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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA.
Why Such an Opportunity
.
Never Has Come to You
Before and Won’t Again
J. H. Harris’ plan on Fitzgerald oil borings founded on absolute justice by a man who
is absolutely on the level and believes in square deal to everyone who invest^ his
money.
When did you ever hear of an
oil proposition that was absolute
ly on the level for the people
who put their their money in?
Never, you say? Or perhaps
you say in the language of Pina
fore: '‘VHardly liver.'”
J. H. Harris, widely known as
an insurance adjuster, a man
having the implicit confidence
of his towns folks in Fitzgerald,
gnd of all the rest of the world
that knows him including the
insurance men of New York —
men who to such companies as
Royal Exchange Assurance Com
pany-had his attention called
to the country round about Fitz
gerald as part of the Coastal
Plain which runs through Okla
homa and Texas as well,
In Tezas and Oklahoma they
have found oil in what the ex
perts call “Anticline,” and this
expert said to Mr. Harris that
they wou’d undoubtedly find oil
in Fitzgerald, in the same way
.in probably similar volume.
Not satisfied with one report,
Mr. Harris sought the advice of
other experts irfcluding your
own State Geologist, Mr. S. W.
McCallie, who immediately be
came enthusiastic about the
property..
Then some Government ex
perts were called in. They cor
roborated what the other had
said. Then came a lady who
lives on the property. She said:
“1 KNOW THERE IS OIL
HERE. I CAN SHOW YOU
THE PLACE WHERE YOU
CAN GO AND DIG A$D
STRIKE IT. I tried to dig a
well some fime ago. After the
men started digging some of
them had to taken out by their
companions. They had been
overcome by natural gas.”
In otner words, the possibili
ties of gas and oil being on the
property wasn’t news to some;
perhaps most of the inhabitants;
but no one had been found to
properly take advantage of the
fact.
This is true, wherever you
look around jrou. To mention
Edison with .file electric light
or Ford with the universally
popular and practical automobile,
would be to merely epitomize the
story of the beginning of most
every situation in, life in which
the man and the opportunity
meet. And when they do meet,
look out. The sparks are sure
to fly. Accomplishment is on its
way!
J. H. Harris is the man. The
fields of Fitzgrrald the location.
And the time is now.
Mr. Harris went quietly about
the country obtaining options.
Some of the property he bought
outright. Some of it he split up
into lots that ara C25 square feet -
each.
He said: “JVe will do this.
We will charge $10 for these lots
if we don’t strike oil, We will
charge $10 more for them IF WE
STRIKE OIL IN PAYING
QUANTITIES.
But if we do strike oil on
any of the 3,000 acres which
has been set aside oy the
Company we will give each
buyer of a lot a pro-rate
share in the entire profits
not only of the well but m
all of the mineral rights on
the property.
Could you beat that for equity 5
and fairness if you vourself sat
down and tried to figure out any
thing that would be a square
deal? We don’t believe you
could.
Now, just add up this 2 plus 2
in your mind, If you have oil—
and you have men who are on
the revel and are sure to do the
square thing by yoi^-can you
find any surer means of success?
Bear in mind, we didn’t prom
ise oil. No one in the proposi
tions says (here is oil on this
property for sure. No promises
lo strike oil are, have been or
will be made. The plan is put
forth for just what it is worth
and just as it has been stated
above—namely thatsurface indi
cations are that there is as good
a chance to strike oil here as in
eiLher Texas or Oklahoma and
that the plan itself is on the lev
el—and it is.
Now you laboring man that
has a few dollars in the bank, or
you man of means that spends
ten dollars on a jo> ride without
giving it much thought, can
either of you think of a much
better place for a ten dollar hill?
You don’t put up the other ten
until oil is struck in paying
quantities. Remember that,
But if oil 18 STRUCK—look
out ^fof fireworks. When I
reached Atlanta on about Febru
ary Cth, I heard of this p ,- opo-
sition. I was the first man to
hand a check into the company.
I learned that they would not in
all probability raise more than.
$25,000 all told. I went west to
New Orleans for Mardi Gras;
and vi ited Oklahoma City. Dal
las and some of the other towns
in T xas. When I got back their
treasury had taken in almost
enough to bore the first well. I
made a bee line for the Fitzger-
ald-Penna. Oil and Gas Co.
I bought some more lots and
then I said to myself; “If these
people here knew what a good
thing they had under their noses
they would sure take a flyer with
B. Lee Snfith, Y. F. Freeman of
the Southern-Paramount Picture
Company, Fred Kent of Ashe
ville—you know him—he own»
the ice plant, or most of it, in
Asheville, and he owns the ball
team, or part of it, and if you
can tell what he doesn’t* have
his finger in thereabouts, I don’t
know what it is. I haven’t
mentioned C. E. Tandy, General
Manager of Southern and Texas
Parrmount Picture Co. Some
one told me the other day that
Mr. Tandy had done more for
building up the South than any
other man in it. Certainly, no
one has more confidence either
in the South or the North than
C. E. Tandy. Yet he thought
enough to spend his thousands
in helping to acquire this prop
erty where you will be asked or
allowed to spend your dollars.”
Now let me ask you: "Ifthese
gentlemen have framed up such
a square deal for you, can’t you
afford to even call up or write to
B, Lee Smith in the Healy Build
ing, Atlanta, and ask hip to tell
you what he has to say about
this proposition and just why he
is in it?”
If you have borne with me long
enough to read what I have to
say, you can certainly listen to
him—but take this warning from
me, if you talk to him you will
buy a lot or two or more, because
no one ever listened to his able
presentation of the story of these
lots without buying one or
more—that is to say^noone ever
aid that I ever heard about—and
as I’m ohe of the bnginal inves
tors, I ought to know,
T.ie oil field and the man (Mr.
Harris) found each other—they
met—they are progressing to
gether. Tell me: Are you the
man. ahd is this not the oppor
tunity for YOU to get into a
square deal on the ground floor?
Ask B, Lee to tell you about the
woman who invested $25 in the
Texas Field and now gets $1,800.-
00 four times a year for her in
vestment, or the Vaudeville
singer at $15 per week less than
two years ago, who began with
a small investment in oil and is
now worth a million dollars,
Why, man alive! He can tell
you these stories by the hour,
and you can hear them for your
self in any of the oil fields. But
why just listen? Why.not take
the opportunity by the horns, so
to speak, and you yourself he
one of these who have heard the
call of opportunity ^anc
made millions.
CARL HORTO