Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume XX
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEX^S, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930
Number 5
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAIL
Van Sweringens Now Control j Cement and Vegetable Tariff
Missouri Pacific Coastal Lines [of Vast Benefit to South Texas
The eyes, of the railroad world are
glued on the new giants of the rail-
road world M. J. and O. P. Van Swer-
ingen of Cleveland. Already widely
credited with holding the key to the
important Eastern trunk line consoli-
dation plans, rail road men suddenly
have realized that the Van Sweringens
are likely to play as important roles in
the consolidation plans on the Pacific
and the Gulf Coast as on the Atlantic.
For a week now, since the announ-
cement that the Van Sweringens have
quietly stepped in and obtained work-
ing control of the Missouri Pacific,
railroad men have been studying the
map of the Van Sweringen lines and
suddenly it has dawned upon them
that while it is undoubtedly the event-
ful plan of the redoubtable Vans to
acquire the Western Pacific and go
on to the Pacific Coast, the real highly
profitable objective of the Van Swer-
ingens was not the Pacific Coast, but
the Gulf Coast and the ports of Tex-
as and Louisiana.
This way lies the future rich Latin
American trade, the oil of Texas and
the Mid-Continent, field, 99 per cent of
the sulphur output of the United
States, the copper of Mexico, the big
cotton hauls and the various products
of the Mississippi Valley which more
and more are coming to use these
ports.
Roy Miller, a Texas waterway ad-
vocate, was telling of agricultural de-
velopment in Texas, when Congress-
man S. Wallace Dempsey, New York,
chairman of the committee, interrupt-
ed to say that he “thoroughly con-
curred in Miller’s statement.!”
“I was struck with the truth of
what Mr. Miller said following a con-
ference I had with O. P. Van Swerin-
gen, one of the greatest railroad men
in the country,” Dempsey continued.
“I had talked with Mr. Van Swerin-
gen on the great industrial growth
along the seaboard and told him that
the country was facing the poss'bility
of inadequate transportation facilities.
Mr. Van Sweringen agreed with me,
but he also told me this:
“J)on’t lose sight of the fact that
Texas is equally a land of future
promise. It has a marvelous future,
I know of no state which furnishes
greater opportunities and transporta-
tion than Texas.”
“Mr. Van Sweringen explained to
me that his opinion was the result of
exhaustive investigation being carried
on in Texas and elsewhere as to where
more railroads are most needed. He
told me these investigations would be
continued in Texas and other states by
the very best experts that could be
obtained.”
Until the news last week that the
Van Sweringens had obtained a work-
ing interest in the great Missouri
Pacific’s more than 10,000 miles \vas
the precise instrument they had chosen
to reach Texas and the Louisiana
Latin American ports known.
So, there is now reason to believe
that even if the plan of. the Van
Sweringens to reach the Pacific Coast
is delayed, the Missouri Pacific hook-
up with the lines they already, own,
including the Erie, the Chesapeake &
Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the
other lines they already own in the
East, or will soon obtain under the
general consolidation plan, fulfills the
Van Sweringen dream.
At New Orleans, which they enter
in the Missouri Pacific deal, the Vans
find the port that is second only to
New York. At Houston they find the
marvel of American ports, richer in
tonnage than the San Francisco of
Collis P. Huntington’s dreams. Fifty
miles inland Houston dug a channel
and brought the sea to its door. In
1929 Houston .passed San Francisco
and became seventh among American i
ports in foreign trade. It is as yet no j
such balanced port as New Orleans
for while it- ranked fourth of all Am-
erican ports from an exporting stand- ,
point, it ranked 19th in imports. Hous-
ton promises to mix with New Orleans
however, in the growing import busi-
ness from South America. Both Hous-
ton and New Orleans look forward to
vastly increased South American
trade with the building of the Nicara-
guan canal.
The so-called Sabine ports in Texas,
Beaumont. Port Arthur and Orange,
are great oil and lumber ports. The
Missouri Pacific also has access to
Corpus Christi-Port Aransas and the
Administration approved rivers and
harbors bill sbon to be enacted pro-
vides a deep harbor at Brownsville
and Point Isabel, right up against the
Mexican border.
At El Paso again the Van Swer-
igen controlled Texas Pacific touches
the Mexican border. It has access to
many of the principal oil fields of
Texas. The Lone Star State in 1929
, was again the leading petroleum pro-
ducer, with an output of 298,441,000
barrels. This great output was in the
face of pinehed-in production and
Government reports said that Texas
could havep rodueed millions of bar
rels of petroleum in 1929 had there
been a market for it. .
The passing of the tariff bill by the Senate Monday was of vast
importance to Aransas Pass and Port Aransas as well as all of South *'
Texas as it carries with it a tariff on cement, which will beneficially -
affect the big cement plant to be built upon Harbor Hand, anti con-
tains practically all the schedules on veegtables for which South
Texas lias been demanding for the past number of years. These
schedules are not expected to be affected in the joint conference of
the House and Senate before the bill is adjusted and finally passed. The
tariff on cement and vegetables will result in millions of dollars
annually to the South Texas area.
The Senate bill carries a tariff of 6 cents per hundred weight
and the House bill 8 cents per hundred weight on cement, and this
difference is to be adjusted in conference.
One of the greatest benefits will be in tomatoes. The output of
tomatoes from Mexicol has been increasing steadily, the tax of 1-2 cent
per pound having very little effect.
The Senate and House have increased this tariff to 3 cents a
pound, which will prevent Mexican tomatoes from breaking the mar-
ket for the South Texas product. It is for this tariff that South
Texas has waged its hardest fight, with several committees going to
Washington at diffeemt times, to appear before House and Senate
committees.
The bean tariff is increased from 1-2 cent to 3 1-2 cents. This
will help South Texas some at the present time, and will be of
much benefit later. The supply of Mexican-grown beans is increasing
steadily, and shipments into Texas have been made in large numbers
recently.
The tariff on onions is increased from 1 1-2 to 2 cents in the
House bill, nad to 2 1-2 cents in the Senate bill. The Senate bill
is expected to prevail on this tariff.
Other tariffs which will probably be of benefit to South Texas
later are squash,' eggplant, cueumbers, cabbage (which may help next
season in keeping Dutch cabbage from lowering the market), citrus
fruit (only a negligible increase), potatoes and some other commod-
ities... On most of these the advalorem tariff was increased from 25
per cent to 50 per cent.
TWO BOND ISSUES CARRY
BY TREMENDOUS MAJORITY
* The two bond issues, which were *
* voted upon last Saturday, brought *
* out only a light vote, which re- *
* suited in both bonds carrying by *
* a vote of 140 to 12. The issue for *
* $12,000 was for the purpose of *
A waterworks improvement, which *
* contemplates the extension of *
* mains to meet the demands of the *
* city’s progress and for more ade- *
* quate fire protection. The issue *
* for $15,000 was for the purpose of *
* funding, refunding and cancelling *
* and in lieu of a like amount of *
* valid and subsisting indebtedness *
* of the city, as evidenced by out- *
* standing legally issued warrants *
* of the city. *
Fancy Canned Fruit
To reduce our warehouse stock on some items of which we are
heavily stocked we are making these special prices for—
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY This Week
PEARS LJBBYS buffet size
63c
APRICOTS LIBBYS bijffet size
56c
PEACHES LIBBYS be™ET SIZE
53c
PINEAPPLE 3Slcans ubbvs n0' 212
69c
DU i rtUUC LIBBY’S DE LUX HALVES, NO
lElAliULlO 2 1-2 SIZE, 3 CANS ..........................
78c
PINEAPPLE Ln5BYS N0- 1 (KLSHED
41r
DU ADC LIBBY’S NO. 1 SIZE
iIjAivo 3 CANS ......................................................
68c
APRICOTS 3l“ no-1.....................................
55c
PEACHES K0SEDALE bkvnd n° 1
33c
crip 4 D 10 POUND
oUvlAlv. cloth bag .........-.................................
58 c
J. F. Houghton’s
“M” System Stores
Every nation represented at the
London conference feels that it must
be prepared to meet the war that is
not going to come.
WILL ATTEND ROCKPORT *
CAUSEWAY CELEBRATION *
* Weather permitting a large del-
* egation of Aransas Pass and San
* Patricio county citizens will at-
* tend the Hug-the-Coast Copano
* Bay Causeway celebration to be
* held at Rockport Saturday, Marcli
* 29. There will be a meeting of the
* members of the Hug-the-Coast
* Highway Association during the
* forenoon in Rockport and in the
* afternoon the delegates and visit-
* ors will go to the causeway ap-
proach at Nine Mile Point, where
* there will be a regular program of
* speech making by persons prom-
* inent in the conception and carry-
* ing out the Hug-the-Coast High-
* way plan.
America, the home of freedom and
fair pjay and sporting regard for the
under dog, and the only land that
bullies witnesses. .
PORT OF PORT ARANSAS OIL SHIPMENTS
Following shows the oil movement from the Humble Pipe Line
docks at the port of Port Aransas for the week ending Wednesday,
March 26:
Barrels
Previous shipments from September 1, 1928 ........................39,781,573.44
March 19, Ss Geo. H. Jones ............
March 19, Ss Geo. H. Jones, bunker
March 20, Ss Beaconlite ...................
March 21, Ss Garnet Hulings ........
March 21, Ss Beaconstar ...................
78,035.42
2,657.78
4,172.44
78,352.72
79 118.21
March 22, Ss E. M. Clark ........... 117,766.74
March 22, Ss E. Ml Clark, bunker ................................. 3,943.81
March 23, Ss Fred W. Weller ................................................ 115,567.49
March 23, Ss Fred Wr. Weller, bunker ....... 3,317.41
March 23, Ss Matinicock ........................ 5,372/74
March 23, Ss Matinicock, bunker ......... 3,029.30
March 24, Ss Hugoton .............................. 84,267.80
March 24, Ss Hugoton, bunker ...................................±________ 3,658.43
March 24, Ss Bruce Kellogg .............. 50,151.35
March 24, Ss F. Q. Barstow .................................................... 115,869.21
March 24, Ss F. Q. Barstow, bunker ......................................... 2,513.06
March 25, Ss Muskogee ......................................................v....... 24,702.30
March 25, Ss Muskogee, bunker ................................................ 2,113.25
Total for week
774,609.36
Grand total barrels ......,.........................................................40,556,182.50
Grand total tons ................................................................... 6,255,588.45
OIL SHIPMENTS FROM DOCKS OF A. D. & C. COMPANY
Following shows the oil movement over the docks of the Aransas
Dock and Channel Company at the port of Port Aransas for the week
ending Wednesday, March 26:
Barrels
Previous shipments from August, 1929 ................. ...............2.163,415.98
.March 20, Ss Win, Irish ................................................................ 78.589.49
Total for week .......
Grand total barrels
Grand total tons .......
. 78.589.49
2.242,005.47
345,898.11
PORT INGLESIDE OH, SHIPMENTS
Following shows the oil movement over the Humble Pipe Line
docks at Port Ingleside for the week ending Wednesday, Marcli 26:
Barrels
Previous shipments from November, 1926 ......................:_23.523.607,34
March 20, Ss Beaconlite .......................................................... 62,960.14
March 23, Ss Matinicock ........................................................... 73,137.37
March 25, Ss Muskogee .............................................................— 45,124.27
Total for week ....
Grand total barrels
Grand total tons ...
181,221.78
......23,704,829.12
...... 3,658.351.30
New Wells Raise Refugio Oil
Production to 40,000 Barrels
Refugio field, the largest oil pro-
ducer in the coastal area, continues
to increase its production,. the last
week hitting the 40,000-barrel mark.
The production was materially boosted
by the completion of tests in both the
5500-foot sands and the formation
around 3700 feet.
Humble Pipe Line company has
started stringing pipe for the new
eight-inch line which it is building
from Refugio to the Humble Oil and
Refining company at Ingleside, a dis-
tance of 28 miles. The pipe line com-
pany expects to have the new line in
operation between April 15 and April
20. Aside from tank cars, the present
.market outlet for Refugio crude is
limited to the Gulf Coast Pipe Line
company’s system, consisting of one
eight-inch line and one six-inch line
to tidewater at Port Aransas, total
distance of 32 miles.
Word was received last Friday that
Ryals No. 1, a W. L. Pearson Proper-
ties. Inc., well on the Ryals lease in
Refugio, was brought in with 1,600
barrels of high gravity test oil
a day.
'The Ryals No. 1 is Said to he the
seventh producing well sunk at Re-
fugio by the Pearson properties with-
out a dry hole being struck.
Announcement is made that an
eighth well will be .started immediat-
ely, to be drilled by the Saxet Oil
company as an offset to Ryals No. 1.
Oil was reached at a level of 5.4S6
feet in the Ryals No. 1. It is said
to be one of the deepest wells in this
section of the state.
The Houston Oil Company brought in
another well in the Refugio field Mon-
day. It is the company’s No. 1 Shel-
ton in block 100 of the Refugio town-
site. It is flowing 250 barrels initio 1
at a depth of 3.690 feet. The com-
pany’s No. 2 Peters in the Cole Bruni
field, was reported Monday as making
15,000,000 cubic feet of gas at 1,705
feet. It, has a rock pressure of 536
pounds.
Some new producers are also re-
ported from the Refugio field. Mor-
gan Oil Corporation has brought in
two new wells, its No. 5 City of Re-
fugio and its No. 1 Tom Heard, both
producing from the regulation depth
for that field. The No. 5 City of Re-
fugio is reported making 1.25n bar-
rels and the No. 1 Tom Heard making
500 barrels.
Luling Oil and Gas Company No.
1 Fannie Heard, Lot 6, Block 2 of
the Sunshine Addition to the Refugio
townsite has oil sand at 3,686 to 3,700
feet and is drilling in, according to
latest reports from the field. No es-
timate had been made on the produc-
tion.
E. O. Burton, president of the Blan-
co Creek Oil Corporation, advises that
they ran into quite a bit of gas at 850
feet, which looked like it would come
out anyway, hut the drillers started
pumping and held it down. They took
core but got only a little sand and
then went into blue shale again. There
was a showing of oil also, but only
“rainbow” in about 3 1-2 feet of sand.
Independent Oil and Gas Company
No. 3 Claude Heard, at Refugio is
flowing 1,200 barrels on five eighths
inch choker at 3,696 feet, in the same
field Korona Oil Company No. 1 Var-
sity is flowing 700 barrels on nine-
teixteenth inch choker at 3,699 feet.
INTEREST IN PETTUS FIELD
CENTERING ON TWO WELLS
Attention in the Pettus district in
northern Bee county seems now to
center principally around the No. 1
Portes well of the. Houston Oil Com- ■
pany and the No. 1 Kimball of Fisher
and W|iggins. The Portes well at last
reports was drilling at 3,100 feet and
the Kimball at a little below 1,900
feet, neither near deep enough to get
the pay sand.
Rowan and Tong have made loca-
tion for a well in the Pettus area. It
is about one and a half miles due
west of the town of Pettus on the
Massingale tract. The location is in
the southwest corner of the east 200
acres of the Massingale 350-acre tract
in the John Pace, survey. The location
was originally made in the exact cen-'
ter of the Massingale tract but by
agreement with adjoining lease-hold-
ers the location was moved. Derrick ■'
timbers are being moved.
E. S. Price of Dallas, who has the
lease on the Mrs. Laura E. Weiss
ranch of 15,200 acres in Bee and Go-
liad Counties with a location already
made and derrick up went to Beeville
last Wednesday night to make prep-
arations for starting his operations.
It was said it will likely be a week or
10 days before the Weiss test is spud-
ded in.
The Pettus area has two new loca-
tions this week. Both are by the Cau-
ser Oil corporation. Location number
one is near the center of the F. D.
Massingale 350-aere tract, John Pace
survey. Location number two is 300
feet out of the north corner of the
R. A. McKinney 350-acre tract in the
John Pace survey.
LARGE PROSPECTIVE, INDUSTRIAL
AND PORT DEVELOPMENTS at—
ARANSAS PASS
—AND—
PORT ARANSAS
offers Exceptional Inducements for In-
vestments in and near Aransas Pass.
DON’T FAIL TO SEE OUR
MANY OFFERINGS IN BUS-
INESS, RESIDENTIAL AND
ACREAGE PROPERTIES.
Gulf Realty Co.
Aransas Pass, 'Texas
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Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1930, newspaper, March 26, 1930; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth991008/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.