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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