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saloon there Jeff Milton also said there was a small water hole not too far from the spring, from which his horse would not drinkHe had to carry water from the spring for his horse Therefore he was not surprised when oil was discovered in that area because the water in the hole was oily.Since I’ve now wandered in my column from Carr to Hackberry Grove to Big Spring, 1 will also note that in 1881, a man named L.S McKay was sent to Big Spring to build a pump house for a pump and cypress tank to pump water to the round house to furnish water for the train enginesThe first pump house and all the Texas and Pacific company houses were lightgreen in color That reminds me of a town in South Texas that is called Blue Town because all of the houses there at one time were painted with the same shade of blue It’s been years since the houses were blue, but it's still called Blue TownBut at least, Big Spring didn’t pick up the name of Green Town. As the population increased, more wells were drilled around the spring and the spring beganto get low.This was when a rock dam was put in by the railroad. In 1881, Ed Tucker built a small frame depot He went back to Baird and got married and rode the first train into BigSpring He and his bride slept in a tent hotel When the first train arrived, Tent City moved from the springto a location near the tracks The people lived in tents and dugouts The first telegraph office was in the Hound House It was May 28, 1881 when the first train came into the Tent City of Big Spring A hotel sprung up called the TAP Home, for there employees to live in until they could build a house Can Powell ran the hotel Hot meals were 50 cents He met each train with a push cart and asked people to stay at his hotel. He put their suitcases on his cart and walked them to the hotel That’s pretty good service — better than you’d get if you came into town nowadays,So it wasn't all that bad — hack in the beginning of a town where I love to ride fence.
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1978
Page 13
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