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ATEXAS
'NSTITUTION
Wildcatter
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MeCleskey's reaction to the
gusher, which meant immediate
wealth to her and her poor
farmer husband, was to com-
plain that the "greasy stuff'
had soiled her nice white Leg-
horn chickens. Ranger was un-
paved and the heavy wagons,
laden with steel pipe, churned
up mud in its streets. A mule
drowned in a hole of muddy
water on Main Street A young
farmer who was serving in the
Navy became famous as "the
millionaire gob" because his
rocky acres near Ranger blos-
somed with oil derricks. The
little congregation of a Baptist I
church amid the derricks turn - I
ed down $100,000 for a lease on j
its cemetery lot because they did
not want the resting place of
pioneers disturbed Crime *ss j
rampant. Three men were killed j
in one gunfight.
Such was Ranger.
While all this was gomg on, I as kept bringing in new fields of
FANS
StflO.AO on 42-<nrh Attir Pan.
Gooh* 6 rofnr\ booa* Build yr or own All
parts, m^hidjnt 42-inefc h -**nparjty aJnmi-
nom blade. robber mounts beannir*, tthaf'..
pulley*. V-bait, for only >29.95 Other
awnrdmfli1, whi'r they
RUSH M O. or <-herk tft SKDCO. 1318
Silver St.. Hou t/>r, Motor- not ?n-
r)oded h«t ary V« h-p. or larger motor
will migrk. Complete m street irm- fuminhad.
A?) part* guaranteed 5 yww Dealers •*>-
I kited.
Business Opportunities
BLACKSMITH REPAIR SHOP ^nipmen*
p«w«r hammer. drill pr .' h&nd
tnoi# Sal* or leasr buUding KaiTvoda.
Wheatland, Okia
ucnrrrnrii artificial limb
flLllULLUkllE.BRACE MF&.CO
2827 commerce st. dallas
out where you can park
wildcat-inspired booms roared
simultaneously at Desdemona,
Comanche county, to the south
of Ranger, and at Breckenridgf
Breckenridge county, to the
northwest.
Something was happening
also at Burkburnett, .just south
black gold All over the State
the search went on Sometimes
bitter disappointment was the
result. But at other times, and in
FARMS AND RANCHES_
FOR SALE: 165 acre farm,* 10 mUetj from
fteebe. Artcaniw..- \ milee from Hickor?
PUun*—1 '4 miles from church and school,
fiO arm- in cultivation. 10A at* in ti/n-
Ivr, hot *it* fence orchard well and
ponnd #tx>d r. nmin hw barn and out
buildjo** h*o !1 hrad <'.*tUe, 2 mulea, all
fartr. too-. 7 bo^«, ( ehjrkena—price fo*
all $4600 "0 WnU" or sae John Fcr*
grnaon—Ref be Arkansas.
FOR SALF -iKy-u rjt black land farm,
S3f> *rr+ Allen Hill, D grant. Okla
POP SALE—Irritated ranches 10 000 a_
*.Mfl . ,.v 0 4 APA RTM FTNT * unit
Highway 1- 1 wi ^ from Teller-
■-tone Excellent riectrte d>->v*n Blaek-
■nr'n Shop Jackson's Realty. Pineda la.
W vomrng ______
ACR mrTNr. 1V) AC&EB —" Fenced.
FTW MORE ftovt Sui-plti* 2000 n Mgfbt | T" - •/ n .i -n •• -cv.m '*• brv.k
plants , absolutely nrr rvmdrti«e r>i*', f t>a.-f/rrf*nt. **■;:' * * >"♦ r. *it */)wt. '••n
pump water 'barge hatte^e? ^iO*-.i f4 1 c - • pK-. -nent $5,000. balanr« '.!ke
**11 $110. Mr Hail, 3011 HowHton Awiue,
Hnurtcm. Text#
DOUR LE r o T' W MOVTY""
from manufacturer U> l<i«al gtnreF ,Pl«*tir
Raby Ham**^e« Wnt>> for information to
Berkeley Plastic Specialty r<> ^49 l«th
Av«moe, lrvnnr on. I
LIVESTOCK
POP SALE—Thirty head r*tri<-vr*d
ford polled bull* out of that Domino and
Muw.hicf orood br *d«>r* Ranging f-om t**r
to iwentv month* ' 'd, *' msrkr-H trrrwl
ittditiduals. hi* bon" lo^ an l hlo^fy
iroo«l condition, ready for nervio# Se* •'■♦m
before buylr*. Write or teif-pbnne H D
Miller, Msthi*, T*r*£.
rent Poa&asaion.
▼ille. Mo
R dl, W aynes-
POULTRY
pOTXTPY FAY?' bow Product**
lin* *netJiod5 Mor# monev, vork Poet
'-ird brir. r- 1 f; E F. inv<k '^'Se^>er Key* to
Poultry Profits 4- Frver Grower:' Yard
11- l " Poultry Advisory Service, Rm 11s,
lf 4ft So Olive St., Lm Anjreies 15. Calif
FOR SALE—Miscellaneous
FTR rWORRT- cap e'inp. *ip?. bs!W*tt
top*, etr Fast selling ttems l^nd f«*
'•st.alotr t orce Wentworth SaleR. 11?
North Wabash A*e., Chicago 2. Illinois
"Name your own price " Edi- '
son asked for a couple of day?
otJier places, the magic word j to consider it.
"Boom!" sounded again and i His wife advised him to . r<m w rti
again. | ask $20 000 but to the great |
Finally came the climax of thej inventor that seemed exorbi-
PATENTS
PATKNT LAWTKB
W ,t d, 306 Patrrroo
'lexas 3-2222. 8-1101.
NURSERY
of Red river, near Wichita Falls, j history of oil in Texas, in thej
15EARLWG—Beverly Freeman, afr 1 't, coddles nx lo a yMrling dfer a( Kendall. Fla.
[During the night of July 25, | United States, in the world
1918, a wildcat well came in for! East Texas'
3,000 barrels a day, and the | "Dad ' Joiner had drilled two
mosl intensive drilling and pro- j dry holes—ca!Wl "dusters" by.
You can always take
Mrs. Edison pointed i „
| less,"
j out
When Edison went back to
THE BATTLF. OF THE BIRDS
By ADRIAN F NADFR
♦Condensed from R«uW* Hcoiw i
When Eugene Sc.hciffelin released 40
pairs of starlings in New York s Central
Park in 1890, he hoped these quarrelsome
birds would soon multiply and start do
st.roving the sparrows that were plaguing
the country. It was the only way he could
think of to undo the harm he had done
For he was the man who had imported the
first sparrows into America in 18M1
Since that unfortunate date thf starling
has increased by the millions, completely
overrunning all States east of thr Rockies
Now he's well on his way through New
Mexico and Nevada to the West Coast
Ironic as it seems, this stumpy tailed
blackbird has become more of a nuisance
than the sparrow ever could be He destroys
many birds, as Mr ScheiffeLin thought he
wouid—-but he never molests the gpaiTOW!
During the mating season hr chases
woodpeckers from their holes rind breaks
their eggs. He pulls apart the nests of blue-
birds, martins, and wrens He kills young
robins and pushes nestling pigeons from
their lofts for no other reason, apparently
than that he is quarrel.sotne and destructive.
One building superintendent assigned
two men to the roof whose job was to keep
the ledges free by lashing at them with t:at-
o-nine-tails. Another strung bright lights
along the eaves of his building. Instead of
being frightened by the glare, the canny
starlings looked the bulbs over, then hud-
dled next to them to keep warm, ^
In many cities the fire department brenks
up roosts by hosing them Roman candles
have been lound to he effective, and good.
old-fashioned sling shots do an adequate
job of scaring when handled by expert ] 000 It was a wide-open, come
I mating of all Texas oil booms re-1 the oil fraternity—on the Daisy I ^ estern Union the Oific'a!
suited. Wells were everywhere Bradford farm, but Well No 31 asked hjm, "Have you de
—10 -ootp bent, named prrae
es *? {*i-tpaid 10 < nry anth -
Hvr>< Farm .
Kan fife* City. Karaae.
PEON 11' - NT1 POPPIES— A.-> far
'f* c,np>- "World a l.ar«pM ln« Ll**-
Ov '.. i wif (rrTWing Firr
Farn, ho* :: Beioit, Kaosat.
:—in front yards, back yards, be-j threw oil over the top of the ed on your price, Mr Edi-
\ hind stores, alongside the rail-I derrick and was completed on I son?"
j road depot. The depth was not; Oct. 5, 1930. for 225 barrels aj
great—about 2000 feet, A well
could be drilled quickly at low
er cost than most other fields
Burkburnett reached a ponu
lation of 15,000. Neighboring
Wichita Falls soared past 50,-
\ ,11*"
The starling—quarrelsome and destructive
—enemy to man and bird.
Birds fear the starting and so do men.
When immense summer flocks swoop down
on an orchard they can strip it clean in a
few minutes. At a government experimen
tal farm near Arlington, Virginia, such a
flock completely devoured two acres of
grapes Apple orchards in New York State
and the Shenandoah Valley have suffered
similar fates The starlings will peck small
holes in the apples and then devour the
pulp and seeds, leaving the empty skins
hanging
As many a.s an estimated hat I-mi 11 ion
starlings may us*1 one roosting site arriv-
ing each evening in flocks oJ 50 to 1.000
They stay together at night, then leavi just
after daylight to hunt for food They usu-
ally roost 10 to 15 mil«>s from their favorite
feeding grounds, though some banded birds
have been known to commute daily from
30 miles away
Every Stale that has t>ecn invaded is bat
tling the starling New types of defensive
weapons appear each week A Philadelphia
architect has devised sloping glass plates
for the tops of building columns. Wilming
ton. Delaware, and other large eastern
cities use galvanized poultry netting, spe-
cial-built fences, and amti-roosting blocks
that are cut at an angle and installed on
the ledges so that birds can't cling lo them
A more spectacular weapon ia the flash
gun. used at tower entrances or beneath
porticos At certain intervals it explodes a
mixture of acetylene gas and an Then the
gun bobs up find down on a spring, shoot
ing out a bright light.
Some buildings are patrolled by workers
who raise and lower hydrogen filled bal
loons, thus frightening the birds away Tin
cans are strung along the ledges of others,
and many buildings are protected by the
janitor who stands on the roof ;ind beats
a tin pan when the starlings start coming
in.
marksmen Guards at the White House
have used BB guns to keep the south por-
tico free
So far. no trap or trick devised by man
is as good a remedy as shooting. The De-
partment of the Interior recommends the
12-gauge shotgun as the best weapon to use.
However, members of the Fish and Game
Association at Springfield, Ohio, would
probably disagree with this They killed
250,000 starlings right in the downtown dis-
trict of the city by using 22-caliber scatter-
shot that wouldn't break windows or pierce
metal spouting
Although there seems to be no immediate
solution to the problem of this feathered
immigrant there are two hright spots in
the picture The starling doesn't thoroughly
populate an area as does the sparrow. He
prefers thickly settled agricultural regions,
also coastal lands and large river valleys.
His numbers reach a peak at a new locality
within 10 to 20 years, then level off
The other bright spot is the starling s un-
predictable nature Just when a country-
side or city has decided ii can never get
rid of him. whole flocks will suddenly Py
away and never return.
There's one thing that should be told in
the starling's favor. He s an excellent dc-
stroyiT of harmful insects In the .spring
ani/nal matter constitutes 10 percent of his
food He'll often eat insects that other birds
won't touch He devours tons of weevils,
Japanese beetles, grubs, and corn borers.
- The starlinn is about the size and weiaht
of the robin, with a lustrous black coat that
has green metallic reflections. He has a
short, droopy tail that gives him a chunky
appearance. His call is harsh and rattling
broken by many downward - slurred
whistles.
1-le is an expert mimic, reproducing with
uncanny fidelity the songs of many other
birds even in the dead of winter when the
songsters have left for a warmer climate
Whole flocks will sometimes become en-
tranced by a particular call They will sing
it over and over until they finally tire of it.
The starling has also been heard repro-
ducing a woodpecker's drumming the
creaking of a pump the jingle of a bicycle
a hen's clucking, and the whinny of a horse
A young starling raised by a Bowmanville,
Ontario, family surprised everyone by
leatmiTR to talk!
Perhaps the most amazrnc characteristic
of this unusual bird is his flock flying Hun
dreds of starlings will dart along at 50
miles an hour, nying so closely together
that their wins beafs seem synchronized.
Without apparent reason of any visible
kind, Ihey will instantly change direction,
with marvelous co-ordination.
Despite 1hesc fascinating qualities, the
starling is foe of both man and bird.
ODD FACTS \ROlTT CLOCKS ANT)
WATCHES
Clocks meant "bells ' in old Danish talk
The time pieces vou carry with you are
called watches, since watchmen who called
"All's well!" throughout the night were the
first to use them
Clocks were invented in the thirteenth
century
The first clocks were bigccr than a book
case, beina several feet high, wide and
thick The first watch was six inches ac ross
Today s clocks may be no bigger than a
matchbox. Certain watches of today may lie
on a postage stamp and leave a margin all
around
An inexpensive watch has about 150
parts, -in expensive watch up to 300 parts.
and get. it boom
Wildcatters Kept Working
Ranger and Burkburnett fi-
! nallv quieted down. And then
j came Mexia. The central figure
I in that Limestone county boom
was Cel A. E Humphreys, not-
" Why—yes."
"How much1"'
Edison tried to say 520,000
but words failed him and he
stood there speechless
Moscow
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has won seme prestige and made
And I his the greatest, oil field j a good impression in Moscov.
of all time was brought tn, nat-j As the conference proceed--, with
urally enough, by a wildcatter—I the issue of Germany Ameri
Photos & Supplies
JUST TO
day at 3,392 feet, seven miles
from Henderson. Rusk county
There had not been much enthu-
siasm in oil circles about the
oil possibilities of East Texas,
and it was not until other and
bigger wells were brought in.
miles and miles from the discov-
ery well, that there came a real-
| '.nation that the East Texas oil
i field was the biggest the world
had ever known
FT acquainted w d<r**)o*
i rov. H*nd uf aed f*om each
iUf M / oof * d -<>ro<Tf
iv ] (ir * tp*- on lavement. *ou>
th *>*rh order r'romPt *ef
ro!ip tnda* or «r • for
rdrijm-. rW/-> Ser«1ee.
r,4- onth, Ririr<'T>e+!arri * Ala.
Building Materials
TFT'"r Tbe ph' Ro* Pnndui# and
mock Ft'-- —Front proof
a nail 'r, t.bere No lath trw dod . juat.
atrjror S v" la; I and labor,
vonr n bom* or barn in upara
expensive block machtn# ncM#*i
-vn 'npic man* *nd instruction.*
, h'ji!d both Work1- Send
ed wildcatter, who took over a on(, q{ |hat brppd of men „f,en | can-Russian relations alwa>,
test well that had been shut
down for lack of funds and com
pleted it as a small well in No-
vember, 1920. After Humph
revs 25.000-barrel gusher roar
short on cash but always Hong the foreground—some news cor-
on faith They have made Texas respondents express the belief
the greatest petroleum-produc-
ins area in the world
Since the discovery of the big
ed in. Mexia jumped from a v.l- ^ Tcxas f|c]d therp ha_, bpen
j lage to the tenth largest citj in a jong serjeg 0f discoveries.
I Texas Humphreys was i brineinit oil production to almost Gc
150 wells at one time and had CVf>ry par1 o) lhf. State. Fewer
2.000 employes. He helped build; (han ,00 of Tcsas- 2!34 counlies
Mexia into a model city with
paved streets, modern schools
and hospital
; now have no oil production
And the search still goes on.
It always will go on as long as
that Molotov will bd more con
dilatory and cooperative than yj
he ha.- been in a year and a hal:
of treaty-writing efiorts
Thus the scale of ideas for!
rmany runs all the way from
the Soviet vision of a strong ; ,
easily controlled centralized |
state, through the American and
British positions to the French
policy of a German confederi
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Texas did not have to a the wjidcattors exist and have'ijon w,th an industrial
the faith that moves mountains.
Wildcatters have a strong faith
in hunches, no matter that geol-
gists say to the contrary. In that
faith is found the reason Texas
is now the leadinc oil-producing
and refining State of the United
States.
now thi: mi:i;k inhkrft
well below its neighbors
KITCHEN CABINETS
B-rth red hardware plair
Nr. 1 10- - White
door* '
No. 110-S—Whrf# orrth rrd hardware ard
f^d de i8rn on doors
t/ r—b«tnttfTil oak
<2 in.).
Thomas A. Edison was a
Plour bin and
i'20:-j in. x
m. h {H
20 in. (iMp, Afi m. wide.
"Nobody was ever sorry
he saved I
MYRTLE
Right Around Home
long for anolher oil sensation
This time it was at Luling. in
Caldwell county. Edgar B Da-
vis. Massachusetts shoe manu-
facturer. who had made a for-
tune cultivating rubber trees in
the Far East, believed there was
oil in the Luling area. Six dry
holes did not dampen this be-
lief, although they came close to
j depleting his financial re-
sources, Then on August 8, 1922,, .
1 his Rafael Rjos test came in for: living example of the Biblical Tmw. ># d*y n« -#
150 barrels a day at 2.175 feet, saying that the meek shall R/*dr ftw immediate deliver* Order VOW*
and by September. 1924, pro-1 inherit the earth. When an n< fw .w Mil i work
duction of his company had ( official of Western Union, of- <dom . Wmdowi He.
climbed to 57,000 barrels a day.! ferine to buv his newly in- TRIANGLE MFG. COMPANY^
By this time the oil spotlight ( vented stock ticker, said, 4854 "'^rutiiw,
<rwung back to West Texas.
Frank T Piekerell and his
friend, Haymon Krupp. held
leases on 400 000 acres of t'm-
versity of Texas lands They |
drilled m Reagan rounty a well
that was to become famous:
as the "Santa Rita," named for i
the Saint of the Impossible. Carl ;
Cromwell, the driller, his wife
and their little daughter lived
on the lonesome lease during the
20 months that the well went. |
slowly downward. Oil was j
struck May 28. 1923 Thr tre-i
! mendous development that fol-
1 lowed .was the chief factor m the
I present huge endowment fund
of the University of Texas
Oil in the Panhandle
Hp in the Panhandle, gas had
been struck late in 1918 and oil
was found in the spring of 1921
But development was slow Even
as late as 1925, the Panhandle s
production for the year was only
1,287.000 barrels. But the next
year the output jumped to 23 -
000,000 barrels. Amanllo s pop-
ulation increased froni 15,009 to
50.000: Pampa shot up to 10.500,
compared with loss than 1,000
population before oil; and, most
spectacular of all. was Borger.
advancing from a mere dot on
the plains to a population of 25,-
000 within a year.
As the world demand fr r oil
went up. the wildcatters of Tex-
By Dudley Fisher
MACHINERY
II A N I) AND P O W E R
(OVfRl.ll MTXERS FOR
FARM or INDUSTRIAL USE
;i capacitv, easy and econom-
ical to operate. Available
with cither gasoline engine or
electric power Rubber or
steel wheel? Will often pay
for themselves on a single job.
Available for prompt ship-
ment from stock.
WELL MACHINERY AND
SUPPLY COMPANY, INC.
1629 MAIN STREET
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
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NOW WE'LL
NEvee
KNOW '
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IP HE SEES MC wrw -MS
BOTTIE OF POP WEU WANT
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