Twichell Survey Records and the Texas GLO

I think that's pretty cool and I'm not from Texas.

It's nice that the records will soon be available, it's also too bad that it took over 50 years for it to happen.

Nice. I was afraid they would end up in a box at West TAMU and never be seem again.

Twichell Survey Records and the Texas GLO-Robby

Yes, it's about time. BTW, I will be at West TAMU this Sunday for their soccer game. My son is going to meet the coach and tour the campus. He is trying to get a scholarship to play soccer. We drove around there back in July on our way to Colorado. We really liked it.

I was just in your neck of the woods a couple of weeks ago for a funeral in Levelland. Saw a large Hugo-Reed ad in the paper.

Glen

> Yes, it's about time. BTW, I will be at West TAMU this Sunday for their soccer game. My son is going to meet the coach and tour the campus. He is trying to get a scholarship to play soccer. We drove around there back in July on our way to Colorado. We really liked it.
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> I was just in your neck of the woods a couple of weeks ago for a funeral in Levelland. Saw a large Hugo-Reed ad in the paper.

Didn't Robert Earl Keen write a song about Leelland? Flatter than a table top, makes you wonder why they stopped here, wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one.

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That is not bloody likely. They don't even have a real engineering department.

Much less anything to do with surveying.

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This has been a very important project for TSPS Chapter 10 for many months now and there has been a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on. It is unfortunate that the records didn't stay in the local area, but after all that has happened, I can't think of a better place for them to end up if the money can be found to preserve and digitize the records. At one point the records were headed to the Panhandle Plains Museum at WTAMU.

There are some more of his non-oilfield stuff in Amarillo in private hands, along with some of Trigg's work.

Glen

> > Yes, it's about time. BTW, I will be at West TAMU this Sunday for their soccer game. My son is going to meet the coach and tour the campus. He is trying to get a scholarship to play soccer. We drove around there back in July on our way to Colorado. We really liked it.
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> > I was just in your neck of the woods a couple of weeks ago for a funeral in Levelland. Saw a large Hugo-Reed ad in the paper.
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> Didn't Robert Earl Keen write a song about Leelland? Flatter than a table top, makes you wonder why they stopped here, wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one.
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Yes, I think so. Buddy Holly (from Lubbock), Waylon Jennings, and a few others are from that area. My wife's family is from there. Other than watch the dust fly, there's not much to do. Yeah, I never figured out what the attraction to that area was.

Andy,

Are you going to the TSPS convention?

The original attraction to this area? Primo farmland. Now, what perplexes me is the attraction to the Metromess. I don't get that one bit.

Nope. Could probably make it down for the Friday/Saturday sessions, but really need to do some work at the house in Fort Worth.

That's funny

I have never seen or heard the term "Neck of the woods" and Leveland used in the same sentence before.

James
Born and raised in Brownfield.

Glen

Kris,

It was actually James McMurtry that did that song.

> The original attraction to this area? Primo farmland. Now, what perplexes me is the attraction to the Metromess. I don't get that one bit.

I knew that that was really the reason, I was just being facetious. My wife's grandparents moved there for that reason in the early 40s before the war. Her grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago at 92, her grandfather is still going at 96.

Glen

I have heard the Flatlanders (Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore) say...that in Lubbock you can see for 10 miles..and if you stand on a beer can you can see for 20 miles.

Lots of good muscians came from that area.

Glen

Oh. I'd only heard the Robert Earl Keen version. It's a great song.