Word: conservationism
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To all the emergencies President Hoover has had to meet this year, another was added last week. After two years of drought, North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three...
Only field affected by Governor Sterling's martial law was the East Texas pool where production before closing ran up to 738,050 bbl. or almost half of the entire Mid-Continent output. With this field pinched out temporarily and the Oklahoma shut-in, oilmen figured a reduction of...
Last month bulky Governor Ross Shaw Sterling called the Texas Legislature into a 30-day special session to enact a new conservation law to curb the State's wild oil production. For 28 days the Legislature shilly-shallied, got nothing done. Meanwhile in Oklahoma Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill...
Declared Governor Sterling of the new law: "It's got teeth in it but I might still slap on martial law if some of these [East Texas] operators get to acting up." But martial law was no idle threat with Governor Sterling. Many an East Texas producer had begged...
"Oil and gas supplies are being unlawfully dissipated and wasted and the land and royalty owners are being robbed by unscrupulous and lawless producers, transporters and operators. ... An organized and entrenched group of operators are in a state of insurrection against the conservation laws of the State and are in...