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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH SPOUTS RICHES FOR TEXAS U Piling Up Income as New Wells Are Brought In. Oil The oilmans graveyturned into wealth for of Texas. And its com-jjjthe University s fast the university may acquire can spend more royalty money than it future. immediate In the At any rate It cant be spent until enactthe legality of the "legislative revenue the into the ment turning available fund from the permanent fund, as provided by the constitution, And the attorney genIs determined. eral of the state has repeatedly ruled Austin, Tex ard is being ,. - it was , illegal. put whether it happens one way or another, there will shortly be such a fund that interest therefrom, which does go to the available fund, will than carry on the most ambitious building program ever launched by any In fact, prospects today university. point to the University of Texas as oue of the richest, if not the richest, school In the world. It is as if the unlvwsity, like an impoverished urchin, had come to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, which in this instance happened to be on university land in Reagan county, Texas. There On May 28, 1923, a rank wildcat well spouted oil. With that there was born the greatest potential oil field in the United States simultaneously with the greatest university in the same vast territory. In Midst of Big Holdings. For that well, known as the Santa Rita, belonged to the Texan Oil and Land company and was in the midst of 64 sections on university land, only a small fraction of university holdings, 2,080,000 acres in west Texas counties. And that lonesome wildcat, in a territory which had already known 54 deep dry holes before it. was started, was the forerunner of a drilling campaign destined to test out the thousands of acres of university holdings, and which, in fact, has already discovered another mineral resource, potash, with indications that it may be far more valuable than the oil which is pouring a stream of gold into the coffers of the educational institution. But only recehtly has the significance of oil on university land dawned on the patrons of the school, which in attendance compares with some of the larger institutions of higher learning, but which, in the terms of Gov. Miriam Ferguson, is an eyesore to the people of the state. Tlain frame buildings, .unpainted, 20 of them, grace the university campus, poor setting, indeed, for the gaining of an education, and sufficient only to draw the comment of a woman executive. Checks approximating $100,000 a month, tendered the first of each month for the one preceding, coming from a field whose production is on a gradual rise, and that, too, from an area confined to about three sections, serve to indicate the magnitude of more time it stood steadily at around 10,000 barrels. Then came a pipe line and contracts for the delivery of more than 500.000 barrels of oil to one of the major companies by freight. From then on it has been one continual jump after another until today production aggregates more than 40,000 barrels. royalty at prevailing prices means that from henceforth, until the peak is attained, the universitys part of the oil revenue will be greater than $100,000 a month, possibly $200,000 or more, and that multiplied by twelve mmns more than $1,000,000 a year. Even should that go to the permanent fund, which would permit only of expenditure of interest in school overhead, as required by a building program, the old campus at Austin is due for a change. At once there Is a prospect of a great school being independent of legislative appropriations and free of the usual fight most such schools must wage before the legislatures to get funds required. A comparatively poor school, like some comparatively poor people, suddenly grown wealthy, the university has opportunity to sperid its money with lavish abandon or to bide its time. This question may get In the courts, but it will only be a friendly action to determine the legality of expending the money at once. This test will come as the result of the legislature taking action turning royalty revenues from the permanent to the available fund. Giving sanction to this measure, after the attorney general had advised Its illegality, Mrs. Ferguson cited an unkempt campus as being an eyesore. in which the state could take no pride, and gave her appioval anyway. Land Called Worthless. At one time, a history of tiie university reveals, sentiment was for the sale of the worthless university lands and the placing of the money out tit prevailing rates of Interest. Maj. George Littlefield raised his voice One-eight- h state-support- ed against the proposal, and in desperation requested geologists to bring hack a reason against its sale. Accordingly they found one the Marathon fold which they declare should be productive of much oiL Whether that fold exists only on paper as some contend, or not it was ample reason for holding the prop-- , erties. The geologist who turned in the favorable report was Dr. J. A. Udden, director of the bureau of conomic geology of the university. Ilis findings, sufficient to prevent the legislature taking action making possible the sale, have also led to the disC covery of oil. The other geologist involved In the development of the university holdings is Hugh H. Tucker. Half a score years ago, practically unknown in his profession, he chanced to stroll about the University of Texas campus, then rested on a bench. A previous loiterer about the grounds had left there a map of Texas, showing the university properties. Studying this, Tucker got his cue and the determination to go to west Texas and conquer the territory for the University of Texas. Loyal to the state, those selfsame shacks that Mrs. Ferguson called a shame to Texas furnished him with inspiration to see the campus changed to one in keeping with the greatness of Texas. Tucker spent practically 15 years in studying the formation between the lecos and the Colorado rivers. Traversing the distance 14 times on foot, and parts of it innumerable times, he is conceded to have gained a more accurate knowledge of the topography and geological structure of the land than any other person. It was on his findings that the drill pierced to the oil formations in the discovery well, and it is on his information that the drill is now boring its way to the bowels of the earth on yet other school lands and outside holdings. He has transformed a land as well as possibilities for a school. For he recalls that when he first stood on a hill where now the discovery well of the Heagan field still is producing oil, all he could see was two lone windmills. Today, in that same area, hundreds of people congregate, taking wealth from the soil, some for private gain, but contributing withal to the buildings of a greater university. New York World. Flaps Like a Bird and Has No Motor Her Rheumatism Vanished! 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We know what it can do for you because we know how it has brought health to thousands like you. Its folly not to make the test. Note: For Constipation, take Tanlac Vegetable Pills, Natures own harmless laxative. LAC TAM YOUR HEALTH FOR. Beavers From Ontario Johns Ailment Ontario Is the banner The day after John , pupil at No. 35 school, had been absent he community of North America. brought the following note written by Last year the pelts of 54,346 Ontario beaver reached the American fur himself: Teacher, please excuse Johns ab- markets. The value of this catch exsence for he had dramatic rheuma- ceeded $S00,00O, or an average of tism. $15.54 a skin. Indianapolis News. a beaver-producin- g 6-- hildren ' Castoria is especially prepared: to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic potentialities as affecting Texas state school. And with 24 producers already, development has only just begun. The Texan Oil and Land company, discoverer of the field, and its subsidiaries, together with the Big Lake Oil and Land company, have recently announced a drilling program destined to put 32 new wells in the proven area, in addition to a score more now drilling and destined to be producers shortly. Output on Increase. Twin producers for the field recently have been brought in twice in a single day and output has been on the jump since the first of the year. For a long and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation, of Food; giving healthy andt natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the' signature of Absolutely Harmless The Poor Nut An orniplanq, a flapping, motorless airplane, has just been invented and perfected by Capt. James E. Kemph of Washington. The plane, designed for aerial sports, weighs 150 pounds and is inexpensive. In the picture Captain Kemph is holding the model of the plane and with him is Paul Gerber of the Smithsonian institution who has assisted him. FT. LEAVENWORTH PRISON CONTAINS SHOE FACTORY prison mill, and up these runways the convicts trundled their wheelbarrows of construction material. Six hundred wards of the government helped build the plant. The factory will be fireproof throughout, with large windows and white enamel walls. The floor surface will be Impervious to grease and shoe blacking. Modern sanitary and safety devices and the latest equipment will be used. came to Superintendent Goldthwaite ' Fort Leavenworth from Haverhill, Mass., where he had completed a quarter of a century with a shoe manufactory. He will be assisted by five civilian foremen. Next January to Make government will take a profit from Footwear for Various Governproduction. The plant is expected to turn out ment Institutions. from 2,500 to 3,000 pairs of shoes daily when operating at its capacity, but Fort Leavenworth, Kan. A million-dolla- r this will not be possible until skilled factory within the prison walls labor has been developed amdng the of the Fort Leavenworth federal peni- prison laborers. When the peak of tentiary will begin making shoes for quality and quantity has been attained, the men of the army and navy and the penitentiary will begin manufacnext January. turing footwear for the army and federal institutions Warden F. Goldthwaite will be its navy, and later a work shoe in addi' tion, for other Institutions maintained superintendent. One of the serious problems with by the government. The factory was built by man power Buried by Coal which Warden W. I. Biddle has had to contend is that of finding employment at a great saving In cost. Wherever Easton, Pa. After having been for his prisoners. The shoe factory some expensive bit of machinery could buried under 100 tons of coal for an will put to work 700 convicts whose be replaced by manual labor, it was hour a baby is in a hospital suffering done. time now is idle. A from shock. motortruck only When It Was necessary to hoist tons knocked down a shed and the coal ; a a trade The men will be taught small remuneration will go partly of brick and steel, cement and crushed poured upon the baby playing on the toward the support of their families stone to the workers on the skeleton doorsteps. and partly Into a fund at interest, to fourth story, a series of runways was be paid them on their release. The rigged up from lumber sawed at the Industry is better than moaning. Will Begin shoe-buildin- , No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend, it. 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