The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1921 Page: 2 of 6
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ALPINE MERCHANTS ORGANIZE ASSOCIATION
AT NOONDAY LUNCHEON RETAIL ASSOCIATION WAS
FORMED WEDNESDAY
President, A. F. Newell; vice
president, E. B. McCool; secre-
tary, A. F. Robinson.
Directors: J. E. Casner, S.
Scales, G. W. Watson, L. T. Vo-
taw, G. H. Yates.
1 With the above duly elected
officers and directors, the Alpine
ERetail Merchants’ association was
‘launched at a luncheon in the dip-
ring room at the Holland hotel
Wednesday noon after A. B.
Heller, state organizer had ex-
splained to about thirty live Al-
i pine merchants the objects and
taims of the organization.
. There was much interest mani-
,fested and the organization starts
fof with about thirty charter
members representing nearly
Levery business in the city, and it
jis believed that within thirty days
every business will have mem-
bership in the organization.
After the election of officers,
a committee consisting of Stan-
ley Casner, G. W. Watson and A.
S. Koonce was appointed by
George Baines, of the First
National bank, who acted as
presiding officer during the first
part of the meeting, as a com-
mittee on by-laws and before
adjournment presented a copy of
same which was accepted and
adopted by the members. Among
other things this committee se-
lected the third Monday in each
month as the time of meeting of
the association.
A number of business talks
were made by those represent-
ing the various callings and the
gathering evinced a remarkable
degree of pep.
The "Alpine Retail Merchants
Association” starts off under au-
spicious skies.
CO - OPERATIVE REVIVAL
SERVICES.
Will begin at the Presbyterian
church in Alpine, under the au-
spices of the Methodist church.
May 22. led by Rev. John B. An-
drews and company, of Siloam
Springs, Ark. Mr. Andrews has
conducted successful meetings at
Marfa, and also at Carlsbad and
| Derricks and Drillers
Field Notes From Brewster County And Other Sections—Activities
.. in Mountain And Valley.
BREWSTER COUNTY
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE AND
GANDER
7 The editor of “Industry,” and
several other, journals devoted to
manufacturing industries are
greatly worried over the fact
that cattle raisers and farmers
have taken the fool notion in
"their heads to organize for their
mutual benefit, and to more ef-
fectively cooperate in working
for legislation for the benefit of
-these allied industries.
" Is the fact that a lot of these
producers have gone to Washing-
ton to call the attention of con-
gressmen to the fact that here
are two industries very essential
for the industrial rehabilitation
of not only this, but every other
country in the world, a henious
crime?
, Think of the toiling farmers
-and the livestock raisers having
to go to congress and call their
attention to the fact that here
are two industries that are at the
base of all our prosperity, and
that they must have an equal
chance with all other industries
in the country, else all other in-
-dustries must languish and die!
We elect our great men to con-
gress, and then are compelled to
go to Washington and call their
attention to the fact that the very
class of citizens that furnish
their bread and meat are being
discrimination, but in addition
have to stand the competition of
other countries that can ship
their meat and farm products
from far off Australia, New Zea-
land, Japan or Italy and undersell
our home producers. The flood-
gates have been left open and a
torrent of foreign products are
being dumped onto the markets
of this country in competition
with our home products.
Now just why it is such a
crime for the stockmen and farm-
ers to organize in the hope of,
through cooperation and united
action, securing better conditions
for themselves, these wise jour-
nalists fail to say. Their logic
Roswell, both in New Mexico,
all three places receiving sub-
stantial uplift in spirit and al-
so in the number of new mem-
bers acquired by the various
churches co-operating. We trust
the results will be the same here
also. We are sure they will, if
our people enter in heartily and
with co-operative spirit into the
fellowship of this service, as we
believe they will. Every body in
Alpine and vicinity is invited to
help and be helped. We trust the
business men, lodges, schools,
college, churches and private
families and individuals, will
each and severally, put nothing
that can be avoided in the way
of attendance upon these meet-
ings. Arrange to be there with
your families and friends, and
put heart and soul into every
service possible. Let us have as
few parties and six o’clock din-
ners as possible during the meet-
ing, and as much of prayer, con-
secration, and attendance upon
the services, as possible. Does
not Alpine need a meeting?
Will you not help? Can you af-
ford not to help?
The evangelistic party goes
from here to Fort Stockton,
where they begin another meet-
ing.
The following are some of the
chairmen, cte. of the various
The proven fields
oil,
Were wild cat
mon soil.
now spouting
once, just com-
until a man who had the nerve,
And from his purpose would not
.—swerve
For all the knockers in the land;
Until his drill had found the sand
That put the works upon the
square
And made the man a millionaire.
Then all the knock,ers great and
small,
Their rotten luck began to bawl.
IN FORT STOCKTON FIELD.
1 he well of the Fort Stockton
Syndicate was shot at a depth of
1115 feet, and made a considera-
ble showing of oil. They had 50
feet of sand.
The shallow test of the Pinal
Dome company on the Delvin
ranch is down over 150 feet.
The Pinal Dome company’s
deep test on the Devvin ranch,
section 208, is down 1410 feet in
Red Beds. This well is eight miles
notheast of Fort Stockton, and
is the nearest to that town. The
And every measley tightwad Pinal Dome company has about
neg 10.000 acres there.
hog
OIL WORLD’S EYES CENTERED ON BREWSTER CO.
GEOLOGISTS DECLARE FIELD IS IDENTICAL WITH
GREAT TAMPICO—ALPI NE SHORT OF HOMES.
bankrupted at the expense of
other great manufacturing and
transportation industries; that
while they are expected to pro-
duce so that the people can be
fed and have a surplus to send
over to starving Europe, other
industries are given increase of
'freight rates and protection that
raises the prices of everything
the producers have to buy, while
the producers are left to pay the
bills, and prices are forced so low
is rotten and full of holes.
They can easily see how impor-
tant it is for every other industry
to organize, but when it comes
to the producers of all wealth it
suddenly becomes anarchy.
The fact is that all other in-
dustries maintain and have all
along maintained strong lobbies
in Washington, and threaten all
kinds of dire calamities on the
country if they are not fully pro-
tected. Never has a congress
assembled for a generation but
what the railroads and manufac-
turers have not had strong lob-
bies looking after their interests,
but just as soon as the producers
get the same idea, these same
industries hold up their hands
committees appointed for the
meeting,—others to be added
next week:
On co-operation—Forest Rob-
inson, R. B. Slight, C. F. Kimball,
W. Van Sickle.
Music—Mrs. C. E. Davidson.
Publicity—V. J. Smith and
A. S. Koonce.
Prayer meetings (cottage)
Mesdames Clarence Hord and
George Baines.
Entertainment—Mesdames R.
B. Slight and J. W. Dunham
Ushers—F. A. Robinson and
Ward Weakley.
Saw in the man a lucky dog.
They couldn’t see it wasn’t luck.
But common sense and bulldog
pluck,
And, building castles in the air
•That made the man a millionaire.
For the same chance stands to-
day.
To make the liquid gold sands
pay.
If you’ve the nerve to take a
flyer.
To boost your your bank account
up higher.
We will try to make your pockets
fill
If you help us to push the drill.
“Faint heart ne’er won a maiden
fair”
Nor cold feet made a millionaire.
The Twin Cities company, drill-
ing on the Herbert Kokernot
ranch, near Hovey, are down
The Grant company has sub-
leased under drilling contracts
considerable land to other com-
panies, among which is Benedum
-Trees, the Oregon-Texas Drill-
ing Syndicate, The Polk Com-
pany and the Detroit Oil com-
pany.
I he Blackshear Oil. company
of West Virginia, has 35 sections
under lease in block 18, about 25
miles east of Fort Stockton and
have put up three rigs on sec-
tions 11. 19 and 26. Several wells
have been commenced.
The drillers on the Atchison
well on section 57, block 10. H. &
G. N. have the well down 200
feet. They have an American
machine. This is on the Sachse
ranch.
Slowly but surely Brewster
county is approaching that peri-
od in her history, so oil men de-
clare, and others believe, when
her many resources will be ap-
I preciated and her advantages en-
joyed. The past week has been
void of excitement that was vis-
ible on the surface and only the
rumblings of coming events
could be distinguished. But it is
here and those who have their ear
to the ground could plainly hear
the ominous sounds.
I he AV ALANCHE does not
want to hold out any false hopes,
but it firmly believes that the day
is not far distant when “big
things” will be witnessed.
The active beginning of oper-
ations in the Haymond and Bone
Springs districts by the Portland
Oil Syndicate, it’s locations being
made and drills starting earth-
ward. is one of the indications
that are pleasing to record. Ge-
tidings of great joy that it has
found the paying pool. The
Brewster is most persistent of
operators in this field and cer-
tainly deserves success. It is
operating with the best machi-
nery for getting results and it
will not turn back for any ob-
stacle that might arise.
Taken alltogether, the fact re-
| mains that big things are soon to
be expected.
In the meantime it is appropo
that attention be called to the
fact that Alpine is slowly but as
surely, becoming impregnated
with the spirit of progress and
holding to that optimistic view
of coming greatness. A vacant
house, or room, is not to be
found in the valley. Alpine
needs more houses and needs
them badly. The time is fast ap-
proaching, in the opinion of
those who believe that coining
events cast their shadows before
A COMMUNITY DEADHEAD.
and transportation so high that
there is no longer a profit for
production of meat and farm pro-
duce.
And not only have the produc-
ers of this country to suffer this
in holy horror and begin yelling
“anarchy.”
The time has arrived when
these kid glove gentlemen must
and will understand that “what
is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander,” and that equal
opportunity before the laws must
become the rule and not the ex-
ception. They must understand
in Congress that an impoverished
nation of producers will mean
the destruction of democracy in
this country, as it has resulted in
every other country in the past,
for, when production of the
farms and ranges suffer the very
fabric of our prosperity.
Places for meeting—T. A.
Beard. T. G. Webb, E. C. David-
son.
Pianist—Mrs. B. F. Berkeley.
The following prayer meetings
have been arranged for the week
previous:
Tuesday, May 17th—at Metho-
dist church—4 P. M.—Mrs. H.
M. Bandy, leader.
Thursday, May 19th—at W. H.
Terry‘s—4 P. M.—Mrs. W. E.
Matthews, leader.
Thursday, May 19th —atMrs.
John Young, Sr. —4 P. M.—Mrs.
D. E. Adams, leader
Friday, 20th—at Walter Gar-
nett‘s—4 P. M.—Mrs. W. M.
Money, leader.
Friday, May 20th—James Cas-
ner’s—4 P. M.—Mrs. Pat Mur-
phy, leader.
May- not, we- ask—all. pray
God’s best blessings in this meet-
ing upon all?
Herbert M. Smith,Pastor.
about 2000 feet. The company
has had much trouble with fish-
ing jobs followed by a vexatious
job of handling a collapsed casing
and then a long job of under-
reaming. They now are on top
of another new formation, and
are taking every precaution pre-
paratory to drilling into it. As
this is in Permian formation and
which has numerous sands with
great bodies of porus rock, it is
an excellent mendium for mi-
gratory oil, and as much petro-
liferous material has already
been gone through, almost any-
thing can happen any day.
As Green Valley is now a- pro-
ven field, with it’s two oilers,
and the Bone Springs district
which has developed oil in sever-
al shallow wells, and promises to
be the shallow field of Brewster
county with deep oil possibilities,
the Hovey well becomes of great
importance., for if oil can be
found there in paying quanti-
it makes a field 90 miles long. '
J. E. Doddridge and others
—BONE SPRINGS—The Mag-
ic prospective oil field is looming
on the horizon with wonderful
potential possibilities. The Port-
land oil people will begin drilling
there in a few days. Their rig is
now in Alpine. This is the last
chance to get cheap acreage in
5 acre tracts right up close to
this well and only a little over a
mile to where another will be.
These tracts in fee, you get 15-16
of the oil and own the land. See
Big Bend Syndicate.
Texas.—18-2t.
Ezra Cook and his
Alpine.
mother,
John Young
John D. Young
John Young Land Co.
Established 1895
Wholesale and Retail dealers in Land, Live
Stock, and Ranches, City Property, Oil Lands
and Leases.
were down to Bone Springs
Tuesday and made a location for
a well on Section 2, in block 234.
and Tuesday night the drill rig
was half way to the location. It
was expected to be on the ground
by Wednesday night. It is the
intention to erect the rig and be-
gin drilling in less than ten days.
The shallow well being drilled on
the Chambers lot in the town of
Marathon, is now down about
50 feet, and should reach the pay
sand by the first of next week or
sooner. It has been fairly well
demonstrated that there is shal-
low oil there, and when first
found some years ago, appeared
to be in paying quantity.
from Toyahvale, . Texas, are in
town this week, visiting relatives
and friends.
The programs for the annual
commencement exercises of the
Sul Ross Normal will be out early
next week, the copy being in the
hands of the printers now. The
exercises start with the baccalau-
reate sermon by Rev. R.-L, Irv-
ing, D. D., of Fort Davis, in the
college auditorium Sunday May
29th, at 11 o’clock. On Friday
June 3rd, the graduation exer-
cises will be held and the com-
mencement program given on
Saturday, June 4th, at which time
the address will be delivered by
Hon. John E. Quaid of El Paso.
—Mid season sale of hatching
Nice home with three acres land close In. Orchard with about
250 bearing fruit trees, small cash’payment, balance like rent
One half block way between Public School and Normal on
sewer line $600.
Nice Home on Normal’hill completely furnished, easy terms.
Some Special Bargains in Hovey District
We control 25000 acres around Bone
Springs where we can sell you leases or lands
in fee, WATCH BONE SPRINGS
The Troy-Graham well on
section 20, block 140, has beeen
suspended at 1125 feet to push up
[a standard rig, as they had been
drilling with a small Star.
W hen Menzie, drilling on the
Sherbino ranch, went through a
good sand at 1600 feet, the land
owners wanted him to shoot in,
but he refused. Now Bordner &
Shannon have begun drilling an-
other well near to develop this
1600 foot sand.
John Young Land Co
What is the chance for oil on
your lease or land in Brewster
county, Texas?. Is it in a moun-
tainous section or valley?. Send
$1.00 and I will send you geo-
logical report and map of the
county.
Address “Geologist”
Box 293, Alpine, Texas. 19-2t
—Phone 168 when you need a
mechanic for car trouble. 17-4t.
A community deadhead is a citizen ostrich, with his head
buried in the ground. He is a man who opposes everything
new; who votes " no” on improvements, expects salvation
because it is free, but who would not seek it if it cost any-
thing; erects spite fences and divides his town into cliques.
He is negatively good -and therefore positively bad.
He is the man who refuses to cooperate, and who thinks
more of prosperity than he does of posterity. He is the
man who never does anything until he dies.
If there are any of this tribe in Alpine and Brewster
county, it is time he be given a chance to see himself.- If
you belong to this class of birds, imagine how “hand-
some," you appear—a "citizen ostrich!” Head buried in the
sand so you can’t see the way of advancement! Take a look
at yourself. Get an idea of how you appear in the estima-
tion your fellow citizens who deserve your help in their en-
deavors to make conditions better for the community and
for you! And you blocking the way! With your head stuck
in the sand and your anatomy looming up in the path of
progress like a stubborn broncho trying to hold up a railway
train till he is bumped off the track and left a tangled mass of
blood and bones, while the train goes merrily on it’s way!
Are you a community deadhead? Your acts in the
community answer.
ologists have indicated that the
trend of the great Tampico field
of Mexico is through Brewster
county, and this has given oil
men much encouragement. The
Portland people have one well
going down in the Haymond field
and before another issue of the
paper, barring accidents, will have
another drill going down in the
Bone Springs field.
In the Green Valley district the
W estern Petroleum company is
again pounding away in Wilson
No. 2. It confidently announces
this week that Wilson No. 1 is a
producer, Wilson No. 2 is down
more than 2000 feet and every
day the driller expects to strike
the lower sand where it is be-
lieved the big pool will be en-
them, when Alpine will be the
great city between El Paso on
the west and San Antonio on
the east.
The military band of Marfa
will give a concert on the col-
lege campus on Monday even-
ing. May 16. beginning at 8
o’clock.
KERMES
countered. The Cotter No. 1 is
spudding in and the story of the
great Green Valley may be told
now any day.
The Brewster Oil company is
expecting any time now to hit the
liquid gold in the Kokernot well
eggs at bargain price. $1.00 per
setting- of 15 from my heavy lay-
ing strain Barred Rocks. B ]
Dant-les 10 1. ■ and 15 making strenous effort to
be the first to spread the glad
The Mexican town encouraged
by it’s Pastor, Rev. Salvador M.
Giran, will hold a very joyous
Kermes next Sunday the 15th
instant at 3 o’clock in the grounds
of the "Amor al Frabojo y Union”
Club, -
The purpose of such a gorge-
ous feast is to start the collecting
of funds for a highly organized
Catholic School” conducted by
listers, which while contributing
to the wellfare of the town will
be the pride of Alpine. Every-
body welcome.
Let us do your printing.
Brewster Oil Company
0
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--OF-
ALPINE, TEXAS
Still has a few bargains in leases of TEN or more acres from one-half to five
miles from the well on the W. H. Kokernot ranch in Brewster county. This well is
drilling on section 7 in Block C.
By dealing direct with the company you SAVE ALL AGENTS’ COMMISSION.
, • This company invites the fullest investigation of its properties andits methods
of doing business. These small leases are within reach of small investors and are
as good an oil proposition as any in this section.
Leases in 10, or more, Acre Tracts for Sale in
480 acres, only half mile from Kokernot well at......$35 per acre
640 acres, only four miles from this well.............$7.50 “
640 acres, only five miles from this well........ . . . .$5 per acre
One Large Tract, 619 acres, one mile from
this well, for $10,000 for whole tract.
Don’t Delay
Box 386
Act Today
Write to
Tomorrow Never Comes
Brewster Oil Company
ALPINE, TEXAS
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Koonce, A. S. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1921, newspaper, May 12, 1921; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1708525/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.