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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1924
Page
6
Transley, a hay cutting master, leads 2 000 tons on the way to the big D. D. ranch headquarters. Foreman Linder is sturdy but not self-assured. George Crark, a reckless suitor, flirts with every woman. Transley and Linder dine with D. and his wife. Transley vows not to marry Zen.
Transley and Linder depart with Y D men to haul hay on the South Y D branch while old rivalries flash. Drark scrambles to recover a missing horse blanket, shadows a young woman at the ranch, and the group pushes into the foothills under bright morning sun.
In a terse exchange, a long-time meadow cutter asserts no one has a legal claim to the hay meadow, declaring he will continue cutting it on his own terms despite challenges, with Y.D. backing him and Transiey acknowledging the stance.
In a tense prairie scene, Drark’s confidence falters as Y D’s daughter confesses a life changing secret. George Crark realizes a deeper plot as Linder taunts him and the two lovers weigh a future together amid danger and pursuit.
A fragmented note reports Ipposé Transley starting in some event but was warned off. The text shows unclear references to individuals and a possible prior warning from someone already at the scene.
A fragment notes the Plain of Jordan and Dead Sea area discussed for possible cultivation. The text references proposed development and agricultural potential in the region.
A U S Agriculture devised a flotation device to separate nematodes from soil. A hollow cylindrical apparatus on a rotating table uses water and controlled currents to lift nemas for collection, concentration, and examination, enabling counting in soil samples.
Blackford county Indiana farmers, guided by their agricultural extension agent, tested soybeans as a soil building crop and protein feed supplement. The county’s soybean acreage jumped from few growers five years ago to about 3,850 acres with corn and 500 acres dedicated to seed and hay in 1928.
The piece urges growers to cultivate gardens if dissatisfied, to test soil moisture accurately, and to switch from barter to cooperative egg selling. It warns losses from treating onions late, promotes song birds for pest control, advises culling top hens to hatch eggs, and notes alfalfa seeding with a nurse crop as a risky early spring practice.
In Calliham Texas the oil field hosts 44 producers and 22 gag wells, with total output slightly over 2000 barrels daily. The deepest gas wells reach 991 feet, owned by R O Kipp Company. The main gas producer is Natural Gas No 8 Lark at 20 million feet. Coyle Concord well in river bed yields 90 barrels and faces litigation. South Texas Company is largest producer with six oil wells and one gas well. average oil well output runs 85 barrels per day.
Wichita Falls reports a sale of 1 500 carloads of gasoline by Panhandle Refining to Standard Oil of New Jersey. Deliveries for export by June 1 will reduce midcontinent stocks and restore a usable basis for refining. Officials anticipate a potential price uptick once surplus is cleared.
Johnson's Bayou Prospecting Company will begin the sixth test wall this week in Johnson's Bayou territory about 18 miles southeast of Oranges in Cameron parish Louisiana. The well will be five-eighths of a mile west of a prior well drilled by Lee Hagar of Houston on land owned by W H Stark of Orange and about 200 feet north of the Texas Company holdings.
Kingsville Tex Plato No 1 spudded in days. location east of Planels well once largest gayger in the area. A derrick stands, wing being stalled south and east as drilling expected to start within the next week by same operations amid continued exploration activity.
Putnam in Callahan County on the Texas & Pacific line between Cisco and Baird attracts attention as a shallow oil field developed by Homer Peoples. In the last two years the field has begun to come into its own, combining shallow and deep oil production along the Bankhead Highway through the region.
Wichita Falls producer reports No 2 well in the McCarty land Beaver Creek district as the best in Wichita County over nine months. Initial tests showed 400 barrels daily but gauge indicates an actual average of 800 barrels per day after tapping sand at 1,672 feet.
Oil shows were encountered at 2964 feet in the Urea well region north of Mercedes on the Appelscheimar lease. Drilling was halted to rim out the hole and set casing as crews prepare. Company officials express confidence a producing well will be brought in.
In Richland area Mexia Texas the Godley No 2 AIH son well has yielded about 400 barrels of high grade oil in the new Richland pool. Operators say the well is the biggest in the pool and has boosted activity more than any event in the past 30 days.
The Texas Company completed three wells onto Allen leave Nos. 4 6 and 7 in the Luling Field recently, signaling productive activity in Texas oil development with multiple new output points established.
The Fuller-Scott gas well near Waskom attracts attention from oil men across Louisiana and Texas. Visitors from the fields have toured the site as leasing activity grows in the region with some tracts fetching up to 40 dollars per acre.
Edna Texas reports plans to deploy three or four rigs in Jackson County within the next weeks, as part of present plans.
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