The Holbrook news., February 14, 1919, Image 4

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Sophocles Shows Renewed
' Interest in Oil Field
Mike'n me hev bin all fussed
-up after hernin' thet th' big
companies are comin' in to this
field, cause its a mortol cinch
they ain't a comin' in onuess
they's pretty sure. But as long
as they air reely comin' in
there's nothin' to it. Ginerally
th' big fellers is like Mike wuz
onct when he wuz a kid an' he
figgered on swipin' the ice
creme where they wuz a givin'
a party an' left his name off th'
list. . Mike snuck around and
found th' freezer all full o' cus
tard an' cud a made off with it
but he sez to his self Y' As long as
I'm. gonna git it anyway,
might as well leave it till sum
body else freezes it," so he waits
till a couple uv weak-chinned
kids got palpitation o' th' heart
turnin' the crank and got the
creme all froze, and then Mike
he snuck in and cops it. He let
sumbody else git it redy to eat
before he tuk it and thet's th
way th' big fellers ginerally
does. But when they freezes it
theirselves, as yu might say
nothin' else for a body to do but
git in an' git in quick that's us
Wal Mike an' me wc wet to
th' bank yesterday an' we draws
a considerable amount o' checks
'cause we bought stock in every
company what's doin' bizziness
in this here field. Mike wuz
kinda parshial to one o' them
and I was a little parshial to
anuther, but between us we
grabbed off enuf stock to keep
us in four-bit cegars and a front
seat at th' oprie th' rest o' our
lives when they gits th 'oil in
Holbrook, which they sure
goin' to do. Mike he laid awake
last nite makin' all kinda plans
on what he's gonna do with his
coin. As nere as I recommem
ber, amung other things, the
first thing he is a gonna do is
to hire a manicure girl to hold
his hand an' fix up them nails
what he's been a stockin' against
quartz ledges fer the past twen
ty years. Says she's gotta be a
blond, but I argified that a bru
nette wuz th' best. Next thing
he's gonna do is git a lemonsine
v X ill a luggci uoiibi un av, w
gonna buy a ten-acre lot fur our
old Nevada friend "Curley" with
two kids follerin 'around all day,
. one with a piller and one with a
bone. As fer me I'm gonna
spend my money as an eddicated
man wud. I'm a gonna build a
library fer Holbrook an hev my
name carved on th' front porch.
What they needs is a library in
every town. ' I've bin in many a
place when a man wants to see
a Police Gazette or th' sportin'
news, there ain't no chance at
all. Course I alius reads Ibsen
an Brownin', an' Isaac Walton
just as I allers goes to see Sir
Beerbomb Tree, Mable Normand
an' Charlie Chaplin in th' shows
nothin' is too high-brow fer
me, but a feller's got to keep up
with th' times an rede th'
sportin' papers just t' keep up
on th' gineral knowledge o' th'
times.
I wuz down to th's track th
other day when a train pulls in
an sidetracks a car loaded to th'
gunnals with a rig an' equip
ment fer a new well thet's to be
started an' I'm tellin' yu that
it sure looked good an' looks like
bizziness. An' when I seen six
teems a startin' to haul it out to
th' field I sez to . Mike, - sezzi,
"Thet feller ain't a gonna let no
grass grow under his feet th'
way he's starting in an' he must
be plumb enthisiastic th' move
he's gittin 'on." Mike got so en
thused that he hopped one o' th'
wagons this mornin' an' rides
out to th' field some eighteen
miles just to be on th' ground.
ThisH make four rigs on th'
field an' anuther one a comin'
makes five. I've hearn tell as
how some eastern gents is a
gonna contract to drill five wells
theirselves an' how the Carter
Oil cumpany is a gonna git busy
right soon. Purty soon there'll
be enuf rigs to remind a feller
of th' way they's a stackin' up
in the Ranger field, an' onless I
miss my guess well give Mr.
Atwood anuther chanct to write
about an oil boom an 'take it
frum me the Holbrook boom
will be the biggest yit.
It will pay you to attend Wetz
ler Supply Co.'s pre-inyentory
cale this week.
"Oils Again the
Market Feature"
This phrase recurs every few
days in the telegraphed reports
of the New York stock market.
Railroad stocks hesitate, indus
trials tend to decline pending the
period of uncertainty as to the
future course of business devel
opments, bonds are doubtful as
to the out look, but oils are firm,
or bouyant, or advancing.
Oil stocks, like all other stocks
that steadily advance, have fre
quently small reactions. After
several days of continuous rise,
the speculators on the long side
sell, to realize profits, with the
intention of going in again after
the market has dropped a few
points while absorbing the real
izing sales. This sort of a tem
porary drop is not a real decline.
It is a natural readjustment for
a future rise.
"Oils Again the Feature of the
Market" has been the most fre-
quent headline in stock market
reports since the armistice.. It
will rrobablv atmear with in
creasing freauency after the
peace is signed. It has no doubt
ful reconstruction period before
it. as have all other croups of
Wall street stocks. Neither is it
returning to former conditions
Before the war oil stocks were
seldom mentioned in the reports
of transactions on the New
York Stock Exchange. They
were relegated to the "Curb", an
outside market for stocks that
could not gain admission to the
big exchange. But now one
large oil company after another
is being admitted and listed
amone: the elite. These stocks
are rapidly commanding increas
ed attention in the great stock
market and seem destined to be
come the market leaders. Noth
ing could be more important. If
thev are prominent in the New
York stock market as leaders
they will soon become market
leaders in all the great stock
markets of the world. Indeed
we seem to be entering a new in
vestment and speculative era, in
a chartered world. (Mine ana
Lands) .
Wildcatting a Necessity.
Few persons realize what un
ceasing effort is necessary to se
cure a sufficient supply of crude
oil in this country.
The decrease 01 oil-well pro
duction and the increase in the
demand by tens of millions of
barrels yearly compel producers
to expend large sums in pros
pecting new territory. For this
reason "wildcat wells" are drill
ed outside the Limits of produc
ing pools. This is a good deal of
a gamble.
The largest part of all the
known oil-fields is either being
operated by companies, or has
been withdrawn by the govern
ment.
Less than two-tenths of one
per cent of the oil area in Perm
sylvania is productive. More
than half of Wyoming's produc
tion is within a space of six
square miles. The noted Tepe
tate-Casiano pool in Mexico,
which has produced 75,000,000
barrels of oil in eight years, is
only one mile wide and four
long. Much pioneer work must
be done to insure supplies of oil.
The national policy in recent
years, of withdrawing oil areas
from entry as soon as discovered
by prospectors, coupled with re
fusal to pass leasing measures
or grant rehet to claimants on
withdrawn lands is rapidly dis
couraging the development of
new territory and our reserve
oil supply is declining in face of
an increasing demand.
Why ihj$ dog in the manger
policy is continued by congress
is hard to understand. Monta-
bello (Cal.) News.
Love Letters in Hymn Book.
A pair of lovers who had been for
bidden to speak or write, attended the
same church, and their plan was the
exchange of hymn books. As the
young man was an officer of the
church he did this little Job before
service. Most delightful and satisfac
tory love letters could be pieced to
gether by following certain lead-pencil
marks, and in order to elude even a
Sherlock Holmes of the household, the
letters were made to read from the
end to the beginning of the book.
Road of Frights.
In the central part of China there Is
very strange road, which leads to
the famous Ming tombs. On each
side of the avenue are huge figures of
elephants, camels and giraffes, lions,
etc. Each animal Is carved out of a
solid piece of etone. They are prob
ably mora than 500 years old.
NOTICE
To Owners and Prospective
Purchasers of Lots in the
Clark Addition
I have just been author
ized by Mr. W. H. Clark,
now of Los Angeles, to pro
ceed with contract for plac
ing five-Toot sand and gravel
sidewalks in front of all un
sold lots, and for the ditch
ing, grading and graveling
of all adjacent streets in the
Clark Addition, provided
similar work will be done by
the present owners. When
this work is completed all
lots in the addition will im
mediately increase in value
fully fifty per cent, and will
make the property the most
desirable in Holbrook. With
this end in view, I have per
fected arrangements wit
competent road-builders
to
give us a 40-foot graded
street, with one-foot ditch a
curb, with two-foot raise in
center, 12 feet of whie
street will be piked with
sufficient depth of gravel
and also a 5-foot substantia!
sand and gravel sidewalk
The total cost for all this
work per 25-foot frontage
will be $6. This price wi
be added to all unsold lots
and those who have already
purchased mav secure the
work upon the payment
to
me of the price mentioned
Whether you have bough
these lots upon which to
build a home, or for specu
Iation, this 6 per cent invest
ment will increase the value
of your property fifty per
cent, and since we expect to
start work within the nex
few days, I will ask you to
advise me immediately o
your decision. witn your
co-operation we can make
the Clark Addition lots
double in value within the
next ninety days, without
waiting for oil. Let's get
together build some homes.
put in some real streets, build
some sidewalks, plant somé
trees, install some street
lights, and show the rest of
Holbrook that it does not al
ways pay to be close in.
On account of bad weather,
which made it impossible for
many prospective purchasers
to see this property during
the last week, the advance
in price advertised to become
effective on February 15,
will not become effective un
til Tuesday morning, Feb.
18th. .
About $28,000 worth of
these lots have been recently
sold, yet by reason of the
west end, (directly north of
the high-school building)
having just been platted,
there yet remain unsold
many very fine lots.
Monthly payments on con
tracts may be made to the
undersigned or to either of
he local banks.
G. C. Hall.
Legal Blanks
ine iNews omce nas in
stock at all times a large
variety of legal blanks, in
cluding quit claim and war
ranty deeds, powers of at-
orney, option contracts, oil
ocation notices, oil land
eases, (special iorm lease
drawn by an eminent at-
orney familiar with condi-
tions in tne rioiorook dis
trict,) and various other
kinds of blanks. Mail orders
filled. - tf
The WinBlow Undertaking Co.
haa a complete auto funeral
equipment and is prepared to
handle all business in a satis
factory manner. J3t.
Town, County and General
News Stories of Interest
Gathered and Written During the Week by the News
Staff of Reporters. If You Don't See It Here, It
Didn't Happen. Anyhow, It's Worth Reading.
Judge Sidney Sapp is at
tending the annual meetings
of Masons in Prescott this
week.
Dr. Swisrert. the Denver
optician, was in Holbrook
last Monday looking after
professional business.
Mrs. W. W. Newman left
last Monday evening to at
tend the annual meeting of
the Grand Lodge O. E. S.
A light snow fell in this
locality Tuesday night. Most
of it was melted Wednesday
bv the sun and the warm
wind that prevailed through
out the day.
Mrs. Wm. Lee, who was
called home from Flagstaff
early last week by the seri
ous illness of her husband,
has returned to that . city.
Mr. Lee is greatly improved
in health.
W. G. Bussee, traveling
representative of Blake, Mof
fitt & Towhe, paper dealers
of Los Angeles, was in Hol
brook last Monday calling on
his customers.
Wallace Ellsworth mem
ber of the firm óf F. Ells
worth & Sons, Showlow mer
chants, spent two days in
Holbrook this week buying
merchandise for his firm.
The News "office had a pleas
ant visit - with the gentle
man. '
H. H. Scorse returned to
Holbrook last Saturday from
Phoenix where he had spent
several weeTss looking after
his stock ánd land interests.
Mr. Scorse is wintering his
sheep near- Phoenix, and dur
ing the winter months spends
much of his time in that city.
Mrs. M. L. Whitton of
Wichita, Kan., will arrive
in Holbrook tonight to visit
the home of her son, Frank
Whitton.
Misses Louise and EllaDadey
visited relatives in Winslow
Sunday. Miss Louise re
turned to Holbrook Monday
morning; Miss Ella will re
main in Winslow for two
weeks, when she will return
to this place to accept a posi
tion as stenographer in the
office of Attorney C. H. Jor
dan. - . "
Lloyd C. Henning left here
Monday evening to attend
the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Masons in
Prescott. After the session
of the lodge Mr. Henning
will go to , Phoenix . to visit
his family and to accompany
them to Holbrook. The
youngest- member of the
family, a son born a few
weeks ago, whom the father
has never seen, will be of the
party provided he is pleased
with his paternal ancestpr.
James Donohoe, the well
Known stocKman oi Ada
maría, was a business visitor
to Holbrook Monday. Mr.
Donohoe returned Saturday
rom Colorado where he and
his partner, Phillip Marges-
-
son, are wintering a large
bunch of cattle. These cat-
le are at Crook, in the north
eastern part of the state,
where there is plenty of at
alfa and sugar beets which
make excellent forage for
stock. Mr. Margesson and
his family are spending the
winter in Denver.
J. F. Treat, proprietor of
the Lakeside sawmill, was in
Holbrook Tuesday when en
route to Flagstaff.
The Wright lunch room sells
pies, cakes and other dehcacie3.
Cakes made to order. ÍD 6-tf)
H. M. Moritz, of the Mer
chants &Stockgrowers Bank,
returned Friday from a short
business visit in Albuquer
que.
A conference of the forest
supervisors in Arizona and
New Mexico was held
Albuquerque this week.
C. Hoyt, supervisor of
in
T,
the
Sitgreaves forest, attended
the conference, as did Frank
lin H. Owens of Lakeside.
Mrs. H. Mortiz will enter
tain guests at cards, on Fri
day afternoon.
Miss May McClanahan has
issued invitations to friends
for Satnrday night, at her
home.
A choir is being organized
by local musicians to furnish
music for church services,
The members meet at the
Methodist church every Sun
day evening at 7:00 o'clock
for practice.
The Merchants & Stock
growers Bank has just in
stalled a new steel cabinet
containing sixty safe-deposi
drawers. These will be rent
ed to any persons who desire
a safe place to keep papers.
jewelry or other articles o
value.
mi
rne annual convention o
Arizona cattlemen was held
in Phoenix this week,
Among those who attended
from this county were Fránk
Campbell and C. E. Owens
An adjourned session oí
the county supervisors wil
be held in Holbrook tomor
row. '
E. I. Hastings, field man
ager for the Holbrook Oi
uo., visited fns sister, in
Winslow last Sunday.
Attorney W, H, Burbage
and A. H. Hansen of Wins
low, are in Holbrook today
on Dusmess, Mr. Hansen
was discharged from the U,
S. army about a month ago,
returning to his home last
week. During the term of
his enlistment he served in á
balloon squadron stationed
at Arcadia, near Los An
geles. Mr. Hansen is in fine
health and is glad to be at
home again.
George Wright, proprietor
of Wright's Lunch Room,
has started the construction
of an addition to his place of
business. The annex will be
used for a dining room, the
increasing Dusmess oi tnis
popular restaurant making
more room necessary.
W. J. Hennessey, manager
of the Adamana Oil Co., has
gone to El Paso to purchase
a water well drilling rig,
This company has been haul
ing water for the boiler at
its oil well and it was de
cided that money could be
saved by drilling a water
well before going further
with the oil well. Mr. Hen
nessey will return in a few
days, coming back through
Phoenix.
Dr. A. F. Switzer returned
last night from a business
trip to Wagon Mound, N. M.
Judge J. E. Crosby re
turned last night from Phoe
nix, where he had spent sev
eral days hearing a case for
Judge Sanfcrd of the Mari
copa county superior court.
Chairman Creswell, of the
county board of supervisors,
came to Holbrook yesterday
morning from Winslow to go
to Snowflake with other
members of the board to in
spect the new school house
just completed at that place.
Fine Attraction at
Pastime Tonight
Mae Marsh, the little 21-year-old
daughter of New
Mexico, will play tonight at
the Pastime theater in a
thrilling detective story writ
ten
bv Irvin S. Cobb ' 'The
Face in the Dark."
FARMERS EN BEST
FINANCIAL SHAPE
OF RECENT YEARS
Smooth Transition of Agricul
ture to Peace Basis Predicted
by Federal Reserve Board
American farmers are in better
financial shape than they have been
for years, according to a recent report
Of the Federal Reserve Board at Wash.'
Ington, which also predicts a smooth
transition of agriculture and industry
from a war to a peace basis. The
board's review of economic conditions
throughout the country is based on
detailed -reports made to it by the
governors of the twelve federal re
serve banks.
"The farmer Is said to be In the
best financial shape for many years1
the review says. "In the South he Is
able to hold his cotton for better
prices and is marketing his output
conservatively.
"Excellent crop prospects are re-,
ported from the wheat states of the
West and from California. On the
Pacific Coast the prospepts for excel
lent crops are exceedingly bright.
"Victory year" crops, according to
another government report, added1
$17,000,000,000 to our wealth. The1
principal contributions were:
Corn-2,682,814,000 bushels, $3,528,-
513,000.
Wheat 917,100,000 bushels, $l,874,r
523,000,
Oats 1,538,359,000 bushels, . $1,092,
423,000.
Barley 256,375,000 bushels, $235,-
269,000.
Rye 89,103,000 bushels, $134,947,-
000.
Potatoes 397,676,000 bushels', $475,-
731,000.
Hay 75,459,000 tons, $1,522,473,000.
Tobacco 1,340,019,000 pounds,
$374,318,000.
Apples 173,632,000 barrels, $229.-
390,000.
As a result of the 'flourishing condi
tion of the farmer In feeneral the gov
ernment .expects him to take a large
block of Victory Liberty Loan Bonds
In April.
BORN OF WAR
It is difficult yet to value accurately
or In some Instances to perceive all
the war has brought to our national
fife or pruned from it. The things
we, think little now ' may appear to
posterity the greatest. The Thrift
Stamp Idea seems to be one of these.
Originated as a war emergency meas
ure, it has taken hold; has appealed
to the common sense of America, and
may yet shape the destiny of the
nation.
It is patent, now that the war is
over, that the Thrift Stamp has come
to stay. If we get nothing else out of
the war but the habit of saving, which
begets the corollary simple living, we
wilj have reaped the full fruit of the
war. For a thrifty democracy Is a
firm democracy, a potent democracy,
democracy strong enough tP pre
serve itself, '
A man who saves a better citizen
than the man who does not save. He
becomes a stockholder in bis govern
ment and he Js Jealous for the wel
fare of that government in war and
In peace. In war he will fight for It
with his Ufe. In peace he will protect
It from those who would tear down.
As America saves from this day on
so shall she grow in benign power and
In the eyes of mankind. "A bank ac
count for every. American citizen'
Bhould be one of our national slogans.
The Thrift and War Savings Stamp
Idea is freighted with a mighty change
for the better in our national life.
The Thrift Stamp Is backed by the
United States eovernment. Without
boubt it Js the greatest investment
er offered and it Is in such a form
,i::it every American, big and little,
yan tfiiie advantage o". It.
Origin of "Algernon,"
The name Algernon waa originally
nls Gernon," and was first applied to
one or the crusading Percys. His
name was William, but his fellow
knights called him William els Gernon
or Gernon, meaning William with the
Whiskers, or just Whiskers for short
As Algernon the name has persisted
In the amily to tie present time, and
the tenth duke of Northumberland,
who died recently, was Algernon
rercy.
Fat Not Used.
Burma is one of the few lands it
which fat Is not used for lighting oi
Industrial purposes.
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QUOTAS OF LOAN
WILL DEPEND ON
Oversubscriptions of January
and February Savings Cam
paign Allotments to Re
duce Loan Task
Victory Liberty Loan quotas of the
Twelfth Federal Reserve District are
to be determined in some measure by.
the amounts loaned the government
by each district In War Savings
Stamps during January and February.
If a district oversubscribes Its War
Savings Stamp quotas for the first
two months of the year, its Victory
Liberty Loan quota will be decreased
to the extent of the oversubscription.
Conversely, if a district falls to. reach
its January and February Stamp quo-',
tas. Its Liberty Loan quota will be
increased. :
When Lewis B. Franklin, director,
of the War Loan Organization, waa In
I f'an Franclsco recently, he revealed"
signed there was In progress In Wash-'
ington a meeting to formulate plans
for the continuous sale of . Liberty,
Bonds such a plan as governs the
sale of Thrift and War Savings
Stamps. Moreover, the Liberty Bond;
and War Stamps work was to be
closely coordinated.
These plans were immediately dls-,
carded when the Germans signed the
armistice and when Secretary of the
Treasury Glass took office he an
nounced that the Victory Liberty Loan
would be the last. In the face of 8Hg:
gestions that the Victory Loan be put
on a cold commercial Dasis, ne aaaea
that the men making these sugges-'
tions were discounting the patriotism
pf the American people and be would
depend upon the patriotism of tb9
American people rather than place se
curities of the United States govern
ment upon a plane with the paper of
private corporations. . j
The banks used to buy United States
bonds bearing 2 per cent Interest be-,
fore the war. That's how good the
credit 'of the United States is.
The $100 you put into a Victory lib
erty Bond will be worth $125 plus inr
terest when prices settle down. A dol
lar Is wortb what you can buy with (j.
Better have the bonds of the United
States in the hands of 30,000,000
ordinary citizens than concentrated la
the hands of a few rich men. Think
of that when Uncle Sam offers you
a Victory Liberty Bond.
Don't think you have sacrificed be
cause you may be .paying for your Interest-bearing
Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds. These fellows back from France
legless, armless or sightless don't think
they have sacrificed. They simply
think they did their duty,
The Victory Loan coming In April
is the last Liberty Loan. Then the
war is over for yoj. It will be still
going on for 1,000,000 Americans In'
France.
WHO SAYS IT?
Slogging through the mud of
France,
Camping In the rain;
Hiking In a frozen trance
Down some German plain;
"Fall In!" hear the sergeant yell,
Far from home and clover;
Tell me, who the bally hell
Said the war "was overt"
Chow for breakfast slum for
noon '
Who says men are free -While
the bugler's foolish tune
Pipes the reveille?
"Right dress!" hear the sergeant
buzz
From Mainz across to Dover;
Tell me who the hell it wus
Said the war "was over?"
Cleaning up a mass of wire.
Stained with clotted blood
Where the big trucks bog and mire
In the winter mud;
Full of filth and fleas and fuzz
Cannoneer and drover,
Tell me who the fat-head wus
Said the war "was over?"
Grantland Rice.
Cable the Peace Conference
America's prestige Is at stake la
the coming Victory Liberty Loan. The
eyes pf the world are fixed qpon us.
The nations of the world are going to
rate us on this last effort. It is right
that they should Judge us, not by
what -we do in the heat of the strug
gle, but by our condition after the
fight.
One of the best guarantees of world
peace for years to come would be the
successful flotation of the Victory Lib
erty Loan for five or six billion dol
lars. Even a combination of powers
Inclined to start another war would
hesitate In the face of such a display
of tremendous national strength.
Every man who buys a Victory Lib
erty Bond next April, moreover, will
e adding fo the determination with'
which America speaks at the Peace
Conferenpe, There are undoubtedly
going to be many moments during that
Conference when every whit of the
power of the United States will be
needed to shape into actualities those
ideals for which we entered the world
struggle.
Let the cables carry Into the Qua!
d'Orsay this message:
America has oversubscribed her
Fifth Liberty Loan by more than a
billion dollars."
Labor.
Labor Is the grand conqueror, er
rlchlng and building up nations more
surely than the proudest battles.
Channing. ' " '