Show there where it just be there an old time friend of the editor who resides in southern illinois where we first owned aid published our first newspaper writes to acknowledge now ledge receipt of this newspaper which contained a write up giving comparison of the Co coalville alvIlle oil structure with the wyoming labarge oil field voicing encourage encouragement e for the long wall comp comparios arivs under undertaking we reproduce a portion of his hi letter believing it will fb be most interesting reading to our i legion of readers the fifteen new oil fields ot of southern illinois covers an area of op proximately acre 0 01 now proven oil production land you were once very familiar famili at with the illinois geological surveys annual report says it contains an estimated total reserve of barrels of interest is me 0 fact that fifteen of the new fields f were discovered during 1938 during this period the number of new wells in the field grew from to 1180 and the daily flow of oil rose from barrels to about barrels of particular interest to you I 1 believe will be the knowledge that nm new wells are now being brought in at the rate of about per week at this time I 1 know you consider consi oer this flits un belleve able come on oven over ill show you this new development has virtually brought a new industry to illinois it means a yearly production value of more than and in addition added millions of dollars of outside capital increasing employment and values on real estate of every kind and business of every nature one can have no conception of what it means to our loved egypt its old residents yes the people in general who never gave it a serious by whom it was lightly spoken of as a promoters trap to pilfer cu cil good people out of their viry very limited cash and few indeed w TP they that believed otherwise |