The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
Dian1biS Oil and International Trouble
iig' 10 per

the standard oiD, offering 80 per
cent.
,si Tho General Petroleum COM
pau,. SIRIUS. offering 80 per cont
CO.. Tho Netherlands company
for tho operation Of mining works,
unruuE 80 por cont
u was decided In 1915 to grant
,uu,,asious Of Niu,O0O and 550,0o0
teI,s uf uil lands respectively. 20
the Eunvit Ol company SUBJ
Ndnry or no" Royal dutch, and TO
the south Irrlak company bill
authorizing such nu award was in.
trndu,,d n the Dutch parliament In
1913, but was defeated upon a mo-
tiun made bv A.parda, "A socialist
mrmhcr 10y three votes
SucialiSts objections.
ON thla award is based the con-
trutiuu ~ the Dutch that they gave
TO American capital and. In tact. to
All foreign iut,r'Hts. the chance to
,ump,t, iu the development ut the
bAmn p,I district. ana that the nu-
thutlti't were prevented from cHrty-
iur out their intention hccnua" the
sociIlists Thought tho Tuvrrnmont
should do all the exploiting. An
this time. however, the pioneer pc
trolcum company, tho Royal Dutch.
as the 'EuyU Dutch company for
Ncthctllud lud.cH' rs commonly
known, was carrying on u very act
I'VE campaign ton control. This COM
pany was organized In Tho Hague
an June l6. 1880. with a capital OF
100000 Euildcrs. It's first act wns
to send two Danish engineers 60 the
United states 10 study petroleum
production, as Ht that time no Dutch
Industry Of the Kind existed. Tho
t.t IA
did not begin itH operations until
lSq2. and In the later ap's obtained
still more CONCESSIONS. The building
up OF tho Royal Dutch Is described
as very hard task In the magazine
article
"Gvcn the compnny'a most We.
| hcmcnt critics" to quote from the
publication. "will couccde that In
| the fact of unforeseen difficulties.
/ uf lack of initial experience and In
/ the face OF almost supcrhuman
/ competition, with the then already
solidly established STANDARD oil. tho
| record OF the Royal Dutch and its
| achievements must remain one OF
| the economic marvcls or tho world.
American aud other organiza-
! lions may complain about not hav-
! ing "A square deal In the develops
mcnt uf the Dutch Fast indies ON
] ltlfllNIlfNt in' W. 'HilIfl lNll w
] mark on the lack OF enterprise and
/ daring shown by them In the early
| DAYS OF Fast Indian oil development
| when they preferred TO let tho Royal
/ Dutch do the scouting. experiment
! ing and proving OF oil lnnds, and
| appeared on tho scene only niter
! all tho risks of n prccnrious under
/ taking had been eliminated and the
/ position OF the Dutch East Indics as
u producer OF petroleum had been
| established, That these risks came
very near being the demise OF the
Royal Dutch In demonstrated by the
| critical period described. and only
tho remarkable foresight OF Mr..
kosslcr tJ. Is. August kesHler. an
ongincorD In providing ample tranS-
portation and storage facilities In
the orient, which allowed him u
become n trader In Russian oil
saved tho day This phase OF tn.
question unfortunately Is lost sigh
OF In the present discussion abou
= equality and reciprocity"
The Royal Dutch was busy In scv
1 oral other scCiions OF Sumatra, an,
r not until five years after tho defca
OF the Pleyte proposal did II gati
It's long sought opportunity IL
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