Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year -  Number 234
Tuesday, February 2, 1932

OIL MEN SAID TO BE
READY TO INVEST MONEY
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Dickering Reported in Progress Over
Acreage in Vicinity of
New Well.

Numerous oil men attracted to Marlin by the new Falls county oil field are said to be ready to invest their money where acreage is obtainable at prices which appeal to them, the range depending on the location with reference to C. C. Curtis'J.L.Davis No. 1 discovery well.

Dickering is reported in progress for acreage, one observer in touch with visiting members of the oil fraternity saying he knew of a number of them ready to invest on that basis.

No actual transactions have been reported by them, but negotiations got under good headway Monday following the report of bringing in of the well Sunday, and were continuing today.

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