Field Notebook: Texas 1924, 1925
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Austin received a total fall of seven inches of snow during the snow of Saturday and Sunday, ac- cording to available information. The fall in other towns and cities in central Texas was as follows: Lockhart, 6 inches, 50-year record broken; Blanco, 6 inches, heaviest in history; Elgin, 6 inches. Thrall, 5 inches; Bartlett, 6 inches, heaviest since 1917; San Marcos, 6.75 inches; Austin, 7 inches. The following snowfall was re- ported Sunday: Johnson City, 2.50 inches; Cherokee, blanket of snow; Bertram, heavy snow; Floresville, steady snow; Elmendorf, 2 inches; Big Wells, 3 inches; Devine, 4 inches; Austin, 7 inches; Flatonia, 6 inches; Burnet, 6 inches; Ber- thab, heavy fall; Taylor, 6 inches; Hallettsville, 2 inches; Nordheim, 6 inches; Yoakum, 3 inches; Victoria, 2 inches; Comfort, 10 inches; Bloomington, steady fall; Rockdale, 3 inches; New Braunfels. 2.50 inches Texas' Oil Wealth. A CCORDING to the Dallas News in 1925 Texas produced 150,000,000 barrels of petroleum, the price of Texas oil throughout that year averaged about $1.75 a barrel and on that basis the value of petroleum in Texas for that year exceeded $260,000,000. Is there money in oil?