Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-02-29
THE LONE STAR STATE

We have crossed the largest state
of the union four times. It's immen-
sity gives one a more accurate sense
Of the immensity OF our great coun-
try. This state has 258 counties to
Delawares three. 1t has every di-
versity of plain, prairie and noun
tains. 1t has the richest delta SOIL
and the most arid desert lands in
the nation. 1t has swamps and
sand-dunes, muck land and grazing
areas. It has oil, coal and mineral
sources of many kinds still unde-
veloped, including silver. 1t has
almost every vegetable needed or
used by man and beast. and the
greatest citrus belt in the world. 1t
leads in the production of sheep,
cattle and mules.
One of it's largest cities, San An
tonic, has a population of quarter
million. With it's canals and riv-
ers tree-lined, it's bridges vine COW
cred it has the beauty of old Spain,
as we'll as its meiodious lans, a. -
and music In it's Alamo, in 1886,
Santa Ana massacred 200 Ameri-
cans, with a force that numbered
1000 Though president five times,
he was a disgrace to his country.
After being exiled three times he
came home to die a pauper's death,
and be buried in pauper's grave.
San Antonio is called the cradle of
Texan liberty.
Dallas, named for Vice President
George NJ Dallas, in 1845, has the
largest inland cotton market in the
land One-half the oil in the United
States is produced within nights
ride of Dallas Houston is another
oil center.
Coming through Midland, Texas,
another oil center, we heard that
the worlds largest oil producing
we'll is there, the Marathon, num-
ber 80, in the Yates field. Here $50
oil concerns operate; 100 of these
have headquarters at Midland
There are 11,250 wells, drilled in
Ill pools. They reach the Per-
mian rocks, and their large size and
great thickness of strata insure per-
manency, or at least long life, to
this basin. This, since it's discov-
cry in 1921, has produced 1,143,
479,450 barrels of oil, nearly bill
lion and a half. This is more than
any one nation in all its history has
done, with the exception of four.
our own, Russia, Venezuela, and 1
believe Rumania.
1t is more than Pennsylvania in
all it's history since 1856. The oil
area is $4,000 miles, larger than
all the state of Pennsylvania. Oil
booms have made and unmade sew
eral large towns and cities in Okla
homa and Texas One is Ranger,
where we were over night. 1t once
had $4,000, now 5000 people.
Vice President Garner seems to
have the respect and love of all the
state and Governor Lee O'Daniel,
has announced he will run the sec
ond time on a platform of religion
and prohibition They say if nom
mated he will win We would like
to have visited our Malta-bred gov
ernor, but did not have any chance
to do so. All slot machines are be-
ing removed. and the state liquor
laws strongly enforced, much tol
the dislike of some friends we talk
ed with. sttN
And now we have reached Doug
las. Arizona, where these words are
being written. We have witnessed
a great change in climate from ten
below zero in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
to about so above zero in Douglas. |
We have the delightful balmy |
warmth of April or May. Today we
crossed the line to Mexico, and Wis
tied Aqua Prieta, with a purely
Mexican atmosphere as alien to us |
as Spain Old autos were convert |
ed into wagons, the entire chassis |
being used. We saw four burros
hitched abreast to load of wood. |
We went to the smelter where thel
copper ore from Bisbee is prepared
for the market Douglas is a great
cattle center, and has the only in
airport in the country.
1t is on both sides of the boundary |
and contains 1900 acres of land
Howard H. Scott, Douglas, Arizona,
Jan. 25, 1910.