The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1939 Page: 6 of 8
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Mink m
So Red the Nos
(Milam? Station Sept !■>• In
poultry. Texas ha* an intfurtry
that ftrosmw tom ml «4.»>ftO.Whf h
year, *ttid the ha* imm 1 ?!(vas
nowhere in the national P1 '* '• tv to
rank fifth in nttmfc'T of thicken*,
of egg* pre
astd Hghth !ti value of
poultry produced for market
The Industry. often fotcott-n h
i i iiiiii!*■ - : ,,aUJK, ,( Texts' predominant* if
running • ^jJ0 pj.0jnrop>n of rotom and l'1''
i running | „tix.k ^tributes tut annuo! <tr.-ne
in to | equal to the sale Of a million
Hart*»n-; tajM ()f r0-t„n eight cswl* p-r
I’tul. by | [K))rf,(j
the San po„],ry producer* hare
i g way i an investment of fin noo.oiMi in
I lhey give you the one, over with
! their eyes half-hidden by bushy
; eyebrow*
For ihl* is tlie problem child of
• the Midway field and this part of
I South Texas. I! Its the well that
even a church refused, small won-
der ’
All this muss began more than
i year aim. just when the oper-
ators were ready to bring In the
i well. Somewhere down below the
and (be gas forced
i and out, breaking
100 feet away from
; the well. There the git* caught
i fire and hell begun to pop And
jin spite of every effort on the
1 pari of the operators, the fire was
; soon out of control, the crater
half miles of lateral roadway in j
Simon Road District in the St. j
Paul section have been graded
and put in A t condition, under;
tho iipervlslon of Ernest I.ewis.
Slnton commissioner, aad other ,!flj, in total value
roadways are si ill undergoing im-
niu’ki'omnnl ____s ■
Nobody Seems to
Want D. I. Coggin
Well in Midway Field
-vtco. Arid ail around
sat sort of m««s af
'I dyke# and sickly
spmtd out nil over!
Che land and filling the pits toj
the very brink.
The mud is getting pretty hard
In places and you can walk across
--------------— - - VVB,..,'* u> Utu (JOBS and way up the,
five*. Cotton and feedstuff* grow j Bt«ep aides to look dflwn Into the ! ,'as n*f flt>‘:
4Jlte mad then* (f properly tu.t; juow extinct crater. 156 foot amiss, *** wa-v “•*
vasec! and nourished. U‘e still good j with it* lake of green water some : fj>n,'_ aJj*"L,
Sunning country, except part of |«w feet below
tit his adjoining neighbor's.
Conrln would rather not talk
ebom. it.
JUtdng from this nice level land
U a volcanic-like cone that makes
you rub your eyes, thinking may.
that you’d suddenly stepped
. . ____ ... you. Miniature elides !
Coggin'* fann and a good part j fuave scarred the face of the in-i
*■*“ And J »ide cone, but. you can still see j
; j large sheets of real lava, made by
, the intense heat when this crater j
j *«* alive wltli fire, And whether ! had h,,,n,,|i f;0 f,>rtn
! R's your imagination or not, the! e
grouu-l still feels hot and the w ind
does too.
Hardly more than 100 yards
| from (he center of the crater
i there’s a derrick over a producing
'gas well, with 1500 pounds on the
j tubing and 1800
casing' The derrick and well arc j
protected on the crater side fay
sand bags and earthen dykes. And
shutdown or
can bet your
well will be
proper.
For many months the well
] belched flames, great clouds of
j smoke and quantities of oil. mud
j*nd gas. And t.ho corn* became
• larger and larger and higher and
j higher. Finally, the flames were
j extinguished
pounds on the, But In Austin, the Texas Ita.il-
j rornd Commission fretted over all
I that gas going to waste and the
j problem of conservation It pre-j
you | rented. It ordered two "relief"
tins
flow
The second court battle be-
tw'-r, W C F -tov stage and
screen comedian (topi. and hi*
doctor. Dr, Geofrey Citron, got
under way at Lot Angeie*
Wednesday Dr. Citron. who
rays it had trouble making the
patient behave when curing
Fields of pneumonia. was
awarded V?,000 at the f„-»t
tr ,i! but Fields appealed and
the higher court bc.’d the fee
excess ve,
ADVERTISING
ONCE
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NEWSPAPER i
, does rr i $
water into the. strata from! Vs-ildTlIir^y ijtrSSS^Ci
j which the gas was assumed to lie' »• Pnf-frm Mffi
j coming. By a happy rornbitmlon iVaOIIOfl l«ew
lor tlreir efforts the gas began to) -
j die down. Congressman Richard M K!e-
Then without warning the blamed berg and William P. Elliott. see-
thing started spewing a very ye] I rotary returned to Corpus Christ t
j iow mud which poured out over Sunday from Hillsboro where on
the rim of the crater in every Saturday the congressman was the
direction. Workmen f --erwbly be- principal speaker at the meeting
guu throwing up bar pi's and jot the State Will.- Cotton Corn-
fly kes, retreating to throw up mltt.ee of Texas which was railed
higher and longer dykes and deep- by RurrH Jackson of Hillsboro,
er pits, retiring in good order | chairman.
like a well disciplined army be-j Walter E. Dickerson, vice-presl-
j fore a superior force. : dent of the Central Power and
I That mud continued rn pour out j Light Co , also attended the meet-
| untit it had covered about 500 ing.
j acres of fine farm land, filled alii Emphasis was plac'd on Insert
j available pits to the brim and1 control and chemurgy as applied
I cun down highway culverts and to cotton and cotton products at
ditches in every direction. One the meeting
WiHETTER
away Jfj a farmtiouiw,
In f<*r**r
Speed Won’t Get You Anywhere!
When you drive on a curve slow down
and keep to the right—or two cars’ pas-
sengers may regret meeting! The old adage
—haste makes waste—holds true! Many
a man rushing to get places, landed with
HTO»erS °" h‘8 ChC8t! Take y°Ur time and
demand
pointed out by
idem* *wo
M- wopd-'T
opinion
• Util Itrd
Congressman Kle-
berg, who has led the fight for
pink Troll worm eradication and
control, addressed a committee
meeting at the morning session
and discussed the problem of pink
boll worm control in
THE CAGE FUNERAL HOME
rnessur* af devotion."
general at
(lie iUtprnoon meeting.
The congressman complimented
the insect control committee of
the state organization on the work
it has (tone to educate the cotton
industry to the danger today of
pests.
Jackson
ro* w.!t;
a *»avf;
lb* trait ]
wit #*t rm
ihs»
opening the
general
meeting, paid tribute to Kleberg
for his work to
FPU 3-PLOW POWER
for All Field and i
for his work to secure appropria-
j tions for Insect control work and
j on the bill providing for work to
j establish a treaty for co-op ratlve
j work between tile United States
'and Mexico in pink boll worm
control a: I eradication. His posi-
I thin on file agriculture cnmnMttee
of t.lie House -if Repr<;-sentaUv,’-s
[ is of vain - to the state and tiu
j Hon, Jack-on said, and Kleberg is
the kind of man "who ri.:h»x for
j what he believes is good for the
I people of his district and state
I He is appreciated by the entire
stuff* of Texas and th nation, uot
J simply by the people of h!s dm-
'Hid ho said. The -peaker gave
j the Corpus Christina credit for
j originating the pink hoi! worm
j control work and voiced credit
| for V S Senator Tom Connolly !
j who assisted him tn carrying !
j ..w-asanry !nr-aaui,,-s through the
j Congress.
j Kleberg reported on his work
j to secure appropriations for pink
I boll worm control work, to se-
; oure provision for co-operative;
j work between the United States
I and M txico. and bis recent trip
■ fo Mexico to confer with state
| vUrdi federal offSr-inl)* and t > thr* !
Row-Crop Work
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MJ>irits lay!
J®tifi Ug!6r© S^ode! Tractors for Larye-Soafe
Plowing, Planting, Cultivating, and Belt Work
Here’s
th« General Purpose Trac-
tor bulk to provide low-cost, de-
pendable power for large row-crop
farsm, If'a the Joba Deere Model
adjustable rear wheels, roomy plat-
form, and conveniently located
power shaft. It can be furnished
with a hydraulic power lift and a
variety of large-capacity integral
working equipment.
Like all John Deere Tractors, th*
Model “G” bum* low-cost fuels
successfully, safely, and efficiently
—throughout the life of the tractor
--an all-important Item in large
operations,
John Deere General Purpose Trac*
for# hoik for smaller acreage*—
Models “A” and *’»”~hav« the
same operating economy, quality
construction, and John Deer* Gen* ’
era! Purpose features.
T«ft, T«a«
enttm in Hoggin is reported to
have, given It to a church, the
money derived therefrom to be
p;erf In any manner they mw
| fit. The church returned the well
; to him with regrets when It blew
out.!
‘What about Hoggin’s neighbors?
Well, sir, they are, plenty mad
about the whole situation. Much
of their land .ha* been ruined so
they have sought damages in'the
Phone 122
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pull n three-bottom plow under
normal condition*, op«r»t« a .28-
Mch ihzmhm, pull a big combine,
, sawkivat# a* M0s m 4® a«5trw in, a w»
jltonr day, 4 nwn at a time, and
,<*k* mm M all equivalent Mt mid
’tnmbm famfa.,
Simple, tw©-cy!to4er «ngln«, r«.
MrktiMe cant of operation, un«
'«qwalled vlaten, **«y adjoatablllcy,
mmmU, foot-controllcd
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The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1939, newspaper, September 14, 1939; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748934/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.