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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1931
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
FOOLED
By Albert T- Reid
Texas Dominates the
surface through a smaller pipe set
within the hot water pipe. This air
pressure reaches the bottom of the
well through a third pipe set within
CAREY SMITH
CAREY SMITH. Jr.
Owner and Editor
Assistant Editor and Business Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3. 1897
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or any
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers,
the paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
YOU’VE FOOLED/
OLD BOY.•
BETTER CRAWL
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World’s Sulphur Industry
the sulphur flow pipe.
After solidification in the vats, the
sulphur is blasted into pieces to be
loaded by clamshell buckets into
freight cars. All of this sulphur is
j 99.5 per cent pure. Some goes direct
by rail to grinding plants, fertilizer
Our prize editorial of the week the immutable law of su ply and
- words, words deride, words words, by artificial stimulants," and we now
words, words words, excoriated find the originator of the plan ex
’ words words, words, sizzling, words, pressing his dissatisfaction with the
Words words, raps, words, words, idea. We daresay, that, if the secre-
: words, and then words, words, words,
words, on and on forevermore ad in-
finitum
Main agricultural problem is sur-
TR
tiny could begin over he would
neither plow up nor cut the acreage. :
It has at last dawned upon him that
there are several foreign countries 1
over whose crops he has neither ju-
risdiction nor power, engaged, and
pluses Solution was the crop-curtail-
ment plan, whereby the government rather successfully, too, in the pro-
signs agreements with farmers stip duction of cotton. Commenting on the
ulating how much of every kind of rise in the price of cotton, which he
product they can produce. In return claims is twice what it was in 1933,
the government pays them for the he failed to say to his hearers that
Maud taken out of cultivation. Now a the increase in the price is being paid
treater power than legislation ha for with a process tax amounting to
taken a hand- and shown the nation $22 per bale and that this $22 is be-
what crop curtailment in the grand ing paid for with a 69-cent dollar as
manner is. The power is nature. The compared with a 100-cent dollar a
crop is wheat. The middle west is year ago Moreover, the prices of nec-
literally a desert. There hasn’t been essities purchased with the farmer’s
so disastrous a spring in 40 years, and cotton money have advanced from 25
great agricultural states are dry as to 75 per cent over last year. In real-
the Saraha. The drought is trimming ity, and in so far as money and its
almost two million bushels of wheat purchasing power is concerned, cot-
• day from the official May 1 crop ton, today, is actually cheaper than
lit was a year ago. Like many other
estimate. The drought was accom-
panied by a dust storm that picked
up billions of pounds of top-soil, with
its planted grain and carried it away,
40 fall along the Atlantic Seaboard *
well as the middle western cities.
Some of it fell on the dome of Ilie
capital at Washington. Some fell in
Wall Street. Twelve million pounds
fell in metropolitan Chicago four
pounds for every man, woman and
child in the city. Federal farm offi-
cials are considering allowing farm-
ers to plant acres that were retired
have advanced the date for signing
wheat production control contracts
Th many areas hit by drought it will
be impossible to raise any crops at
tall this year, and government benefit
payments will be the only source of
ancome the farmers will have. Even
abundant rainfall could not save the
crops, so great has been the dam-
age. As a result, the agricultural ad-
ministration has a new and grave
problem on its hands—how to carry
stricken farmers through a barren
year
Political note: State primaries, and
the elections that will follow next
November, are unusually interesting
this year. The present question they
are arousing is. ‘ Can the Democrats
maintain their hold on the electorate
—or are the millions of Republicans
who switched party last year re-
turning to the fold?" All observers
‘agree that Mr Roosevelt's personal
following is as large as ever—but
many doubt if even that is enough
to prevent heavy Democratic losses
when the ballots are cast Economic
Highlights.
"high ups” in Washington, Secretary
Wallace can’t "take It" when faced
with objection or opposition. “There
must be a greater immunity among
the mass of the people from the hell-
raising proclivities of the political dem-
agogues,” he Mya. We agree with the
secretary completely, for never in the |
history of this country have the peo- |
ple needed deliverance from the poli-
tical demagogue more than at the
present moment, and never in the
history of the country have there ever |
gathered in one country more political
demagogues than are now at work
In this country The very re-
mark of the secretary just quoted dis-
tinctly qualifies him as a demagogue
of the highest rank simply because
Hie occasion did not justify it not in
the least Let us remind the secre-
tary that everybody, everywhere
would like to see improvement go on
uninterruptedly, but they should not
be condemned for objecting to any
plan when they know it to be worth-
less Whenever in the course of events!
it takes more tax money to hold the
price of a commodity up than the;
commodity itself is worth there ran
be no doubt as to the failure of the'
plan. By virtue of this added value
being an artificial value the plan is
a failure before it starts It deosn’t |
take a demogogue to are that But
listen to this and ponder over it well |
The secretary said The South and
Texas should begin to think about fu-.
lure plans for controlling the cotton
crop to meet the world demand.” The
South and Texas have been growing
cotton for more than an hundred!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
By J. I. WOODRUFF
1856- The depression lasted 12 months. Population 25 mil-
lion people.
National wealth 26 billion dollars.
10 per cent of the people owned 55 per cent of the
wealth. .
1873- The depression lasted 30 months. Population 41 mil-
lion people.
National wealth 35 billion dollars.
30 per cent of the people owned 58 per cent of the
wealth.
1903—The depression lasted 25 months. Population 81 mil-
lion people.
National wealth 97 billion dollars.
20 per cent of the people owned 70 per cent of the
wealth.
1921—The depression lasted 14 months. Population 127 mil-
lion people.
National wealth 298 billion dollars.
15 per cent of the people owned 85 per cent of the
wealth.
. Pera
. . , _ factories and other industries of the
sulphur states when the Freeport Sul-United States and Canada. But 75 to
phur Company began mining sulphur go per cent of the sulphur produced
at Bryan Mound, Brazoria County, in by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company
Sulphur in the form of brimstone 1913. The Texas Gulf Sulphur Com-is loaded on ships at Galveston for
and many of its uses have been pany began mining operations by the: coastwise and foreign shipment, 25 to
known from the earliest times. But Frasch method at Gulf, Matagorda I per cent of this amount being ex-
our ancestors of centuries ago prob- County in 1919. By 1924, the original ported
deposit in Louisiana became exhaust-For our domestic uses, heavy chem-
ed, leaving Texas fields undisputed cals lead the list with fertilizer and
insecticide next. With the truck and
•citrus production of Texas becoming
important, an assured source of cheap
sulphur is very important to this ag-
ricultural enterprise.
Pulp and paper manufacturing re-
quires some 80 pounds of sulphur for
each ton of wood pulp in the process
of paper manufacturing. Sulphur is
likewise used in certain dyes, in
bleaching silk and wool, in the man-
ufacture of explosives, paints and var-
nishes and in rubber manufacturing
and vulcanization. Certain drugs, fine
chemicals, food products and other
things too extensive to enumerate re-
quire sulphur.
With sulphur a requirement in
many manufacturing processes and in
many lines of industry, it is logical
to believe that this product will play
an important part in locating fertil-
izer and other plants in Texas close
to the source of supply. And with
sulphur bringing wealth from all
sections of the nation and from many
foreign countries to help develop
Texas, the importance of this industry
can not be underestimated.
By CHAS. N. TUNNELL in
Texas Press Messenger.
ably little thought that sulphur pro-
duction and distribution would some
day be one of the world's important
industries. Even in the day of our
in world wide dominion of this in-
dustry.
Three companies have played lead-
ing roles in the development of the
grandparents when sulphur and mo-
lasses was the accepted family tonic _
and sulphur and grease the ointment Texas sulphur; namely The Texas
for most any ailment, few people Gulf Sulphur Company with mines
dreamed that Texas would soon be at Gulf, Newgulf and Long Point,
producing 90 per cent of the world's
supply of. this product.
As the field of medicine and chem-
istry advanced and manufacturing and
scientific farming were developed, the
importance of sulphur grew in pro-
portion.
Prior to 1903, 95 per cent of the
world's supply of sulphur was mined
in Sicily. Like many other foreign
controlled industries, this one was
monopolistic and had been for 300
years. Even back in 1838 sulphur had
Texas; The Freeport Sulphur Com-
pany with deposits at Bryan Mound
and Hoskins Mound; and the Duval
Texas Sulphur Company at Bena-
vides. Texas.
In 1903 there were 757 sulphur
mines in Sicily employing 40,000
workers. With Texas stepping to the
lead with more scientific methods of
production and with a superior qual-
ity of products, the number of Sici-
lian mines in operation has dropped
to half; the number of people em-
ployed have declined in like ratio.
become so essential to manufacturing ployed have declined in like ratio,
and chemical progress that a large But on the other hand Texas has
Marseilles syndicate sought and ob-built up a permanent and lasting in-
tained a monopoly from the King of dustry giving profitable employment
Naples to control the distribution of I to several thousand Texans
Sicilian sulphur. As might be ex- All companies responsible for Texas
pected, sulphur and its products im- sulphur development are likewise re-
mediately tripled in price, j sponsible for bringing more than
England broke the sulphur price mere wealth to the Gulf Coast sec-
fixing policy of the French distribu- tion of the state. A glimpse at the ac-
tion company; but in 1896, we find tivities of the Texas Gulf Sulphur
England forming the Anglo-Sicilian Company, the world's largest pro-
Sulphur Company. This company was ducer, is only representative of what
the several companies have contribut-
ed towards making Texas a diversified
state with mining and industry keep-
backed by English capital and in con-
trol of 70 per cent of the Sicilian sul-
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A short time ago the Chicago Trib-
une printed a cartoon that hit the
predicament of the average American
neatly on the head. It pictures "John
R. Taxpayer" and family, attired in
frontier dress, hiding in and under a
covered wagon, surrounded by an at-
tacking "Tribe of Taxpayers," who
have come out of the "American Tax
Wilderness ' Tlie unfortunate "John
Taxpayer" is saying in response to
frightened appeals from his wife and
children, “There are so many of 'em
I don't know where to start shoot-
an’." Every citizen is in that position
now The tax-Indians, of course,
won’t do him physical harm but
they are highly cannibalistic so far
us his pocketbook, his savings, and
his property are concerned. They are
destroying jobs by draining the
springs from which payrolls flow.
They are capturing homes and farms
webecause their owners, in these days
Of reduced income and increased tax-
8a—can t pay the levies against them
It’s hard all right, to know where to
start shooting but unless that start
. is anade, through the united effort of
the millions of both workers and
employers of the country, the Indi-
tans are going to have an easy time
tt the marencre. The cure lies in op-
position to extravagance and to leg-
islation which goes outside the prop-
er sphere of government, at the tax-
payers expense, and opposition to of-
Eidials who propose or foster such
practices. A genuine movement along
these lines should be started. And
every citizen who has a job, owns a
piece of property or has a few dol-
lars invested, belongs in it.
Fear ‘Is being expressed over the
possibility of Trinity and Galveston
bays silting in and becoming dry
land within the next 25 years. Some
disagree with this belief, but at the
same time the dissenters come for-
ward with suggestions as to how to
avoid the erosion now filling these
ways. Pouring into every bay along
the Texas coasts are one or more riv-
*ers some of them the state's largest
streams. Cultivated lands pour bil-
lions of tons of loose soil into each
of these streams whenever a heavy
tain falls. This loose earth is called
silt and finds its way to the outlets
of the streams. If any obstruction
sets up "the work of "filling in" is
rapid and sure. There is no better
exhibition of what "filling in" is than
the condition at the mouth of the
Colorado River at Matagorda where
it empties itito the Matagorda Bay,
which is becoming dry land rapidly
It is not beyond the realms o. possi-
bility that the Trinity and Galveston
bays will become dry land in 25 years
For what is taking place in one can
epeat itself in others easily enough.
Therefore, if the government wants
these bays it had better get busy.
Texas, during the latter part of
Last week, was hostess to the Hon
Henry A Wallace, secretary of ag-
biculture. In Dallas, the secretary
made an address anent the agricul-
sural condition of the country and in
the talk made use of this significant
remark “I don’t like these crop re-
duction plans any better than you
do, and hope the day will soon come
when we can do away with these ar-
tificial things." The secretary travels
a long way just to acknowledge the
failure of his pel idea. Tliis paper,
when the plan was first launched
years and if there has been one hour | 1929- The depression lasted 4 wears. Population 131 million
in all of that time when the growers 1
did not think of their crops and plan
for the future nobody ever heard of 1
it. We fear our secretary is a bit
academic and wholly theoretical, it is
evident he doesn’t know much about
cotton and a great deal less about the
people who grow it. How does he ex-
pect the South and Texas to control
the cotton future when his plan is to
destroy cotton production in this
country while foreign countries are
increasing their acreages? If this
people.
National wealth 400 billion dollars.
5 per cent of the people owned 95 per cent of the
wealth.
The record shows that we emerged from each succeeding
depression a richer and more prosperous nation than before.
Measuring by the yardstick of the past we should emerge
from the 1929 depression with at least 600 billion dollars to
our credit and one man should own it all.
Could the danger ahead be more convincingly revealed than
country were producing a peculiar it is portrayed in this record?
konfaofiaetprodluat there wowat be What have 5 per cent of our people done to earn 95 per
some sense in such chatter but cottonicent of the national wealth; and what have the other 95 per
is cotton the world over and the for-cent left undone to earn only 5 per cent? .
eign bale is just as important on the This record is certainly a glaring reflection upon our intel-
Kktuntgrtn la x^ in ligence, showing that we have been haltered, controlled and
our secretary going to do with the led like dumb brutes to the shambles,
millions of tenant cotton farmers his
cotton crop plans and manipulations
have thrown out of employment? This
speech of Secretary Wallace must
have been a source of considerable
amusement to the cotton growers and
big cotton factors of Texas.
Shall we continue to take our medicine according to di-
rection on the bottle until the last day and last moment of
opportunity has forever disappeared?
The quickest way that we can curb this 5 percent monopoly
and equalize this unequal distribution of wealth will be a
heap too slow.
The first move, the first step and exactly the right start.
In a copyrighted article published is to consolidate the 12 Postal Savings Banks into one unit
Sunday B C. Forbes likens President with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Then open a bank-
Roosevelt unto the doting and indule , ■ -- - --* 4 4
gent papa who showers upon his
family more than he can afford, but
continues on and on until the over-
spending ruins papa and mama and
their fledglings ‘'President Roosevelt
nobody will deny," says Mr. Forbes,
“is generous hearted, and just as sin-
cerely anxious as any papa could be
to make life pleasant for those who
look to him for protection and lar-
gesse.” "But," continues Mr. Forbes,"
unfortunately, it is still necessary on
this mundane sphere to count the
cost of carrying out even the most
laudable purpose.” Now let us go on
with Mr. Forbes “In order to spend
billions, somebody- many- must save
the billions, because the bill, though
it can be put off for collection or a
time, must ultimately be paid, and it
can be paid only by those who have
exercised self-denial, who have re-
sisted temptation to use for their
own benefit all the money which was
theirs to spend. Is there danger that
Uncle Sam, if he neglects to count
the cost carefully, will by and by
find himself in the same position as
overindulgent, over-generous, over-
impulsive papas who finally find
themselves swamped with debts and
compelled to permit their families to
suffer hardships which the exercise
of prudence, commonsense, foresight,
could have averted? Statisticians tell
us that "40 per cent or more of our
entire national income is being spent
by the public powers," that “no im-
portant country in the world in peace
times has publicly spent so large a
proportion of the national income as
we in the United States are spending
at the present time."
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. May 22.—Curiously
enough, the most interesting political
event under discussion in Washington
at this writing is nothing that the ad-
ministration or congress or anyone
used this remark: We can't destroy else had anything to do with It is
ing window at every post office in the United States giving
depositors complete banking privilege same as the stock-
holder banks enjoy; then a graduated tax on property and
income would do the rest.
Begin with a $3000 homestead exemption and increase the
tax on each thousand dollars, above the exemption, to a point
that will make an extreme accumulation of wealth impos-
sible.
This would shift the tax burden to where it properly be-
longs and at the same time still leave efficiency and ambi-
tion all the leeway a king should desire.
The total sum of money in circulation is about 6 billion
dollars. The banks supplement this with 40 to 50 billion dol-
lars of credit. Let Uncle Sam supply our credit and reap the
benefit therefrom.
the drought in the wheat and corn on him by enthusiasts. These people
belts. believe that the president now, after
The drought is political in its ef- a year in office and experience with
frets because it has apparently done every known variety of planners,
what the administration has been at- schemers and meddlers to say noth-
tempting to do by political methods; ins of the triekery, chicanery and
that is reduce the supply of grain to skulduggery of national politics as it
avert a surplus and raise the price is played here, is not inclined to lis-
Instead of operating through the poli- ten to uplifters or nation-savers or
tical machinery of the AAA. nature other, folk who have sure-fire reme-
took a hand and brought about a dies for all that ails us.
crop shortage by the old reliable The folk who talk that way are per-
short-cut method. Physical evidence fectly willing to agree that the Unit-
of the drought was brought to Presi- ed States was producing much more
dent Roosevelt by the air route. The wheat and corn than we could find
dust storm which darkened the sun a market for in the present restrict-
on the Atlantic coast, with grains of ed state of world commerce They
grit from North Dakota and the rest are in agreement in principle with
of the prairie states forming a cloud the theorem that marginal lands
over the East, left plenty of dirt on ought to be taken out of cultivation
the roof and porticoes of the White so as to reduce the annual surplus to
reasonable bounds. And they are all
House itself.
Two Views of Dust Cloud,
glad to see a chance for the farmer
There are two ways of looking at to get more for his product. They
this dust cloud and what it may sig-ljust don’t like some of the means
nify politically. To one group of poli- I adopted by the AAA to bring those
tical thinkers it is the "cloud nodesirable ends about
bigger than a man's hand,” such as How People Reason.
There are other enthusiasts here
Elijah saw of old. To those so min-
ded, it signifies the beginning of the _ _______________-____
end of the agricultural administration piece of “Roosevelt luck," which has
program To be sure, the wish is
doubtless in great measure the father the capital. They
who think the drought is another
come to be an everyday expression at
say, in effect:
of the thought, but those who do not | "Look it! The president was trying to
like the principle of the AAA are not
all of them, by any means, the Presi-
dent’s political enemies. Many of
raise the price of wheat and corn
and wasn't getting away with it. His
gold policy didn't do the trick and
them think It was a program wished he’s been hunting everywhere for
some other way to do it, when along
comes Old Man Drought and does it
for him. That's pure Roosevelt luck,
for it won't be long now before ev-
erybody will forget that it was the
drought that did it. They’ll give
Roosevelt all the credit, because it
happened in his administration.
There may be something in that.
Human nature is funny. If it likes a
man and everybody likes Mr. Roose-
velt—it will give him credit for ev-
erything good and put all the blame
for whatever is bad on someone it
doesn't like, like Mr. Hoover or Wall
Street or the Japanese Menace or
something.
Flaw in Argument.
But the Washington observers—and
there are some pretty wise ones
among them—point out the flaw in
that line of argument this way:
"Grant that the drought has done
what the AAA has so far failed to do;
that is, it has put up the price of
wheat. It sure did that. Wheat jumps
from 79 cents in Chicago on May 1
to 93 cents on May 11. And grant fur-
thermore, that that is just what the
administration has been trying to ac-
complish.
"But did the drought pay the farm-
ers any bonuses or benefit payments?
not a cent. Do they get anything for
not raising the wheat that the drought
killed? Nary a dollar. Under the ad-
ministration's plans they may not
have got much higher prices for their
wheat, at least not as much as they
thought they ought to have had, or
believed that they had been prom-
ised. But under the AAA they don't
have to raise wheat to get paid; they
only have to cease raising it by con-
tract and agreement with the gov-
ernment. Under the drought they
have ceased raising it, all right, but
they haven't any contract with the
elements, at least none that they can
collect on.
At Harvest Time.
"And will that make the farmers
sore? Whole states have been feel-
ing prosperous with the flow of gov-
ernment money coming in as benefit
payments to the farmers. Now. it
seems likely, the drought will have
the effect of changing all that. They
will have to wait till harvest time
for their money and they will have to
grow and deliver actual wheat to get
it. Even though it comes to a lot
more per bushel, we opine they won’t
like it.
“Human nature being what it is, in-
dignation at having the flow of easy
money stopped always more than
overbalances any gratitude for hav-
ing had a whack at the easy money
while it was running free."
There you have both sides of the
picture. It is too soon to judge be-
tween the two possible effects the
drought may have on the president’s
political fortunes.
Out of 250 counties in Texas there
are only 117 daily papers. One of
these is in your city. Possibly 75 of
these are to be found in no more
than forty counties, and they in towns
or cities of over fifteen or twenty
thousand. It is quite possible that
Bay City from the standpoint of pop-
ulation, is the smallest town in Tex-
as with one of the state's 117 dailies.
On the other hand your daily is the
largest of any daily published in
towns of from four thousand popu-
lation to ten thousand.
Prevent Grass, Brush
And Forest Fires
phur supply. state with mining and industry keep-
With the Anglo-Sicilian Sulphur ing balance with farming, ranching,
Company dominating the market of lumbering, shipping, manufactur-
the world for ten years, American ing and petroleum refining.
consumers were constantly faced with I Prospecting at Boling dome was be-
the uncertainty of continuous supply gun in July, 1927; mining was started
and fair prices under foreign con-Iin March, 1929; shipment from this
field began in August, 1930. The rap-
trol. In the meantime, much of the
farm land of the United States began
to need fertilization; the uses of sul-
phuric acid were becoming more va-
ried and numerous; paper making in
this country was becoming impor-
tant; and the manufacturing and vul-
canization of rubber in large volume
was but a few years in the future.
Sulphur in Sicily, Mexico, South
America and some of the islands oc-
curs in a free state near volcanic ac-
tion. In this country as well as some
others, deposits of free sulphur are
found in sedimentary rocks as a re-
sult of bacterial action.
idity in which this project was car-
ried through its representative of in-
dustrial progress in Texas and the
Southwest.
Prospecting for sulphur is done
where salt domes are present; how-
ever, sulphur in commercial quan-
tities is present in but few salt domes.
The salt deposit at Boling dome cov-
ers an area three miles wide and five
miles long. Salt is found at approx-
imately 600 feet and in some tests has
continued at 3000 feet. The sulphur
deposit of this dbme lays above the
salt formation and is impregnated in
limestone. This deposit covers a prov-
The fact that you always know your
weight, when vou often don't know
your glove size or shirt size (if you
are a man) indicates the importance
of weight to the normal person. A
person's weight has been important
to that person ever since before Pha-
roah, and accurate weight of honest
weight, is a much-sought goal.
Do you know that there are some
6,000,000 tons of people in America,
according to estimates of the Toledo
Scale Company? Toledo, incidentally,
is the center of American research
in matters of weight and weighing,
just as Washington is the center of
government, New York the center of
finance and Detroit the symbol of
motordom.
Weigh yourself often, on honest
scales. Your weight is an indication
of your general health.
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The first sulphur deposit of com-
mercial quantity was found in this en area of 1200 to 1500 acres, believed j
country in 1865 by the Louisiana Oil to be the largest known deposit of
Company while drilling for oil west its kind.
of Lake Charles, La. This deposit was Texas sulphur is mined or rather
located at a depth of 443 feet. | pumped—from the ground in a molten
In 1900 the sulphur production of liquid state. A nest of pipes is set in
the United States did not exceed 2000 each well, the outside pipe is perfor-
tons. By 1902 the French method had ated and carries hot water to the sul-
raised this annual production to 30.-
000 tons. The production climbed to
786,000 tons in 1912, coming mostly
from Louisiana with Nevada, Utah
and Wyoming contributing to the
total.
Texas came into the ranks of the
phur bearing stratum of limestone.
This hot water honey-combs the
limestone, melting out the sulphur
which is heavier than water, causing
it to settle in the bottom of the well
basin. By means of an “air lift,” the
molten sulphur rises to the ground
W
Rescue Fish From
Drying Lakes, Game
Heads Urge
WASHINGTON, May 18. — With
drought again descending upon this
country, officials of the American
Game Association emphasize the ne-
cessity of rescuing fish from fast
drying lakes and streams and replant-
ing them in permanent waters. Mil-
lions of game fish were rescued last
year and other millions of undesira-
ble fish and turtles destroyed at the
same time.
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The Sulphur Industry
is one of Texas’ many outstanding assets. Three mines
produce practically all of the nation's supply
Sulphur Is Industry’s Most
Essential Commodity
Its presence in Texas, therefore, constitutes one of the
state's most attractive inducements to the develop-
ment of industry within its borders.
WASHINGTON, May 18 Ninety-|
nine out of a hundred grass, brush
and forest fires can be prevented, ac-
cording to officials of the American |
Game Association. Careful survey)
shows that nature causes only 1 per
cent of such fires—through lightning;!
all others are caused by the agencies
of man cigarettes, pipes, carelessly
tossed matches, campfires, sparks
from engines and other instruments.
Incredible numbers of birds, animals,
and other wildlife are destroyed year-
ly by such fires, the association
points out in urging everyone to be
careful of fire in the great outdoors
this summer.
Matagorda County can be made to
feed a large part of Texas by the use
of her matchless soil and irrigation.
No part of the United States has
greater advantages than we have
here. Put the two elements mention-
ed here to work and a city of twenty]
or thirty thousand will soon follow.
TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY
“The world’s largest producer of crude sulphur”
Mines
GULF HEADQUARTERS
Matagorda County Second National Bank Building
Texas Houston, Texas
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Wharton County
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1934, newspaper, May 24, 1934; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696502/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.