The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 3, 1996 Page: 1 of 12
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Che Gilmer irrop
56 Cenls • One Section
Wednesday January 3 1996
© 1995 The Gilmer Mirror
Vol 119 - No 1
High drilling level in 1995
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Man dies
Wells boost tax roll
in wreck
Valley formation in the Rosewood oji
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Operators complete new wells
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See OIL, Page 7A
Candidates file for primary
See CANDIDATES, Page 12A
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Robroy, civic center
among ’95 highlights
Midweek
Edition
Chilly
start to
Field west of Gilmer, three wells in
the South Gilmer Field, two in die
Gilmer Field, one in the Delrose
Field near Bettie
Three wells were listed as fail-
ures — one a try for oil pay in the
Buie Field near Diana, and gas ex-
plorations at Delrose and a wildcat
location three miles north of
Lngview. A location announced for
Willow Springs in east Upshur
County north of Longview was never
spudded, but one substantial find
was completed in the Willow Springs
Field
ered during oil wildcatting in the
1930s, but became a natural gas ex-
ploration hotbed in the mid-1980s.
Production is at depths ranging
mostly from 10,550 to just over
11,000 feet
CW Resources of Longview and
Amoco Production Co of Houston
were the two principal operators in
the Glenwood and White Oak areas
The latter saw four wells completed
in the southmost part of the county
The Mirror also reported four
wells completed from the Colton
planned seven miles northeast
of Gladewater by Amoco Pro-
duction Co. of Houston,
The well will be known as the
By SARAH GREENE
A high level of drilling for natu-
ral gas in Upshur County during 199 5
will add substantially to the county's
tax roll for 1996.
Theexact number of completions
is not yet known, but The Mirror's
reporting service listed 24 wells as
completed during the year County
Tax Appraiser Louise Stracener said
she would not have exact numbers
until May, when the Texas Railroad
Commission first quarter reports are
available
The natural gas processing plant
completed by Goldston Oil Co on
Hwy 300 two miles south of Gilmer
will not add greatly to the county tax
rolls because a state pollution device
exemption will apply to much of the
value. Mrs Stracener said Most ot
the 1995 well completions are in the
Gilmer Independent School Distric,
M rs Stracener said.
Lease hounds were busy in the
county clerk's office throughout the
year, and this was reflected in the
higher number of documents filed,
said County Clerk Rex Shaw
There has been a steady increase
Mirror Photo
NEW OFFICE building of the Robroy Industries Conduit Unit is rising behind the present offices on U S
271 south. According to custom, a "Christmas tree” was affixed to the highest point of the roof when the
last roof beam is put into place. In this case, it coincided with the Christmas season
Major dates relating to the
spring primaries include:
• Jan. 10:Last day candi-
dates may withdraw from gen-
eral primary election.
• Jan. 12:Firstday to submit
applications for ballots by mail
for the March 12 primary.
•-•Feb. 11: Last day citizens
may register to vote in March
12 primary.
• Feb. 12: Last day state
chairs may file party rules with
the Texas Secretary of State’s
office.
• Feb. 21: First day of early
voting by personal appearance
for the March 12 primary.
• March 5: Last day to sub-
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Blood drive at Wal-Mart
Stewart Regional Blood Center will be conducting a blood
drive from 10 a m to 6:30 p m today (Wednesday) at Wal-
Mart, Hwy. 271 N.
Any healthy person 17 or older can donate blood. All
donors will receive a T-shirt while supplies last
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Taxpayers rush
to pay bills
Thousands of property tax
bills were paid Friday, in what
Upshur County Tax Assessor
Collector Mike Smith said was
a typical “last day of the year
rush." Friday, Dec 29, was the
last business day of 1995
Smith sAid that 3,391 tax bills
were paid, and $484,559, almost
all of it in checks, was col lected
He said individual tax pay-
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THIS SUMMER SCENE on Hwy 300 near Glenwood shows one of the
numerous Cotton Valley deep tests that have added a number of
producing wells to this southeast Upshur County area
go on the air in November
Gilmer National Bank moved
into spacious new quarters off
North Wood St (Hwy. 271 N ) in
Gilmer
AUGUST—Upshur County
schools rated well in TAAS
(Texas Assessment of Academic
Skills) accountability ratings
from the Texas Education
Agency. All school districts but
Ore City were rated “accept-
able”, with that district getting
an “accredited warned” rating
because of high dropout rates
during the rating period.
Four Upshur County cam-
puses—James Poole Elemen-
tary at Harmony ISD, New Di-
ana Middle School, Union Grove
Elementary and Union Hill El-
ementary—received the “recog-
nized" rating, and Big Sandy
ISD and Big Sandy High School,
Gilmer ISD and Gilmer High
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Did the stork
take holiday?
. To look at the records in
HL County Clerk Rex Shaw's office,
B you might think the stork had
2 taken a holiday in Upshur
E County.
Only nine birth certificates
■ were issued in Upshur County
b in all of 1995. Those nine babies
2 presumably were delivered at
L home by midwives, Shaw noted,
2 since there has not been hospi-
r tal delivery of babies in the
£ county for several years.
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This concluding section of The
Gilmer Mirror’s year-end review
covers July through December,
1995. An article covering the
first six months of the year ap-
peared in Saturday’s edition:
JULY—A 1-year-old boy who
apparently sleep walked away
from Camp Gilmont July 10 was
found early the next morning,
after an all-night search by
Upshur County deputies with
assistance from the Smith
County Sheriffs Search Team
The boy, who was wearing only
shorts, was covered with
•cratches but otherwise unhurt.
Upshur County Sheriff Buck
Cross tried to get Upshur
County Commissioners to raise
his $27,012 annual salary to
match their salaries of $32,340
annually.
Ambassador University at
Big Sandy began construction
on the broadcast tower for
KBAU-FM, the university's ra-
dio station. The station would
Gilmer Choir Boosters meeting
The Gjlmer School Choir Boosters monthly meeting will
be held Jan. 8 at the Gilmer Junior High School at 7 p.m. All
parents with choir students are encouraged to attend.
Longview man wins final week
Jeff Brock-Jones of Longview is the latest local winner in
the Power Points football-picking contest He registered a
total of 110 points out of a possible 136.
Statewide winner was D.L. Swafford, Jr , a 50-year-old
disabled veteran from Lubbock. He racked up. 129 points.
Local winners receive $25. State winners take $1,000.
from 1991, when 6,836 documents
were recorded, through 1995, when
the total reached 9.828, Shaw said
The 1995 number was up from 8,547
in 1994. The total includes property
transactions of all kinds, but much
of the increase was due to the high
number of leases negotiated, Shaw
said
Natural gas futures prices soared
to an alltime record of $2 87 per
thousand cubic feetfar January de-
livery as winter storms on the north-
east prompted heavy buying The
tax values of wells on Jan. 1, how-
ever, is calculated on the basis of die
average natural gas prices through
the preceding year.
The hot spot in 1995 was the
southeastern part of the county from
East Mountain to Glenwood Eight
gas wells were completed from the
Cotton Valley formation in theGlen-
wood Field and nine wildcats were
spudded during the year in an at-
tempt to extend the field’s borders.
The wildcats are in addition to four
development wells spudded but not
yet reported as completed
'Hie Glenwood Field was discov-
tion venture of Byron Roach
Trustee of Judson. 2
The well showed ability to '•
flow 2,001,000 CF per day on a •
1.25-inch choke. It probed to
total depth of 11,178 feet and
will produce from Cotton Valley
perforations, 10,630 to 10,776
feet into the wellbore.
IN A BID to extend the pro- r
duction area of the Glenwood E
Field, a new pool wildcat is •
A string of eight below-freez-
ing days in Upshur County was
broken Friday, but 1996 began
with a new cold front bearing
down on Northeast Texas.
Gentle rain mixed with flur-
ries of tiny snowdrops ended by
noon Tuesday and was expected
to give way to more below-freez-
ing temperatures during the rest ,
of the week. High winds from
the northwest accompanied tem-
peratures dropping into the 30s
Tuesday’afternoon.
Rainfall for December to-
talled 2.46 inches, and the year's
total came in at 36.99 inches,
well below the county's 30-year
average of around 44 inches and
sharply behind the 58.46 inches
of rain that fell in 1994
Weather Observer Charles
Still measured .22 inch of rain
Saturday morning and 17 inch
Sunday morning in a holiday
weekend that saw temperatures
rising into the 60s by Sunday
afternoon. Rain New Year's day
totalled .50 inch
Five candidates are seeking
the Democratic Party nomina-
tion for Upshur County Sheriff,
according to a list released by
County Party Chairman David
Griffith.
The primary election will be
March 12.
They included R.D. “Buck”
Cross, incumbent; Jerry Lynn
Grunden, Barney Grant Smith,
A.C. “Bo” Weir, and Robert
Anderson.
The list was current as of
noonTuesday. Candidates could
file until 6 p.m. that day.
Those seeking other county
offices as Democrats included:
• Tax Assessor-Collector—
Mike Smith (incumbent).
• Commissioner, Pct. 1 —
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Gaddis M. Lindsey (incumbent),
John Ferguson and Huey C.
Jones.
• Commissioner, Pct. 3—
David Grant Loyd (incumbent)
and Rick Jackson.
• Constable, Pct. 1—Terry
W. Pyeatt, Stanley Preston
Fisher and Joel K. Bullock. -
• Constable, Pct. 2—William
A. Rogers.
• Constable, Pct. 3—Joseph
Richard Lingle Jr., Rolan
Donald Corley and Stanley Eu-
gene Jenkins (incumbent).
• Constable, Pct. 4—Cloddie
Darwin Henson.
Republican candidates for
county offices include:
• Commissioner, Pct 3—
Ennis Jenkins.
DALLAS AND Tulsa opera- 2,325,000-CFD rating on open
tors have completed two Cotton flow. It probed to a 10,950-ft.
Valley gas wells with combined bottom and was perforated to
open flow ratings topping produce at 10,280 to 10,848 feet.
3,600,000 CF per day in Upshur The Bullock flowed 824,000
County’s Rosewood Field. CFD on a 1.5-inch choke. It re-
The new gassers include the ceived a 1,369,000-CFD evalua-
No. 4 Ray Unit II and the No. 1 tion on absolute open flow. BRG
Bullock Unit. Locations are 6.5 bottomed the hole at 10,700 feet
miles northwest and six miles and perforated for production
west of Gilmer, respectively. at 10,110 to 10,520 feet
Operators include the McBee RATED AT a sturdy
Co. of Dallas (Ray unit) and BRG 3,739,000 CFD on open flow,
Petroleum of Tulsa (Bullock the No. 1 Stinchcomb has come
unit). on line in Upshur County’s part
The Ray well flowed of the Willow Springs Field,
1,994,000 CF gas per day on a about six miles north of
1.75-inch choke and grabbed a Longview. It was an explora-
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A rural Gilmer man was
killed in an apparently alcohol
related wreck early New Years
Day, according to the Texas
Department of Public Safety
Brandon L Raines, 21, of
Silktree Lake near Gilmer was
killed when the Toyota pickup
in which he was a passenger
went out of control and over
turned, DPS Trooper Jody
Hammond, the investigating
officer, said
Hammond said that the ve-
hicle, driven by Tiffany Qualls,
17, of Diana was northbound on
Hwy. 271 in the Union Grove
area when it went over the cen
ter stripe, crossed two drive-
ways, and overturned twice,
ejecting Ms. Qualls. The DPS
report listed driver intoxication
q as a contributing factor
The accident is believed to
have occurred at 3:05 a.m
The accident was discovered
by Upshur County Jailer Erie
Kjorsvik as he w as on his way to
work about 7:25 a.m. Kjorsvik
applied first aid to the driver,
a. before she was transported by
EE ambulance to. Good Shepherd
92 Medical Center in Longview
675 Raines was pronounced dead
E at the scene by Upshur County
2m Justice of the Peace W.V Ray
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