Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-25 | Page 3 | Oil Found at Mexia, Texas; Town Booming

OIL WI FOU IT AT 1 I i I EXIA TEXAS TEUS I IOWN OWN Ul I Wildcat V Drilling Outfit Explores I Hillside to Such Good Purpose Purpose Purpose Pur- Pur That Field l pose pose New Is Developed T- T tEXIA MESIA Texas Nov Xu 25 5 By United ci Press Press Press-Mexia was just lust an pint t or off Texas s town of ot evIn d little more than mild as a wildcat a.-wildcat drilling outfit d bit into a hillside two and a i 5 h lt miles to the westward v r 3 ia when s came carne to life with a jerk I a atless c hatless blue rough roughneck neck n ck from Crom the drilling trilling outfit ran down I street and into a drug store i grabbed a telephone called a number I 1 and yelled Oil We got it it Out ut on the fhe hillside odorous liquid 1 shot fifty feet in the air with a force I that warped the derrick I Population of ot MexiA today had 2000 Leases were as high as I 1006 an acre and going up a ju Jump Rooms Booms are unobtainable at ho- ho ho 1 I one one hotel equipping its hallways j I v ith mattresses and a blanket renting them for 10 a flop flop and and Jf P Jr Tt oft jt k k for a bed the hotel clerk cIerI tries tries' Ies to sell you a lease first only fifteen en tulles miles s from the well weIl Iain street is a riot of Jack London cosmopolitanism with booted and m ma ted wed rough necks elbowing i fl fU fh coated and diamond oil opi op op- i era tr tars v The farmer ar er drove into town with a ai i load of Ot f cotton He left lett It standing in inI inthe I t the e Street reet and started into the oil business I Me Metla a paused somewhat today for a i showdown own With the well reported I 1500 feet in oil and the bit eight feet I in the woodbine sand E. E A A. Humphreys Humphreys Hum Hum- owner of the well flying from I Denver in an airplane announced that if it the he derrick could be repaired the well r will be drilled deeper to see seo just what it will win do If It the well is proven Mexia sees itself as s the of east Texas s. s