Henry Nelson is selfish and suspicious, and I'm told that Bell wouldn't trust anybody.

I'm informed also that every dollar they have made has gone back into new leases and wells and that they intend to hold everything for themselves.

It is rumored, quietly, that they are overextended." "I wouldn't care how thin I was stretched if I had their gamble," McWade asserted.

"All they have to do is to sit tight.

The law of average will pull them out.