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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
Drilling In
Nolan County
Going FOYWard
F fourteen Contracts Let For
Deep Wells and Two
More. Are Pending.

Sweetwater, Tex. May Sat pres
ent there are Il contracts for deep
test wells and Two more contracts
pending IN Nolan county.
Inc Sinclair OIL company VIII have
everything ready 10 spud in n wen
near the county line II the southeast
part Of the county in a few days.
West Texas Production company is
drilling around 100 feet near Black
vel, in the south part Of the county.
Adjoining this block on the west, the
Blackwell oil & Gas company, which
had their derrick blown down by the
storm, few days ago, has il rebuilt
and is ready to begin operation.
Chopin q Allen are now drilling on
their block in the southwest part OF
the county Part Of this acreage IS
in Coke county.
Material and machinery are being
received for the development OF the
kutman ranch block. 10 miles south
OF SWeetwater. This development is
being done BY the wichita Nolan
company and the Western Holdings
syndicate.
Erection OF the derrick on the J..
K. p Harris block just east and south
OF the Kutman block. began Monday
This well is being drilled by ]. T..
Schulenherger. Of Pennsylvania
The derrick Of the Lake Trammel
NlICA- SIX mics EoALn OF oEGeL " a-Lelr
IS up and viii be drilling by the 18th
This development IS being done by
the Packard Oil company
Drilling and Drilling.
Everything is ready TO begin drill
ing this week on the Walter Booth
block. five miles south and Just east
from the Lake Trammel block. by
Offenhausen & O'Hara-
Material is on the ground for a der
rick on the Bitter Creek block just
east Of the Walter Booth block, by
the Nolan OIL & Gas company
A contract was recently closed on
the Roe ranch. adjoining the city on
the east. TO begin drilling in 80 days,
by J. S Bedford et al. Of California
A contract has been made on the
Nelbit block, four miles northwest OF
the city. consisting OF - sections
with. $1,000 bonus per month TIL drill
ing begins
a contract was closed on the
Weatherby block, six miles east OF
town. with P. H Underwood Of the
Chicago Development company TO be-
gin drilling in 80 days.
Two contracts were recently closed
IN the western part Of the county
near Roscoe
When the two pending contracts
are closed. not an acre OF land in the
county viii be over five miles from
a drilling contract
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
CAMERON FIELD NOW HAS
IS WELLS NEAR TRACY

ne Cameron, Texas. shallow f7eld
has about IS wells about Tracy and
every one is q producer of one to four
barrels day. It IS said that not a
dry hole has been drilled. Five new
wells are being sunk now. The Cali
fornia Traders Oil company has
shipped two rigs to be set up on the
Leusing and Graves Bros. leases The
newly organized White Oil company
has ordered q re Tor this fiard
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
VALLEY OIL co. DENIES
OIL YET AT COLUMBUS

Defufation o. sensational rep0rts N
Fl Paso Wednesday afternoon that
on had been struck I'm the well Of the
valley OIL company at Columbus. n
NJ was contained I'm q message to The
Herald from j. A. Moore, secretary
treasurer Of the company in response
to inquiry
NTr. Afoore's wire follows;
1--WE are still in hard cap rock
showing good. but no well yet, look
for Il any time. Are not responsible
for false reports"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
DANLY WELL IS HOLDING
UP TO 1900 BARRELS

The Prairie Oil and Gas company
ra-1ev v-elI-fn the northern part OF
FastIand county Texas. is reported
holding up It's initial production OF
$500 barrels a day This Well Is
vrftched with great interest as II mas
The Texas Ranger oil company. s
Bodies well north OF the Prairie
Danlev. but IN stephens county. mas
been drilled deeper into the sand am
Is producing 1000 barrels. accordlns
to latest reports Tt is 5fl7 1eet deep
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
AMERICAN PETROLEUM WILL
EXPLOIT LAND IN DUKE

The American Petroleum company
OF Texas has been organized in Fort
Worth to exploit ISL acres IN nine
tracts in the Duke field The Hughes
OfRourke construction company OF
Dallas has contracted TO drill the first
vel for this concern which viii he TO
offset the Texas cOmpany's well on the
Wilson tract where the latter con-
Germ is down 1850 feet with a showing
or gas
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
DUKE EXTENSION WELL
SHOWS OIL AND GAS NOW

About 100 barrels OF oil and 1000
600 cubic feet OF gas at the top OF the
sand Is the result OF 2704 feet Of drill
ling in the well OF the Duke Exten-
sion oil company IN the Desdemona
district a mile north OF the Duke and
Knowles wells. according TO reports
from DeLeon- The well Is shut down
nectfons.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

Abilene. Tex May She Beaver
Valley OIL e. Refining company's test
south OF Abilene. which was spudded
IN last Tuesday. viii start drilling in
q few DAYS.
The iuespie-Reuicz Clark No. J.
at Canns. is shut down at 325, due
to a sliEht cave
Sears No ]. north Of Merkel. IS shut
down waiting for a new boiler.
Material for a deep test IS being
hauled 10 a location Il miles west Of
Abilene
Location has been made for a $500
foot test a mile and a half south OF
MerkeL
The Fort Phantom Hill test IS fish
ing, while the Andy Urbin test Is
cleaning out.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
TEN DAYS MAY SEE RIG
AT WORK NEAR Ell PAS0

The FL Paso OIL and Gas company
unloaded its derrick Wednesday. the
last Of its well drilling machinery
and a force OF eight men are employed.
The work OF installation is on and
manager J. T. Sadler stated that II
IN Pasoans wanted TO see a genuine
standard rig at work they can do SO
in about ten DAYS at the company's
site nearly six miles north Of ~ Paso
ALONGSIDE the paved county road.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
'TIZ" FOR Tired
AND SORE FEET
Use "Tiz" for puffed-up,
burning, aching, callous-
ed feet and corns.

Why 90 Hmping around win sch-
Ing. puffed-up fGet-fest so tired
chafed. sore and swollen ycu car
hardly get your shoes on or OF
Why don't you get a ascent box Of
''Tiz~ from the drug store now and
gladden. your tortured feet7
Tx" makes your feet glow WIKI
comfort; takes down sWeilinEs and
draws the soreness and misery right
ont u feet that cha1e. smart and
burr riz" instantly stops pain IN
corns. callouses and bunions- liz
is glorious for tired. aching. sore
feet No more shoe tightnsss-no
more foot torture--AdV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
WELL IN Fl. WORTH CITY
LIMITS BEING WATCHED

Fort Worth papers say the Fo!y-
technic well being drilled in that clly
Nv the Pioneer oil and Gas COMPANY
Of that place, IS down over sou. -
md ais inch casing was BENG set
sbDer Davis. oil man OF Wichita Falls'
TeTas. is now interested in the no
7eer company and has brought e1-
merits 10 take charge OF this WORK
This well, rlgnt N .1s. &c & has
lesson that II it comes IN either as =
laser or an oil well it means much
for Fort Worth
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

The Grapevine Production company
and the Bear OIL company are two
concerns which are preparing to drill
very near the town Of Grapevine. Tar
rant county, Tex The former has all
the machinery and material at its To-
cation just west OF Grapevine and
the Bear company has materials for
its derrick on the ground. a mile and
a half west OF the site OF the Grape
vine concern
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
NeU Wells In Ranger
Ind BmB Oil Fields

Dallas. Texas. Nay S.-Harrison
wei no. in the Ranger district
came in Wednesday with 5000 bar
rels. This Wen brings the prodUc-
ton OF the Harrison tract up 10
1000 barrels per day. Harrison No.
5000.
The new VoEel well OF the United
OIL company Cgme in Wednesday at
Burkburnett svith 5000 barrels. 1t
Is located on block "a in the new
district west Of Burkburuett The
pay sand was hit at 400 feet and
was drilled Il feet into the sand.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

A san Angelo, Tex. report IS to the
effect that G. Z. and R. F. Hubbard.
OF Tulsa, Okla, have contracted 20
driu two deep test wells. one IN sec
ton Is OF the Mrs. D. c. Ogden ranch,
I'm Menard county. and the other on
west corner OF kimble county The
Hubbards have 1854 acres leased in
Menard county and $1,000 acres IN
Kimble county. They also have large
leaseholds in Tom Green and other
counties
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

4 gas TOW Of 1000. 900 70 1000 900
cubic feet from the Manhattan Pc
troleum counanv's Johnson No. ! in
section T33 in Young county. Texas,
from a depth OF only as feet, IS the
latest There is no report OF any oil
showing The wen IS southwest OF
Newcastle and about eight miles
northward from the Graham well OF
the Texas company. which is showing
for several hundred barrels Of oil
from below 1000 feet The Texas COM
pany's Arnold well is about six miles
southeast
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

Wilson. curtis & Braden's Rhodes
well. adjoining the townsite Of Bluff
dale in Erath county. Tex, was re-
ported as having made a showing OF
oil a few days ago at 1850 feet. where
the drill went through IS feet OF very
hard oil sand. Drilling is now at
something over 1900 feet
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

According 20 latest reports the
Morehead well No. 1 OF the Magnolia
and Hog Creek oil company IN south
ern Eastland county IS now up 10
500 barrels a day The Increase from
100 barrels at the top OF the sand came
from drilling 20 feet into IT, This well
means a northern extension OF the
Desdemona field for about a mile
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
FIELD GROWS WESTWARD.

The Collin County Oil & Gas com
pany's wen on section 50 OF the Red
River valley lands. several miles west
Of Burkburnett and about two miles
southwest OF the Burk WaEgouer
well. IS being watched as an indica-
tion OF the extension OF the field IN
Wichita county westward
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08
SUNSHINE OIL STARTS
NEW WELL NEAR LAURA

President finally. OF the Sunshine
on corporation. has wired from Pecos,
Texas. that he has had a star rig
drilling a wen near the Laura wei
10 develop the sand struck this week
in the well named The Laura IS 20
be made a deep test OF two more
sands at least
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

According to the A1buquedkue, n
" Herald. drilling for oil is now go
inE on in IS Of the 28 counties IN the
state OF New Mexico There nave
been over 20 companies organized for
the purpose Of exploring for oil in
the state.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

Exceptionally good buy in a tene-
ment These buys are scarce
Lee Newman Tenement Specialist.
sos S. FL Paso St Phone 46o4-Adv
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

Curtill q Co. buy Liberty sonds ADV
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-08

Decidedly Dependable Dentistry. Dr..
". A. smith, SIS Martin Bldg--Adv-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

AS to enemy countries, Mr.. Hoover
tered, they still have securities to pay
for the food they are to receive He
said that the United States has at pres
ent thirty-eight officers travelling in
Germany, conducting an investigation of
food conditions. According to the re-
ports received, the chief difficulty was
presented by the question of supplying
fats.
Mr.. Hoover emphasized that food al
lowances to Germany will be made grad
ually only, and in exchange for the use
Of German shipping.
In regard to private OF semi-private
relief organizations, Mr. Hoover said
that he was prepared to handle all their
needs, buy food for them and provide
free ocean transportation, but that he
could not undertake distribution after
supplies leave the ships.
In the mean time action was being
taken by Congress on the Presidents ap-
peal for a $100,00000O fund On Mon
day, January 6, the Presidents request
was approved by the House Appropria-
tions Committee. On Tuesday, however,
difficulties became manifest.
dispatch from Washington quotes
Senators Borah and Smoot as opposing
the measure unless more information re-
garding plans for the use of the money
was forthcoming.
"If we have no more information than is
given in the Presidents message" said
Senator Borah, 81. for one, Will not vote
for the appropriation.
Il shall not vote this 100000, 900 if it
is to be expended by NIr. Hoover in the
manner he expended funds in this country.
Pm not willing to vote on generalzations.
We must have detailed facts
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

"In fact, in all the world, the greatest
danger which threatens the right of peoples
to self determination cores from Russia
While the peace conference is preparing
just settlement of Europes complex prob
lens, settlement in keeping so far as pos
sibe with the wishes and interests of all
peoples, the Bolsheviki are working actively
to force upon them their own obnoxious
programme. Their agents are present every
where, armed with money and propaganda
to spread the gospel Of violence and an
archy. They make no secret Of their hatred
Of the democracy for which the world has
sacrificed so much and their resolve to
wage against it relentless warfare"
The general European alarm over the
westward drive of the Bolshevki is
sounded by an editorial printed in the
journal de Geneve":
"The Russian Bosheviki are advancing
They have reconstructed an army of mer-
cenaries very well paid, and it is said, or
ganized and disciplined. It's numbers, reck-
oned by its adversares as high as 2,0O0,0 900,
are, perhaps, exaggerated; but at least they
are sufficient to move almost without meet
ing resistance on the footsteps of the re-
treating Germans.
Cali the populations Of Western Russia
Lithuanians, White Russians, ETC., are fall
ing, one after the other, into the power
of triumphant anarchy. Now Poland is
threatened. The aid promised by the Allies
is not forthcoming and the Poles are hard
pressed on all sides by Ruthenians and
Bolsheviki.
"And what is Germanys attitude in this
turmoil? It is hard to say. While the
Poles accusing the Germans Of favoring
Bolshcvism in Poland, and break off dplo-
matte relations on that account, the Ger
mans, for their part, dread the Bolshevist
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
Keds Are Among Us; Shall We Let Them Stav

Of the precautions prompted by this
warning "The New York World" re-
ported:
The order particularly specified the
homes of Messrs. Schwab, Morgan. Car
negie, Gary, Astor and other capitalists to
be carefully guarded. Cathedrals and other
public buildings were also mentioned in
the general order to the police, as possible
scenes of destruction
Homes of judges and magistrates, espe-
cially those who have sentenced Bolsheviks
and other anarchists to long terms, were
also closely watched over by the police.
THE Police Department placed special
guards in front of the homes of many
wealthy snen, judges, Mayor Hylan, public
buildings, churches and the residence of
Police Commissioner Enright in Brooklyn
last night, following a warning received
from the Philadelphia police that the Boil
shevik anarchists who terrorized that city
earlier in the week by hurting bombs into
homes of public officials are, now in New
York"
The presence of big Bolshevik prop
aganda fund in this country was re-
vealed in the course Of the Investigation
started in New York by Federal, state
and city authorities following the Phila-
delphia explosion. "The New York
Times" reported:
1T was announced at the local headuuar-
ters OF the Department Of Justice yesterday
that steps were being taken to prevent the
dissemination Of Boishevist propaganda
here. Five groups Of Reds are understood
to have established headquarters here Spc-
cial Deputy Attorney General Alfred H.
Becker said, while secret agents of Leninc
and Trotzky had recently come to this citv
from Russia by way Of Siberia with large
bolshevist propaganda fund amounting to
s700, 600"
According to "The New York World"
Federal agents are in possession Of an
elaborate who's Who in American Boil
shcysm" list, containing 1000 names.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

Russian revolution. When asked by a
"World'' reporter when he expected the
outbreak of the great revolution in the
United States, Weinstein said:
at is hard to foretell how long it will
take. There was q time, not long ago. when
the whole world said that the German pro-
letariat would never revolt But all of a
sudden the German proletarat revolted and
now we see them going in the same path as
the Russian Bolsheviki. You may draw
whatever conclusion you want. We are not
prophets. We revolutionists and
scholars. We think the working people all
over the world will not agree to the form
OF life which existed before the war. and
they will change the form of life and change
1T by force if necessary"
1t was explained at the Bolshevik con-
ventlon that the main object of the gath
erlng was to discuss educational plans.
however, resolutions protesting against
the presence Of the former Russian Am
bassador at Washington, Bakhmeteff.
and of Prince Lvoff at the peace table
were indorsed. 1t was demanded that
the American soviets, when organized.
Shall be recognized as the official repre-
sentatives in this country of the Russian
Soviet Republic. A greeting was sent to
the next congress of the All-Russian
soviets.
New York is not the only American
city where the issue of Bolshevism has
assumed an acutely local character.
According to dispatch to "The New
York World" from Baltimore, the Rev.
Constantine Seletsk, pastor of Russian
church there, declared that fully 90 per
cent of Baltimore's Russian colony are
Bolsheviki. In Boston the Federal
authorities are following with keen in
terest the development of newspaper
recently started there under the name
Revolutionary Age" "The World"
says:
This paper has for it's editor Lewis
Fraina, it was said. IT has named MS con
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

must be taken to protect civilization from
the sweep of Boshevsm"
In discussing the problem of provision
ing the peoples of Central and Eastern
Europe in an interview with The Associ-
ated Press Herbert C. Hoover, recently
appointed director of Allied food relief
in liberated, enemy and neutral coun-
tries, said
Food worth $1,000, 100000 must be i'm
ported into Europe to provide against &C.
tual needs between now and July /, and the
financing Of the project is stupendous
task
Liberated territories will be fed first,
but much of this territory has no other
government than that Of scattered munich
palitics, it has no credit, and is unable to
pay for food.
POLAND, Armenia, Czecho Slovakia, and
the Jugo-Slav Republic are in this condi-
ton, as we'll assmany other suffering sec
tons. Most OF the necessary food must
come from the United States, ard repre-
sentatives of that government are confer
ring with those of the Allied Powers as
W H'edHS lOr paying Tor TINS 1000.
Mr.. Hoover announced that German
ships, totalling about 100000 tons, will
be used in carrying food supplies to Eu-
rope. He said that the most difficult
part of the problem was provisioning the
liberated territories, where over 125, ,OOO,-
600 people await with eager hopes relief
from the United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
Bo1shevism to Cause Another European War;

3. The Red rebellion at Berlin, engi-
neered and evidently supported by the
Bolsheviki, seems to make headway
Since Wednesday terrific street battles
are being fought between the troops of
the Ebert government and the Boshe-
wiki, led by Liebknecht and, apparently,
Karl Radek, the Russian emissary. Hun
dreds of dead litter the streets, cables
say.
4. According to reports from Polish
sources, the Ukrainian drive against
Lemberg is being supported by the Boil
sheviki
: S. Severe outbreaks of a Bolshevik
character are being reported from Buda-
pest, the Magyar capital.
The. Bolshevik movement westward is
war of conquest, pure and simple. The
Germans have tried to impose their ku-
tur on unwilling peoples by the force of
arms; now the Bolsheviki attempt to
enforce proletarian dictatorship at the
point of the bayonet on peoples equally
unwilling.
"With Gott for King and Father
land" was the inscription on the helmets
of the Prussian barbarians; the Russian
savages might adopt the slogan for their
own use in a slightly modified form,
thus: "With the devil for Trotzky and
anarchy" In this war of conquest the
Bolsheviki prove traitors to the lofty
principles they professed before gaining
ascendancy. Did they not claim the
principle of self-determination as their
own invention and programme? AS "The
New York Evening Sun" points out edi-
torially:
New-York tribune., 1919-01-12

danger which the neighborhood of Poland
represents to them. At the moment when.
despite all assertions to the contrary. Lieb-
knecht grows every day stronger and more
menacing, Poland is for Germany peril
no less social than national.
an any case Europe's interest is evident
to save Poland, and, in order to save it. to
strengthen the hand Of its government For
Rolshevism is not a force that can be
checked with ease. To-day it is at Minsk,
perhaps tomorrow at Wilma. When it shall
have triumphed at Warsaw and Cracow, can
it be prevented from reaching Berlin and
Vienna? And then what will become of all
Of us, Allies and neutras aike?"
The necessity of erecting a barrier
against the westward spread of Bolshe-
vlsm finds general recognition The idea
that the new Poland should be made
into the first line of defence offers itself
naturally, determined as it is by geog-
raphy as we'll as recent historical devel-
opment A statement by Ignace Jan
Paderewski, the Polish artist-statesman,
who recently arrived on Polish soil, sum-
marizes this idea in the following:
"Thc inevitable result of Bolshevism will
be return to the barbaric era in Russia
and Eastern Central Europe. If Poland is
not helped to create barrier against it,
then liberty and justice do not exist. I'm
happily, the Allies are disgusted with the
idea of more war, even though it be in their
own defence, in their own interest," for the
preservation of civilization. 1t would be
possible for the Allies to loan us a
hundred staff officers for training purposes
and sell us military supplies, clothing and
shoes to help fit out our army, since we
have the men"