The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 2, 1973 Page: 4 of 10
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Ancient "Pit House" Uncovered
At State Park Near El Paso
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED: Carl Stoup of Coleman
announces that his daughter, Mary Kay, was married
December 27 to Billy Ray Vickers of Odom. Mr. and Mrs.
Vickers are now living in San Antonio'where he is doing
student teaching.
A Weekly Report Of Agri-Business News
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Compiled From Sources
Of The Texas Department of Agriculture
A; John C. White, Commissioner
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EL PASO: Texas’ westernmost
’state park has been the scene
'of recent archeological work
by the Texas Parks and Wild-
life Department.
Workers under the guidance
of George Kegtey, Parks and
Wildlife Department staff arch-
eologist, have uncovered the
site of an ancient “pit house”
village in Hueco Tanks State
Park.
The village dates back to
between 1200 and 1400 A. D.
and was inhabited by a pueblo
group of Indians.
The Indians of Hueco Tanks
dug the foundations of their
houses 18 to 20 inches into the,
soil and covered the pit bot-
tom and probably the sides
with adobe. The roof was also
apparently constructed with
adobe.
i .Kegley and his crew of
workers uncovered three- pit
houses.
“With the exception of slight
| rises in the ground,” said Keg-
ley, “we had no indication that
the buried house sites existed.
“We were very lucky, we
! dug three holes and found the
I remains ,of three houses,” lie
| said. -
S Kegley said thal his crew
| dug until they found a wall and
then followed the wall to its
source.
it took about two weeks to
completely excavate each house
site. . The fragile adobe was
surprisingly damp underground
1 and the last of it was tediously
excavated with small trowels.
! Excavation was made more
! difficult by the fact that the
West Texas area had 19 inches
of rain since August,, three
as 10,000 years ago.”
Such speculation is based on
finds of Folsom points, beauti-
fully worked projectile points
associated with early big-game
hunters.
Excavation was also done on
the remains of a Butterfield
Overland Stage waystation that
is within the park.
The station was active in
1858 and 1859.
Investigations of the stage
site have raised some ques-
tions as to it really being part
of the Butterfield system. Keg-
iey visited other st\ps along
the line and found thorn to dif-
fer from the remains of the
Hueco Tanks station.
Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment personnel were greatly
assisted’’by the E) Paso Centen-
nial Museum and amateur
archeologists from the El Paso
Archeological Society.
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Personals
Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Steffey during the Christmas
holidays were their children and
grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Haynes and Pat of
Wichita Falls, Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Carter, -Johnny and Jay
of Cisco, Mr. and Mrs.' Archie
Durham, Julie and Allan of Fort
Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Durham and Michelle of A4>i-
lene, Larry Durham and Rose-
anne Mack from Pensacola, Fla.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Dur-
ham of Coleman.
Recent visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fenton were
m ram since nususi, . inree Gcno F(,nton of sPmin„l,- .mu—w
'‘7.? 'I"°mI™3!,
A Good Year for Agriculture 1 pounds which would have been
Production ... Cotton, C a 111 e, j a new all-time. high. Latest pro-
Citrus Show Good Gains... | duction figure, however, is 65,-
Pecans Increase ... Commercial 000,000 pounds. This still makes
Vegetable Acres Expand ... it the second largest on record.
Grain Sorghum, Peanut, Soy- j It is also almost three times
bean Production Up from 1971. j the production of 1971 which
•All in all, 1972 was a very ] was only 24,000,000 pounds
good production year- for Texas.
Cotton production probably
showed the most dramatic in-
crease. Estimated production
now at 8,900,000 bales is 1,321,-
000 bales more than 1971. Yield
per acre for 1972 was,almost 100
pounds per acre above 1971.
Texas continued its dominance
in the cattle feeding industry
during 197Z For most of the
Texas will produce about one-
third of the nation's total supply
of pecans for 1972.
Expansion of the 1972-73 six
major winter vegetables is fore-
cast. An estimated 57,000 acres
will be planted lo the, six major
winter vegetables in Texas. The
crops are cabbage, carrots, cau-
liflower, lettuce, spinach and
broccoli.
year, it was and still is the‘num-1 This acreage will he an in-
her one cattle feeding state in crease of nine-percent oyer last
the nation. It apparently will■ season.
retain that honor for some time j In the Lower Rio Grande
to come.
Cattle and calves on feed for
slaughter in Texas feedlots num-
ber 2,225i,000 head, up 29 per-
cent from a year ago. Iowa is
the second-ranking state in the
nation, with 1,689,000 head, far
under the total for Texas.
Valley, acreage of the six winter
vegetables is estimated at 39,200
acres, or 16 percent above the
33,900 acres harvested last sea-
son. Acreage of carrots, cab-
bage, lettuce and cauliflower all
showed significant increases.
Acreages, of spinach remained
Based on Dee. 1 conditions, the same as last season while
the 1972-73 crop of Texas citrus broccoli acreage decreased,
is forecast at 17,200,000 boxes. ) In other areas, acreage is ex-
Tim is 15 percent above the pro- j peeled to total 17,800 acres for
duction of last season. : harvest, which is three percent
Grapefruit production is ex- below last year,
pected to total 10,400,000 boxes, i Grain sorghum production in
13 percent above last year. | Texas at 456,000,000 bushels was
Early and mid-season oranges ; more than 50,000 bushels ahead
are forecast at 4,500,000 boxes, of 197.1. Texas produces about
up 18 percent from last season. 45 percent of all the grain sor-
Valencia oranges are estimated :"ghum in the nation,
at 2,300,000 boxes, which is 15 j Peanut production was up in
percent above last season-. ; Texas this year-over 1971 by
Pecan production for Texas in j almost a million pounds. The
1972 was first set at 71 million : 1972 • production estimate is
Kegley found th'reK prehistoric
burials, refuse heaps and num-
erous potShreds and projectile
points.
One of the burial sites was
I in the interior' of a house, a
common practice in this area
in prehistoric times.
Why the houses were aban-
; doned is a mystery to the arch-
j eologists. There is no sign of
j-catastruphe. Tiie Indians simply
left.
From what can be pieced to-
gether of their life style, they
must have been sedentary
gardners who raised crops.
Water must have played a large
part in the Indians' decision
to locate near the Hueco
Tanks. The area draws its name
from the “huecos" or depres-
sions in the stone which trap
rain water even today.
Some change must have oc-
cured in this life style just be-
fore the coming of the Span-
ish. Explorers in the 1500s re-
ported that Indians in the
Hueco Tanks area were semi-
nomadic and had evidently
abandoned their sedentary living
some time before.
“There is evidence,” said
Gegley, “that man may have
| lived at Hueco Tanks as early
456,000,000 pounds.
Soybean production in the
state in 1972 is almost double
the production in 1971. Texas
production for 1972 is set at
5,670,000 bushels.
Visiting over the Christmas
holidays in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter King were their
Children, Mr. and Mrs. John
Brandon, Becky and Randy, and
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bryan',
Kenny and Angela, all of Steph-
euviile: Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Franz and Misty Dawn of E’ort
Worth; Mr. and Mrs., Sammy Ed-
ington and family, and Mrs.
Goldia Edineton. all of Coleman:
and Miss Earl Dean Sheppard
and her father, Lester Sheppard
front Bangs.
Mr. and Mrs. Travis Bohan-
non, Tracy and Chad of Hous-
ton spent the New Year’s holi-
days with his mother, Mrs. Es-
telle Bohannon, and other rela-
tives.
In the Kitchen
RAKED CHICKEN
2 broiler-fryers, cut in
pieces
Vi cup melted butter
cup lemon juice
1 tsp. dried tarragon
1 tsp. salt
Dash pepper
Arrange chicken in shal-
low baking dish. Combine re-
maining ingredients; mix
well. Brush chicken
thoroughly with butter mix-
ture. Bake in 350-degree oven
one hour, or until tender,
basting occasionally. Makes
6 servings.
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The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 2, 1973, newspaper, January 2, 1973; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth751026/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.