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i un i 1 1 lication of wild and fanciful stories by -i i miimniiiifr- 111 fam ni'Mi. hired writers, representing ten barrel wells as 100 barrel producers, that gave the field a black eye. And when ID -CONTINENT The Bovaird Suoolv Co. IN THE INDEPENDENCE Iron Works the pipe went out the blame for all m. INDEPENDENCE, KAS.

SAPULPA, OKLA. the misfortune was saddled upon the OIL FIELDS, execrated Standard Oil company. The same old story in the same old Drilling Fishing Tools nr way. Those who have been ngnting the plpelng of gas out of Oklahoma are Shops-Independence, Kan. Ramona, Okla.

Kiefer, Okla. fgfm preparing for defeat. They have come MORE TALK OF OIL IN MEXICO Belting Boilers Tools Cordage Woodwork Rig Irons to the conclusion that the decision will be against them. That has been the IT VARIOUS FIELD NOTES. contention of oil and gas men from the start.

The same kind of a fight was made in Ohio, Indiana and Kansas and Drilling' Fishing' Tools in every instance the state has lost. County Attorney Kane of Washington There has been nothing new this month in the way of drilling operations at Wheeler, where the Santa Fe has been developing fuel oil WARREN BOILERS and ENGINES K. TAMPICO, Mexico, Feb. 23. The representatives of large oil producing concerns in the United States are making Inspections of prospective oil lands in the vicinity of Tampico, and it is stated that some large transactions are pending.

The territory situated between Tampico and the mouth of the Rio Grande, which stream marks the AT SAPULPA: General Supply Store Machine Shops Blacksmith Shops AT INDEPENDENCE: Machine Shops Blacksmith Shop3 Wood Reel Shop3 county, has returned to Bartlesville from Guthrie and gives out a statement for the past two years or more. The MART MULLER, Aeent to the effect that he is afraid the battle company now has tnree wells drilling. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE is lost. He says the courts have a very close question to decide and ad Down at Longton, the United mits that the state rests its contention Central Fuel and Oil company com Tubbs Drilling: Cablei on the ground that it does not specifically prevent piping out of gas, but pleted Its No. 17 well on the Sanger lease for a million foot gasser.

The company has been burning oil In its re STAR DEILUMG HACMI1I that foreign corporations must do 'THE BEST, ON EARTH" mesticate. The state contends that gas Is a commodity the same as water and timber and that being a necessity the CHANUTE COG finery and the gas is very acceptable. Work has been started on No. 18. The Flat Rock pool north of Tulsa In the Cherokee, where some of the finest wells in the field have been drill state has a right to conserve the sup AKRON OHIO We Furnisli.Complefe Drilling Outfits KANSAS ply.

Still he is frank to admit that the case for the state is very doubt -w mnin ini.niiMWim ful. It Is another instance of politic ed the past few months, is practically ians putting the taxpayers to a great amount of expense to carry on a tight Drilling Machines, Cordage and Casing Drilling and Fishing Tools. The STAR is the most popular Drilling Machine made. Will drill any depth. A money maker.

that they knew was hopeless at the outset, but it gives them employment. It is this kind of false friendship for the taxpayer which we resent and at a standstill at present. It is not probable much will be clone until after the shutdown. The last seven wells in the pool averaged over 400 barrels. That is something of an oil pool.

The test well drilled by the Octo Oil company in 22-24-13, Cherokee, failed The Oklahoma legislature has pass boundary between Mexico and Texas is being thoroughly prospected and American holdings in that region are being constantly increased. It is stated by men who have arrived here from a trip through the territory adjacent to which empties into the Gulf qf Mexico about midway between Tampico and number of liquid asphalt springs upon ranches that they visited and that the surface indications of oil are better than they had ever before seen. Richard E. Bennevendo, of Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, who owns a tract of 400,000 acres of land In the Soto la Marina River territory, is negotiating for the sale of the whole tract to a British syndicate which will exploit it for oil. Tlie demand for crude oil for fuel purposes is Increasing rapidly in Mexico.

In addition to the use of oil for fuel in locomotives ofa part of the government merger system of railroads it has been adopted by a number of manufacturing concerns. A large cement manufacturing concern which operates a plant at Dublan, state of Hidalgo, has been experimenting recently with a new revolving kiln in which crude oil is the fuel used. It is found that the new style kiln, with oil for fuel, can be operated at much less cost that the old method of manufacturing cement. A number of these kilns are to be built and each one will consume about two thousand barrels of crude oil a month. It is reported that S.

Pearson Son, oil fields department, as that concern's oil branch is now officially call For fuller Information write or Telephone us at Chanute WESTERN FACTORY Chanute, lis. to open up a new pool northeast of Ra ed the Yeager-Strain bill which re QUICK COMPLETION quires all oil pipe lines to become common carriers or common purchasers. If they become common carriers they must give up all their oil leases and OUR NEW GKXEUAIi MAP OF OKIiAIIOMA OTIj FIELDS. tvio fields, shnwiner oil and gas Jr- abandon the business of oil production. recently revised, completely covers all hot two months ago) but UP TO NOW duction, as well as all wildcatting We are sparing no expense in maki 37,500 Barrels 55,000 Barrels OP, ANY OTHER CAPACITY ng this map ABSOLUTELY COR-pt it as authority on developments in linen, perfect prints.

Price $5. Sent" a Map Muskogee, Okla. RECT in every detail. Oil men acce the Mid-Continent oil fields. On fine Via As common purchasers they may continue as producers, but cannot carry any more of their own oil than they do of the oil of other producers reached by their lines.

The bill reaffirms the constitutional requirement that a company must domesticate in order to exercise the right of eminent domain. prepaid' on receipt of price. Oklahom mona. North of this' toward the Oche-lata shallow sand pool a dry hole was drilled in section 2 and so, far all tests along the range line between 13 and 14 been failures. Some day a pool may be found between Ochelata, south, and Ramona, and the Chelsea-Alluwe shallow sand, but it does not look very promising now.

The Arkansas Valley Oil company is having considerable trouble with its deep well at Arkansas City, Kan. This well- was started over a year ago and is now down a triflle over 1,700 feet. It has cost $16,000 and at present is shutdown on acocunt of a bad cave and waiting for casing. There has been a rumor that oil has been struck in the well and that a waiting game is Wc Entreat You for prices Wire us collect, or write us and deliveries. There was only one vote against the bill In the senate.

There Ih consider able speculation as to the effect of the bill. There seems to be considerable vmmamm doubt as to its constitutionality. There are three pipe line companies operat to get out of the old-fashioned ruts and give up the "ways of darkness" that belong to oil lamps and gas, and have your home Illuminated by electricity. We have every facility for installing electric lights on short no- tice, and our charges are extremely moderate. Let us estimate on elec-; trically lighting your home, store office.

ing in Oklahoma which were built un ed, will bore a number of wells in Lake being played to get leases, but this is ren Cit War der the territorial laws and under per Tamiahua, situated adjacent to the famous Dos Hocas oil and water geyser emphatically denied. The Barnsdall Oil company which a mission of the government at Washington. Whether the state can now-come in and make new regulations which would deprive some of these The Pearsons hold a blanket concession from the government, giving it the sole right to exploit the beds of short time ago was running a large number of drilling outfits is now drill and Boiler the rivers and lakes of the coutnry for ing only four wells. These are Nos. 83 Co.

OHIO I and 85 on Osage lot 30, where the com Independence Electric Co. companies of justly acquired property is a matter to be settled In court. The curse of the oil business is the butting in of fool politicians who know nothing about it. Here is a man who owns PHONE GO pany has been doing considerable work for some and Ncj. 8 on the Willie Gritty lease in Hogshooter district.

No. 7 was a 30 barrel well. f'j K. oil. Lake Tamiahua is shallow and is in a proved oil territory.

The lake, is about seventy-five miles long and from five to fifteen miles wide. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by a narrow strip of land, and is in reality a salt water lagoon. The exclusive oil exploration concession is looked upon in Mexico oil circles as being very valu THE PETROLEUM No. 8 on Osage lot 71 was a 2-million foot gasser. On Osage lot 5(4, No.

62 was a 30 barreler, No. 64 was a duster and No. 66 is drilling. able. Some of the streams, particular Our Spring Goods Two wells have been drilled in the ly the Panuco and Tamesi rivers, flow through proved oil fields and afford an IRON WORKS CO.

Sharon, Pa. Chautauqua county field the past month. The Orinoco Oil company's opportunity for extensive development No. 1 on the Collins in 21-33-11, was a duster and Denman Bros. No.

3 on the Sir Weetman Pearson, of London, England, head of the firm of S. Pearson Son, is now in Mexico on business connected with the oil indus oil wells. He has no market. Fifty miles away is a market. He finds he can manage to get together enough money to build a pipe line just large enough to carry his oil.

He builds it. Then comes along a dub of a politician, a Yeager or a Strain (and it certainly is a strain to have such to deal with) and says that the man cannot own his own wells and his own pipe line, unless he takes just as much oil from his neighbor as from his own wells. Such a law is un-American. Had we had laws of this nature one hundred years ago this country would never have been developed beyond the Mississippi. It takes away the right of a man to expand and use his wits.

It is pernicious. Let the state encourage the building of more lines and then it will be accomplishing something. The Yeager-Strain bill is freak legislation that will never be enforced. Jackson inn 19-33-12 came in a 1 Branch Office: The Doctor Knows better than anybody else what to do in ilness if he is th right kind of a doctor. He often knows how to prevent little troubles from developing into serious affairs.

He does not have to guess or experiment, if he is a good doctor, and knows his business. It's lots better to sea the doctor and then bring his prescription here. SANTA FE DRUG STORE Opposite Santa Fe Depot. "All Aboard." barrel producer. Denman Bros.

Cohn are now drilling No. 4 on the try. He will visit the various proper Pittsburg, Ptk. ties of the firm, and it is expected that Spires in 27-34-11, south of Sedan, where their last well was a failure, he will give his approval of plans for 50 Church ,1 enlargements of the both as New York, and the Blackjack Oil company is drill to the producing and refining features ing No. 8 on the Clark in 17-34-11.

are daily arriving. We invite your inspection of our line of handsome goods for spring suits, overcoats, etc Watch for our spring opening February 15. The Ohio Tailoring' and Pressing' Co. MAX A. RAU, Manager Phone 529 115 East Main Street Houston, TexM.

The shutdown is getting a respect Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that nieht are quickly cured by Foley's able start. It is twenty-two years since Honey and Tar, and it soothes inflam the last great shutdown. That one ed membranes, heals the lungs and broke a great many oil producers by ruining their wells. But there is no expels the cold from the system Chas. L.

McAdams. fear of such an outcome in this one. thought it was made of green cheese and the other did not agre with him, hence the appearance in police court. MllcaaN I'knJa. i Oil and Gas Belt That was a stoppage of pumping.

This is a cessation of drilling, quite a different matter. It will be a good thing to stop drilling and give an opportunity to pump the wells already drilled, or they may be ruined the same as were wells durins the great shutdown of Dr. Casebeer fits and furnishes glasses. TORPEDO CO. H.

B. SCOTT, President Steel Plate Construction, Qil Reflinln- Plant. Tanks, Stand pipe," Stacks, to.s Manufacturer ot Tmn Counter Current Condnwr for Oil Refineries, which 1 a improvement over th aid rU of Condenser. General Agent for Gm Oil Burner. For sal at all supply house.

Manufacturers of Washinctom Gas and Oil Separator. THE PETROLEUM IS 87. Aganippe Spring Water A NATURAL SPRING WATER PURE AND HEALTHFUL EAT FOODS YOU GRAVE Up in the third story of the Old Homestead building in Muskogee there are more maps, blue prints and other The Only Independent Company covering tlie entire Mid-Continent field. Manufacturer of Nitro-GIycerine for shooting Oil, Gas and Artesian Wells. Electric, Shots a Specialty.

1 THOUGH F1KST GET YOUR DIGESTIVE OKGAXS IX PERFECT CONDITION. oil field data than can be found in any part of that state. The Oklahoma Map company have their headquarters here Drink it Phone 325 and this company has all of the. oil fields down to a scientific description. A fiittle Dianopsin Taken Now Will Cure ou of Stomach Trouble in a Few Days Relieves Wiift'crhiK and Misery From Iwligertlon at When you want to see the oil produc IRON WORKS CO.

ing area of Oklahoma so that you can grasp its vastness a trip up the three stories will be repaid. Mr. Will H. Whalev. who is one of the foremost Oil Well Su pply Gomp any civil engineers of the state, has had over twelve years' practical experience In this business and his maps are guaranteed absolutely correct.

The maps are well worth the price that is asked Til8 American Concrete Company Myrtle and Twentieth Sts. Phone 76. CEMENT WALKS Eta i for them and they will be valuable from an historical point of view in after years, 'not taking into consideration A postoffice has been established in the new town of Tabler, a short distance from Chickasha. Muskogee now "boasts of a gun club. Caney is to have a fine new bank building and work is being pushed rapidly on that Institution.

An evangelist has struck Caney. They have big tabernacle and will proceed to get religion down there in tne good old fashioned way. Claremore has a new paper or will have in the near future. It will be callid the Republican and will be in charge of a man from Illinois. The price of brooms is reported to be coming up.

They may go as high as. cents. abused husband may be a little safer, as Mrs. Hen-peck's chief weapon is a broom. A place in Muskogee has been closed tip.

as a -booze joint, but a patrolman who had nothing to do, discovered a speak-easy in the back yard, where there was just oodles of Bud-weiscr. Neodesha had some excitement this week. A man applied there for assistance to get Upon investigation it was found that he had escaped from the Parsons hospital for the epileptics. J. Warren Reed, the lawyer who has attracted much attention in the past several years in Oklahoma was fined f50 for contempt of court the other day in Muskogee, where he was trying a case.

An Oklahoma girl is quite romantic, and lives ln'Xorman. She met a man on the train a few months ago and married him. Come to find out he was a millionaire from Mexico. There is nothing slow about those Oklahoma girls. Two Iola.

neighbors who had been good friends camfe into police court the other They had ben discussing the moon's composition. One CITY TRANSFER General Moving and Carting; Storage, Baggage Transfer; Piano Moving, Hoisting, Packing and Shipping; Moving to and from Suburban Town. Office 114 S. Penn. INDEPENDENCE, KAN.

You can cat anything your stomach craves without fear of a case of indigestion or dyspepsia, or that your food will ferment or sour on your stomach if you will take Diapepsin after eating. Your meals will taste good, and anything-you eat, will digested; nothing can ferment or turn into acid or poison, or stomach gas, which causes belching, dizziness, a feeling of fullness after eating, nausea, in-digestjon (like a lump of lead in your stomach), biliousness, heartburn, water brash, pain in stomach and intestines or other symptoms. Headaches from the stomach are absolutely unknown where this effective remedy is used. Diapepsin really does all the work of a healthy stomach. Each triangule will digest all the food you can eat and leave nothing to ferment or sour.

Get a large 50 cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from your druggist and start taking today and by tomorrow- you will actually brag about your healthy, strong stomach, for you then can eat anything and everything you want without the slightest discomfort or and particle of impurity, and gas that is yolir stomach and intestines Is going to be carried away without- the use of laxatives or any other assistance. P1TT5BURGH. PA. Manufacturers of and Dealers in Oil, Gas and Watfer Well Supplies Steam Gas Engines Drilling and Fishing Tools, Pumps, Pumping Power, Sucker Rods, Cables, Casing, Tubing and Line Pipe Second Hand Machinery Goods BRANCH STORES and WAREHOUSES: Bartlesville, Ramona, Chelsea, Copan, Nowata, Tulsa, Cleveland, Iudependence, MACHINE and BLACKSMITH SHOPS: Bartlesville, Tulsa and Cleveland. Branch Stores in all Prominent Petroleum Districts Phones 435 and 714.

the great value they are now to the oil producers and oil men of the state. When you want a map address the Oklahoma Map company, Muskogee. W. D. Cope, receiver, has sold the property of the Iola Oil and Production company, a strictly Iola, affair which came into existence during the Kansas excitement about five years ago.

It did some drilling and developed a few wells, but the company never made any money. The leases are now worth a little for gas purposes. It is a strange comment that very few, scarcely any of the stock companies which were floated In that purt of the field and concerning which the newspapers were flooded in those days, ever returned the Investors anything upon their money. And these stockholders were the ones who complained the bitterest, when" tHe facts were given to them at that time. They wanted to be misled and they were.

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