have since sat in the councils of finance and have rubbed shoulders with the men of millions. l 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 if had the power to say to Time, Turn bcak the hand of the clock of life, let me have my life over again. I would say to the Fairy Queen, Transport me back to the farm, let me wade in the babbling brook and smell the new mown hay" would dance with child hoods blushing maidens in the ging- ham and homemade shoes, ready at any time to meet the great beyond, happy in at least one friendship, that of faithful dog, rather than suffer the disappointment In men that I have met on earth, and these are things that make me want to work and harvest natures bountifuI gifts that may help make the path easier for some who, like myself, believe in truth and that honor yet lives, even though it is most often found under the shirt of the poor. So if I can die with the right to have carved upon simple slab of stone the words, He made good" I shall feel that I have left to my childern the proudest heritage pos- SlDle 10 DeSIOWe.
 ABNER DAVIS.
 Getting in at the right time is al- | most as important as getting in at the | right place. I got into the Pecos oil 1 country very early in the game after | 1t looked almost sure a well would be | brought in. I feel confident from what have actually seen and from all | that this is the right 1 place for big profits from leases se- ,ured at the right time and at the | right price and also for big profits rom wells to be drilled and conse- | luently from the refinery business as we'll as the other angles of the oil | game.
 By getting in early I am able to get arge holdings well scattered and | therefore play the game as all the big operators play it, yet on a compara- lively small cash outlay.
 THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO WIN
 AND MlN BIG, IN OIL
 The following may be taken as the | summary of What's What" from the | standpoint of the experienced oil man, 'ii well driller, lease developer. re- iner and all round pioneer in the oil business with years of costly yet valu- Lble experience that I believe enables ne to work with almost certainty of profitable results.
 Fortunes are actually made in many lSldHCcS over |. ouI my exDor1- nee is that fortune comes after a great leal of hard work and from months md even years of preparat tion, by get ing leases scattered where many other 'eople are drilling, thereby helping to evelop your property, and while it is rue the actual fortune is usually nade. or at least brought into being yernight. or in a day, theSe were many days or weeks bewteen the time he money was invested and the time he fortune began flowing in oil.
 You understand, I feel that I have nade success and it was done by ard work-not good luck-it was the esult of years of hard work and then apitalizing actual experience and ringing enough people to my support 0 keep me going all these years. It ; almost certain that every dollar my friends raised and let me use the first ear of my oil career was wasted, arge1y from lack of experience and of the game. The money these friends and the ublic furnished me the second year ; Tas very largely lost through drilling perations that were not we'll man ged.
 The third year I began to feel the under which I was working, rying to do big things with little