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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
2
A fragmented OCR list details numerous oil wells and leases across Wilbarger, Vernon, Wagoner, and surrounding Texas counties. Entries name operators such as Noble, Harrold Texas Oil, Waggoner Colony, Tex Wye, Minnesota Southern Oil, and others with site designations, section block data, depths to drilling or shut downs, casing sizes, and spudding or testing activities.
Numerous drilling operations and shut downs are listed across Texas leases including Rex Boyd farm Section 17 Block 14 and Beazley No. 1. Abandonments include Nos. 87 197 180 and 11 on the W T Waggoner lease. Reports cover depth measured in feet, spudding plans, rotary conversions, and various company names such as Arizona Parties Federal Oil Texas Company Great Western Petroleum and others.
Agrarian guidance notes that slopes steeper than 15 percent resist effective terracing, making irrigation and cultivation difficult. It urges terracing on the vast majority of Cotton Belt lands with gentler slopes to prevent wash and preserve fertility, highlighting limited newer terracing in river valleys like Mississippi and Arkansas.
Mrs. Mo J. Flanigan of Nashville Pennsylvania credits Tanlac with ending years of chills smothering spells and stomach pain. She reports rapid improvement after three months of use and says her weight has increased by twenty pounds. Her daughter Elsie also regained strength to work long hours. Tanlac sold in Vernon by T M Fergeson Drug Company and other druggists.
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