Show WilDCATTER ANGEl I IN N WOlFS WOlF'S COAT Here Hero Is a 3 tribute tributo to the wildcatter from tho pen pon of oC the tho editor edi tor o of the tho Denver Den Financial and Un- Un ing Record which contains somo some Interesting interesting inter Inter- esting declarations declaration Yet lot this does not refer to some wildcatters who never ne change o th their lr spots and this means that thc they had not the tho Rood good fortune of or I the thc luck lucky fellow The Record says fhe The so called wildcatter has certainly cor- cor thinly made a 3 name 1 for Cor himself In his his- tor tory From Columbus who ho dreamed dreame of gold and other pro pro- cloua clous motala scattered over o the In Indies les to Vernor Z V. Reed who had a vision and punched down his oil oU wells In tho Salt Crook Crool field told In Wyoming the tho wildcatter wild wild- catter has been beca tho trail-blazer trail of or The wildcatting expedition of oC Columbus led to the discovery of ot America From his vIsionary Journey westward the gol gold eold silver sliver and copper mining Industry has grown to its present high state of ot organization orG and gigantic proportions Drake Drako who put putdown down tho the first oil well In tho the United States IB 15 tho the wildcatter who made tho worlds world's leading producer of ot tho the fluid that wins wars and makes poor 1001 men rich over nl night ht Tho word I i has hns a different In Ini i than It has In oil parlance The prospector In a a. mining mining- cam camp Is the wildcatter In an nn oil field They are both oth oth searchers for new wealth Successful mining companies and oil enterprises are tho the most moat persistent prospectors and wildcatters In tho the mining and oil fields Midwest Ronn- Ronn tug inC Ohio Oil tho Texas company compan and numerous other big and successful oil maintain a lita staff of or scouts couts Whose duty it is to secure new tern 1 I tory In prospective C fields for tor drilling so 30 that production will bo be maintained h Mining of oC Nevada 1 and Vindicator Vindicator Vindi Vindi- cator ator of ot Cripple Creek are types of development projects that are constantly constantly con con- adding to tho the nations nation's increasIng Increasing ing production of oC precious metals It 13 companies of ot this class that made possible the stupendous output of In precious metals metal In 1917 From rom Cripple Creek Creck comes the tho news that the tho Portland company compan prospectIng prospect- prospect Ing with 11 a cut cross-cut to connect the deep workings of ot this Battle Mountain Moun Moun- tin tain bonanza with the Roosevelt de deep p drainage tunnel has opened new riches at ot a depth greater than over before found in the tho worlds world's Greatest gold camp And Cre Crosson Gold tho the greatest dividend payer in the tho Cripple Creek district which only a few y years ars a ago o Was vas looked upon as n a wildcat of the ferocious arlet variety has through h capable management been beon developed Into tho the worlds world's greatest gold mine This com corn pany now has net profits on its Ita fully tully developed dc ore reserves plus cash In bank equal to thirty months' months dividend d requirements of 1 2000 monthly Oil fields are aro developed by the wildcatter wildcatter wildcatter wild wild- catter and mining camps aro are located b by the this prospector Tho The wildcatter and nd prospector need ne d the tho support and en- en n- n coura of the tho government kid Aid Id the wealth of the nation Stan Standard ard Oil all Is tho the biggest wildcatter in the tho oil business and that crowd crowll of millionaires millionaires millionaires million million- aires who made their fortunes In tho the I porphyry coppers coppert some somo of ot whom are p I known to havo been members member of o the I dinner bucket brigade In Co Colorado a 0 I mining camps arc aro credited with keepIn keep keep- I In ing Ina a 1 small arm army of prospectors prospector In tho the I i field searching for new wealth I I I 4 |