Show R SAL SALT LAKE WiMAN ENTERS ENTERS' ENTERS'S S mL GAME Mrs Edith ith R. R Barton Re Reto s to Denver and andI I Opens Salt Mrs ake people who remember thi this this' E Edith n. n Barton who was in inthe th the e for more than year ear and was wasP wase P F of oC her husband George B 13 ar arton on Ott In the operation of the arto r I Int tOn company will wi be beDe De enver ver Post ot In the following Item Iem in the sh for the five fhe years S e rh was employed as as confidential r her for Verper Z Reed how It e ay sy it is to amass a n fortune In InI t he I oil 01 business if one has the old and n Reed has has Edith H. H H Hw the he crisp little blonde matron w visitors to the Reed need of- of f Ices i in the First National bank has joined the ranks of the Promoters and has taken offices In Ine the e Is building where she telling the meris of oC one of oC the newer Texas c Companies Women omen oil 01 stock brokers are ran ran- ties es In the business world but Mrs Barton arlon Is peculiarly well wel equipped through her association with wih Mr Reed at the time the Midwest Oil 01 company Wa Wa In Its formative stage She has realized that Wyoming Is the big companies companies' field and has concentrated on Texas as the place where the poor poorman poorman man man ha ha a chance Ive l e just returned from Ft Worth said Mrs Barton Saturday and with wih an entirely new idea of oC what an oU oil boom really realy Is In the palmy days of the furore over oil 01 Denver witnessed In 1917 one thought tle tle limit had been reached But that's all al off now t I Worth and Wichita Fails Fals are whirlpools whirl whirl- po pools ls of spec speculation laton so far more exciting ex ex- citing than ou rown home town in its wildest widest days that comparisons are Impossible Every man one sees around the hotels carries a map ot of Come fore proven or prospective oil 01 field Deals that run Into the hundreds of thousands of oC dollars are made without without with with- out a cent of cash changing hands I Men Ien buy leases on speculation giving a six fIgure check without having a thousand dollars dolar to pares and scout around selling them and taking the same kind of checks checks' themselves until finally finaly some man with wih real money gets the lease and puts up the cash Then all al those who have had a hand In the deal get theirs and all al are satisfied Ill I'll Il bet that the theare there are re of oC check kiting never reached such a stage In tIle the history of oC banking banking bank bank- ing as s has been developed develop in Texas this year Burkburnett Iowa Park and Ranger Ran Ran- ger the three centers of the oil industry in- in are overrun with leasers and operators Half of them never get their clothes off for a week at a time Hundreds of men sleep In their autos for lack of hotel accommodations and the man who gets one square meal a 1 a few sandwiches with which to piece out is in luck TIle big towns like Ft Worth and Wichita Fails are scarcely better Hotel room is at a premium and are hard to obtain It is a fact that they have to stand In line to get up to the lunch counter in any part of the business districts in both places It was too rough for me so Friend Husband Is looking out for our business In Texas I decided to come home to civilization and peace I I I I I I |