Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 25
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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