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Rh would be placed upon me. I asked Doheny in Mexico what I might say concerning the situation, and he replied: "Nothing about me or especially about my properties. We can take care of ourselves, but help the people of Mexico if you can."

Edward L. Doheny is of public interest because he spans in his life and activities the western pioneer, bivouacking on the prairies and seeking the development of wealth from the mountains and the plains, and the new era of heat, light, and power which is coming from mineral oil.

When Doheny graduated from the high school in Wisconsin, he knew his botany and his mineralogy like the American youth of advanced education; but to-day he knows it as do few people in the world. His life on the plains taught him to know the sage brush of the desert for its roots holding the sands against the winds and its blossom yielding up to the bees the most delicious honey. He knows all the flowers of the hills and the mountain side and he knows the rocks and the minerals they cover as do few men. He knows how these minerals were deposited, their