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|f WoU Return* From Investigation Trip to Teaum. * TheState. ff "The well establishedlfoil indus* tries of Texas are not Aellinf the woods for subscribers mr oil stocks. Those concerns which e in the oil developing business trcm the standpoint of fleecing the Bunsuspecttng and the more or less informed public are unmeritorius and are not wor, thy of consideration,"wild Attorney General 3. M. Wolfe Msterday. Mr. Wolfe returned to CoMmbia yesterday morning after a nsit of several days to points In TextEwhere he had opportunity to give tlL "once over'' to numerous oil develoBnent projects. Attorney General \?blfe went to Houston it the earneslsolicitation of a company manufacturMg automobiles and trucks, which conrarn is making application for a perrlit from the state insurance commiAioner to sell stock ih vis state. Thekttorney gen-j eral win Wake his repirt to the insurance i ^>mmla8ioner mho will then make knbwn his decisflfn in the matter of a permit. M > Automobile Aid Oil. [While hlr. Wolfe'Amain purpose w*s to lo<|k into the Atomobile manu* facturinjc establishment, he took occasion td'i discuss ofl speculative ven- i tures with conservative lawyers and , citizens a f that seetlon of Texas. "The o^concsdms which are well established"and ipich arts doing a good business are-not the concerns which are begiegind this part of the oountry !> wfih afwications to buy stook in their apKarenVy attractive projects and thfft clake of oil concerns of a most extremes speculative nature," says Wofie. >!I tawed ysrith a very competent engineer in Texas and asked *him if the topography of the country had anythinjftf do with the prospects for | successftU oil ventures. He told me that oik r as he was concerned he placed rkt reliance whatever on typographies conditions. He made this 1 * statement in order to show the spec- ' lature of many of the oil pfo-. jectts. I iWAKtemovlroKlo fnotnrn ohnilt Vucncuiai a?vic ivikiui u ????. the oil Business" said Mr. Wolfe, "is ; that whin oil is found in one field, another! well sunk in the same field | Is also likely to prove profitable. In cne are?.uct?t are some 20 or 30 der-, ricks in I mile'-g radius of the central well. ThA there is a laps of some 25 j or 20 mfies before you find other oili fields." 1 SHORTAGE OFMX)^T0N LIKELY.! World Demaiulfar A lead of Production^ B^ik Re lew Says. fr'A ttOte of w rning igainst possible world Bhqjta [e of c< tton is sound- I a ed in the Jul} n mbet < f "The Amer-< f leil" of the - H liopal City Bank, | ' which decl present world', > ' demand for cl lb rpnning far in Vfcjpess of prodtHSUo*/1 JThe world is i nOW^-consumia#%fcbui I 21,000,000 I j. bales of cotton *nuall)L it la stated, I bat the pptaent ftcazle lp expected to 1 lib an Increase A the demand of at I letty lO.OOO.OOOA^les with a like increase in the sufceeding decade. "Where thei mottonlis to come i from," ^ays thd ink, "to allow the I world to doublf s annuhl conaump- j cannot come fdDt the Southern Am tion Jfe a problbi . It cefoinly can not Come from ti a Southern American States; assfcr Ing thadthe American crbp win < itinne to average about 11.500,0 ales, as it has for the past fine y? u and will probably equal this year i is plain Ythat vast cotton producix ; districts In other parts of the wo: if must be developed without any los i?f time id a pronounced shortai f of cotton is to be avoided. 1 "It Is estimated that moke than 6,000,00.9 persins are directly engaged in the prAuctlon, manufacture and distrlbutioipof cotton, wnile re- j liable estimates have placed thp 1 amount of capital invested id the 1 S business at $3|,000,000,000. 1 The w amount of cotfon produced in\ the world has shown a remarkable) increase. 1 While statistics of such a wide-: spread industryfare necessarily more or less appropriate, it is believed Yhat cptton production has grown from 5v0,000,000 poind? in 1800 to 1,10,000,000 poundi in1 1850, 7,50(10,000 pounds in Yl9O0 and 14,0011,00 in 1013, wiich, is the last y&r that can he caled normal. 1 ' "The most inferesting phase of toe figures Just quoted is the practical]! doubled producls!^^900, shOM ing that even ixtjjese modern tlme^l great capacity Ar the expansion ofi . dhrton consumption exists. SiBCfll ' 1014, however, lityis increa^ ju the \ world's eotton fwduc.U?rn has taken place and bhd greatest problOtas no* cqnJ^Efcag the industry, ?Be ?vhlch |is receiving a great .. of serious Mtention, is the ihV?eaBe in the fltea alloted to cotton cultivation Ifecessary to keep up with increasing* consumption demand. "Should the present American crop fall to come up to the most recent estimates, Jt v )1 mean the sixth short crop, an unprecedented situation 0o far s American cotton Is concerned. "From the da s when the Southrhnl American S ites first began to Supply the wor L with its principal Stocks of cotton there has always , been a feeling Jin textile circles V throughout the ^foria max wa?a uivic ootton was needed America would supply it. f ^ f | ? * if' * %* ??**** * THftOUOT^JRO^^ * J^tfOTORS CO. * ********** WANTED ?- Live wire to sell Brisco Automobiles in your territory, j. H. Bam, Distributor, Charlotte, K. C.?7 29 St p. Illl ' E. T. 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