Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 3, 1927 Page: 2 of 10
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An explosion wWch rocked the
First Paptiat church and was heard
for .Mocks around. Thursday nop
<wm merely a -«Waking up of thev B r-
ger Lion's Club via the nitro gly-
cerin route.
It all came about when W. L.
Mendenhall, veteran oil field shoot-
er pf the Morrlsey Torpedo company,
demonstrated an-electric time bomb,
Showed Lions that nitro was perfect-
ly safe In a glass bottle, and talked
en the uses and dangers of high ex-
plosives.
.And when Mr. Mendenhall, who
took his act cooly and juggled the
bottles and tubes about in a very,
very . careless manner, came to tho
climax' of, his demonstration, some-
thing went wrong.
, There, was a terrific blast. For
a moment the air was filled with
fire and the - tranquility of the
church house .meeting broken by a
oirthwes
followed the steps of innu-
le others of their kind to the
ng houses
And in
money by wise i
haps—But some
have been made —in
small amou
Athletics Barred
,;Tat Meridian College
FT- WORTH, Texas, July Í—(A
P)—As the tail is alleged to have
doue the dt>K, athletics may wag
the academic departments of some
colleges and universities, but ath-
letics «jp'^ot the knife in a con-
clusive manner at one Texas col-
lege this fall.
After ten years indulgence, inter-
collegiate competition in. athletics
will be abolished at Meridian Ju-
nior College, recently re-organized,
according to an announcement by
President S. T .«Brogdon.
wild animals are bejng hunted by
means of a bullet tipped with a nee-
dle filled with a harmless anaesthe-
tic.
OIL EDITOR—IRENE IRVINE—Address Borger
Daily Herald, Phone 13
Items about oil matters in the Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas. Colorado and New Mexico Plains Oil Fields
Solicited.
IMS. U.t-MT.Of*.
wmA«nmc«.* c.'
from 1974 feet to 2021 feet and car-
l-led the 10 inch casing to this depth.
No. 7 Is drilling it. 12 inch hole In
shale at 2035 feet.
NEW LOCATIONS IN
MOORE COUNTY
A lizard, whoso skeleton was re-
cently found in Texas,is believed to
have lived 20,000,000 years ago.
Morton & Company's No. 1ETAO
Morton and Companies No. 1 W.
H. Reeder C NE SW NE section
191. block 3, T T & N O survey.
Hutchinson Leads
In Natural Gasoline
Of the five counties hi the Pan-
handle area, manufacturing natural
- gasoline. Hutchinson county con-
tinues to lead by a wide margin,
r The total production for the area
« was almost 9,000,000 during May, of
£ which Hutchinson county produoed
Í 78 per cent of the total output.
* The following is the list of compan-
? lea and individuals operating in the
"* Panhandle as printed in the Jour-
Br nal.
- Phillips Petroleum Co-,—146,000
.Associated Producers 6,500
CoyleMcGulre 7,000
Dixon Creek 13,000
Cockrell-Kcllroy 1,100
Federal Gasoline Co. 3,200
Mar land 10,000
Baker-Ralph 2,000
Roxana Petroleum 20,000
Seklly Oil Co. 50,000
Cannon Gasoline Co. 1,600
Atlantic Oil 8,000
Empire 2,500
Magnolia 5,500
IWUcox 8,000
A Phelps Oil & Gas 3,300
5* Most of these plants ar close to
Borger where the gasoline produc-
£«'" tion of the Panhandle is centering,
«jf The wells in the vicinity of Bor-
. . ger are decidely lean but are grad-
_a-- ually becoming richer in gasoline
content as they age. The new wells
,£*: on the Cockrell-Mcllroy are consld-
- y erably richer than the older wells
¿¡ around Border.
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¿Texas Third In
Production Table
5*. According to a table in the'Oil and
'Jf Gas Journal, Texas production
loomed third in totals for twelve
¿'.'-months ending in April. Heading
* . the list was California with a pro-
•Eduction of 228,435,324 barrels, Ok-
■ lahoma's total was 206,356,407, and
- Texas clipped a close third with
* '200.97C,703. The production has
f" been holding a rather steady average
*, around 550,621 barrels daily but
" has suffered a decline of 3,345 bar-
1 rels in the last week due to the
J' decline of old wells and curtail-
.rment of the drilling program which
«' -was started several months ago
. with the drop ill the price of oil.
, With about * 1"00 wells shut down
• and oftly a few new locations the
effect will be felt on the total pro-
eduction for some time. Although
;lhe demand for Panhandle crucle Is
^'rising the operators are slow to put
* in new locations or to clean out old
¿-wells for more production. Al-
though the boundaries of the Bor-
' ¿iger field have not yet- been estab-
shed there is little drilling being
"done because the operators main-
tain that it is not so expensive to
* store in the ground as in steel tanks.
¿Borger is still leading the movement
ing shipped from Juné 12th ¡& í9tli
701 tank cars of oil to 438 from
Pampa, 62 from Panhandle and
lrom Amarillo.
TELLS LIONS OF WELL SHOOTING
W. J. Mendenhall, an oil well
shooter, gave an interesting and in-
structive talk to the Lions Club yes-
terday on explosives and their use
in well shooting, explaining why
riitro-glycerine is preferred to gel-
atine. He also demonstrated an
electric bomb with which the shot
in a well is set off. This the first
of a series of talks on the oil fieldB
and oil industries.
Oil Scare Fails to
Pan Out in Abilene
AB1LSNE, Texas—(AP)—Work-
men engaged in excavating for
new building here at 14 feet struck
a calcite formation bearing a dis-
tinct odor of crude oil and at once
a vision of a- forest of. oil derricks
in the center of Abilene. Investi-
gation disclosed, however, that oil
from a nearby filling station had
penetrated .through the soil.
dettfe#Iri«' roar; LÍoñs^eated^eSt
fully about the long tables enjoy-
ing a brief period from busy life,
hurled themselves into the air, some
tumbled backwards in their chairs,
and others rushed and scrambled
ior doorways, and windows.
But is was all a prank, according
to the daddy of explosives who re-
mained motionless in his speaker's
position and laughed mischievous-
ly at the antics of his frightened lis-,
teners. A light charge had been set.
under the speaksr's chair previous
to the gathering and then touched oft
at the "proper" moment.
"I still want to tell you, boys, that
nitro is perfecly harmless in a glass
bottle", the speaker continued, look-
ing about.
But the hall was empty.
Motorcycles are growing in favor
in India.
Lighthouses for airplanes are pro-
posed for the Alps.
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REX
THEATRE
(TODAY)
Hoot Gibson
In His Latest. Whirlwind Western
Comedy
"The Prairie King"
Hotel Men's Club
Meets This Afternoon
A FIG FOR TEXAS
Source of Oil in Hale
County is Puzzling
HALE CENTER, Texas—(AP)'—
Source of the oil in Hale county's
lone oil well has geologists and oil
men guessing. Some of them assert
it might be what is known as a
migratory oil but the belief now
prevails that it might be asphaltic
oil with a small gasoline content.
The well, which is 10 miles west
of here, is making about 20 barrels
at 414 feet. The oil tests 40 gravity
at 80 degrees, corrected to be 88.
MUTCHINSON COUNTY
NEW LOCATIONS
Morrison and Locks No. 1 H. E.
Smith and others, 330 feet south and
east NW Cor. NW of SE NE of Sec.
5, Block Y. Phillips and Heywoods
No. 4 H. E. Smith and others 990
feet north 330 feet east of SW cor.
or the W half SE section 14, Block
Y. Ralph and Bakers No. 1. H. E.
Smith and others 330 south 410 feet
east of NW cor. of the east half of
NW section 10, Block Y. Amarillo
Oil Companies No. 6 Lee Blvens h
1315 feet north and 1335 feet east
of SW cor. of section 90, Block 445,
H & T C survey.
REPORTS FROM HKELLY
Skelly No. 1, block 46, section 82
H. & T- C, survey at Santard, an off-
set to the big Gulf Producer that is
making 200 barrels a day on the
swab, is now drilling in the white
lime at 2963. The first show of oil
was at 2953-2929 feet and is ex-
pected in the pay today.
Armstrong-Byrd on the Freeman-
Brazemore survey west of Stinnett
is waiting for the cement to reset
the 12 1-2 inch casing at 1460 feet
The first cement was* set at the
depth of 1370 feet 1 ut did not hold.
Henry Safer No. 5, Skelly at
Pampa struck the pay at 3,137 feet
to 8,151 feet, which is the total
depth, with a production of 197 bar-
rels 40 per cent gravity oil on the
swab, and is now being put to the
pump. No. 6 on the same lease is
drilling a 10 inch hole in the shale
at 2147 feet, was under reftHlad
crude out of the Panhandle, hav
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas—
Although representing one of t4rf>
youngest industries of Texas, fije
production in this state has already
'•eachod proportions nearly as large
as the industry in California, E. N.
Holmgreen, of the Extension Ser-
vice, A. & M. College, pointed out
in a recent discussion of the grow-
ing and handling for market of figs
produced in this state.
Firemen Tell What to
Do When Blaze Starts
What do yon do -in caBe of fire?
This question asked of firemen al-
most every day of the week has
been answered by Chief Pike and
his men as follows:
Telephone the police station, num-
ber 246, and be sure to give correct
name and address, telling also just
what is on fire.
Learn your street and number,
firemen insl3t, and also learn sur-
rounding landmarks which might be
of assistance in reaching the fire
without delay.
Two fires -vere reported Friday
one a small tent fire at the rear
of the Betty Jane hotel, and another
blaze at the S'nclair hotel on Wea-
therly street, v,bich resulted In
damage of about $500.
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ATTENTION EX-SERVICE
MEN
LAST CALL
All men desiring information on
insurance and -reinstatement of gov-
ernment Jwsurance kindly come to
■the office of the Deep Rock Water
Company, across from Marland ho-
tel at 2 p. m. Sunday afternoon.
This Is the last opportunity for re-
instatement.
E. E. CRUMPLAR
Adjutant Post 412 Hutchinson
Comity American Legion
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IfOSH & COMPANY
boiler and Welding Works
All Work Guaranteed
One-Half Block East of Dixon
Creek Hospital
Day * Night Service Phone 14
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For the purpose of bettering hotel
conditions, hotel men of Borger are
to meet this afternoon at o'clock
at the Plains hotel, according to an
jyfrttoti nceniGHt Jjy jíjiclc í• ■
Thirty-five' hotel and rooming
house proprietors have already sub-
mitted their names as charter mem-
bers of the proposed organization.
All ethers are likewise invited to
attend the meeting and assist in
forming a permanent organization.
Amarillo Fair Will
Be a Beauty Spot
AMARILLO.—The Amarillo Trl-
State Exposition will be a beauty
spot for the annual fair, September
11 to 17 inclusive.
Amarillo representatives of the
Stark Bros. Nurseries in coopera-
tion with the Potter county Com-
missioners court and the Exposi-
tion ofilcials are spending $2,000
for the beautiflcation of the
grounds. Dahlias, shrubs, trees
and evergreens have been planted
about the buildings and a second
small park made just west of the
Agricultural building.
Subscribe for the Borger Herald
RIG THEATRE
COMING
Tuesday, July 5th
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Fable and Topics of the Day!
VAUDEVILLE
Fads and Fancies Musical
Comedy
Here All Week
New Bills Good Specialties]
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Theatre!
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Bebe Daniels
IN
"SEÑORITA"
Clover Comedy, spiced with a dash
of Adventnre, 'Nnruh n ^Spanish
Moon
Patho Comedy
"There Ain't No Santa Claus"
TOMORROW
George O'Brien la
"IS ZAT SO?"
The Indian who traded Long Island, New York,
where now stands the world's greatest city—wnere
a front foot is worth a King's Ransom—Where later
the Gould's—Harrimans and many others—bought
cheap lots and created vast fortunes, and here at
home in our own
PANHANDLE
MILLIONS—have been made in royalties—a
man paid $400 for 8 lots iñ Pampa, was laughed* at
by the ''Wise birds"—sold the same four lots for over
$50,000—Look at Borger, Amarillo—Ask any of the
old citizens—they'll say-^-I could have bought "Main"
street lots a few years ago—for a song—-and today
—sky scrapers costing
MILLIONS
towers above these same lots.
To the Man of Small Means
Mortonville — New oil town — Central Moore
County offers the greatest opportunity.
THINK 0Í IT
*
Located in a finn agricultural county—Undevel-
oped—as to railroads—they are bound to come—
that's what we are after. Investors from other
states are grasping the opportunity to get in on the
ground floor—to own lots so cheap they can afford
to hold them for their own price—and
YOU POSITIVELY
get your pro rata part of all the OIL—GAS and,
other minerals oh the whole townsite-i—On every well
that will ever be drilled
and
a clear warranty deed—to a full sized lot—Think of
it—Your Royalty—Your Deed—all for
$75.00
■And—that at only a small down payment and
the balance to suit your pocket book—How often
have you said, "I could havejbought, I wish I had
bought,. if I had put a hundred in this or that—I
wouldn't have to work day and night to keep my
family—as they are entitled to"—
I want-to build a town—that's why I'm offering
these lots'at this price. That's why I am trying to
get the man of small means interested—because he's
the man, who will pioneer—who will butld—who
makes the wheels ,of Commerce and Industry go-
that's the man I'm getting into
MORTONVILLE
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At first the big fellows follow—
ALREADY—and the town is four days old—
^/e"~w;hothe]future have contracted for TWO
HO TELS—GARAGES and several other sites. A big
power company is planning on a big plant.
We are assured of lights—gas for ail purposes,
fine water, beautiful level grounds, good roads and
all to make a permanent city—Where again Historv
may repeat itself—and men will make
MILLIONS
Get in now—not to-morrow—you may be too
late.
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$10.00 predevelopment will reserve a lot—
Come in—-Our Sales Department will not urge
you to invest. I want to talk té you personally.
J. L. DUNCAN,
President.
Rock Island Townsite Company
r ' ' i t -
,v Temporary Office
Rode
my
5th and Weather
Borger
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MORTONVILLE: * f
Drive Out! Go to Stinnett. Take road to
Durias;, Ask anybody location of Morton
Discóvery Well—Townsite offsets well.
COME TODAY! Salesman on the ground.
See Moore County's New Oil Field-^-the
bright spot in the Panhandle. Get in Now!
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 3, 1927, newspaper, July 3, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth167117/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.