Show RICH BUT KNOW IT sellers sailors farm in too texas s turns turn into 0 1 I la lake ke while hes gone tex somewhere on the tha seven sees seas ell perkins perking 1 Is by all 11 odds the richest man in the united states naval natal service knowledge of his big fortune has not yet r come to him his hii father has been trying to locate him but viral ft hat worship warship he 1 la on in ahna not net been learned ft hon hen perkins enlisted in the navy dory in more than two years ago age he owned a farm of 80 acres north of here alin soil sail is poor and lina has an intrinsic age angrl cultural value of perhaps when perkins Perl tins entered the navy h he loft the farm in charge of his father fallier with full power po or to act in all matters cormer connected foll at with it with the lived first indications or of its an oil boom the elder perkins leased tie pip so 80 nor acres for far 25 centa an acre ro harrods fining ailing f for or ill lila bon tile usual on ne eighth totally royalty of any oil that might be produced V V hen the field begun began to develop ons one half of the one eighth h my royalty ity waa v as sold for 40 cash wh which ich sum woul wa deposited in a local book bank to the credit ol of young perkins perking now the big thing line haa happened the sinclair gulf oil compala has a lease on the 80 acres has haa br brought alight to in the largest well upon the tract that there 1 is to be ba found in any of 0 the central west tax TAR texar held fields it is producing crude petroleum a at t the he rate of barrel x day each ell barrel valued it at uha tire present me t income of the young man it 11 about 1500 a day and with the bring las ing in of other wella ell upon the annn armi it way may be increased several times imm this thia sum he could easily dispose depose of him realty rights tor for J |