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Orange County Prospectors

(Galveston Daily News, February 15, 1901)

Terry, Tex., Feb. 12--To The News: The San Antonio Oil Co. has received a car of machinery and will begin constructing on land leased to D. W. Salliday, located at Terry, north side of the S.P. (Southern Pacific) tracks. There are other companies who are taking up leases fast and will begin locating for oil wells soon in this section. They claim indications for oil in this vicinity are favorable. A. F. Hill. (comp. by W.T.Block)