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...flush wells in the 2,815 sq. mi. of Upshur. Gregg, Rusk and Smith Counties shut down. Last week this field, running wide open, produced an all-time record of 738,000 bbl. This week under the Governor's orders they were to produce not a barrel. Proclaimed Governor Sterling...
...Mentone, Tex., oil sold for 25? a barrel, water...
Crude Oil seeped down to new price levels, selling as low as 10? a barrel, with top prices at 22?. Frightened oilmen launched a producers' strike. In Wichita. Kan. independent operators voted to close down about 22,000 wells, declared that prices were under cost of production. In the Oklahoma City field 13 companies with a potential output of more than 2,000,000 barrels daily followed suit...
Blamed for the situation were weak proration laws and the trying tactics of big refining companies in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Proration laws in Pennsylvania prevented prices from sinking more than 15? last week, bringing crude oil to $1.35 a barrel...
...Anna Edson Taylor, Oct. 24, 1901; Bobby Leach, July 25, 1911; Jean A. Laussier, July 4, 1928. Last July George Stathakis went over in a barrel, smothered to death while waiting rescue from the cataract below the Falls. Last May as well as the May before one William ("Red") Hill rode over the lower rapids in a barrel. He did not go over the Falls either time...