The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 14, 1900, Page 10

the n or even entually was ea The 1s of acres with the ich their lana 1 at with an agricul- low. It was listed “Fifty cents cash down, e balance in annual pay- nts of 5 ce it is a to make the section or an least. ~And some of nd that you cut up lots and ) per hang B3 hasn't sold to clc lollars. » was a clerk on ust enoug! tle more or a 1 y that he lived few brains two at work e oll fields which ¥ ross the v red plains, most in sight of his home, he has himself up a little stack of $25000. No: such a great sum, but a heap more than a man would want to pack on a long day's Journey if it were in gold coin. But the star of al] is Joe Chavslor. He according to the He had a few dollars {s the hero of the ofl men, for he startea out from his father's grocery store in Los Angeles with a small sum which he had saved from his wages as a clerk; startel boring In the then declining Coalinga fields and went broke—he and his part- ner—both dead, hopelessly, clean broke. The kind of broke that makes you go round and touch your friends for only half the amount that they would be will- xperfenced old mining partner tolled all summer and borrowed assidu- ously from friends, who gave them the money not in the hope of ever. seeing It N come back out of the ground again but A Just because Joe Chanstor and h.s hones* old partner were good fellows and no one would want to hurt their feeling for the emount of the small sums of the loans that they asked 'l Then one day the dull aid well hole in which they had dropped so many dol- lars and hopes and so much sweat and cusswords just got tired of being au gered into by two such persistent borers and it gave a grunt and a snort and blew foam and coughed up the drilling tools and the derrick and slavered ~obs of greasy ofl all over the landscape, and if Joe and his partner didn’t hug each othe: nearly to death it was just because they -vere men and had a different way of howing it, and, besides, it was just what hey had expected all the time, you know. They knew it was there, but there was guch a hopeless, long, dull time waiting for it. The friends who made the loans were not forgotten and now the well spouts for all, . There is something strange about ofl Tt makes men mysterfous. You would naturally suppose that gold would, most of all. conduce to secrecy. but it Is not so. The gold' digger Is ever ready to heraid his strikes and invite all mankind to come and take up the next clalm and perhaps buy his. That perhaps is what makes the difference—the gold miner does ot know when his claim may come to its end and He is always looking for a good hance to sell. Not so with the ofl They have a reasonable assur that their wells will flow as long as blool flows In thetr own velns and beyond that most of us do not seriously care. So with no object in selling the ofl frun bec yer and o secure the ofl lands about_him in order that not h in and pump out the sty men. ance mes others may an stream that flows to the sunless sea beneat him. Therefore every man in the bus is ex-officio a member of the Knownothing Club, an organization which is ecreated for the purpose of keeplng secr.ts. Tt b no officers, no clubrooms. The | n consists in merely being an oil man and knowing something. The dues ¢ keeping what vou know to yourself. T is better for all on the inside sid. to éome in they will b s wan to break in with aniax or drijil in with a ard rig. That's the way the rest and they are not felling what they know to the birds. | It was like trying to find out what the clam said to the oyster to get hold of the following figures as to profits of some of the big members of the Knownothinx Club, but here iz a ‘list of some of the winnings: “It beats, the Klondike' said ene man who was just closing an $500,000 deal with an Eastern crowd, “and you don't have to pull a handsied 300 miles up hill over the ice and live on raw dog, either. You are right at bome, with the Sunny skies ot California over you, your friends around you, and every day some fellow or other strikes it, just to keep your courage up to the high pressure point, and the whole thing is as easy as rolling off a log and more fun than play- fng marbles when you were a bos.” So, too, thinks C. M. Kilburn, the Selma druggist, who put in a couple of thou- £and, which he could not spare any > irg to loan you, just because you lack confidence in yourself. Young Chanslor and his sunbrowned, ed out g out money hand over hand M. w Place each put in a and have nearly as for it. Willard Terrill is still pu Sides and that would not suppose he cared for m would know how to make it if he for it. But the of amusement making mone and quick; it seems more Wi d d mon: with, bat any seems to stand a slight touch if they know it 15 to be used in developing a gasoline so young a kind It's play than w so easy hav who } to- sta one willing fountain. So Willard borrowed what h needed to begin with and now he has someting I 25,000 to the good with which to begin life at the age of 21. I F. Poston of a scraped. together until he had $1500 with which to hunt for a spouter. Now he wants to hang on to his property rathe than to take $500,000 for it. That is not g0 much of a win in the - oil business, though. Louls G im thinks that he is just about i > he made as much money as Poston and yet-he only invested $159 10. It is a good thing that he put in the 10 cents, though, for at the rate which his money increased he would have lost the price of a piano if he hadn’t. sounds big, doesn’t it? Getting a piano for a 10-cent investment, but you must remember tnat these are the good old days of the oil times, and they won't happen again after the end of this year— not to long time. Those are just a few of the people who didn’t take ch to st are h low and of us times strik mobiles pro fined from t But the their ow peeped its and 1 more some floatin L SUIQIDE 15 ON HY do peopl \Viptex WV, cause they then, sha fact that as the s vances suicide bec The poorest laborer in E forts which were abeth and King Pt rapidity with ch is shown by t ndar, es more unkn Denmark ceseees 260 V. ¥ " 5 S v g to ¥ n t the names wo I Mosher of th son, now of the Her wh ¥ Wds are t in de sand will crude oil oil hold a gal the yleld from a sir One well near Newha 1 out rs’ worth It was bored in 18 d holds the record as having produced for the longest time of England alons uses im products e United States. Coa too, and be factorles b 1s r where the yet far in the fu Call- Sutter was bu and Ma sn the A supp! The n e ) Ber 1.06 " in Ger known among Mahometans, who attribute everything to the will of God and will mot even insure their houses.