Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-10-17
FORMER CITIZEN
OF AMARILLOON
WAY TO wealth

". d Twnohen. who with the AID
Of C.. q. lands. now justice of the
Ttaee here. laid OF the present town
% Amarillo. may become millionaire
according to publication called the
Texas investor MIR Twlichcu laid or
the town IN April 81 1890. lie was 4
surveyor at old Tasc0sn and IL known
70 al the old tifnsrs ~ Amarillo. lie a.
a brother.lnlaw 81 Howard Trigg. pres
ent surveyor OF Potter County.
Tho story In the Texas Investor FOL
lows.
KOSSE. Texas. October lev. y
Twitchell. land surveyor 40 Austin. may
become fabulously rich from oil land
upon which he has filed offsettlng he
Humphreys-JOnea block az land az
kosse. and within few hundred yard,
81 the world famous giant oil gusher.
Twitohell, Ia dlgnng through the ar
chivea 81 the land office nt Austin. dls
covered that there WAS vacancy lie
He'd on the land Immediately after pay.
ING np the taxes and 10 cents an acrp
70 acquire title from tho state. the
money golnE 20 the school fund The
state retains lie 81 the ROYALTY. the
rest becoming the land purchasers
While the exact amount Of the land
N the vacancy h not vet known III
fercnt local surveyors familiar with the
records declare TINT the total win
amount 20 over one hundred acres In all
This vacant land ~ q narrow strip q
few hundred feet wide and nearly q
mile long OF the north edge 81 the
Reuben f1ippin survey. Since II ~ sur.
rounded by the Humphreys acreage. n
win force the company to drill about
double the number OF OH wells that
otherwise would be- required under tho
law " the land was In a square shape
One az the big companies IA said 10
have offered Twitchell $1,000 per acre
for his holdings. while another Il report.
Cd 20 have offered cool half million
for the tract az u stands today and 10
fight the ease through the coura. N
necessary, 10 crcal the title. in case tho
Humphreys interests contest the filing
This property win be worth millions
when drilled up
Attorneys y. r. Stubbs and C. 4
- tN'NtNH NNF lNINNNfINNFE
Twiichell. who filed on the land.
This IL not the first time tina, sur.
veyor Twlichell has made biz clean
up In Texas oil fields through being
familiar with land surveys when the
boom started At Breckenridge he il said
20 have filed on q trnct that netted him
over a hundred thousand dollars In
the Mexla boom he ran out several sur.
vcys. bu, failed to find any vacancies
worth while.
When Twitchell read about the Kosse
gusher. he started 20 surveying tho land.
remarked q local surveyor who pro.
nounccd Twitchell's claim "a hun.
drod per cent good lie sure has made
a clean up at kOsse IN finding this Va.
cant land. and the big companies viii |
be forced 70 Pay him his price or h. !
offset 90 death"
This vacancy In the Kosso oil land IL !
accounted for by an error made In the |
surveys back prior TO tho days Of 1896. |
when Texas was surveyed ly counties |
Some Of the old.timers say that Lime I
aone County was a vast wilderness /
then; that II was considered quite a 1
Joke 20 slip man two sections ~ land /
when h. bought only one Just 20 get 4
rid OF 81.
Surveyors IN the early days didn't |
dream that tho wild country then In /
hab.ted mostly by Indians and Mexl 1
cans. would become the richest spot OF
oil on earth. 80 they were not NJ par.
ticular IN squaring OF the c0rners,ones
az IL the prescn, day of Oh wealth.