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Rh The main ranch or home farm of Doheny is ten miles out of Los Angeles, eight hundred acres on the mountain side, and still it is not the extensive gardens, orange groves, fish hatchery, duck ponds, cemented driveway up the mountain, or his developed underground river, or the beautiful blue lilac bushes, that interest Doheny to the greatest extent; nor yet the opportunity here for a vigorous outing, a seven o'clock breakfast, and a beautiful view across the valley. It is the little seepage of oil in the sidewalk that indicates that again Doheny sits atop of wealth that he can sometime at his good pleasure mint into gold and human uses.

Doheny not only knows men, but he believes in men of the right sort. T. A. O'Donnell, a director of the Pan-American Oil Company, Doheny declares to be the best oil operator in California. He says he will get twice as much oil out of a well as other operators. When an oil well stops with O'Donnell it is going again in an hour. With some other people an oil well may be going again within two or three days, but the fellow that keeps his oil well going will get the oil, because the oil is all the time flowing toward him.