Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1920 — Page 5

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TEXAS OIL FIELDS ’ I Enoch Heckman Writes Interestingly From the Points in Southwest - I1 FARM CHOPS GOOD Farmers Still Threshing in' That Section—The Oats Fields are Green 11 Friona, Texas, March 20, 1920. Decatur Daily Democrat. i Dear Friends: Will write you a few 1 lines about my trip to Texas and Ini' i the oil field. I often have to think ( about good old Adams county, and j wonder how Decatur is getting along i with her big factories that had started ( ' with their work just before I left. I ( guess Decatur will soon be a big city. 1 with many new homes. 1 I first went down in South Texas, to the old Mexico line, or the Rio Grande river; Omar at Brownsville, Texas, and other little towns around there. I looked across the river in old Mexico and saw the big Mexican : towns or cities along the line, but 1 did not have the nerve to go over, j Was afraid they would make me ride a steer. Was there at the time when ■ Cap. E. F. Davis and Private D. E. Grimes were captured in Mexico and held for about a week. Saw them both , come back and land in McAllen. Texas, with their airplane. They said they 1 , did not care to fly over there again by themselves. The United States has a lot of used and unused camps along 1 the border. From Brownsville I went to San . Antonio, Ft. Worth and then to Witch-'. ate Falls and Burk Burnet, the large | oil field. That is some busy place; the fields are three miles wide and about ■ thirty miles long, and some wells are I so close together that a man can’t', drive between them with a team and 1 wagon. It looks just like looking in( the woods back in Indiana, and think ' all those trees are oil wells. Some ( of those good wells are bringing 4,000 barrels per day and the oil is worth $3.00 per barrel. Just figure that out. How would you like to own one of those “holes”? From th are I went to Panhandle, of Texas. Amarillo has

the largest gas wells in the world. The best one is twenty miles from here. It brings 700,000,000 cubic feet per day, so that makes the “wild eating’’ good around in the Panhandle district. They say where there is oil it may be a hundred Qiiles from here, but this gas comes from odl. A man finds about

from six to ten wells drilling or getting ready to drill in a short time in I each county. Friona is in Parmer (county, which is the nearest town to those from Adams county. Indiana, who bought land here. The Prairie Oil & Gas Co. started to drill just at the edge of town. Lots were selling I for sls each, and going up every day. Friona is just a little town. They are going to put down two more wells 'right close in sixty days. They had very good crops here last year and people are still threshhing and will be, for another month or so. Some of our Adams county people hero threshed 4,500 bushel of grain, and have 200 head of cows on the side. Oats is making on an average 75 bushels per acre, and wheat about averages around 40 to 35 bushels per acre. The other grain I don’t know but it also was good. The wheat put in last fall looks like another good crop for 1920. Most of the oats is ' sowed and up and the weather is nice and warm; and I guess it is also getting warm in Indiana by tills time. Guess I will close for this time. 'Best wishes to you all. ENOCH HECKMAN. ♦* • ♦ LITTLE-GIRL, BIG-BOY, AND THE GARDEN ELF ! (Written for the U. S. School Gar- ; den Arb', Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior). I The "Humbug" and the Bee Aeroplane. PART I. “He-ho-ho-o-o, he-ho-ho!” Big-Boy's clear voice echoed through the garden and awoke responses from hundreds of drowsy small voices that called i back in small pipings and fluting notes. Little-Girl heard the call, and came bounding down the garden path. Even the Little Green Elf Man awoke to the magic and leaned down from his leafy nest | “Did you ever hear of Tri-tyig-u-lin who rode off the back of a honey bee?" he asked. | “On the back of a bumble bee?" in- , quired Big-Boy. “No, not bumble, bumble,” said rhe ■ Elf Man almost crossly, “a honey, , h-o-n-e-y bee. You see I can spell. I owe my education to the Dictionary Man.' “Oh, do you know our Dictionary Man? Our dear, square, chunky little Dictionary Man with his student’s cap?” said both children at the same moment.

“Indeed, I do. How else could I read the United States School Garden Manual? The Dictionary Man taught me the science of words.”

“But you know secrets not in books —you said so?” announced Big-Boy. “Indeed I do—and they are going to remain secrets. W-e-1-1, perhaps I shall tell you a few. For instance, about Tri-ung-u-lin. Tire creature is so tiny that one must look through the Magic Glass to see him. But of what an assurance. Even I am not of such presence that T could force myseif into a giant’s home without being eaten up. I might ride on a frog’s back and jump off into the bushes if he turned about, but I have not the courage or impudence of Tri-ung-u-lin, who rides off on the back of a bee as neat as you please.” “Listen! This Tri-ung-u-lin is a hum-bug. Ha! ha! a hum-bug! He rides and pays no fare. He rooms and he pays no rent! He eats and pays no board! A hum-bug. It was this way that I saw him. I was watching a very respectable and industrious bee gathering nectar from a flower when I saw a tiny insect crawling up the flower stalk from the ground And before you could say ‘Tumble Bug’ he had scrambled to the back of the bee and was holding on with six sprawling little legs.” “Just like a boy stealing a ride on the back of the cart when the driver isn’t looking,” said Big-Boy. “Exactly," replied the Elf Man, “The bee didn’t know he was there and after she had ab-stract-ed from the flower all the nectar she could carry, she flew away to her hive. This pro-fi-teer went with her and actually Introduced himself into her home without an invitation.” “Not really?” Little-Girl was standing on her tip-toes in ex-cite-ment. "Yes. really,” nodded the Green Elf Man, "Then, Tri-ung-u-lin set himself to work to get breakfast, and ho liked his food so much that he decided to stay. The bee didn’t notice him because she was so busy making bee food from nectar and pollen she got from the flowers for her bee babies that she had no time for visitors. HeI ho-hum!" and the Elf Man yawned, and inside of his mouth looked like the tiny rose bell of a baby morningglory. “Are you tired, little Elf Man?” asked Little-Girl. | “Indeed, no, it is only the impudence

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