Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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JACKSBORO
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VOLUME XXXV.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1914.
NUMBER 22.
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The Little Things
IMS HUS'
OFFICERS AND
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DIRECTORS
W, A. Shown,
President
Sil Stark
J. R. Lilly
Vice Pres.
James Hayes,
Cashier
W. B. Mann
Asst. Cash.
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Mrs.FrancesDuke
S. Castleberry /
J. II. Timberlake
L. T. Richardson
J. W. Blinder
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We appreciate the iimoll accounts
At Our Bank
We appreciate any business intrus-
ted to us, and the small accounts,
well managed, often grow into the
largest accounts.
From the Back's side of
the Question.
There are many favors a bank may
extend, through the little personal
favors of its officials, which we are
always glad to extend to our cus-
tomers.
Let us show you.
BANK WITH US and let’s grow to-
gether
the no rami on
GOVERNOR-ELECT FERGUSON
ADVISES ALL TO GO SLOW
AT DIVERSIFICATION.
MUSI AVOID EXTREMES
Says That by Time to Plant Next
Crop Things May Change
for Better.
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Houston, Tex., Nov. 9a—Diver*
sification was the keynote of dis-
cussion at a crop ’ conference of
Texas farmers held this afternoon
at the city auditorium. While
the gathering wa3 not as large as
was anticipated, it was enthusi-
astic and representative. Inter-
esting talks by men familiar with
their subjects were heard.
The first address of the even-
ing was byl Governor-Elect James
E. Ferguson, who, while he advo-
cated diversification to a certain
extent, dd inot thixxk that the cot-
ton acreage should be curtailed
News From Jack County
Oil Fields Development
SUNDAY AT JACK
COUNTY OIL FIELDS.
Services Held in Honor of What
is Expected to be Jack Coun-
ty’s Most Valuable Asset.
otwithstanding Sunday morn-
ing was disagreeable, yet there
were several hundred visitors as
well as the local people in attend-
ance on the service at the oil
fields. i
Services were held in the new
packing house, one of the refin-
ery’s buildings, which was seated
temporarily for the occasion. Rev,
Mr. McClelland conducted the ser
vices, being assisted by Rev. L.
P, Smith of Jacksboro who was a
visitor.
Owing to the condition of af-
fairs and inconvenience there
were no musical instruments, but
the enthusiasm and fervor of the
audience in singing the old-fash-
io;i hymns served to have unusu-
CHUCK YOUR OLD HAT. THE GOOD FEELING YOU GET
WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN THE PRICE OF A NEW ONE.
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ALL HATS FOR $3.00 ARE
TRY ONE OF “OURS” ONCE.
NOT THE SAME QUALITY.
WE’VE JUST OPENED UP MORE NEW ONES, IN BLUE,
BROWN AND BLACK; HIGH CROWNS ylND OTHERS. MY!
HOW PRETTY THEY ARE!
WE ALSO HAVE JUST RECEIVED |a FINE LINE OF
GAPS IN NEW SHAPES; BLUE AND ASSORTED COLORS IN
LATEST MATERIALS.
Priced for ......................... 25^, 50^, 75£, $1.00
SEE OUR CLOTHING
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have a very fine line of Men’s and Boys’ Suits—Men’s
Suits priced from.....,..................$10.00 to $20.00
Bpys’ Suits priced from..................... $1.50 to $7.00
profitably in its plaeee. . .
“The time for concerted action
has come,” said ison.
“We should meet th^pre nasli]
ly in the face and come t-
conelusion. There are tw^ ex
t trcmes that must be avoided; thJy
! are overproduction and under-
production of cotton. Thousands
of people in the South depend on
cotton for a ^ living. These in-
clude cotton pickers, gin employ-
es and workers in cotton factories
Mush Deliberation Nccessaiy.
“It is easy to condemn the far-
mers for raising cotton and to
ask the Government to pass laws j
making the curtailment of cotton!
acreage imperative, but all this
accomplishes nothing. It is* a
matter that requires great delib-
eration and' one that should be
discussed in all its phases before
action is taken. We should not
commit ourselves to an one thing
wh n four months4 time may
bring’ us to realize that it was
most inadvisable thing we could
'have done. It will be several
months beferp cotton planting
time comes again and by that
time conditions may change for
the better. No matter how many
laws are passed, I do not believe
that any jury in Texas would eon
vict a man for planting cotton.”
Joseph Il’r.seh, prominent Cofr-
jpus Christi banker and a Vepre-
sentative of the Texas Banker’s
Association, also is in favor of
I crop diversification and the cur-
itailment of cotton acreage, but
does not believe that the farmers
will consent to diversify unless
the bankers and business men get
together and encourage them in
raising other crops. He stated
CAPITOL OIL & GAS CO.
Will Immediately Sink More Shal-
low Wells and Also Drill a
Deep Well.
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nonius
WHEAT AND CORN YIELDS
MOST VALUABLE CROP
EVER GROWN IN U. S.
Loss on Cotton as Result of War
Is More Than Made Up l^rom
Other Sources.
Last week the Gazette’s report
er had the opportunity of an in-
terview with Messrs. J. H. San-
derson and Davis McCulloch,
president and Secretary-Treasur-
er, respectively of the Capitol Oil
& Gas Co. These gentlemen who/ Wasb;ngtoil) NoV- 9._-rhe im-
heretofore, have been known to be portant farm crops of the unjted
among the pioneers, or the men Stategg this ycar are worth ^
who “started things” in the Jack 068,742,000, or $104,000,00} more
County oil fields, are now going than the vaiue of the sanie irop*
to be known as producers also. last year, notwithstanding a logs
This company now has a num-iof $4X8,000,000 sustained by coV
her of shallow wells on the pumpiton planter8 on lint alone os are-
and are storing their oil every sult of the European war.
day. But they are not satisfied Preiimillary estimates of the im-
with their production as it is now portent farm crops announced to-
but are going to put down sever-
al more shallow wells, and also a
day by the Department of Agri-
culture and statistics of the av-
too much without first deciding
°,^er. Cr.°^ (>,°U^ ^ ^ grown apy fine music. The discourse of
Rev,. McClellan was appreciated
by every one who heard him and
tak ing all in all this pioneer ser-
ies of the oil field settlement
s all that could be expected in
the way of properly dedicating
Jack County’s latest and proba
bly best commercial asset.
After services were over the
major portion gatherer about the
office building together with the
large freight truck and many au-
tomobiles \yhere several snap-
shot pictures were taken whicl
in time to come will become valu-
abl
ering for religious services
what promises to be a thriving
hustling, important, little town i?
the near future.
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All reports from, the o:l fields
deep well. Messrs. Sanderson; erage prices paid to produ3ers on
and CeCulloch claim ^ *■ * ~
belief
fields
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time as well as thousands of dol-
to be thej£jov# j indicate that this year’s
men who clung steadfast to their wheat and corn crops are t tie moei
in the Jack County oil valuable ever grown in the Unit-
and spent considerable e(j grates, that the wheat und ap-
ple crops are record harvests, and
money traveling and en- fjie p0^a|0 cr0p is the second larg-
deavoring to interest capital in eS£
the East while others sat back
and laughed, saying, that if there the vaiue of tlle cotton crop
was oil in Jack County others suIti^feSn the
would have discovered it long
lars
ever raised. These increases
more than offset the big loss in
' ifli
ago. What’s the result? Today
there are men on the field with
money and a refinery almost com-
plete.
The Jack County oil fields are
no longer merely a place of spee-
„ ■ illation, but a place of actual pro-
^ ____ _ . & . ; auction, as there is oil being pro-
duced every day. The Gazette is
glad to see these deep wells be-
ing put down and is hoping for a
few* gushers in the near future.
COTTON WILL BRING
NINE CENTS! SOON
Belief of Kemp and Connell,
Leaders of Marketing Cam-
paign in Texas.
continue to. be very
Large quantities of building mate
rial is being taken out at all hours
of the day and night. The autb-
Dall as, Nov. 9.—If the brakes
which have considerably checked
, W. E. Anderson of Itasca lias th ' rush of cotton to market shall
flattering. | been jA town thig week> His be clamped a bit tighter, ti e pric«
businses here was looking after,^,e product will quick y ad-
his investment in the Jack Coun-1vance to Se, liasis middling, and
Hi Hi ty oil fields. Mr. Anderson says remainder of the Texsa crop
tru k and wagons are .constantly j the re(;nery piant jg a fine 01Je 'will sell at a price ranging from
coming and going from Jacksboro and work ig bein? pushed as rap.|8e to 9c a pound, is the colifident-
ti the fields. Further develop- w]y possibies. He also express]^ expressed belief of J. A. Kemp,
ments are watched with much in-le(^ mue]1 fajth the oil outlook ile«d of the committee created by
Texas bankers to deal w ith the
(cotton situation, and of J. JI. Oon-
n?U, pressident for Texass of the
formulat ng plans successfully to j Soutliern Cotton Association,
who is co-operating with the-
bankersss’ orgrtiiLzhtioii.
They are sending out impressive
and convincing • argument^ as to
t;rest by all.
! as being very Valuable.
Men’s Overcoats, mighty good ones for just a little money,
with the Presto Collar, from................$8.00 to 12.50
REAL VALUES.
WATCH SPACE FOR NEW DRESS
RECEIVING THIS WEEK.
GOODS, Etc., WE ARE
MIN’S SHIRTS, FROM THE HEAVY WORK SHIRTS TO THE
DRESS FLANNEL SHIRTS- Priced from .... 50£ to $1.50
SEE THEM.
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WE WANT TO SHOEf YOU OUR GOODS.
FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF POST OFFICE.
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Birdsong & Son
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that the bankers and business me*
of Corpus Christi were planning
to get together fer the purpose of
inducing the farmers of Nueces
County to raiise live stock, espec-
ially hogs.
Prof. Alvord, manager of the
| agricultural department of the
; Taft ranch, docs not think that
j the cotton acreage should he re-
duced. z
“Cotton is now and always will
be the mainstay of Texas. It
has brought more gold to this
country than was ever mined
here. The problem now is to fi-
nance the cotton crop until
market price rises until it is
Question of Marketiing.
4 ;While I know that other crops carry out the pla3 advocated,
can be successfully grown in Tex-' _T w __
as, there is no market for them.! Grasrs Wheat in Winter.
Diversification in crops that
could not be sold would bo worse! Plainview Herald: Last year L, why and the how of p,lttsine
than no diversification at all. The ^r- Knight had some nine ^iun‘ 0n xhe brakes
thing for the Texass farmer to ^ head of cattle and horses Att„ntion “hag been iirevU.d
do is to grow eropss that can be Sraz:nK on Ins wheat durmg the 1 iler ,t<)for„ to th(> fact that Tcxaf
sold at a profit in his immediate: winter. He figures that the graz-; eotton thig Lg of unum.,]i,
vl«W netted him approximately' ^ K mU(>h of ,t classing
Other interesting
made by A. Kemp of Wichita
Falls, Fred W. Davis, Commis-
sioner of Agriculture-elect; Prof.
II. H. v Harrington, former presi-
dent of the A. & M. College, and
now in charge of the agricultural
department of the St. Louis,
Brownsville and Mexico Railroad,
and H. D. Lassiter, a prominent
dairyman of Falfurrias, Texas.
A resolution was passed indors-
ing the action of the Texas Bank-
ers ’ Association in advocating
a curtailment :
talks were t'lree dollar8 Per acre.
This plan of grazing wheat in
the
seems to be
above middling. Consolation
been derived from this 1
Hams section vc!}t me.mg that as eompared vitb
immensely profitable. Last year wh(,n t|,„ lit of ,;ot.
Cox Bros, rented them land on^ ^ ^ Texag cotwm ig not
which wheat was growing. The
wheat was graced during the win-
ter, and rent amounting to five
dollars per acre was paid the
own ts.
selling so cheaply as iss indicat-
ed by comparison of middling quor
tations.
Deoembe Strawberries.
San Benito, Tex., Nov. 9.—
Preparations are being made for
cotton acreage.^ail(j shipping strawber-
ries in the lower Rio Grande Val-
A .sppeial committee, composed of
J. A. Kemp, B. D. Harris, II. D. } »y ^ines will begin to bear
^ Lindsay, H. I). Lassiter and Jo* j about iJie first of December and
soph Hirsch, was appointed to co- the outlook at present is rosy
a level with the cost of productior operate with the associiation in for a good size profitable crop. tfor their request.
Railroads Plead Before Conimerce
Commission.
Representatives of twenty-nimv
eastern railroads have appealed
to the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission fer an increase in ireight
rates, of at least five tper cent,
pleading a general condition of
bankruptcy prevailing throughout}
the railroad world, as the j-canon
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