The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 30, 1887 Page: 3 of 4
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DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION,
WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS
MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT,
KIDNEY TROUBLES,
NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM.
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ble Medicines,
combined skill-
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mailed, together
with a act of hand-
acme cards by new
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on receipt of toe.
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Drug and Chemical Company,
BAlsTIJ
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DRS. FEILD & WILSON,
PHYSICIANS AND SUR6E0NS.
Office—Feild building. No. 314
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No.
Street. jCall* left at Cate City
Store.
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Tclcphone connections
M.
Main
Drug.-
F. 0. MARSHALL, m.
DENISON, TEXAS,
Has Permanently Located Of*
floe In Euper Building.
Office flour* :—j to $ p. m.
Residence:—Corner Armstrong A venae and Tex-
as Street. Office and 11 evidence with Telephone
A. HASSINGER, M. D.,
j | Make* a Specialty of
DISEASE OF THE EYE.
Offccc »jb Main street, up stairs and at the Star
Dm* Store.
W. M. NAGLE,
Physician and Sukoeon>
Office over T. I.iehrccht** Drug Store.
OFFICE HOURS:—it to i and j to J p. m.
DKNISOM, TEXAS.
Telephone Communication.
DR. A. B. GARDNER,
Mo. 3*5 Main Street, - DENISON, TEXAS.
Special Attention Given to Disease* ot Women.
DR. D. A. COOK,
Physician and Sukoeon>
Office at Guiteau A Waldron'* Drug Store,
DENISON, TEXAS.
Telephone Communication.
DR- I. R. FI
H Et
RKBIUIMT
DENTIST,
DENISON, TEXAS-
Office Hour* 8 to it
a. m. and i to 5 p. m.
Office on Main St.,
nearly opposite the
Colonnade Motel.
i»R. JAMES RHEA,
UEHIDKNT DKNTIHT,
ESTABLISHED IN 1*7*.
DENISON. - TEXAS.
Office Room, No. 2, Weil Entrance
Muller Block.
Teach extracted without pain by the nac of Laugh-
ing Gaa.
Oflce Hour*—7 to 11 a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m.
IDECKER & HARRIS^
ATTOBNEYH AT LAW,
No. jo6 Main Street,
DENISON, : : : : : TEXAS.
Prompt, Efficient A Thorough Action.
—
DAYII) M. RIIEA,
ATTORN -LA.'W,
Office Coffin's Insurance Building,
Rooms 4 and 5,
DENISON, - - • TEXAS.
I. ftg. kTANDIFKK. * A. G. MOSKLIlY.
Standifer & Moselky,
ATTORN E YS - AT - LAW.
Hast Stairway, Muller Block,
PgMIEOM. .... TEXAS
S. A. GILBERT. S. H. RUSSELL.
GILBERT & RUSSELL,
attorneyb at i^v w
DENISON, - - TEXAS.
Will practice in tne District and Inferior Courts
of Grayson and surrounding Counties, and in the
Irnrvme and Federal Courts of the State.
•^Office Nagle Building, second door, front.
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n iLUHlD IVCR Y
SUNDAY MORNING
MURRAY’S STEAlfpaiNTING HOUSE.
M. F. DEARING, Manager.
AH UTERE8TIHG LETTER.
The Goal Oil and Gaa Well« of Penn-
ayirania—What they Have Accom-
plished-Interesting Facta and Figures
—Hints that Denison Might Profit By.
P. O. Box
^ FEARS & McLAGAN,
ATTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Office in the Haven Building,
DENISON. : : : : : TEXAS.
A. B. PERSON,
attohney at law
Office over the City Bank,
OENISON. - - - TEXAS.
1)7O. I1AUSE,
ATTORNEY at law.
West Stairway, Muller Block,
DENISON. : : TEXAS.
H. TONE,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Only Reliable
ABSTRACT OF DENISON PROPERTY
Office in Muller Block.
t>F.NISON, - - - TEXAS.
MUNSON cfc BliO,
KmI IiUU sod AbtiTMi of TIUm.
iTotatry ^PvLlDlle.
Farm and Fnm Land a Specialty.
Office No. 100, I.ehreoVt building. Corner
Main Street and Houston Ave,
DENISON,
TEXAS.
JAKE LOUDON
CQX'/KAC/'Oh' Jt BUILDER.
Shop on Woodard Street and Rusk Ave.
-JOB.-.WORK-
NEATLY AND QUICKLY DONE.
Door and Window Screens a Speoaltj.
WILLIAM WALTZ,
Contractor nntl Huilder,
IN WOOD, STONE AND BRICK.
Katun*tea Fumishod on Application.
|j Shop on Woodard street. Between ^u»Ua and
Houston Avenues.
DENISON, TEXAS.
AUGUST U1ILIG,
Manufacturer ol
FINE BOOTS AND SHOES.
Shop on Auxtin Avenue,
DENISON. - - TEXAS.
Real Entile, Insomec and Broker's Offiff of
Coffin & Zintghaff,
Votary Publio £ G«al Coartyaaow*
No. siS Main Street, up Stairs,
DENISON. - - - TEXAS.
Stephen French,
-INSURANCE. :• AGENT-
OFKICE 114 MAIN STREET,
DENISON, : C TEXAS.
~~e. W7HOTCHKISS,
House and Sign Fainter,
Kaltoalklxf, Piper Haaglxg and Glaring.
BURNET AVENUE. DENISON. TEXAS.
Delmonico Rkstuarant.
■Wm. CLARK. Prop r.
DkKISON. TlXIS.
Table supplied with the best ot everything
in the market.
CHARGES REASONABLE.
JOSEPH SCHOTT,
ARCHITECT and SUPERINTENDENT
OF BUILDINGS.
Office with A. R. COLLINS,
£To. 13J7 3h-£etin. Street.
DENISON. ..... TEXAS.
Plans, Specifications and Estimate* made with
osd.
C barges reasonable. Correspondence solicited.
Washington, Pa. Jan. 22, ’87.
Dear Murray:
It seems but yesterday that the
cotton stalks were cut out ot the way
to lay the foundations of a home.
That house, incorporated into St.
Xavier Academy, yet standing, was
my first stroke for Denison. Stand-
ing in that cotton field, hatchet in
hand, the utterance of a passer-by is
yet heard; “This place has been in
cotton, and will be again before the
year is out.” Did my heart sink?
No, I had too much faith. Four-
teen years have elapsed, during
which one of the most remarkable
cities of the country has been built
on that spot. It has been a joy to
watch its growth, to know its histo-
ry, the struggle of its people, their
efforts towards privileges, increased
wealth, importance and population,
is pleasure indeed. And if no other
reward than the mere assurance ot
success as a city is guaranteed for
all these years of watching and
worrying, that alone is sufficient.
Turning away now from the new
city, which has arisen so marvelous-
ly, I am sitting in the old home,
Dear Murray, among the toot hills
of the Alleghany mountains, enjoy-
ing oldtrcminiscenses, and looking
out on the wonderful changes time
has wrought here.
This county (Washington) of
Pennsylvania, settled by Scotch-
Irisb Presbyterians, was early noted
for educational advantages, and
many men who have since become
historical characters, passed their
boyhood years together here. Henry
A. Wise, who was Virginian’s Gov-
ernor when John Brown was hung,
received his education here ; James
G. Blaine was schooled here ; Aaron
Burr partially hatched his plot here,
and Mrs. Acheson’s grandfather was
one of the witnesses at his trial, giv-
ing important testimony as regarded
utterances Burr had made in his
father’s house. In this countv the
Mormon Bible was written. Here
lived Dr. Lemoyne, who built the
first crematory, just across the road
from our house. This was the cen-
tre of the first rebellion against the
United States, called the -‘Whiskey
Insurrection,” and the house used
by Gen. Montgomery as headquar-
ters, .was afterwards occupied by
Ephraim Blaine, James G. Blaine’s
father. This was also in early days
an important station on the “Under-
ground Railroad,” along which
slaves were conveyed to Canada.
During the recent civil war, of all
the regiments sent by the North into
the army, the one hundred and
fortieth (140th) Pennsylvania, six
companies of which were from this
county, stands at the head of the
list, as having had a larger percent-
age of men killed in battle than any
other regiment. Mentioning these
past facts, so as to give you a kind
of an introduction to this region, let
me draw your attention now to some
more recent occurrences which will
be interesting to Denison, and I
hope profitable.
One of ray boyhood griefs was
hodding coal up the cellar steps.
The mines were near town, coal was
cheap, every room had a grate, and
the quantity a family burned in one
winter would fetch a blush on Mike
Dumpney’s gas retort. There was
no “shinny on your own side,” sli-
ding “belley grinders” down “gallus
hill,” nor cricket games until that
coal was carried—eight buckets ot
slack every night, and any where
from twenty buckets to a store box
full of lumps for day use. Besides
this there were dust, dirt, ashes,
soot,, scrub, clean, wash, (think
d—m it) brush,—in a word, work
all winter to keep warm, and then
work all summer to get clean And
this whole section had been at that
for a hundred years, boasting of
their proximity to coal, and never
dreaming that the day would come
when their mines would be closed,
and the miners permitted to drift
into other States.
Now mark the contrast! I sit
here in the hall by the same fire-
place that warmed my toes a quar-
ter of a century ago, but the fire-box,
instead of being filled with coal, is
filled with broken bricks, a perfora-
ted gas pipe runs into the grate,
and that mass of brick is kept at a
uniform red-heat by the burning of
the natural gas. There are no
pokers, tongs, snovels, coal scuttles,
dust brushes and riddling screens
around the fire-place. You don’t
have to get your kindling ready the
night before, or if you forget it,
crawl out with your teeth chattering
in the morning to kindle the fire. It
burns night and day all winter long,
being increased or diminished, ac-
cording to whether the weather is
mild or severe, just as you regulate
your gas light. The fire-place, in-
stead of being black with soot, is
clean, painted some light color, and
the grate and trimmings instead of a
stove-polish black, have been en-
livened with nickel-plate attach-
ments.
The work attending the maintain-
ance of a fire has been reduced
from an hour per day to absolutely
nothing, the most dirtiest part of
which is saved to the vg>men. The
cost of maintaining a fire is one
dollar per month for the kitchen
stove, and seventy-five cents per
month for each additional fire, ex-
cept the wash house,
thrown in at three dollars per year.
Thus, this house with one kitchen,
one wash house and six grate fires
is furnished with all the heat it needs,
without any thought or idea ot econ-
omy or stinting, for the sum of fifty-
four dollars per year. Is there a
single family in Denison, paying
three dollars per cord for wood, and
one dollar for cutting it up, that
can, through the strictest economy
and denial, keep their consumption
to an average ot one cord per
month ? I doubt it. That would
only supply the one kitchen stove,
and at that rate would amount to
as much in cost as five or six fires
ot natural gas.
Other savings in connection ' with
the gas is in carpets; they don’t
grind out so fast as when coal and
cinders were familiar. Wall paper
endures longer without fading.
Whitewashing and kalsomining
need be renewed only half as often.
Paint remains fresh and bright lon-
ger. VV’ork is diminished, the tem-
per sweetened, life prolonged, hap
hiness intensified, and comforts
multiplied, all by this natural gas.
The influence of the natural gas
on the old town itself is wonderful.
The census reports of 1S50 and i860
show that the population of Wash-
ington varied only one. Whether
that one individual was'decrease or
an increase is forgotten, but it will
serve to show you how stationary
the town had become. Three thou-
i
sand was its boast, and there it hung
for probably twenty years, while
twenty years more might have seen
it still side-tracked at the same place
and figuring as to whether the cen-
sus report of 1900 would be one in
their tavor or one fornenst them.
But two years ago the gas was
struck, and since then the town has
grown as much as in the preceding
oue hundred and one years. It has
doubled in population. On all sides
new and handsome residences are
being built. Old rickety houses,
land marks of preceeding genera-
tions, eye sores to the iCommunity,
have been modernized, and stand
forth as perfect beauties in art.
Store fronts and store rooms have
been remoddled, aud made more at-
tractive and imposing.
Gas has done the major portion
of this, by reason of its reducing the
cost of manufacturing, and increas-
ing the number and size of factories.
ust as shown in the household ar-
rangements, gas costs less, saves
more, reduces the labor, and gives
better satisfaction than coal; so in
manufacturing it, (a), reduces the
cost. Instead of paying $10,000
per month for coal, $7,000 will bore
gas well, and $113,000 is saved
to an iron furnace the first year;
(b), By yielding a more uniform
heat there are fewer flaws in manu-
factured goods; (e), the freedom
from sulphur (which coal possesses),
insures a better quality of goods.
These advantages are bringing fac-
tories from all parts of the country
to Pittsburgh and vicinity, and
Washington county being only fif-
teen miles from Pittsburgh, and
turnishing both Pittsburgh and
Wheeling with gas, is feeling the
influence of this manufacturing in-
crease. Sam Randall has been here
on a special train, inspecting these
gas wells, with a view to establish-
es a government ordinance foundry.
Glass factories, lamp-black factories,
smelting furnaces, sheet iron facto-
ries, potteries, fire-brick kilns, roll-
ing mills, machine works, bolt mills,
nail mills, and every conceivable
form of mill or factory or furnace
you can think of. are going up all
over this gas district. Wealth is
rolling in, population is doubling,
labor is in demand, rents are high,
waees are good—in a word the
whole gas section is on a boom.
You can refer lovingly to Denison’s
wonderful growth, speak in wonder
oi Birmingham’s boom, but both
together cannot compare to the
startling improvement of this natural
g&s district.
One day during the last campaign,
while arguing with Datfin about the
folly of free trade, I finally got this
speech out of him: “Well, Doc!
maybe a protective tariff is a good
thing, but if it is, my idea is, let’s
have it inside the Democratic par-
ty.” Murray, this natural gas is a
mighty good thing ; let's have some
of it in Denison. You know I
bored and struck oil thirteen years
ago near Denison, but abandoned
the well because there was not
enough of it. That was on the
Polly Stamps survey, at Rock Bluff
ferry, the land then belonging to
Jas. Shannon and now being owned
by Dr. Marshall. Gas and oil, I
learn here, go hand in hand. Where
ever one exists, the other is found.
If Denison can strike a gas well her
future is assured. I believe she can.
In my next I’ll tell you why, and
give you a full history of these wells,
now bored, and the cost, depth, and
every thing of interest pertaining to
them. Adios.
in whose eyes a copper cent was
bigger than a cart wheel, raking in
a royalty of $200 per day.
Yet while this oil has brought so
much money into the country, in the
long run the gas will bring more I
think. The oil all goes out. The
number of men employed around a
well are few, while the money re-
ceived for the oil goes, in a great
measure to owners, resident else-
where. You cannot ship the gas,
however, far, (profitably.) unless to
a mill already erected. The better
plan is to put the mill or factory
near the well, and this is being done.
One gas well, supplying a turnace
with heat, may be the direct cause of
the employment of more men, and
distributing of more money in wages
than 30 oil wells. The oil too, in
the aggregate, is diminishing, while
the gas is not. Here and there gas
wells have a diminished pressure,
which is generally due to some new
well tapping their supply, while
some old wells show an increased
volume discharged. Enough gas is
going to waste within sight of the
house to run all the machinery iri
Texas. At night the whole horizon
is illuminated bv their burning, and
the last gasses, struck yesterday, 7
miles west of this, can be heard as
plainly as you can hear an engine
blowing off at the round house when
the wind is in the south.
The effect of gas consumption in
displacing coal is enormous. It was
estimated by the State geologist in
1884 that in Pittsburg alone the dis-
continuance of coal in fa/or of gas
was 1,500 dwellings, 66 glass fac-
tories, 34 rolling mills, and 45 other
industrial establishments, and that
the value of coal supplanted by
gas in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia was $1,-
460,000.
In the development of oil and gas
here I find a rule observed which
would point to the probable exist-
ence of both near Denison, in case
we did not know positively that oil
does. Operators work on what they
denominate a trend, or 45 line. Oil
being struck in one well, the next
prospector does not go indiscrim-
inately in any direction near to that
well, but tries to get on a line north-
east or southwest, and is more
liable to make a strike, without re-
gard to distance, unless the pool
closes.
Wildcat 1
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These trends are about 50 miles
wide and of indefinite length, and it
is proven that they frequently over-
lap each other, but always maintain
the same general direction. This
may be illstrated by placing a few
leads, each lead being supposed to
represent a territory 40 or 50 miles
wide by 75 or 200 long, thus:
From the window where I am
writing, in the old home-stead, no
less than fourteen derricks of oil and
gas wells are in sight, none of them
a mile distant—nearest not three
hundred yards. In developing this
field enough oil has been struck, to
reach at one time, 17,000 barrels per
day. That has diminished to about
7.000. though yestesday another
gusher was tapped, that sends it up
to 9,000. Numerous other wells are
drilling, and being projected, and
the probability is that the general
average for some time will be kept
above rather than below' 10,000 bar-
rels, which, at 70 cents, turns loose
$7,000 per day. There are some
incidents connected with this oil dis-
covery that would bring tears of joy
to your eyes: Old washer-women,
In some instances the oil pools
extend over the border of a trend,
but generally they are found with-
in them.
Now, if you will take a United
States map and place a string across
it so that it w'ill pass through about
the center of the west line of Mer-
cer county, and almo-t touch the
northwest corner of McKean county,
you will get the northern side of the
most northern trend in Pennsylvania.
And you will also notice that this
string prolonged will pass through
Texas not tar from Denison. In
this general direction lies almost all
of the oil or gas discoveries of the
United States. And while it proves
nothing regarding Texas, it is strong
—very strong—evidence that oil can
be found in that state.
As to whether gas attend the
Texas petroleum in profitable quan-
tities or not is questionable. With
al^oil there is some gas. In fact, it
isKthe presence of gas that makes
oil wells flow. The fluid does not
come in a steady stream, but with
intervals as distinct as the beating
of your pulse, while by looking
above the top of the receiving tank
you can see the gas escaping, just as
in looking along the top of the
ground on a hot day you can see
the heat rising.
The oil in the vicinity of Denison,
so far as I have examined it, is of
the heavy variety, or what is known
in commerce as West Virginia lub-
ricating—the most valuable oil used.
But it is not apt to be found in very
large quantities, nor does much gas
usually attend it. The abundance
of either however, can only be prov-
en by testing.
Another discovery made here may
be valuable to us. While going
through the glass factory the other
day I stopped to examine the sand
they were using. It is exactly sim-
ilar to some found in the vicinity of
Denison. If you will recollect
where our water company selected
a depression for the overflow of their
dam, you will remember that Mr.
Herron said a certain point would
have to be puddled before it would
hold water. That was on account
of sand similar to what is used here
for glass. You will also remember
a sand bluff on the old Colbert ferry
road about a mile southwest of town
in the water company’s reservation, j
which was carved all over with boys
names. Many loads of this have
been hauled into Sherman anti Den-
ison to be used in the marble works,
and for sanding saloon floors. That
sand is exactly what they are using
in glass manufacture. If they can
afford to haul it here 30 miles to the
factory, we should be able to man-
ufacture it at our doors.
Natural gas is not a new thing
in this section. It is its application
which is revolutionizing manufac-
tures, increasing values and doubling
populations. As long ago as 1S20
two men using a salt well seven
miles north of here, attempted to
deepen their well to increase its flow
when gas was struck and the well
abandoned. At that time the only
use made of it was by wash-women,
who set their kettles over it to boil
the water. In 1S27 a man named
McCook, uncle of the famous Gen.
Anson G. McCook, in attempting to
dig a well, sixteen miles east of this,
struck a large flow of natural gas.
By accident it became ignited, and
the flame it gave forth so frightened
the horses passing on the road that
many runaways occurred. The au-
thorities stigmatized it as a nuisance
and compelled McCook to sup-
press it.
My first notice ot its utilization
was about 1865, when one Captain
French, boring for oil, struck natur-
al gas and salt water. He tubed his
well so that the salt water was con-
ducted into a pan, the gas beneath
it, and thus boiled the one down
with the other. During the years of
1860-61, the Venango oil field, about
100 miles north of- this, attracted
great attention, and during several
years subsequent to that period nu-
merous wells were sunk for oil in
this vicinity, but without success, gas
being frequently secured, but no oil.
About 18S2 the Niagara Oil Com-
pany started to bore for oil seven
miles north of this, ami struck the
great McGugin gas vein. This well,
taking fire, was a sight almost equal
to a volcano, and visitors from a dis-
tance of 300 miles came to see it.
Up to this time natural gas had been
regarded as limited in quantity, and
therefore not worth utilizing. When
this vein was struck a company was
formed to buy it and pipe it here,
but this action was anticipated by a
Pittsburg company, which purchased
anil piped it to that city.
About this time also scientists be-
gan to take a different view of the
formation of gas, and declared that
instead of being a distillate from
oil, and therefore exhaustible, it
resulted from chemical reaction be-
tween salt water and shale, and was
therefore of constant formation.
With this opinion capital hesitated
less than formerly to take hold of it,
and the Washington company fail-
ing to buy the McGugin well, began
one of their own within the limits of
this towm and were successful. The
town was piped, and so great was
the demand that the company was
compelled to deepen their well, in
hopes of increasing the supply. In
doing this oil was struck. Oil men
flocked in by hundreds, and began
testing the territory, some securing
gas, others oil, and others nothing.
Pipe line after pipe line has been
built to convey both oil and gas, un-
til now three gas lines exist reaching
Pittsburg, one to Wheeling, one to
Steubenville, and one to Wellsburg.
I11 addition to this, every well in
process of boring has its own gas
line to furnish it with light and heat
for the steam engine which operates
the drill.
About the latest and accepted the-
ory concerning this luel is that both
petroleum and natural gas are form-
ed by the decomposition of vegetable
deposits wherever found above the
primary rock ; that their existence is
much more wide-spread than gener-
ally supposed, and that where one
exists the other is not far distant.
In 1S73 my attention was first
drawn to petroleum in Texas by Mr.
George Foster bringing into my of-
fice a large piece of petroleum rock,
discovered in Montague countv. The
existence of oil in the Nation, north-
west of Denison, was well known,
and I think it was from Dan Groman
I learned that a burning spring (nat-
ural gas well) existed between Mus-
cogee and Fort Smith. The pres-
ence of oil signs around Rock Blufl
ferry, seven miles west of Denison,
was also learned, and with Mr. J.
Riordan I leased the Shannon farm
and began a well. At a slight depth
oil w-as struck in small quantities,
and still further on we encountered
Jav Cook’s failure, a tight money-
market, and stringent enough times
to induce us to suspend. That oil
exists in Grayson county has been
demonstrated; whether it or gas ex-
ists in sufficient quantity to be profit-
able remains to be seen.
The cost of testing the matter will
depend upon the depth plus the ac-
cidents encountered in drilling. Con-
tractors here drill 2,000 to 2,500 feet
for $1.95 per foot, the well owners
paying extra for all breakage, fish-
ing, reaming, tubing, caving, piping,
etc. A well of the above depth is
ordinarily sunk tor about $7,000;
but if salt w-ater has to be cased off
at 900 feet an extra $1,800 has to be
added. Or if the tools get fastened
or the rope breaking, fishing is re-
sorted to, and there is an extra ex-
pense of anywhere from a week’s to
a month’s work, so that some wells
have run up to as high as $11,000.
While each well differs in cost from
another, the following is not far
from the expense connected with a
well down 2,500 feet: Derrick and
engine house, $500; engine and
boiler, $700; steam and water fit-
tings and belt and bull rope, $100;
tools, $1,000 ; cable, $400; sand line
$90; 7 5-S inch casing, S5 cents per
foot; 3 5-8 inch casing, 50 cents a
foot; drilling, $1.65 to $1.95 a foot.
The cable and sand lines are worn
out when the well is completed, and
often have to be renewed before it
reaches the required depth.
To proceed with this properly a
company should be formed with a
capital of not less than $30,000. If
unsuccesstul not over 23 per cent, of
this would be needed, but if success-
ful every cent of it would have to be
called for. Before proceeding a char-
ter should be secured, the privilege
of laying all necessary mains through
the city be obtained, and enough
territory procured by lease to give
every advantage to those who risk
their capital in the entsrprise.
I have gone into this minutely be-
cause there was some talk before I
left Denison of boring for coal, and
if that is undertaken it would be bet-
ter to look after all at once.
Yours, Doc.
AMUSEMENTS.
To tub Show Peofcb.—Murray’* Steam Print
injt House 1* the best equipped printing establish-
ment in North Texas. Comoanies wishing three
sheet posters, half-sheet hangers, large and small
dates, programmes, streamers, dodgers, Ayers,
etc., will do well to call. Show printing a specialty.
There was perhaps some cause for mu-
tual disappointment last night, inasmuch
as the performance scarcely deserved the
extravagant encomiums that have been
bestowed upon it by the press, and the
audience was not such a one at usually
greets a iamous star in Dallas. Still, as
two wrongs do not make a right, neither
does only a tair sized audience justify a
mediocre performance. Miss Louise
Rial as Coralia Loriat, the danseuse, was
the chief center of interest. Endowed
with a graceful, commanding person,
a striking tace, a clear, ringing voice and
histrionic talent, to this she has added
culture, much finish, and versatility.
The plot is full of dramatic incident,
and Miss Rial's emotional powers find
few barriers in its interpretation. Her
ability is not fully tested, however, until
the denouement,’when an intense strug-
gle occurs between love and hatred, until
finally in her death throes she acknowl-
edges her love and sinks gently away
into her last sleep. As the erratic, err-
ing Parisian danseuse she is piquant,
full of life and animation, and her charm-
ing brogue is entertaining. As the
unloved wife she is full of fire and pas-
sion, revengeful, vindictive, murderous,
even to the extent of slaying her husband
that he may never wed his heart’s choice.
Jack Thornton, the unlucky hero, was
ably represented by Mr. Will S. Marion.
Mr. Marion has much natural strength as
an actor, but is perhaps a little bit hur-
ried in his speech w hen the occasion does
not demand it. His work is smooth and
pleasing and always effective when he
exerts himself.
Mr. Marland Claik as Richard Dara-
cott, made a good “heavy villian,” and
deserves credit for his easy, polished
delineation.
Miss Lillian Stillman as Loise Wilmai th
was vivacious and charming.
The above characters constitute the life
of the play, and retain interest in the plot
through its weak places.
It is unfortunate for Miss Rial and her
company that they are not supported
more vigorously. The other characters
deserve no special mention, and may be
classed as about the average in their re-
spective parts.—Dallas News.
If to confuse and bewilder his
readers was the purpose of the
News critic in writing the above, he
has succeeded admirably. If to
give them an idea of the merits of
the performance in question he has
fired at a ground target and scored
bulls eye on the moon. Leave
out the first two sentences in this
criticism and one would imagine
a better company than the Louise
Rial one, impossible ; consider only
these and you have an implication
that a worse one would be hard to
scare ud. Take the whole ihing
together and you get the idea of an
article written by two different men,
who try to argue both sides ot the
question to the utter mystification
of the reader. The idea of a “med-
iocre performance” which furnished
cause for “disappointment” being
given bv a star “endowed with a
graceful, commanding person, a
striking face, a clear ringing voice,
histrionic talent, much finish, and
versatility, and whose interpretation
of character, is lull of fire and pas-
sion,” does seem a little incongru-
ous, especially if to this is added a
leading man, possessing “much
natural strength as an actor, whose
work is smoothe and pleasing and
always effective“a good heavy
villian who deserves credit for his
easy, polished delineation;” a lady
in a subordinate part who is “viva-
cions and charming,” and a balance
of company who are “up to the
average in their respective parts.”
“The plot is full of dramatic inci-
dent,” says the News critic, and
“Miss Rial’s emotional powers find
few barriers in its interpretation.”
What does he mean? That the
lady’s emotional powers were em-
ployed to interpret the plot? We
always heard of such powers being
used to interpret character. Maybe
he means that she used those emo-
tional powers to interpret “dramatic
incident,” but if she did she should
get out a patent on this particular
use ot emotional power, as she is
certainly its inventor. This “emo-
tional power” racket is bad enough,
but in the concluding paragraph of
his criticism the News man gives us
another one wnich would turn us
cold were it not that the ears pro-
trude from it so conspicuously. He
says:
•‘It is unfortunate for Miss Rial
and her company that they are not
supported more vigorously.” Who
does he expect to support the compa-
ny supes ? we always understood that
the company was there to support
the star, but to include them with
the stellar attraction, and allude to
the whole accumulation as being
unfortunate in not having an ener-
getic support, is an atrocity we nev-
er dreamed a Texan capable of.
This criticism may pass muster
all right in Dallas, but if it had been
written for a Denison paper its au
thor would have been killed by the
indignant management, or driven
from town by the disgusted citizens.
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