Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 234
Tuesday, February 2, 1932
MARLIN CENTER FOR
OIL FIELD ACTIVITY
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Hotels Reflect Interest in
New Falls County Strike
Near This
City
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Marlin is
rapidly becoming the center for interest in the new Falls
county oil field near here, whose discovery was heralded with bringing in of a
well by C. C. Curtis and associates on the Gurley farm owned by Lee Davis
Saturday night.
Marlin hotel registers Monday night reflected the attention which the new strike
is attracting among members of the oil fraternity over the state.
Visitors to the field Monday afternoon reported many people in that section,
with cars bearing names of some of the major companies noted, indication that
their representatives were on the scene.
Some negotiating was reported under way early for acreage in the vicinity, and
with development of these transactions announcements for putting down of
additional wells are expected.
Map Demand Reported
Maps, the mark
of an oil field, were reported in demand as those interested in the new strike
looked over the situation. These were readily available in Marlin, having
been provided at the time of the bringing in of wells in teh Postoak field a few
miles south of the new producer.
As deals are closed for acreage in that section, Marlin abstract offices are
expected to become scenes of increased activity, while the city generally is
looking forward to prospective benefits from effects of oil field development.
First Well Showed Oil.
Inspection of
the first well drilled on the Davis lease prior to the bringing in of the new
producer about 1000 feet southeast of the initial location was said to have
developed today that it still shows evidence of the oil showing encountered at
that time.
A representative of the oil and gas division of the Texas railroad commission
was reported to have visited the field today, obtaining a log and sample of oil
from the new well.
Visitors to the field reported a grade being thrown up for location of the
storage tanks.
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