Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1924, Page 21

OIL REGION STREWN WITH LOST WEALTH Millikan’s Storage Tank One Instance of Money Lost in “Black Gold.” Special Dispatch to The S CLEVELAND, Okla., September 1.— is strewn with srtunes won but never § g0 to account for the $500 which statistics show is sunk in the earth for every dollar wrested from it _in net oil For insta the Bill ago when he big wells on of the townsite 17 ¥ L brought in several the southwestern part of C land. This tank covered a half block, as of great depth and at one time was roof- ed. It was a_forerunner—spectacular for its time—of the vast concrete and steel reservoirs now in use for stor- age In the new California fields. ‘When Millikan struck oil the andard ‘was paying 35 cents a barrel fo cru in this field as against the $2.50 even more that certain grades ha commanded in recent vears. Millikan swore the Standard cern should force h he would stol ait for better pri lieved were on the w . Hard to Stop the Flow. If Millikan could have shut down his welis he would have been lv\p])\ But 1t was as hard to curtail production once establi d then as I\ s been found in recent 3 morali- zation has more the his production which he be ous to the pocket If other prod kept their well soon be able the owner « find them d Millikan was . he build the bis en tanks Millikan emptied 160,000 barrels of oil | into his tank. Much of it remained there for good—or rather bad. If all that Millikin put int othat tank had re- mained in conditic d Iy, it might h they would | all the oil and thought, v.uJ $10,000 was wreck, Mill men ge | d to build up a | of Oklahoma. was of high 1s exposure to the ne con- nd the oil In two or fortune in other pa The Cleveland grade, but continu. o years the tank had until it fried mus hardly fu worth 16 cents a bar hard ned | rched | Sold for Axle Then, in 1912, th Company dared M on his big tank down the exhaust below the in the reservoir s places - oil taken | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1924 Modest Hornet Family Curtains Bedrooms From Curious Public Modesty in the hornet family has been demonstrated during the past week at a rear window of the Chevy Chase Bank building on Connecticut avenue. The insects with the trou- blesome stings, finding that their home was open to the public gaze through the wire screen to Which it was fastened, have manufactured their own curtain and drawn it over the end of the nest that opened to- ward the interior of the bank build- ing. For several weeks.the nest has been growing, and men, women and chil- dren of Chevy Chase made special trips to the building to observe the ic life of the hornets througn an the window. The older be seen feeding the young 4 home. 1t became one of the most im- portant sights of the Washington suburb. Bankers Interested. Dr. Frederic E. Farrington of the Chase School was one of the interested visitors from the sphere of education. Dr. Harvey L. Curtis, a physicist of the Bureau of Stand- ards, approached the matter from the ntific point of view. ph A. Burkhart, a Washington lawyer and director of the bank, made a tour of inspection. Other bank directors who studied insect life were Dr. Truman Abbe, R. Frederick Hatcher, Dwight Jones, Bdward H. Jones, Alfred B. t, Thomas W. Perry, Frank Simp- n and Horace E. Troth, jr. s for the younger generation, the school population of Chevy ase was largely represented. None of these had ever before had the priv- ilege of observing a hornet nest in full operation, and they eagerly took advantage of the opportunity. The hornets, not being in the habit of receiving extensively, finally put an end to the social functions by manutacturing their own curtain of a design W !m h perhaps had not pre- viou i eir_ow Slasses Titted Eyes Examined Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 721 409-410 McLachlen Bldg. 10th and G Sts. N.W. McCormick: Modical Coller DURANT “Just a Real Good Car” [ Chevy Chase The Place for Your Home! QUINTER, THOMAS & CO. 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The hornets are still at home on all days in the week, but in complete retirement. They are far enough from the banking rooms to require a special trip even to observe the ex- terior of the nest. Her Dad Has Suspicions. From Capper's Weekly. A young man, writing to the father of his girl, closed his letter with this appeal: “I want your daughter—the “flour’ of your family.” And the cold-blooded old man an- swered: “‘Flour’ of the family is good, but are you sure it isn't my ‘dough’ you are after?” FARMS IN ALASEA! Their Acreage. Is Greater Than Those of Scandinavian Peninsula. Mary Lee Davis in Scribner's Magazine, Farms! Most people begin to laugh when we Alaskans start talking about our flowers and™bur vegetable gar- dens and our wheat flelds. “Laugh, and show your Ignorance,” say we, to scoffers! That there are numerous wide tracts of land both in the Mantanuska and Tanana-Yukon valleys of demonstrated agricultural value, the reports of the department of agriculture abundantly prove. That these lands are greater in ex- tent than the Scandinavian Peninsula farm lands, which today support five million by agriculture alone, Is one of those facts that only people with imagination will appreciate fully. We lie in large part in the same latitude as Sweden, Norway and Finland and are not only greater in extent than all three, but have a bet- ter climate. So, at least, I have been tolg by my neighbors here who have themselves come directly from Nor- way, Sweden and Finland. They tell me, too, that it is “easier to get a 1living here.” - Naturally, then, we have a large and evec-increasing Seandinavian population, for not only the interior but the fisheries on the coast attract these good immigrants greatly. Estimates show that Alaska is quite capable of supporting from three million to five million people by farming alone, and yet our pres- ent white population is little more than thirty thousand all told. Frozen ground? Yes. But 24-hour suns, weeks on end, thaw the sur- face, and the updrawn meltings sub- irrigate the roots in a most ideal fashion. And do not laugh when I tell you that I own a small interest in a flour mill that we have recently built here in Fairbanks and which mills Tanana Valley wheat and pro- vides our whole district and parts of the coast with as fine bread flour as the most fastidious cook could desire. 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