Show WHAT PAT FAT BYRNES BYliNES DID S f fOR fiOR OR HIS illS HOME nOME TOWN Si 00 f Its It's a timely little story and carries a moral with it It-a It a moral that may mayry ry apply to almost any newspaper in the theland 1 land or any day of ot the year It was he Colorado correspondent t of a large number of eastern astern financial I and western industrial newspapers i who happened to tell about it J I mf r t. t Lr r r It isn't so much the size of the f paper or the number of subscribers it r t has he said sort of talking out loud 4 to himself Theres There more than that which must be considered if the measure measure meas meal ure of a newspapers newspaper's importance to its r community is to be taken Some Somer r 1 papers have more pulling power than j. j t others their readers believe more of ft n It what they read in those papers than thanT T of what they read In others Then i again theres there's the question of persis persis- I. I tence fence The same thing told over and andover andover I over may make believers of the people I who scoffed the first time they heard I it Were We're all aU more or less leas subject to the influence of constant repetition Take a thing that happened inI in 1 I Pueblo for instance For a long time they have been and talk talk- f ing and punching holes in the ground in an effort to find out if there isn't oil somewhere under the surface in 1 rj commercial quantities The Tho papers there for the most part didn't pay S I much attention to the little operations that were under way They didn't r I amount to much as a matter of fact l' l The They were poorly financed and badly managed in a good many instances and as a good many people thought j they weren't getting anywhere I But Dut Pat Byrnes insisted on telling t the world lie He kept on week after week giving everything he could gath gather I er er on possible oil structures and on the progress progress of drilling in the little tittle test teat wells that were under way Everything Ev Ev- Everything that had any slightest con with the oil situation was grist for lor his mill mm and his paper became became became be be- came a sort of weekly survey of the possibilities and progress of the field and progress of the field At first nobody paid any attention but as a matter of fact the big fellows get most of their information from clipping bureaus and other liason arrangements arrangements ar are ar- ar which keep them in touch 0 with the whole country through the medium of the focal press The Pueblo Pue r t blo Indicator kept up its beating of the so per persistently that he attracted at- at attracted at the of correspondents for the Wall Wan Street Journal the National Na Petroleum News the Wyoming Oil on Index and a lot of other that oil men and financiers read and when the oil men and the financiers a read things in any of those papers they begin to sit up and take notice That was exactly what happened in th this s case When the tho national oil and financial journals began running little stories about the possibilities of the Pueblo fields and the earnest conviction con con- of Pueblo pe people pl that there is oil there they began pushing buzzers buzzeta buz zeta and directing their technical men mento mento mento to find out what it was all aU about The rest was easy Deep test teat wells welts there are now a certainty certainty and and not little farmer larmer wells' wells either but wells welts drilled drill ed by the big who have the money and the savvy If Pat Byrnes Dyrnes had kept his mouth shut hut development of the Pueblo region would probably hue have hun hung fire for a along along along long time The New York and Los Angeles Angelel operators dont don't take the Pueblo Pueblo Pueblo Pue Pue- blo Indicator probably but they do subscribe to national papers which deal with oil and finance and the national national na na- na papers rely on clipping bureaus bureaus bu bu- bu or local correspondents for forI I their news news and and the clipping bureaus and local correspondents rely on the local papers papers and and there you fOil are arel are are- Intermountain Press 00 00 |