Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume XVIII
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927
Number 24
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAILS
Movement of Oil Through Humble 400 Mile Pipe Line Epochal for This Port
Line Completed in Four Months
and Fifteen Days Brings West
Texas Oil to Tidewater Here
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OIL SHIPMENTS FROM PORT INGLESIDE *
September 26, SjS| Pioneer ...........................................-........50,214 Barrels *
September 28, S|S H. M. Flagler ................... ........................61,353 Barrels *
September 29, Barge Portsmouth ...........................15,943 Barrels *
SHIPPING NOMINATIONS FOR FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER *
October 4, S|S G enpool ....................................,.........................45,000 Barrels *
October 6, S|S| Hugotion .........................................................50,000 Barrels....*
October 10, S|S Burton ..,..................................................50,000 Barths *
Tlie completion of the Humble Oil
and Refining Company’s 10 and 12-in.
pipe line from the tremendous oil
fields of west and north Texas, with
McCamey, Upton county, as the north-
ern terminus to the tidewater ter-
minal at Port Ingleside, at an approx-
imate cost of $14,000,000 for pipe
line and terminals, marks an epoch in
the ultimate destiny of this govern-
ment deepwater way. That it is des-
tined to become one of the giant oil
ports of the Gulf of Mexico is beyond
any question of doubt, as other oil
concerns will of necessity follow the
pioneer path of the Humlble Oil and
Refining Compnay. The immense
productivity of the west and north
Texas fields, which by the first of
the year, is expected to equal, if not
surpass, the famous Seminole field
<f Oklahoma, will naturally find a
tidewater outlet at this point as being
the most direct and economical route
to the oil markets of the world. Top-
ping plants and refineries will come
as a natural sequence.
* It only took four months and 15
days to complete the 400 mile pipe
line from McCamey to Ingleside.
Logically Port Aransas will occupy
the same relation to South Texas as
Port Sabine does to East Texas, and
Port Ingleside will ocupy relatively
the same position to Port Aransas as
does some of the oil ports adjacent to
Port Sabine. In the Port Sabine area
ar'e 23 (tran's-icontiipnlal pipe lines
and 10 large refineries. If has made
cities if Port Sabine, Beaumont, Port
Arthur and Orange. By the same
token cities should be built in prox-
imity to Port Aransas, for which the
Humble Oil and Refining Company
have already asked for a 30 foot
deplh of water to Port Aransas on
Harbor Island. Had it not been for
Port Sabine, the development at Port
Arthur, Beaumont and Orange might
not have been accomplished, and cer-
tainly these towns would not have
reached their present magnitude and
importance. v
Being located only six miles from
Port Aransas and five miles from
Port Ingleside, Aransas Pass enters
the picture as the business and resi-
dential section for both, where church-
es, schools, fraternal lodges, water,
light, and ice are accessible. A hard
surfaced highway between Aransas
Pass and Port Ingleside and Ingleside
station is now in contemplation for
early action.
As will be seen by the nominations
for sailings first seven days of Octo-
ber, as listed above, oil shipments will
aggregate many millions of barrels
annually, and this will be augmented
! by the acquisition of 30 feet of
j water at Port Aransas-, when vessels
I will be enabled o take on full cargoes,
j insfead of part cargoes as at present
! with only 25 feet of water
' 'With the completion of storage fa-
cilities at Port Ingleside the company
will have a storage capacity of 1,280,-
, 000 barrels. Other storage tanks will
be erected as necessity demands. The
pipe line from the Mirando oil fields
: has a daily capacity1 of 6,000 barrels
J apd the new pipe line from McCamey
has a daily capacity of about 42,000
barrels.
On April 1. 1927, the Humble Oil
| and Refining Company issued $25,000,-
. 000 of 10-year 5 per cent gold de-
benture bonds through J. P. Morgan
& Co., of New York, which were over- is to build up a big stock of crude at.
subscribed at date of issue. The com- Del Rio and later construct a direct
pany began work of construction of j line to tidewater, when daily runs in
the 400 mile McCamey pipe line on 1 the -Yates field justify such a project.
May 5, and cril was received at Port 1 -
Ipgleside the evening of September FIRST OIL IS RUNNING IN
20,—just four months and 15 days , HUMBLE’S NEW PIPE LINE j
from the time of starting. j
The Humble Oil and Refining Com-' San Antonio Express: Humble Pipe |
pany is one of the most important Line Company has begun receiving oil
affiliated companies of Standard Oil from the Crane-Upton County fields
Company of New Jersey, which owns tbrough its ^ line to Eigleside. The
60 per cent of Humide capital stock.1 firsit 0l1 reaclied In§leside last week
The proceeds of these debentures was and went into the company’s storage
to be used in providing funds for the tariks there ready for sbiPment by
vessel to its refineries.
The line is 400 miles long and is 10
Texas au'eas, anti for the construction ■ and 12 inf and cost ar?und $14,000,-
of a trunk pipe line of 40,000 barrel j 000 The ,ine from the field is 10-inch
daily capacity from McCamey, Upton ! and is enlarged to 12-inch which is the
county, to Port Ingleside, a distance of size a* the Reside end. The line, it
400 miles 1 *s eRllmated will hold about 250,000
Te Humble Oil and Refining Com-’ barrels of oil and tbe Humble is lay-
pany engages in all lines of the oil1 1ng a second line- 80 that when botb
business. From the first of the year
1019, when tlie Standard Oil of New
Jersey made its initial investment in
the Company's capital stock, to the end the ™ntstantly and is equivalent
Fleet Krazy Kat Speed Boats
to Serve Hunters this Season
construction of additional pipe line
facilities in the Panhandle and West
lines are filled it will take about 500 -
000 barrels of oil.
That amount of oil must remain in
: of 1926, over $140,500,000 has been in-
j vested in the company’s business. Dur-
ing this period the company’s net earn-
to an additional investment in the pipe
line. Humble is building one of the
biggest tank farms in the country at
tags available for reserves and dividend !InslKide f,'om whW] PoInt “ is shiI>'
payments amounted in round figures O1"* by watf *nd *w» ™'rm<ras
to $118,000,000, of which $58,000,000
was appropriated to depreciation and
depletion reverses, $18,000,000 was. .
disbursed in cash dividends and $42,-!?° “ •» vessels °* «*•
amount of oil to move by water is
necessitating the deepening of the Gov-
ernment’s dhanne1 and turning basin
000,000 was re-invested in 'the com-
pany’s property. The investment of
htese funds has found reflection in the
rapid and substantial growth of the
company’s business.
largest type.
JOHN SIGMUND WELL NO. 9
ENCOUNTERS GAS STRATAS
Work on Sigmund Well No 9 pro-
gressed rapidly this week, drillers
passing through the finest blue gum-
bo, shales and sand reaching a depth
today of 1,000 feet Drillers encount-
ered two good gas stratas, one be-
tween 600 and 700 feet and one be-
tween 800 and 900 feet, that showed
Other Pipe Lines Coming
Additional pipe lines to tidewater
and refinery centers is the greatest
need of the west Texas and Pan-
handle district to move higher in the
production ranks. Two or more direct
trunk lines to the coast have been \ the big blisters clear out of the top of
•promised this district, including the j the casings and drill stem. Driller
Southern Pipe Line Company, the Illi-1 Robinson sajys formations thus far
nois Pipe Line Company and possibly j c^Id not be better for a well. A car
the Magnolia and Trans-Continental j fuel oil was received today and is
Pipe Line Companys, all of which are being pumped into the tanks.
Standard Oil Company subsidiaries.
Southern Pipe Line Company has a
combination six- and eight-inch line
extending from its Hardin station, lo-
cated in the north half of the north-
Every Day or Weefc End
We sell only one quality — the
best!.. No matter what Groceries
you buy here, you’ll find them
fresh and appetizing*.
Just pick up the ’phone and give
us your order. You’ll save a lot of
time and you’ll get the same low
prices. We delver promptly.
Hon. Lon A. Smith, State railroad
commissioner at Austin, in a letter to
John Sigmund this morning, said:
“John, I cannot but believe you will
BiYwtaiiui; ^ oil on somc o£ your holdlngs 111
County, and near the Hendricks del'd 1 th»‘ section of 1 hay«1’t
to tank farm and tank car rack at » friend anywherc in the wor!d that
WVkrtt, Ward County, where the oil 1 !,ad ™rfK'r receiye tlle “ews thttt
is moved to the coast hy the Texas 'Tohn SIsmimd liad “ a
Pacific Railroad. | ia-m 1>ilrrel welt’ ”___
An eight-inch line is to be built
shortly by Southern from the Hardin
station to Wicket't, while the company
also has worked up cost estimates and
completed a tentative survey for an
eight-inch line from the Hardin station
STAR ROUTE MAIL SERVICE
ARANSAS PASS TO CORPUS
Just one month from tomorrow, from
sunrise until sunset. the balmy air of
the coast country contiguous to Aran-
sas Pass, will be punctured with every-
thing from quail to goose shot as the
game season for this zone opens No-
vember 1. Ardent nimrods, always
true believers in perfect preparedness
are already beginning to revel in the
joy of preparing the old blunderbuss
for the season’s shoot, re-painting and
' re-weighting and otherwise putting
their decoys in order, building fragrant
sweetbay blinds and calking up leaky
duck boats. The cold blasts of winter
are already getting busy in the north,
as evidenced by recent reports of
snow and cold in northern states, and |
the arrival on the coast of the advance .
guard of the fall flight of waterfowl.1
For the past six weeks flocks of both J
ducks and geese have been seen in [
flight or upon the inner bays, which
presages an early fall, plenty of birds
and a superabundance of sport for
those who come down 10 the coast to
hunt. As hunting has been prohibited
in the McCampbell pastime near the ’
city this season, hunting will be con- j
fined almost wholly to the bays.
In anticipation of this great annual
event the Port Aransas Club has taken
Old Father Time by the forelock by j
arranging full cooperation with the'
Farley and Munsell fleet of “Krazy
Kat” boats tooperate out of Aransas .
Pass during the coming hunting sea- j
son for the accommodation and con-!
venience of sportsmen. There are three
of the “Krazy Kat’’ boats ah alike
as three peas which were built by
Fred Farley at Port Aransas They
are 30 feet in length, powered with
150 H. P. Kermatlh engines, a speed
capacity of 35 miles per hour and
have a capacity for twenty persons.
Cabins have been built over the cock-
pits, so that hunters will be trans-
ferred to and from the blinds in dry
condition (externally). A pier 100
feet long is being constructed on the
breakwater channel between the mu-
nicipal swimming pool and Collins’
Fisheries Company. The pier will be
connected up with city light and water
and telephones and a warehouse will
be built for lockers for the accommo-
dation of hunters. One hundred -
sweetbay blinds are now being placed i
in shallow water covering a territory
from Allen’s Bight to Ransom Point:
and from Big Bayou to Shamrock;
Cove extending over a water area of
approximately 100 square miles of the
finest waterfowl waters on tile- Gulf
coast. These blinds are being placed
this week so that ducks will be ac-
customed to them when they come in
Mr. Farley is now engaged in tire- eon--
struetion of a dozen new skiffs of ’
uniform size to fit snugly in the
blinds. Fifty dozen new decoys have;
already been reecived and thirty dozen
more have been ordered and are now
enroute. Shotgun ammunition for 20.
16 and 12 guage guns has a1 ready been
received. All the hunter needs to do
is to bring bis old clothes and a shot
gun. Hunters will have to purchase
ammunition and furnish their own
“eatsi” Capt. Bill Farley, who was-
raised in this locality and knows'
every inch of the water and the habits;
of .wild fowl, will be in charge of the
boats and guides, thus insuring thee
best of service for those who are for-
tunate enough to secure reservations..
The guides are being chosen from ex-
perienced local talent—boys who can:
strut their stuff when it comes to*
chaperoning a bunch of nimrods.
Reservations are already ''.being'
made through the Port Aransas Club;-
of which Will H. Yernor,. of Aransas
Pass, is the guiding genius. Those
who purpose coming during the season?
should make their arrangements at
once so as to insure the best of ser-
vice. The cost of service, which in-
cludes boats, guides, blinds and de-
coys. and not ammunition and mealsf-
will be $7.50 per day for each person^
The boats will be equipped with fish-
ing tackle and bait so that occupants
may fish for trout and redfish when
the flight of birds is poor
The cost of non-resident licenses is;
$25 and $2 for state. The bag limit
for wild geese and brant of all kinds?
is four in any one day, and not miore
than twelve in any one week of seven
days; wild ducks of all kinds, wild’
snipe of all kinds, wild yellow-legsr
wild gallinule, or Indian hen ; twenty-
five in one day and not more than*
fifty in any one week of seven days;-
and it is unlawful to bunt, kill, or-
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Effective October 1st additional
mail service will be supplied by star
route from Corpus Christi to Rockport
to McCamey, thence to Aransas Pass f via Aransas Pass, arriving at Aran-
with 10-inch pipe. This project will Sas Pass 11:00 A. MS, departing at
require in excess of 500 miles of pipe. {4:00 P. M. This service will carry
raid in all probabilities will tie built first class mail on?y. No newspapers
in the near future. j or parcel post being carried. The
Illinois Pipe Line Company, the j regular mail will depart and arrive
transportation subsidiary of the Ohio : as at present, leaving at 10:05 A. M.
Oil Company, provided the first pipe i and arriving at 5 :35 P. M. As the
line connection for the Yates field. | principal letter mail will arrive at
Pecos County, with the completion of, H :0O A. M. the post office will not
a six-inch line about 28 miles in length j be opened in the evening for delivery
to McCamey in April 1927. This j of general delivery mail but the dis-
line’s capacity was limited to about j tribution to boxes- will be made as at
11.000 barrels daily, and an eight-inch ; present,
parallel line was recently added to the i —__________
HUMBLE
I
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system. Besides delivering 5,000 bar-
rels of Yates crude daily to. Humble
at McCamey on contract, Illinois is
building a tank farm on the Orient
Railroad northeast of McCamey to
make tank car shipments of crude.
DR. WALTER NOBLE PROUD OF
HIS CITRUS FRUIT TREES
Anyone having any doubts about
citrus fruit growing in Aransas Pass
and vicinity can rid themselves of
Construction work lias been started their hallucination by visiting the
by the Illinois Pipe Line Companv on ■ hack yard of Dr. Whiter Noble on
its third pipe line outlet from Yates! Houston street. He has one small
field, having purchased a tank farm
site and car rack location near Del
Rio and ordered two million barrels of
three year old grape fruit tree that
is weighted to the ground with about
100 large fruit and another tree of
Grease
pass
steel storage. This line will be made! Parson Brown oranges that is well j
up of about 132 miles of eigbt-incli! fruited- Satsuma orange trees are
pipe. Tank car shipments via the! also well fruited.
Southern Pacific Raih’oad to the Gulf
Coast will be used by Illinois until its EDROY FARMER TO PLANT j
crude supply justifies the building of ACRES MIXED VEGETABLES
a direct trunk line to tidewater.
It would show a fine appreciation
of what the Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company are doing for
Aransas Pass and vicinity if you
would purchase Humble products at
our new Drive-in Filling Station.
None Better. Prompt and efficient
Service.
The Illinois Pipe Line Company, sub-
sidiary of the Ohio Oil Company, is
building the largest single tank farm
E. C. Caldwell, prominent farmer of
the Edroy community, 10 miles south-
west of Sinton, is preparing land for
, . , , . , planting 1,000 acres of mixed vege-
havmg awarded contract last month. ■ . ,, , , „ , ftl
„ , . __ i tables. Mr. Caldwell has successful ly
grown vegetables for several years,
"" j being one of the first cotton farmers
| in this section to begin diversification.
Last year he cultivated 500 acres of
for the construction of 25 80’s at its
Del Rio tank farm, which serves as
the southern terminus of the com-
pany’s new eight-inch carrier now
building from Yates field The Deli . , ,
t,. , , „ i . . 1 vegetables and as? they were gathered
Rio tank farm is located on the South- . , . - , , . , , .
. . . , ; in the spring the land was planted in
ern Pacific Railroad, and a freight!
rate of about 10 cents per 100 pounds | Cfdton- ,lie ^ °n ‘ 1S
, . . ... ,, . f was not very good. Mr. Caldwell did
on crude moving via rail from this .....
we’l with his o-rn.
point to the Gulf Coast is expected.. _________
Hlowever, Illinois Pipe Line Company Subscribe for tlie Progress.
Motor
Snyder
Company
Aransas Pass, Texas
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Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1927, newspaper, September 30, 1927; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847939/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.