Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 20 x 14 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I
. .
■
nHflHKa
s'Ai^ giiIa
?;l;
Jfeif
'
ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume VI
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 12,1915.
Number 45
,
*
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY,
ERE • SAIL
EET RAIL
Oil and Gas the All-Absorbing Topic in White Point Territory
Drilling At Harbor City-Ingleside Will Probably Commence This Month—Guffey’s Drilling
At White Point-Busy About Corpus Christi, Sinton and Portland—Interesting Oil News
[•
(
“ Things are mwirag along
about as fast as we eould expect
at the Harbor City-In gleside oil
field,” said E. 0.. Burton, of San
-Antonio, who was in 1 Aransas
Bass Tuesday on business.. “Buell
has the derrick completed anj|
we expect him to have a drill go-
ing before the end of the mqnth,
Hei has until April 7 to start on
his first contract well Without
losing his forfeit, but he will not
use all that time, Buell has been
very busy at Tulsa and Cushing
since he left here, but writes that
he will he down about the 50th
Heretofore they have contracted
all their drilling, but they may
buy their own.outfits on the field
and get them when they want
them.
""Have you noticed that most
of the wells going down are a
good many miles back from White
Point? Well, they are;—Ingle-
side, Sinton, Odem, Edroy, Viola,
Tule Lake, Corpus Beach,— all
eight to fifteen miles away, mak-
ing a circle around the gas well.
""I have been hearing some
ridiculous things since I was. here
—that we ,put up the derrick, etc.
Well, Buell paid his own hotel
expenses, boards his own men,
etc.,—just ,as you pay your own
way in your own business. He
gave Bettisoii the check for put-
ting up the derrick and we have
nob paid out a cent on his ac-
count. He has obligated himself
to drill the well and he is good
for his obligations. That’s all
there is to it. The Guffey peo-
ple have been figuring around
‘5 White Point -for a year and have
only got started to drilling. They
bought that lease in November,
I believe* hut took a lease on
State land .in July.
‘"But I will sajr this mueh. That
well is going down at Ingleside.
Buell will do it if he doesn't fall
dead, and in that remote possi-
bility we will put it down our-
selves if it takes the rest of the
Ingleside property and all our
Aransas Pass lots to do it. I be-
lieve they will get the oil at In-
gleside. J hope the others will
also, but L have no doubt of In-
gleside.'”
The J.-M. Guffey Petroleum Co.
began active drilling operations
in the White Point field Wed-
nesday afternoon. The company
will use heavy machinery with
the. view of drilling beyond the
limit specified in their lease and
it' is announced that they will
exhaust every effort to find the
oil pool regardless of depth. A
14-inch casing will be used to
start the well, which will later :be
graduated into a smaller one.
well by February 15. The first
well is located about 1,000 feet
northeast of the big- gasser. Drill-
ing will commence in about eigh-
ty days on the property of ex-
Sheriff Dave Odem south oft Sin-
ton, and it; is announced that the
Corsicana Petroleum Company
will commence drilling upon the
Dr. H. E. Odem ranch west of
Sinton within sixty days.
Oil men who are now residing
in San Antonio awaiting more
peaceful conditions in Mexico
say that the republic is just be-
ginning to get its petroleum busi-
ness on a paying basis, says the
San Antonio Light. Despite the
value of $9,663,116, indicating an
average value per barrel of 58.2c.
In 1913 the imports were 16,-
588,067 barrels and the declared
value $10,018,928 and the aver-
age value per barrel 60.4c. Com-
paring the two years,^ there is an
increase in the production of 381,
029 barrels in 1914 and a decreas
in the total declared value of
$350,812 and in the average val-
ue per barrel of 2.2c.
While Mexico, despite its wars
and general unsettlement, is now
breaking all records for the pro-
duction of oil, records of runs in
crude petroleum in 1914 from
Texas fields indicate a big pro-
showed remarkable steadiness.
Goose Creek declined after the
month ofx May, when prices be-
gan to crack. Dayton increased
a few thousand barrels. The one
producing well at Terry or Cow
bayou, in Orange county, plugged
rels last year, as against' 8,131,-
624 barrels in 1913. Petrolia, al-
so known as Henrietta, in Clay
county, is credited with 438,200
barrels, an increase of 93,332 bar-
rels over the year before. Runs
from Marion county, the Texas
along steadily, making 35,385 ban end of the Caddo field, were 201
during the last three years, the
production of oil has increased
several hundred per cent. Ex-
ports of oil from Mexico to the
United States three years ®go.
were less than 1,000,000 barrels,
while during the year just com-
pleted 17,000,000 barrels were
shipped into this country from
Mexico fields.
The first crude oil imported, in-
to this country from Mexico in
commercial quantities was in
1911 when the quantity was 779,-
916 barrels. In 1912 the receipts
from Mexico were 6,500,000 bar-
rels. Complete and official re-
ports on the imports of Mexican
crude oil into the United States
0__________ _ . in 1914 show a total of 16,9€9,-
They expect to start the second 1106 barrels with a tqtal declared
fact that fighting has been the ductjon, too. Government fig-
principal occupation of Mexieo;ures on oil production just an?
nouneed show an increase in the
production for the state for the
year of 4,794,148 barrels.
According to records compiled
by the Fuel Oil Johrnal, Sour
Lake and Humble furnished the
increase that boosted Texas near
to the 20,000,000 barrel mark in
1914. _The deep sands in these
two old gulf coast fields proved
prolific sources of supply, the
combined gain of the two dis-
tricts over 1913 being 5,030,324
barrels. Sour Lake lead all the
South Texas fields with 5,080,480
barrels, increasing its output 3,-
376,426 compared with the'prev-
ious year.
Humble produced 2,798,778 bar-
rels, gaining 1,293,898 barrels.
Saratoga, Batson and Spindletop
rels in the year.
Powell in Navarro county, the
only Texas field north of the
gulf coast that produced heavy
oil, is credited with '294,110 bar-
rels in 1914 as against 282,476 in
1913. The South Texas districts
made a total of 10,341,722 barrels
last year. Adding Powell, the
heavy crude output in Texas ap-
pears to have been 10,635,832 bar-
rels. In 1913 it was 6,106,082
barrels, including the Duval coun
ty and Big Hill, Matagorda coun-
ty, production, which is not tak-
en into account in the 1914 rec-
ord.
In the light oil districts, Wich-
ita county, Petrolia, Marion coun-
ty, Corsicana and Moran, the ag-
gregate quantity of oil, run was
9,168,114 barrels, as compared
with 9,184,252 barrels of light
crude credited to Texas in the
government report for 1913.
When the records' for the scat-
tered counties above mentioned
are in they will doubtless increasq
the 1914 runs "slightly over the
1913 total.
Wichita county, including Elee-
tra, Burkburnet, Iowa Park and
Fowlkes, produced 8,334,822 bar-
700 barrels, a decrease of 60,692
barrels, compared with 1913. Cor-
sicana dropped from 158,830 bar-
rels in 1913 to 125,199 barrels in.
1914. , ' ,
Louisiana’s total production in
1914 was 14,677,102 barrels. The
1913 yield was 12,498,828.
A record of vessel shipments of
refinery products and crude pe-
troleum in 1914 from Texas and
Louisiana gulf ports, complete
with the exceptions of some
small loadings at Galveston and
Texas City, and a cargo or two
from the New Orleans district,
shows a total movement of 32,-
822,970 barrels of forty-two gal-
lons each of all grades. These
figures indicate a gain of 8,800.-
963 barrels, or 36 per cent com-
pared with the 1913 record, which,
was 24,022,017 barrels, J
The. movement of refinery pro-
ducts, including gasoline, illumi-
nating oil, fuel oil, gas oil and
lubricating oils in 1914 was 24,-
978,151 barrels, and of crude pe-
troleum 7,844,819 barrels, as
against 19,511,852 barrels of re-
finery products and 4,510,165 bar-
rels of crude the year before'.
-
!
1 Local and Personal
0
---— --—1— -
t--—--
j
John D. Wheeler was in Han
Antonio on. business the first of
the week.
Oleanders .for sale at Panama
Cottage. 45-tf
J. D. Craft and family, of Fort
Worth, are spending a few days
in Aransas Pass.
Mrs. R. L. Spencer is visiting
the family of R. T. Wood in. ‘Cor-
pus Christi this week.
The Thursday afternoon bridge
club met with Mrs. A. H. Hert-
wig yesterday afternoon.
Just received latest styles in
Spring Hats. Mrs. Harris. if.
C. W. Holmes, of the Firs
State hank, has returned from
short business trip to San
tonke
A. D. Dean, the electrician,
busy this week wiring the
modern bungalow of Mayo
H. Bell, of Rockport.
F. .Lang, of Sherman, Texas,
was in Aransas Pass this week.
Texas,
The Woman’s Club held a so-
cial tea Thursday afternoon for
the purpose of raising funds t©
assist in defraying the expenses
of the organization. There was
a good attendance and quite a,,
neat sum was realized. . The club I
will hold regular meetings the
first and .third Thursdays of
eachmaonth and social teas on the
second and fourth Thursdays. A
cordial invitation is extended the
E. P. Gates, of Waco,
was an Aransas Pass visitor this'public to attend,
week.' I
/ Mrs. Claude L.
Rev. W. ~ ~
J. W. Stewart and family, of
Roswell, N. M., arrived in Aran-
sas Pass this week and expect to
make this their future home. Mr.
Stewart is a cousin of W. J.
Stewart of this city. He was
i formerly in the ranching busi-
ness in this state but moved to
California some years ago, and
not liking the climate of that
state, he returned to the Gulf
coast, which he considers better
in every way.
f
Sun- i
. .. _____ . Grubbs left
D. Bowen will preach Monday afternoon for Browns"-
ville, Tex., to visit the family of
her brother, L. C. McDuf'f, who
is now in the government ser-
vice at that point. The immed-
iate cause of her going was to
see the young scion of the Me-
Duff’s who put in. an appearance
Monday morning. Mr. McDuff
is well known in Aransas Pass as
. t -ii- T ! p. , j he owns the McDuff grocery
Mr. and Mrs. John Douglass. .... , .. _ i '
r> A T*«™ rrUri.;, i which is now being conducted un-
der the management of N. C.
Hi) hum.
at A’Hgiidale school house
day afternoon.
The Embroidery Club met with
Mrsj G. H. Porter this week and
wil/ be entertained by Mrs. John
D.JWheeler next week.
' Who has a team outfit to trade
lots.? Brooke Exchange.
Mrs.
R. A. Bauer and Miss Flor-
ence Macomber spent last Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Miles
Sweeny and Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Keller, living near Estes.
Mrs. J. M. Goodwin,
Fort
J. A. Foster, of Varna, 111., and
his brother, Geo. E. Foster, of
Wenona, 111., were visitors in
Aransas Pass this week. They
own property on the point be-
tween Corpus Christi Bay and
“Bob” Robert soil, of Tampico,
Hex., arrived on the oil steamer
J. Oswald Boyd, of the Huasteca
Petroleum Co., line, the first of
the week. Mr. Robertson was
here with the refugees last
spring and made many friends
who were pleased at his return.
He says conditions there are ex-
The J. Oswald Boyd, the tank
steamer of the Huasteca Petro-
leum Co., arrived Wednesday
with a full cargo of fuel oil for
the Magnolia Petroleum Co. In-
cluded in the passenger list
were a number of families of ne-
groes who were fleeing Mexico.
Their homes had been burned at
Tampico and they were given
twenty-four hours to get out
the country and they were given
asylum on the Boyd. They were
brought to the city where they
took the train for points in the
interior.
Employees of Huasteca Petroleum.
Company Bring Families to Aransas Pass
The situation in the Tampico Brown. He is moving in today.
oil fields is of such an uncertain
nature that all of the big oil
companies have ceased develop-
ing operations. Practically all
Americans have been called in
from the interior and general or-
ders have been for employees to
“Aransas Pass is a prime fav-
orite with all employees of the
Huasteca Petroleum Company,”
said Mr. McLaughlin, to The Pro-
gress. “Ever since we arrived
here as refugees a year ago, and
were extended such fine hospital-
ity by your citizens, we have
remove their wives and families had a warm spot in our hearts
to the United States. In conser
quenee each oil boat brings in
some of these refugees who pro-
ceed to establish a permanent
home here and place their ehil-
j dren in school. Among those to
j arrive this week were V. J. Mc-
j Laughlin, paymaster of the Hu-
lasteea Petroleum Company, and
| J. J. McKee, of the auditing de-
for your city, and now many of
us are soon going to be able to
sav, “our city,” as there will he
more to follow our example and
establish, homes here for their
families. We like the" way your
city is laid out, as it is oil broad
lines for the building of a big
city. We like your churches and
your fine schools and we like
your people who have graciously
partment for the same com-
pany. Mr. McLaughlin has rent- j extended us every courtesy. It
ed -the I. B. Simmons’ prop- j will not be long until we will,
erty on Arch street and is; have a "Tampico’ colony in
already moving in with his fanii- j Aransas Pass and everyone will
lly. His children are now enroll-; be progressive in making this
J. R. Tedford, aged 57 years,, j ed in the public school. Mr. Me- the best place to live on. the Gulf
died at4he home of his daughter. j'Kee arrived yesterday with his| Coast.”
Mrs. Mary Breakbill. on McCamp- family and in a few hours had! Mr. McKee was delighted with
| bell street, Thursday morning, af-j rented the R. L. Spencer resi-1 Aransas Pass and concurred in
denee, Rife street and Wheeler I all that was said by Mr. Mc-
avenue, just vacated by G. W.; Laughlin.
ter an illness of more than a.
year. Mr. Tedford suffered with j
typhoid fever before coming to j
Aransas Pass from Melissa, Tex.,!
I
Sumner, N. M.. who hasf been j Ingleside Cove, w Inch, in view -of treJuej uneertain and that prac-
visiting the family of her daugfc- ‘ ticajly all'development work has; and ^ he^ came here to recuperate
home this week. \ j Clark Herren. a hit; raucu <_> w jj- t * . T
Capt. J. W. Long, of the Long
Leach and fanii
Corp
C. H.
od this week to
where Mr. Leach will lengage m
the barber business, j He has
many friends in Aransas P/iss
who wish him sueeess/in his new
location.
an-
* V*
fruits, ci-
Star /Ba.k-
stopped.
j I Clark Herren. a big ranch own-
I £ °A“:*asgS ^ecSdakTAnsportalo.' Compaq,
s Chustil launch Iris from nounces that beginning .Saturday,
ZcllZt’"ifewr&etot 13, the bo* Enterprise
range with J. S. Clark of the j'™U leave Ingleside for Corpus
Port Aransas Transportation Co.v Christi via Portland, eavmg n
for barges to remove about 1300 gleside at 8 a. m. lloin ays am j term,ent.
sheep from the island, which are Saturdays; leaving Coipus ' ut1s
now ready for the market. j1"’ aV ^ P- and arriving
— ■ af ,5 p.
Snagboat Guadalupe Finishes Work
of Removing the Old Mansfield Jetty
liis health. Complications set in
and he failed to rally. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. j
J. H. Meredith at 4 o’clock yes-
terday. He was a member of
the I. O. O. F., wbbyfcook charge
of the remains and sent them to here some months past clearing j Riche, United States Engineer, at
The government
dalupe which has
snagboat Gua-
been at work
will
by
be fitted and will be opened
Lieutenant-Colonel C. S.
his old home at Melissa for in-
af jn.j The crosshead of
! gleside at ,5 p. in. Fare for the | propping engine of
The Progress headquarters in round trip will be $1.00, and one, ment dredge Charleston broke
Port Aransas will be at the drug way 50c I last Saturday morning and pul
store ol‘ Fred Boden. Arrange-! ' . , rthe dredge out, of commission un-
nieiits have lieen made with Mr.! iVlembers of the Woman s Club was repaired. Supei mtend-
Fresh candies, nu
gars and tobacco a
Cry. L. D. Crunilv,
Mrs. Birdie Roqneinore is in
eharge of the fnilSnery store of
Mrs. Harris, whilAMrs. Harris is, Boden whereby" he is authorized a,,« now engrossed with the one-
attending the miyinery art school!to reeeive subscriptions, advertis- g*eat important annual event of
and buying her ^spring- stock ol job work and news for The the organization, the Washing-
goods at Dallas' j .Progress, and any courtesies ton Birthday” entertainment,
F. L. Clendening shown him will be 'fully appro which will, bp'given at the Libra-
Mr. and
leave Saturd
purchase 1
dry goods,
visit her p
Texas, bef<
Miss Be
ing class c
meet at
Saturday
Stead of
as forme!
to | elated,
of
ing Engineer Laiichlin P. Morri-
son immediately got busy with
telegraph and telephone with the
resu't that G. J. Stanzel, of the
Aransas Pass Foundry, was on
Galveston, on February 19. It is
estimated that the repairs on the
Guadalupe will cost about $18,-
000. Dredging in Matagorda Bay,
between Aransas Pass and Caval-
eonverting the Guadalupe into a lo Bayou, has been completed
combined snagboat and cutter t and the dredge Matagorda, has
dredge. With this in view bids been moved from Port O’Connor
have been advertised for the agi- to the upper end of Matagorda
tating machinery with which she Bay.
the channel of the old Mansfield
jetty has completed its work,
the main' The United States engineering
the govern-1 department now contemplates
The entertainment, last year
was one of the most delightful
for Dallas
xpi ing stock | ^ ^he annual meeting of the
IVs' . VlV/.niU°•(First State Bank, held Monday,|events of 1914 for Aransas Pass,
the f o'lowing officers were re-1 and this year the ladies will en-
elected to serve for the ensuing1 Meavor to excel] all previous ef-
ycar: C. W. Holmes, President forts. A very interesting pro-
rv room Monday night, February, tjie way with the broken part to
Amusements at the Acme
jts at Whitewright,
returning.
Warrick \s dane,-
younger set will
| ra n sas C1 u b room
2 to 4 p. in., in-
|10 ,a. m. to 12 in..
Tonight—Monsieur Bluebeard,
2 reels (Bison). Heiniess Outing,
(Sterling).
'Saturday night—Kid Regan’s
the Charleston hy ■ Hands. 2 reels, (Rex). The Nihi-
, _________ ....___________ _,t7 . _ ittVOVMV ________ Engineer Morri- j hsts, (Nestor).
to, Second Vice-President; J. W.•'social hour. The guest list will son was highly pleased with the) Tuesday night—Trey ’o Hearts,
Holmes, Assistant Cashier; Jefe- be the friends of members of the|excellent time made in making No. 9, 2 reels. Carman's Wash
se J. Todd, Director. j club. j the repair. [ Day,(Sterling).
and Cashier: J. A. Zimmerman,
First Vice-President; John Hut-
gram is being prepared ‘ and itsjwas taken to
rendition wi’l be followed by a Tuesday noon.
San Antonio Saturday night. The
Alamo Iron Works, of San An-
tonio, done the forging Sunday
and the part was back to Aran-j
sas Pass and on the lathe at the,
foundry by 10 a. m. Monday and!
Dr. and Mrs. Walter Noble
entertain at Forty-two tonight.
Increase yo/n* happiness for
1915 by using- the products of
the Star Bakery. L. D. Crumly.
The neighborhood 500 club
will meet with Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Warrick tonight.
Forty per cent of the votes <mxt
in Kansas at the recent election
were recorded by women.
■*
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1915, newspaper, February 12, 1915; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975064/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.