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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Life's Hurdles
1t Does Not Pay to Attempt
to Please All.
BY L. E. Bisch

The possessor Of a sweet, affable,
dbliging disposition will make
many friends and it will carry him
far, but
After a while you'll get tired of
pleasing everybody and will want TO
please yourself.
After a while something inside
will revolt. 1t will prompt you TO
resist and assert yourself.
After a while you'll find that con-
slant aeceding to the wishes of 9TH
ers will get you all muddled.
After a while even those you
please, will consider you a spine
less jelly.fish and you'll lose the
very friendship you tried so hard TO
win.
In short, It doesn't pay to try to
please everybody!
At the very end Of Ibscn's play,
IAN Enemy Of the People, " we find
this line:
The strongest man in the world
is he who stands most alone"
The drama Of Ibsen does not deal
with the subject we are discuss
ing, yet il is appropriate. II we
stand alone, strong in our coBvic-
tons, we must not make so many
friends and surely We won't be 50
popular. But its better to be that
than 10 be wishy-washy. It's bet
ter to develop sturdy. outstanding
character than be the playtbing Of
environment and other people.
Somehow make your own self stand
out.
Genuine, 14-csrat friendship is a
jewel well worth trying to win, but
its the kind Of friendship you can't
buy through trying to please. True
friends like you and stick by you
because Of what you sre-not be-
cause Of the bowling and scrsping
and homage you pay them.
Stubbornncss, boorishncss. aloof-
ness and snobbishness are undesir-
able qualities in anybody. Such
attributes swing the pendulum too
far in the opposite direction. You
can't and should not try 70 please
everybody, Contrariwisc, its just
as perHicious not 70 want 10 please
anybody!
BY the way. that 3 person is
judged by the enemies rather than
the friends he makes is q thougl
worth thinking over!
Copyright. 1925. Premier synd.. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
BucoGc Press

A high.power salesman wasted a
lot of valuable time the other day
trying to sell this editor an office
safe. This guy should catalog his
prospects and leave editors alone.
It reminded us of the story about
the woman's club that sent the
town editor a fancy pair Of sus-
penderS he Wondered what he
could do with extra suspenders and
only one pnir Of pan3.-Carlsbad
(Cal) Champion.
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YE TOWNE GOSSIP ;, <: c: )

AND SWUNG it up.
AND SET the leg.
AND AFTERWARDS.
WHEN THE leg was healed.
THE CHINAMAN.
FOUND THE horse a home.
IN A nice green field.
AND 1T worked no more.
AND THE DO! asked.
IF THEY ever arrested.
THE AUTO driver.
AND 1 didn't know.
AND THEN he asked.
WAS THE horse still living.
AND didn't know.
AND THEN b. asked.
WHAT THE chinamsn did.
WITHOUT ANY horse.
AND didn't know.
AND THEN b: asked.
THE NAME Of til: town.
WHERE THEY took the horse.
AND I didn't know.
AND THEN said.
TIVE TOLD you the story.
"AND IT'S the last.
I'LL EVER tell you.
IF YOU don't be quiet
AND HE answered me.
BUT IT wasn't a story.
"CAUsE YOU said it was true"
AND IN such ways.
DO NUMEROUS thoughts.
COME ON morning walks.
] THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Sdphead Sisters

Molly-John's wife is good
81 kcr.
Cordclia-She's an illustration Of
the saying that practice makes per.
feet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Something to Think About
BY BRUNO LEssING
Beggars.

; for favors? What can we poor, hui
man worms expect to do in return
for the boon that we ask?
Many a business man who asks
for your patronage is merely beg
ging. He offers you no advantage
that you cannot obtain from his
competitor. He frequently has no
other argument to advance than
that he is just starting in business
and wants you to give him a chance.
OF course if he offers you q lower
price-that is different. Sometimes
a street beggar offers to carry your
bundle for you if you will give him
the price of a nights lodging.
And when it comes to a womnn's
love all men are beggars. The re-
turn which they can make for a
wealth of affection is so pitiful that
it is out Of all proportion TO the
fayors which they ask. As a matter
of fact, you can hardly think Of love
without the word begging coming
10 mind.
Is it possible that Henry Ford and
John D. Rockefeller never begged
a girl for a kiss?
Why not accord the fact that
there are habitual beGgars in the
world? Why not do the best we can
to deal with the problem which they
present? And, why not do it with
out getting "sore on themg
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HE SAID to me.
do THEY always shoot horses.
WHEN THEY break their
legs:"
AND I answered.
THAT MOSTLY they did.
AND THEN remembered.
A TALE I had heard.
OF A Chinaman.
WHO PEDDLED stuff.
THROUGH COUNTRY roads.
AND HAD had horse.
FOR YEARS and years.
AND 1T plodded along.
IN sun and rain:
SUMNER AND winter.
AND 1T didn't matter.
IF TIMES were good.
OR TIMES we're bad.
1T JARED the same.
AS ITS master Jared.
AND THEN one day.
A SPEEDING auto.
HIT THE wagon.
AND THE horse fell down.
AND BROKE a leg.
AND A veterinary:
CAME OUT from town.
AND THE verdict was.
THAT 1T should be shot.
AND THE Chinamsn.
ROSE Up and said.
BUT HE my fliend.
no SHOOTEE him."
AND THEY got a truck.
AND MOVED the horse.
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Daily Good Deed

SHOW your sorrow for the per-
petual Crouch by a punctilious kind
illness; you may thus shame
him ont Of his belligerent sttf
nIde-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10

An incident Of the streets
Broadway and Fifty-eighth street,
in New York, to be exact.
A beggar approached a man who
was walking idly along. The man
listened to the begsar's story. Then
he unbuttoned his oyercoat, re-
vealed a detectives shield, seized
the beggar by the arm and blew
whistle. In a moment a traffic po-
liceman ran up.
Lock him up, Bill" said the de-
tective. Hes one of those bum
panhandlers. I can't leave here. I'm
sore on beggars."
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Bonehead Brothers

Boob-Td like to be Cupid's keep
er for a while.
Simp-But not his tailor; you'd
starve 10 death.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10

Well, for the most part, beggars
are a pretty bad lot. They represent
the very dregs Of civilization. Some
are merely the product Of misfor-
tune coupled with ignorance. Some
are vicious; their mendicancy is a
cloak under which they seek an OPP
portunity to commit a crime. All Of
them represent weakness of will
and mind and absolute loss Of pride
and self-respect.
But somehow or other the phrase
I'm sore on bcggars" stuck in the
writer's memory.
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Aren't We all beggars, in some
fashion or other? Do we not all ask
for and expect favors and bounties
for which we not only give no re-
turn but do not even dream that
any recompense is expected Of US?
The ether is filled, day and night.
with prayers rising on high from
the believers in all sorts and forms
Of religion. Is the burden Of most
Of these prayers anything else than
bcgsing--for mercy, for forgiveness,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
HIGH GRAVITY OIL
POOL IN OKLAHOMA

TULSA, Okla, Dec. 19.-Shaffer
Oil and Refining Company, subsidiary
Of Byllesby interests, is steadily devel-
oping a high gravity oil pool of its
own in Payne County, Okla. The
new field is known as the Deep Rock
pool in which the Shaffer Company
owns approximately 1900 acres around
its discovery well which has pro-
duced to date 81, 2S6 barrels of nearly
80 gravity crude. The pool possesses
both the Bartlesville sand at $500
feet aud the Wilcox formation at 1870
feet but the latter has proven the best
horizon as well as the most produc-
tive per acre. The Bartlesville pro
duces wells with an average gravity of
80 while the Wilcox shows about 42.5
gravity oil. The CHATTER properties
are being developed by Deep Rock Oil
and Refining Company, a subsidiary,
and the oil is being run TO the CuSh-
ing refinery. A portable gasoline plant
is being installed on the property and
plans are being made for pcrma-
nent plant to extract the high content
of gasoline in the gas.
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Z WILDCATS
PRODUCING
c R j D {
Walker and Callahan W els
+ May Have Found New
Pool Near Luling.

LULING, Tex, Dec. 19.-That
third oil pool will be opened in Cald-
well county, between the Luling and
Lockhart fields. is almost certain. A
hard gray lime at Ground 230O feet
is producing high gravity oil, rang
ing between 40 and 4S Baume, in two
wildcats, several miles apart.
The No. l Callahan of the United
North and South Oil company, mid
way between the Luling and Lock-
hart pools, averaged 23.G barrels day
of 4S gravity oil on a 30-day test,
just completed This well has heavy
paraffin base and steam pipe had
to be run into the well to keep it
producing. Production in this well is
coming from the lime formation at
2300 feet. An offset will be drilled
by the company and another produc-
ton test will be made. If the second
producer does as well as the first, it
is reported that number Of wells
will be drilled in this vicinity.
MAY BE FIELD.
The old Walker well, which was
drilled to the lime at around 2300
feet and then abandoned, has been
producing several barrels Of high
gravity oil for the last three years.
If this well is getting its oil from
the lime, it is probable that it is in
the same stratum with the Callahan.
Both wells are on the same fault line
and are within a few miles of each
other.
The casing in the Walker has a
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TWO MORE WILDCATS
STARTED IN UPTON

SAN ANGELO, Tex, Dec. 49,
The two new locations in Upton
county bring the total number Of wells
drilling and located to 10, not includ-
ing the test of W. p. Morris on the
Nancy Lee survey, which has been
shut down for several months. Both
of the locations have been made by
Zock and others. The first will be
known as the Windon No. / and will
be in the center of the northwest
quarter of the south one-half of sec
ton 100, block Y.
The other will be Union Land Com
pany No. /, located 800 feet from
the north line and 1860 feet from the
east line of section 4, block ALB,
Mrs. S. Hearne survey. Windon No.
1 will be about six miles north of
Republics No. 1 Baker and Union
Land Company No. L will be about
six miles south of the discovery Up
ton county producer.
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CROSS PLAINS FIELD HAS
GREAT BOOM in DRILLING

CROSS PLAINS, Tex, Dec. TO-
Despite a slightly discouraging fea-
ture, created through the failure of an
other small section Of preferred"
TOWNSHIP territory to produce oil, de-
velopment as a whole in the town
block area has shown another week of
splendid progress with nice run of
new producers and a sufficient guam
tity of new locations to hold the num-
Der of drilling wells close to the record
of former weeks.
Late developments have established
a quite popular belief that the heart
Of the TOWNSHIP pool is near the big
wells to the north of the business dis
trict, and attention is being divided
between four probable leads that fu-
ture development will likely follow.
OF these leads the more favored is
probably that to the south of town
where two miles of territory was given
a big boost last week through the
completion of the Forster, Henderson,
Nichol and Sudderth gas well on the
I. c. Thorne tract. This well found
the townsite pay so perfectly uniform
in character that an oil producing
area bounding this gas structure is
looked upon as one of the good bets Of
the field.
OIL TO NORTH.
The probable lead due north on Main
street is also still favorable, and the
new west territory opened by the w.
d. Riddle well on block % is Great
ing new play of development in that
section that promises to carry well
into the country beyond the TOWNSHIP.
The northeast lead created by the
Mitchell, Jones and May well on
block s Mathis addition is also COM
ing in for some attention and though
narrowed down by the Root and
Rhodes dry hole on one side and the
Holden and Wilson failure on the
other, its extension over marrow
strip seems likely may extend for a
considerable distance.
The actual heart of the TOWNSHIP
is rapidly being drilled up and Of a
possible 125 favorable locations in
the town block territory, Go are now
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NEW CONTINENT
FEEDER LINE WILL
CARRY CARRIER OIL

TULSA, Okla, Dec. 19-Mid-
Continent Petroleum Corporation has
completed a si1-inch feeder line from
CARRIER pool connecting with main
line to West Tulsa refinery, making
it possible to move 10000 barrels of
oil n day from CARRIER pool to main
line station near Perry, Okla, thence
1000 barrels q day to West Tulsa
refinery. Previously the capacity of
the line to West Tulsa refinery was
5000 barrels.
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HUASTECA RESERVE
CONTINUES TO GAIN

ZACAMIXTLE. Mexico, Dec. TO-
The Huasteca Petroleum Company
continues to pile up reserve production
of light oil and have added 10000 bar
rels in the completion of well No. So.
TERRA Blanca. at depth of 2132 feet.
Wells No. 90 for $4,000 barrels and
No. Sc for 10000 barrels were COM
pleted but few days previous AMI
with former compilations it is estimat-
ed that this Pan-American subsidiary
now has 100000 barrels light oil re-
serve.
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producing oil, five have been drilled
and abandoned, and % are now drill
ing, and future development will neces-
sarily follow the leads mentioned to
broaden the territory.
2OO-BARREL WELL.
In territory adjacent to the favored
north Main street lead, Harris and
White, ct al, have completed a 200
barrel we'll on block IL, and on the
east side of north Main street near
the business district. The Herbert
Oil company have a well ON block 30
that is showing for slightly above 100
barrels following 10-quart shot. To
the southeast of this well and direct
ly east of the business district, j. G..
Weller has a completion on block 80
that is now showing for about 100
barrels following a 20-quart shot. The
sand in this well was found regular
in depth and apparently regular in
character but failed to yield any
quantity of oil until after the shot
was used. Unlike the early history
of the field, the shooting expedient
is now meeting with much favor and
in most instances is yielding a nice in
crease to flush production.
GOOD PRODUCERS.
Another good well has been COM
pleted by the Nook Texas company,
and NJ. L. Wakefield on their Nc
Donough No. 5 location near the
south city limits. This well is gauging
125 barrels natural flow.
The optomistic theory that a dry
hole could not be drilled on the main
townsite structure was dispelled this
week. with the dry completion of the
Mitchell, Jones and May well on
block 20 offsetting the 200-barrel well
of Guffey ct al, on block 81. The sand
was found in this well at regular
depth and was drilled IL feet in,
but proved too hard to yield oil and
though a 20-quart shot was used the
hard spot proved too large to break
through, and the well has been aban-
doned. Out of about 40 producers
close to the central trend this is the
first to meet with utter failure, and
proves the usual possibility of all
| fields. that a dry hole can exist even
! in the midst of big production.
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number of holes in it and it is pos
sible that the oil is coming from The
shallow formations, which showed
considerable oil when drilled. The
Detex Oil company, which has taken
over the Walker well to re-test, is
placing a derrick over the hole and
will whipstock the holes in the cas-
ing at depths which the well showed
oil. The first oil bearing stratum is
at 600 feet.
The Detex is making good progress
on the No. 1 Bridges, another wild
cat to the east of the Walker. This
well is now drilling around $50 feet
and is being watched closely as
production is expected to be found
around 600 feet, where other wells
found good showings.
In Guadalupe county, the Roxana
Petroleum company failed to find
production in No. Hagerman, Wild
cat. in the Edwards lime at around
2300 feet. The well has been abandon
ed and machinery is being moved off
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OIL AND REFINED PRODUCTS
Third Oil Field in Caldwell County Is Assured
Deep Test for
Water to Be
Sunk at LAREDO

LAREDO, Tex, Dec. ia
derrick has been erected near the
reservoir ON the Heights, with
in the city Of Laredo and a deep
test will be made. This test.
however, is not being drilled for
oil, but for artesian water. 1t
is a well known fact that n pro-
nounced anticline crosses the
river here and the city Is on the
top Of it and many think that
there is q much better chance
for oil or gas than artesian wa
ter. The test is being drilled by
the Laredo Water company.
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3 WELLS ARE DRY
IN LOCKHART POOL

LoCKHART, Tex, Dec. 10.-The
serpentine failed to produce in the
Crenshaw Hooscr Nos. 4 and . and
the Roger Q. Allen No. ., also drilled
for John W. Hooser. George Echols
is the driller.
The report made of the three dry
wells was that il had been decided to
20 on to the Edwards lime with
hope Of finding production in It
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LEGAlS
Bids and Proposals

BIDS WANTED
Sealed bids addressed to the Hon. Au-
gustus McCloskey. County Judge. will
be received In the office OF the County
Auditor until II o'clock a. m, Monday
December 2s. 1925. 70. furnishing Bexar
County with one ~ Crawler Type
Tractor and one "a Combination Scarf
fier and Grader for Use In County Com
missioners' Precinct No. 4. Bids to be
s..bmitted on five (5) and ten (1o) ton
tractor.
The county reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
W. 8. KENDALL County Auditor.
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1926 LOOMS AS BIG YEAR
In MID CONTINENT OILD0M

TULSA, Okla. Dec. 19.-with
1926 just around the corner major
oil buyers are already figuring on
their requirements for the next year
and consensus of opinion from them
indicates that the Mid-Continent may
expect better times next year though
it is likely that production will con-
tinue at high levels on the outside.
One OF the head officials of large
crude oil buying company gave his
opinion Of the Oklahoma situation in
1926 along the following lines:
While the average oil producer in
the Mid-Continent will hardly break
even when he balances his books for
1925, he cannot do much worse. In
many respects the oil situation this
year was similar TO that of 1924 and
1923 and it appears that both the oil
producer and refiner have yet to learn
their lesson; namely the prevention
of overproduction.
BROADER PRICE.
Still, the adding Of several grades
to the crude market schedule giving
the producer broader price for his
crude and the accommodating quail
ties of the pipe line companies in
storing the producers crude cheaper
than he could store it himself, helped
him out of many bad holes and gives
the producer a chance he otherwise
would not have had to recoup his
losses. Consequently his losses, if any,
will not be large.
The usual feeling of apprehension
on the part of major oil buying
agencies over next years supply of
crude, was more evident this year and
will probably continue to be more
evident n few weeks hence. Workman
field in North Texas held these buyers
partly in check at the beginning of
the present year but there is no
Workman on the oil horizon at this
time and apparently none in sight.
But in these days an oil field can be
developed quickly. almost overnight,
as compared with the old days and
somehow new one is expected
shortly.
MANY NEW TESTS
The question is asked, will the
MIDI Continent again experience the
old bugaboo of high crude prices for
about three months early in the year
and then see them wiped out by over
production at the beginning of sum-
mer?" There is nothing at hand to
bear this out for 1926 and still it is
a possibility. At this time in spite of
the decline in the CARRIER. Thomas
and Braman fields and indications
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MAGNOLIA BUYS OIL LEASE

ARTESIA, n. NJ, Dec. 10.-An-
other of the major companies to enter
this section is the Magnolia Petroleum
company who has purchased Section
6 in Twp. 16, Rye. IL this being about
three miles from the test being drilled
by the Arkansas Gas and Fuel com
pany on Manning Dome.
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that none of these pools will again
be q menace to the market, there is
more validating in Oklahoma than
ever before, some 80 new wells being
started in the last 90 days. Any one
of these 30 in rank wildcat territory
may start new pool of major pro-
portions, to say nothing of the vast
validating campaign now under way
in the Texas Panhandle and along
the BALCONIES Fault in Southwest Tex
as. But n new pool in these locali-
ties would be slow in developing on
account of lack of transportation ia
cilities. il for no other reason.
PRODUCTION SITUATION
Will production maintain its levels
during 1926? The big companies are
afraid it will not, for they are buying
more wildcat acreage and fortifying
themselves against decreased oil sup
ply in the Mid-Continent or against
the failure to locate oil pools though
they may be there. Generally, none
of the large Mid-Continent companies
fear any shortage of oil, especially
as long as California and other areas
are producing oil at high rate, but
they want their share of Mid-Conti-
nent oil on which their existance de-
ponds. This was what prompted the
Prairie Oil and Gas company, through
its subsidiary transporting company,
the Prairie Pipe Line company, to
buy into the Pure Oil company line
to the Gulf Coast. They expect to
get Mid-Continent oil and to get it
cheaper and sell it cheaper, thereby
regaining their lost crude oil business
of the past three years.
OUTPUT MAY DECLINE
As to 1926 prospects in the Mid
Continent oil territory. most big COM
panies will not commit themselves so
they are preparing against a declin-
ing production and at the same time
against over-production with the most
weight at this time on the former.
Every major company in the Mid
Continent field seemingly expects a
big oil pool in the Texas Panhandle
some day or they would not buy the
large amount of acreage they have
there and keep it up, drilling only
enough wells TO hold the lease. The
aggressive activity now evident in the
Panhandle region forecasts the dis
covery of an important new field
soon, major company officials believe.
In Oklahoma, it is expected that
most of the big pools of 1928 will
continue to produce n lot Of oil, Gar
Der possibly excepted because of the
serious salt water encroachment. For
the first time in several years at
about this time. Oklahoma has no
new wildcat fields.
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NOTICE

Sealed bids addressed to the Hon.
Augustus McCloskey. County Judge. will
be received in the office OF the County
Auditor until II o'clock a. m. Deem
Der 23rd, 1925. for the sale of si.4o0.-
10000 Court Hopse and Jail Bonds.
$500, 10000 Bridge Bonds and $50. 90
Juvenile Home Bonds. All bonds are
payable serially and OF the denomination
OF 100000 each. bearing AZ per cent
interest. The successful bidder will be
required to put up a certified or cashiers
check for the sum OF sl1 10000 payable
to Augustus McClosksy. County Judge OF
Bexar County. to guarantee the carrying
out OF the proposition made.
Bexar County reserves the right TO re-
ject any or all bids. or propositions made.
W. S. KENDALL.
.-t.fEt County Auditor.