The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-21
Doan UnWiIiinD To Take
Precipitdte AcfiOn in
Usage lShut-dOUH

NJ. ". puan, chairman Of Tie shut
down ana ntorHgg committee chosen
several weeks age al a mass mcct-
ing OF Continent producers, re-
turnod to Tulsa yesterday aticr
stay of several days In Tho onst I'm
rcsponHc 10 the objections To tho
Orngo BhutdOwn ordrr made by ~
number OF producers having prop
ertlcg In tho Burbank pool. several
members Of tho committee nppar-
entity havo decided that the commit
tee should now ask tho department
OF interior to rcsclud the order
which wus issued 0a q result of ~
resolution adopted by this very same
committee. But these members OF
the committee have been unwilling
to draft request asking the de-
pnrtment TO roBcind tho order with
out first obtaining the sanction or
the chairman. MIR. Doau
Now that Mr.. Doan has returned
he appears unwilling To act procl-
pitatcly I'm n dcclslou. which, " Homo
of the members OF the committee
have their way. viii mean thnt the
committee will appear In the eyes
ok tho department OF tho interior
aE not knowing JuHt what II docs
want. MIR. Doan apparently realizes
that lt IL rather Hog cal. TO say the
least 10 want something one month,
aud thcn tho next month ask 10 have
10 very same thing taken away. so
MI buan, according To the Hcutl-
mcnt hr expressed yesterday VIII
want fow days in which 90 study
tho various anglco OF tho situation
before making up his mind detin-
itelya
In view Of tho fact that tho shut
down commi;tee was chosen at a
mass mecting OF producers, ~ has
been suggested that the committee
should refer n proposition OF re-
versing itself back To Huothpr mass
meeting Of pruduccrH--for tho said
committee, I'D II now stands, is the
representative Of the producers, who
met IN mass meeting, II. then, tho
committee rcvorsos itsclf. its action
means that the producers themselves
reverse themselves. And II would
appear that the producers would
want to bo consulted ON such a prop
ositlon.
when tho committee wac chosen,
there appeared to be necessity Tor
some shutdown action. Tho burbank
pool happened To be responsible FOR
a large amount of the flush produce
tion which was causing tho Apphr-
ont crisis In oil producing circles.
burbank happened TO ho IN the
Usage district. where u proved pus-
sible ia obtain real shutdown ac-
ton. And when this action was
obtained by mcnne Of an order from
CommlsHuncr Burke, great howl
was raised by tho producers affected.
Their toes had bcCu deliberately
stepped on--and their manifcs,a-
tions of anguish and injury have
continued Ia such volume gs TO mako
some OF the mombcrs OF tho com-
mlttee almost forget whether \they
were chosen on n shutdown commit
;cc g: AZ npeu-up committee.
The sentiment generally expressed
IN oil circles IL that Mir. poan II
acting admirably In tho face OF "a
bombardmeut from up burbank
way. And meanwhile, j. sGeorgo
Wright, superintendent OF the Usage
agency is seeing 20 the enforcement
OF the shutdown order ard Burbank
production. II also is noticeable that
some $500 barrels IN daily average
production. II also Is noticeable that
there has been a dclrth of large
completions recently I'm other Okla
homa perhaps the very fact
Of the government sctting an CN-
ample has had "a moral effect on
producers In districts not under gov
eminent control.