San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21
TINDLEY AND HIS
ASSOCIATES DRILL
MOODY WILDCAT
They Hope to Bring in
Well Near Old Town
of Tehuacana.

LuIing. Texas, Oct. 20. After
spending two weeks in the Corsicana,
Powell and Mexia oil fields, Charles
Porter Tindley, Luling oil operator,
has returned to Luling. He is inter-
ested in the Moody well which has
been drilling for the past few months
in the northwest end of the Mexia
field.
In a recent editorial the Mexia
Evening News gave an interesting ac-
count Of this test as follows: The
most interesting test being made along
the BALCONIES fault in Texas is the
Moody test at Tehuacana." This
opinion is said to have been expressed
by an oil man in the presence of other
oil men gathered at Corsicana a few
days ago. Much has been said in the
Mexia Daily News and other news
papers during the last few months re.
garding this well.
The Tehuacana Hills and the val
leys TO the west have been pronounced
by DIR. Whitney, former head of the
ment, Hugh Tucker, of Dalls and
VshNi SNOiVSicNS US UiCctHtiHt VII Dto-
sibilities and since the showing in the
Moody we'll there has been quite n
number of leases taken by the lead
ing oil companies. Structure experts
and biologists have been busy during
the last few days compiling data on
the territory. The last few days Jeff
Meers, of Brady. Texas, has teen
working out structure for some oper-
ators.
This well has been in the limelight
for some time and more so from the
fact that recently the top of the
Woodbine sands, which are the pro-
ducing sands of the Mexia and Powell
fields have been uncovered. The drill
ing is in charge Of Doc Fairfield and
Fred Houge, experienced in several
Texas fields. Driller Fairfield drilled
in the famous Berthason gusher for
the Humphreys Oil company. as well
as several others in the main Mexia
field during the boom days. J. l..
Patty is the lease foreman.
Tehuacana. the nearest neighbor to
Mexia, being on the northwest OK
tension Of the great oil fields. at one
time becoming within in five votes
of being the capital of the Lone Star
State, is now coming into its own rs
q real oil boom town. Tehuacana has
long been associated with Texas as an
educational center. for shortly after
John Boyd, the pioneer settler located
here, he donated o part of bis extcn-
sive holdings for Trinity College, ore
of the finest colleges in the state.
few years later the name was changed
to Westminster College. the name the
famous school now bears.
Some OF the best known men in the
state were educated here. Judge RAM
sey. former head of the federal re-
serve bank in Dallas; Ex-Governor
Campbell and others who have attain
ed fame in the business and profes-
| sional world are among its graduates
For years after the early settlers
came there, it was the rendezvous for
the Indians who came to hunt and
fish and for the wonderful spring wa
ter. The Indians named the place
Tehuacana. which means in the In
dian language. "the land Of hidden
gold" The Red Men no doubt thought
that the hills had the gold of .Ee
mint, but from the development that
Is now going on there among the oil
men it probably was meant to be the
Liquid gold"
w nth tut iiclu DcSdH 10 tNpdHu,
w. NJ. Moody, who is an old time
resident of the town and a Trustee Of
Westminster, as well as president
Of the Tehuacana State bank. with
Judge III. Il. Daviss. secured the SER
vices of Charles Porter Tindley and
Fred III. Butcher, who We're later
nicknamed by the oil men "The Te-
huacana wildcatters, to bring about
the development of the oil resources
of the town. They combined with
Houston and Goose Creek oil men 20
drill the well. Others interested are
Benton Jones, Linus Tremble and
other Mexia people to develop the
lands and leases.
That the town is booming is evil
denced by numerous business houses
that have started modern hotels and
restaurants are being built. 1t seems
that the Indians prophecy and the
story Of their legend would come
true and that with the coming of the
oil boom that fame and fortune have
at last come 40 TehuOcana. well nam
ed by the Indians as "the land of the