Oil !
If you don’t have an oil
well,
you need to get one !
Mystery Cache A gallon plastic
tupperware, painted dark green, with screw-on lid by "One of the
Texas Vikings"
Contents are various things rounded up from the dollar store and
other places and a log.
Humble, Texas (Houston Area)
Area is a little muddy after a rain, both for
cars and walking, No bush-wacking.
No snakes or Poison Ivy. that I could find, but then I was not
looking very hard for either....
It looks like older muggles visit often
from the trash around.
Celebrating the Birth of Texas Oil
"Texas oil" are magical words.
People in other states (or nations) hear them and picture popular
media
images ---as from TV's "Dallas" or the movie "Giant" ---
stereotypes derived
from the West Texas oil fields.
But the real story of early Texas oil begins in
Southeast Texas, along the Upper Gulf Coast in a
number of towns between Orange, near the Louisiana border, and
Freeport, south of Houston.
In fact, it was a 75,000-100,000 barrel-a-day
gusher on the edge of Beaumont that launched oil as
one of the largest global industries of the 20th century
Humble Oilfield and Moonshine Hill
Moonshine Hill was located on a section of the
Humble oilfield two miles
east of Humble in northeastern Harris County.
In 1887 gas seepages were noted in the area by James
Slaughter,
who, with Houston jeweler S. A. Hart, drilled unsuccessfully
several years later.
In 1903 Houston retailer Charles F. Barrett took a lease at a site
near
what is now Farm Road 1960. He began drilling in March 1904 and
in
May discovered oil. Next to start drilling were the Moonshine Hill
Oil Company of
Walter Sharp, Ed Prather, and Howard R. Hughes; The Staitti and
Granberry
Oil Company; and The Higgins Oil Company, which brought in a gas
well in 1904.
The community was probably named for the Moonshine Hill Air Jammer
Company
pumping station, near the first well in the field to produce
enough oil for
commercial purposes; this well was brought in on December 12,
1904.
The first gusher blew in on January 9, 1905, giving rise to a
tent community that came to be known as Moonshine Hill.
By March 1905 thirty-one wells in the field were producing an
estimated total of 87,775 barrels daily, and some 10,000 people
resided at the
townsite, where stores, hotels, boardinghouses, saloons, and livery
stables
were in operation. In 1905 the Humble field was the largest in
Southeast Texas.
By 1909 Moonshine Hill had six or eight saloons, three grocery
stores, a dance hall, a meat market, a drugstore, a two-room school
building,
and a union church. At that time the community was larger than
Humble.
The Moonshine Hill field had three booms. Production leveled off
after 1905 and stayed
at the rate of 2,000,000 barrels a month until 1914, when
deeper drilling techniques
produced a second boom, in which production doubled. Production
declined to
200,000 barrels monthly in 1920, but a third boom came in
1929, when peak production
reached 650,000 barrels a month. A branch of the Humble post office
was established at
Moonshine Hill on June 8, 1916, and discontinued in the
1930s, when the school
and stores closed and people moved away in search of other oil
booms.
State highway maps in the 1980s showed only scattered dwellings at
the townsite.
The field remained in production, and in the 1980s produced
small quantities of oil and gas.
Your Final Destination is:
N 30
AB.ACE W 095 BD.DBF
To get the value of the above letters you must decipher the
following.
A little help, first.. “A” above = 0
To get the value of “B”:
“The modern oil industry was born on a hill
in southeastern Texas.
This hill was formed by a giant underground dome of salt as it
moved slowly towards the surface. As it crept, it pushed the
earth
that was in its path higher and higher. This dome was known
by several names, but the one that stuck was "Spindletop".
Through the later half of the 19th century, Pennsylvania
had
been the most oil-productive state in the country.
All that changed on ??/??/????"
1,020 feet was the depth of drilling, when
Spindletop came in;
Multiply this times the year that Spindletop came in.
Then….
Ah… TV sitcoms….
“Come and listen to
a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin' at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.”
Take the above answer, divide by the year the
show described above first appeared on TV.
Then....
multipy by .10
Then….
Take this answer, multiply by the number of
episodes the show above had originally.
(Not re-runs or syndicated)
Then…..
Divide this answer by the last year the show was
on during the original run.
Then....
drop any figures after the decimal point and
subtract 12 from this answer.
This answer is equal to
the letter “B”
above in the coordinates.
To get the value of “C”
Take the total number of original “Dallas”
episodes,
Then….
Divide this number by the number of crewmen
who
were on the Exxon Valdez, not counting the
Captain, when it ran aground.
Then…
Drop the decimal point and the numbers after it
and Subtract 13 from the total.
This answer is the value
of “C” above in the coordinates.
To get the value of “D”
“D” is equal to the number of minutes, after midnight, that the
Exxon Valdez ran aground.
This answer is the value
of “D” above in the coordinates.
To get the value of “E”
"E" is the number of zip codes in Humble,
Texas
(Not the zip code, but the number of different
zip codes)
Then...
Multiply this number times the telephone area code:
Then...
Divide this number by 327.8;
drop the numbers after the decimal
This answer is the value of
“E” above in the
coordinates.
To get the value of "F"
Count the number of letters in the name
(first, middle and last)
of the man in the following:
Humble was a crossroads
community in 1870,named for its
founder, _______________,
a San Jacinto River
ferry operator who arrived before the Civil War.
Then....
Divide that number by 2.375
This answer is the value of
"F" above in the
coordinates.