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Eight THE JEWISH MONITOR Friday, September 6, 1919. Away from the Path of Uncertainty o K-IN PRODUCING & REFINING COMPANV NO IDLE PROMISE BUT THE TRUTH 1 The purpose for which this company is formed is to build a Refinery to manufacture crude oil products; to be wholesale manufacturers and jobbers of crude products, such as Gasoline, Kerosine and Crude Oil pro ducts. Our Refinery site (36 acres), which we own in Fee, is located 5 miles N. E. of Fort Worth on the T. P. & St. L. S. W. R. R., served by two pipe lines which are common carriers in the state of Texas, where we will build our 5,000-barrel modern refinery. Hi (COPYRIGHT Al Our Holdings 36-a. in Fee, 5 miles N. E. Fort Worth on T. P. & St. L. S. W., where we will build our refinery, just opposite the Magnolia, Pierce, Fordyce & Gulf Refineries THE BIG ONES. Valuable Leases We own 2,000 acres in ten proven fields in Texas, 900 acres of which are in Erath County, where the largest wells in the state of Texas are located, and also own several hundred acres surrounded by actual production in Oklahoma. Testimony given before the Committee on Public Lands, Jan. 7, 1915, show that on crude oil, amounting to $107,000,00v.00 $87,000,000.00 went to the refiner against $12,000,000.00 to the producer $2,000,000.00 to the land owner and the remainder to the broker. This shows four-fifths (4-5th) of net earnings in REFINING. The Wall Street Journal shows that the Standard Oil Co. has 83 of its total valuation in the refining and marketing business. NO Promotion Stock Bonds Debts OFFICERS G. W. MERRILL (President and General Manager) W. H. LOCKER and F. W. RICHARDS (Vice Presidents) W. L. PROBST (Secretary and Treasurer) DEPOSITORY Continental Bank & Trust Co., Fort Worth, Texas REFERENCES Bradstreet & Dunn Members Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and Mid Continent Oil & Gas Association. '.,:.. j. -v PLAN OF OI The final tost of all commercial enterprises culminates in President, Secretary and Treasurer, and Board of Trustees hi refinery management, and our investors can be assured thai equipment, and nothing will be left undone to rush the plant ' FINANCIAL Our company is organized under a Declaration f Trust, thorized capital stock of this company is one million dollars ($1.00) each. No preferred stock. This form of company makes all reports to the Federal investor is safeguarded by the jurisdiction of courts of chai The slory of the refining industry is one of fabulous mon ey.making. Oklahoma's most remarkable example is J. S. Osden. Only eight years ago he started his Big Iart Re finery. He came from a modest clerkship in a Baltimore, Md., office, and was wholly inexperienced in the refining business. Today he is head of one of the largest independ ent refining companies in the Southwest and his wealth is conservatively estimated at $30,000,000, paying $60,000 profits daily. DIVIDENDS. An idea of the possible dividends that may be earned from oil refining is afforded by the Dixie Oil company of San Antonio. This is a new company, and yet it paid its stock- SIIARES $ CAPITAL $1,000,000 FULLY PAID ANE The OK-IN PRODUCING & REFINING Without Personal Li WRITE, vftRE PH OK-IN PRODUCING 308 MOORE BUILDING THE NATIONAL ADVERTIi