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Of: .. f T-fTJW VfT* SALAMANCA INQUIRER ifla W S I AN APPALACHIAN! Most anyone who knows oil and who is not interested in competing enterprises or is not the friend of a competing enterprise will advise you to become an Appalachian. Be One Today Tomorrow! This Week Sure! You are not expected to be come an Appalachian blindly, but to see what is behind the 25 cents you pay and the 8 per cent earnings guaranteed from the start. It Means Something To You—To Your Neighbors - To Your Home Town 0 Every Man and Woman Who Acts Quickly May Now Invest Their Spare Dollar Where It Will Have Actual Security and Earning Power Beyond the Creative Ability of Any Single Average Brain or Pair of Human Hands Men are Inspired to Look Ahead The extent of world-wide business reconstruction bound to follow World Peace has inspired men to look ahead as they never looked ahead before, and with it new thoughts of honor, principle and fairness among men are being inter jected into every project of life—business as well. It is done on the understanding that the methods of a past age cannot endure and be tolerated in an era which must be responsible to the ideals established by the victory of Our Boys who fought their glorious battles “Over There”— that real democracy and real decency might prevail here after not only in society and government, but also in com mercial practice. This being the concensus of what fills the human mindjof today, we want to invite you to join men who are your neighbors and friends in an amalgamation which will give the dollar that you can spare easily a possible profit and a real protection too good for any man, woman onchildtomiss. Later on we will tell you “what, why and how” your spare dollar might make you rich, how it is protected and secured, and what it will do for your own town and your neighbors. When men of ideas become endowed with a vision too extensive for the capital possessed by the few individuals blessed with the vision, they’ve got to seek help—that’s all; or go along too slowly to complete the enterprise in the time essential to achieving the greatest possible success. Therefore we original Appalachians—incorporated as The Appalachian Petroleum Prospecting Company—^have some thing to explain which no man or woman who has an extra dollar idle can afford to disregard long enough to allow themselves to be out of this thing which we shall now recite in detail and ask to have considered. We Make the Start Where Share holders Can See It Here are the facts and invitation which form our initial propositon: We propose to supply to automobiles from our own service stations, planned on an elaborate tourist-recep tion mode of construction, a> high-grade gasoline made from production of our own wells in Allegany and Cattaraugus counties. New York; and in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, comprising leaseholds of 7,148 acres. The company is in corporated for $3,00(1,000 with 3,000,000 shares of $1.00 par value. What we ask you to do with your spare • dollar is this: Subscribe for one or more of 200,000 shares -of The Ap palachian Petroleum Prospecting Company’s capital. The par value of each share is $1.00, but in order to immediate ly finance new development we offer £he 200,000 shares at 25 cents each. But we are .not offfering you these shares at a risk to yourselves. There is something more than mere talk back of this enterprise. We are offering this limited issue of 200,000 shares in strict obedience to a principle of honor recited in the introductory of this proposition.We give you an absolute»^guarantee of earnings of 8 per cent’ a t the . start, to be paid'in^ quarterly installments of 2 percent, from production of 7-barrel well, yielding $28.00 daily, or. more than $10,000.00 annually. In other words you are amply secured for every dollar you subscribe to these 200,- 000 shares. You are thus secured by a bonafide lien which virtually makes your investment no risk whatever, and the $4,000.00 that has been set aside from a regular producing well’s production to pay your 8 per cent interest is substan tiated by a collateral contract furnished with your certifi cate at the time you pay for and receive your shares. No thing as fair and square as this, we believe, has ever been undertaken by a set of men who are determined to give the investor and themselves a record profit. Fortunes as a rule are promised on a shoe string. You are usually asked tdtake' all the chances. But here is an instance where you take no chances, and notwithstanding this you are in line for divi dends which we think mean a fortune to everyone who buys enough shares to draw cumulative effect from a fair-sized investment. Money Will Be Devoted to Actual Expansion With the $50,000 received from the sale fo these 200,- 000 shares the company proposes to drill six new wells 'where there is positively no record of a dry hole, and for this reason a minimum production of a^least $80 per day is expected from this one operation alone. Four of these wells will be drilled on a 350-acre tract just north of Brad ford, in a section which is traversed by one trolley line and by the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh and Erie railroads. , Ther are two power plants there, and actual production. The 350-acre tract is known as.the Gault lease. This lease can be drilled up to 100-barrel production, and would be worth $500,0(10. Mr. Gault is one of the best-knownjpetro- leum prospectors in the United States, and should be inter viewed Iby anyone who might want all the facts about this territory. Our enthusiasm is great, but his, borne of deeper knowledge, is absolutely irresistible to anyone anxious to confine himself to prospects built on authentic data. The new service-station idea of the company, based on the policy of delivering finished product direct from the well to .the consumer, calls for this urgent drilling of more wellsj be cause its own production, provided to consumers through its own service stations, could be made to yield a net profit of 12 cents per gallon as against 3 1-3 cents net profit for every gallon which its service stations must for a time buy from other producers. Since the net profits on the 1,000,- 000 gallons it could sell annually from its -service stations at Corry, Union City and Salamanca alone would amount to $33,000 its net earnings might be something enormous—^at least $'120,000—if it could develop its territory fast enough to supply all its service stations in this district. You want, to fhink of these possibilities. Then you wll see what we ar&.actually doing for ;^ou on this special issue. _ We are not only taking you in with ourselves on an actual 400-per-cent discount basis, but we aFe Safeguarding your investment by putting back of it a real asset which will pay you 8 per cent interest until such a time as the company’s field-develop ments and service-station peon a g e shall allow it to pay out a rate equal to or larger than this in dividends. But remem- , her that while we see deep into the future, we are,not reach ing for the future frantically-—preferring 'conser\'ative man agement which will make your investment grow rapidly and continually, instead of attempting to strain nerves to' a pitch which might place imprpyements in course of construction too far ahead of the time they could be finished and jiroduc- ing revenue. Understand us. We are going to make as much of our property as possible self-sustaining and profit-yield ing within a Very few months or weeks of the, start. ' Will Open Stations Right Where Shareholders Live For instance, i t will not be long before the Appalachian Gasoline Service Station at Corry w ill‘be open for business and the second erected near Van Tassel’s F'eed \Store on the road to Clymer and Findlay Lake.. Then will come Salaman ca and 01eam_ All these service stations will eventually be come tourist’s reception resorts, equipped with restroqms, quahty-refreshmeht accomodations, information bureaus ■ and architectural betterments which we will strive to make,* with local help, the gateways^ to the city^s hotels and public landmarks and roads and routes beyond. Automobilists from outside coming dusty, warm and worn into your midst will have a place of refinement and beauty to receive them, such as will elicit praise for your community. Our plans for these greater service Stations will follow. The idea is of too much magnitude and detail to put into print, but can be dis seminated with more clarity at any of our offices later, af ter we have received some of the plans. Public-spirited citizens of large cities east, where roads diverge in many directions,' have expressed a desire to underwrite the ser vice-station feature of our enterprise for their particular communities. The plan was devised by a nationally-known - member of our corporation who does not wish at present to have his identity aired—at least not until the plans have - been\ completed and reyised to suit the wishes of the differ ent cities and towns that will use them.\ Wheil you consider the extent of the company’s territories • you must also realize that the leases are in proved fields. We are not wildcatting. Our properties in New York State comprise the Klipknockie Lease of 4,490 acres, and the Lawton Lease of 216-acres in Allegany Couhty; the Morton , Lease (in fee) of 802 acres, and Brown Lease (in fee) of , 640 acres, ih Cattaraugus County; 350 acres in Pennsylvan ia, and 650 acres in Powell County, Kentucky. With eleven producing wells, and $320.00 daily production calculated on additional developments, the company believes it is consist ently relyingi.on precedent when.it advices its friends an'd the public generally not to miss this opportunity. It pro poses to keep buying and developing oil territory in the ' states of New York and Pennsylvania until its daily produc tion reaches 500 barrels. Then, when this production equals the d^and of its service stations, new plans for furtheif extensions will be submitted. The officers of the corporation *are: Frank W. Steck, of Janrnstown, N. Y. president; Frank Mack of Eldred, Pa., vice president; William S. Morton of Gerat Valley, N- Y., direc tor; Dr, \W. H. Uay of Corry, Pa,, director; Katherine Head of Jamestown, N, Y., secretary; John E. Smith of James town, N. Y., director and C. J. Paulson of Erie, Pa. director. Get the lacts at once. Remember that this limited issue of shares is for a specific purpose that must be acted on at - once. Plans for our service stations won’t wait. If we can supply them both with our own production we make a net profit on today’s market of 12 cents per gallon instead of 3 1-3 cents per gallpn; or if we could supply only half of them with our own production think what we would make. Does any mortal soul see how he could he given a greater opportunity for his own money and his own town than this p^position extends him? Look into itl But look-while you think of it! Don’t wait ’till this limited issue is exhausted. We shall have more stock to sell later perhaps to take ca| of other developments and new construction, hut it won’t at 25 cents per share. Put that <^wn. Then get the facts for yourself. Call, write or phone. But do it while the op portunity exists. The Appalachian Petroleum Prospecting Company CORRY, PA. OFFICE 47 Main Street Salamanca. N. Y. UNION CITY, FA. OFFICE A-
