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dollar.
Near Mexico in a thin woods and a large
spring is an old Reunion Camps Place of
Southern soldiers, Humphreys is transforming
the place into an amusement one for the
people. The oil territory is to one side of it.
The disarry well was drilled in last
Autumn regular apr (1920), and the Hum-
phreys Company has leased a tract of land
from me to the east a half mile wide and
about seven long. This track takes in the apex
of the structural arch and claims the slope for
near a mile to an old road [illegible] now known as the Golden Lane. On the
other side of this lane about 100 other oil
companies have leased land and not about
300 derricks stand on each side of this road.
The object of the Humphreys Co. is taken out all
the oil by care of the land of those companies,
their own five ground they are and yet
tracing.
The Humphreys Co has about forty well