Grandfalls Field Claims Largest Ward County Oil Well
Misunderstanding over Red Bluff project employment terms is cleared by G C Street PWA inspector. Pecos Loving Ward Reeves counties officials pressed to enforce local hire rules and limit outside labor for the Red Bluff dam project. Frederick Porter referred query to Fort Worth PWA, which stipulates hires go first to qualified ex service men with dependents then to residents of the affected counties and state, with contractors required to cooperate with local re employment offices. Local rules allow age to exceed minimum if capable. no work under 16 ordinary or under 18 hazardous.
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Red Bluff
G. C. Street
PWA
Pecos
Loving
Ward
Reeves Counties
Red Bluff Dam
Frederick Porter
Woolfolk
Reeves
Lawson Goodrich
Hal Burnett
Petos
Porter
Sheets
Fort Worth
The
United States
Mrs Weatherby Visits Town From Toyvyeh Ranch
Mrs O C Weatherby traveled from her Toyvyeh area ranch on Tuesday for shopping and social visits with friends in town.
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O. C. Weatherby
Toyvyeh
Record petroleum strike tops Ward County output
In Ward County last week the California Company No. 15 Durgin produced 2 950 barrels in 24 hours through casing from 2 559 feet, becoming the area’s largest initial flow among more than 300 wells drilled. Other wells such as Gulf Production No. 34 Hutchins and California No. 14 York showed notable gains, with multiple tests and depth adjustments reported on the Durgin and neighboring wells on the HL& T. C. Ry. Co. survey lands near Grandfalls and surrounding fields.
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California Company
Ward County
Shipley Oil Corporation
S. F. Hayzlett
Grandfalls
Texas-Pacific Coal and Oil Company
Gulf Production Company
Hutchins
Northern
Ward
California
York
Tex-Mex Petroleum Corporation
California- Arccenbold
Gulf
California Co
Durgin
Hl& T. C. Ry. Co
California Co. No. 16
California No. 14
Sid Richardson
W. D. Johnson
H.&t. C. Ry. Co. Survey
H&tc Ry. Co
Sin- Clair-Prairie No
Archenhold
Jack Leidecker
California Archenhold
Block 5
Leidecker
Bennett
Broy
Oil and gas drilling progress reports with new cafe opening
Multiple wells across sections and blocks report spuds to depths between 512 and 4 660 feet with shows of oil and gas in varied formations including anhydrite lime and salt. A new cafe on the former Crockett Coffee Shop location is slated to open in about two weeks after interior remodeling and fixtures move in.
Fire siren misleads Pecos unit to nonexistent blaze
Pecos Fire Department rushed to the Pecos Sanitarium after a siren call, only to find no fire. A hot water heater steam and a broken pipe under a nearby house created smoke-like conditions mistaken for flames, delaying the crew briefly. Nearby oil and gas drilling reports follow in the same column.
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Pecos
Pecos Sanitarium
Manahan
Miss Frazee
Otet
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