Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 13

Section Two Section Two 1 i NUMBER 56 VOLUME 3 ABILENE! TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 4 TERQACMHBGE SCALE IS FLAMMED 16 CCLEBAn COUHTY 10000 ACRES TO BE IMPROVED Experts See Bigger And Better Fields In This Area Developed OH fields bigger and bettor than any go far uncovered In the Central Weit Tezaa district adjacent to Abilene are doe to be developed in this area in tha future according to Ralph Weaver Jr geologist of Fort Worth who is now spending part of his time in Abilene Oil operators In Fort Worth Tnlsa and varioni other petro-lenxa centers are giving more and more attention to the dcvel-opments in the area centering on Abilene Weaver asserts All reports of operations of new strikes and of promiaing shows are eagerly sought for in the oil centers and Jones Fisher Tiy lor Nolan and Haskell conntiee are mentioned often and favorably whenever oil men get together he declare! Thig region he says is tha most promising of all the lemlw developed or wildcat areas in1 the Mid-Continent and he ex- W7 eral thousand acres of farm id Although terracing demonstrations will not be In full swing before January several Individual demonstrations win be staged during November Cook said A terracing school to be conducted by Bentley agricultural engineer Texts A to College Extension Service and A Short of the Federal Land bank Houston win be held here during January according to present plans "Coleman county farmers ere beginning to realise the value of con serving soil and moisture on their lands" Cook said "Last year the first time that a terracing school was held tar the county approximately 1800 scree were surveyed for terrace This year If the present demand for grading supplies may be token as an Indication 8-000 or 10000 acres will be terraced" Mens than 300 ffermers attended the terracing school last year Following the demonstrations to bo staged by the A college expert Mr Cook will hold community schools over the county A terracing teem to be composed of boys of the Coleman high school vocational agriculture class expects to terrace L000 acres of land during the winter season VOLUNTEERS WILL COW GRUMES Menace To Range Country Around San Angelo Object Of Drive SAN ANOELO Nov The organisation of a volunteer fire flght-ma brigade to combat Uie nieuace of grass fires tax the range country adjacent to San Angelo to tha objective of Frink Flndlater who to conferring with city and county authorities relative to aid In the-matter Buch an organization did effee tfva work 'here tax years past Flndlater sty and can render the ranchmen a great servlet thto year pointing to the rank grass of the range country thto year and the danger that will come after the first killing frosts and tha grass dries Campers by the road aid hunter and smokers and others may carelessly start a blaze cite Mr Flndlater recalling tha fir of about eight years ago that aim net devastated tie March Brothers ranch Tha same year there were other large grass fires in the vicinity of San Angelo that did much damag the volunteer firemen rendering very effective work That was year of long gras tha same aa this year ha say emphasizing the possibility of rendering the rancher real service Mr Flndlater has conferred with Holcombe mayor of tha city John Parker fit chief Malhtoon county judge Henderson county commissioner and many of the busmen men hei all of whom have signified thetr intentions of lending cooperation He would have tha county maintain a water truck In San Angelo for iuch use tax emergencies and Intends to ask tha commissioners court for such Borne of tha ranchmen are insuring their range he said Joe Montgomery of Fort Stockton has Insured hto sheep against such a toss during tha next three miwtb-the premium amounting to aa proxlmately $3000 "Let's prevent bad range fires tax tha next three month" he mg Principal figures in the presidential election November 4 In Nicaragua supervised by the united States marines are shown above in the group of three at tha top Gen Jose Marta Mtancad Liberal candidate for president to pictured tax the center with the dark suit To tha right (top) with glasses to Adolfo Bernard Conservative candidate In the group of three in the middle are Brig Gen Frank McCoy crater who to supervising the election 1 Ramon Castell Conservative member of the election board left and Dr Cordro Reyes Liberal member at the right Conservative party headquarters is pictured below BEST TEXAS MY -ML 10 SET ftSIBEST SOnOH PALACE COLEMAN Hov Terracing on a Mg scale will be done by Cole-men county farmers during the winter season according to Elmo Cook vocational agricultural manager of the Coleman Chamber of Commerce Plana now being made Includes the terracing of sev- DATES CHOSEN FOR REGIONAL 0 OF (MEETS One To Be In Merkel On Dec 6 Programs Now Be- -ing Worked Out STAMFORD Hov Dates for the last regional conventions of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce for the calendar year have been fixed and programs for those conventions are being worked out according to a statement made at the general headquarters of the organisation In this city today One of these conventions win be held In Decatur November 33 and the other in Merkel December 6 The first aanventlon named Is the Red River district end Includes the towns of Decatur Archer City Burkbumett Iowa park Etoctr Wichita Pane Denton Bowl Henrietta Throckmorton Vemon and Intervening points The program win be In the auditorium of the Decatur college and the students of that college as weU as the State Teachers College end the College of Industrial Arts will furnish the entertainment features of the convention Some of the moat prominent mob In the state win appear upon the program end a large attendance is expected The last convention of the calendar year to what to known as the central district convention and embraces towns like AMlene Stamford Hamlin Sweetwater Merkel Anson Ballinger Winters San Angela Rawena and numerous intervening points It to the plan of the executive officers to make the convention et Merkel more or less a public forum to discuss legislative question that effect West Texas in particular and Texas In general To that end Invitations will be extended to members of the legislature In that district to ha present and to offer counsel and advice Merkel to most enthusiastic over the approaching convention and to preparing a very elaborate entertainment program Tom Green Man Finds Dairying Is Very Profitable SAN ANGELO Hov 3-After seven yean of cotton farming during which Frankie baa produced 173 bales he has this year discovered on hie farm In the Schers community a source of Income In Jersey cattle that bids to surpass the earnings of cot tom He has raised mors cotton than the average Tom Green county farmer at that and out of his earning has been able to make the down payment on a 100-acre farm in the Schers community and place seven heed of Jersey cattle on the place Keeping figures for fortyflve days he has discovered that the even Jersey animals have netted him $15076 In a month and a half He spent $7945 tar taking the raw milk to San Angelo and for feed hm also baa a flock of 100 White Leghorn chickens which net him $25 a month he said Vardanian Slated For Colo Program COLORADO Hov 3J Green secretary of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce has received various recommendations of Ben Varda-man noted lecturer and business efficiency expert who to to bold a Greater Business and Community Institute In Colorado on December 3 4 end 8 Business men of Colorado have underwritten the expenses of bring' tag Mr Vardaman to Colorada and Greene sponsored the movement to 1 bring him here One of the letters of recommendation has been from Stan weretary of the Coleman Chamber of Commerce Dr Hmrdmn re-eently held a very successful instl-tute in Coleman Two Million Dollars Would Be Used to Hardsur- face Network Of High-- ways In County LUBBOCK Not 8 Several of agitation for paved TNqosdg in Lubbock county reach ed a definite atatni this week when the county commission-ere court let December 1 aa the date for a special election to determine whether or not the county will vote bonds in the sum of $2000000 for good roadpurposest Hie calling of the election followed presentation to County Judge Charles Nordyke of a petition bearing SCO names of Lubbock' county citizen This petition was presented by the Lubbock County Good Roads Association which has been leading in the campaign to get Lubbock county out of the mud Of the S3 004000 Issue $23000 would be used In purchasing district road bonds already In existence and $1882000 would be used for the con- atructlon and maintenance of tan-proved roads This money would be used as fdlows: Texas State Highway Tla-Baton Lubbock and Bhallowater $329000 -Texas stats Highway Ha vis Woodrow Lubbock and Monroe to Abernathy $275000 Texas State Highway Ho 83 via Xdmlou Lubbock and WoJfierth $371000 Road West from Slaton to High-wM Ha 3 via Union School $153 Road north from Lynn county jthe through Slaton Xdalou and Bee-ton to Hale county line $478-000 Road cast on Broadway from Lubbock via the aouth side of the Panhandle South Plains Pair grounds through Canyon and Acuff to Crosby county line $283000 Road weat from Lubbock to Hockley county line $137000 Total $1883000 The vote of the commissioners was unanimous for calling the election Motion to this effect was made by Commissioned Bra-shear of precinct 3 and was seconded by Pinkston of precinct 3 and A Payne of precinct Judge Hordyke presided at the meeting Directors of the Lubbock County Good Roads Association was attended the com meeting Included: Jed A Rlx chairman: A Davis secretary of the association who it also msnager of the chamber of commerce Sherrod president of the board of eltr development: Roger Pierce George Kuykendall Klett and Spencer A Wells niahway Work In Mitchell County To Be Awarded COLORADO Hov 3 Contrsct for grading and drainage structures on fifteen miles of Highway Ha 1 from a point one one-half miles east of Colorado to Westbrook la song those to be bid upon November 10 In Austin The highway from the west Mitchell county line' to Westbrook was graded and given new drainage structure last winter Join Green County Paving Is Opened SAN ANGELO Hov With the opening of the new pavement from Wall to the Tom Green eastern county line a stretch of 34 miles is no paved from this city toward Brady Of the 24 mile distance IS 1-3 miles has been paved this year Paving equipment will be shifted to the north pert of the county now and complete the road toward Sterling City Road Committee Meets Monday Bio 6PR1N0 Hov The special Toad committee appointed by the chamber of commerce will meet Monday afternoon to work out a Toad bunding program The plan of hardsurfactaig Highways Ha 1 nd Ha is being considered by the committee James Brooks chairman 8 Jones Ipk-58- Joye Fisher Bayes aejm-w Lay and Wheat hvtna comprise the person- el of tae commits Crop Short But Prices Are Good Edwards Plateau Area Optimistic By SAM ASHBEKN SAN ANGELO Nov Although Texas to the only livestock state In the union that nu all the year round graring the ranch operators always look forward to the winter season as the period In which their percentage of lose to the greatest and In which the cost of doing busies to the most But again the flag of optimism to unfurled on all the ranches of the Edward Plateau the most intensively graaed area In the world pexhap Though the lamb crop was short prices have been better than ever and the amount of money received for the lambs to now being tucked away In the banks for a bard day that may come or else to being Invested in new ranches or fax buying more sheep to stock the full grassed range Some are building new home putting up new windmill new rock tank or new fence Some think ranch lands are entirely too high to buy at the present prices and think the same qf leaces now lymmamilng from 00 cento to $1 an acre There to Just a little fly tax the ointment of the sheepmen for the worms have been pretty bad and many salee of remed'es for thto complaint have been made by the druq store' The breeding sefeeon to beginning now et the first of November and a better grade of bucks to being used ell over the country meaning better lambs next spring and the production of Sheep that will produce more wool Sheen prices are some yearling ewes have brought $13 and bred ewes at $13 are eranmon though many win demand 215 or even for them There win be some mutton lambe carried over to be sheared as year-lines next anrin and shipped to the market White Brothers have about 10000 two year old muttons near here The goat mah get the toney price for hto mohair that ha did last fan but the prices obtained around 07 to 65 cents for regular hair and 73 to 78 cento for kid hair are good "living price and If the goat man wants to ride around tn a new auto he esn 'do It and not feel pihehed There to a heavy demand for goats end the prices have not suffered from the decline tax mohair It took years to get to the goat price where It to todav but It seems destfned to stay there for some Vme and contracts for kids are being made now It to also breeding season for mats with kidding time to come tax March Texas buy so many Angora bucks as It does rams for Its sheep as It exports a large number of Angora buck It has been sending buck to other thto fall and summer too with Hew Mexico and Arizona large1! getting Its exportation The feeder lambs went partly to Hew York state though the bulk went to Missouri Kansu Nebraska and Oklahoma There was a good dear mote sheep shearing this ton than to ordinary doe to the good prieei obtaned for the short wool In the soring and the first sealed bid sale will be held about November 10 One warehouse tax Del Rio has already sold its of more than half million pounds by private treat The best Continued on page 7 Sea 3) By Troy 'gunmen all coming west to aeek their fortune and to grow up with the country When Mr Border came to Abilene be was single but on hto arrival he it early days of thto eectlon Mr pecta the present program of development to be greatly stimulated during the next twelve montha Prospect Seems Bright to Weaver's opinion there to a very bright prospect of a new producing area being developed south of the Texas to Pacific railroad somewhere in the neighborhood of the Taylor-Nolan county line There to a possibility the Fort Worth geologist thinks of a pool being developed around tha northwest corner of Taylor county possibly southeast mayba southwest of tha corner that will equal Uis hoodie Creek or Shahem potato in productivity and profit And further Weaver declare the full possibilities of Jones and Fisher are yet far from determined Then to tax those countie several promising "noslngi" that may yield petroleum' when penetrated the strataa In which oil collects when seeking a level in the underground region are found to be porous In discussing tha prospects for continued on development In the Abilene are WeSVer produces geological maps that show a "nose1 very similar to be me on which the 8haheen pool producers an located as existing In northwest Taylor tax fact the "nose" in thst region according to tha maps Weaver works from to on a structure directly connected with that on which the Jones county producing area are located Maps ate easy to make and aa tie prophecies that certain districts art potential oil producing re Ions Many such assertions as those attributed to Weaver herewith hare been made in the past by scores of men and soma women Soma of them ha vs been folks who knew the oil business and who had just as much back of them or maybe more tat the way of successful predictions as Wearer ha Doe Consideration However the statements mads by Wearer are due unusual consideration for ha has already made predictions concerning oil developm-nt in the territory adjacent to Abilene and since ho did hto prognosticating the things he said would or might haouen have eome to pas Weaver made the loration for the Shahem Hutson to Weaver No 1 Smith tn section $1 to survey 18 southwest Jones county the discovery wen of the Shaheen pool Although the Na 1 Smith was not completed as an oil well for more than a year after Phillips Petroleum Company -drilled In their Na 1 Joe Winter at Noodle Creek for the first oil producer In Jones county the location for that well wee made by Weaver several weeks before the completion of Na 1 Joe Winter On top of that Weaver before the Phillips discovery well in the Noodle Creek area waa rompleted and before the Na 1 Smith was snudded picked the spot on which Snowden to MeSweenys gusher tn section 50 to survey 18 Na 1 Blcktoy to now located as bring a good place to drill for olL In fact according to Shaheen who framed the original drilling block of 8300 acres centering around sections 00 and 51 Weaver said in July 1920 that the place where Na 1 Bickley to located waa a better place to drill than tha location picked for Na 1 Smith The performance of the two well stnre completion has verified Weaver Judgment Texas Tech Stock Judges Are Named LUBBOCK Nov 3 Six students foom the agricultural school of Texas Technological College will constitute a stock judging team which will compete tax the International Livestock Judging contest at Chi- jeago December The team wiU be selected from the following seven contestants: John Burroughs Vaughn Corley Bemto Carmichael Curtto Grime A Jackson Paul Msrr and Tom One will be an alternate The team win be accompanied by Ray Mowery coach Five of these boys represented Tech last spring at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show end carried off premier honors as a team -d I Tom waa high man of the entire 1 contest DALLAS Nov 3 Aviation gossip at Love Field municipal flying cen ter concerns a midget airplane constructed by William Van Cleave veteran filer which has made Its maiden air journey "The smallest plana ever flown In the United States" Van Cleave claims for the craft The plane weighs 435 pounds and to scarcely heavier than some of the motorless gliders with which inventors have been experimenting In Europe The tiny plane to powered with a two-cylinder 35-horse-power motor built by the same company which manufactures Wright Whirlwind engine The midget biplane hss a wing ipread of only 3t feet While some aviators were grumbling at the email size of the pilot seat and predicted the plane would be tricky to fly Van Cleave went confidently about hto work When the test flight came the little ship sped down the field and coaxed over the city without a quirk "Although air conditions should bo practically normal for flying It the plane takes off well files satisfactorily and lands with ease" the builder said The ship was constructed ss an experiment in the low-priced manufacturing field which Van Cleave predicts will become popular with student aviators seeking 300 hours nf flying required by the govern' ment for a pilot's license Howard County Couple Observes Golden Wedding BIO SPRING Hov Mr and and Mr Johnson pioneer rnldents of Big Biffing celebrated their golden wedding anniversary hoe this week It was the first time In 37 years that the Johnson family had been together seven children being here for the occasion Mr Johnson to one of Howard greatest booster will be $015 for tha round trip and from Cisco $420" A letter from Beth Mayfield secretary and manager of tha Cotton Palace addressed to Manager of tha West Texas Chamber of Commerce say "We are going to work with you tax every poulble way to make thto one of tha biggest days of the exposition" Special sourtesles win tae shown the West Texans by the Cotton Palace official Tickets to the football gome can be reserved by writing or wiring to Whitehead publicity manager of tha regional ornanlzation with headquarters at Fort Worth Interested partiea are requested to call on local agents of the Katy and advise of their desires In order that tha proper train eaulpmmt may be provided in line with Mr Crush's suggestion West Texans an urged to join tn an effort to make thto day one that Will be tax keeping with the spirit of the West and they can be assured of a pleasurable visit to Waco and the great exposition Tha Cotton Palace foot square canvas room furnished quarters for the telegraph of fire and the dispatcher while farther away and (ca tered over many acres of ground were tent both large and lenu early morning light presented a ghostly appearance like many spectres resting on the bar landscape be- loro folding their robes around them and stealing farther Into the oblivion of the west "At thto early hour there aes no life not a moving creature Jkut from same of the tents a palish blue smeke drifted out over the tent city and there came to my nostrils the sm-11 of bunting wood and rooking food ft was a welcome i Continued on mn 7 STAMFORD Hov 3-November 10 has been officially designated aa West Texas day at the Texas Cotton Palace at Waea Thto date kas agreed upon In a conference between Homer Wade manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce and the management of the Cotton Palace and was selected by the first named organization because of the fact that a football game between Baylor and Texas Universities will occur on that date A letter to Mr Wade from Crush Passenger Traffic Manager of the Mlssourl-Kansas-Texas rail-load announces that the road will give specially low rates for thto oc-casston Mr Crush's letter reads: "We have provided for special low round trip rates to Waea on this day round trip tickets being sold for all trains arriving tn Waco on November 10 and good to leave Waco prior to midnight November 13 thus giving practically three days in Waco for those taking advantage of thto popular rate which to based on approximately 75 percent of the one way fare As for instance from Stamford tha rate Morri Border who to now 73 yean old but till tax active business having the appearance of a man forty tells a very vivid and connected story A Spectral City "When have occasion to visit Abilene" said Mr Border "my recollection always harkens back to the time when I first saw the town It was tax 1S83 that I arrived in the now brautiful but as I alighted from the first ps-serger that had ever penetrated thto virgin and fertile country quite different picture presented itself tn me It was In the early moran Just after daybreak The train came to a groaning halt and I looked trom toe window of the car There was no depot but a little etoht First Wedding Coleman Ranges Helped By Rains COLEMAN Nov Moisture foiling thto week win be of gieat help tp stockmen in thto county according to Elmo Cook vocational agricultural agent Some of the ranges In thto section were beg Inning to get dry since no rain had fallen since the early part of October The rain while retarding the harvesting of cotton crop will also be of benefit to tha farmers In putting the lands tax to condition for winter plowing Most of the Coleman county cotton crop has been gathered Za certain parts of the county aoma of the farmers have completed thetr picking ft to estimated that 33000 bales hare been ginned thto season tax Coleman county The 1921 crop to placed at 40000 bale Fecana are being shipped out of the county at the rate of several thousands pounds weekly Local produce dealers are paying from 8 to 10 cento per pound for average pecans delivered to thto city Tha Coleman county pecan crop this year to estimated at 100000 pound Big Spring Of Names Nominating Committee BIO SPRING Nov 3 A nominating commute for the Big Spring Chamber of Commerce hai been named by Resident Philips to select 40 names to submit to the membership from which 31 wifi be named as directors for 19291 The commitee appointed waa Dr CL EUlngtim chairman ZX Bi Homer McNcw Buck Richardson Thomason and Fled Fhluua Xra Border pioneer Texan and prominent real estate dealer of Hamlin was among those who rode the first passenger train into Abilene tax 1383 Accordingto to Mr Border or nonest immigrants gambler and.