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Show THE HERALD. MONDAY, JULY 23. 1923. 3? Mut' it III !!9H' SS6 inr nrP A RTMFNT 5VEST CENTER. qKPf'rP"' -- QTHRFC PROVO, UTAH. nwAOaiMCwT- iO urn fec??' 8SWI Increasing Your Buying Power A toT OF EXPERTS AMD Shot au. foil Kl-- Jj 1-- f holes ' ' i:n ill I V , , - T j r VV . ' t. In cur advertisements, you have read of adclitran of lu4 new Stores to our already lng nst. The total number of economy spots providod bv this Nation wide organization now reaches 47$ .distributed in 33 States.. i . , Uy. ' Are yo thinking of what this means to YOU? "'".! ' A greater buying power because of a greater demand for dry goods, wearing apparel, clothing, shoes, furnishings, notions, and other needs of home and-perso- n v" . Resulting in prices that save you money for they are interestingly, low for goods of reliable qualitj and serviceability. A our number of Stores increases, the amount of money you need to buy here decreases. A I things, chief of which is that tlie land where the west begins centers In central Wyoming where the stranger has to smile when he says it and where the turn ot a card Is looked upon only with Interest when it carries a bet of at least world because he HI fl CU the top of the J llPV .Ln mrtnov a hundred dollars. I learned also reaction when our party drove up are tu me wwjname after him and has a dome that the Lost Soldier field, which with the announcement that the Carvel everything but their shirts to make several fail can hardly was practically gobbled up by all ue ul ou"l Mormon Invasion had arrived. The next few the in dollars million the great oil companies during the all accommodation possible, me Taft withdrawal, has never been old line companies were not so . whole field has its eyes months more than scratched. The further much interested because they have fact is. the He spoke of Billy Armstrong, who on that western ground of the they go the better it gets and they all the land that pull at Washingno relation, but who was one of AH is of Utah. are learning in Wyoming that their ton could get them. Some of the Standard Petroleum the first men in the field before the and are geologists fields practically inexhaust- superintendents were curious, how- the operators able. ever, to meet the young fellow that 1 was able to talk to seemed the withdrawal. Charley Bair came Carvel went through some of the from Texas who had actually to believe that the field points in down from Montanna and after the oil booms of Texas and Old Mex- grabbed off the best acreage in that direction and they are' all" of first well was brought in at 900 ico and when he came through he this district from right under their-- the" opinion. that Lost Soldier is to, there was a lively rifle battle had some money as the results of noses and Inquired for to know be one of the greatest fields in the feet, out around those rolling hills with with his endeavors. He purchased oil how he did it. Men from the Major.; United States. Tbey point men squating behind sage bushes script all over the United States Oil company and the Sandhills Oil pride to the fact that Wyoming of trying to pick each other off at are the longest-livewhere oil was in the making and company, which are in close to any range up to a mile. They were recently decided that his 160 acres vel's company, the Standard Petro-- 1 any yet discovered in America, in the Lost Soldier field was his leum of Utah, came to the hotel and Wells in Lost Soldier have been getting their stakes in on placer bests bet. He probably decided on asked did he need any tools or any producing steadily for four or, five locations and they talked wisely this because his ground adjoins other little thing they might fur-- i years with no dimunition of supply, and fought for supposed domes. several of the big operators, and nish. You see they are all kind o'lt seems that there is a stray flow Billy Armstrong staked a huge the place where he is now sinking sore over here because theXbig from some source coming up wad of ground and sohj it for The same ground was recently a well is within a quarter of a companies tried to grab everything against the Ferris mountains and mile of a big producer of the in sight and they certainly do love(hat fs now supposed to be through valued in the federal court at Standard Oil.- - Furthermore, the an independent operator who was !t western end of the field, After the placer location and the There's the Standard Oil In this geologists are counting on the lucky enough to secure some acre- the federal government fighting, to field take its biggest extension age and is willing to take a field right now; the Utah Refining in with its geological enGene-MH- i stepped in Carvel's direction. Salt Lake; the chance. The Major and the Sand-c- f The structure was withIt was interesting to watch the are indenendents and they !ral Petroleum; Baaiar Oil company; gineers. drawn from development under & Refiners of Wyoming ; ;:H;n;;::!!iH:::Kn::!::i:::H!:::i Producers that all wise notion which meant Prairie Oil & X3as; independent to save in the big companies getOil; Texas Oil; Kaspming, and a most of it after all. Nothing ting mis-few others which I mav have j was done until after the federal sed. Under present codition they have leaseing law or until 1921, with the exception of tne finding of the 58 wells on the Lost Soldier dome and not a duster in the bunch. This Ferris pool and the General Petroleum outside of the withdraw aarea. -orportion of the field Is producing However, the history of the past 30,000 barrels per day under restricis not so important as the future tions because the pipe lines won't when carry any more.. Engineers told forwarddevelopments are striding with seven-leagubootts. me. that the wells would produce In addition to opening up his own twice as much it they could seti the oil out to the refineries. How- 160 acres on the Lost Soldier dome, ha's joined forces witih Armever, tlie.refineries at Parker near Carvel Rawlins is installing equipment to strong on a beautiful piece of Bedouble its rapacity and other pipe ground on the Ferris dome. tween of the two them certainthey Hill ines are being laid olang with the will make that camp sit up and s:c n ntl concensus of the camp that; ly the field is just about to offer its take notice. The Standard Petroleum of Utah name to. the world as a good big has been capitalized with $200,000 bet: This began to moye fast right ana is now being investigated by after we arrived in Rawlins. It re- the Utah state securities commisminded one of the boom days in sion with the probability that 'per Goldfield when millions bung on the mission to sell stock will be granted the coming week. Carvel decision of a few hours. Every- during has lease put put in his thing you buy costs a little more for a portion of this stock, but he but the tenderloin steak with potaoffer to the toes au Gratin and combination made a salad which I had at the Ferris commission to have this stock hotel In Rawlins while the orches- placed in escrow pending the drilltra toe a fall out of Wagner and ing of the well towards which he Victor Herbert were as good as I has already advanced practically , $25,000. ever tasted. is no promotion stock in "There Within the lapse of half a day about three thousand dollars worth this proposition," he said to me. of lumber and machinery were on "Every dollar that any one puts the way to the field in huge trucks. up with me goes into that well and The contract for the derrick had they don't need to invest till they been let and Slim Dawson, who see the ground. I am making arcame from Kansas was assembling rangements to bring folks out here his crew. Slim builds 'em any time to see for themselves, because no of the night or day and has several one can fail to be impressed after crews working with men at J8 to $14 seeing the location of our well and a day. One of the rigs he finished talking to the men who have stayed recently turned out to be a another with the field through its developwell the ment The field is only really superior for a day I arrived in camp. They are starting and I not only, expect to turning th oil out Into big ponds make money for myself but for the now because they haven't got the friends who have put their faith in pipe to carry it away. Those black me." He has several cars in V commislakes give a stranger a funny feelsion that will be making trips from in the stomach ing especially when one considers he is gazing on sev Provo and Salt Lake for the fields eral hundred thousand dollars worth during the next few weeks while of oil in the rapid process of vapora-tion- . the weel is being sunk. Anyone desiring to look at a real oil field in Slim told Carvel that his derrlick the making, can get in touch with would be up in a few days and be- Mr. Caarvel at the offices of the fore we had time to take one crack SLandar Petroleum of Utah' in the at a young sage hen out in the Knight building at Provo. As a field the first truck was coming newspaper man I am figuring on over the long ridge to the south. coming back here myself for it 11 Those folks jilst naturally can't be certainly looks like a live country V; bothered with procrastination, to me. they simply say,, if you want anyThe new features of the automothing done, do It now. I talked to M. M. Armstrong, one biles to be announced for the 1924 of the independent operators and season will be brakes one of the best informed men in and new spring suspension to prothe field. He is literally sitting on duce eaaier riding facilities. I All Through the Canning Season "You can do it Better vith GAS" 1 Trying to get along 'with an old cook stove, building fires in torrid, of coal and ashes just doubles the work of canweather, lugging buckets " and preserving. ning Summer is vacation time! The housewife, more than any other member of the family, deserves .a little let-u- p of hard work. Do your canning in less time, in a cool kitchen, with no fuel muss or bother. Get a new "gas range. l . li d ' li d resiui rucDiM "7 """" ...ww.-.- ., I 'I " Correspondent. 'f Dizxy DepNS, Wyo., July 21. Just ,'omlnent backers and ' o those aiziy Mantl ikei nightmare ot Escalante, Salt which haun"chfield, 'ii i'1 ody whirling other towns of central !'re of red ire taking a chance with the i t baciung Texas oil operator. A. C. Carvel, in his proposel to put down e an Independent well on his lease on the Lost Soldier dome 45 miles rrorth of Rawlins, I came over to see what sort of a David this might be who planned to beard all the Goliaths of the big companies right on their own domain so to speak. I some interesting learned i'i Gazed Pr0' 160-acr- ESnSnSijniHiHHinnnH 5i Canning Season Offer! LIBERAL ALLOWANCE ' d for your old Coal Range on the purchase price of any new gas range you select. Easy time payments, too. And immediate installation. Come and see the range with automatic oven heat control famous for the easy "cold pack" canning. , $12,-50- ' j Utah Mid-Wes- Valley Gas I Coke PROVO SPR1NGVILLE Co. SPANISH FORK i j e We Can Make il Easy For You GUARANTEED WORK IS THE ONLY KIND WE DO I I'l ; Let us Call for Your Curtains, Drapes, Quilts, and Blankets 160-acr- e whole-hearte- 1' I 1 This is The Best Place in Utah County to Have Your Rugs 5,000-barr- GUARANTEED WORK iaeitary Cleamrij ;T 1 I m TlFi. 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Foster-Mllbur- n Co, Mfrs Buffalo, N. T. Advertisement ' at mmm ' , Wilford Perry 338 WEST CENTER. CASH PRICES PHONE 117. WE DELIVER PRICES FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 28 We have on hand two extra heavy tents, 10x12 and 12x14; some Ice Cream Freezersand No; 3 Tubs that we are making special prices on this week. We have a large line of Stone Jars and Wooden in a variety of sizes. Kegs ' Just received a large cask of White Dishes Dinner Plates, $1.25 per Bet; Cups and Saucers, per set, $1.45 ; Fruit Dishes, 60c per set, etc Try our Boiled Ham no one has better ; sliced, pet b 50c; Whole Ham, lb., 45c; Smoked Ham, lb., 30c. We get fresh "Butter-Krust- " Bread in every day, in white, jrhole wheat, rye, French and raisin, per loaf, 10c. We buy our Crackers fresh from the factory every week, both loose and package. Try a pound of bur Loose Cocoa at 15c and you w ill ' be surprised at the quality. have too we late to plant turnip seed; It is not four kinds suitable for fall planting. We will have a shipment of New York Head Lettuce Seed this week , direct from the grower. |