Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-20
OIL FIELD AIDS
WICHITA FALLS
Development at Electra
Arguments Growth of
Nearby City

nv paily News Staff Correspondent.
Wichita Falls. Tex, March 10
wichita Falls-the seat OF Wichita
coun,y-is we'll built and up-to-
date modern city Of 10 coo people,
and is. also, the functional point OF
the Fort Worth & Denver; the Katy;
the wichita Valley; and the Wichita
A Northwestern railroads and. also
again is the banking and money CEN
ter of the fast becoming famous Elec-
ira oil fields in the same county.
Came When Most Needed.
While Wichita Falls is the tivic
and con mercial center of a wide. nat
urallv rich agricultural and stock
growing region, the disastrous
drou2hts OF the past two years have
largely deprived the city of the rev.
enues usually accruing to her from
tributary farm and stock production
a money dearth which, however,
has been practically recouped by the
development of the Electra oil fields
"A development thus coming when
most needed.
Electra Oil.
Up 10 January q of this wear the
Electra oil fields show sc producing
wells at depths of from $40 to 1850
feet and n production ageregating
between 5000 and 5000 barrels of
oil per day. The oil markets at a
minimum OF so cents per barrel.
with n probable daily revenue from
the entire field Of $4,000. Since
January 81 an average OF 4 new
wells per day are in drilling pro-
cess. the greater portion of which
will probably prove producers.
Electra itself has an approximation
of 1000 people-the greater portion
Ct both her growth and population
materiali2ing within the past twelve
months.
Extension Of oil Field.
OIL wildcatting is rapidly extend
ing northward along the Fort Worth
= Denver railroad from Electra
half a dozen wells going down around
Vernon: some in the Chillicothe re-
gion. Lima. Ohio, capitalists prepar-
iug to sink deeply near Quanah;
while Childress is having a well put
down under an offer by the citizens
fNr
will flow 100 barrels of oil per day
for 30 DAYS.
The Charming Figure Three.
The old saving that in enumer-
ation-"Three Is a charm has again
exemplified its generally supposed
truth in the fact that after two con
secutive years of moisture failure,
the Texas region comprised alons
the lire OF the Fort Worth & Denver
railroad between Hardeman county
on the northwest and Tarrant coun'
" on the southeast, is now snfllci-
entity soaked by snow and rainfalls
10 promise good crops this season OF
cotton, corn, milo maize. kaffir corn,
oats, wheat, cane ard millet.
At the Eleventh Hour.
Comprised in the above referred
10 region are the counties Of Harde-
man. Wilbarger. Wichita. Clay, Mon
tagne and Wise and Tarrant and
each and hll of these counties
drought stricken in 1910 and 1911
have been rescued at the eleventh
hour from actual stock famine by
the shipping in last fall and winter
and this spring of milo maize. kaffiT
corn. oats and hay from the super
abundant mrplusage haryests CT the
Texas Panhandle Plains region.
A Revelation and It's Results.
The cattle hogs and horses Of the
above named Central Texas counties
became rathed gaunt in the fall Of
1910 and in the fall OF 1911 were
hawlnc, grunting and neghing fol
food
And then. TO the scarcely believ
ms ears OF these Central Texas farm
OTIS and stockmon, the North Wine
brought the at once revelation ant
announcement the contenpted ant
ieercd at Texas Panhandle the lane
of arid soil and bitter and blightin,
winds CD had harvests bountifu
and diVerqo and that its hurstin,