The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1921 Page: 2 of 6
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ORIENT RAILROAD
WORK SOON
FORT STOCKTON
PROMINENT FINANCIERS GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT TO
HOPES OF COMPLETION OF. GREAT HIGHWAY.
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Interest in the Orient railroad
has revived and a feeling of op-
timism prevails. It is now al-
most a certainiy that this year
will witness active construction
work looking toward completing
this great national highway. Es-
timates made recently place the
amount required to complete the
road, and put the necessary roll-
ing stock thereon, at $35,000,000.
Vice President and General
Manager of the road on his re-
cent return from a trip through
Chihuahua and Sinoloa, Mexico,
together with several London
capitalists and New York offi-
cials of the Orient, gave out an
interview in El Paso and from
that .interview the following ex-
cerpt is taken:
“Whether or not the plan of the
Orient road to form the con-
necting link between the west
coast of Mexico and the eastern
United States will materialize
depends on the refinancing of the
company and on a continuation of
the stable condition in Mexico.
“At present, the Orient has
in Mexico several hundred miles
of road in good condition, 400
freight cars and twelve locomo-
tives were sent there recently
from the United States. Present
total value of the company’s
property is in the neighborhood
of $35,000,000.
“There are four gaps in the
proposed linking of Kansas City
and Mexico’s west coast. The
first is between Kansas City and
Wichita, a distance of about 200
miles. Some work has been done
on this gap, one-third of it hav-
ing been graded.
“From Wichita to Alpine, Tex-
as, the road has been completed
and is in operation.
“The second gap is between
Alpine, seventy miles east of the
Rio Grande to a point seventy
miles west of the river. From
this latter point the road con-
nects with Chihuahua. This sec-
tion is operated irregularly.
“From Chihuahua, including a
joint track, the Orient road ex-
tends westward 200 miles. There
follows a gap of 190 miles, 75
miles, of which has been graded.
An Orient line connects up El
Fuerte, in the state of Sinaloa, to
Topolabampo, a distance of 65
miles, on the Gulf of Califonia.
Another Orient project con-
templates connection at Del Rio
with the National Railways of
Mexico. From San Angelo, Tex-
as, to Del Rio the distance is 165
miles, 100 miles of which has al-
ready been graded. This would
afford a direct line from Kansas
City to Mexico City, by trans-
ferring to the Mexican Central
lines at Del Rio.
“All members of the party
were wonderfully impressed with
the prospects for Mexico and the
need of a connecting link between
the west coast and the interior
and to the United States. At
present, the west coast of Mex-
ico, which is a wonderful country
and can produce anything that
California can, in addition to it’s
mineral resources, has no out-
let to the eastern United States,
and the raising of crops and lum-
ber and the working of it’s mines
on a large scale is therefore
handicapped. Connecting up that
country with the east will mean
geat things.
“I found crops good in Sinaloa
and Chihuahua. Many expatri-
ates are returning, but it sees
that most of them are finding
work. Breaking up of the large
haciendas, as proposed by Pres-
ident Obregon, will stimulate de-
velopment of the country.
“Americans are flocking to
Mexico already, believing that
Obregon has the situation well in
hand there—-and I am firm in the
belief that a period of tranquili-
ty and good, honest work and de-
velopment of the country’s re-
sources is in store for Mexico.
“On every hand we saw Amer-
icans practically all of them in-
vestors. Some were miners
down there to re-open and re-
habilitate mines that have been
unworked for years. I noticed a
number of new mines in opera-
tion. Other Americans are buy-
ing land and opening up large
tracts for settlement.”
Mr. De Bernardi said that on
previous visits to Mexico within
recent months he has conferred
with President Obregon, being-
assured by that official on each
occasion that the government re-
alizes the great need for the com-
pletion of the Orient road and
that every assistance possible
will be lent the company in fur-
thering it’s plans,
John Young
Bower, Hale & Flamb are now
down 975 feet in their well on
section 24, block 26, University
land east of Fort Stockton.
There is a report that two
more wells be started on the
Sherbino lanch shortly by Cali-
fornia people.
The well on section 592, G. C.
& S. F. Railway, survey, is again
drilling, having cased off the
water.
The Pinal Dome well on the
| Burleson survey section 208, is
now down 1606 feet in conglom-
erate.
The Polk Prospecting company
has their well down 860 feet on
section 18, block 140.
The Atchison Oil company
nine miles south of Fort Stock-
ton in block 131, is down several
hundred feet, and will install a
heavier machine.
The Texas Top company drill-
ing on the White-Baker ranch,
section 11, block Z. T. C. rail-
way survey, is drilling in hard
lime at 2,510 feet. The oil show-
ing has not increased.
The Home Drilling company
has made a location on section 30,
block 140.
At the present time nine wells
in the Fort Stockton field are in
operation. The deep tests are
having the usual troubles ’ of
water, casing trouble and dis-
tance from field supplies.
Charlie Burling of the S. P.
depot, lost his fine milk cow Tues-
day. The animal was poisoned.
"WATCHMAN, WHAT OF”—TODAY?
• The years that are behind you, like the blossoms
of a faded summer, are dead and gone. The years
yet to come are full of nothing but uncertainty. You
and I may never look over the golden slope of tomor-
row’s) sunrise. Even tonight’s stars may come out to
find that we have journeyed into the shadows of that
mystical woodland from which no traveler has ever,
returned.
Only to-day is ours; today with it’s opportunities
to gladden or sadden hearts, to sow flowers that will
sweeten the pathway of others or sting and wound
them as they pass along.
“What are you going to do about it?” This is the
question that comes face to face with every person
who gives the matter a moment’s thought. Will you
smile as you meet friends and neighbors upon the
street and offer them an encouraging word and a
hearty handshake, or will you grunt and frown and
withhold that kindness and love, which today may
be as dew and sunshine to a struggling plant but to-
morrow may be of no use?
All around you are dutie s to perform, things for the
hands to do. Just over the way an old man, sick and
lonely waits for the eventide. The companion of his
better years has “crossed the bar,” his children are
scattered far and wide. Maybe he wants a cup of
water, al bright face to look into with his fading eyes,
a voice to cheer him on as with slow, unsteady step
he wanders down the sunset slope. Go see him now;
do not put it off. Tomorrow—oh, remember that to-
morrow may never come for one or the other of you.
Today is ours to do the work that needs to be
done. If we neglect to cheer and bless, to encourage
and help those who walk our way through the pres-
ent hours, in a little while we may come to a fork in
the road—to a parting of the way—and be separated
forever.
Get out of the damp and and boggy bottom, where
the foul air of indifference threatens to poison your
life, quit scrambling through the thorny briars of
grouch. Stand up now-today—on the heaven-
kissed hilltops, in the fragrant breezes of earth’s
common kinship, under the bending blue of human
Brotherhood.
John D. Young
ohn Young Land Co.
Established 1895
Wholesale and Retail dealers in Land, Live
Stock, and Ranches, City Property, Oil Lands
and Leases.
Some Special Bargains in Hovey District
We control 25000 acres around Bone
Springs where we can sell you leases or lands
i n fe e, WATC H BONE SPRINGS
John Young Land Co.
Derricks and Drillers
Field Notes From Brewster County And Other Sections—Activities
in Mountain And Valley.
What is the chance for oil on
your lease or land in Brewster
county, Texas?_Is it in a moun-
tainous section or valley?- Send
$1.00 and I will send you geo-
logical report and map of the
county.
Address “Geologist”
Box 293, Alpine, Texas, 21-2€
BREWSTER COUNTY
The Twin City Oil company,
which has been drilling in a very
hard anhydrite rock with much
pyrites, is now some over 2000
feet in their well near Hovey, and
the formation is somewhat softer,
probably nearing a change, which
may be a sand. They are still in
the Permian formation. As there
is no deep well in that section, it
is difficult to estimate thickness
of formation, but it is probable
they thin out greatly toward the
Davis mountains from the great-
est depth of the Permian stratas
in the Glass mountains.
The Marathon Oil company
is steadily drilling in the Gage
No. 2, southwest of Marathon,
and some excellent indications
have been encountered. The
company officials appear greatly
encouraged of late.
It is rumored that a California
company has decided to enter the
G4 territory in the southwest
part of the county and has made
a location for a deep well. While
a large amount of lands and leas-
es have been sold in that large
block, yet no well has been com-
menced. There are a number of
oil seepages in that block, and
some oil men look on it with
favor. That block also has the
largest quicksilver deposit in
the state, and is second in produc -
tion of that metal to California.
That block and parts of G5 and
perhaps portions of adjoining
blocks will some day be among
the richest sections of great
Brewster county in the way of
mineral production,
Inquiries about the prospective
oil production continues to flow
in to the Avalanche from every
state in the Union, showing a
very wide interest among people
outside the state. The Chamber
of Commerce is also flooded with
inquiries, and the “Booster,” the
financial and commercial review
of that organization, receives
daily inquiries about the oil pros-
pects. and has to devote a large
amount of it’s space to oil re-
views. The Avalanche has been
carrying more live oil advertising
than any other paper in the
Trans-Pecos field. The oil men
of Brewster county are certainly
a live bunch, and are doing a
great work putting Brewster
county on the oil map, for, while
others are standing around tell-
ing cronies—“I don’t believe
there is any oil here,” these men
are pouring their money into the
county in their efforts to secure
production. Their efforts ought
to be appreciated even more than
they are. We must not lose
sight of the fact that if it had not
been for the oil men it would
now be mighty quiet times
around Brewster county.
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY TO OUR FALLEN COMRADES
MORAL LESSON TAUGHT BY MEMORIAL DAY AND NA-
TION’S NEW IDEAL OF PATRIOTISM.
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We are reliably informed that
a group of California capitalists,
mostly residents of Riverside,
California, are much interested
in Brewster county, and that
preparations are now being made
by an association or syndicate of
Riverside men to start drilling
for oil, in south Brewster county
at an early date.
This company, or association,
of which J. W. Barbee of River-
side, California, is president or
head, will probably spud in a well
in Section 196, Block G-4 in the
near future. This section is
owned by Mr. Barbee, who is an
experienced oil man of California,
as well as a lawyer. He is head
of the International Petroleum
Company of California, now in
the producing class in the Cali-
fornia oil fields. International
Petroleum Company will also
very likely soon start a drilling
campaign somewhere in Brewster
It is a great thing to have
such a demonstration as was
given during the wars of the
United States, of the capacity of
men for sacrifice, for it makes us
think better of our brothers.
Drawn from the great masses of
our people, they were represen-
tatives of us. But more broadly
than that—they were represen-
tatives of humanity. America is
the one country above'all others
where there is no place for doubt-
ers and whiners. There is no
task beyond the powers of Amer-
icans, nor any sacrifice they will
not make at the call of duty.
The heroic strain in the blood has
not died out. We learned this
during the years of war. The
problem is one of making ef-
fective the great qualities and
applying them to life, and this
problem is by no means an easy
one. The proper observance of .
Memoral day will help in the so-
lution. Gratitude there must al-
ways be to the men who saved
the Union. Though our grati-
tude can never bring back to us
our hero dead, grateful" hearts
have a beneficial effect on those
who have them. On the other
hand, ingratitude is the basest of
crimes.
These same graves will bi
flower-@trewn by loving hands
this year, and wet again with the
tears of those who knew and
loved our boys. But Americans
whose boys sleep .“over there,”
will not spend the day' in idle
tears. The ideals for which they
went into the World War, and
with which we saw it through,
have become a new ideal of na-
tional life, of which we should be
never so conscious as on Mem-
orial Day.
county.
\
So, you see, that even Califor-
nians know a "good thing” when
they see it.
We are informed
Barbee lived
county as a
over
that Mr.
in Crocket
boy, and herded
sheep and “punched cows” over
Crockett, Brewster, Pecos and
Presidio, and even other counties
in this section of Texas, many
years ago.
John Young, trustee for the
Bone Springs Oil & Gas Syndi-
cate, returned last night from
Bone Springs where he made
final location for the company’s
well on survey 18, Block 234.
He also reports the Portland Oil
Syndicate rig up survey 2, Block
234 and Manager Doddridge
happy on the way.
The Brewster Oil company’s
No. 1 W. H. Kokenot, is drilling
in a hard grey limestone that is
“something fierce,” so hard that
the drill was able to make but
sixteen feet in seventy-two
hours. Last Saturday a larger
bit was put to work and soon the
formation began to soften and
today the drill is going down as
rapidly as power can send it.
Much is expected from this com-
pany’s persistant and intelligent
operations.
The extra casing for Wilson
No. 2 of the Western Petroleum
Corporation has arrived and a re-
port from there today is to the
effect that drilling has been re-
sumed. Superintendent Stamps
says he is expecting "something
to happen any day now.
Terrell county is to have an-
other oil well, Abner Davis, the
noted Burkburnett promoter, and
Dr. Fredrick Cook have arrived
in that county and are arranging
to begin drilling soon. The well
is located north of Dryden, on
the Y ranch.
The Portland Oil Syndicate, -
under the management of Mr, J.
E. Doddridge, is busy getting
ready to drill on Section 2, in
block 234. where the rig is now
being erected. Tents had to be
put up, a supply of water had to
be secured, boiler connections
made and a supply of fuel pro-
vided. As the country is covered
with sotol, the fuel problem
amounts only to cutting the
plants and hauling to the boiler.
It makes one of the finest fuels
to be had, creating an intense
heat, and it’s lasting qualities are
almost equal to coal. Here is a
fuel nature has provided for the
desert country that is only re-
cently been recognized.
—BONE SPRINGS looks like the
next great surprise in oil. Oil
found at 300 feet in old water
well. Drill rig now going up. A
few 40 acre tracts 88 leases to
sell cheap before wells start.
The Big Bend Syndicate, Alpine,
Texas. 21-1t
The Cast Of Characters For Mis-
tress Mary’s Garden.
Mistress Mary—Helen Baines.
Butterflies—Grace Newell, An-
nie Kate Sandifer.
Roses—Janie Bless, Nell El-
lington, Jessie Peters, Emily
Livingston, Anna D. Phelps, Al-
ma Teske.
Sweet Peas—Elizabeth Hoard,
Elizabeth Baines, Katherine
Slight, Dorothy Ellington, Eula
Brown, Bonnie Sandifer, Mary
Jane Netterville, Ruth Penrod.
Singing Birds,Vocal Duet-
Miss J. Lee Hill, Miss Marie Rol-
lins.
Miss Ivy—Miss J. Lee Hill.
Husha-by Lady—Miss Minerva
Jones.
Frogs—Anja Wilson, John
Kokernot, William Asbell, Wil-
liam Lee, Bird Babcock, Benson
Cook.
Prince—Alfred Neil Brown,
“MISTRESS MARY’S GAR-
DEN.”
The Sul Ross Normal Train-
ing School children most cordi-
ally invite their parents and the .
citizens of Alpine to "Mistress
Mary’s Garden” which they will
present at the College Auditori-
um, Wednesday evening, June 1,
eight o’clock. i At this time Miss
McGrath will sketch briefly "The
Functions of the Normal Train-
ing School.” Pres. Marquis will
talk on Sul Ross Normal College -
and West-Texas. The Sul Ross
Trio, consisting of Miss A. F.
Boyle, Mrs. Winifred Kennedy •
Mrs. B. J. Dantzler, and Mr. Leo
Murry will render several in in-
strumental selections. Admis-
sion free.
"Read The Avalanche and
Watch Alpine Grow.”
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
San
90-4400
Hats off to the Gloom Buster, who
puts the Kibosh on the Crepe Hanger.
He radiates Cheer like a Warm Cat
dispenses Purrs and laughs at Wor-
ries that cause the Average Man’s hair
to Curl. The Gloom Buster has a Good
Word for Everybody and Everybody
has a Good Word for Him, What’s
More!
The Liberal Adviser is dispensing
Free Advice from his Windy Cave of
Wisdom and Experience but it falls on
Deaf Ears, for Advice is quoted at
.00% These Days, with No Takeys. He
tells the Farmers how to Farm, the
Banker how to Bank and the Editor
how to Edit, hence these few Protest*
Ing Lines.
THE TAMPICO FIELD
May Not Have Anything on
Brewster County
When it Comes to Oil.
Shallow Oil is the poor man’s chance to get in
the Oil Game. The risks are less, and the chances
are better.
We believe we have found just what we are
hunting for—a place where the geological conditions
were right, and here we cast anchor. An old water
well was abandoned on account of oil flowing in.
A company found this out and will drill beside it in
60 days they say, and The Portland Oil Syndicate
moved their drill rig into the same field last week
and will begin actual operations in a few days.
We have some acreage in 5 acre tracts to sell while they last at a low price un-
til the well starts. This tract adjoins the company’s land on which they will drill, also
close to the other location. We also have some 5 year commercial leases that are
near these wells—all in the Great Bone Springs district—selling in 10 acre tracts and up
that we will make a very low price on for the next 10 days.
Remember, the drills will be pounding away toward possible gusher production
and then you will be begging us to get in. Why not get in now, before we raise the
price? 1 Here is a ehance to win.
Some eminent geologists believe there is a Tampico oil field possible here. Do
you want to take the best chance to get into the oil game? If so, join us NOW for we
believe we have the making of a great shallow field. Write or wire us.
THE BIG BEND SYNDICATE
ALPINE, TEXAS
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Koonce, A. S. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1921, newspaper, May 26, 1921; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1708527/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.