People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — OIL WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA. [ARTICLE]

OIL WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Standard and Opposition Represented— Look for Fun. The oil trade is speculating on the possible connection between the sailing of the Standard Oil Company’s agent, F. J. Barstow, for South America and the absence from this country -of Lewis Emery—who is supposed to be in South or Central America. Mr. Emery is one of the few men who have successfully fought the Standard, and it is suggested that he may be ready to oppose the company’s schemes in the Argentine Republic. says New York World. An American company, known as the Pan-Ameri-can Investment Company of No. 35 Wall street, has acquired control of the Colombian oil fields on the Gulf of Darien which the bureau of American republics brought to the world’s attention. In the street it is not yet known what the influence is back of this company, but it is supposed to be Standard. The oil is found on the shore three days' run from the Standard’s Cuban refineries. A pipe line of 120 miles would convey the oil from the Darien district on the Atlantic to a good Pacific port just south of Panama. A scientific commission is now on the Gulf of Darien surveying the oil field, and it is understood that the Standard company expects this week a large consignment of samples. The samples which have been received and tested show that the oil ranks with the a'verage of the Pennsylvania district.