Descriptive Summary
Soash, W. P. (William Pulver),
1877-1961
W. P. Soash Papers,
1904-1967 and undated
The papers of William
Pulver Soash, a real estate developer and land colonizer who founded the W. P.
Soash Land Company and the Lone Star Land Company.
S 944.1
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
5 boxes (5.0 linear
feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
A real estate developer and land colonizer in the early twentieth
century, Soash was born in 1877. He founded the W. P. Soash Land Company in
1905. Operating from Waterloo, Iowa, and later in Florida and West Texas, he
sold land developments in the Midwest, the Plains States, and Florida, but
principally in Texas. Soash founded, with members of the C. C. Slaughter
family, the Lone Star Land Company in 1924, and was extensively engaged in the
sale and purchase of oil leases and royalties, generally for others, in the
late 1930s. He opened West Texas and Panhandle ranch lands for colonization,
including lands in Hockley, Cochran, Lamb, Hale, Borden, Martin, and Howard
counties. The towns of Ware and Olton, Texas, were two of his successful
projects. He was married to Minnie Hasse, and served in World War I as a second
lieutenant in the Texas Cavalry. Soash was also a member of the Methodist
church and a Mason. He died in 1961.
The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography
of William Pulver Soash at
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html
Scope and Contents
The collection includes business and personal correspondence, legal
and financial material, printed and scrapbook materials, land advertisements,
maps, and posters. It bulks (1900-1950) with business files and correspondence,
of Soash's real estate company, and also includes copies of the Soash-produced
magazine,
The Golden West and
information on C. C. Slaughter.
Index Terms
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.
Subjects (Persons)
Soash, W. P. (William
Pulver), 1877-1961
Slaughter, C. C.
(Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919
Subjects (Organizations)
Lone Star Land
Company
W. P. Soash Land
Company
Subjects
Agriculture--Texas,
West--History
Depressions--1929
Land settlement--Texas, West
Land
companies--Texas--History--Sources
Land
settlement--Texas--Littlefield--History--Sources
Real estate
business--Texas, West
Real estate
development--Texas, West
Ranches--Texas,
West
Ranching--Texas,
West
Acquisition
Gifts, 1963-1978
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Abel Ramirez, August 2000
Preferred Citation
W. P. (William Pulver) Soash Papers, 1894-1967 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
Additional Sources
Seymour V. Connor, ed.
Builders of the Southwest.
Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College,
1959.
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Lee Cooper oral history interview [sound recording], 1970
- Jimmy DeLoach oral history interview [sound recording],
1969
- David B. Gracy Papers, 1966-1968
- Owen McWhorter oral history interview [sound recording],
1976
- R. L. Slaughter Papers, 1892-1969
- Hanley Wasson oral history interview [sound recording],
1959
- W. P. Soash Oversized Materials, O7.1
- Soash, Texas photograph collection, SWCPC 381
- W. P. Soash microfilmed papers, S676 and S676W
Collection Inventory
General Office Files
1
1
Akin, Minnie,
1937
1
2
Amicable Life Insurance,
1937-1938
1
3
Angley, Professor W. E.,
1953-1955
1
4
Bean, George R.,
1937-1955
1
5
Bell, H. D.,
1942-1946
1
6
Benson, George E.,
1940-1943
1
7
Benson, W. J., Leases, closed,
1937
1
8
Bessent, Inez,
1937-1938
1
9
Borden County, Texas,
1959
1
10
Borden County, Texas, NW Section 19-32-3N,
1926-1937
Broadhurst, William
1
11
Helmerich, and Payne, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma,
1943-1944
1
12
Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Lehman Block,
1943-1945
1
13
Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Tract 14 Well, Hendricks,
Castle and Sanders Titles,
1944-1946
1
14
Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Wright #1,
1943-1944
1
15
Broyles, William G., Dallas, Texas,
1956
1
16
Burleson, J. A.,
1937
1
17
Cascade Petroleum, Davidson, C. J. "Red",
1937-1941
1
18
Castro County, Texas plats,
1938
1
19
Causseaux, T. L.,
1937
1
20
Citizens National Bank, Lubbock, Texas,
1938-1948
1
21
Cobb and Daniel: Vealmoor Drilling Contract, Mrs. Veal,
1941-1953
1
22
Collier, S. F. and Estate of W. L. Ellwood,
1937
1
23
Collier, W. J.,
1937-1938
1
24
Constantine, E., Jr., Dallas, Texas,
1943-1944
1
25
Constantine, E., Jr., Pep Block, Free Leases,
1943-1944
1
26
Cook, Bob, Big Spring, Texas,
1939-1947
1
27
Cook, J. T., Dallas, Texas,
1943
1
28
Cottle County Drilling, Bill Stinson, Paducah, Texas,
1935-1940
1
29
Cotton Land Company, Slaughter Lands,
1923-1926
1
30
Crenshaw, Dupree and Milam,
1947-1957
1
31
Davis, T. J.,
1937
1
32
Denton, L. C., Lubbock County, Texas,
1937
1
33
Duggan, Arthur P.,
1926-1935
1
34
Dunn, Sam G., J. E. Alexander, Cochran County, Texas,
1949
1
35
Dunnam, W. D., Royalty,
1938-1940
1
36
Ellwood, W. L., Estate and E. M. May,
May, 1937
1
37
Flippen, W. H., Attorney, Dallas, Texas,
1931-1949
1
38
Ford, Phil, Bean Leases,
1937-1939
1
39
Fox, A. T., Lynn County, Texas,
1937
1
40
General American Oil Corporation,
1957
1
41
Griffin, Gordon, McAllen, Texas,
1927-1931
1
42
Guthrie, C. W., Big Spring, Texas,
1953-1957
1
43
Hale County, Texas, No. 1,
1944-1953
1
44
Hamilton, P. L.,
1937
1
45
Handley, W. B., Attorney, Dallas,
1942-1943
1
46
Harp, D. Leon and Wallace Scott, Securities
Commissioners of Texas,
1938-1939
2
1
Hilton, J. L., Lease,
1937
2
2
Hults, L. E.,
1937
2
3
Instruments and Titles, Old,
1925-1940
2
4
Jones, C. B., Lease and A. L. Cromer Lease,
1937
2
5
Kahlick, Fred,
1937
2
6
Kay, R. C.,
1939-1944
2
7
Kay, R. C.,
1939
2
8
Kay, R. C.,
1916-1939
2
9
Kay, R. C.,
1940
2
10
Kay, R. C., List,
1939
2
11
Kearby, Allen, McAllen, Texas,
1928
2
12
Kelsey, John H., Midland, Texas,
1946-1953
2
13
Kelso, Lena,
1937-1941
2
14
Kidd, J. T., Borden County, Texas,
1926-1930
2
15
Landon, Jame C., Ranch for Sale,
undated
2
16
Lehman Farms,
1948
2
17
Livermore Drilling Contract,
1954
2
18
Lone Star Land Company,
1937
2
19
Louden, Mrs. Cora,
1937
2
20
Lund Real Estate Company,
1906
2
21
Lynn County Abstract Company,
1937-1956
2
22
Mahon, George H.,
1934-1936
2
23
Mahoney, Henry,
1937
2
24
Markham, Jack,
1941
2
25
McClellan, Noah, Lynn County, Texas,
1937
2
26
McElreath and Suggett, Oil Operators,
1937-1947
2
27
McKee, Mrs. Addie,
1955
2
28
McMillan, J. W., Midland, Texas,
1937-1940
2
29
McNeely, A. A., Texas Company,
1937-1941
2
30
Middleton, R. V.,
1946-1951
Miller, John W.
2
31
Correspondence on Various Titles at Vealmoor,
1953-1955
2
32
Mrs, Veal, Borden and Howard Counties, Map and Royalty
Statement,
1950-1955
2
33
Mrs. Veal, Carl McKee, Royalty Agreement,
1950
2
34
Mrs. Veal, Charles H. Priddy and Joe W. McSpadden,
1953
2
35
Mrs. Veal, E. L. Clanton, Royalty Agreement,
1950
2
36
Mrs. Veal, H. S. Moss and Oil and Gas Leases,
1939-1950
2
37
Mrs. Veal, Honolulu Oil Corporation, Oil and Gas
Leases,
1953-1954
2
38
Mrs. Veal, J. A. Lavender Drilling Block Near Ackerly,
1954
2
39
Mrs. Veal, Miscellaneous,
1948-1952
2
40
Mrs. Veal, Morton Lands,
1953
2
41
Mrs. Veal, Oceanic Oil Company, Vealmoor Townsite,
Howard County, Texas,
1954-1955
2
42
Mrs. Veal, Sunray Oil Corporation,
1950-1955
2
43
Mrs. Veal, Warren Petroleum Corporation,
1953-1954
2
44
Morrison and Morrison, Attorneys,
1946-1947
2
45
Murrah, G. M., Lynn County, Texas,
1937
2
46
Murray, P. F. and J. E. Alexander, McCulloch County
Block,
1950-1951
2
47
Nelson, Anna,
1937
2
48
Oil Leases, Deals Submitted on, Drilling Contracts and
Royalty Production,
1941-1944
2
49
O'Neal, W. E., McElreath and Suggett, County Line
Leases,
1938-1948
2
50
O'Pry, Alvin,
1940-1944
2
51
Overstreet, R. W., et. al., Lynn County, Texas,
1937-1939
2
52
Pep Drilling Block,
1943-1946
2
53
Phifer O. R., Lease,
1937
2
54
Polk, S. J. T.,
1937
2
55
Porter, J. C. and Owen Thomas, cancelled,
1940
3
1
Redfern, John J., Jr.,
1939-1945
3
2
Republic National Bank, Dallas, Texas,
1934-1944
3
3
Republic National Bank, Dallas Texas,
1944-1946
3
4
San Andres Production Company,
1944-1946
3
5
Seale, Mid, Royalty, Hockley County, Texas,
1944
3
6
Sherrod, J. F.,
1937
3
7
Showalter, M. R., Sundown Townsite,
1940
3
8
Simmons, Bay,
1937
3
9
Slaughter, C. C. and W. P. Soash, Cochran County Lands
Contract,
1939
3
10
Slaughter, R. L., Jr.,
1939
3
11
Soash W. P., Subdivision in Lubbock, Texas,
1931
3
12
Soash, W. P. and G. W. Soash, Interest's in McCulloch
County, Texas, Oil and Gas Leases,
1950-1952
3
13
Tax Receipts,
1954
3
14
Texas Company,
1937-1941
3
15
Thomas, Owen,
1936-1937
3
16
Thomas, Owen,
1937-1939
3
17
Thomas, Owen,
1940-1946
3
18
Thomas, Owen and Robert B. Violette, Lynn County, Texas
Lease,
1937
3
19
Thomason, M. H., Wichita Falls, Texas,
1939-1940
3
20
Thomerson, Cora and Lofton L. and Dwight M. Johnson,
Gaines County, Texas,
1944-1952
3
21
Thompson, Hattie J.,
1937
3
22
Veal, Dr. and Mrs. George T. (Minnie Slaughter),
1925-1943
3
23
Veal, Dr. and Mrs. George T., Mineral Rights, Vealmoor
Lands,
1927-1948
3
24
Vealmoor, Texas,
1924-1929
3
25
Vealmoor Missionary Baptist Church,
1941-1944
3
26
Walker, Andree and Walker Abstract Company,
1953-1957
3
27
Watkins, S. M., Lease,
1937 and
undated
3
28
Weaver, O. J., and W. G. Burrage,
1932-1937
3
29
Whiteface Drilling Block,
1943-1944
3
30
Whiteface Drilling Block,
1943-1948
Wiley, R. D.
3
31
Lease in Lynn County, Texas,
1937
3
32
Lease, Violette, Robert Violette, Lynn County, Texas,
1937
3
33
Soash and Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation, Lynn
County, Texas,
1937
3
34
Soash and Texas Company, Lynn County, Texas,
1937
3
35
Williams, B. C., Leases,
1940-1943
3
36
Wilson, Andy, Drilling Contract, Lubbock County, Texas,
1937
3
37
Wright, Ben F. and Owen Thomas (cancelled),
1940
3
38
Young, C. V.,
1937-1938
3
39
Zant Family letters,
1945-1946
Personal Files
4
1
Halsell, H. H.,
1944-1947
4
2
Hamner, Laura V.
1935-1956
4
3
Hunter, Tom, Bills,
1934-1936 and
undated
4
4
Jameson, W. R.,
1939
4
5
Larson, C. E.,
1908
4
6
O'Neal, John Tullis, Jr.,
1943
4
7
Peterson, Maurenus "Dynamite",
1927-1936
4
8
Schwingel, C. C.,
1943
4
9
Slaughter, W. B.,
1924
4
10
Soash, W. P., personal,
1908-1928
4
11
Woerth, Paul,
1940-1941
Correspondence
4
12
Letter Press Book concerning W. P. Soash's real estate
business in Iowa,
1904
4
13
Gracy, Alice Duggan and W. P. Soash,
1944
4
14
Personal,
1909-1961 and
undated
C. C. Slaughter
4
15
Correspondence, Manuscript and News clippings,
1928-1942 and
undated
Financial Material
4
16
Miscellaneous,
1910-1936
4
17
Oil and Gas Deals,
1946-1952
4
18
W. P. Soash Land Company Financial Statement,
1949
Gulf, Soash and Pacific Railroad
4
19
Correspondence, Financial and Legal Documents and Map,
1909
Legal Material
4
20
Leases, Contracts and Titles,
1909-1945
4
21
Olton, Texas lot for W. P. Soash Land Company,
1908
4
22
Standolin Oil and Gas Company,
1942-1954 and undated
Literary Production
4
23
Federal Writers’ Project Material,
1906-1954
4
24
History of Soash family and Pulver,
1922-1928
4
25
Interview Transcript of W. P. Soash,
1936
4
26
Radio Script,
1954
Printed Material
4
27
The Golden West Magazine,
1909
4
28
The Minute Man bulletin,
1930
4
29
News clippings,
1909-1967 and undated
4
30
Promotional and Other Publications,
1894-1955
Scrapbook Material I
4
31
Soash, Texas photo album,
1908-1909 and
undated
Memorabilia
4
32
Button of W. P. Soash Land Company,
undated
Scrapbook Material II
5
1
Photographs of Soash, Texas and Soash office,
1906-1909
5
2
Scrapbook on Soash and his company, torn and fragile,
1905-1933