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Annotated Bibliography 1

Annotated Bibliography

Oil Explorations at UTEP

Kenia Rodriguez

University of Texas at El Paso

RWS 1301

Dr. Vierra

October 29th, 2018


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Research Questions

1. How are the oil systems and the University of Texas related?

2. How did the University of Texas at El Paso benefit from Santa Rita?

3. What other universities get funds from these excavations?

4. Was a good deal to get funds from these oil and gas excavations?

5. Was the Santa Rita Oil Well the only excavation in University of Texas lands?
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Annotated Bibliography
Cauble, J. (2010, June 15). SANTA RITA OIL WELL. Retrieved from

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dos01

For 4 years, the Santa Rita oil well was built with the efforts of several men. The land

promotion was initiated in January 1919 by Rupert P. Ricker. He was a University of Texas

graduate, Reagan County lawyer, and World War I veteran. He also took advantage of a

1917 law that allowed the leasing of state land for oil exploration, (Smith, 2016). He and

his partner Haymon Krupp with other two men made preliminary applications on one of

the largest lands owned by the University of Texas in Reagan, Upton, Irion, and Crockett

counties, (Smith, 2016).

Cox, M. (2015). Texas petroleum: The unconventional history. San Antonio, TX: HPNbooks, a

division of Lammert Incorporated.

Rupert R. Ricker, a young Big Lake attorney fresh out of the Army, knew more about the

letter of the law than he did geology, but no matter the nay-sayers, he believed the find in

Mitchell County proved there had to be oil elsewhere in West Texas. He applied for permits

to drill on University of Texas-owned land for the dirt-cheap price of ten cents an acre.

Santa Rita No. 1, though only a modest well in terms of production, is significant far

beyond its numbers because the field it presaged stimulated additional exploration and

drilling in the Permian Basin. Many other fields in the basin would follow.

Dobrin, M. B., & Savit, C. H. (1988). Introduction to geophysical prospecting. New York:

McGraw Hill.

Hydrocarbon exploration is an essential, but expensive, high-risk activity. It presents many

unique challenges and risks that can incur millions of dollars of investment in capital and

resources. The search for new reserves has also led the industry to look deeper and below
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geologically complex and seismically opaque features such as salt or basalt. Exploration

risk is a complex concept that is usually defined in conventional reservoir systems by

assigning confidence to the presence and effectiveness of several key rock formations and

critical processes. These include source, reservoir, seal, and overburden rocks, as well as

hydrocarbon maturation, migration, accumulation, and preservation.

Interview with Berte Haigh,1970, "Interview no. 36," Institute of Oral History, University of

Texas at El Paso.

According to Berte Haight, Santa Rita is the introduction of the University of Texas to the

oil business. In l93l they changed the law a little bit, they left the oil and gas leasing under

the hands of the Board for Lease and turned everything else over to the Board of Regents

of the University of Texas and directed them to proceed with the surveying and all of that.

When the first suit was filed the operators settled for $950, 000, which went to the

Permanent Fund of the University of Texas, to get it out of court. At that time, that was a

good-sized settlement.

Jordan, T. G. , German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas

(1967) Retrieve from https://0-search-credoreference-

com.lib.utep.edu/content/entry/columency/texas/0

On this article, the author explains how the cities of West Texas as Abeline, San Angelo,

Big Lake, Odessa, and Midland participate on the oil field. Mineral resources compete with

industry for primary economic importance in Texas. The state is the leading U.S. producer

of oil, natural gas, and natural-gas liquids, despite recent production declines. It is also a

major producer of helium, salt, sulfur, sodium sulfate, clays, gypsum, cement, and talc,
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(The Colombian Encyclopedia). Santa Rita Oil Well, now called Permian Basin, is one of

the principal oils and gas field that make the Permanent Fund for the University of Texas.

Library Could Be Renovated with Funds. (n.d.). The Prospector. Retrieved October 10, 2018,

from https://theprospector.newspaperarchive.com/el-paso-prospector/1957-04-03/

The author wrote how the library of the Texas Western College was going to be remodel

in 1957 using the University Funds. At the beginning, there was only be $3000 dollars,

(three thousand dollars), but after an interview from Austin Monday to the Senator Frank

Owen, he declared it was going to be $120,000 dollars, (one hundred and twenty thousand

dollars) to make better changes on the library, (“Library Could Be Renovated with Fund”,

1957). Also, the Senator Owen said, that he will increase the salary on that time to the

faculty and for general operating expenses, the Senator will increase the amount to the

15%.

Login. (n.d). Retrieved from https://-academic-ed-

com.lib.utep.edu/levels/collegiate/article/University-of-Texas/

According to the article, the campus at Austin is the largest one founded in 1881 in the

University of Texas System. Also, on campus are the Texas Memorial Museum of Science

and History, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Center for Studies

in Texas History. The tower of the Main Building was erected in 1937. In 1966 a student

atop the tower shot and killed 16 people and wounded 31 before he himself was killed by

a police officer. Oil was discovered on university lands in west Texas in the early 1920s.

Rogan, O. F. (1968). Land Commissioner Charles Rogan and the Mineral Classification of Texas

Public School Lands. Austin, TX: San Felipe Press.


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Octavia F. Rogan narrates the evens that happened with the Permanent School Funds

between 1899 and 1940 in the state of Texas. Commissioner Rogan proposed an action in

1901 which consisted in marking certain Brewster Counties and other West Texas land as

mineral. At the beginning they found just minerals in the University lands, then they found

metallic minerals, and of course those belonged by law to the Permanent School Funds

(p.vii). Furthermore, they found oil and gas in the University of Texas Lands and the

income reported for the biennium was $236, 552. 63, but thru August 1930, totaling

$741,308.81accrued to the Permanent School Fund (p.62). Thanks to Rogan’s action, the

good income is still contributing its investment to the Permanent School Funds (p.68).

Sanders, I. T. (1959). The University and the Community. In Issues in University Education (pp.

98-119). New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.

Irwin T. Sanders, author of the chapter 6 “The University and the Community,” explain

how the central cultural themes, accents and emphases make a common meaning (p.98).

An important yardstick used by legislatures in determining the appropriations of money

that go to public services is the amount of service rendered by an agency seeking funds.

The desire to render service, make Americans believe that having a human welfare is prize

and choose jobs with a low salary but good loans is good for them (p.101). Get a job you

dreamed of is hard because first you need to study and get the certificate to be ca doctor,

teacher, or any “real” job, and as you know college is expensive therefore most of the

people stay in the same mediocre job. A lot of businesses offer scholarships and the

government offers financial aid to college students.

Santa Rita. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.utsystem.edu/offices/board-regents/santa-rita


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After a lot of explorations around Texas, on 1921 they finally found the first oil well for

the University of Texas at the Regan County. The first payment to the Permanent

University Fund was made on August 24, 1923 in the amount of $516.53, this was after

two years of hardworking with the oil field. Then after these two years, on May 28, 1923,

the changes started to happen. The first well drilled on University Lands, Santa Rita No. 1,

was officially transformed into a real oil well.

Santa Rita #1. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://texasbob.com/travel/tbt_santarita.html

Frank T. Pickrell, who had no experience in oil, considered himself lucky to have hired an

experienced driller, Carl Cromwell, for fifteen dollars a day and stock in the company.

Cromwell moved his family to the lonely drilling site beside the tracks of the Orient

Railroad. The driller and his tool dresser, Dee Locklin, were convinced they had an oil well

and left the site to lease surrounding mineral acreage while the discovery was yet unknown.

This was the first major discovery of oil in West Texas. It made a rich school of the

University of Texas. The original "walking beam" is located on the University of Texas

campus is Austin, Texas.

Santa Rita taps Permian Basin. (2018, May 28). Retrieved from https://aoghs.org/petroleum-

pioneers/west-texas-petroleum/

The Permian Basin, once known as a “petroleum graveyard,” began to make U. S.

petroleum history in 1920. It would be another discovery well, the Santa Rita No. 1, that

convinced wildcatters to explore the full 300-mile extent of the basin from most of West

Texas into the southeastern corner of New Mexico. Within three years of the discovery,

petroleum royalties endow the University of Texas with $4 million (“Santa Rita tamps

Permian Basin,” 2018). The original Santa Rita No. 1 site can still be found near Big Lake.
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The historic well was spudded shortly before midnight on August 17, 1921. The Big Lake

oilfield proved to be 4.5 square miles and demonstrated that vast oil reserves in West Texas

came from both shallow and deep horizons

Texas growth predicted. (n.d.). The Prospector. Retrieved October 10, 2018, from

https://theprospector.newspaperarchive.com/el-paso-prospector/1974-11-22/

The article talks about how Texas had a real economic growth especially in Austin. The

assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, William H. Kelly, the prices

were increasing, and it was because of the natural gas and oil, (“Texas growth predicted,”

1974). The Federal Reserve officer said the Texas housing industry has been the hardest

hit by inflation. The new house prices resulted from higher cost of land, labor, and building

material. Also, Kelly said effects on the residential building slump had spilled over into

related industries such as furniture, carpeting and appliance.

University Lands. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.dailytexanonline.com/facility/university-

lands

With a technologically driven oil-production boom, Midland’s landscape is transforming

as the city works to build an infrastructure to support thousands of new residents while

reaping the economic benefits associated with increased production. The UT System is also

benefiting from the economic boom, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down as dozens

of companies have showed renewed interest in chasing the oil reserves on the 1.4 million

acres the System has in the region, (Long, 2013). Benson said he expects University Lands

to receive $850 million in royalties from production on leased land on top of the $112

million the System received in lease sale profits in the last fiscal year. In the last five years,

the number of drilling permits approved by the Railroad Commission in the Permian Basin
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has almost doubled, increasing from 4,703 in 2007 to 9,3335 in 2012, according to

Railroad Commission figures, (Long, 2013).

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