The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-24
OIL nARKnr QUOTATIONS.
Gouernor Haskell in Torn

Governor Haskell arrived iu tho
city yesterday and put lu fow hours
with his friend nul partner. O.. B
Peters, 'yhu. ho said, often came tu
New York and who. when there rr-
ceivcd as much attention aH anyone
who ever came that way. because
Of his personality uud hia rlf uf ap-
I.DnHtinu which made 90 regular
event whenever Nj. Peters came 10
town.
no. D can't say that / think oil
will advance by the first of Janu-
nry," s1id tho governor who, by tho
wuN has taken over poyun pruduc-
Ing companies since thp first ~ June,
am operation which has been, In
some cuHos. 70 Ilfo-rlvcr t0 said pro-
ducinE concerns. innsmuch az oil
has declined 90 per cent since Jan
uary ! 3 and now has . total ~ 1900
barrels daily production; but !
would say that bv the middle ~
March there should Doe some sort ~
200 upturn in the price ~ crude"
"No. I do not say this bccnuso of
the fact that am supposed To NV
something TO make the situation
look pleasant, but because I believe
u ls true continued the governor.
and were II not for the fact that All
IaNl 'il' ~ NNi1Ek wv ~ w. wv ~ N''
for French francs. there would bo
an export demand that would con
sumo great deal Of our oil right
now" when asked about Germany
he said "GcrmHny has been going
u terrific pace since the war, ana
while the people Themselves are fair.
" prosperous, Germany ns nation
~ indeed In bad way. II had OK
papded It's currency until tho Ger
han mark has no value whntovor.
ana the real revolution In economies
IN in order over thcro.
YES" said tho governor i'm rc.
sponso 10 question. ~ ala suggest
some laws that might work TO the
advantage OF the Mexican govern
ment IN regard 10 her mining which
Of course Includes oil, but ! do not
know whether President Obrcgur
paid any attention to my suggestion"
or not. | can't tell you what hap
penod when the five heads of the oi
companies were in Mexico aE al
though I saw Harry Sinclair for q
few minutes the other day and wnp
invited 20 his home on Sunday.
something happened that prevented
my going aud. therefore, | missed IT,
Il win toll you something conf
dentially about Mexico" hut nt
this point the governor was inter
ruptod by the advent Of one NJ his
old "war horses In the political
game and so, gentle reader, you and
all the rest OF us are losers thereby
because II Is said that Governor Has.
kell knows "A great deal about Mex
leo, and anything worth telling II
confidence would bc well worth
knowing. Tho governor IL the head
stf Al MiI1Ia gnTnHTu Inn
which IL one Of two CONCERNS thai
have never never seen lts stock sci
below par, during these days OF u
bankrupt stock market and the
the chances are that were tho gov
ernor TO make a more careful invcs-
tigation OF conditions In the Mid
Continent field, hc would set for
ward the good times when oil -
going to ADVANCE. quite some con
siderable time.
mo, / have never any curiosity To-
see any pf our oil properties, | have
only seen one wcll drilled In. and
that was when a wen, drilled by Pa
White, Harry Sinclair aud myself
near stroud, was completed. We an
went down expecting a hig well
from the early accounts uf It's
showing. but 81 never amelutcd. to
much and | have come 20 tho con
ciuslon that the best way to get u
line on what well viii do, IN to
take somebody clso's word for II.
Perhaps II our stroud well had
turned out better, Il might have been
different. hut YOU know | believe
in proverbs and there is one good
old saying that probably has a lot Of
truth In It, namely, that "a watched
pot never boils."