Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Oil July 31, 2019 — It was on this date in 1955 that the state’s monthly oil production topped the one million barrel mark for the first time, when 1,000,154 barrels were produced in July of that year. It was in 1916 that the Pioneer Oil and Gas Company began drilling the state’s first wildcat well southeast of Williston. It turned up dry, but that didn’t stop the many attempts that followed it. All told, it took 45 years for dry holes to turn into gushers. The Amerada Petroleum Corporation finally discovered oil near Tioga in April 1951. The w...
March 26, 2018 — In a few days, it’ll be Alf Clausen’s birthday. He was born in 1941, grew up in Jamestown, and you may have heard his work — in fact we’re pretty sure you have — if you’ve ever seen an episode of “Moonlighting,” starring Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard, or the television alien spoof, “Alf” (no relation to our Alf Clausen), or “The Simpsons” after its twelfth episode. Clausen wrote the music for them all. While going to school in Jamestown, Clausen showed a major inclination toward music; he played piano and French horn and...
