Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-12-21
Clover Does Not Grow, Except
a Small Variety, And Cattle
Have Small Bones
NATURAL GAS GUSHES
FROM EARTH'S DEPTHS
When Oil Is Down 1900 Feet
Very Expensive to Obtain,
Writes Baraboo Resident

Continuing my sermon OF last
week relative TO farming In East
Texas, want to say that In nv
opinion the want OF limestone in the
soil is the worst hindrance this coun-
try has. A st0ckman said to me the
ether daV that he would have TO find
another kind of grass for his stock.
as the Bermuda grass did not pro
dIce lf 80 bone il cattle. told him
that IN the north IL was generally
thought that bone material was more
taken from water than from the grass
Limestone water is unknown in this
section, and while the most of the
cattle stock is Of the Jersey variety,
1t is noticeable small So with hogs.
For some reason, probably for want
of lime, no clover grows here, except
a small variety called bur clover"
This is a small variety, looking quite
like our white clover. Timothy is un-
known and Johnson grass soon be
comes a nuisance, for it interferes
with cotton. For down here the world
turns en- the cotton crop. and any
thing that Curtails it is declared a
nuisance
Oil In The Earth
AS to oil; this county lies between
the great Sabine Uplift on the east
and the famous Mexia field on the
west. The Sabine Uplift Is a breaS
in the formation south OF Shreveport
La, on both sides OF the line be
tween Texas and Louisiana. This
break-caused by an eruption in the
earth. raised a large area and when
the uplift came it broke the layers
which composed tn crust. AS a re-
suit the oil that had lain about 1900
feet below the surface can now De
found at from 1000 to $500 feet
Mature Gas
Not only oil, bit gas is found in
that section. A gas we'll that throw
100000 cubic feet per day. at
pressure of 375 pounds per square
inch was opened day before yesterday
This is east of this county and a
little north. 1t is the third well of
the sort to be br ought in within a
short period
Gas from this well is used for
lighting, cooking end for power in
nearby cities. Marshall, Texas, NORTH
east Of here, a city of $4,000 people
gets natural gas for the industries at
seven cents a thousand, and il is fine
for steam. For domestic uses the
price is "a cents per thousand. These
hax IN oil
they often do are good for many
years.
To get oil at a low level is not
well considered amcng the oil fro.
ternity II is very expensive to 60
down 1000 feet and the risk in drill
ing is great. was yesterday at a new
well that is being drilled 10 miles
south of Henderson the county seat
and one could net look at the outfit
without being impressed with the
cost of the operation. The drilling
rig costs more than $4,000 to begin
with. A competent driller gets SO
per day. and the "roughnecks, as the
helpers are called. get an average OF
$3.50 a day. Each outfit has a driller
and four helpers. besides the foreman
Many rigs are coming into this cOun
ty and before March 1st there will
be at least 20 outfits looking for oil
But it is a slow process. Titles must
be right, for when land becomes
worth $4,000 an acre lawsuits are
possible, if any sort of a flaw may
be found in the title.
V. S. PEASE
Henderson, Texas.