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...Alesandro: We will. We're going to dump Tydings. I'll announce it in a couple of days...
...around the world, beneath the sea and in the mountains, high-living Houston last week took a look under its garbage and found black gold. An independent driller, Trice Production Co., brought in a rich (140 bbls. daily) well from 8,000 ft. below the city dump, and gave it an appropriate label: "Houston City Dump...
...Dump No. 1 is the latest strike in the old Pierce Junction salt dome, where wells are pushing ever closer to Houston's city limits. For more than three decades prospectors in Pierce Junction made occasional strikes at conservative depths of 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Then, in 1949, Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...
...miles away) to get at the oil. Since the downtown real estate is worth more than the oil potential, even Houston is not likely to go that far. But the oil is worth a lot to the city of Houston. The city holds a one-fourth interest in "City Dump No. 1," should reap $40,000 yearly from it. Trice already has begun drilling "City Dump No. 2'' on the same profits deal with Houston. Geologists figure that the 300-acre dump is good for at least 15 producing wells. Such a sea under her garbage could enrich...
Cover-Up. In Yorktown, Ind., after a dump truck accidentally dropped a load of hot asphalt while heading for an out-of-town highway job, the truckers thought quickly, gave the street an unscheduled surfacing, went on their...