San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1936 Page: 1 of 20
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Oil and Civic Development Edition
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VOLUME 28
SECTION A
SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936
NUMBER 24
PLYMOUTH OIL HELD RANKS HIGH IN SOUTH TEXAS
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Several Companies Drilled
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Most Wells Are on North
Side of Chiltipin Creek.
STILL UNDEFINED
Plymouth Co. Has Complet-
ed 50 Wells to Date; Sun
Co. Has Seven on the Hunt
Brothers Farm.
DRILLING REPORT
The following i3 a report of
rigs operating in the Plymouth
field as of Wednesday morning,
June 24, at seven o’clock:
Plymouth No. C-49 Welder is
drilling the plug and preparing
to perforate at 6,653 feet.
Plymouth No. C-50 is sitting
on sand at a depth of 5,790 feet.
Plymouth No. €-51 is drilling
in Lime at 5,105 feet.
Plymouth No, C-52 is drilling
in shale and lime at 3,380 feet.
Sun Oil Co. No. 1' Rosson is
preparing to spud.
, Sun .Oil Co. No. 3 Edgar is
tijHliing in shale and sand streaks
at 5.195 feet. '
Manhattan’s New Gasoline Plant 1 HeiM HCCP EfeCtS 164
Foot Derrick on the Well
Near B. & M. Stockpens
TThis picture of the progress that is being matte on the
new 10,000 barrel gasoline plant was taken last week
BENEDUM-TREES IS
MAKING DEEP TEST
Drilling In Chiltipin
Creek Progressing
Saturday, April 20, 1935, was an
epochal day, not only for Sinton,
but for San Patricio county and
Southvfest Texas as well. The
Plymouth Oil Co. Welder C-l, nine
miles northeast of Sinton, was
brought in for a potential 500 hbt.
a day producer, the first complet-
ed well of what turned out to be
the prolific Plymouth field. iinimwm ■ ■••.ww •*» |
Just exactly one year and two
months later this same field has
83 producers, is three miles long,
a mile and a half wide, and has Three wells being drilled west
not as yet been completely defin- Qf [be Plymouth pool 0n the- Weld
ed. Besides that this amazing field e(. raneh are being carefully watch
has three different sands, all of ed an(j. should either of them prove
them flowing pipe line oil to tlie (Q bp a producer, it will mean much
limit of their state railroad com- f,uure development.
mission allowable. . i . ...
... The latest of these to be spudded
Near Coleman Mansion Site ! jn jg [he piymouth No. D-2 Welder,
This discovery well was spudded; ,vhich although just started fast
iu on the Mrs. Eliza H. Welder ^ .. maklng eXcellent progress
ranch, about a half mile west ot am, u-ednpsday morning wag drili-
*e. ia.nS.,<m. fw‘ i»S ir. Shale at 1,559. This well is
March 6, 1935 The drilling O the; ^ a rail, northeast 0f the
well-was contracted by the A! Bu- (... - ljmits is be,ing drlHed for
chanan Drilling ( o of ban Anton- thg Plyrn6utll by th^ portilla Drill-j
io umkr the direction of *. D . Co _ a P> H We!der titnl .
Pilkingtop. The three drillers Oh , \
the job wcr’e Boss- Holes. Tonimv The Benedum-Tiees Company was,
Stewart and Jim Coward. . Hon liril,ins fcr *ome tim<? 0,1 twoi
The sand was struck at a depth 'to.-.rs on i * ’'•a.w -eioial n»ilv.->.
of 5,502 feet Wednesday, April 11. northeast of Sir.fun. Wednesday
end a drill stem test showed 450 morning they were reported as fob
feet of crude oil and 25 lbs. of j?" - BenedunVTiees No, _ eld-
gas pressure within ten- minutes .er avtailing .fu tiier orders at a
.with no sign of Water. Casing was depth of 5,120 feet, Benedum Trees
set and cemented and the -well No. Welder is in blue shale, and
brought in April -20. .. . : is running a Sclilumbergcr test. A
Although this field has nev.-tr drill stem,.test:oa this well showed
reached “oil boom" proportions, due 'ait .water. • , , r L ' •
to the concentration of lease own- These wells are being:drilled.,foi; social life Or the community.
ership in just a few hands, an oid- the Benedum-Trees Company
erly program of development has A1 Buchanan Drilling Co.
been proerding since the date of; _______
the discovery, - , 1
The Plymouth Company. Immed-
iately made two more locations and |
got them under tt’ay, and, too, the;
Heep Oil Corporation made a loca-
tion on its lease three-quarters of. . . j
a mile southwest of the discovery* A tiro of undetermined origin
well. - This ,latter, the Heep-W’eld-; broke- out in the garage that hous-
es E-1, not only came in< for eye;t I es the, cars of Jlollan and his
a better well than the Plymouth I son, Gus, a little after midnight
C-1, but discovered a new . horizon j Tuesday morning, and not only
as well. The new Keep sand was|burned the building to the.ground
foun.d at 5,640 feet and when com- j but destroyed two cars as^ well. A
pleted and put on. a 3-inch choke i third was rolleS out before damag-
made 35 bbls. of oil an hour, with ed.
no salt water showing.
Heep Becomes Active
WORK STARTS AGAIN
NEAR ARANSAS PASS
Taft Field Has Two
Test Wells Drilling
Eight Producers Have Been
Completed Within
Six Months
San. Pair: io county's r^coa J ma-
Ijor ot! development lies just a bare
This Operator, Who Has Hadt
Successful Operations in.
Refugio, East Texas and
Conroe Fields, Has Also
Been Active Here.
Se-.-ou-i *r the Plymouth ;1
Company ha' • been thy activities'
:n the lvu area of. th-> Keep 0:1
Corporation tn-i the Conro-. Dr-.t
lag Co , 'sister organizations heal
An Interesting phase of the Ply- ——— .. . ------- —.-, , ,
mouth field development is the pro-1 Arandas .Pass, according to every j three miles south of the prolific i1'-1 kno,1M1 011 opera'
gram for the drilling of the Chilli-1 indication, will be the next San Pa- Plymouth field, and,, although it i.s,or• Herman 8. Heep Although ta-
pin'Creek bed by the Centennialj truto county town to enjoy an oil:only about six mbnths old, it al- J'-:A'V here -.mo the -first of the
Drilling Co. This company recent-; play. Drilling started again on the! ready has eight producer flowing 'var “ ri* IS m°ved m anl
ly secured a lease on the creek bed I Buckingham well three miles west j from two different -iind- It ., the OD .\h* cowp**0.-
from the.State of Texas. of the town last Friday, and with- Taft field.
“■ • ... . days should' be on the
Three locations have already
been made by this company A,
is very often the case,, it was
its No. 1 well that was first spud-
ded in. but its second location Th->
lease is divided into tracts
following report was secur---
the company Wednesday:
Centennial. No. 1 Tract
paring to spud in.
Centennial No. 2 True:
in .-hale, and lime a' 3;030 f.
Ct-utentd'al No! 1 Tract C
:t:g is being driven f-v- tin-
four.dat ro'n- '
in a few
sand.
About thr-'e months ago this test,
being mad-' t)v. the McCampbell
ranch by the Buckingham Oil Co.
The active;, there s-m.-e the Sirs;.,
Of the year l.a- proved ch-> sam-* '
boon to the town- of Taft .- hu.-i-,
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This edition comes out at a time when Sinton
is becoming an important South Texas oil center. A
real effort has been made to outline the development
of local oil fields, and the allied industries, which are
playing such an important part in the economic and
e r-.-gii .it:
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To those new citizens, who come to make their _—-----
home in Sinton as the result of the Plymouth Com- Q|| p|[[J]
pany’s establishment of district headquarters here,
and to those who come with the construction of the
ompany plant, the business
men and citizens of Sinton and San Patricio County
bid you WELCOME.
FIRE DESTROYS TWO
J. D. HOLLAN AUTOS Manhattan GaWine C<
ON PIYMOUTH C-52
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Democratic Executive j Bennie S. Bishop Passes
Committee Names Judies Away Tuesday Afternoon
'wi;::-- work!'.-.
52. rig; and
Chi for :r
i’e.-l ambular
Plymoutt; !
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the
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■I The Democratic Exaenuve Com-
J Don. Robinsbn, who happened to m'iUec of San Patricio cWnty nvet
I be passing, was the (first to see the at a called meeting at the eourt-
Herman Heep immediately mov-1 fire, and he rushed to the garage, house Monday afternoon and pre-
ed in two more rigs and during the'opened the door, and on the start- bared the official ballot tor the
remainder of 1935 completed laser’s power rolled out a new 1936 Primary Election to be’ held July
more producers for a total of 16.; Eord. The flames had made so 25th
following election judges
serve in their
Early iu June the Magnolia Pet-* partially covered by insurance.
During this time he also drilled; much progress that it was impos-1 The
three dry holes, which for the time Hslble for him to get near the other: were appointed to
has defined the west edge of the two cars. One was a 1934 Ford , election precincts:
Piymouth field north of the Child-IV-8 and the other -a comparatively a. L. McWhorter, Pr.'c.'l-; kitb-y
Pln- [ new Chevrolet, The latter was ' Sharp, Pree. 2; Jasper^ AVdir Free.
3; R C. Porter, Tree. 4; JR Nel-
son, Prec. 5; J. F. hiewberry, PTec.-
6; F-irl Vickers, Prec, 7; C. C. Car-
rol,'Prec. 8; W. L. Muckelroy, Prec.
9; Homer. Easterwood,'Prec, 10; E.
L, Mendenhall, Prec. 11; FI E[ Ber-
ry, Prec. 12. \ ;
The' application of James MU-
am, who failed, to file by the date'
set, came up for consideration,
and it was decided that his name
should be put on the ballot. He|
had secured an agreement from the,;
other two opponents running . for.|
the same office, that of Commis-
sioner Prec. No. 1, signifying their
willingness that his name" should'
be placed on the - bal lot.
The. accia
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Bennie S. Bishop, Cl > >aold, j -- kicked off - • r.ng Kui-it’ov.
and a long time resident, of Odem, with steam fie was turned about -
passed away at the Santa Rosa In- th - face rind arms, and ».,t brbuch- p
flrmary in San Ar.tomo Sunday af- to tow n iu a .■i-.mpaii.on , au:om
ternoon. Funeral services were bii.c After f.tr.v. aid idmin •••’
held"ht Odem Tuesday afternoon ..red at a local dc tor« offat h
with a large number of Sinton way .removed Co.-pu '-hr:-•.
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Not long after the fire was dis-
covered by Robinson, Merle E.
Thurman turned in a fire -alarm
from the Republic Supply Co. The
local department wa3 on the scene
in short order, but about all they
rol-eum Company moved a rig onto
tho Corpus Christ! Bank & Trust
Co, lands south of the Chiltipin
creek. This site‘is better known
as the Old Coleman-Fulton Pasture
Company “Hog Ranch.” Although
only about two miles from the Ply-■ were abie to do was to prevent ad-
mouth and Heep discoveries, the jQinl b (ldin rom hing fir6
Magnolia missed both of these j
sands, and were very discouraged,1 “
only to be pleasantly surprised -by ! PICNIC WILL BE
finding the field's third sand be-: CTAPCH TTrfYMI’T'ir
low 5,900 feet. It now has, seven ^ * A\ir«l/ 1 vHvl I
producers.
j Every indication would point to
I a large crowd attending the old
[time basket picnic, which will be
| held at Park Welder this evening,
Thursday, June 25, at 7:30. Five
[reels of wildlife motion pictures
(Con. on last page: section A)
Thank You . . .
This goes to everyone who in
anyway aided in the making of
this edition possible ... It com-
es from the publishers, Martin
and Martin, and- ye special edi-
tion editor.
Like any other endeavor, it
had its pleasant moments and
its griefs. But, all in all, the
cooperation afforded us served
as a real incentive to carry oh
until, the last line had ibeen set,
despite the heat, threatening
gulf storms, and all other Inter-
ruptions.
To those who furnished us
story material, to Dan Grissett,
who took the pictures, and, last
but by no means least, to the
advertisers . . . Thanks a lot!
ALEX LILL1CO,
Special Editions Editor
friends attending- to pay *h->:r iasc
respects.
The deceasei was injured ow'i-
a year ago in an automobile acci-
dent on the highway near Calalier
He never'' recovered from.his ser-
ious injuries, and had [undergone
several- major operations sine3 that
timfe Friends here said that th-'
operation this past week, to 'which
he succumbed, was the fourth.
, The remains
re/.l.ii! rheii ■r.r
i.lh.‘rws« .a :hf Plymoti'n :.' i
3 »r wy,, ; i.-t;y d-'i-'-ve-i
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•■-s otatea in Rtfug.c
m*-:3it-. • - -> -v, HerniaU F.
: Keep .n ti: > mi wor. i during the.
• past eight' mik--- an :Sterestin;;
story ia itself In-I42S he gave' uc-
.a modest, position, ir, a Ri-tugio
, fine to.form a partnership with Pa-
Rutherford They drilled -same es
celient gis wait-); .it the eastefh
portion of the. old Refugio, field/
_ ■ in .1.929 Ire organized and far.-:
Merrill Car Stolen
Here Saturday
‘will be shown immediately after
the supper. ' j
I The general invitation to the pub-1
lie assures the presence of plenty
of coffee, cream, bread, sugar and
ice water to go
School Band Goes
To San Angelo
B, K-. Merfjil was .stolen Saturday /‘V’. ' . y' ‘f1: :'i\ t1*,’!
■ [afternoon about 3:13. from .n front * ‘u ' •• »'>u.aw«s
_ . , of the'owner's garage, and was not 'n*' liU
. , were returned to. r^Vt?Ivd mtiti-I^i^day afternoon cm ccsnil ven-
Odem and services were held m . , ture .was tr.» >>a. turning point >n
the Odem Methodist church -at 4:30, ‘ ,. , ... , . y, . his career
^^^Tt 1Th ■'R; T- a,‘ soon as ‘honor tcrii 'his' -. ar "was In 1930 he organized ,.r. i bveam-
TTrxn '!! 8jn.tpn..Churc., o. ;.,,?<iUir whuh ba<1 bwR jPfy ,tand. president of the Ileo.p OU.Corpor
(con. qu last page section A ;:lg Out in front with the key in m which Jr‘ned -'”'cral good
Surrounding ‘owns were notified, *ells^in Refugio, later -idling the-
|inpr Annum ATTCIIliC a’N Monday .th.' sheriff's office at; 9a 2 5-3ctiou
LHiiOL ufiUllLI n I I tnUo Victoria called o -ay. that the car
SEMI-ANNUAL BANQUET Sift Sr 1 v 11S'"f a Mrs. I. K. Butler Passes
„ ...-— i.rft;;ii Si ViiftkwiTSi; Away Saturday Afternoon
\bout $ixry civic-nundeii cUi2eiiaman ilriving the machine in J . .
attended and enjoyed the semi-an- Victoria, George Irvin,
Convict, was placed
negro ex- j
in the San1
nual banquet of the Sinton Chamber
of Commerce, held at the senior
high school auditorium Thursday! gaid he was al30 wanted in
The Sinton School Band left on -evehing, June 18.. j Wharton on an auto theft charge,
with the” basket Sunday morning for San Angelo, | J, E. Dodson, vice-president of -. _______
Funeral services were held iu
_ , . . .,-j . T , ,... Corpus Christi Monday morning at
Patncio county ja.l. Local ofnc u ^ ^ ^ in Rose Hiu
which each party will bring. Every- Raveling in two school busses, to,the organization, presided at the
one is urged to be on hand prompt- attend the SUte Annual Convention ; meeting and acted as toastmaster
ly at 7:30 by J E Dodson chair- of Veterans of Foreign Wars, now for the program which followed the
man in session in that city. The band meal. Rev. William Pruitt gave
, ' - went as escort to the local post, [the invocation.
* 5 • ' announcement .was made The bandi forty in numberj was| J. G. Cook gave an interesting
Tuesday by Edgar F. Bonorden, accompanied by .Mr. and Mrs. W. short talk on “Safety,” and Mrs.
secretary of the San Patricio g Seale and Ann, and Donald Hatch i Marie Elkina talked on “Coopera-
Counity ^Wildlife AssociaUon, that director., Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pres- tion.”
Lindy Coons ot Corpus Christi,
County Commissioners Hold
Meeting Monday Morning
T. W. Sharpe, state secretary of {0n ajso went to attend the conven-
the organization, will be on hand tion.
to show the five reels' of Interest- Floyd Joseph and Lonnie What-
ing wildlife films. There will he icy drove the busses.
.no charge, and it will go far to-1 They are expeoted to return Wed-
ward Interesting local people in the nesday evening or Thursday morn-
work of the association. ing.
accompanied by Mrs. Esther Beav-
er, offered several vocal numbers.
John L. Dashlell, chamber secre*
tary, gave a report on the finances
and activities of the Chamber of
Commerce.
cemetery for Mrs. J. K. Butler, who
passed away on Saturday afternoon,
JUne 20, 1936 in San Antonio at
the age of 72 years.
She is survived by her daughter,
Mrs. Ruth Morgan and son, J, S
Butler of San Antonio, besides oth-
-- i er relatives and a host of friends
The County Commissioners met | The Butler family is well known
in a special session Monday morn- in this community as early settlers
ing, and the County Judge was- au-.of Sinton, Mr. Butler having prar-
thorized to advertise bide on war-]ceeded hts wife in death a number
rants to be issued in connection of years ago. From Sinton she mov
with PWA grants, .to re-condltion! ed to Corpus Christi where she
the old jail into a County Hospit-[made her home with her daugh-
al. Favorable action on the PWA ter, Mrs. Morgan until quite rec-
application Is expected this week. :ently when they moved to San An-
(Coo. on last page aectloji A) to*ie where she died.
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