Freestone County, Texas
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News of 1935



Malakoff News of Malakoff, Henderson Co., TX
February 15, 1935
Page 4

  Mr. and Mrs. George Smith of Wortham spent Sunday here with his aunt, Mrs. E.
G. McIntyre and family.

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Malakoff News of Malakoff, Henderson Co., TX
Friday, June 29, 1935
Front Page

75 Wells Limit For Cayuga In 1934 Says Ickes

  Washington, D.C. June 24 - The plan for orderly development of the Cayuga oil
field in Anderson and Freestone counties Texas was approved today by Secretary
Ickes.
  The plan provides for one well for each 20 acres it includes a provision that
not more than 75 producing wells, including existing ones, shall be brought in 
during the current calenday year.
  Drilling operations are to be suspended if the allowable daily production of
the pool reached 10,000 barrels before December 10, 1934.
  The plan affects an estimated potential oil-bearing area of 12,000 acres.  It 
was recommended by 98 per cent of the field's operators.
  Operators are to divide equitably the 75 wells.
  The Cayuga field is the one which E. O. Thompson, Texas railroad commissioner,
told the House Interstate Commerce Committee, during hearings on the oil control
measure, was to be limited to seven wells.
  Severe criticism was levelled at the oil administration on the grounds that
only seven were to be permitted in the area.  Ickes said today that when the 
field was discovered he had "specified strictly as a temporary expedient and to
prevent a runaway competitive drilling race that no more than seven exploratory 
wells should be drilled while awaiting submission of a permanent plan for 
developing this potential oil area on a fair and equitable basis and to provide 
for the stability of the industry."