Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-05 | Page 22 | Book Agent Makes Good with Public

BOOK AGENT MAKES GOOD WITH PUBLIC Special Offer Develops Worth as Oil Flows From Waste I At Maddins Maddin's lamp prospective millions in I oil and a book boole agent who better than han he knew are indiscriminately mixed I in n a story that has just come out of I southern California and which concerns seventy-five seventy Salt Lake residents who II may wake up any fine tine morning to find themselves in the oil king class The story comes through George E. E Carpenter Carpenter Car Car- penter center manager of the Paramount Em I press and a little lot which he owns not far from Huntington beach where the I broad Pacific rolls and which he was about to let go for taxes is already quoted I It appears that a book agent drifted into Salt Lake about eight years ago and strove manfully to sell sets of the I encyclopedia for something like a set He was a good book agent for it is said that he I sold about seventy five sets to Salt Lak Lale- ers As an added inducement he gave I each purchaser a deed to a lot In southern southern south south- ern California south south-I A short time tittle ago Mr Carpenter re received received re- re a letter from a banker in Santa re-I re Ana Ca Cal explaining that his lot at Huntington beach was about to be sold I I for taxes He said that it was on a sandy waste and ancl was practically worth worth- I less He told Mr r. r Carpenter however ve t gage i that i if he would ou go to the trouble to tomake tomake make out a deed to fix up the title okeh he would send Mr Carpenter 25 In the meantime it appears that an anoil anoil oil well was being sunk on the Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton beach ground but Carpenter didn't know it lIe He sent the deed to his daughter daugh daugh- ter Dorothy who is In Los Angeles and told her to deliver dellver it and keep leep the 2 25 About the same day the well struck a pocket of gas and an explosion occurred which the derrick and mussed up the tho whole surrounding The gas blowout was followed by a no rich flow i of oil Miss Dorothy became interested and made an The result was that she did not deliver the deed She found that her fathers father's lot was within feet of the well I The striking of oil at Huntington beach caused a and real estate prices immediately went soaring I have been informed by rn my son-in- son law down there said Mr Carpenter that my lot is riding along with similar small pieces of property at a prospective value of Aside from the financial benefit that ma may come to me I am In Interested interested In- In in knowing how many Salt Lakers Lak Late ers Ors are now prospective e oil magnates Furthermore I can say without reservations reserva reserva- that I know one book agent who made good