The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1946 Page: 6 of 6
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the archer county news
THURSDAY. JANUARY 24, 194*
THE RATTLESNAKE
ARCHER COUNTY
The News’ Golden
Edition of 1929
Jubilee
Tile rattlesnake is found through-
out America and today are found
plentiful most anywhere else than
Archer county hut the early settlers
of Archer county can probably tell
■uaj good sized truths about snakes
that would be doubted by the city
■to or those living in the thickly
settled sections of the United States
Rot the snake stories I will mention
in this article can be verified by living
witnesses whose veracity is undoubt-
ed ■
The rattlesnake has a habit of den-
wing up in rocky cliffs for the winter
end line the bear spends the winter
in slumber, coming out in the
first warm days of early spring to
hash in the sun at the mouth of
their den and harden up before mak-
ing journeys into the surrounding
territory and this habit has almost
exterminated the rattlesnake tribe in
Archer county and no doubt could
have exterminated their existence en-
tirely of the people had made search
for them in a careful way in the ear-
ly spring, for they could easily be
found around their • cliff homes and
have been found in quite large num-
bers and exterminated. The first den
I ever saw in Archer county was lo-
cated near the line of the place now
owned by T. A. Matthews at a cliff
between the south and middle forks
of the Little Wichita river. I found
them while recovering a prairie chick-
en that I shot on the wing and fell
in the rocky cliff. When I went af-
ter the chicken I found a rattlesnake
near it and shot it and the sound of
the gun seemed to awaken others
that were taking a sun bath near and
I used up all my ammunition that I
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had with me in killing snakes and
saw more go back into their den un-
harmed. When I was through shoot-
ing I had over 20 rattlesnakes and
am sure that as many more were seen
to enter their cliff home. I told my
snake story and others that went
there from time to time must have
killed more than I did but no effort
was made to dig or blast them out
as we should have done. I believe
John Turbeville and the Rambo boys
were among the number that killed
snakes at this den. I remember a
den was found in a cliff near the
line of fence that separated the Matt
Andrews ranch and the ranch of W.
P. Harmonson and something like 300
snakes were killed and I am sure the
Andrews boys, Will Matt and 01, were
witnesses and probably participants
in the killing of this, the largest
number that was ever reported killed
In Archer county. Just about four
miles due northeast of this den Mr.
Clate Garvey showed me the carcasses
of at least 20 that he had killed at
one point and he told me that he
v\*Ued Hie p L:- t«(m to the best old
MORE DOGGEREL FROM
AN OLD ISSUE OF THE NEWS
The following bit of doggerel was
written many years ago by the late
Mont Hart. The clipping, from the
Archer County News, was handed us
by Aut Lewis and bears no date.
We would like very much to have
more old copies of The News go if
you happen to have one or more will
you please let us have them. We will
take good care of them and they will
be returned to you.
There are more installments of the
following if we can but locate them.
We’ll appreciate your co-operation.
THE ANNUAL FISH FRY
as, and Harold Vance, head of the
same department at Texas A. t M.
College.
In all, twenty-four witnesses will
appear to- support the state’s official
position opposing further federal con-
trol over the Texas gas industry.
Tile Texas Senate natural gas in-
vestigating committee headed by Sen-
ator T. C. Chadick, of Quitman, will
attend and question witnesses. Other
committeemen to take part are Sen-
ators Wardlow Lane, of Center; Hugh
Carney, of Atlanta; James Taylor, of
Kerens, and Rudolph Weinert, of Se-
guin. The committee has postponed
its own sessions until after the FPC
hearing.
Amid the shucks one summer’s day
Melugin’s mule began to bray.
Martin heard his lovely voice
To hear it made his heart rejoice.
He drove old Duster in the yard
He got young Sheff to be his pard
Hack
That ever went
back.
to the creek and
see if more came — ------
killed at least that many more and
he told me that he was going to
blast them out but I never heard the
results if he did. Mr. R. Taylor found
a den near his home on the Wind-
thorst road, four miles east of Archer
City and killed over one hundred
snakes that many people saw. Dave
Britten found a den near his house,
now the home of Col. W. R. Pace,
and told me he killed at least seventy-
fiVChas. Abercrombie found a den on And then att four got lull as bats
ranch four miles west of Archer
They got Aut Lewis to promise to go
He got his hooks and he wasn’t slow
To kiss his wife a fond farewell
With a promise of fish and some to
sell.
They gave Mont an invitation
And wound up with the declaration
That Hildebrand lake was full of cats
his _________
City in a cliff near his ranch house
and killed a good many and I do
not remember how many but he kept j
a watch over it for some time in
order to exterminate them, for their
den was in a difficult place to blast
out. I have never heard of many
snakes being killed in that vicinity
since his effort to destroy that den.
I think perhaps prairie fires in an
early day drove them to the cliffs
for protection and they remained to
make their winter homes, while many
tell us that it is characteristic of the
rattlesnake in all countries to den up
in cliff homes for the winter months
and the government adopted this idea
and advised that in early spring in
order to exterminate the piosonous
and deadly rattlesnake a systematic
hunt should be made in early spring
to find their dens and exterminate
them before they scattered to the
valleys and level lands.
Other snakes besides1 the rattler
adopt the same habit of denning up
but do not select the rock cliffs as
the rattler and I have a personal ex-
perience of the truth of this. I be-
lieve it was owned by L. H. Tarr ad-
plaee now owned by L. H. Tarr ad-
joining our town on the north and a
voung fellow by the name of John
Browning applied to me for a job
and I told him I had about 10 acres
of thick mesquite to grub out but as
he had just arrived from Georgia
that he was not acquainted. I felt
sure, with this kind of hard work,
and he replied that he was afraid of
snakes and that thicket looked like
snakes to him. I told him we did
not have many snakes any time but
hardly ever saw one in the winter
time and I told him I would give him
a dollar extra for every snake he kill-
ed while on the job. He agreed to
my proposition and went to work and
the third day he called me down. I
thought to see how he was getting
along, but instead he counted 125
coach whip snakes that he had killed
and I says, “Where did you get
F. P. C. INVESTIGATION TO
OPEN MONDAY AT HOUSTON
HOUSTON, Texas, January 24.—
Texas farmers, ranchers and other
land-owners, as well as consumers,
will be represented at the Federal
Power Commission natural gas inves-
tigation opening here Monday, Jan-
uary 28.
Not only will their interests be es-
poused by high state officials but also
testimony will be given by special
witnesses. Speaking for the citizens
of Texas will be Governor Coke
Stephenson. Chairman Olin Culber-1
son and Commissioners Ernest O.
Thompson and Beauford Jester of
the Railroad Commission, Attorney
General Grover Sellers and Dr. L.
A. Woods, state superintendent of
public instruction. The stake of Tex-
as land-owners in the gas and oil in-
dustry will be stressed by R. C. Kay,
of Amarillo, president of the Pan-
handle Producers and Royalty Own-
ers Association, and S. Maston Nixon,
Corpus Christi producer, will speak
for his fellow operators.
The gas consumers’ interest will
be represented by H. P. Kucera, Dal-
las city attorney, while the public
interest will be shown by George H.
Fancher, professor of petroleum en-
gineering at the University of Tex-
them?” He replied, “In a sink hole
under that large mesquite tree I
grubbed up.” I saw I was to pay
dearly for my grubs, and I told him
the snake pay was off. He finished
his job and when I settled with him
he only mentioned the $30.00 per
month I was to pay him. So I says
“John, how about the snakes” and he
says: “I wont charge you for them.”
His treatment of the question caused
me to keep him for two years as I
fully intended to pay for those snakes.
John Browning is a son-in-law of
John Ground and did live at Wichita
Falls the last I heard of him and I
am sure will confirm this snake story.
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He did not live to see ultimate victory in the war which he inaugurated
against infantile paralysis in America and unified by founding the National
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without that gallant leader.
The enemy is still strong. During the past year, more than IS,000 new
caaes of polio were reported in this country. The war against infantile
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The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1946, newspaper, January 24, 1946; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709032/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.