Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1918, Page 4

Aware er es er tee wre were tateons eter ? tee peer WITHORAWAL OF LUSK OIL FIELD WATI HOLDINGS BE Status of American Fields of Mexico Object-of Concern to This Nation; Litigation Open WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The status of American invest- ment in Mexico is an object of concern to the United tSates. | Future commercial relations not whole of Latin America, may be dispute over the possession of land and-mineral rights: in the ING DEVELOPED Investments in Oil) | only with Mexico, but with the! affected by the outcome of-the tampico oil district, says a review of the oil situation just issued by the’ department’ of ‘comhmerce. The government, as well as oil in- terests ,is watching carefully the pro- gress of suits instituted.in. the Mexi- can courts by the American, British, French, and Dutch oil companies, for relief from the program of the Car- ranza government, arising from a provision of the Mexican constitution of 1917 which.attempts to vest.in the nation only the right. to minerals and oils.under the soil ofthe republic. “In its bearing on our future com- mercial relations with Latin Amer- ica,” declares the review by the de- partment of commerce, “the status of our investments in Mexico involves far-reaching possibilities. .If .all.our foreign investments were to be trans- ferred from the state of property, duly acquired with guarantees of per- manence (such 4s occur in the Mexi- can mining laws 6f 1884, 1892, and| 1909) to the state of temporary con- céssions requiring renewal from time te time by contracts, in the working} of which we have no share, we should | face an unprecedented situation. Our commercial relations, not only with Mexico but with all of Latin America, | depends upon mutual confidence.!| The liberal supplies which the United | States has granted to Mexico, to-) gether with Ambassador Fletcher's! note of April 2, constitute our side of the present case. A signal factor, however, will be the decision of the Mexican courts upon the suits now! in progress.” The note of April 2. referred to/ was handed to the Mexican govern-/| ment after all oil companies operat-| ing in the Tampico fields had been} ordered to file manifests of property! under penalty of confiscation and it] had been decreed that new taxes called “rentals” and “royalties” uld be imposed. It declared that) “the United tSates cannot acquiesce in,any procedure ostensibly or nomi- nally in the form of taxation or the exercise, of eminent. domain, but; really resulting in confiscation and) arbitrary deprivation of vested rights.” At the same time the Brit-| ish, French and Dutch governments notified the Carranza government! that in the event of confiscatory measures were put into effect they) “would be obliged to protect their own interests.” This resulted in a modification of the degree of confis- cation. Article 27 of the new eMxican con- stitution is the center of the dispute. Three decrees have been issued un- . der its, provisions, imposing condi- tions on the companies which they re- garded as confiscation. The consti- tutional article provides that owner- ship of all petroleum is vested in the nation; that only Mexicans by, right of birth or naturalization have | the right to. acquire ownership in lards, waters or mineral fuels in the republic, but the, goverhment may grant the same right to foreigners if they agree “to, be. considered and treated as Mexicans and waive all right of protection from their home governments, forfeiture of their property being the penalty for such! an appeal. N It has been openly charged that! the Mexican government Was unduly influenced by German agents who hoped thru the decree to ent off the supplies of fuel oil needed to keep the Allied navies and merchant fleets | at sea as the vesting of sole rghts, of this fuel in a neutca} government would make the Tampico production | national contraband and prevent its| sale by Mexico or producers cperat-| ing under contracts with Mexico, to the Allied: governments. Inasmuch as Mexico rapks third among the oil-producing nations of the world, and Russia, which stood} second no longer furnishing any ap- preciable quantity, the Tampico pro- diction was vitally necessary to the! nations at war; and the. American, British, French, and Dutch com-) panies, acting under advice of their | governments, refused to file the de-| manded manifests and applied to the Mexican courts for relief. { Not one of the American com- panies operating in Mexico, says the department of commerce report, ever has obtained a concession of land! from the Mexican government, their contracts of purchase or lease having in every case been made with'private} | j { SPUDS AND TOMATOES ON iad fis insets atk tenes owners, who held titles extending! back often, for more than 250 years. The’ demands of the war for fuel | oil are: centinually, increasing, ac-| cording to. the. review. . Petroleum | stocks in the United States were re-| duced by 8,034,635 ‘barrels during the, first six, months of, 1918, With} heavy increases in shipping, many of the new ships, being oil burners, a| further demand may be. expected. At least 2,500,000, barrels, of Mexi-| can oil per month has been used in the past in connection with the mili- | tary and domestic needs. of the United States. and.estimates- of the | present need, place. the requirements as high as 4,000, barrels a month. In addition, the navies of the Allies, | especially the British—require fuel | oil ,mostly obtained from Mexico, to keep them on the high seas. SAME PINT IN GERMANY NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—-A tomato-| potato is the latest “‘wonder” of Ger-| man horticulture, according to Ger-| man newspapers received here. Ac- cording. to their accounts, tomatoes| and potatoes have been raised on one plant. On a strong branch of,a po- tato plant was grafted a shoot of a/ tomato plant, After the process of | hardening which required one month, | the grafted plant wee ‘set out in the The two branches then thrived open. as one. | From sixteen such plants it is stat- ed 42 pounds of tomatoes and 25 pounds. of potatoes were gathered:| The plants require only a rich loose} warm soil, much sunshine and ordin- ary care. German papers say the achievement is not astonishing as, the tomato and the potato belong to the | have'no way of obtaining title tot! SG eo NOER ASSURANCE 3 When Administration Seeks The Wyoming oil fields arid the: ceived the hardest blow ever public yorterday by which 'the g the Lusk oil field... “ttn The order, according to. all |come public until some time later. men of Wyoming will be far reach-} ing. Already a number of firms ‘are’ stating their intentiva of abandon-' ing tests in wildcat’ districts as’ the: lands if the government can step'in| and grab their holdings at will. i In spite of the assurance given by, Secretary Lane tothe oil.men of | Wyoming that there would be no further withdrawals and_ that, their interests: would be protected in the | future, the. department of the aI terior turned right around. in a tracks and, going back on its promise, | that. will probably. ruin the oil business in the northwest. Already word is coming in from} all districts stating that if the order} is enforced that wildcat wells all over the state will be shut down until a safe way is opened for obtaining title | to the property they are operating} upon. After the oil men were asked | to speed up production and help out the nation as best they could, to have this blow struck is more than any body of operators in like circum- stances can stand up under, \ Roughly estimated, the: Lusk field contains about 30 square mile3, 1 large part of which probably con- tains no oil. . Included in the. area are the Tom Bell. ranch, al] of which is deeded, and two sections of state of patented school land. None. of | these will be affected, by the with- drawal. Of the remainder, practi-| cally all of which has been located, | perhaps half has not had develop- ment work sufficient to come within he puryiew of the oil placer act, On} a large part of the land included in the withdrawal order work is under in the prosecution of work looking to discovery.” This ruling, .however, | does not cover.the cases of locators | in the Lusk field but will doubtless become a precedent in the litigation | which’ must follow the recent order. Regarding the prospecting of oil| fair and liberal. He has same species, that of solanum, LOW INCREASE INCREASE LIVING COSTS | IN AUSTRALTA United States Next in List with Austria, Finland and Rus- sia Hardest Hit of All STOCKHOLM, Oct. 24.—(Corres- pondence of the Associated Press.) — Australia occupies the most favora- | ble position of all lands in the mat-| ter of increased cost of living, ac- cording to a survey made by the! Stockholm Commercial Gazette. The Australian increase was reported as 30 per, cent since the beginning of the war. The United States was re- corded as in second position with the increase of 60 to 70 por cent. Holland, with an increase of 70 per.cent,, showed the i smallest in- crease among European nations with} Denmark next with the increase of about 80 per cent. ‘ Sweden, England, France, Spain ang Portugal are grouped with dn} increase running from 100 to 182 per cent., England and France occu.-| pying the most favorabie place with| increasés of about 100 per cent, while} Sweden had 182 per cent. Germany, Belgium, Norway and Hungary had increases from 150 to 200 per cent, while the cost of living in Austria, Finland and Russia had increased more than 200 per cent., * In every case the figures are based on the budget of a normal family with a year’s expenditurse of 2,000 crowns in 1914, —— 's dram of empire in the East has been shattered. His Ar: bian Night’s Entertainment has been forbidden by the authorities. moony Don’t overlook little Portugal. She has 60,000 soldiers on the western front, Some gal! So | At Mifflinton, Pa., women are now/ employed in the bricks. manufacture of i |cal men and refuse to allow them to| withdrawal order was issned. well which is making 1,500 barrels a} day shows how highly. regarded _ is| this district. Colin C. Rae, a geolo-|f) gist who is familiar with this district, |]} has just completed a report upon jit |]j in which he draws the following con- |} clusions: The oil production is from the “Dakota” or “Greybull” sand, and the oil is similar in character and base to Greybull and other cretaceous oils in Wyoming, the oil having mi- grated into underlying sandstones in- stead of overlying Wall creek, whi are not suitable reservoirs at. Lusk. | All evidence points to downward} migration of the oil, hence it would | be extremely dangerous to. drill thru the 60 feet of so-called “fuson” shale and sandstone, deds underly the 60/ feet of Dakota or Greybull sandstone, | for the lower 100 feet of conglom- erate most likely represents . the} great artesian water sand called Da-| kota, and at the depth fotind it will! have a pressure of. probably 1,600! pounds per square inch, which would,| render any cementing job to protect the upper oil sand very difficult. _— SEVEN CASES OF FLU’; ~ NOT AL CASES REPORTED | Thrée cases of Spanish Flu wer reported yesterday, and today seven | |were reported, It is. rumored that! several. doctors. jn the. city have nat} 'been. reporting their Flu cases to the | police ‘anda State Board of Health! ‘inspector will be here in the near fu-| ie ture to investigate conditions. In case the charges are substantiated the State Board of Health will be ask- ,ed to revoke the license of these medi- practice th profssion in the state. | List. your property: with’ us. ‘Fhe Security: Loan. Gompany, Room‘'4, Kimball Bldg. 10-1-t£1 Thursday and Friday of ‘this week are the last days for registration. To he able to vote on November Sth you must register. their, land on the public domain, Secretary | romain Lane is and has been disposed to be | has\the r been opposed ; the land mR, the Lu by Attorney General Gregory and it/do th was at the latter’s instigation that the |!" othe: | reason it ; The rush of important producing|t? 0 ahea ) | companies to acquire acreage in the | operators 19 ben Lusk field since the discovery by the | their work and expense, say. Ohio, Oil company 10 days ago of a|Cials of the co: horse. ne M Refine: rod ini of; W: struck the oil fraternity such a blow | ond coleene pbs th n't es | as announced by'the bureau of mits, | totaled 17,892,203 gallons of gasoline, 5,471,011, 894,425 g school land and possibly a small area | 568 gallons of fuel, CO-OPERATIVE MAY GE. 0 ORL RM ‘oi The Wyomnting~’ 66-0) that “due diligence had ‘been shown | week ie daa be aaitied, a officials, saa rabete th id The Ri in your ear. We will furnish you full camp outfit. Saddle and pack horses, all equipped at $1.50 per day per Guides $6.00 per day. Write or Phone after 6 P. M. GRANBY & NICOL G 0 Ov LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS TO =i Wing bar DEPEND ON RESULT OF TAMPICO, CONTROVERSY, SAYS BULLETIN ons of fuel oil," 905,285 gallons of lubricating oil,’ arid 183,- 1798 pounds of wax. aggregated 1,001,064 'b purchased and ‘re-run totaled 398,674 ; | barrels. 4 Refinery consumption for the month in the country at large totaled 29,- |170,719 barrels, a, new high record jand_ the produc fuel ail exceeded fi rr month. in the Bistity of the indus 'Gagoline output “amounted to’ | 022,095 gallons, and fuel oil 658,439,- | 682-gallons, compared with 238,309,-|. 1078 gallons of gasoline and 685,982, N . THE BIG GAM COUNTRY AY SS Hons of kerosene, 19,- oil rang ‘and ojls ction of ‘gasoline and ‘or any to 33 in July, 1917: OY Bag way to such an extent as to.come | Company is leting. their Fi within the range of the latest décision | Richards fala dese Mone| Cl of the court of appeals, which Ifelds|have it done the latter, ING TO IDES. AND TFITTERS en SUALTIES TO AEF-REPORTED : ‘Mesa, Colo. | Terex; Peck, Belle Fourche, Lek Bloat: TP ste ie 0) D. “£ rai a Mont. inds maha, Neb. d Severely er, Parker, S. D. R. Robinson, Kalispel, 32h Vv. Frame, Dayton, Mont, ice R, McGrady, Pierce, S. D. wrd Skidmore, Homer, Neb. | Sagoinh 5 jzek, Omaha, Neb. Robert - Fisher Wilbur; Omaha, Ne rt Bowel, Madison, S. D. Bred W. Katzberg Hastings, Neb. Wounded, Degree Undetermined Bert R. Anderson, Lincoln, Neb. Maurice Rose, Denver, Colo. * John Raymond Kern: Hastivzs, Ne | William. E.. Davenport, Parker, | Idaho. Ralph A. Bennington, Litchfield, |* Neb. {Joe Debella, Sopris, Colo. geita H. Gettys, Big’ Springs, rf | ik ;-Zaputovitch, Denver, Colo. illiam M. Grant, Blane, Colo. Frank Grieser,. 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