Show PITY IN SPORTY bill BE ON McKeesport t Citizens Sink Big Sum Against Great Odds Pa March IS Would Would you ou risk to win Most people wouldn't even in a horse race That's what people are doing In the McKeesport gas gs field feld according to George GeorgeH Georgel I H Ashley dt Pennsylvania rn state geologist I It t 1 Thousands 01 nf people nil 1 over t thA coun- coun 01 nf people nil 1 over t thA coun- coun al try lured b by advertising are pouring their savings into nearly WO 0 gas companies in McKeesport Even optimistic boosters say there are only thirty five producing nells els many of them mediocre Geologist Ashley as there were only seventeen deserving the name name- of producing wells wels a month ago Many any people made madea a lot of money Inthe in inthe the first gas gs gushers in the McKeesport field feld six months ago Few re re making much now Everywhere In McKeesport are cardboard cardboard card card- board signs This signs This That G Gas company offering a last lat chance to buy stock Tw Two o millinery millner stores are selling seUng gas stock aswell as aswell well as hats A florist shop and a butcher shop are selling stock In Snake Hol w Is a forest of derricks peopled b by a a. horde horder of r eager anxious eyed men drilling and hoping Sam BrendeL Brendel not so long ago working for 8 Oa month in the city surveyors office made O the first month on I the big gusher that that started the McKeesport McKeesport McKees McKees- I port gas stampede le He did it On an In Investment Investment In- In vestment of or 52 David Foster a a furnIture furniture furni furnI- ture dealer did the same thing The with some partners were in on the ground n floor Geologist Ashley says the gas gas- pool gas pol Is i I I two thirds exhausted He places the to total tu- tu tal capacity at 15 billion cubic feet Some Some- someI say its less More than twelve times as much is gas Is necessary to balance the estimated Investment I J. J |