Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-19
TEXAS RANCH LAND MAY MAKE FORTUNE
 FOR BISBEE OWNER
0il Discoveries Near Property And Advantageous Lease of Fart of Range Offers Rob- ert Hennessy Big Chance.

Though the metals have failed of re- warding him with millions through many years of consistent standing by them with work and money invest ment, the minerals may be by way of handing Bob Mennessy the return in
 seven figures or better which is his
 due, and which there is probobly mo-
 body in the Warren District that its people along with the prospectors and miners of southern Arizona generally. would rather see in possession of the same. It would make them all happy to see Bob. walking around with check book good for a million bucxs.
 The possibilities in this line were very modestly referred to yesterday by Mir Hennessy upon his return from visit to ranch property which he pur- chased few years ago in the general vicinity of Ft. Worth, Texas. That country is now having a great oil boom. Forty miles from the Hennessy ranch they recently brought in a big gusher, and eighteen miles from the ranch there has since been another brought in. The ranch is on the oil formation, according to the geologists who have been Investigating that part of the country. Their reports have been so strongly favorable in that re- spect, indeed, that MT. Hennessy just before starting back to Bisbee, made
 lease of a part of his land at what seemed to be very advantageous fig ure in association with it's royalty stip- ulatiOns. However, next day he was offered just twice as much by another . oil fv.WA eE1a r. s- himself, having been around mining camps long enough to understand that fair deal is a fair deal and no kick coming because it might have been bet tered. From a contract similar to that into which Mir. Hennessy entered, it may be mentioned, a neighboring rancher is now taking down the com 1 fortable sum of S545 each day in roy alties and has declined to accept a million dollars flat for his one-eightn I interest He gave as his reason the declaration that million dollars was more than he would know what to do with at one time, and figured that he couldworr y along for a while on S545 a day.
 Eastern Texas is in good shape, but the plight of Western Texas is pitia. ble," said Mr. Hennessy yesterday in commenting on general conditions
 The government must take hold there and provide a way to give the people assistance, if we are going to measure ] up properly on the practical side of f the business of efficiency and conser. vation during the war period. The cat. tie of Western Texas have been prac. | tically wiped out There have been no sufficient rains yet to insure this year. There will be no wheat, but they are hopeful of oats and of feed
 But they are. bankrupt. They held on to their cattle until the last, hoping against hope that relief would come about in one way or another, and they i put every dollar they had and every dollar they could borrow into holding on. Many found when they We're con tronted with absolute necessity of let. ting go that they had nothing to let go of, their cattle having got so thin that they could not. stand shipping. So these raflchers are bankrupt today helpless to move one way or the other Relieved of this plight they would add millions to the nations resources in products of the soil and in cattle this year, and this must somehow be man aged. We cannot afford as nation to let resources of any kind slip through our fingers during the war"
 Robert Hennessy has been a resi-. dent of Bisbee more thaS1 thirty years. For a number of these he has been en- gagged in the undertaking business. Rheumatism few years ago fastened upon him and in seeking relief from the trouble he went to Texas. His in terest in ranch property there was one of the outcomes. Since then he has di- vided his time between Bisbee and Texas, looking after his business inter ests here during such time as he has been free from rheumatism, and hurry. | ing hack to Texas when attacks of the