Circular letters to "Dear Friend", 1921, June-August.

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Circular letters to "Dear Friend", 1921, June-August.

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These three circular letters, from the office of E. G. Lewis in Atascadero, California, are pleas for investments in oil fields owned by Lewis in Wyoming (the Greybull and Alkali Dome fields) and California (Temblodero). In the letters he talks about the oil already being found on these properties, gives reports and updates on the fields' progress since the last letter, his plans to drill more wells and the expected income to be earned by investors. There are blank forms enclosed for investors to complete and return.

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Lewis, Edward Gardner, 1869-

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Edward Gardner Lewis, businessman, promoter and magazine publisher, was born in Connecticut in 1869. In 1912, Lewis began purchasing land which would become Atascadero, California, a planned utopian colony (he had established an earlier colony in Missouri). Lewis had business and money troubles most of his life, was once investigated by the US Post Office for fraud and declared bankruptcy twice. He died in 1950. From the description of Circular letters to "Dear Friend", 1921, June-Au...