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he ameron herald Official Organ Milam County Farmers Union Largest Circulation of any Paper in the Count? VOLUME 36 CAMERON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MCH. 11, 1915. NUMBER 45 COAL. OIL AND GAS CAN BE FOUND AROUND HOVTE Dr. T.

A. Pope Gives Positive Evidence That These Commodities Are in Evidence There. THE LtEOIL COM- NO MONEY FOR PANY ORGANIZED THE ROAD WORK With Cdpitdl Stock $230,000. Commissioners Court lids at ihornddle Borrowed A large Sum to Just (ers Are Elected. The first organized on company in Thorndale is to he the Outstanding Debts.

Our Commissioner E. H. Reese was a most pleasant caller at the CAMERON IS TO SPEND $15,000 ON STREETS At Meeting of CouncilJFriday Night Mayor Was Instructed to Close Deal for Warrants Hoyte, Texas, March 7, some weeks we have been hoping for an exceptionally pood fruit crop this year but this beautiful Sunday morning, with the mercurv hovering about 32, while we still have hopes the prospect is rather gloomy. But the toma- lo grower can rejoice if the fruit man weeps because the less fruit Ihe better will be the price of tomatoes, and as there are more tomato than orchards it will really be no great misfortune to our country, as a whole, if the fruit crop should be very small. Our people are far behind in their work.

There seems to be more water in the ground than there has been for 20 years. Springs that have been dry for that length of time are flowing and even a moderate shower now keep3 the farmer for days from his plowing. The late spring will not prevent us from making large crops but it may interfere seriously with prices as it is the early stuff that brings fancy The farmers of Hoyte are acting on the line suggested by Col, Exall. They intend, in the future, to heartily co-operate in all things pertaining to the welfare of the community. This year the Association, which has as members almist the entire community, will by co-operative selling bring much money into our neighborhood which otherwise would be iost to us and as time goes on we will find many valuable reasons for co-operation which will prove its great value both to individuals and the neighborhood- The oil strike at Thrall only confirms what we hiive long believed and that is that we have plenty of oil and gas in the neighborhood of Hoyte.

Coal, oil and gas has already been found in less than two miles of Hoyte but has heretofore attracted little attention. More than 20 years ago Mr. Avera owned a tract (if land which now belongs to J. H. McLerran.

About one mile north of Hoyte Mr. Avera dug a well. At about 70 feet he found a vein of extra good lignite but the vein wa 3 not thick enough to pay for working. The well was dug by spade and pick to the coal, then Mr. Avera employed a well boring outfit and at about 100 feet oil was found.

In what quantity it oozed into the well was never determined. Mr. Avera gathered up a quart or two of the oil and took it to Cameron and endeavored to interest some capital but as nobody would at that time pay any attention to an oil proposition in this section he could do rothing and in disgust he abandoned the well, sold the land and left the county. About three-quarters of a mile south of the Avera well another was bored to a depth 118 feet from this well gas escaped with sufficient force to lift a barrel placed over the top. Some two hundred yards from this well is a ravine and somewhere along it bank oil oozes through and may be seen any time the water is running floating on the water.

In addition to these well known facts and indications there are rocks that ages ago were blown from the bowels of the earth proving that the gas factory was at one time in good working order and whether it is still doing business at the old stand could only be determined bv sinking a well. But we are not wasting any sleep concerning what may be far beneath our fertile soil. We know we have an easy living in sight and while it does not mean great riches it does mean good homes and independence to every one who will give to the soil even limited time and moderate industry. This week will see a vast amount of planting in this Watermelons, canteloupes and various other crops will at least in part be planted and if we can have good weather in a few weeks this will be one vast garden full of everything good to eat. THOMAS A.

POPE. Lee Oil the organization of' Gazette office one day last week, which was perfected Wednesday and we only wish we had a paper afternoon with a paid up capital big enough to tell our readers of $25,000.00, with Dr. Lee as some of the interesting things he president; J. J. Elliott, explained to us.

Mr. Reese is a president; Gus Newton, secretary man who will tell you anything and treasurer; and directors as you might wish to know. He is follows: Dr. L. L.

Lee, Gus now working on a matter with Newton. J. J. Elliott, Chas. A.

Davis, I). R. Maddox ali of Thorndale, A. Nelson of Round Rock and F. W.

Carothers of Georgetown. There are sixteen stockholders in this company, one of whom, J. W. Williams of Beaumont, is an experienced oil man, and he will have charge of the work of sinking the company's well, which will be put down on a five-acre tract which lies within a half mile of the Fuchs gusher. The work of sinking the well is to begin just as soon as the machinery and material can be put on the ground, which will be put in the next thirty which he hopes to bring about some road improvements and we regret that we have not the space to go into details on this matter.

However, we wish to cite one thing in particular which he informed us on, and that was that the money fund for road work in Milam county has been so lavishly spent the past few years that there a nickel to work with for a whole year to come. This is an awful predicament. The Commissioners have recently borrowed with to pay up their indebtedness. It seems there has been too much money spent in certain precincts, thereby causing a shortage for the other precincts. Mr.

Reese is one Commissioner who will al of Maysfield, ways do the right thing, but find present conditions he can not The Herald do much for some time to come and Galveston News, I do unless our present system of without Thanks, Mr. county road laws are Hnfti. Milano Gazette. Our old friend John Peter Hefti, writes as follows: enclosed $1.50 for friend, Mr. HORRORS OE THE WAR IN THE EAST Small Hopes for Cessation Until Contestants are Completely Exhausted or Annihilated THE LAND TENANT LAW NOW ON STATUTE BOOK Governor Ferguson Signs the Bill Which Immediately Went Into Effect.

Will Be Beneiicial to Tenants. Austin, Texas, March 5. Governor Ferguson late tonight signed a bill restricting rental charged to tenant farmers in Texas In cases where the landlord furnishes only the land the new law limits the annual rent to one-fourth the value of a cotton crop grown thereon, or one-third the value of any other crop. Where the landlord furnishes everything except the labor, he can charge his tenant no more than one-half the value of any crop he grows The bill, passed at the present session of the legislature, was one of the planks in the platform upon which Governor Ferguson was elected. It becomes effective immediately.

Cameron is to spend the sum of fifteen thousand dollars on its principal streets and will also grade and gravel out to all the good roads which have been built up to the city limits. This is a step in the right direction for this kind of work has long been needed because many of the streets are an For some time Mayor Lester has been negotiating with several firms to take $15,000 worth of city warrants, at a price satisfactory to the Council and which would not be less than 94 cents, the warrants to run fifteen years, payable in the sum of one thousand dollars annually. Of course there may be some objection to this method of building the streets, but it is the only way the Council could build them, and The Herald hopes that these petty objections will die out and every citizen and tax payer join in and lend encouragement. Mayor Lester has received the following letter from Austin Bros, of Dallas, who have been doing considerable bridge building in this county, and whose terms have been accepted by the Council. The letter follows: Dallas, Texas, March 1915.

Hon. E. P. Lester. Mayor, Cameron, Texas.

We acknowledge receipt of your favor of March 2nd, in which you refer to our offer of 04c and interest for your city warrants. You ask the question as to whether or not we will have the warrants gotten up, and all that is necessary in the matter, in a legal way, without cost to your city, and we wish to say in reply that is exactly what we propose to do. Of course we could not agree to leave this offer open indefinitely, but if you will accept the offer anti advise us when you would like to have this matter attended to we will proceed at once and get up the papers and the warrants and have everything in readiness and the money for the warrants in your hands within a very short time. It would take us probably about two weeks from the time you notify us to get everything ready in the way of printing the warrants and all of the other necessary papers so that the money could be turned over to you. Will be glad to hear from you further without delay.

Your truly, AUSTIN BROTHERS. By Frank E. Austin. P. S.

Please advise if it is your intention to pay the warrants we hold for the bridges out of the proceeds of these warrants. If this is not your intention, would suggest that you make the amount large enough to cover this, it will save you a good deal of trouble, and would be appreciated very much by us, especially in view of the fact that will not more than break even on the warrant deal. end of the war is not in sight. It wil! continue until the osing Nation is exhausted. The winner will be mortgaged for a generation, and God help the loser.

If Germany is driven within its own borders it will make a Southern Confederacy finish. It will fight till every man is dead and all its means have been consumed on the sacrificial pyre of its National Such was the opinion expressed by Irvin S. Cobb, premier war correspondent, who just returned from a stay of several months among the European battlefields. long will the war last he was asked. can tell.

For years. How many years nobody can foretell. It may end like it There may be a wave of rationalism that will displace the homicidal militarism that now obsesses Europe and the people may call a halt to carnage out of pure horror. But that is not the story of the Nations whose history pages lave been dipped in their blood. Frightful as war is, 1 believe it is designed for ultimate Kood.

Some progress to human welfare will come out of it. France already has been revivified. That country was regarded as decadent It is now regenerated. Win or lose, France will come out of the war a greater Nation. I believe that the fighting forces are fewer than combatants claim and tneir losses are greater than they will admit Many more than a million men have been killed.

The truth will never be known about the real of soldiers and the actual losses in this war. After it is ended, there will be the usual distortion of fact, exaggeration of numbers and concealment of failures by the history writers. The economic conditions of the countries are deplorable. When peace resumes it will take a quarter of a century to repair the destructive work of the armies. The most soldierly and ficient of the fighters are the Germans.

Individually they are physical superiors of their enemies. ROCKDALE GAS AND OIL COMPANY HAD MEETING Additional Stock Subscribed and Work of Drilling to Begin at an Early Date There was a rousing meeting Saturday of the stockholders of the Rockdale Gas Oil Co. Practically every stockholder was present, and the spirit of something and do it now" was in the air. H. president of the company, called the meeting to order, and in a few words told its purpose, which, briefly expressed, is to raise more money, get more leases and resume drilling operations on the C.

A. Doss farm, six miles west of town. The recent oil strike at Thrall has inspired all the stockholders with renewed confidence in the Doss oil field, and it did not take long for a resolution to be passed by a unanimous vote raising the capital stock of company from $12,000 to with shares at $25 each. With the $8000 thus raised (and it will all raised no doubt by the time this is in print) it is believed that one and possibly several oil wells be brought in. Secretary-Treasurer R.

L. Hale presented a financial statement showing how the original $12,00 of stock had been accounted for. As is well known to most of our readers this company sunk a well 1500 feet last year, and through inexperience on ef- ione hand and something worse on the other a producing oil well was killed and finally ruined beyond all hope of salvation. How- As to military efficiency, they lever, the company is the actual owner of valuable leases and sev- excel in every particular. The Russian soldiers that I saw were eral thousand dollars worth of valuable machinery, pipe, casing, well clad and fed and belied the stories about their besides being in experience.

With renewed energy None of the contestants wants the hostility of the United States, and enlightened minds it is now proposed to begin all over again but they are all war mad, and in sheer desperation may do any- and develop the Rockdale oil field. thing irrational. The situation is one that calls for all the deli-, Other points were covered by the deliberations of the meeting, cacy of diplomacy and wisdom of judgment of which our states- and it finally adjourned, subject to the call of the president. Of men may be capable. If we are not cautious and extremely toler- the additional stock to be issued, 100 shares were vote 1 open k) ant, we may be plunged into the storm of human madness at any public sale, balance to be sold to old stockholders and lessors, if 1 they want.