The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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►aluting Oervice
Leander It. Fiedler Misses The Recorc
^ ± Wichita Falls, Texas
Sheppard Field
Dear Sirs:
If your offer is still good, pleas6
send me The Cotulla Record as I miss
#> it more every day.
The army isn’t as tough as I thought
it would be, and I like it better every
day. (
As there isn’t much news, I must
close.
Thanking you, and as ever,
Pvt. Leander B. Fiedler
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls, Texas
Editor’s Note: Glad to have your
letter, Pvt. Fiedler. Yes sir, we an
MJlIulsIaniliiig Program
tmingl'd Fur
MAIOR OIL STRIKE FOR LA SALLE CO
tramline Day
An outstanding program has been
arranged for Cotulla’s observance of j
Armistice Day.
Special Agent Ralph H. Winton, of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
will be the principal speaker. Those j
who have heard Mr. Winton talk say j
that he is a very interesting speaker. -
and that we are very fortunate in ;
having a person of his ability here for j
the program.
In addition to this message, which
will explain the work of the F. B. I
in National Defense, as also some of.
The Call America Heeds
still sending the paper to the boys ir j the citizen’s’ duties, Mr. Winton wili i
service from this County, and art.j also show the sound movie, MEN OF
gladly adding your name to this even THE FBI. This movie is an out-1
growing list. Of course we are surej standing March of Time feature, and
that you and the other boys realize i has won wide acclaim wherever it has j
Washburn B-1 Completed This Week
Flowing High Gravity Oil
La Salle County jumped into th‘ i Drilled to approximately 5725 feet
oil spotlight this week—a place which,' casing was landed on bottom and per-
it will probably hold for months to forations will be made in the G5-foot
come—by the highly successful com- I sand, which when cored showed good
pletion of a big oil producer at the jporosity and exeell nt saturations.
Washburn Field. The pay was topped at 5513 feet and
The Record last week anticipated a drill stem test of first 11 feet re-
the completion of a very important j covered 420 feet of 43 gravity pipe
I commercial producer, when it quptec ; line oil, 120 feet of oily mud under
j Mr. H. R. Cullen as saying, “it looks I 23 pound pressure in 25 minutes. A
I like now that this is going to devel- j second test. 40 feet into the pay, de-
ep into a major field’’. i veloped a flow of crude in less than
i That was before only but prelimi-1 25 minutes and recovered 2000 feet of
that this represents quite an expense
to us; but from the many fine let
ters we have received from you, we
know that you are enjoying reading
about the home happenings, and we
certainly intend to keep it up.
We are glad to know that you arc
enjoying the army life and hope to
hear from you again before long.
been shown.
In addition to the address and j
moving picture, the Cowboy Band and
Choral Club will present several
musical numbers.
Acrording to George Hopkins I
Chairman of the Program Committee
of the Cotulla Lions Club, sponsors'j
of the meeting, that this will be a
. . most interesting program from be
Sgt. Lonnie Williams at Brooks Fielc j ginning to en(]) and one that persons
from throughout the county would
do well to attend.
Brooks Field, Texas
Dear Sirs:
Again I wish to thank you foi
sending me the Cotulla Record. Al-
though I have been living in Carrizi
“It will be a fine opportunity” Hop- j
kins said, “for the citizens of Cotulla
and La Salle County to properly |
Springs for the past three years, I’m. j commemorate the signing of the Ar-i
still glad to know about my friends j mistice of the last World War, also.,
who are in the service. A good many it will give us an excellent chanceso* |
of them are old friends and school learning something of the worthwhil I
mates, some I grew up with; and T; activities of this important agency
always glad to hear about them and ! which is doing so much during thes
kno w how they are progressing.
I think it is awfully nice of you tc
publish their addresses and to send
them the Record.
Respectfully yours,
Sgt. Lonnie A. Williams
05th School Squadron
Brooks Field, Texas
Editor’s Note: We were glad to gel
your letter Sgt. Lonnie, son of for-
mer Justice of the Peace and Mrs
Roscoe W’illiams of Millett. Report-
indicate that you are getting along
fine in the service, and of course (
we are mighty glad to hear about it
Keep up the good work.
Charlie Bull at Fort Bliss
critical times. All of us respect and
admire the FBI and what it is
doing. We all want to cooperate ;
in every manner possible with thir j
outstanding defense organization. By |
attending this program, everyonu
will learn ways and means of bette •
doing this.”
The program is free to the public |
and everyone is cordially invited an*
urged to attend. It will star i
promptly at 8 o’clock in the High
school Auditorium.
An invitation has been extended by J
the Lions Club to all members of the
American Legion and Ex-Service men |
in the county to attend the meeting
and sit as guests of honor on the
platform.
jr.ary tests had been made. Since
that time, tests have been made
which proved a very high gas press-
ure. Following this, on Tuesday the
well was “brought in” and two days
later, the oil was being loaded intc
railroad tank cars at Dull for ship-
ment.
It is understood that as of yester-
day morning, on a quarter inch choke
the well was producing approximate-
ly 460 barrels a day of high gravity
(404 pipe-line oil, with no water
showing.
The gas pressure registers 150C
pounds, with 600 pound pressure or
the tubing.
pipe line oil when tool was pulled.
The well was cored ahead another 1?
feet, the last two feet being shale.
No water was reported in the sand.
The well is 6265 feet southwest of
Washburn No. 1-A. completed earlier
in the year in a 5400-foot sand, pump-
ing oil and water. The No. 1-A well
previously had been completed in a
shallower Wilcox sand also making
salt water with some oil.
The importance of the new well is
tj;e sand thickness carrying no water.
This is the first well on the up-dip
side of the Gulf coastal Wilcox trend
to find such conditions and suggests
that an intensive play will result in
Mr. Cullen who alone is responsible i the general region. Wells drilled a-
for the remarkable and increasing i long trend after the first Wilcox com-
oil activity which this county if pletion by the Quintana also failed to
witnessing, was very highly pleased ; find favorable
the showing which the well— ! began to lag.
The Red Cross nurse is the symbol of the 1941 American Red Cross Roll Call
poster, appealing to all men and won-., to join their local chapters as members
during the annual Roll Call. Bradsiiaw Crandell, distinguished poster artist,
painted the poster and Frances Fedden is the model.
over
Ids fourth at Washburn—is making;
And before returning to Houston W< d-
nesday, expressed high confidence
that this was the beginning of a maj-
or Field for Texas.
oil sands and interest
The new strike again
brings the play into limelight. Fig-
uring a 400-barrel per acre recovery,
the ultimate yield from a sand sec-
tion of this proportion should approx-*
imately 27.000 barrels per acre. The
1000
TRASK PICK-UP SLATED
F'OR NEXT WEEK,
STORES CLOSE TUESDAY
NOVEMBER
11TI.
Fort Bliss, Texas
Dear Sirs: ___
Have been receiving the Record ANNUAL LIBRARY RLMMAGE
right along, and certainly have beer SALE NOVEMBER 151 H
glad to get it. I would have written
sooner, but have been in the hospita'
and just got out. It was a great
The regular monthly trash and
garbage pick-up, sponsored by the
Cotulla Woman's Club, is set for
-- next week, Club Officials announced
The La Salle County Library As yesterday,
i sociatiori will hold its Annual Rum- j Persons desiring their trash or
help to be able to lay up there in bed i age Sale, Saturday, Nov. 15th. Ar- Karbage picked up, are urged to not-
and read the home paper.
I am getting a furlough on Nov.
1, and will try and see you while I’rr
in Cotulla.
Yours truly,
PFC. Charlie L. Bull
HQ. & Serv. Troop
Fort Bliss, Texas
This Column Well Liked
We are very happy to have receiv-
ed such a fine response to this col-
umn. “Saluting Service Men”.
Naturally, in publishing The Record
we try to print those stories and ar
tides which our subscribers will en-
joy reading. To accomplish this, wc
like to talk to our subscribers, occas-
ionally, and receive their reaction a-
bout our paper.
All report that they are enthuiastic
and interested readers of this column
Many say that it is the first thing
they read after receiving the Record
and we are mighty glad to know of
this fact.
Almost every letter we receive from
the boys in service, makes the state
ment that “1 look forward to receiv-
ing the Record, and reading about the
happenings at home ’. And it is true
conversely, that we back home, art
very interested in knowing how out
boys in service are making out.
Accordingly, we hope our friends ir
all branches of the service will con-
tinue to let us hear from them. The>
have written some mighty fine and
interesting letters, and we hope they’l!
keep it up.
Who Can Write the Best Letter.
To that boy in Service, who writer
us the most interesting letter
between now and Dec. 25, we are
going to give a genuine Gillette Raz-
or set, complete with five extra Gil-
lette blades.
rangements have been made for S' iCe these requirements: All such
pickup on Thursday and Friday pre trash and garbage, if it is to be eoi-
ceding the Sale on Saturday. i Jected, must be placed in containers
The Association suggests that prac- from which the trash can be emptied
, tically any item can be used, such | into the wagon. For instance,
coat hangers, old dresses, old clothes containers with the bottoms broken
etc. ! out, or containers too large to pick
Money derived from this sale is j wjU be passed by.
to be used in buying new books fot -Also, everything must be ready for
the Library.
NOTICE TO EX-SOLDIERS
collection by Thursday morning.
' November 13th. No special crips
. will be made “later on in the day” h
collect trash that is not ready early
- Thursday morning.
All members of the American Le- The next pick-up will be during the
gion and all ex-service men are ur- v.eek following Christmas.
urgently requested to attend the | ---
Armistice Day program at the High FOOTBALL BROADCASTS
'School Auditorium, Tuesday night. ---
The program is being sponsored by | The following football broadcasts
the Cotulla Lions Club, and they have have been scheduled for Saturday af-
issued a special invitation to all ex- i ternoon by the Humble Oil & Re-
Of course, this prediction was not! 4800-foot Wilcox sand showed
new to him, for he had steadfastly | pounds pressure on a drill stem test,
held to the belief for- the past 18, The first test in the field logged a-
months; but now, instead of using j bout one-half dozen sands carrying
such words as “looms” or “probable '; oil and gas showings in the Wilcox,
we will hereafter be able to use more j leading to the belief that a multiple
positive assertions of suuccess. I sand pool ultimately will result.
Observer say that this is one oil Immediately upon the completion of
the best appearing wells they havt j the present test, rig "ill be s "t e
seen in a longtime. The oil is flow- | 500 feet due north of No _-B, which
i.-.g out as evenly and as steadily as j will be drilled to the same sands It
water from a faucet. And even with | will attempt to determine the location
the small choke, it is producing a of faulting believed to exist ictwcci
high quantity of oil. the discovery well and the new No
A derrick has been placed on loca 1 B extension. orre ations 1 ace
tion about 500 feet north of the new No. 1-B in the 5500-foot zone in the
producer, and very likely drilling wil’j same level as No. 1-. , pro ucing^icn
he commenced on this new well very i 5425 feet. S. A. Light. Nov. 7, -■
shortly. i
And it is rightly to assume -hat! Completion of the Quintana Pet
during the next few months and j roleum B-1 Washburn, central east
years, La Salle County will see a ern La Salle County, as a good pro
greatly increased amount of oil acti- j ducing oil well probably opens up tc
vity, all of which will be largely nt- | wildcat drilling a big stretch of ter-
tributable to Mr. Cullen’s completion ; ritory.
of the big producer at the Washburn | Reports were current late in the
Field this Week. i week that the B-1 Washburn flowed
| on drill stem test with casing set on
Humble Families Move in thi> Week bottom of the ho]e at 601S feet and
Twelve new families moved to Co- | in the lower part of the Wilcox,
tulla this week, according to F. M. Attention was further centered to
Youngkin, Humble dealer. this Wilcox trend by the completion
The men are employed by the Fail- of another big gas well in the Lopeno
Cotulla’s new driver’s license ex jinp Exploration and Drilling Corpor- field, southern Zapata County, and the
aminer made his first official vis>* at'on- which is here to do coring and probability' that the Union of Ca’i
to Cotulla this week and took care 0f; exploration work for the Humble ! fornia will drill another test north of
According to an agreement a
mong the merchants several monthf
ego, all stores will be closed here all
day Tuesday, November 11, in com-
memoration of Armistice Day.
Everyone is urged to remember il
and do their shopping Monday.
An outstanding Armistice Day
Program has been arranged for Tues-
day night, which is described else-
where in The Record.
NEW DRIVERS LICENSE
EXAMINATION FOR COTULLA
soldiers to be platform guests.
POST COMMANDER
fining Company:
Texas A. & M vs SMU, from Col-
_ liege Station, 2:20; WOAI.
I Texas Vs Baylor, from Waco, 2:30,
contest, XABC.
ir Rice vs Arkansas, KTRH.
a number of applicants. He is B
N. Meyers, who has recently beer
sent to the Laredo District.
Meyers will be in Cotulla each
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
from 1:30 to 4:30, and invites al’
persons interested to make applica
tion for operator’s license, commer
cial operator’s and chauffeur’s licen
ses. He wdll also be glad to an
swer questions relative to the driver’s
license law.
While in Cotnlla. the Examiner will
commenced early in the week in Wash-
be located in the office of Justice of j Lurn No. 1-B which is expected to re-
Company.
A carload of casing was unloaded
here this week for the Company, which
expects to drill West of Cotulla in
the very near future.
Quintana Petroleum corporation’s
fourth wildcat on the Washburn ranch
in northeastern La Salle county is
providing a vital extension to that
area which may convert it into ?
major producing area. Tests will b<
the Peace W. A. Kerr
house.
Tracing History of Light Service in Cotulla
We are not calling it a
we don’t care whether or not it
written in pencil, and you don’t have
to enclose a wrapper from your pap-
er.
It’s going to be judged solely as
to who gives the most interesting Central Power and Light Company brightest opportunities in Texas and
facts concerning his life in the service observes this week its silver anr.iver- by 1921 bad acquired electric, water
For instance, one boy may win this. *arv, th,e concern having been *ncor- ice or gas utilities in 10 different
award by telling how he spends the porated 25 years ago November 2, communities.
ordinary day in the army; anothei according to T. B. Harris, manager In 1925 when the present ownership
may give us some information abou’ here for CPL. From small beginn- purchased the stock interests of Mor-
his drilling; and another may speak jngs in 1916 when the company owne I rison and Me< all, ( 1 L was reorgan-
of some special assignment. five utility properties scattered over ized as a utility concern to strve
The prize will be awarded to that j Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, l South and Southwest Texas exclusive-
boy whose letter, in the opinion o> pi, has grown to the point where it j ly. Subsidiary companies were a-
the Publishers, is the most interest serves 177 communities, all centered in ■ boliahed and properties outside the
ing. We hope to receive a good buncl Sput!l and Southwest Texas. chosen area were sold or traded for
in the Courts ] suit in a producer for the 5500-foot
Wilcox zone.
of letters. And regardless of the a principal stockholders at the time .he
ward, we know your friends will en principal stockholder* ot the time the
joy reading your letters company was incorporated, saw
utility plants in the southern terri-
tory.
Immediately, CPL began a policy of
Pescadito in Webb, 15 miles cast
Laredo.
Of Great Importance
Regardless of the size of the well,
however, this undeveloped trend in the
Wilcox stretching over some 300 miles
of territory, has potentiaity sufficient
to attract wildcatters for years to
come.
Contour lines show that the top of
the Carrizo is around 3000 feet be-
low sea level in eastern La Salle. At
Pescadito an enormous gas field has
teen developed with known sands bc-
lavv the gas-producing sands that are
believed to carry oil. These same
contour lines extend from eastern La
Salle up through northwestern McMul-
len, southeastern Atascosa, through
Karnes and across the southeastern
edge of Gonzales County.
No Carrizo Production
This trend of the Wilcox in Webb
lated plants and building mile after
lated plants and buildingmile after
mile of interconnecting transmission , .
lines served by large, central gener- 1 and Zapata lies west of the i ’ 0
ating stations. Thereby, service was pools now producing and vv> -t “ ■ 1 1
greatly improved and electric rates' *ame chain in Duva. an! Me. u en
have been reduced time and time a-
gain.
Cotulla received the first electric
and ice service in 1913 when the Co-
tulla Ice and Power Company com-
pleted a small plant begun the pre-
ceeding year. President of the com-
pany was Yale Hicks who organized
(Contnued on back page)
There is practically no production in
the whole 300 miles along the 3000
foot Carrizo contour line.
Houston Chronicle, Nov. 1, 1911
Coach Stevenson's Cowboys go to
Carrizo Springs tonight to play the
strong Carrizo team.
RED CROSS
VOL. 45. NO. 20.
COTULLA, LA SALLE COUNTY,TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1941, newspaper, November 7, 1941; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1163337/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.