Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-03-21
To Success


oil which he was able to market to
is OWN best advantage.
The one place in the oil industry
where individual understanding and
individual effort are effective is in
becoming the OWNER of oil lands.
The greatest profits come to those
who put the most individual eff
fort into their investments. Yet ev-
en- the sluggard may succeed.
The Usage Indians were chased
off their fertile lands in Missouri
and located on 10000 acres of
bad lands" in Oklahoma. In 1907
the government counted the Osages,
finding 1929, and assigns a tract
OF land TO each one. The mineral
rights were reserved as a whole for
the benefit of the tribe, collectively.
Oil was discovered on the reserva-
tion and each Usage became entitled
to one 2.229ths of the income deriv-
ed by the tribe from the oil rights.
Operators took leases on the lands.
giving the tribe a share of all oil
produced, free of cost of production.
The famous Burbank pool was OPP
on the Usage lands has made II pos
sible for each Usage to receive ap-
proximately 500, 100000 from his
share Of oil royalty. The tribe has
received the sum of $241, 1853 ,625
thus far.
without the drilling of a well and
without the expenditure of effort,
mental or physical, the Usage IN
dams have had a tremendous for
tune thrust upon them.
The romance Of oil is woven
around the owners of lands on oil
structures. The farmer, grocery
man. druggist, doctor. lawyer and
small banker Of yesterday are the
capitalists OF the oil country today.
Men made "rich over night" are
those who own oil lands where dis
coveries are made.
Though we most frequently hear
of the poor dry land farmer who is
made rich, in nearly every case of
an oil discovery the farmer has sold
at least half of his oil rights to the
grocerymen, druggists, doctors. law
yers and small town bankers before
the well comes in. So while he is
made rich, those who had become
owners Of part of his oil rights like
wise become rich.
Royalties in Montana have paid
the landowners and those who have
bought part of the landowners oil
rights the sum of $4,000, 600
more than the dividends from Mon
tana operations of all operating
l. e
time. More than $150,0OO 600 90 is
paid per year to the owners OF
these oil rights throughout the
country The profits are enormous,
yet producing oil rights are con-
sidered as safe and sound as real
estate, Of which they are an fnteg-
raj part, and form safe and ac-
ceptable basis for a bank loan.
The greatest opportunities in ev-
cry line of investment are open to-
day. Were ii possible TO do SO,
man could go to Canada and buy
wheat at as low as 25 cents a bush
Ell and keep it, with full confidence
that it will some day in the not
distant future be worth three or
four times as much. The cost of
storing It makeks such a project in
advisable. But the OPPORTUNITY
is apparent.
Eggs were selling I'm North Dakota
storing It makes such a project in
formed Were it possible to buy up
these eggs and keep them, it is
certain that an investor could
double and treble his money But
it is not possible to keep eggs long
enough to make this a commercial
enterprise.
The greatest opportunities of
lifetime are here because a dollar
will do more today than at any
time before in a lifetime.
While the greatest opportunities
are found in other business, the
same opportunities are here in the
oil business.
The man who buys oil rights does
not have to store the oil, although
he OWNS a definite share of the oil
under a given tract Of ground. He
gets his share when this oil is
brought to the surface Of the ground
at a time wen 1t is profitable for
the Standard oil company to bring
It to the surface, to supply the ev-
er-growing demands for crude. pro-
ducts.
The blazed trails of Success show
TODAY as the opportune time for
starting. We believe that the PRES
ENT offers the greatest opportuni-
ties of all time in the greatest
matchmaking branch of the oil in
dustry, which is the worlds most
profitable business industry.