Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume XIII
ARANSAS PASS. SAN PATRICIO
COUNTY, TEXAS, JUNE 8. 1923
Number 6
THE CITY
OF CERTAINTY,
WHERE SAILS MEET
"RAILS
perieitced Oil
Man to Inspect
Sigmund Well
ciding to go deeper, a report of which
will be published.
“Wednesday bailing lines were taken
off and a change made to the heavy
| cables again, and a shut down ordered.
“We give the log from last week’s
| ending .................................................. 3571
j 4 feet, rock .................................... 3573
j 1 foot, gumbo ................:.............. 3576
j 2 feet ,gumbo .............c..........— 3578”
emporary shut-down has been
ed at Sigmund well No 3 awaiting ' $e©RE PROTECTION WORK
rrival of an expert oil locater
ill investigate the conditions of
well and also pass on the lease
oldings of the Company. It is to be
BEGINS .SOME TIME NEXT WEEK
Dredge JOHN JACOBSON will reach
Aransas Pass some time next week to
commence work on the shore protec-
ped he will be able to convey some! This plant is to be followed by
a second plant between now and the
first of the year, whigh insures com-
pletion of the project within a year
from this time,
y valuable information on the oil
sibilities in this section,
e following report was given out
es. Sigmund this morning:
he rock drilled through last Fri-
as 6 feet thick. Nothing was
this rock but gumbo. Saturday
ras withdrawn and fish tail bit
again. Monday very little head-
ms made, with caving-in hole,
st showing of gas we have ever
was coming from this great depth
with enormous pressure on top of it,
which convinces us that we should get
a good gas well from the deep rock at
SHALLOW "SAND IN NEW -
field in McMullen county
Oil men are giving great attention
to the Grubstake Investment Associa-
tion oil field in McMullen county,
where the Grubstake has one well at
750 feet that, will be good for a very
profitable production of one of the fin-
lubricating oil
STEAMER “FLORENCE LUCKENBACH”
SOON TO SAIL FOR PORT ARANSAS
Luckenbach Steamship Company of
New York have advised the Aransas
Dock & Channel Company that the
steamer “Florence Luckenbach” will
load this week at Puget Sound and on
the Columbia River in Oregon, a cargo
of lumber for Port Aransas, to reach
here about the latter part of June.
The shippers, The Henry D. Davis
Lumber Company, of Portland, Oregon,
advise that the cargo consists of bridge
timbers for the S. A. & A. P. Ry., the
S. A. U. & &G. Ry., the Fredericksburg
& Northern, the San Antonio Southern
and the A. H. T. Rys., and the balance
of commercial lumber and shingles to
be consigned to Scrivner & Zimmerman
at Port Aransas and distributed from
there.
This is the first movement of this
kind, and if successful, which no
doubt will be, it is contemplated there
will be a cargo into Port Arangos every
month following. It is claimed the
saving on this West Coast lumber as
compared with yellow pine, amounts
to about $20 per thousand and the
class of lumber is about the same.
COAST’S COTTON OUTLOOK
BRIGHT—CONDITIONS GOOD
----------------- - i est [qualities of lubricating oil ever
376 and below if properly cased off. j known. The wen is not on production
t will be remembered a few years ago j yet and any estimate of its producing
hat drilllers went thru the heavy gas j qualitieg is ordy an estimate, but the
strata at White Point without noticing ■ jowest guess made by a conservative
t and when they bailed down it blew j oil gcout ig twenty-five barrels. It
n so strong they could not control it. j bailed &t the rate of 30o barrels per
^ crater 500-600 feet in circumference j dgy
and about 200 feet deep is still there ^ Tbig js jn the center of a
as a visible evidence. 1 ,-irr-TP of wildcat tests. The Texas
“I have not been able to buy a car f>
good fuel oil and have used five
circle of wildcat tests. The
Company on the George West ranch
oads of heavy Mex. oil and cannot I ^ Oak county to the east is be-
hold the steam for deep drilling. We
shut down Monday evening and tried
bailing Tuesday for two hours, but
could not lower the mud, the pressure
pushing in the water again. There is
low 2,000 feet. The Houston Oil Com-
pany, which had a big 40,000,000 cubic
foot gasser blow in at 850 feet near
Lucas in the lower part of Live Oak,
only one thing to do and that is case j has been unable to complete the well.
It ran wild for a day or more and
caved in. The well has been plugged
ff the well to 3376 feet, which we will
lo as soon as one of the very best _____— —----
41 locators in the state arrives Monday ! and the derrjck moved a few hundred
who will test out our well, also our
[ease.
feet and a new well will be drilled
“Mr. Brooks has 1100 tests to his j down to the Sas and completed as a
■redit and is very busily employed by i gasser in order to have fuel, after
nany oil companies to make their loca- which the company will drill for oil
ions in teh North Texas fields. He j near tbe same location,
laims to have a scientific machine, o( ,hc shallow depth at
working with batteries, and can tell the ■ ^ .
leptfo and strength of sands. The Car- j the oil is to be found in this
iegie Institute have one similar to his. j territory and the high (quality of the
In recommendation of the Dalhart j 0il it is believed it will have a big
!tockh*lders who have paid his fee j play Tbe field bas a southwest to
md expenses and have unbounded j northeagt trend of the fields in this
’aith in his methods, have secured his | , - , , T .
services i ^erri*:ory> including Somerset and Lul-
“We will await his tests before de- ing.
HAVE YOU TRIED OUR
ALMOND MACAROON
WHITE BREAD
WHOLE WHEAT
PULLMAN
w
CAKES and COOKIES
FRUIT BARS, LEMON SNAPS
ALMOND MACAROON
Sugar Cookies, Muffins, Cinnamon
Rolls, Jelly Rolls
mmly Bakery
CONN BROWN
REAL ESTATE, LEASES, ABSTRACTS
CONN & BROWN
ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS
From San Antonio Express:
The local representative of the San
Antonio Express has recently gathered
data relative to the cotton crop in
this section. A trip by automobile
was made into the “Magic Valley.”
There we find the plant in good con-
dition—total acreage around 200,000.
The yield in that section for 1922 was
three-quarters bale to the acre and this
year should make the same. Commenc-
ing with Calhoun and Victoria coun-
ties and running west to the Rio
Grande, taking in two tiers of counties
from the Gulf, the acreage for this
year is approximately 695,000. Con-
sidering the present condition of the
crop, the yield should be one-half bale
to the acre or a total of 347,500 bales
—just about double the crop for 1922,
and the average increase iover the
year 1920 represents 39 per cent.
Herewith is shown the estimated
cotton acreage for the present crop
(1923) in the first two tiers of coun-
ties along the coast of Southwest, Tex-
as, comencing at Calhoun and Victoria
and extending to the Rio Grande.
Compared with the same is the
acreage of 1919-20 except in the “Magic
Valley” (Cameron and Hidalgo Coun-
ties). Also is shown the yield for
SUMMER NORMAL OPENS
AT CORPUS CHRISTI
laws and uncertainty as to jurisdic-
tion—and consideration for the related
comity may move Congress to revise
the statute so a sto permit foreign
ships to enter with sealed liqqquor-
cargoes, medicinal stores and crews’
rations.
That is the utmost concession antici-
pated. Outside i of a few large cities
that, admissably for obvious reasons,
are wet strongholds, sentiment for en-
forcing the Eighteenth Amendment is
stronger today than ever before. And
it will continue to strengthen and
spread as prohibition’s benefits—eco-
nomic, hygenic, social and moral—be-
come more generally recognized. The
wets’ hopes for the 1924 campaign are
quite as forlornas those for any
“relief” from the new Congress. .
Smith’s play to the metropolitan ' 10Ug 011
booze-element has not helped them in |
the slightest, any more than it has as-
sured him a place in the National
Senate if he would emulate Edwards
of New Jersey. Throughout his State,
every law-respecting, patriotic citizen
Canning Factory
Opens for Business
Tuesday Morning
Live Oak Canning Co., at Aransas*
Pass have begun operations and are
now running full time, having opened
the season for business last Tuesday.
They expect a good season and are pro
pared to take care of the trade. A
visit to the establishment will con-
vince any one that cleanliness is one
of the main features, everything under
screen and kept clean and sanitary
The summer normal in Corpus Chris-
ti opened the season at the high school
auditorium at 7:15 o’clock Monday,, statutes are more than scraps of paper,
CONDITIONS AT HARBOR
BEST SINCE PORT OPENEH
The district engineer at Galveston,
a few days ago sent the dredge
to whom the Federal Constitution and i GALVESTON to Port Aransas to re-
. . , move a small shoal in the inner har-
the session opening with the singing of j and the Nation’s order and dignity and bor.so as to insure a uniform draft
“America” by the assembly of teach- j repute are serious, concerns, must re- fpr veaselB through the entrance chan-
er®\ ^ „ Igard with shamed resentment his and nel right Up to the docks. The best
Invocation was offered by Rev. G.. hig crowd’s attitude towards the Eight-1 water ginee the barb0i was opened to
Rev.
H. Storey, pastor of the First Presby-1 eenth Amendment and its enforcement commerce now prevails at Port Aran-
act.
THE TIME OF THE CRUCIAL
TEST. MUST DEAL FAIRLY
STORM KILLS 125 HEAD
CATTLE BREAKING
BONES
last year (1922) :
'■-D1 . ')
Yield |
Acreage
1922 *
1920
1923
Bales
Kleberg ......
. 9.545
10,300
2,952
Willacy -
818
5,300
2.3a3
Nueces ........
.138.926
125,800
31.462
San Patricio
60,079
89,200
23.393
Refugio .......
. 24,968
31/,300
8,453
Calhoun ......
.. 20,477
20.500
4,815
Victoria ......
.. 61,661
61,600
20,11S
Goliad :.........
.. 50.825
48,900
12,585
Bee ..............
.. 56.239
52,500
10.107
Live Oak......
.. 16.596
19.100
3.041
Jim Wells ..
.. 13.844
25,400
5.084
Brooks ........
.. 12,651
5,000
446,629
494,900
The Valley
55,000
200-000
51.000
TWO OOIL PROMOTERS GIVEN 10
YEARS; “GENERAL” LEE TWO
SEND THE PROGRESS TO YOUR FRIENDS
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.0® PER YEAR
Fort Worth, Tex., June 6.—Three oil
promoters today faced peniteitiary
terms as the result of the first court
test in the Federal Government’s cam-
paign to stamp out fraudulent stock
selling.
“General” Robert A. Lee, Charles
Sherwin and Harry Schwartz, pro-
moters of the General Lee Interests,
into which the American public has
poured thousands upon thousands of
dollars, were found guilty and sentenc-
ed last night by United States District
Judge Benjamin Bledsoe.
Lee, who was a figurehead in the
company, was given a total penalty of
two years’ imprisonment and $6,000
fine, and Sherwin and Schwartz, the
actual promoters, each sentenced to
a total of ten years’ imprisonment and
assessed a fine of $15,000.
The verdict found all three men
guilty on six counts of the indictment
returned against them by a grand jury
which indicted nearly one hundred
other . oil promoters. The first five
counts charged use of the mails to de-
fraud and the sixth charged conspiracy
to deraud.
The next case to go to trial in the
Government fight against fake oil
companies is that of J. W. Camith,
promoter of the J .W. Carruth Oil Com-
pany and the Hog Creek-Carruth Oil
Company, and his associates. This, it
was expected, would get under way to-
day.
terian church. An address of wel-
come was delivered by Miss Mary Car-
roll, superintendent of the city schools,
which was responded to by Mrs. Bes-
sie Haydon of Goliad.
County Superintendent Nat Benton
made a talk to the teachers on the All indications point to the advent
summernormal work before them and j better business. Depression has
Prof. W. H. Korges of Aransas Pass given away to confidence. Business
went into an explanation of the sched- ‘.bas come through one of the most crit-
nule for the term. icai periods in history. In other times
At the morning session more than business has Suffered from depression
100 had enrolled, with a large num- aad from many other conditions that
her still to come. As a rule the open j threatened its very life, but never
ing day of the normal carries about until the past few years has there
one-third to one-half of the maximum j been such a world-wide business hard-
attendance. ! ship, with the whole world in much
___ i the same condition. Even now when
a firmer basis has been established,
the time has not arrived when the bus-
iness man may rest easy. There are
- | problems just as serious now as there
Eagle Pass, Tex., June 6—An abun- were immediately following the wax.
dance of rain has fallen throughout1 The buying public bas taken another
this section and all over the northern ; stand, It is pitting its knowledge
part of the State of Chihuahua, Mex- j against that of the business man. It
ico, the past few days with cloudy ; iS searching down deep into the under-
threatening skies. Further reports of! lying principles of business and of the
the cyclone that visited the La Barbia business man. It is trying him at the
ranch, about 120 miles over in Mexico ! bar of justice and fair dealing. It is
a few nights ago are still coming in ! demanding now—demanding that the
hnd indicate that some kind of an elec , business man deliver a product accord-
tric phenomena must have swooped ing to the value the public plaeecs' up-
down on that section. One hundred
and twenty-five bead of cattle belong-
ing to Mr. Hyberger were killed and an value for every cent it spends,
investigation discloses that every bone
in their bodies was broken. On that
same night hot flashes which ran up
to 100 degrees were recorded in La-
redo and other places. At this' place
what was supposed to be a funnel of a
cyclone was observed passing over that
way and,, the sky turned red.
sas.
STEAM YACHT MARY ANN
ARRIVES AT PORT TUESDAY
The sea-going yacht Mary Ann be-
longing to J. A. Steadman of Beaumont
steamed into Port on Tuesday, Mr,
Steadman was reared at Aransas Pass
and frequently returns to enjoy the
haunts o fhis boyhood days. He and
his party will spend some time here
recreating.
FLOUR PRICES TAKE A DROP
LOWEST IN SIX YEARS
on it . This value is of the highest
standard. The public demands full
Minneapolis, Minn., June 6.—Flour
prices dropped to the lowest in six
years, when one of the largest mills
7)ere cut the price 15 cents a barrel on
family patents Tuesday. The new low
was $6.25 a barrel when sold in car
lots in 98-pound cotton sacks for the
highest grade of family patents, and
milling officials said that not since
prior to the World War did such a fig-
ure obtain. Weakness in the wheat
market was the cause for the decline
millers said.
If your job looks too big for you,
take it apart and look at it piece by
piece. It won’t seem so formidable.
SMITH RENDERS THE “WETS”
HOPE NO LESS FORLORN
Advertising
in this paper will bring
good reforos on the
mc-Yor iiivcv.tv
-nwanate jzz.'
Editorial in San Antonio Express,
Monday:
Two recent developments render it
practically certain that the new Con-
gress will be asked to deal with the
questio nof revising the Volstead Act.
One is the Treasury Department’s de-
cision that under the Supreme Court \
ruling it bas no choice but to apply the •
liquor-transportation ban against for-
eign ships in American territorial wat: j
ers. The other is Governor Smith’s .
appeal for a “more liberal” definition j
of intoxicating liquors, in connection j
with his puerile play iu signing the
bill repealing the Mullan-Gage New |
York prohibition-enforcement act.
Both these matters will appear be- j
fore Congress next winter and be the j
subject of fierce debate. That will j
create thunder for the presidential I
campaign. The prospects that Con-
gress will modify the Volstead Act’s j
domestic provisions, however, are so j
remote that they may be dismissed
from consideration. Both Houses are
overwhelmingly Idry.” The Senate
line-up—according to best available in-
formatjigjh—will be 57 “dryS”l, 30
“wets” and 9 doubtful. The House
will have 248 drys, 154 wets and 30
doubtful.
There is, therefore, not a ghost of a
chance for “Al” Smith’s “light”-wine-
and-beer proposition. It would be vot-
ed down heavily. If the prohibition
law is changed, it will be through more
drastic provisions, severer penalties
j and placing new weapons in the en-
j forcement officials’ bands. Doubtless
j the act will be extended specifically to
i American ships on the high seas, and
there will be objections from extreme
drys to any emption in favor of for-
eign ships within the three-mile limit.
But the interxational questions involv-
1 SUMMER
| S. A. & A. P. |
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ON THE
ANTONIO AND ARANSAS PASS RAILWAY
Texans, who enjoy Summer Camping will miss a great treat if
thev do not go to Live Oak Peninsula, between Aransas and Copano
Bays this summer. Reckport is the railroad station, and the S. A.
& A. P. Railway will take you there.
A SEA COAST WITH PLENTY OF SHADE
This section is covered with big Live Oak trees. Here you can
combine the pleasures of Summer Camping wit hSea Fishing, Sailing
and Bathing—an ideal and economical way to spend an “Outing.”
Those who prefer camping right on the beach front can Mnd many
fine places in and around Corpus Christi. The S. A. & A. P. Railway
wil take you there. Splendid Hotels and Boarding Houses at Cor-
pus Christi.
HILL AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
Tbe Hills and -Mountains on the Boerne-Kerrville Branch of the.
5 A & A. P. Railway furnish most delighful places for camping-
—altitude ranges from 1500 to? 2000 fet. Gfeod hotels and boarding
houses at S. A. & A. P. Stations.
SPLENDID COMMUNITY CAMPING
Make up campiug parties and select your camping location. You
will then find out what splendid neighbors you have away from
politics and business. Take along the phonographs _ and fiddles;
community singing and camp life under the stars will bring new
joys and sunshine to all. Send a representative to the many S. A.
6 A. P. Resorts and pick out a camp site. Plenty of water, and the
truck farms will furnish you vegetables.
Fishing, battling and boating in the Gulf salt water or in the
beautiful Guadalupe River on Kerrville branch, all of which will
add an invigorating and enjoyable vacation.
SUMMER ROUND TRIP TICKETS are now on sale to Corpus
Christi, Roekport and Kerrville. See your Railway agent. Write the
Secretary of Chamber of Commerce for further information, or address
GEO. F. LUPTON, (ft P. A.
San Antonio, Texas
GUS GRIMM & SON
GENERAL REPAIR SHOP
Sporting Goods
Gunsmiths and Locksmiths
Typewriters, Cash Registers, Adding Machines
Repaired. Bought and Sold
Umbrellas Recovered and Repaired
Bicycles and Bicyele Parte
409 Chaparral St.
Phone 803
Corpus Christi, Texas
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Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1923, newspaper, June 8, 1923; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth990995/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.