davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1924-02-21
A Few Facts Concerning the Beginning of the
Oil Industry in This Section

production and a deal was made whereby the
Producers 4 Retners acquired the interest of
the Reasoning Oil Company in the Ferris
Field, and Immediately started the drilling of
other wells. Today this end of the field is pro-
ducing both oil and gas, and has attracted other
companies to the district, who are now operat-
ing on an extensive basis in the Ferris district.
The next and most important discovery
was made on what is now known as the Ma
honey Dome structure (about half way between
the Lost Soldier and the Ferris Fields) in 1919,
when a test well was put down by the Kasom-
ing Oil Co., which came in as an enormous gas
well, and which later caught fire and burned for
several weeks before being extinguished. This
well proved the Mahoney Dome as productive
and since that time large tracts of acreage have
been secured by the Producers & Refiners Cor
~poration, the Kasoming Oil Company, the Ohio
Oil Company, besides a number of smaller COM
panies, and today there is more activity in this
part of the district than any other part of the
field. There is at present II producing wells
in this district and 10 wells now being drilled.
On section 26, which was drilled by the Kasom-
ing Oil Company, both oil and gas was encoun-
tered, which proves the district to be both oil
and gas territory.
, 1924-02-21

The first production in the west end of the
Oil Fields, north of Rawlins, which is now
known as the Lost Soldier Field, was discovered
in the year 1916 by F. o. Funk and associates,
at a depth of less than 800 feet, at this time it
was thought that all of the production would
be at a shallow depth and only small producers,
and with that opinion Mr.. Funk and associates
sold out their interests in the Bair Oil Company
to West and Hazlett, and until 1920 only shall
low wells were drilled, all of which came in
small producers. During that year it was de-
cided to drill to a greater depth, with the result
that large production was brought in. With
these wells drilled, it was still conceded by oil
men that the producing area was very small,
but during the summer of 1920, E. w. Hughes
decided to drill on acreage north of the first
production. In 1922 the we'll was completed
with an initial production of better than 1000
barrels per day. The bringing in of this well
proved considerable other acreage which up to
that time had been termed as outside acreage.
The next production was during the year
1919 when the Producers G. Refiners Corpora
ito. and the Kasoming Oil Company, erected a
rig in the Ferris Field, about % miles east of
Lost Soldier and started a joint test well on
acreage which had been favorably recon-
mended. The drilling of this we'll brought in
, 1924-02-21
Look over the holdings and be
convinced. Do it today.

Drilling was started on The Hughes Roy
atty Company well on September 5, 1923 and
after % days drilling the well was down 1910
feet. The well is being drilled by A. B. (Ty)
Cobb, one of the best drillers in this section.
and only a short time after drilling is resumed
, 1924-02-21

remains until the pay sand is reached. The
company is now offering just enough of its stock
to the public at its Par Value of S1.0O per share
to complete its No. l well. The stock books
of the company automatically close when the
bit reaches the pay sand, when the price is
bound to go up.
, 1924-02-21

The stock of This company is being placed
with outside statesmen and we hope that it will
soon be taken up. Send in your application for
stock NOW as we need your help. Six weeks
more should finish the we'll. Call or write the
Office 113 Fifth Street, Rawlins, Wyoming.
, 1924-02-21

APPLICATION FOR STOCK
THE HUGHES ROYALTY CO., Inc.
RAWLlNS, M o 626
Enclosed please find Check, Money Order or Draft
Tor $--------------- FOR
of stock of THE HUGHES ROYALTY co. at Par Value
of One (s1.O0) Dollar per Share, Fully Paid and nom
assessable.
Signed
Make all Checks, Money Orders or Drafts payable
to order THE HUGHES CO., Rawlins, Wyo.
, 1924-02-21
A Few Facts Concerning the Organization of
THE HUGHES ROYALTY co.
RAWINs WYOMING
E. w. HUGHES, Pres.
JACOB ZlEGLER, V-Pres. GEO.
RAWLINS, WYOMING

The Hughes Royalty Company, which BE- small per cent of heS stock and the officers
gan drilling on its leases on the Mahoney Dome of the corporation have invested their own
structure thief all of 1925 was organized by money into the drilling of the we'll
local men all of hem having been mSdmso of
Rawhns. and Carbon Com for the past IS AQthatB asked ote proPcven investor
years. A rood 6ame of the company is the is for here or him to hko over the holdings of
fact that the directors have adopted a r2om- thee company, visit the WE'LL investigate its or
ton providing at4 10 per cent of all monies re gMlzauona n tn decide for yourself whether
cnVed from the sale of prOucton shall be set it nOo neo ftheb best propositions ever offered
aside to be used for the purpose of paying roy in which yOu. can becOmeh interested COM
aMsm and dividends t the sockhddersw while pmy drilling on practically proven acreage
her remaining 50 pTCe t shall be used for fur
Hr drilling operations. This method assures E. w (Teddy) Hughes the President of
the nNeNoro a etmnO nh Hmvsnmth should TeH Hughes Royalty Company vast the organ
be brought il, which Bp practically iGro The Hughes Oil Company which dur
assured as the company is drmg on the Ma Hg1 1922 brought tela largest Gln tss sec
hney Dome and on what is conceded to be ton On acreage which vss Acrcd and drilled
proven acreage Property now bGngd drilled is by him in the Los Soldier Fd. He is conf
within 1RO feet of producing gas well and dent bringing in productions on the ahony
within 1920 feet two other pohdng wells Dome acreage fort the eaon tMit adjonsp pro-
dung termoy tut Of 10 wells which have
LOOK over the holdings n b been drilled on the ahoncy Dome to date
.,~-..J nor+oJu everyone has BEEN producer.
OW of the $500 acres held under ease by
Another feature of this company that this company, 80 acres hs been cheda p pro-
there wsn op promotions stock issued anyone duMe grOund by the United States Gegoi
Thele lease wasa assigned dover the company for Gale department
Considering the number of acresh held by the company the capital-
zaion, the chances for big production, o an easily figure what profits
you stand to win, and win big, and the few O. stand to ose.
Drilling w ssmted on The Hughes Roy remains until the pay sand is reached. The
-a cnnnnrvi nnm nTmnnnn h 1nnLH OF nhL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
TILDEN DOES NOT LIKE NEW RULING
Star Says Rule Against Newspaper Articles Won't
 Worry Him

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4.-william T. Tilden, II. national tennis cham pion. does. not like the proposed rule to declare ineligible for amateur competitions players who write for substantial profit. The proposed rule was announced last night by the amateur rule committee of the United States Lawn Tennis associa- ton.
 . Tilden said today the ruling ap- pears drastic and the game probably would suffer more through the loss of tennis articles by men who know the game than 1t would gain by the restriction.
 T do not sec how 1t can affect me as was in the newspaper game three years before I competed in have written continuously for news papers and magazines and have writ ten books.
 "If the tennis assocA tion desires players not to use championship titles with their signed articles. l believe that 1t would be quite Tn their right to prohibit Q man from using such titles in connection for his name on such articles. But l cannot see why he should be pro- hibiteds from writing, which is an honorable and recognized vocation; nor do I see why he should be re- certainly he Is entitled to use always provided that he writes personally all his own articles. No one can or would attempt to justify selling his name to articles which he did not write"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
TANKS WILL CUT TRAINING SHORT

. NEW YORK, Jan. 4.--The New York Yankees will have shorter training siege than usual at their camp in. New Orleans, Miller Hug gins, manager of the Worlds cham pions, revealed today in announcing his training schedule.
 Huggins has issued orders to his young players to report at New Or leans March 3, and to the regulars to report March 10, several days later than a year ago. The squad will re- main there until March 31, leaving on that date for a five-day tour with the Rochester club of the Information al league beginning at Mobile, Ala. and winding up at Savannah, Ga, on April 4. 4.
 The. Brooklyn Nationals will join the Yankees at Atlanta, April 5, and together they will play a series or ten games on the way north, rconciud- ing with games at -Ebbets field,' Brooklyn, and the Yankee Stadium on April 12, 13 and IA. The squad of veterans scheduled to boil out" at Hot Springs, Arky will not be as large as usual. It is ex- pected to include Babe Ruth, Everett Scott, Wally Schang. Herb Pennock,
 Joe Bush and Bob Shawkey. They will report there February 24 and re- main two weeks. fS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
BOWLING LEAGUE GETS UNDER WAY

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 4.-At- lanta, Mobile and Chattanooga were the winning teams in the initial games of the Dixie Telegraph Bowl ing league. which opened tts second annual season last night. All three won two out of the three games from Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Sa- vannah. respectively. rolling up un- usually high scores for so early in the season.
 The Jacksonville team, champions last year, broke the record team score for the local alley and indi- vidually made a higher number of pins than any time in the practice games, but lost to the Atlantans. who totalled 2.903 pins, taking the first and second games and losing the final.
 The locals had the high total for the three games with 2,9OS. The high single game score went to At- lanta with 1,020. St. Augustine also had a higher three-game total than Mobile. but lost the match. The scores in totals were as follows: Jacksonville 2,9oS, Atlanta 2,s03, St. Augustine 2,sSs. Mobile 2,6ss, Chat tanooga 2,452 and Savannah 2,423.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
EXPECT SALE OF STARS BY SUNDAY
Yankees Make New Offer
 For Dean And Combs

i. LOUISVILLE. Ky, Jan. 4.-way- land Dean. pitcher and Earle Combs, Louisville American association base ball stars for whom a number of major league clubs have dickered may become the property of a big league team by Sunday, according to a pred ication here today by Vice President William Neal of the Colone1s.
 Captain Neal said he could definite ly predict "it looks like something will be done by Sunday" His said price is. said to be over $100.00O.
 The three greater New York clubs are in the field for these expensive minor leaguers the Giants. Tanks and Dodgers having made large cash of- fers.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 4-The New York Yankees announced that they had made a new and final offer to the Louisville club for Pitcher Dean and Outfielder-Combs, stars upon whom a price tag of $150,000 is declared to have been set. Details of the offer were not revealed but it was said the American Association club had 1t under consideration.
 The Giants have made no offer for the Louisville stars. J. J. Tierney, secretary of the club, said, when told the National league champions, were reported among the bidders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
B. 4. C. BLUES READY FOR MAROONS AT AIHLE7ICCLUI
SMALLER SQUADS.
 WILL COME SOUTH
Big League Teams Will Cut Down Recruit
 List

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.+--The mounting cost of sending recruit players. through the paces < on spring training trips has resulted in major league club oMners. deciding to take smaller squads. south this spring for the conditioning grind preliminary to the 1924 season. Pe.
 The cost of a training trip. major league officials said tonight. has be- come anN fncreasingly important item, while the smaller receipts from exhibition games have initiated against carrying an excess number of recruits. It will cost certain teams. depending on the travel. some thing like $15,000 to make the trip this spring. The cost of taking each recruit into camp Is figured between $500 and $700. g.
 In former years a baseball club could complete It's spring training on less than $1o.0o0.
 This spring recruit players who have not at least an outside chance to remain with the club will not be taken to the training camp at Winter Haven, Fla, Harry Grabiner, secre- A squad of about S2 or 33 players will report to Manager Frank Chance about March D.. Grabiner explained that in previous years the manage ment of the club mad been .handi- caped with excess players, and under the new arrangement, Manager Chance will be enabled to better study his material and increase eff cieacy. With nine teams training in Flor ida, the southeastern part of the country will see more baseball this spring than ever before. NTowns will be invaded which never have seen a major league team. f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
MISSISSIPPI AGGIES AND i
 LOCALS WILL CLASH AT 8:3O
World Of Sports Covered In Brief

FORT BRAGG. N. C-Young strib- ling, Georgia light heavyweight, stopped Kid Numbers. Fort Bragg soldier champion. in the fourth rousd. Stribling had agreed to do 1t in eight rounds. It was his nine teenth straight victory.
 JACKSONVILLE, F1a--"Fearless" Ferns, Atlanta welterweigh lost a 10-round decision to Joe Chaney of Baltimore here last night. In other bouts "Roughhouse' Ross of Char lotte, N C., knocked out Wild Bill" Jones of Baltimore in the first round and Lou Palmer. Detroit feather weight, won from Johnny Marlow of Savannah.
 JACKSONVILLE. Fla--Jack Demp- sey. worlds champion. will go on the auction block when his boat docks here today, when delegations from Tampa and Jacksonville bid for his services this winter. The mayor and delegation of prominent, business men here were to try and Induce the champion to establish winter train ing quarters in Jacksonville.
 CHICAGO-Transfer of Carl Ways veteran pitcher. from the New York Tanks to the Cincinnati Reds, was approved by Commissioner Landis, it was announced today Mays goes to Cincinnati under the waiver rule.
 PHILADELPHIA-Y was voted the champion football team of the east and awarded the Jelley trophy at the annual. meeting of the Phila- l delphia Veteran Athletes association an organization of prominent sports men,, Bill Roper, Princeton coach and member of the board, voted for Yale over Cornell.
 CH1CAGo-Johnny Weismuller clipped 4 1-5 seconds off the 300- yard swim record. held by Norman Ross of the Illinois Athletic club.
 CHICAGO-The Northwest Ice Skating club will hold its thirty third annual derby here January 13. President I. c. Johnson said.
 OMAHA-A bout between Johnny Dundee, fetherweight champion. and Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion, was postponed by Eddie Mead, man. ager of Lynch.
 NEW YoRK-Ninety-four English and French thoroughbreds valued at half a million dollars, are en route here for shipment to the Kentucky Blue Grass region.
 CHICAGO-Johnny Myers, worlds middleweight wrestling champion, retained his title by downing Joe Parelli, Italian middleweight cham pion, in two out of three falls.
 COLUMBUS-Harry Kipke, Michi- gan's football and basketball star, will join the coaching staff of Miami university at oxford, Ohio, next year, it was announced.
 CINCINNATI-Pitch Luque and Benton, Catchers Hargrave and Wingo, and Infielders Daubert, Cav eny and Pinelli of the Cincinnati Ma tionals have signed contracts for the coming season. President August Hermann announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Hauers Will Play In
 Fourson,e At Orleans


 NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 4.-Walter Hagen arrived today from St. Peters burg, Fla, to pair up tomorrow with wild Bill'' Mehlhorn, Shreveport pro- fessfonal. and meet Arthur Havers. British open champion, and his tour ing partner, Jimmy Ockenden, French champion, on the links of the West End Country club. Gene Sarazen orig inally had been selected as Hagen's partner but could not come to New Orleans.
 Havers and Ockenden. who have been in the city several days, in spected the course yesterday and played a round in the afternoon, both turning in cards of 75. Mehlhorn folr lowed them. playing with his man, ager, Harry Harnet against Fred Knight of West End and Waffle Nelson of the New Orleans Country club. ts
 The play tomorrow is attracting un- usual attention in local golfing circles and is expected to draw one of the largest galleries ever seen here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Race, C, Entries Are Out

LONDON, Jan. 4.-The Jockey club 'has issued the official entry list for the spring handicap races and the As cot gold cup event next June. giving evidence that these meetings Will pc annearance on English tracks of an unusuaily large number of cele- brated foreign horses.
 Entries for the Ascot cup are hailed by the tracing experts with speical enthusiasm. for this race fur nishes the prospect of seeing zev, Papyrus. Epinard u., ana atSar SreS os n tba a worlds best known horses In mighty struggle. Sporting writers here are doubtful whether such remarkable field has ever been pro yided for the running of the cup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05

han. in pinch. as a pitcher. an in fielder or an outfielder. That is also true of McGraw.. Even though Mo- Graw is my manager he could be used in the infield, as pinch hitter or base runner. He is the best waling, being hit by the pitcher or hitting the ball. am assuming. of course, that all these players would be in their prime when I started my club on the field the first season. As a matter of fact some of those had retired before the others were born. I guess old Cy. Young was through when George Sisler was baby. It's sort of funny, at that. to think of old Jimmy Collins and Babe Ruth on the same team. They were putting Jimmy on the All l American teams of, all time when Babe Ruth was born.
 To my club I have added pinch hitters because they are a very im- portant part of any team nowadays. I have selected Sammy Strang and Ham Hyatt. They were the best l ever saw. Sammy made Il pinch hits in row one season.
 To be a good pinch hitter requires peculiar sort of temperament, an easy-going. unexcitable disposition. Both Hyatt and Strang had that. Either of them could go tntoHa game without warming up. Mighty few ball players can do that. Nothing seemed to bother them. however. The status of the game meant noth- ing to those boys, whether there were three on bases and a pennant depending on hit, or not. They would simply amble up there to the old pan as If they had not even heard about what was going on. TT HavN xo p0~~ Old Friends.
 I have eliminated several wonder full players because o9 faulty dispo- sitions. Also have not even con- | sidered men whoever had done any thing questionable in baseball. A man who does not give his best to ciu6 is no good on a team even if he Is the best mechanical player In the world. I won't mention one or | two that I have in mind, but l guess you can guess. They are better for | gotten.
 The hard part about this job was the elimination of certain players rather than the selection of others It's awful hard, for instance, to leave off man like Willie Keeler. would like to give my reasons for leaving these old friends out put naturally. there isn't room here I have considered all of them as carefully and sincerely as l could. For everyone left off have very good reason.
 There is no doubt in my mind as to the superiority of my pitching staff even though it doesn't agree with l many others.
 I'd like for somebody, though, to show me where they could dig up five better winning pitchers than Johnson, Mathewson, Alexander, Cy Young and Ruth Waddell
 In my next article l will go into detail and try to make clear my req sons for picking these men. My first shot will be at the pitchers.
 Picking this team has given me many a laugh. I get smile every time I think of what the opposing John McGraw on one coaching line and Fred Clarke on the other.
 Tomorrow: My Five Greatest Pitchers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Landis Still Snowed
 Under In Shocker Case

CHICAGO. Jan. 4.-Whether the St. Louis American league baseball team actually had in its book of rules a stipulation that wives of players be prohibited from travelling with the team Is to be determined by Commissioner K. M. Landis as the next step in the controversy be- tween Pitcher Urban Shocker and the team.
 The star hurler and the club split last September when Shocker de- sired to have his wife accompany him when the team took It's last eastern trip and the club informed him to do so would be a violation of the rules. Shocker was fined and suspended when he left the team as it started east. His appeal to the commissioner for an unconditional release Is now pending.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
( Cambridge Compete

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4.-- Cam- bridge University of England will compete at the annual relay carnival of the University of Pennsylvania to be held on Franklin Field on April 25 and 26. Word has been received by the relay mana cement from w. S. Bristowe. president of the Cam bridge University A. c, that the British institution would send a re- lay team and at least two men for the special events. In 1920 u com bined Oxford Cambridge team won the two mile relay championship and in so doing established a new world s record of minutes 50 2-5 seconds for the distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Majors Close Early

CHICAGO. Jan.- 1.-The increasing attraction of football as fall sport has caused major baseball legues to bring their 1924 season to a close a week earlier than usual, President Johnson of the American league an- nounces.
 , The shorter baseball season can be arranged by shifting a few double header games, President Johnson said. Both he and President John A. Heydler of the National league have noted a dwindling of baseball crowds when the games conflict with foot ball contests in the fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Firpo To Get $7O,OOO

BuENos AIRES, Jan, 4.-Luis Angel Firpo, South American heavy weight champion, will get 220,000 pesos (about $70,000) for fighting Farmer Lodge, American heavy- weight here on February 10.
 Ffrpo's secretary, William Widmer, denied emphatically today that Billy Gibson, manager of Gene Tunney, and Benny Leonard. had been re- tained by Firpo as his manager.
 'Firpo met Gibson only once and that was in Madison Square Garden. Their conversation was oniy casuai and had nothing to do with busi- ness" he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Big Race Is Giuen Up

PARIS. Jan. 1.-The idea of stag ing meeting of Espinard. Zev and Papyrus to bring these stars of the British, American and French turfs together in an international cup race at Longchamps on May 8, has been definitely abandoned owing to the red tape entanglements and other difficulties encountered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Jakie May To Reds

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.-Jakie May, pitcher for Vernon in the Pacific Coast league. was sold to the Cin- cinniti Reds for an unannounced cash consideration and two players, a shortstop and a pitcher.
 Eddie Maier, owner of the Vernon club. announced the deal today.
 W. l.. Kimmick, shortstop, and F, Keck, pitcher, are the two Cincin- nati players coming to Vernon in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
Meyers Throws Parelli

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Johnny Meyers of Chicago, worlds middleweight wrestling champion, retained his title oy pinning Joe Parelli, Italian mid 1leweight championv to the mat in TWO out of three falls.
 Parelli took the first fall in :0s.45 with a flying mare and reverse body mold, but Meyers won the second fall 1n 1:10:20 of gruelling wrestling with a hammer lock. After II min utes Meyers took the next fall with a hold similar 10 that with which he had pinned Parelli to the mat a few minutes before.