The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 406
617 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Here lies our wife, Samantha Proctor,
She ketched a cold and would not doctor;
She could not stay; she had to go;
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
In furtherance of his studies on Almonte and the invasion
of Texas by Mexican forces in 1836 Professor Samuel E. Asbury,
College Station, Texas, writes that he needs to contact historians
or historically-minded persons having special information on
the following Texas counties:
Maverick, Dimmit, Frio, Guadalupe, Wilson, Lavaca, La Salle, Atascosa,
Lee, Burleson, Robertson, Brooks, Willacy, Madison, Leon, Austin, Waller,
Montgomery, Hardin, Tyler, Brazoria, Matagorda, Kleberg, Jim Wells,
Kenedy, and Hidalgo.
W. W. McCullough, Box 648, Brownwood, Texas, has sent
the Association a multigraphed account of "John McCullough,
1805-1870: Pioneer Presbyterian Missionary and Teacher in
the Republic of Texas." This is an account by W. W. McCullough,
Jr., of his grandfather; it is a splendid memorial to a significant
Texan, a pioneer minister who "would rather appeal to the
mentality of his hearer than to his emotion." Numerous well-
chosen illustrations accompany the account. We need many
more such well-done family records.
Perhaps the event which has most providentially affected
the economic welfare of The University of Texas was the dis-
covery of oil at the Santa Rita Well, an incident which delineated
the foresight of those who endowed the University and of those
who have administered the endowment. Perhaps next in im-
portance would be the discovery of methods whereby the total
recovery of oil has been increased from an average of about
17 per cent to the present estimates, ranging between 50 and
99 per cent. Such increases in recovery multiply appreciably the
receipts by way of royalty. A present difficulty in West Texas
and on University lands is that in drilling through extremely
hard formations, especially dolomitic limestone, costs range
from $80 to $125 per foot. Recently new productive horizons were
discovered on University lands at nine thousand feet and below,406
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/450/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.