The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS
FIELD ACTIVITIES
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The Rycade’s several wells in Fort
in progress at this writing.
The most recent co-operative move-' in the past, since fair weather will showings of oil
guests of
Times
will be
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Price
That tired, half-sick,
discouraged take
Four
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| City, Texas.
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the
rather than
The Texas Gulf
the
Sulphur Co
GULF,
THE LARGEST SULPHUR MINE IN
THE WORLD
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si
MATAGORDA COUNTY,
TEXAS
in operation;
written off;
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per cent of the capital should be set
was
the
West
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and bailing with about 400 feet
oil standing in the hole,
of the well is 3274 feet.
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be put down in efforts to out-
same
and
counties
Fort i
Faint
reported from
he
He
CONFEDERATE HOME
FOR OLD SOLDIERS
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues.
A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE
SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds anc
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PREVENTS INFECTION.
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A SPLENDID FEELING
a small amount of the profits should . beauty of any city,
be set aside for a
main- damage done.
The Collegeport Fig Orchards Co.
Per S. B. Sims, Local Manager.
13-20-27-5w
the owners.
This notice is to give those who
der the powerful
wonderful remedy.
30c, €0c and $1.20.
60c.
We expect to have considerable
acreage planted to fig trees, on the
Collegeport Townsite, and will begin
setting trees this week.
Any damage done to the orchards
by stock at large, contrary to the
from
To Stop a Cough Quick
HAYES* HEALING HONEY * a
son.
pension amendment was one of the
chief hobbies of the present keeper of
the home, Judge Winfrey, during his
period in the State legislature from
His hopes are at last
he is unmistakably
Habitual Constipation Cured
in 14 to 21 Days
“LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially-
prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
Constipation. It reliever promptly and
should be taken regularly ! J 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c
per bottle.
$10,000,000 company wants man to
sell Watkins Home Necessities in Bay
In-
come $35-$50 weekly. Experience un-
necessary. Write Dept. H-5. The J.
R. Watkins Company, 62-70
Iowa Ave., Memphis, Tenn.
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ment on the part of Kingsville citi-' improve the roads to the field
was their work in locating the equipment can be taken in more rap-
i Texas State Teachers College idly.
Unless a new field cf considerable
-----3 is discovered within the
eight months, production
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The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets) can be taken
by anyone without causing nervousness or rinoint
in the head. E.W. GROVE’S e on box. 30c
nated the other $5000.
All of Kingsville’s co-operative ac-
tivities revolve around the commer-
cial club, which is a unique organi-
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The co-operative, drilled where domes are not known three weeks ago.
be set aside for a surplus, and that' concern operated it long enough to to exist. | Reade's several wells In Fun
the remainder should go to the pro- ' prove its worth as an investment, and I All companies with acreage at .South j Bend County are all drilling, but noth-
ducers in the form of a bonus. j
Last year the stockholders drew' l>aid the local company
their 8 per cent dividends, as they purchase price.
they purchase price.
have done since the plant has been' State Teachers College.
was
was
The home ; The Humble Company also got a
able to take ■ 35-barrel producer in its Pipkin & Lee
of the necessary loans in the j No. 13, at West Columbia.
Spindle Top showed a dry hole in
the Gulf Production Company’s Gladys
No. 207, completed as a workover at
1010 feet.
Wing No. 161, at Batson, made 10
a third farmer.
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HOLBROOK ACTIVE
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today loans totaling more than $165,-1 pany’s Humble-West No. 38 made 10
000,000 at an average rate of 6 1-2I barrels at 2825 feet.
per cent are in effect. The home
companies are amply
care
state.
Mr. Holbrook returned to Galves-
ton after three bills which he had in-
troduced in this session had been,
passed by the present session of the I
legislature and signed by the gov-1 barrels when completed by the Gulf
Company at 650 feet.
A check on wildcats showed 27 out-
fits, of which 23 were drilling.
were shut down or temporarily aban-
doned.
In Matagorda County, the Rycade
Oil Corporation’s Gray No. 1, an off-
set well to Sisk No. 1, was swabbing
o* from first year planting in Matagorda
Total depth County. W. G. McDOW, Route 1, Bay
| City, Texas. 30-1-13-20-w
KINGSVILLE HAS lout adequate hotel accommodations J GULF COAST OIL
LEARNED LESSON The commercial club decided to ar- FIJ
range for one. Accordingly, they
raised money and constructed a mod-;
ern three-story stucco building in will _____ _____
aside each year for depreciation, that mission style that would add to the line salt domes, and others will be! ported a good showing of oil about
D. F. Bryan Production Company
was drilling out a plug in its well at
Freeport. Total depth of this hole
is 3181 feet, and 6 5-8-inch casing has
been set to 2980 feet. This well re-
the depreciation
a considerable sum
put aside for the surplus fund, and
the producers divided $11,000 among
them as a .bonus—this in face of the
fact that Kleberg County dairymen
received the highest price paid for
butter anywhere in the State of Tex-
as. The capital stock, too, is $20,000
now as compared to $3500 in 1913.
Co-operation Did It
During the first year the creamery
operated the monthly receipts of
butter fat ran from 8000 to 12,000
pounds. The present receipts run
company sells butter at top price all
to 500,000 pounds and more. The
company sells butter at top price all
over South, East and North Texas,
and its market reaches over into
border .States. It distributes ice
cream over a territory that is equal
to any three New England iStates.
The creamery output in Kleberg
County now exceeds the cotton crop
in value. Co-operation did it.
As the soil around Kingsville
especially favorable to cotton,
production of the staple cotinued to
mount, even though other industries
sprang up.
The commercial club, which is com-
posed of farmers and business men
■alike, concluded that if farmers were
to get the best returns from their
cotton crops, they should mill it as
well as grow it. Accordingly, they
came to a decision that Kingsville
must have a modern cotton mill.
A Cotton MilL
The industrial division of the com-
mercial club was notified to perfect
plans for the raising of capital and
the erection of a mill. After consid-
erable investigation the committee-
men concluded that the mill should
start with not less than 2500 spin-
dles and that it would require $250,-
000 capital to put the project into
i
operation.
The club voted on the report fav-
orably, and the chairman of the in-
dustrial division appointed 21 mem-
bers of the club to sell the stock nec-
essary for the mill. In a little less
than two weeks Kleberg County
farmers and business men raised the
money.
Serve Without Salary.
That was in 1921. Today the com-
mericial club and directors of the
mill, who, by the way .serve with-
out salary, are discussing plans for
increasing the output of the plant.
It now employs more than 200 peo-
ple, and the project'is an assured
success.
Kingsville people realized that if
their town was to progress as they
would like to have it, newcomers
must become home-owners. So the
community provided a means for
people with limited salary to acquire
homes. They organized a building
and Ioan association, capitalized at j
$1,000,000. The majority of the stock
is owned locally, and the capital was
raised by the commercial club, much
in the same manner as the capital
for the cotton mill. Today a man '
need not have money in order to own j
his home in Kingsville, and renters ‘
are the exception
rule.
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feeling caused by a torpid liver and cough medicine which stopsjthe cough by
constipated bowels can be gotten rid “ "" ~
of with surprisin gpromptness by us-
ing Herbine. You feel its beneficial Croup is enclosed with every’ bottle o:
effect with the first dose as its puri- BAYES’ HEALING HONEY. The salve
fying and regulating effect is thor-
ough and complete. It not only drives
out bile and impurities but it imparts side the throat combined with the healing effect of
, ... - .. . ... Grove s O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of
a splendid feeling of exhilaration, the skin soon atnp« a
strength, vim, and buoyancy of spirits. ^o?°V1.hlI^liK?a^e.pac!ced'il??n^cart0naQdtht
J J 1 cost of the combined treatment is 35c. e'
Price 60c. Sold by Huston’s Drug Just ask your druggist for HAYES’
Store. (f) HEALING HONEY.
1918 to 1920.
realized, and
proud of the fact that his comrades
have thus been kindly remembered by
a generation, or a population, which
can be but littla ecquainted with the
real facts concerning the life of the
'Confederate soldier. The broken-.
down Southern heroes have reached. laws, will be recovered
“the end of the trail,” since the vet- j
erans of Lee and his aids are fast j
dying out, but they are worthy of|^ave st°ck at large ample time to
every protection in their present an(^ keep same in bounds, or
state, and Texas is undeniably con-! abide by the conseqeunces, in case of
tributing her share toward the i.____
tenance and comfort of her Confeder-
ate heroes.
zens '
'South
here. Ten years ago the commercial [ U ’
club concluded that Kingsville ought' proportions
to have one of the three new State ' next six or
teachers schools that the Texas leg- ’ in the coastal area will show a de-
Kings- j cline during 1925 as compared with
l ; 1924. The past year has shown that
wmrk in the old fields can not sus-
tain production.
Hull showed the greatest number of
completions for the week. Four wells
were brought in and all of the were
producers. The Gulf Production Com-
pany reported three wells; Phoenix
Development Company No. 45 was
Underground Wealth.
Until the latter part of 1918
town had no natural gas supply, al-
though indications were that natural
gas and oil, too, were there. It was
impossible to interest reputable oil
and gas companies in a purely “wild-
cat" project when there were proven
fields lacking capital to drill.
The late C. H. Flato owned leases
on about 12,000 acres of land in the
county. He tried to induce several
oil companies to drill for either oil
or gas on his land, but without suc-
cess. Finally as the demand for
cheap fuel increased, he proposed to
the commercial club that if a local
company would raise $100,000 for
drilling purposes, he would donate
4000 acres of his leases to the organ-
ization as a bonus.
And a HoteL
Once again the industrial division City. More than 150 used daily,
got busy. In a few days the neces-
sary capital was assured, and a com-
pany was organized. The first well
blew in with a strong flow of gas.
From that day to this, it has supplied
ample fuel to Kingsville at a reason-
able rate.
The company then began drilling
a well for oil. Before the second
well was brought in, a well known
Texas oil company offered an at-
tractive price for the local concern’s
holdings. They sold out with the
understanding that the buyers should
develop the oil and gas fields in Kle-
berg County.
For a long time the town was with-
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. his military career in the Army of
: Northern Virginia and of his later
civilian life. The keeper recently des-
; ignated the home as a “haven of ref-
. uge" for wornout , battle-scarred
. heroes of the South. And so it is most
truly. The wants and needs of th«
inmates of the home are painstakingly
, cared for, and every modern conven-
ience is provided. Last Christmas the
, Austin Chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy presented the home
with a radio. Rooms are steam heat-
ed and lighted by electricity. A suffi-
cient number of employes is provided
to care for the buildings and grounds, I
keeying everything in the best of con-!
dition.
Remnant of Mighty Forces. j
Could one but look back into the
personal history of these age dveter-
ans, a pitiful remnant of the once
mighty Confederate forces, unknown
tales of courageous combat and hard-
ship might be brought to light. Many
unusual and interesting characters
are represented. A striking fact is
that among the numerous inmates
there are many musicians of the “old- ’
time fiddler” type. One old soldier in i
particular is noted for his musical ■
proclivities. He has two violins bear-
ing the name of a famous maker, one
of which he values at $500. To in-
sure and preserve the tone of his in-
struments, the aged musician keeps:
them stuffed with rattlesnake rat-1. , ... ---
tiers, which he boils down and inserts!m ®r0° ”V1 ie’ Kan-
violins through the oletj, Mr' and Mrs' Duncan Moe McFar-
ilane of Ypsilanti, Mich., are guests
| at the home of the latter’s brother,
I Duncan Ruthven, and family.
followers of the “Lost Cause,’’ are to L The Mothers’ Club of the Boy
spend the rest of their days in com- :^OUts met at the home of Mrs- J- R-
fort and happiness, which will be jEI110tt Monday afteraooJ1 to plan the
much enhanced by the increased pen-!year’S work and elect officer^ Mrs.
Agitation for the passing of the’®’ E’ Burton is their P^^ent; Mrs.
!Ed Berry, vice president; Mrs. A. G.
Skinner, secretary, and Mrs. J. E.
Robinson, treasurer.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
“Talk about politeness," said a well
I known Carthage man to the editor of
this paper a few days ago, “it used to
, be before the days of auto, that a
! young man would alight from his
politely assist his lady
friend into the vehicle. Now he sits
comfortably back on the cushioned
seat of the car and pulls a cigarette
while his lady friend climbs in un-
assisted. Times have certainly
changed.
Yes, and in the old days the young
man used to hitch his horse out in
front of the young lady’s house and
go in and sit awhile. He used to pay
his respects to the young lady’s moth-
er and exchange a few pleasant re-
marks with the old man. Now
doesn’t go in the house at all.
sits in his car and “honks” for the
young lady to come out, and her fath-
er and mother consider themselves
lucky if they get a good glimpse of
him until the day she comes dragging
him in as their son-in-law!—East
Texas Register.
erncr. Senate bills No. 112 and 144
by which state banks operating under
the guaranty fund plan may change
■at their option to bond system, were
signed yesterday. Senate bill No. 67
which provides continuance of grade
raising in the west end by an addi-
tional ten years remission of taxes
was signed Friday afternoon.
“The state is on a cash basis,”
Senator Holbrook said, “and should
stay on that basis. No class legis-
lation is indulged in but is looked
upon with the greatest disfavor. The
legislators are not inclined either to
enter into new enterprises but ex-
pect to take care of the schools and
colleges and other state institutions.
The finance committee in the senate
■and the appropriations committee in
the house have been working on the
appropriation bills by sections and
have already reported those depart-
ments with fixed incomes. They are
having nightly hearings on the needs
of the various eleemosnary institu-
tions. Monday night the cause of the
University of Texas will be present-
ed.”
Senator Holbrook declared that
plans for the university building pro-
pram and means of financing are not
well defined as yet but they are hop-
ing the oil development of universi-
ty lands will become something real
so that loans may be secured for the
building fund.-XJalveston News.
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MALE HELP WANTED.
, long to the club. The chief require-
ment is an interest in the upbuilding ’
of Kingsville and Kleberg County.
Democratic Membership.
The membership is not confined to
citizens of Kingsville; farmers all
over the county are active members.
They work with the club through
their sub-organizations.
The organization is governed by a
board of 13 officers and directors.
Here’s a recent and typical director-
ate: A druggist, who also is a physi-
cian and a member of the school
board; a railway engineer; a farmer,
who is also a bank director; another
farmer, who deals in real estate as
a side line; a dairyman, who holds
the office of county judge; an official
of a commission house; a merchant
and
iMr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilson and
daughter, formerly of Collegeport
but now of Amarillo, are among the
week’s arrivals who expect to spend
the remainder of the winter months
here.
Mrs. J. w. Belknap, who has been
in Blessing for the past two weeks,
has returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Pierson and son
of Lorenzo, Texas, are here for a visit
with friends.
Mi. and Mrs. G. H. Cram, residents
of Minnesota, are spending a month
at the home of Mrs. F. E. Watts.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robinson spent
Sunday in Wharton, the
their son and his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Miller and
! daughter, Mrs. O. C. Arnold, went to
(Houston Thursday to spend the re-
mainder of the week.
■Miss Louise Pyljus went to Hous-
ton Friday to resume the study of
music, both voice and instrument^-
Mrs. E. G. Bernard am’ two chil-
dren of Houston nave returned to
their home after an extended visit
with their relatives, the families of
|H. L. Curtis and George Wright Cur-
tis.
i Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Claude,
, Texas, are guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Maze, who have
; spent several weeks here with
= friends, left the first of the week for
i San Antonio en route to their home
The greatest discovery in flesh
healing is the marvelous Borozone, a
preparation that comes in liquid and
powder form. It is a combination
treatment that not only purifies the
wound of germs that cause infection
but it heals the flesh with extraordi-
nary speed. Bad wounds or cuts
which take weeks to heal with the
ordinary liniments med quickly un-
influence of this
(Liquid)
Powder 30c and
Sold by Huston’s Drug Store.
(f)
islature voted to establish. I”
ville’s dream of ten years’ duration
has become a reality.
Commercial Club the Hub.
The first unit of the new school
building to be constructed was the'
president’s home. The legislature. J
appropriated ($10,000 for this pur-1
pose. But of all the plans submitted '
for the home, none called for a build- <
ing that could be constructed for less good for 150 barrels from 3200 feet;
than $15,000. Kingsville citizens, Baldwin Fee No. 11 made the
reached in their pockets, through the ■ amount of oil from 3050 feet,
aid of the commercial club and do- Phoenix Development Company No. 44
scored 800 barrels from a depth of buggy and
2800 feet.
A workover of the Republic Pro-
duction Company, Dolbear No. 32r,
zation in several respects. A man ’ pumped 60 barrels from 2160 feet,
does not have to be a merchant, a Humble reported the biggest well of
banker or a professional man to be-j the week, from Orange. Winfree No.
11 came in for 1000 barrels initial pro-
duction, pipe line oil from 4660 feet.
Three other wells were completed, but
they were all failures. The Gulf Pro-
duction Company’s No. 2 Chesson wsa
a dry hole at 4625 feet, after being
worked over, and No. 3 was also given
up as a failure after working over
to 4425 feet. Kishi Wevelopment
Company’s McGuire No. 45 failed to
make a producer, authough it was
drilled to 3200 feet.
At Big Creek, the Texas Company’s
Fee No. 1 was abandoned when it
struck salt at 3570 feet. Although
located in the Big Creek field, this
well was considered a wildcat, inas-
much as it was located quite a dis-
tance from production.
The Cotton Oil Company completed
a 10-barrel pumper at Saratoga, at
1310 feet.
Sour Lake showed one workover:
The Humble Oil and Refining Com-
J
11
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HALF AND HALF COTTONSEED.
First year on heavy land. Germina-
tion test 94; $4.50 per hundred pounds
f. o. b. El Campo.
A. L. SODERMAN,
El Campo, Texas.
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COTTONSEED FOR SALE.
Mebane seed—'These are select seed
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| a hotel organization came along and Liberty are already engaged in devel-.ing of importance has been announc-
an outnght opment, and a number of wells are' ed at yet.
Progress I Marland is down below 4650 feet in
should be ijucfc rncie rapid now than the test in Matagorda County.
-- -.1 were
and t this well, but they were so small that
they were not considered especially
important.
Out of 13 counties represented,
Matagorda and Fort Bend Counties
have a majority of the drilling wells,
and these wells are near districts
where oil has been found in consider-
able quantities, therefore, from the
standpoint of prospective territory,
these two counties undoubtedly offer
the greatest possibilities of any other
two in the entire coast country.
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TALK ABOUT POLITENESS
should be rubbed on the chest and throa
of children suffering from a Cold or Croup,
_ The healing effect of Hayes’ Healing Honey in-
Grove’s O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of
Both remedies are packed, in pnecarton and th*
Just ask your druggist for' HAYES'
) Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Moe McFar-
Aane of Ypsilanti, Mich., are guests
into the
openings.
Texas should be proud that her few
remaining sons of the Old South, the
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