Show I I THE OIL IL QUEEN BEATS A 1 TRUST AT ITS OWN GAME ME S Out in n the w West st a a great trust trust h has S 'S been be beaten ten by a woman a-woman She Is a w woman man who co controls In ore n r than half the oil product of California where her remarkable o operations l have v made her hr known ow as the Oil Queen Her name is Mrs Emma Enma EmmaA A A. Summers r Awhile ag ag ago the asphalt S trust of the Pacific coast laid Us its plans to gobble up the oil well wells wells' of so southern th rn C California that they ig t build a refine refinery y I and transform 1 the e entire eire tire output output Into Into asphalt and distillate This would le leave e the the consumers s of f 1 fuel l loil oil In a sad dilemma but but tha that mattered not to the asphalt i I IThe t. t iThe i The trust its agents ag out and the latter f pr proceeded c eded serenely serenely on on their way w-ay b ing bu ng up p i. i ells s. s Ti ey had lad secured secured more nore th than tn half half- halff of f the oil w wells of s thi 1 J lif WI hen i ehen e at at atLo Lo Los Angeles n S th they Y c came m ma a across i In t their e lists I the e name nane of a worna o owner owner I i That act fact appeared ar d t tp them as of no particular significance except x Pt of course that the oil business was an an occupation for foi fofa a woman woman it It de developed developed de- de l later ter th that t in iler her they had met their conqueror r. r I The committee called on Mrs Summers with the most complete assurance thinking th the they h had the most mast trifling task before them A AI Awo I wo woman n nis is is is' is p popularly S supposed PO d tOb to be 5 sd easily i influenced d. d W What at Avas w heir then when the e se fo found d that their proposals were received e elved with ith th the coolest In indifference It was s' s ac r. r after atter all al which would would require all aH f th their IF oratory T TV y turned it on and they and tJ cy tried their most most subtle arguments the but the but womans woman omans oman's s keen lea found foul flaws 1 The ch chairman assumed a threatening attitude Madame he began do doyr do yr you you know eAd that at already e have ve mOre more than half t tie e oil wells of the district in our our- control arid anil its it's only a question of time n we can force you to our term terms terms' I WJ Ah Indeed gentlemen was her reply but but half halt the wells doesn't mean half the the oil and allow alloy me to Inform you what yo yoI YOli evl evidently en y do not know knowS that I 1 con control more than half the tile oil J I This news new for so o 0 quietly had Mrs ens op operated rat d and so gradual pad had been the growth gruth of he her business ss that not ev even even- the oil ten nun themselves had awakened to the fact that the greatest power amo amog g g- them was a womanS woman The trust trust representatives however were find nd S g it out All of their argun argo- argo n n were unavailing Here was an owner oil-owner whom thom they could not manipulate late The committee finally at its wits ends g red and departed with th the cheerful threat tWe We bankrupt you Mrs su ers But they didn't Instead their project fell to pieces and the woman who Defeated them has haS haS' now w taken the their r own plan an ana is s. s pu ting It Into execution Mis Mrs Summers is at the head bead of a organized newly newly om any which purposes purposes the of an immense refinery In Los Angeles there re here is this difference however how- how ever evel between en her plan and that outlined by the t t. t She will not shut out the consumers pf of crude oil but will continue to fill he contracts which she has with them and will turn into the refinery the sur solI oil This woman who ha has met the trust octopus octopus an n defeated It ft at its own wn game frame has been in the oil field for tor twenty years She w wa a music teacher teacher helping to eke out her hUSbands hUSband's s income by by- giving mu music lc Ie leons ons She had saved up b bv by th this s means when the oil craze e first struck Los Angeles geles Somebody asked her why she didn't didn't- sink a well She did it It and she salk saik k he her hen money too At least was the way it looked to her har when she fou money gone and hadn't hadn t found oil But she st stuck ck to the well with th the on that h has s characterized characterized char all of h her r undertakings since She ed borro ed 1800 1100 to continue operations opera opera- and then the she sc borrowed more and mote moPe until Ae ne w was sin In It 20 deep Then Thea her p persistence e Vas was rewarded Her oil arne ame and her fortune In a afew a afew few year years years' time she w wa was as wealthy For every been marked by careful management I At first she sha sold her product to buyers who c It to the c consumers Then she decided she co could ld just as W well ll make tta lemans leman's profit So she began m marketing her own oil oil Before long she had ore buyers than she could supply People liked to deal dear with her because she because because ept her contracts and delivered delivered delivered de de- de- de livered her goods gooch on on time S1 So she began to mak makl maki contracts contract with other producers producers producers pro pro- in order to supply her customers She V now has sunk and operated fourteen wells t her own where sh she hires all aU o of her own workmen buys all of or her own keeps all of her ier own books and tests teats every barrel of oil herself the wells that she owns she controls a maj majority rity of the oil output o of ot souther all through the contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts which she holds with other owners of wells Mrs J Summers lives jives very quietly She has haa no i 1 crests outside of her bu busl- busl l- l ness except those that centre in h her r home She cares nothing for society bu bu devotes her herand pare ipare time to her husband and the three children whom she has adopted adopt d. d |