Devonian gas discovery completed in Pecos County Texas
Pacific Oil Co completed No 1 Elsinore Cattle Co well as a Devonian gas discovery in Pecos County about 17 miles southwest of Fort Stockton. Initial flow estimated at 28 million cubic feet daily. Drilled to 16 555 feet and logged casing at 1 inch while plugged back to 12 815 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Pacific Oil Co., Inc
Elsinore Cattle Co
Pecos County
Pikes Peak
Gc&sf Survey
Fort Stock
Inexco Oil Co
Midland
Fort Stockton
Amini Oil Co
Ellenburger Gas
Lacos Land
Pecos Valley
Ellenburger
McKee
Imperial
Gc&sf
Gulf Oil Corp
Rocky Mesa
Queen
TCRR
Jake L. Hamon
Dallas
McElreath
Dual Connell Oil and
Pennsylvanian Gas
Sheffield
Pecos
C&k Petroleum, Inc
Fusselman Oil
Santa Rosa
H&gn
Devonian Oil and Fusselman Gas
Ambulance Call At Brandon Hotel Reports Epileptic Seizure
An ambulance was summoned at 7:27 a.m. on September 19 to the Brandon Hotel for a bus passenger who reportedly had an epileptic seizure. The patient was taken to Memorial Hospital, treated, released, and remained resting there until the next bus departure. Other items list September marriage licenses, divorces granted, and a detailed oil well drilling report near Pecos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Memorial Hospital
Balmorhea Booster Band Mexican Supper and Homecoming
The Balmorhea Booster Band Club hosts a Mexican Supper on Friday September 29 from 5 to 7 PM at the high school cafeteria to raise funds for band uniforms and instruments. The same day Balmorhea hosts a football homecoming game with Grandfalls and Royalty at 8 PM. Tickets cost 1.50 and 1.00. Balmorhea Bears travel to Dell City on Saturday September 23 after the Dell City game was postponed by rain. Community members Mr and Mrs Wes Prejean and children visited, dove hunting occurred, and residents noted trips and gatherings. The Madera Valley Young Homemakers met at Balmorhea High School with flower arrangement program by Pecos shop owners Marie Jackson and Chas Daniels. School menu and local army enlistments noted alongside a birth in Odessa and local oil field updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balmorhea
Balmorhea Bears
Dell City
Madera Valley Young Homemakers
Balmorhea High School
Penny McElroy
Marie Jackson
Chas Daniels
Pecos
Gale Patton
Connie Looman
Judy Bagley
Anita Jermagen
Sherill McPherylson
Jeanelle Scenie
Doris Everette
Oma Prew
Gwendolyn Bottoms
Bond set for five IRA sympathizers in testifying case
Five Irish Republican Army sympathizers jailed for refusing to testify in an alleged Irish gun running scheme had bonds set at 100000 dollars after intervention by a supreme court justice. Dallas lawyer Ed Polk argued the bond amount and opposed surrender of passports to court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Tex
Irish Republican Army
Supreme Court
Dallas
Ed Polk
U.S
Pecos Enterprise publication and mailing rates notice
The Pecos Enterprise announces mailing subscription rates for Reeves County and other areas. In county prices are six months nine dollars or twelve months eighteen dollars. All other mail is six months eleven dollars and twelve months twenty one dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reeves County
Deaths William Kenneth Campbell 78 Pecos native
Services for William Kenneth Campbell 78 of 713 West Fourth Street are set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Pecos Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. David Northcutt and Rev. Leslie Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery. He died Tuesday at Pecos Nursing Home after living in Pecos since 1943. Born May 10, 1894 in Carthage North Carolina, he was an electrical engineer and county commissioner from 1946 to 1952. A member of First Baptist Church and a 32nd degree Mason, he served in World War II and belonged to the American Legion. He is survived by his widow Lula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kenneth Campbell
Fourth St
Pecos Funeral Home
David Northcutt
Leslie Smith
Fairview Cemetery
Pecos Nursing Home
Carthage
N. C
Campbell
Pecos
First Baptist Church
W.W. II
American Legion
Lula
Drill Stem Test Yields Oil and Gas From Subsurface Sample
The test at 9,080 to 9,160 feet produced 600 feet of oil below the sub and 49 cubic feet of gas from the sample chamber. It flowed to the separator for one hour on a 1/2 inch choke, delivering 16 barrels of oil and gas rated at 461,000 cubic feet daily. Reversed out of the drillstem test tool were 36 bars rels of oil.
Notice to Hunters Leases Granted on Local Ranch Lands
Notice that hunting rights on T-Bar Cattle Co Holcombe Rape Lake and Eddins Ranches are leased and all prior permits revoked. Poachers will be prosecuted. Pecos Hunting Club as Lessor. Published in Pecos Enterprise on September 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 1972.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T-Bar Cattle Co
Holcombe Rape Ranch
Lake Ranch
Eddins Ranch
Pecos Enterprise
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Jimmie Lee Criswell
Johnson
Marthasa Gailann Nance
Willis Alvin Thomasson
Hackberry
Norma Lee Miller
Irene
Sancts Hernandez Porras
Rosa Maria Hernandez
James Mark Burleson
Fr. Stockton
Linda Mae Gray
Missouri St
Richard Frank Gay
Carlsbad
N.M
Eva Katherine Morton
Stephen Paul Greenhill
Wyoming St
Vickie Lea McCanlies
10Th St
Tomas M. Chavez
Eva L. Chavez
E. Fourth
Daniel Donald Morriss Jr
Toyah
Cathie Elaine Blevins
Armando Tarango Armendariz
N. Walnut
Rosalba Guadalupe Lopez Orozco
S. Martinez
Juan Antonio Solis
Teresa Aguirre Contreras
Verhalen
Reyes
Fermin Hernandez Aldaz
Blanca Estela Lopez
Martinez St
Arnulfo Ramirez Molinar
Ema Lara
Herman Sandoval Turin
Diana Lozano Martinez
Maria Evaro Lara
Roberto Orona Lara
Wes and
Della Prejean
Jeannie
Tim
Karen
Virginia
Ft. Davis Mountain Reserve Ranch
Buck Towler
Francis Taylor
Lifornia
Loyal Humphries
Mr. Prunty
Gary Gilbert
Army
Electronics
Ft. Ord
Calif
Ft. Bliss
Ronald Weaver
Mechanics
Martha Stacy
Odessa
Beta Larramore
Jake L. Hamnon
Connell
Sulphur Springs
Ft. Hood
John A. Maurer
Civil Defense
Mexico
Mexico City
Nuevo Laredo
Tamaulippas
Manuel Ravize
Associated Press
Raza Unida
Demos
la Raza Unida
Jose Gutierrez
Gutierrez
Crystal City
Ramsey Muniz
la Raza
Waco, Tex
Virgil Lee Fuqua
Waco
Dennis Earl Jones
Johnnie T. Hartwell
Flood
New Braunfels
James Meos
Shirley
Brian
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic
New Orleans
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
la Marque
Agnew
ST. Louis
Spiro T. Agnew
Democratic
Republican Party
Galveston, Tex
Mitchell Energy & Development Co
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Galveston
Corps
Kansas
I Mitford Johnson
Mitford Johnson
Ecos
Texas
The
Pecos Enterprise, Inc
S. Cedar St
P.O. Box
Af Ecos
William Campbell
Pecos Huniting Club
Oldsmobile
Delta 88
Omega
Olds
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