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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1919)
THE ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 27, 1919 PAGE FIVE OIL NOTES Output of crude oil in the United Statca in September totaled 34,487, 000 barrels, against 33,986,000 In August, a gain of 601,000 barrels. This Is a daily average of 1,149,567 barrels for September. Output for the nine months ended September 30 is estimated at 278,674,000 bar rels, compared with 264,569,000 bar rels in the same period of 1918, an , Increase of 13,710,000 barrels, or 5 per cent. Based on production for the first nine months of 1919 out put should easily exceed 400,000,000 barrels for the year. Casper oil and stock men have fi nanced the Mule Creek Oil company to drill on holdings in the field of the same name. The company has leases aggregating 2,920 acres in townships 38 and 39-61, some of the land being 'within two miles of production. T. A. Hall, Natrona county commis sioner, is president of the company; John Bryne, vice president; F. R. Hufsmith, secretary-treasurer; S. E. Phippen, manager; A. E. Winter and Earl D. Keaton, directors. The hold ings of this company are located ad jacent to those of the Wyoming Northeastern Oil company, being or ganized by Hemlngford, Alliance and other Nebraska men. Oil men are of the opinion that our foreign kerosene trade In the coming year will break the pre-war record, which means that we will ship more than 115,000,000 gallons a month. In the first eight months of this year we exported more than SO, 000, 000 gallons a month, double the amount shipped in the same period last year. With the resump tion of trade with Germany it is-estimated 15,000,000 gallons a month will be added. The alue of kerosene exports in the first eight months of this year established a high record, 175.260,613, or 11H cents a gallon, compared with $58,811,195, or 6 cents a fallong for the same period of 1913. If the present export price of kerosene Is maintained, our for eign kerosene trade should reach a value of more than' $175,000,000 a year. Production figures from north and north central Texas during the past week show little change in the daily average, except for the Desdemona field, wich dropped to 29,000 bar rels daily, 8,000 barrels below the previous week, according to a Dallas telegram. Burkburnett maintained its regular 85,000-barrel dally out put. Stephens county, with a daily production of 41,000 barrels, shows a decrease of more than 1,000 bar rels. Ranger production, however, increased 2,000 barrels dally, giving a total output of better than 64,000 barrels daily. The week's completions In the Desdemona pool have included sev eral wells ranging from 1,000 to 2, 000 barrels, and a number of small producers. Ranger has reported a few small wells, and five or six aver aging about 1,200 barrels all of these larger wells being on the west side of the field. Recent advances in the prices paid for Pennsylvania crude and other eastern oils, which are acknowledged to lead the market for prices paid here, were reflected last Friday in an announcement by the' Ohio Oil company of a 25-cent increase per barrel for all grades of Wyoming crude oils. Thousands of dollars added value to the daily oil output of Wyoming will be the result of the raise. On some grades the raise Is the first since March 21, 1918, and on oil from the newer fields Lance creek and Rock river, the raise marks the first change in price since March 28, 1919. In the meantime Pennsylvania crude and most east ern oils have jumped 50 cents a bar rel, the last increase being author ized laBt week when the price went over $4.00 for the first time. Grass Creek and Elk Basin crude are now Criticism and Citizenship It is the plain, public duty of every citizen to criticize proposed govern ment measures believed to be harmful. Swift & Company is in a better pos ition perhaps, than others, to under stand the meat packing business in all its relations to public and private inter ests, even though the others may have been giving the subject a great deal of sincere attention. Swift & Company is convinced that interference with its legitimate business function by governmental agencies, however well intentioned, would be an injury to every man, woman and child who wants meat to eat, as well as to the men who raise the meat and to those who dress and distribute it. Maximum service that cannot monopolize because of keen competi tion and lack of control over sources of supply is furnished at a minimum of profit a fraction of a cent per pound from all sources. Therefore Swift & Company is taking every legitimate step of citizen ship to prevent such interference. These advertisements are intended to help you, and to help Congress decide what is best to be done. Mis takes are costly and apt to be harmful in these trying times. Let us send you a Swift "Dollar." Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. Swift & Company, U. S. A. l Mvatm M f Oil THIS SHOWS WHAT BECOMES OF THE AVERAGE DOLLAR RECEIVED RV 'SWIFT & COMPANY rM imc aic Of MEAT AND OUCTS (I CENTS It PAID ton THC UV ANIMAL II Ct NTS, ON LABOR quoted at $2.10; Buck Creek crude comands $2.05; Big Muddy, Salt Creek and Rock River crude la ad vanced to $1.75, these latter being of the same grade. It la expected that oil from the wells In Mule creek field will noon be placed on the mar ket, as work Is progressing rapidly on the new pipe line from the field to Dakomirfg. This oil will probably bring In the neighborhood of $2.60 per barrel. Favorable developments have marked operations In the Lance creek field during the past two weeks. The new gusher, brought In the lower sand the Dakota, has caused renewed activity and several wells which had been adandoned on account of striking water in the higher sand will be cased off and drilled on through. Ground was broken last week for the new refinery to be built at Osage, near Newcastle, by the McWhorter Oil and Refining company to handle part of the production from the new field. Milton McWhorter of Lusk Is head of the new company, which Is capitalized at $500,000 and which will adopt the McWhorter process of refining, used successfully on the coast. The Omaha Oil company has se cured leases on 6,000 acres of land south of Lusk and will start three rigs drilling as soon as weather con ditions will permit; locations have been made at widely separated points on the acreage. The company is cap italized at $200,000 and is fully financed. The newly organized Enterprise Drilling company, a Wyoming cor poration, is reported to have entered Into a contract with the Wyoming Premier company to drill several wells on the latter's holdings In the Warm Springs field, near Thermop olis, where twenty-eight wells are no capped awaiting the beginning of operations by the new Alliance refining company. Present produc tion Is estimated will exceed 1,200 barrels per day and the Wyoming- Premier hopes to complete one or two wells each month. The refinery will have a capacity of 1,500 barrels per day. Alliance people were much inter ested on learning the first of the week that the Mid-West Oil company was reported to have paid $125,000 in cash for the lease on the north half of section 17-46-63, In the Osage field. Section 18 is held by Alli ance parties and two rigs are now drilling thereon, under lease. This looks very encouraging to the Alli ance parties. Other Alliance parties are now drilling in the field and are expecting a successful completion of the well any day. We're Thankf ml BECAUSE the boys arc all home again with us this year to celebrate the close of the great World War. A year ago many of them were in France and Germany, wishing they could be round the fireside with homefolks. BECAUSE the past year has been one of prosperity for all because there has been work at good wages for those who were willing to work all others should be sent back to the lands from whence they came. BECAUSE we are in the land of the living and in good health because we have the privilege of living in western Nebraska "God's Country," where nature has smiled bountifully during the past season and where there are huge stores of potatoes and grains awaiting shipment to the hungry cities and the cast BECAUSE the cattle and horses of western Nebraska have plenty to eat rich, cured grass on the prairies and in the hills and stacks of delicious wild hay and alfalfa in the valleys and on the farms BECAUSE the heavy snows which have been slowly melting and soaking the rich, fertile soils of Box Butte county and western Nebraska give definite promise of great and abundant crops during the coming year, providing work and food for those who by their pioneer work are changing the prairies into farms and the hills into ranches BECAUSE Alliance, the Queen City of the plains and metropolis of western Nebraska, is beginning to cast aside her swaddling clothes and to take on the aspects of the city which she soon will be, for the year 1920 promises to see the greatest develop ment in the history of Alliance and Box Butte county. FOR ALL OF WHICH WE ARE THANKFUL Thomas-Bald Investment Company LLOYD C. THOMAS and P. A. BALD Alliance National Bank Bldg. Phone 209 ALLIANCE BOX BUTTE COUNTY NEBRASKA "Farms and Ranches for Everybody" Barg aim Gash Prices In Slightly Used Cars All in First Class Condition If you have attempted to buy an automobile since the market has become so unset tled, you realize how difficult it is to buy a new car at any price. The cars listed below will serve every purpose that a new machine will and you get the advantage of a sub stantial reduction in addition to the advantage of immediate possession. Look them over and select the one most suited to your needs: Packard Roadster, 1918 Model -Hupmobile Touring Car, 1919 Model Hupmobile Roadster, 1919 Model . $2,250 $1,250 $1,250 Understand this is the low price set for cash payment. There is no additional freight New Shipment We also have IN STOCK, ready for immediate delivery, the new shipment of 1920 Model Chandlers Every car conforms to the Chandler ideal of beautiful lines in construction, together with a performance par excellence. Note these prices and avail yourself of the oppor tunity without delay. They Will Not Last Long at These Prices Touring car, 1920 Model Dispatch car, 1920 Model Coupe, 1920 Model -Sedan, 1920 Model $1,987 - $2,077 $2,825 - $2,925 SCHWABE BRO CHANDLER-HUPMOBILE SERVICE STATION Nebraska ii'imci and raiiSNT Alliance I.4 NT ItMAlNl Chadron WITH SWIFT ft COMPANY A MOfIT