Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
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oiume XIII
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, OCTOBER 5, 1923
Number 23
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAILS
yGIL COMPANIES SHOW BIG
{ RETURNS FROM PRODUCTION
According to statistics compiled on
tax returns by oil companies a fair
idea can be gained as to the extent
oil plays in furnishing employment
and supporting its share of the state
government . These fibures are based
on returns for the year 1922 and dis-
close the following facts:
Texas produces, in round numbers,
105,75,000 barrels, of oil annually.
Wages paid to 55,500 employes total
-114,000,000 yearly, based o nan aver-
age of more than $2,000 a year per
AUSTIN COLLEGE AT SHERMAN
TO RECEIVE $300,000 AID
The fact that Austin College at Sher-
man is to receive $30,000 out of the
$1,350,000 now being raised by the
Presbyterians of Texas for educational
purposes is arousing interest not only
among the Presbyterians but among
other denominations. Austin College
is now 75 years old and will celebrate
its diamond jubilee next June. Atten-
tion has been called to the fact that
the Institution has educated a long
list of distinguished Texans without
regard to church affiliation.
According to local church leaders,
, employe. According to United States
'^government statistics this feeds over i Presbyterian education may be said
117,000 Texas mouths. i to have begun with the foundation of
Lease rentals paid amount to Austin College in 1849. At that time
$4,103,800 a year. The bonuses paid
land owners total over $24,750,000
annually. Wages, lease rentals and
bonuses paid out pearly make a grand
total of $142,800,000.
In addition to the above the oil
companies operating in Texas paid out
approximately $17,000,000 in royalties
for the year 1922.
The gross revenue of the state from
valorem taxes is $24,974,168; the
yftd
gross revenue of the state from occu-
pation , taxes is $3,574,486. The oil
trade not only pays its just proportion
of the ad valorem taxes, but in ad-
dition thereto it yields revenue to the
amount of $2,704,941 or 76.6 per cent
of all special taxes. The special taxes
: lone, paid by the oil companies, are
practically ten per cent of the total
revenue of the state, collected over
there were only 10 ministers, 17 chur- j
ches and 344 Presbyterians in Texas, j
Their total gifts that year to all be- <
nevolent causes amounted to $600. j
It. is planned to divide the $300,000 j
to be received from the campaign, giv-
ing $200,000 to a permanent endow-
ment fund and $100,000 for much need-!
ed equipment. Letters have been re-1
ceived from alumni and from students j
pledging their support to the work. i
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SCHOOL CHILDREN LEARNING
VALUE OF SAVING ACCOUNTS
FORMATIONS IN WELL NO. 4
LOOKING GOOD TO DRILLERS
The old idea of education was com-
prised between the boundaries of
“readin, ritin’ and rithmatic.” The
Pres. Sigmund, of the Sigmund Unit
Company states that work has been
progresing favorably at Well No. 4,
modern idea is that education should considering shortage of fuel oil, etc.
prepare for life, as well for the utili-
zation of print, pen and figures.
The progress made towards a ration-
al education system is well shown in
statistics quoted by Samuel H. Beach,
He gives out for publication the fol-
lowing statement for this week:
“Last week drillers entered some
tough gumbo reaching 1966 feet. Mon-
day and Tuesday the entire hole was
of Rome, N. Y., president of the Sav- j reamed over again, enlarging the hole
j ings Bank Division of the American from a six to an eight inch hole, from
Bankers Association. He said: i 1697 to 1966 feet.
“Two million students in schools ! “Wednesday stem was pulled up and
now are participating in school bank- a 5% bit was put on rat-holing ahead
ing systems. This is a 34 per cent in-1 was started reaching 1980 feet. A car
crease over last year. The deposits j of fuel oil not arriving Wednesday
of the students total $9,618,000, as ‘ caused us to shut down the last 24
compared with $5,775,000 in 1922, and hours. Formations have so far been
$2,800,000 in 1921.” [ running good and look good to drillers.
The bankink habit is th efoundation A good many oil sands are found under
of industrial wealth. A people which 1
will not save can not prosper. Few
men easily learn to save after they
are grown. Habits of thrift learned j
gumbo in the coastal fileds.
“Below we give log from last week’s
ending of 1863.
1863
in childhood persist through adult life; 18 feet, sand, clay and boulders....l897
habits of spending, formed in boys 1 IS feet, sand, clay and boulders....1879
and girls, make irresponsible men and 1 1 foot, core dat ................................1898
RECEPTION FOR TEACHERS
MOST ENJOYABLE AFFAIR
SIGMUND UNIT HOLDERS
FORM ORGANIZATION
On the recommendation of several
The reception for the teachers on
Tuesday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. F. L. Clendening was a de-
cided social success and a most de-
lightful evening was spent at “42”
aiiti above tl)e ad valorem taxes paid. ' »«er tie game the Ladies «t the Par-1 reliable men the directors of the Aran-
' ent-Teachers Association served ice | sas Live Oak Ridge Oil Company with
cream and cake to the following guests a few other stockholders, went down
Mr. and Mrs. John Sigmund, Mr. i into their pockets and dug up enough
and Mrs. F. L. Clendening, Mr. and money to send Mr. Smith Brooks to
Mrs. Black, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Oliver, j Aransas Pass on the possibilities of
Mr .and Mrs. M. D. Scofield, Mr. and; oil on our holdings at that place.
Mrs. yv. A. Serivner, Mr. and Mrs. J. j His report on our lease there was
A.. Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.; most flattering, in so much that he
Tedford, Mr .an d Mrs. C. C. Tedford,
Mr .and Mrs. Cyrus Farley, Mr. and
women, too often liabilities rather than
i assets to society.
i Two million children learning to
i save pennies in public school banking
I systems are a sound guarantee for a
| saving manhood and womanhood in
--- | the coming generation. Nor does the
ed over to them, for which they have fact that the average bank account of
to give to the Aransas Live Oak Ridge : the school child amounts to only $4.80
Company one-eighth of all the oil on ] mean anything. That four-eighty is 1
2 feet, sand ........................ 1900
14 feet, gumbo ................................1914
6 feet, sand, clay and boulders....l920
Cored at ....................................1920
14 feet, sand, clay and boulders....l934
13 feet, gumbo ........... 1947
18 feet, gumbo ................................I960
1 foot, gumbo ................................1967
14 feet, gumbo ................................1981
“Hole has been reamed from 5%
the thousand acres. They also give j the sum of many* five and ten cent de- hole to 7% size from 1697—1966 and
to the land owners one-eighth of the 1 posits, sums which bear the same re- rat-holed ahead again from 1966.
If the total sum paid in wages,
lease rentals, bonuses and special taxes
was districted among all the inhabi-
tants of Texas (145,500,000) it would
equal $30 for every man, woman and
child, more than $1.37 a barrel.
These figures do not include cost of
materials, machinery, insurance and
federal taxes, to say nothing of dry
holes drilled, the latter in excess of
“Slight error in log last week was
21 feet gumbo-clay ommitted.”
1,000 a year and costing in round fig- Mrs. H. C. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
ures $15,000,000Ja dead loss.
There are .now 756 different oil
entities paying a producing tax, of
which the five dormant companies, the
Tankersley, Mr .and Mrs. Carl Utter-
back, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Korges,
Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Mrs. W. E.
Warrick, Mrs. Leatha Bell, Mrs. Phil-
Humble. Gulf. Texas, Magnolia and j lips, Mrs. J. K. McKone, Mrs. Snyder,
Sinclair, pay 37.4 per cent. Other j Mrs. Casterline, Mrs. Allen, Mrs.
Iftrge Companies, having small inter-1 Heline; Misses Ruth Utterback, Pris-
ests in Te^as pay 3.9 per cent. The | cilia Stephens, \elma McKinney,
remaining 58.7 per cent is paid by
small companies and individual opera-
tors.
GALVESTON DAILY NEWS
ANNUAL TRADE EDITION
Velma
Luna Mae Duckworth, Merle Manning,
claims we have an oil field one and
one-half to two miles wide and four
or five miles long.
On the strength of Mr. Brooks’ re-
port, Mr. Sigmund thought of a plan
by which money could be raised to
put down a well on the location made
by Mr. Brooks. This is the plan: To
form a company of two hundred unit
holders at one hundred dollars per
unit, thus making a total of twenty
thousand dollars, and with this mon-
oil. This is the only fair way that j iation to the income of the child, as
we know of to get money to dig a the deposits made by his elders have
well. j in relation to the elder’s income.--
There is very little stock left in the i Twenty-six million Americans have ORDINANCE 160
Live Oak Ridge Company, and our, savings accounts totaling $17,300,000,- An Ordinance to close certain sec-
lease expires early in 1924, with no; 000, or $665 each. The two million tions of Streets and Alleys; Limit the
chance of renewal. An oil or gas j school boys and girls who today have Speed of Automobiles, Trucks and
well will hold the whole acreage. j their little savings accounts and thus Other Vehicles within the City Limits,
The most of the stockholders in the j learn that the labor of today must and to Prohibit Children under the ag©
new company are stockholders in the 1 be conserved to some extent for the: 0f Fifteen Years Driving Motor Ve-
old company, also. j expenditure of tomorrow, are the hides of any Kind upon the Street or
There are a number of units to be j country’s guarantee that in the next Alley within the City Limits,
had ahd we would like to have as j ten years the increase in our savings; Be it ordained by the City Commis-
many of the Aransas Live Oak Ridge i accounts will more than equal the in’ gionerg of the city of Aransas Pasg)
Oil Company stockholders join us ini crease in the last ten years, which was Pexas
the Sigmund Unit Company as can, i 100 per cent.
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Texas’ oldest newspaper, The Gal-
veston News, accomplished another
worthwhile journalistic effort in its
*jK issuance on Oct. 1 of its annual trade
^edition. The number is devoted to
the interests of Galveston and the Tex-
as coast country and is most attractive
and interesting.
The News’ annual trade editions have
come to be an institution in this sec-
tion of the state, and possibly because
of this the publishers leave no stone
unturned wliich might handicap its
editorial staff from presenting an issue
rhich always grades A1 plus. The
it923 edition is no exception, but on the
other hand represents decided improve-
ment over previous issues.
The edition, while sectional to the
extent that each county in Galveston’s
immediate territory is treated in a
special story and crops and industries
in that area are given full treatment,
is nevertheless statewide. Articles
from the pens of state notables, official
and otherwise, are scattered through-
out the edition and give a widened
scope to the issue.
Galveston as a port and playground
le handled fully. The edition shows:
Exports of domestic merchandise
during the past fiscal year of $414,-
242,447, representing shipments to
forty-eight foreign countries on 1,321
vessels.
During the past cotton year net re-
ceipts were 2,345,674 bales, with ex-
ports of 1,929,111 bales, valued at
$266,217,318.
Sugar imports totaled
_ pounds, valued at $9,3§2,086, and crude
brought in from Mexico totaled
14,759,514 barrels.
Articles dealing with fig raising,
truck crops, lumbering, fish and oys-
ter industry,, good roads, trapping,
Evelyn Morgan, Muriel Moore, Lucy i ey he is drilling a well on a twenty -
Minter, Cressie Minter, lone Patterson, j five acre tract.
j Francis Helme, Neva Bell, Lutie Black At a distance of one or two miles
Dr. D. A. Peoples,; Messrs. Reed Bell, j from this twenty-five acre tract he
Robert Helme, Roddy Kell, Leslie: gives unit holders 975 acres more,
Odern,'. Bernard Hutson, Ellis, Robert j making 1,000 acres in all .
Bigelow, Neil Bigelow. j The name of the new company is
The following arethe names of the
teachers present: Misses Nell Mont-
gomery, Curry, Beckworth, Hunt,
Casheer, Minter, Pugh.
for we expect to have a well, .very
soon;
The officers elected in the. new com-
pany are: John ■?Sigmund, president;
J. R. Green, vice-president; Frank
Stoughton, secretary; Kate Inman,
SECTION 1—That section of HAR-
RISON BOULEVARD fronting and.
adjacent to the Aransas Pass Public-
School, the Methodist Church and the
Christian Church is to be closed to all
Masculine Person Bedecked
In the earliest civilization men of
wealth and position decorated them-
selves all they could. Tut-Ankh-
___ A men’s gem-studded sandals of pure , traffic, and the parking of automobiles
treasurer; Jeannette TayloivGus Coots Sold were by no means unique; on the j and other vehicles within its boun-
eoritrary, they were fair samples of, daries is prohibited. The boundaries
the kind of footgear every Egyptian j the closed area are as follows : “Be-
the Sigmund Unit Company.
This company has 1,000 acres turn-
W. S. Phillips, W. H. Stenger, C'. M.
Smith, directors-;- T. L. Swearengen,
August Hesse, Robert Troup, trustees.
J. R. GREEN.
—The Dalhart Texan.
CIVIC PRIDE
Civic pride is somewhat lacking in
some parts of our fair city and it
would be well if each and every resi-
dent of Aransas Pass would take an
inventory of his home place and see
if he cannot improve the looks
property to make your
attractive to strangers
One must ever be un the
McCAMPBELL
Miss Eula Kell left last week for
San Marcos, where she will be a
student in South West Texas Normal.
Norman Spears moved his family to
Portland last week, he having accepted j of his
a position with the Gregory Garage. ; home town
Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Bailey and ba- coming in.
by, of Refugio, were guests in the E. alert for it is the visitor within our
R. Porter home Sunday. They were gates that talks to the out side world
accompanied home by Mrs. C. H. of how our town is kept.
Heard, of San Antonio, who had been j gome may say they cannot help on
visiting her sister, Mrs. Porter, for j account of lack of funds—but it doesn’t
some time. ; take money to pull up the weeds, it
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gilbert spent last, takes civic pride and a little time-
week-end in San Antonio. j that’s all.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Stewart and j Aransas Pass with its beautiful
children, are visiting relatives in San j broad gtreets and has an incessant
Angelo. | stream of visitors passing through our
Sim Spears returned Saturday night; j-own every day and is under constant
from San Antonio where he had been j inspection by visitors. These folks
visiting for several days. j form impressions, not so much from
Roy Pyron spent Monday and Tues- j Sliperficial appearance of
i tt T*riFh nO milf C O Ylfl ___
Among the stupendous engineering
projects now contemplated are a canal
from New Orleans through the low
lands of Louisiono and Texas to the
king sported as a master of course,
and the nobles of Egypt, Babylonia,
Assyria. Media. Persia, Lydia and
Etruria indulged themselves with all
rhe ornaments their artisans could pro-
duce, as far as they could afford them.
I ginning at the Southwest corner of Lot
No. 3 in Block No. 485; thence in a
Southerly direction crossing Harrison
Boulevard along the East line of Rife
Street to the Northwest corner of the
Methodist Church property; thence in
a Southerly direction along the West
line of Harrison Boulevard to the
Southeast corner o f the Methodist
The fair season is here again, but
my! how tilings have changed. Time
was when the young man could treat |j'Church property; thence in an Easter
Rio Grande and a tunnel under the kjg gjri and himself to a lemonade for j '.y direction along the North line of
English Channel with a sixty kilometeh nickel and get a balloon thrown in. ! Volson Avenue crossing Harrison Bou-
tube. The physical face of creation , xow he adds fifteen cents to it to get j levard to the Southeast corner of Block
can almost be changed by the princi- j enough gas for Lizzie to take her and I No. 485; thence in a Northerly direc-
ples of engineering. The gigantic un- j the children to the grounds and for j t ion with the East line of Harrison
dertakings are commendable, but what every niekle that the young man used j Boulevard to the place of beginning.”
the world needs is the application of
these principles of engineering to smal-
ler things. Most of the road building
in the nation is still done by piling up
dirt without a serious thought to the
importance of drainage.
day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. j like cogyy buildings, as by the degree
Fear and Auger
Fear and anger are differently de-
veloped in different animals. A frog
or a rabbit lias only fear, while tigers
and weasles usually show only anger.
Some men are built the same way.
Fear and anger are, therefore, op-
posite moods, the first the impeller of
piopexty i fjie second of fight.
G. A. Pyron.
W. G. McCampbell visited the Farms
Tuesday afternoon.
G. A. Pyron, Sr., Roy Pyron, and
Miss Della V. Porter were Corpus
Christi visitors Tuesday afternoon.
E. R. Porter and Clifton Porter were
lmsines svisitors to Taft and Sinton
260,677,347 j Wednesday.
G. A. Pyron, Jr., is spending a few
days this week with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Pyron.
PRESBYTERIAN YOUNG
oil and' the" like, all fully illustrated, PEOPLE’S CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
comprise the major portion of the
ssue.
of neatness and taste shown in the j
care and improvement of dwellings and ;
their surroundings.
Indications like these reflect the
character of the people who live in a
place. A city that keeps itself scrub-
bed and combed, •whose homes show
a love for the beautiful, by neat lawns,
and pretty flowers. Gain a name for
self respect and culture. Visitors pass
along the word that it is a, fine town.
Let us he up and doing and make Ar-
ansas Pass the one of the beauty cities
There is no beter way to advertise a
town.
Ideas of Recreation
One idea of rest is to do nothing,
to spend, the children now spend a
quarter.
The Prince of Wales is said to have
put in three days hard manual labor
helping to fill a silo on his ranch in
Canada. This is a wonderful news
item. Wonder why they happen to
make mention of this about the Prince
of Wales instead of Bill Smith over in
the forks of Bear Creek, who, we un-
derstand, under-went the same ordeal,
except that he made it six days in-
stead of three?
Loss to Y. M. C. A. property in Ja-
pan amounted to more than ■* million
dollars. Almost immediately after the
disaster. Dr. John R. Mott received a
another is change of occupation and gift 0f $500,000.00 from S. P. Fenn, of
environment. Most people find it dif- rhe Sherwin Wililams Company for
ficult to do nothing, and ir recreation foreign Y. M. C. A. work. Evidently
seek complete change, thus exemplify- Mr. Fenn does not belong to that class
ing the philosophy of living. 0f critics who discredit the effective-
ness of the Y. M. C. A.
The Staff of Life
If all the bread the average person
eats in a year were baked in one loaf
it would take three strong men to lift
it and a horse to pull it. The weight
of the loaf would be 397 pounds.
Sun, Moon and Earth
Tf the sun were a hollow ball, and
the eaith and moon could be placed
in the center in their relative posi-
tions, the moon could continue round
rhe earth inside the sun and leave
rienty of room to spare.
Ev-
The National Convention of Better
Jusiness which has closed its session
Kansas City adopted plans for a
?ra stic clean up in unethical advertis-
ing, It will cost comparatively little
to get clean advertising, arid I doubt
inot that it would be worth more to
the world than all the reforms that
[legislatures and congresses have ac-
Icomplished in a decade.
Meets at 6:30 Sunday evening,
erybody inviaed to come.
Subject: Word of God, Psalms 119;
9-15; 105.
1. Some Illustrations—Chris Cher-
Reduced Railroad Rates
Lowered the Temperature
I proposed for the first time to the
girl of my heart on the crowded plat-
form1 of an elevated station during the
well-known rush hour. It was a cold
For the Beeville Fair, tickets on sale
Oct. 15 to Oct. 19. Limit to Oct. 20th.
$3.03 round trip.
Dallas Fair, October 13-28 . Tickets
on sale October 11 to 27th. Limit Oct.
30th. Round trip $19.13.
Cotton Palace at Waco. Tickets on
Leaning on the Everlasting sale Oct. 19 to Nov. 3rd. Limit to Nov humiliating another with harsh words
6th. Fare $13.12 round trip. and raising yourself in his estimation.
2. Facts from the Bible—Margaret j
Allen.
3. Lesson from Bible—Mr. Singler,:
Roy Pyron.
4. Talk by Miss Curry.
Song:
Arms.
miserable evening and I wasn’t warm-
ed up at all by the young lady’s curt,
firm and cutting refusal.—Ex.
Philosophical Strategy
There is a vast difference between
Weaver Birds in “Flats”
Weaver birds of Africa build a com-
Qunity roof of grasses, often as large
s a native but, the underside of which
s divided into compartments, each oc-
cupied by a pair of birds.
A Pity
Some people take so much pleasure
in telling what they know that it is
a pity they know so little.—Boston
Evening Transcript.
The purposes for which the above
described area is closed is for the pro-
tection of school children and to pro-
vide sufficient school grounds.
The penalty for violating this Ordi-
nance shall be FIVE DOLLARS
($5.00). The penalty for subsequent
violations of this Ordinance by the
same party or parties shall be
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25.00)
SECTION 2—The speed limit for
automobiles and other vehicles on any
streets and alleys within the city lim-
its is not to exceed FIFTEEN (15)
miles per hour; EXCEPT upon Good-
night Avenue between Houston Street
and Harrison Boulevard, and on Rife
Street between Goodnight Avenue and
Nelson Avenue, which is to be known
as School district, the speed limit is
not to exceed Eight (8) Miles per
hour.. The penalty for violating this
Ordinance shall be FIVE DOLLARS
($5.00).
SECTION 3—It shall be unlawful for
any child under FIFTEEN YEARS of
age to operate a motor vehicle of any
kind upon any Street or Alley within
the City Limits. Penalty1 for violating
this Ordinance shall he FIVE DOL-
LARS ($5.00)
Passed and Approved this 4th day
of October A. D. 1923.
J. A. ZIMMERMAN, Mayor.
F. M. MINTER, City Clerk.
Sparrow Hawk Useful
There is a long list of hawks in the
country, and the sparrow hawk is the
smallest of the family, says Nature
Magazine. In so far as our interests
are concerned, it is a most useful
bird, for it feeds on mice, on not a
few insect pests, as crickets and also
grasshoppers, on spiders and the rest.
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