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14-ACRE TRACT PURCHASERS
SHARE ALSO IN PROFITS
FROM PROVEN LEASE
You will certainly buy quarter tracts of our property when you
understand that regardless of the outcome of our drilling operations
at High Island, your share of profits from our proven Humble lease
should earn you big returns.
If A test well has already been drilled here, with a showing which is es
timated will make at least 500 barrels per day, from 1,700 foot sand,
when completed.
fl Adjoining leases are producing from 5,000 to 8,000-barrel gushers from
deeper sand which surely should also exist on our lease.
fl With only 2,000-barrel daily production from this lease the company
should be able to pay each $30 quarter acre tract purchaser about 600
annually.
f The photograph shown below is a view of the wonderful Herman prop
erty, which adjoins our proven lease on the west.
Our Expert Drilling Superintendent
We have secured the services of Mr. E. D. Snyder as drilling superin
tendent. He has drilled hundreds of big oil wells throughout Kansas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, and Old Mexico. He drilled 38 big pro
ducers for the McMan Oil Co. in Healdton field, which company, while
starting with very small capital, recently sold to the Magnolia Oil Co.
for $30,000,000.00. His record with our company should equal or sur
pass this.
We will gladly furnish any further information desired.
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As we have only a limited number of tracts for sale, we advise you
to rush in your order immediately.
Payments may be arranged.
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I hereby subscribe for quarter-acre tracts of your High Island prop
erty, and I hand you herewith $ in payment for same.
It is understood I am to receive good and sufficient Warranty Deed Covering
tracts purchased.
If the company's experts select my tract or tracts upon which to drill, I am to
receive royalty of one-tenth of all oil or gas produced and saved tnereirom.
Also Profit Sharing Contract, in consideration of option of lease, entitling me
to share proportionately in 50 of net profits from the well the company guaran
tees to drill on the High Island property and well guaranteed to be drilled on the
Humble lease and in all other wells which may be drilled by the company.
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only way and it did for the BochesOsection was being shelled alt the
inside. We ran around to the rear
and there was a great groaning and
yelling inside for a few seconds.
When we crawled to the door there
was one dead German and two badly
wounded. The two wounded died im.
mediately.
Now about the construction ot the
pill-boxes. They were made of
standardiied concrete blocks of key
stone shape, that is, wide at one end
and narrow at the other. These
blocks were grouted psher with a
rich cement mixture and the walls
were about 36 inches thick. The struc
ture went down under the ground
about five feet and stuck up about
two feet. They had three window
slots about four inches across, that is,
up and down, and ten inches long.
These were on three segments of the
front, and behind each slot was a
machine gun On a tripod. The top
was flat reinforced concrete. There
was a little door in the rear and a
communication trench running right
up to it.
Experience showed later that tt took
two or three direct hits front good
sized shells to put one of these con
traptions out of business. And, as I
have said, it takes uncommonly good
gunning to lay two shells down in
one place, much less three, so they
were effective against anything but
main strength and awkwardness, a
charge with the bayonets and the
bombs. We had been unexpectedly
successful in taking thrte first ones.
Later, I understand, when the Ger
mans tot the knack of ranging their
machine guns through the slots the
slaughter in taking the pill-boxes was
terrible.
One advantage they had ever
trenches and it was a great one-ras
that the boxes could not be turned
around after they were taken. In
preparing a pill-box for a counter at
tack the only thing to do was to sand
bag the back door, which left only
one fire opening over the top of the
sand bags.
We held the positions we bad taken
until 10 that night, when we were re
lieved. During the day we had a good
chance to examine the bill-boxes, and
we made tome startling discoveries.
There were two or three cement
mixers around the place and a con
siderable number of cement bags.
These cement bags all bore the marks
of an English firm. A German offi
cer who was taken further down the
line in the attack made the statement
that the cement which was used in
the oill-boxes had been ia England
less than three week previous to
the day we captured them.
An investigation was starm n
England Immediately. I heard later
that this inquiry was In progress in
London not later than August 25.
It was rroved that large shipments ot
cement had been sent to Holland with
the alleged understanding that the
material was to be used in repairing
the dykes.
The Dutch consignees admitted that
the material had been sent into Bel
gium for the German army. More
over, it was common gossip that the
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nrms snipping uii nmeni cimcr ncw
that the cement was destined for the
German army or were in a position
to know that it minht and probably
would be. The investigation made it
oerfectlv clear that there were Brit
ish firms that were so mad for war
profits that they were willing to fur
nish the materials for death devices
which would certainly be used for the
slaughter of English soldiers. The
cement deal opened up phases of
profiteering that were appalling. Ap
parently there are people in any coun
try who will sen their souis ror a
profit
The amsting part of this transac
tion to me was what happened
later. Along in October I was in
England, having been gassed and sent
to Blightly to get well. I was con
valescent and was wandering around
London seeing the sights. One day
I was lesning over a bridge across
the Thames watching three ships
loading with cement. Naturally the
pill-boxes popped into my head. I
called down to a sailor who was
loafing on deck and asked him wher,e
he was bound. Holland 1 Two months
after the expose of the pill-boxes
England was still shipping the ma
terial to Holland for the destruction
of its own soldiers I Oh, well! What's
a Tommy more 'or less?
As for me, I'm heartily glad that
l never had to go against the pill
boxes again. Relieved that night, we
had no casualties going back. The
Boche was seemingly discouraged and
on his good behavior.
W reached Railway wood at 11
o'clock, had hot tea and three spoon
fuls of rum. droooed on the ground in
the dugouts, and in five minutes every
man was snoring.
I was so tired that I would have
slept even if I had know what was
coming to me a week later, when I
was properly gassed.
CHAPTER XVII.
Gassed.
After our stunt in cleaning out the
pill-boxes we were due for two days'
rest at Railway Wood. For a won
der we got it. Must have been a mis
take somewhere. The dugouts there
were good and dry and safe, being in
a tunnel under the embankment of
the Yores-Roulers railroad, and were
big enough to hold 30 men each. They
were connected by passages to keep
the men from going outside, as this
time. So all we had to do was eat
and sleep and play cards and write
letters by candle-light I had received
a Boston paper a day or two before,
and read the thing through and back .
again and inside out, down to the
ads and the death notices. So did ,
everybody else. Tommy is quite as
interested in American newspapers as
in his own. He thinks we are a bit "
queer, but he likes to read about us.
Rations at Railway Wood were
still cold and we had to do our own
cooking, the same as in the shell
holes. I got to be an expert at boil- .
ing water. The 48 hours' rest passed
before we knew it, and at 10 on the .
night of August 24 we went up to the j
line again. It was quiet this time,
with only an occasional ahell com- '
ing over, and we made it without
casualties. ;
We expected to occupy the pill-
boxes we had taken, but found that '
the company that had relieved us had
fallen back to shell-holes about 50
yards from the boxes. So we rolled;
into the mud again and settled down
for another two days of the horrors. ;
The place smelted worse than before.' '
The hole I drew was too small, , ;
and there were four of us in it -We $ '
got busy that night and dug some
little saps so we could sit down and '
stretch without lying on top of each
other. ! ."
About S the next morning Frits
started his regular daybreak strafing"',
and we were glad of the saps. - t,
The next hole to ours was bashed
in and a chap named Law ton had his -shoulder
ripped away. He lived
through st and was carried out that ")
night
During the day the wind was just 'Z
right and six times Frits sent over v
gas warea. He gave them to ua every'
two hours on the tick. We had the .
respirators on most of the time. The'!
Boche was playing a game. He knew..-.'
that we were in a place where if,
would be impossible to get up new"
helmets, and that the chemicals in
any gas mask will last only so long.
No doubt he drenched us with mus-
tard gas that day in the hope that :? ,
by night many of us would bo wear-,
ing played-out respirators and woeU -,i
be easy victims. It worked. !
oaggca quite a oumncr. :
That night orders came up for a.
patrol of 12 men to be sent out to
nave a "look-see" in front of the
German lines. When we had takes !S
the pill-boxes the Boche had fallen
back to ordinary trenchea several i
hundred yards away. He bad wirte 1 ;
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a counter-attack on the boxes.
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and armed only with four bombs
A persuader is a club with a loaded';"
and nail-studded head. You side-'"
wipe a Boche under the chops with' ',
it and it crushes his nob like an egg-v.
shell. We did not blacken our faces
as usual, as it was very dark. We
were to spy out the German positions !
and take prisoners if we could do it
without making a noise. - 'V i
We left at 10 o'clock. We were
really each man on his own. Shells
were falling here and there, and for;
half an hour we lay in holes. We
wanted all the cover we could get. ;
Then we went forward. , . ol
I had been out maybe aa hour and1"? -.
was a hundred yards or so in front
of the pill-boxes when I got a snfcffr :
of gas. They were giving it to us ft j
again after day of it I hurried u "
into the respirator. Soon 1 got a i
little dirty. I knew what was wrong.
Tha chemical in mv mask was worn , ?
out I was getting gassed and knew (
it was time to light out for home. I , ,
headed back ana my brain began to
spin. Immediately all sense of direc- s
tton went out of me. I fell oyer one
body and on top of another. I clawed ,x
him over, hunting for his gas mask. ,-,
There wasn't any. The mask on the
next body was slit, and that on an-
other man had the tube broken. I
gave it up and staggered away, with ' ,
no idea of where I was going. Pros- -ently
I fell into some wire and hung ",,
there. The barbs clutched and etnas
at my puttees and trousers. I fond
myself too weak to get out and slid , . .
down into a crouch, hopeless and '
waiting to die. My breath became
terribly, labored. I fought for each !M
inhalation, dragging it up in great,
rasping, gurgling gasps. My eyes ;
stung terribly, and the tears streamed
down my face and went salty into j
my mouth. I slobbered. I got the
taste of mustard in my nose and in ,
the back of my throat, and my palate - ,
stung and swelled. ' wl
I weakened rapidly. But finally I
summoned the strength to drag 2
my helmet for air. No use. It was ,
worse in the open. I sickened aav? ,
tried to vomit, but couldn't, retching
and heaving up til I hung limp in the
wire with my face crushed cown
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the cruel barbs. f
' didn't lose eoaseiousnees and was 1 '
still fighting for air when I heard a
man say: i W'
"Don't more, damn you. Who are .
your"
I pulled toegther all the life that-
was left in me and muttered in a voiced
that sounded strangely loud and thet. w
made my eardrums ache: , - ,
"British soldier." , ,, U
Then I slid out of the world.
I came back to it as they wsre-j
dragging me out of the wires and
heard them say that they were from
the Somersets and were out on patrol, ?t
and that I was in German wire. ?J
(Continued Monday.)
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