Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume XUI
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, JANUARY 21, 1927
Number 40'
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAILS
Ed Cline Makes Plea for
Protection of Fish in Bays
Ed Cline, former?^/located at Port
Aransas but for the past number of
years at Flour Bluff, writes entertain-
ingly and instructively of the inland
bays of Texas and what they mean
to the State. (Mr. Cline is especially
qualified to talk on the subject as he
has spent a life time on the bays and
has studied conditions from everj
angle, and therefore what he says
should be given serious consideration.
Hie says:
The inland bays of Texas furnish
employment to thousands of people
and sea food to her population. There
are many oyster men making a living
during the oyster season, and many
engaged in fishing. Many thousands
of tourists come here from all parts
of the country fishing and hunting
and spend their money with us. The
revenue which we derive from these
waters is all we have to live on.
We have about four hundred miles
of water on the Texas Coast from
four to twenty-five miles in width
with the gulf bordering; this is the
playground of Texas, something the
people should be proud of. It is
ours, without expense, without tax,
and free to all. You can come and
and catch you a mess of oysters
almost any place or a mess of crabs
and fish without cost. These bays
furnish more good duck hunting than
any part of Texas, “It is just the
‘paradise of the world.’’ I have lived
here sixty years and I know every
foot of these waters. I will tell you
what was here in olden times and
what is here now. The bays were
full of fish life, sun-turtle weighing
as much as six-hundred pounds were
caught here for canneries, but they
are all gone and our fish are going
fast.
In old times we only shipped by
steamer once a week from Indianola,
Rockport., and ' Corpus Christi. The
^’nips brought the ice in boxes, packed
the fish and carried them to Galves-
ton. About 1885 and 1S86 the S. A.
& A. P. Railroad built into Corpus
Christi and in 1888 extended its lines
to Rockport. Then the bays were full
of fish, but now we have many shipp-
ing places, causing a continual drain
on the fish, no rest, and more demand
Thirty per cent of the fish you catch
now ate drum, which used to be
considered worthless, and they are
decreasing fast,; Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi- and Florida are the
states for this species of fish. Mex-
ico has no red fish. These bays are
large enough to supply all the fish
Texas can use.
It is said our laws are too strict.
The fish were about gone until Tur-
ner Hubby, our present Game, Fish
and Oyster Commissioner, took hold
of things and closed more waters
againse nets and now we have more
fish than we have had in five years.
Now some people are howling to open
the waters again.
People! you are interested in this
matter, and you would like to have
a mess of fish to eat, but you are not
able to eat them at the present prices.
Fish have dropped from fourteen
cents per pound to eight cents per
.pound here but in Houston trout are
quoted at thirty five cents per pound;
drum three cents here and twenty
cents in Houston—some profit, Now
people hang on to what you have and
take care of your fish, as a food and
as a sport it belongs to you. If all
laws were suspended for five years
we would have a second Utah Salt
Lake, a beautiful bay but no marine
life in it. Do not let anyone tell you
the Gulf is full of fish. This was
said about the shrimp, but alas, they
are going fast, a continual drag of
nets is getting them. Mankind can
exterminate anything. Some of our
fish and game are gone, wild pigeons
are gone. Our bays were full of
croakers, equal to the red fish, and
they are all gone; it will be the same
with other fish and we don’t want
this; they belong to us. Our fish
laws have been fought for twenty
years and some seem to think there
is no fish law that is right.
Mr. Hubby has done more for the
fishermen and the fis^h dealers than
anyone and there has been less trouble
less violation and still some say no
relief. That Mr. Hubby is a sport;
I have been to his meetings and he is
more than fair to all, and he has
tried hard to furnish more fish, stock
our streams for the people inland,
than anyone before him, and this
does not cost the public one cent.
We have more small trout in the
bay and more small red fish than
there has been in many years—time
will prove this. Not two years until
next June has this plan been in
operation. People try it out and
don’t change it. We love to come
here to these bays to catch fish, eat
them an ship some back home and
have a good time—wade out in the
water—cast your line—watch your
cork—watch the beautiful sun coming
up—got a bite—it is a big red fish—
you are well paid for your trip, and
FINE SAN PATRICIO COUNTY FARM
TO EXCHANGE FOR ARANSAS PASS
PROPERTY.
180 acres, 1 1-2 miles from good town; 120
acres cleared; an all purpose farm; good six
room house; good water, barns, granary,
sheds, Mexican houses.
What have you to trade? Come in and
let’s talk it over.
Gulf Coast Realty Co.
W. E. WARRICK, Manager
Aransas Pass Ideally Situated
For Textile Manufactories
Senator Lloyd E. Price, of Texarkana* Tex., hasi introduced a bill
in the upper house designed to attract textile manufacturing indus-
tries to Texast It provides for the exemption of all cotton mills in
the State from taxation for a period of fifteen years.
“Cotton mills hre gradually moving from the East and only a few
of them are locating in Texas,” the Senator says... “Other Southern
states have already passed laws! exempting cotton mills from taxation,
and unless Texas passies a similar law, the state stands to lose many
millions of dollars in the course of years by the textile manufacturers!
settling in other states.”
The measure introduced by Senator Price is! most timely and of
the utmost importance to the industrial welfare of Texas. The textile
manufacturing industries of the New England states are in distress]
from various economic reasons, and many have already been establish-
ed in the Oarolinasl and other cotton growing states of the South'.
They find themselves in relatively the same position the national
packers were in a number of years ago. For economic reasons the
packers were forced to establish ’plants at the source of production.
This respited in large markets being established at St. Louis, Kansas
City, St. Joe, Omaha, Sioux City, St. Paul, Minn., Oklahoma City,
Fort Worth, Denver and finally at Portland, Oregon.
The textile manufacturers of the New England States must do
likewise. They must establish their manufacturies ait the slouree of
cotton prodPetion and at points where there are deep water facilities
for shipping their manufactured products to foreign countries. At
present Europe has a poor purchasing power and the textile manu-
facturers must, therefore, look to the Latin-Amencan countries for
their bet-Jt market.
Probably no place in the world offers so great an opportunity
for textile manufacturers as does Aransas Pass, the Southern most
port in the United States which has the immediate advantage of two
government deep water harbors—Port Aransas and Port Ingleside—
that will give them water shipping facilities to every known worlds
market and for coastwise service to the Atlantic seaboard.
Within a radius of 100 milles/ of Aransas Paste! and the ports is the
most productive cotton area in the world which produces the long
staple product of the highest quality. The sub tropical climate maltesi
for an ideal working condition for employees the year round* while
Redfish bay and the gulf provide unsurpassed recreational facilities
for limiting, fishing, boating and bathing. The high cost of living
is reduced to a minimum as vegetables can be grown the year round-
Oysters, fish and crabs can be had for the taking. Grapes and bemes
grow prolifically and citrus fruits can be grown as well here as m
Florida or California. Natural gas from either the Refugio or White
Point field will provide cheap fuel from which power can he generated
more cheaply than could be produced by Niagara Falls, according to
eXP \\Tith ttiesje conditions prevailing there is no valid reason why
textile manufacturers should not line the water front between Aransas
Pass and Port Ingleside on the South and between j^ansas ^s a .
Rockport on the North. The whole water front of Live Oak Peninsula
is especially suitable for manufacturing purposes.
Semitor Price should foe commended for in^0(*“®JJlgth su2L
meritorius bill and it should pass unanimously ni both the senate
Aransas Pass, through the Chamber of Commerce should keep
this important matter in mind and at theopportune time Present
manifold advantages to the textile manufacturers of the &ast> vv.m
sooner or later must meet the changed conditions by establishing tac
t°rilr^V~wef5,1Sd effort, should heoo.no the greatest
manufacturing center on the Gulf coast.
Important Developments
Expected in Kingsville Fii
Walter 0. Teagle, president of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
is reported to be hunting quail in
Kleberg County as guest at the fam-
ous King ranch of 1,500,000 acres.
He is accompanied by Mr. Sadler,
vice president.
W. W. Fondren, vice president of
the Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany, one of the most important sub-
sidiaries of the Standard of New
Jersey, which has its tidewater out-
let from the South Texas field at
Port Ingleside, has also been at
Kingsville lately. Mr. Fondren is
said to have been in negotiation for
more acreage around the Kingsville
field which has. been opened by the
Humble and which is developed to a
point where it promises to be a very
important field.
Very important developments are
anticipated in the Kingsville field
soon. Dr. Cullinan of Laredo of the
Border Gas Company, a subsidiary of
the Texas Company, has lately been
at Kingsville and is reported to have
been looking over the property of the
Kleberg County Oil and Gas Company
which was the company that brought
in the discovery gas well of the field
a few years ago. It is undertsood
that this property, which is owned by
i local Kingsville people can be bought.
| Humble Oil and Gas Company has a
blanket contract with the King ranch
whereby it wildcats on the 1,500.000
acres of the ranch and if it finds oil
or gas, can set to a block of acre-
you go home rested, ready to go to
work for another year.
We need the fishermen; we need
the dealers to furnish the country
with fish, ais there are thousands
that have to buy their fish, if they
get any at all.
I have fished for eighteen years
NEW TESTS STARTED IN
REFUGIO’S BIG GAS FIELD
Production of the Refugio gas field
a few miles north of Aransas Pass,
now one of the most important gas
areas in Southwest Texas has reach-
ed a point where approximately 100,-
i nave nsneu xux ^ 000 cubic feet of gas daily is be-
and I say what has been here can be t&ken Qut o£ the field by the two
companies with pipeline^, one the
here again by taking care of our
spawning season. I believe that un-
der the present laws fish have in-
creased wonderfully. I believe we
should have a closed season for three
or four months during the hot
weather on all nets as these big
drag-seines with the hay full of sta
"ties kill all the spawn and little
fish. The hot weather makes it
hard to keep the fish though they
have the ice right there where the
drag is made; and many times hav-
ing to throw away thousands of
pounds of fish.
Now, about the money to enforce
the laws. I think the legislature
should make a law that every male
person twenty one years of age
should pay a fish license. We people
on the coast pay it, $1.00,. and regis-
tration for our boat is $1.50, to catch
and sell fish. Now, we are putting
in hatcheries and stocking your
streams with our money, and the
sport pays nothing for this protec-
tion ; there is where the hitch is be-
tween the sport and the common
fisherman. Everyone who bobs a
cork should pay $1.00. We need
more money for our Passes and to
open our Lagoons in order that less
fish will die in the summer from
stagnant water1. Young people take
care of these bays and what is in
them. It is your playground. Every
county is bonded for good roads.
You can land at Sabine Pass and
fish to the Rio Grande River; you
can land at Matagorda, Port Lavaca,
Port O’Connor, Sea Drift, Bayside,
Rockport, Aransas Pass, Port Aransas
Corpus Christi, Flour Bluff, Corpus
Pass, and on to Port Isabel, all are
good to come to and there are many
more.
Now people, ask your representa-
tive to help us do away with the
drag seine in the summer and it will
all work out well. The bays are our
sea food and our playground. Leave
the fishing grounds closed as they
are. Try it out on this plan. Fish
are on the increase fast, now.
Houston Gulf Gas Company, which is
supplying the City of Houston and
the other the Houston Oil Company,
which is supplying industries on the
ship channel and elsewhere
Discovery of additional sands in the
field has opened up new, big possi-
bilities and the field is now being
extended.
William F. Morgan is now rigging
up on his No. 1 Rose Rogers heins,
north of the fork of the Blanco and
Medio Creeks, being 200 feet from
each creek (200 feet west of Blanco
Creek and 200 feet east of Medio
Creek.) It is about two miles from
the center of the town of Refugio
being northwest of the town.
Mr. Morgan has spudded in on the
No. 1 R. E‘ Breeding, lot No. 2 of the
town tracts of Refugio for a test be-
ing drilled under contract for the
Houston Gulf Gas Company. It is
450 feet from the south line and 750
feet from the west line of the tract.
age around the well, the !
ing checkerboard acreage arol
The Kingsville oil field is oj
that was one time a part of th?
ranch but was sold off to
and hence is not a part of th]
eluded in the general contract.
It is understood that Mr. £
vice president of the Standard
New Jersey, has been at the King
ranch for a month, and Mir. Teagle
arrived more recently. Mr. Sadler
spent part of his time at least at the,
lower ranch of the Kings at NoriasJ
Humble has been prospecting then
and also sublet to the Roxana part <
its territory.
Recently it is learned, Roxana has
leased the new annex to the hotel at
Edinburg for offices and has a b:
crew of men in the field there*,
known that there are
domes in that district am
magraph and Torsion 1
probably be used over a
of that territory.
Oil men are expecting
esting developments in
territory this year. The
field will develop to a poinn
it will attract much wider
if additional production is obj
as now seems likely and the fie
velops to important propori
There is plenty of good territory!
the coast country that looks like
production and with the presence,
salt domes the country .becomes inv^
ing to the operator hunting for oiL
SINTON REBE KAILS INSTALL
OFFICERS FOR ENSUING YEAR
At a regular meeting of the Sinton
Rebekah Lodge No. 302 last week,
the following officers were installed
for the ensuing term,: Evylin L. H!a-
mon, N. G-.; Millie Mae Gilreath, Y.
G.; Margie Cellum, secretary; Bertha
Merrill, treasurer; Stella McMahon,
chaplin; Pearl Wilson, warden; Edith
Starbuck, conductor; Bertha Merrill,
R. S. to N. G.; Clara McNeil, L. S.
to N. G.; Berta Whatley, R. S. to V.
G.; Clara Lawrence, L. S. to V. G.;
Tommie Ford, inside guardian; Way-
man Ford, outside guardian; Bessie
Pinkston, pianist.
PORT INGLESIDE 57,535 TONS
CORPUS CHRISTI 6,172 TONS I
VERY TRUE
Striking while the iron is hot is all
right, but too many men strike when
w.‘—The Outlook
The most, worshipful grand master
of the Grand Lodge of Texasj, Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons, and the
most excellent grand high priest of
the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
Texas, will be entertained by the
Masons of the 39th Masonic district in
San Antonio on the evening of Jan-
uary 31st.
All Masons throughout the State of
Texas, with their families, are invited
to attend. This includes Entered Ap-
prentices.
The grand master and grand high
priest are M. A. Childers and Dr. D.
N. Cushing, both of San Antonio.
The program includes music by
Alzafar Temple Shrine band, organ
solos by Walter Dunham, and singing
by the Scottish Rite double quartet.
The meeting will be held in the
Scottish Rite Cathedral Monday even-
ing, January 31st.
Highest Flight Of Birds
The highest flight of birds is esti-
mated to be 25*000 feet. This altitude
is attained by the large type of bird,
the smaller ones flying 23,000 feet,
has been said, however, that
have known to fly tl
at 35,000 feet
Sahara Once Forested
Dense forests once grew on the Sa-
hara desert and a race of people who
subsisted by hunting and tilling the
soil lived there, says the Dearborn
Independent, quoting a Chicago pro-
fessor.
According to a report issved by L.
M. Sheppard traffic manager of thej
port commission at Corpus Christi*
6,172 tons of freight were handled.!
over the wharves of Corpus Christi!
since the opening of the port
her 14, 1926. Port Ingleside was
open to shipment until the last
of November, yet between that
and the last day of the ye
shipped out 57,535 tons of oil, or
equivalent of 370,243 barrels.
KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN
OFFICERS HERE FOR HUNTl
C. E. Johnston, general manager,]
and Geo. M. Myers, director, of the
Kansas City Southern railway arrive!
Thursday morning in a special coae|
which was taken over the Arans
Harbor Terminal railway to Harb<|
Island,, where the party will enjoy]
few days of hunting and fishing.
To My Friends-
I wish to express my sincere ap-
preciation of the generous patron-
age accorded me while associated
with the Aransas Drug Company
as your friendship and good will
made possible a splendid success
during my management.
It was a pleasure to serve the pub-
lic and in my management and ow-
nership of the Majestic Cafe, it will
be equally as great a pleasure to
serve you in the same old courteous
and efficient way.
SCOTT
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Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1927, newspaper, January 21, 1927; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847835/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.