Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1901 Page: 4 of 16
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Destined to Work a Revolution
in Nueces County.
Santa Gertrudes, Dec. 20, '01.
Editor Cai.ler: The artesian
well is destined to work a revolu-
tion in Nueces county, in fact, is
doing so now, slowly though sure-
ly, and ere long will be recognized
as the greatest wealth producer
therein. Only a few years ago the
first well was made and to-day
near 100 wells are gushing forth
streams of pure water supplying
innumerable herds of cattle, and
some twelve or fifteen machines are strongest. In no case has he known
in the field boring as fast as the the first strata to develop a strong
managers know how. The indus- flow. To what extent the subter-
trv so far is confined to the stock- ranean flow extends, or when the
raising districts, and simply be- maximum number of wells the sup-
cause thev, the stock owners, have ply of water is adequate to, will be
the money and more able to risk the reached is mere conjecture, though
venture. I say venture, because | from what he has seen in various
it is a venture as yet, for no well j artesian belts in California and the
man will guarantee a flow. The j immense quantity of water taken
time is approaching when the well j from so small a water shed as com
the maximum number of wells
have been bored, that the subter-
ranean flow is capableof supplying,
the first wells to fail are those up-
on the higher levels of the artesian
belt, leaving the flow of the wells
upon the lower level unimpaired.
In fact, the possession of land at
the lowest point in an artesian belt
practically controls the entire sub-
terranean flow, and so it is here;
wells near the coast are deeper and
the flow much stronger than those
back nearer the western border of
the county. The water shed seems
to be from the northwest to south-
east and everywhere that the writer
has helped to make a well there
were two and three distinct stratas
of water bearing sand encountered
and the deeper ones were the
SI
rmillll!
There is no use kicking about
the weather. If you are blue and
, . j .need a tonic for your spirits, read
man will be recognized as a bene-1 pared with this, places the danger ; {he speciai edition of The Caller.
j If that don't cheer you up any,
¡ why, go on up north, to Missouri,
J Illinois and the other frozen re-
I gions and freeze to death where the
j thermometer has been from ten to
I twenty degrees below zero all this
I week, freezing the horns off of a
j billy goat, or may be, as the S. A.
j Express expresses it, it is freezing
, the smoke stacks off the locomo-
tives.
MAIN HEADQUARTERS; SANTA GERTRUDES RANCH.
STATEMENT OF Bl'SISESS
Three admirers of a good Gusher 011 the Santa Gertrudes; 37 gushers on the
ranch and the cry is, "Still They Come!"
factor. Modes and means, ma- signal several paces down the line
chines and appliances are chang- from the present generation,
ing, and within a short while no i Nature is lavish in her gifts and
contracts will be made other than ; she helps those who help them-
for flowing wells. Like all indus- selves. Corpus Christi merchants
tries, its growth is slow and men • could well afford to help, to the
with means and brains are slow to extent of one-half the expense of
take hold of it and one has only ¡ making a half dozen good flowing
to take the history of this county '■ Wtlls in their vicinity annually,
for thf past five j ears to demon- They would beat steam boats as an
strate this. Dnring these years investment. It is often said that
not a half dozen men in the county Providence favored the King, Ken-
can be pointed out as well men, 1 edv, Prised! a..d Ted combina-
ba . ; -g Itemed the business j tions, by putting artesian water
through experience with any ma- j under them, and so she did, and
chine, working from the ground up ! she also favored them by endow-
to t n? oositinn n pvnprt ' ing them with the faculty of going
Transacted in the Customs District of
Corpus Christi for the Fiscal
Year Ending June 30, 1901.
Total value of imports $4,661,2S1
Total value of exports 6,490,708
to the position of expert.
Artesian wells for irrigating pur-
poses w ill be more numerous in the
next decade than they are to-day
for stock purposes, and Nueces
county will find itself a labyrinth
of pretty happy homes, prosper-
ous communities and thriving
after it, and that is why they got it.
I venture the assertion that any
A KENEDY GUSHER.
Reduced Rates for the Holidays.
The S. A. and A. P. railroad company
authorizes The Caller to say that it
80 acres of land in Nueces county | will have reduced rates 011 for the holi-
has flowing water under it, and ¡ ^a-s to P°'"ts outside of the state; tick
c -ii 1 ets on sale Dec. 21, 22 and 2-5, eood for
that five more years will prove the return within thirty days frJ0'ulgflate Gf
assertion correct, and further, that ¡ sale. Tickets to almost every point in
many trrcts of land now valued j the south. For rates apply to agent. The
at from five to ten dollars an acre, j rates will be very low.
with flowing water could not be
bought for $100 per acre. Vision-
Death ot Mrs. W. A. Ford.
Mrs. W. A. Ford, who came to Corpus
ary? May be so, but when the ¡Christi from Elk City, O. T., several
reader sees what I
have seen, j weeks ago for the benefit of her health,
died at the home of Dr. W. E. Carruth
o'clock. Mrs.
knows what I know, and goes up :"-i"" "*■
°(io ^ , last Sunday evening at
! Ford was a sufferer from tubercolosis,
A KING GUSHER.
towns, with water ways, canals and
irrigating ditches ' everywhere.
The writer of this has helped to
make five strong flowing wells dur-
ing the past few months, either of
which would irrigate from one to
two hundred acres of cabbage, on-
ions, alfalfa, beans, cane, toma-
toes, etc., and he confidently ex-
pects to live to see the water there-
from so used.
Were it possible to flow the five
wells mentioned above in the Riv-
erside, California district, they
would be worth $50,000 cash. The
valuation there for artesian water
developed, is $1000 per inch—min-
ers' inch—that is the water that
will flow through a one inch square
hole with a four inch head pres-
sure, and the aggregate of these
five wells is more than fifty inches,
and for irrigating purposes would
be worth just as much here with
the water as judiciously handled as
there.
Experience has shown that when
against it as hard as I have he will
come to the same conclusion, and ! and since her arrival here "had "been mi-
if he wants water will go after it. | proving in health rapidly, until about a
Wishing The Caller and ¡ts , week or so before her death, when she
, fell a victim to the "grip," which, compli-
; cated with her other tnaladv, caused her
; demise. She leaves a husband at Elk
City, O. T., to which place her remains
I were shipped 011 Tuesday morning.
Total of exports and imports..$n,151,989
Aggregate receipts $83,255.55
Total number of impost entries, 1420.
Comparative figures for years ending:
June 30, 1900 June 30, 1901 luc
Value of imports . S3,666,9i 6 $4,661,281 $994,365
Value of exports . 6,205.430 6,4 90,208 285,278
Total $9,872,346 $11,151,9S9 $1,279.643
Agggreate receipts . $81,971.55 $83,255.55 $l,284.0i
No. Impost Entries.. 1,362 1,420 58
Port and Sub-Ports of the District, With
Officers at Each.
Corpus Christi, Texas: James J.
Haynes, collector for the district; B. L.
Crouch, special deputy collector for the
district; E. E. Furman, statistician; Max
J. Luther, inspector and boatman; Elzy
B. Mayes, janitor.
Sub-Port of. Laredo, Texas: E.
Denike, deputy collector; W. H. Mowry,
cashier; J. J. Murphy, assayer; Kuuo H.
Merrem, mounted inspector; J. R Bar-
nard, mounted inspector; W. H. Gilmore,
mounted inspector; S. V. Edwards,
mounted inspector, T. R. Worsham, in-
spector; A. P. Johnson, inspector; José
Benavides, inspector; F. H. Earnest, in-
spector; P. J Hickey, night inspector;
Wm. Simpson, night inspector; Jas. Mc-
Gloin, inspector at Alice, Texas; Mrs. M.
E. Burbank, inspectress; J. J. Ketchum,
janitor.
Sub-Port of Carrizo: M. Feuille,
deputy c.Hector; J. B. Thatcher, mount-
ed inspector; Z. Domínguez, mounted in-
pector.
A matter of significant importance to
farmers during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1901, there was imported through the
port of Laredo, Texas, dried red pepper,
commonly known among the Mexicans
as "chili," 645,409 pounds, of the value
of 849,896, which paid to the government
a duty of #16,135.23.
The import value of that pepper being
96, to which we add the duty paid, or
£'6,135-23, and we have a total value of
$66,031,23, as the value of red pepper con-
sumed duriug the fiscal year ending June
30, 1901. in the territory tributary to La-
redo and Corpus Christi.
This p ant can be grown here as well as
in Mexico. The consumption during the
time mentioned as shown by the custom
house records is not abnormal.
Query: "Would it not be worth while
for our local farmers to supply the de-
mand? Bear in mind that against the
cheap labor of Mexico there is a duty of
2 yz cents per pound on red pepper, be-
sides the long railroad haul.''
Fancy boxes in all styles and prices
filled with the choicest candies at Mc-
Coy's.
The Intercoast Canal.
At a meeting of citizens and others
Wednesday afternoon at the office of E.
H. Caldwell a very important matter re-
ceived attention, viz—the proposed inter-
coast canal, the meeting being addressed
by Mr. I. P. Kibbe and others. At this
meeting, we learn that an executive com-
mittee was appointed with Mr. Tno. G.
Kenedy as chairman, to present the mat-
ter in a proper form to congress and ask
for an appropriation to begin the work.
This committee expect to interest other
sections in the enterprise, which is a
most important one to this state, highly
essential to the safety of vessels plying
along this coast, which at present are
exposed to the storms of the gulf and
often wrecked on the gulf beach.
.
Fire Department Officers Elected.
At the meeting of the C. C. Fire
Department last Saturday night the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: R. Givens, president;
John Amodio, vice president; Ed.
Shoemaker, chief; H. D. C. Gussett,
assistant chief; James Hickey, secre-
tary; B. R. Savage, treasurer;
George Stephenson, janitor; George
Davis, steward.
LEARY & GANO,
i Up-to-date Artesian Well neB
Dealers In Well riachiner^
! Messrs Leary & Gano, agents
I city for Dampster hydraulic W !
j cable drilling well machinery, are !
a splendid business in this sectil *
¡ing well machines, mounted
¡engines, steam pumps, how6T"®e
¡blocks, manila and steel cabl' ^
tools, machine and cylinder oils ¿ p,pt
addition to carrying a yonH ,11
everything in their line, they havi 0|
boring outfit at work in the back^ 3 ^
•-bringing in'' a flowing well occasLS
Messrs Leary & Gano are hostil
practical men. Mr. Leary whoM
a lively move on himself from thf 1
day he arrived here from Nebraska ,?
¡ tie over two years ago, has secured ,!
of the flowing wells in the back ?
and the end is not yet. His
Ray Leary, who is in charge of tW,
house here, is chuck full of busing 1°"
always ready to talk to customer !
give them valuable pointers which '
certainly can do.
SOME BROADWAY RESIDENCES.
SERVICES.
There will be a midnight service in the
Episcopal chu: ch,Christmas Eve, at 11:3o,
also divine service Christmas morning at
10:30. Special music by the choir, which
is expected to be very fine. A celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion at both ser-
vices.
There will be mass in C minor in the
Roman Catholic church Christmas morn-
ing at 9:30, where there will also be good
music.
No matter what kind of property
or investment you want, write to
E B. Cole, state plainly what vou
want, how much you wish to invest
and terms desired. He will most
likely have what you want (if pos-
sible to be had) and will give you
Methodist Christmas Tree.
We expect to have our Christmas tree
next Tuesday evening, the exercises be-
gining at 7:30.
The enteitainnient will be free and
everyone is invited to be present, but a
collection will be taken for the support
of our orphanage at Waco, where we
have one hundred and six little boys and
girls. John M. Linn, Pastor.
Card of Thanks.
On behalf of Mrs. Parker I desire to
return most greatful thanks to those who
so kindly assisted in raising means 10 re-
pair her residence on the bluff, recently
damaged by wind.
O. C. LovENSKiotD.
M. T. Gaffney
Is a dealer in Groceries, Lumber, Shin-
gles, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Builders'Hard-
ware, Bulk Garden Seeds, Paints, Oil
Turpentine, Varnish, and Painters' Su¡¿
plies generally.
His store and lumber yard are between
Tancahua and Artesian streets on the
bluff part of Corpus Christi, and have a
frontage of 350 feet along the south side
of Leopard—the main street leading into
the country.
Mr. Gaffney has been in business here
since 1S74, and for himself since 1885. He
was born and raised in this part of Texas,
and is as large proportionately among
men, as his native state is among her sis-
ter states.
Mr. Gaffney don't lose any sleep in a
niad rush after business, and wealth, bit
is content with a reasonable share of each.
See Dun and Bradstreet for his standing
in the commercial world.
FOR SALE.
Second-ha.id b.ick at .¿5.per thouspai-,
also a lot of broken brick and mortar well
suited for building a breakwater. Also
kindling by the cartload for sale cheap
Apply to John McClane.
A KENEDY GUSHER,
readers a merry Christmas, and
Messrs. Kleberg, Kenedy, Tod,
Driscoll and other artesian well
manufacturers a long and prosper-
ous life, I am, etc., yours,
Thos. Fowi er.
Tired of waiting on our friends,
Messrs Rider and others "to bring
in" a few oil gushers in this section
of the state, we present some gush-
ers ourselves. See some on another
page. The fish and oyster gusher
we have located in the bay, off the
Óivens Packing Co.'s plant. My!
but the oysters are fine this kind of
weather. Yum! Yum!!
LOOKING NORTH, UP MESOUITE STREET.
To the Public.
The report that I liad expected to give
up the hotel business in this city, I desire
to say, is incorrect. I entertained no such
idea, on the contrary, I wish to announce
that I will continue the hotel business at
the old stand as heretofore, conducting
i it the saine as heretofore as it is possible
to do so. I like Corpus Christi and have
many warm friends here. With thanks for
kindness shown, I remain as ever, yours,
H. S. Alexander.
For Sale.
1.000 to lo.oooacres of fine prairie lands
adjoining railroad m this county. Spleu-
j did soil farming, gardening and grass
! land. Well watered, fenced and other
miproveuients-B a r g a i n-Investigate'
p i per acre- E- • C01.E.
£1.50 per acre ' adjoining cou"ty
Christmas presents, suitable for every-
body- old or young, men or women, boys
drug store. 3t D^e & BingU^
C C" NATIONAL BANK, J. W. WARD (Stationer) and Others.
JAS. CU. GUARD,
'Phone No. 2. -:- P. O. Box 225.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
This Season's Variety of
TOYS AND GAMES
is Now Ready for Selection.
Tuck's Artistic Booklets, Christmas Cards
and CALENDARS
Are Decidedly Prettier than Ever.
Henkle's Manicure and Work Sets,
Are the usual Superior Metal and Finish, and the
Prices are No Higher.
?Gift Books Included
" •>
Standard Novels, Poems and Juveniles.
THE PARKER "LUCKY CURVE" FOUNTAIN PEN
m Is a valuable addition to my List of Useful Gifts.
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Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1901, newspaper, December 20, 1901; Corpus Christi, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177650/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.