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THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
Thursday, Febrnary 27, 191
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ROMANCE FOUNDJN
t t WYOMING OIUFIELD
lnrc Crn'k Oil MHd. North of
Lrtisk, Wan Heady ti lie Aban
doned When llig Well Itrokr
The Herald has published In re
cent Issues particulars regarding the
trance Creek oil field, north of Lurk,
which la now in need of a refinery.
Alliance has been suggested aa an
ideal alte for the proponed refinery,
feeing practically as close to tho
field as Casper and more advantage
ously situated on account of being
tat of Lusk, the nearest town to the
fteld.
The following account of the "ro
mance" of thin field will prove in
teresting: A real romance In oil describes
the recent movement In the shares
tt the Western States Oil & Ind ,
Co., a Wyoming company which h.is
advanced within a few Weeks from
round 7Cc a share to $26, following
the completion of the pioneer well
en Its acreage In the Lance Creek
teld by the Ohio Oil Co. The
bringing in of this well was, within
lUelf, a story of adventure which
has few parallels In the oil world.
These event connected with the
movement In the stock of the west
ern states, the rush to the field and
nbeequent developments, furnish
the foundation for a story very much
cut of the ordinary.
One off the most Interesting fea
tures In connection with the devel
opments was the way In which for
itune smiled on many people and va
rious Interests after apparent failure
bad marked the course of events.
The last twist of the drill had been
given. The men were packing up to
leave their Jobs and another promis
ing oil field was about to pans into
the discard, when the wheel of for
tune turned, and wealth dropped un
expectedly Into the laps of many
people.
Two yearB ago, II. A. Rlspln, a
California operator, with the assist
ance of hlsas8oclates, organized the
Western States Oil & Land Co., with
the modest capitalization of 100,000
hares, par 11. It acquired, leases
nd placer locations on more than
44,000 acres of lands In Lance Creek,
West Salt Creelc, Towder River, Big
Sluddy, Buffalo Dnaln and other
fields which were then promising.
The promoters figured that it could
lose on all Its chances but one and
till make good.
The company held Its acreage
while other companies wlldcatted In
the various fields. It leased some of
its holdings to large companies who
were willing to take chances. Its
ground In West Salt Creek was dot
ted with rigs. But the bringing In
of water wells in that district ended
11 hopes of profits from that source
nd the rigs were removed. A wa
ter well In Towder River condemned
that field. Nothing but gas, which
was too far away for commercial
use, was found In Buffalo Basin. One
failure followed another. The com
pany gave up some of Its acreage be
cause It was too big a burden to
carry. Its acreage in Lance Creek
was reduced from 21.000 to 14.000
but still It held on. It leased most
of Its. Lance Creek acreage Just as
It had done in West Salt Creek.
The Ohio Oil Co. drilled a well In
Lance Creek In the fall of 1917 and
spring of 1918. It tapped a thin
and at a great depth which made
only 10 barrels a day, just enough
to cause a flurry of excitement, but
not enough to make It a paying pro
position. Western States was up
gainst a threatening failure.
Arrangements were made with W.
R. Macbeth, a well known Denver
ell man connected with a stock ex
change firm, to market 10,000 shares
of Western State- stock at $2 a
Share to provide funds with which to
oo me annual assessment work on
the various claims as required by
law to hold the ground. Every pur
chaser was told that H was a chance
and they went In with that under
standing. The Ohl'i Oil Co.. which hud a
lease on section 36, owned by West
ern S!ale and upon which the well
was drilling nVc'ded to so -i down
with 'he hoi In the meantime,
Western State tinted Us own hole.
Buits were filed against the company
to recover tome of the costs and one
trouble after another handicapped Hs
operations. But the Ohio well kept
going down. Nothing, however, was
showing. Ther vere not even any
water or dry Bands and everybody
became i-une discouraged.
At last the Ohio Co. decided to
abandon the test. The men gavv
the last twist to the drill and went
into their boarding house to eat their
last meal. Fight big trucks were on
their way to the field to move away
the equipment. The final chapter
was being wrltt'n.
But while the men were eating
their farewell meal, things were hap
pening out at the well a few hundred
feet away. The drill had almost
reached the Band when operations
ceased. Long pent-up gas and oil
began seeking an outlet thru the
loosening soil and all of a sudden
the well drilled Itself In and broku
loose. The men aleft their boarding
house to find the well shooting oil
all over the place. It was gushing
at the rate of 1,000 barrels a day
and had gone wild. In the excite
ment, it was Impossible to keep the
strike a secret. The Ohio Co. ba.1
only Ihe one lease and it couldn't
hide the news while It obtained more.
The news flew like wildfire and
within a few days the rush was on.
Then followed a Bcramble for
leases and rigs began ?olng up by
the dozens. The well was pinchfi
down to 200 barrels while the oper
ating companies began to fortify
themselves In the field. The Mid
west Ref. Co. succeeded In buying 61
per cent of the Block of the Western
States and then the Investors took
notice. In the meantime the well
kept drilling itself deeper into the
sand. Two weeks ago it broke loose
again and was making 4,000 barrels
a day. Western States began climb
ing until It is now quoted arouna
a share, utner stocks caugni
contagion and Wyoming had another
big oil boom under way.
Macbeth, who had Bold the 10.000
shares at $2 a Bhare, began to take
stock what had happened to his
customers. Most of It had been sola
to Longmont people but some of It
was held In Denver. Henry P; Da-
vln, a clerk with the Trltch Hard
ware Co., of Denver, had purchased
340 shares. Two weeks ago he
turned down an offer which would
have given him $7,140 profit on his
$680 Investment.
C. E. Mitchell, a Denver stock
broker, bought 1,200 shares. He
went to ar under the draft call and
as he had just married, he sold part
of his holdinga. When he returned
from the war e had 700 shares
left. These can be sold today for
$16,100. It cost him $18,000 to go
to war thru the necessity of selling
800 shares.
One hundred and ten dollars In
vested In 55 Bhares saved the day for
a Longmont man. He had some
payments due on a mortgage on his
home and he had dissolved a part
nershlp which left him without any
Immediate income. He sold his 5.'
shares for $1,252.35 net and this en
abled him to meet his mortgage and
get on his feet again.
Sense and Nonsense
(J leaned from Our Weekly Study
In the Ocntle Art of Uotwlp
. Hy JACK iiiniii
There will be joy In the hearts of
'he automobile speed demons when
re puving of Alliance has been com
pleted. A little legislation along the prop
er lines Is atl that Is needed to affect
a commission-manager form of gov
ernment for Alliance. There Is yet
hopes that the necessary laws may
be enacted.
The United States can not hope to
gain all the concessions that might
be desired at the peace conference,
bu'. Bbe will get a large per cent f
1 al she has asked. No man could
pottiniy win all, fitted as in res.-
den'. Wilson, ft gainst the ablest men
of Europe, and H is foolish to hope
for ao much. However, It 1b afe to
rest assured that Mr. Wilson will se
cure for bis country an mat any
American would secure.
Nebraska's new governor is for
the creating of a state constabulary
He believes border policing will prac
tically eliminate the importation of
booze and the theft of automobiles.
Maybe so, but I can not become en
thusiastic over a proposition that
might bring upon the state a blot
such as the killing of-Herrlgan by
the Colorado constabulary brought
on Colorado. Well regulated ft
might be all right.
It doesn't make much difference
what a woman Bends her husband to
get for her she will insist that she
could have gotten It a couple of cents
cheaper.
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I have for a long time wondered
just what Is meant by the cafe term,
"planked steak." This week I in
quired of Jesse M. Miller of the Al
liance Cafe. "Why, that's where
you plank down two dollars, said
Mr. Miller. "Oh. no. it isn't." I fi
nally replied. "No such high flukln'
stuff for me, and besides, 1 haven't
the two dollars."
Men, as a rule, haven't much sense
but I'll wager that If they wore
skirts the bowlegged kind wouldn't
wear them as short as the bowlegged
girls do.
An unquestionable sign of the
nearness of spring the advent of
the bookseller. Alliance has just
been visited by one of the smooth
WANT TO 11UY lAsV
We have customers for fifty quar
ter-sections of Ilox Ihitte iVmnty
land. If you have land in Ilox Butte
comity to sell, call at our office at
once. THOMAS . HALL) INVEST
MENT COMPANY, Alliance National
Hank Building, Alliance.
Stinging Criticism.
Said the facetious feller, "These old
jmo school temher may have hml
tome funny Ideas nliout teochln', but
tou gotta give em credit for knowin
hnt n good substantial ruler, when
tghtly applied to n stupid student
vould make him smnrt."
Mince Pie
Ilka Mother Used to Make
is only one of the
manycWtngsAat
can be made with
None Such
Mincemeat
Send for x
Illustrated Recipes
Mmell-Soula Co, $ynuXlY.
ttJfcZ?23flEBB
The tekphoae lerrloe hie not been exempt from
the lncrised eort of Ubor and materials. It 1
eottlng tliia company a great deal more to furnish
telephone service ncrw than it did before the war.
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Noth'ng Gained by Brooding.
Olve np brooding over failure take
each day n n fresh start. Olve up en
mities, grudges, envies nil conditions
of mind Hint draft down the spirit. He
constructive. See the good In people.
Keep abreast with the news of what
our men "over there" are doing each
day and perform your duty (even be
It dish washing) In the fervor that fills
them ns they obey their bugle calls.
Beautiful Ferns.
. When the new shoots of potted ferns
ppenr turn them to the light until
"hey are veil up ntvl the shoot started
i the right direction. When the fern
s full grown the result wllliie a beau
Iful sound plant. '
Well, Knowledge Is Power.
Jlmmle had been to the dentist tc
fet a tooth pulled. A few days later
a friend of the fomlly, a man whose
head presented on extremely barefoot
d appearance, called at Jlmmle's
house. Jlmmle squirmed around nwhllp
snd finally asked : "Mister Krnwn, did
It hurt much when ya gotcher hnlr
fulled?"
SAYS HOT WATER
WASHES POISONS
FROM THE LIVER
Everyone should drink hot water
with phosphate In It,
before breakfast
To feel as fine as the proverbla
fiddle, we must keep the liver washed
clean, almost every morning, to pre
vent Its sponge-like pores from clog
ging with Indigestible material, Bour
bile and poisonous toxins, says a noted
physician.
If you get hcadaclies, it's your liver.
If you catch cold easily, it's your liver.
If you wake up with a bad taste, furred
tongue, nasty breath or stomach bo
comes rancid, It's your liver. Sallow
skin, muddy complexion, watery eyes
all denote liver uncleanllnesa. Your
liver Is the most Important, also the
must abused and neglected organ of
the body. Few know Its function or
how to release the dammed-up body
Suffering Transmuted.
, Unhapplness Is the hunger to get;
happiness Is the hunger to give. True
happiness must ever have the tinge
of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain
softened by the mellowing years, the
chastening of loss that in the won
drous mystery of time transmutes our
suffering Into love and sympathy with
pthers. William George Jordan.
Interest
Interest speaks nil sorts of tongues
nd plays all sorts of parts, even the
inrt of the disinterested.-La Roche
oucnuld.
ITS UNWISE
to put off to-day'e duty until to
morrow. If your stomach is
acid-disturbed take
RM201D
the new aid to digestion comfort
todsym A pleasant relief from
the discomfort of acid-dyspepsia,
Minn rv rcott & BOWMB
MAKERS OP SCOTTS EMULSION
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waste, bile and toxins. Most folks
resort to violent calomel, which is a
tongued agents and 'tis said sureesH dangerous, salivating chemical which
crowned their efforts. "Efficiency In can only be used occasionally Because
The Home" Is the title of the publi- it accumulates In the tissues, also
ration and has been found popular attacks the bones,
and valuable among the teachers of
the city.
A few fellows succeed through tak
ing chances others succeed by tak
ing everything else In sight.
.
One thing In favor of the flying
machine Is that the pilot need have
Every man and woman, sick or
well, should drink each morning be
fore breakfast, a glass of hot water
with a teaspoon ful of limestone phos
phate in it, to wash from the liver and
bowels the previous day's Indigestible
material, the poisons, sour bile and
toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening
and freshening the entire alimentary
no fear of the railroad crossings. 1 canal before putting more food Into
But then, who Is to be the fall guy
when it comes to getting damages
for injuries?
The real iiessimlst is found in the
guy who thinks of fly time while the
rest of ub are anxiously awaiting the
breaking of spring.
Some people have coffee others
have tons of It.
Joe Harvey, coffee king,, admits
that the only thing that might tempt
him to relax his grip on the Java
market is for the other fellow to
come across with some condensed
cream. Coffee Joe is always ready
and willing to "swap."
A man's brightness is like unto a
woman's beauty it superinduces an
affliction from which the patient is a
long time recovering, sometimes.
If some of you fellows would take
to calling on your sweethearts in the
morning, JuBt before breakfast, in
stead of in the evenings after sup
per, there wouldn't be one-half so
many engagements. '
He May Ho An Anarchist
The Sherlock Holmes of The Her
ald force contends there will be an
other vacancy In the school staff ere
long. Anyway, his discovery was
sufficient In effect to cause a certain
good looking school ma'am to forego
her evening meal the other day and
flee from the midst of her surprised,
yet elated, friends and the scene of
much Jollification at her expense
while the young gallant sat tight in
the boat and refused to reveal fur
ther information. Ability to keep
one's Seat ou such an occasion with
out Expressing, at least, an opinion
In the case certainly displays ster
ling worth and the fair moulder of
the destinies and morals of the chil
dren of her charge may rest assured
that I. too, extend sincere congratulations.
the stomach,
Limestone phosphate does not re
strict the diet like calomel, because it
can not Ballvate, for it Is harmless and
you can eat anything afterwards. It
Is Inexpensive and almost tasteless, and
any pharmacist will sell you a quarter
pound, which is sufficient for a dem
onstration of how hot water and lime
stone DhoRDhate cleans, stimulates and
freshens the liver, keeping you feeling
Bt day In and day out 9
111
long-lasting bars
in each package.
The biggest
value in
refreshment
you can pos
sibly buy.
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A BENEFIT to teeth,
breath, appetite and
digestion;
The price is 5 cents.
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Sugar Abnormally Distributed
The prospective production of su
gar for the season of 1918-19 is
about 188,000 short tons less than
the annual average for the five years
Just before the war which, as com
pared with a total of 18,750.000
short tons, Is not of great signifi
cance, and the current crop is re
garded by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture as practically
sufficient to meet a normal world
consumption even if present stocks
did not exist. Attention is called to
the fact, however, that the world su
gar supply Is not normally distribut
ed. There is a shortage In the beet
sugar production in Europe of 50
per cent of the prewar average,
amounting to about 4,150,000 tons,
while in the same time the cane su
gar output has increased by 3,842,
000 tons, and the beet sugar crop of
the United States la 131,000 tons
above the prewar average, though
the smallest since 1914. No consid
erable increase In beet sugar produc
tion is expected within the next 13
months, although It la expected ulti
mately to exceed that of prewar
times.
The Government has lifted the ban on
cereals and relinquished its lease on the
new Bevo building. Our plant, voluntarily
tendered the Government, is now ready to
resume full capacity production of
pc&us pat err
America's Cereal Beverage
Like all Americans, we have made our
sacrifice to help win the war. Now we
are ready o renew our full duty as a great
National industrial institution.
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
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