W. P. (William Pulver) Soash: An Inventory of His Papers, 1894-1967 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

W. P. (William Pulver) Soash:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1894-1967 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Soash, W. P. (William Pulver), 1877-1961
	Title:	W. P. Soash Papers,
	Dates:	1904-1967 and undated
	Abstract:	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.
	Collection #	S 944.1
	Quantity:	5 boxes (5.0 linear feet)
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

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.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research


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

Related Material


	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



		Seymour V. Connor, ed. Builders of the Southwest. Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College, 1959.

Collection Inventory



General Office Files
box	folder
1	1	Akin, Minnie, 1937
	2	Amicable Life Insurance, 1937-1938
	3	Angley, Professor W. E., 1953-1955
	4	Bean, George R., 1937-1955
	5	Bell, H. D., 1942-1946
	6	Benson, George E., 1940-1943
	7	Benson, W. J., Leases, closed, 1937
	8	Bessent, Inez, 1937-1938
	9	Borden County, Texas, 1959
	10	Borden County, Texas, NW Section 19-32-3N, 1926-1937
		Broadhurst, William
box	folder
1	11		Helmerich, and Payne, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1943-1944
	12		Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Lehman Block, 1943-1945
	13		Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Tract 14 Well, Hendricks, Castle and Sanders Titles, 1944-1946
	14		Helmerich and Payne, Inc., Wright #1, 1943-1944
	15	Broyles, William G., Dallas, Texas, 1956
	16	Burleson, J. A., 1937
	17	Cascade Petroleum, Davidson, C. J. "Red", 1937-1941
	18	Castro County, Texas plats, 1938
	19	Causseaux, T. L., 1937
	20	Citizens National Bank, Lubbock, Texas, 1938-1948
	21	Cobb and Daniel: Vealmoor Drilling Contract, Mrs. Veal, 1941-1953
	22	Collier, S. F. and Estate of W. L. Ellwood, 1937
	23	Collier, W. J., 1937-1938
	24	Constantine, E., Jr., Dallas, Texas, 1943-1944
	25	Constantine, E., Jr., Pep Block, Free Leases, 1943-1944
	26	Cook, Bob, Big Spring, Texas, 1939-1947
	27	Cook, J. T., Dallas, Texas, 1943
	28	Cottle County Drilling, Bill Stinson, Paducah, Texas, 1935-1940
	29	Cotton Land Company, Slaughter Lands, 1923-1926
	30	Crenshaw, Dupree and Milam, 1947-1957
	31	Davis, T. J., 1937
	32	Denton, L. C., Lubbock County, Texas, 1937
	33	Duggan, Arthur P., 1926-1935
	34	Dunn, Sam G., J. E. Alexander, Cochran County, Texas, 1949
	35	Dunnam, W. D., Royalty, 1938-1940
	36	Ellwood, W. L., Estate and E. M. May, May, 1937
	37	Flippen, W. H., Attorney, Dallas, Texas, 1931-1949
	38	Ford, Phil, Bean Leases, 1937-1939
	39	Fox, A. T., Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	40	General American Oil Corporation, 1957
	41	Griffin, Gordon, McAllen, Texas, 1927-1931
	42	Guthrie, C. W., Big Spring, Texas, 1953-1957
	43	Hale County, Texas, No. 1, 1944-1953
	44	Hamilton, P. L., 1937
	45	Handley, W. B., Attorney, Dallas, 1942-1943
	46	Harp, D. Leon and Wallace Scott, Securities Commissioners of Texas, 1938-1939
box	folder
2	1	Hilton, J. L., Lease, 1937
	2	Hults, L. E., 1937
	3	Instruments and Titles, Old, 1925-1940
	4	Jones, C. B., Lease and A. L. Cromer Lease, 1937
	5	Kahlick, Fred, 1937
	6	Kay, R. C., 1939-1944
	7	Kay, R. C., 1939
	8	Kay, R. C., 1916-1939
	9	Kay, R. C., 1940
	10	Kay, R. C., List, 1939
	11	Kearby, Allen, McAllen, Texas, 1928
	12	Kelsey, John H., Midland, Texas, 1946-1953
	13	Kelso, Lena, 1937-1941
	14	Kidd, J. T., Borden County, Texas, 1926-1930
	15	Landon, Jame C., Ranch for Sale, undated
	16	Lehman Farms, 1948
	17	Livermore Drilling Contract, 1954
	18	Lone Star Land Company, 1937
	19	Louden, Mrs. Cora, 1937
	20	Lund Real Estate Company, 1906
	21	Lynn County Abstract Company, 1937-1956
	22	Mahon, George H., 1934-1936
	23	Mahoney, Henry, 1937
	24	Markham, Jack, 1941
	25	McClellan, Noah, Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	26	McElreath and Suggett, Oil Operators, 1937-1947
	27	McKee, Mrs. Addie, 1955
	28	McMillan, J. W., Midland, Texas, 1937-1940
	29	McNeely, A. A., Texas Company, 1937-1941
	30	Middleton, R. V., 1946-1951
		Miller, John W.
box	folder
2	31		Correspondence on Various Titles at Vealmoor, 1953-1955
	32		Mrs, Veal, Borden and Howard Counties, Map and Royalty Statement, 1950-1955
	33		Mrs. Veal, Carl McKee, Royalty Agreement, 1950
	34		Mrs. Veal, Charles H. Priddy and Joe W. McSpadden, 1953
	35		Mrs. Veal, E. L. Clanton, Royalty Agreement, 1950
	36		Mrs. Veal, H. S. Moss and Oil and Gas Leases, 1939-1950
	37		Mrs. Veal, Honolulu Oil Corporation, Oil and Gas Leases, 1953-1954
	38		Mrs. Veal, J. A. Lavender Drilling Block Near Ackerly, 1954
	39		Mrs. Veal, Miscellaneous, 1948-1952
	40		Mrs. Veal, Morton Lands, 1953
	41		Mrs. Veal, Oceanic Oil Company, Vealmoor Townsite, Howard County, Texas, 1954-1955
	42		Mrs. Veal, Sunray Oil Corporation, 1950-1955
	43	Mrs. Veal, Warren Petroleum Corporation, 1953-1954
	44	Morrison and Morrison, Attorneys, 1946-1947
	45	Murrah, G. M., Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	46	Murray, P. F. and J. E. Alexander, McCulloch County Block, 1950-1951
	47	Nelson, Anna, 1937
	48	Oil Leases, Deals Submitted on, Drilling Contracts and Royalty Production, 1941-1944
	49	O'Neal, W. E., McElreath and Suggett, County Line Leases, 1938-1948
	50	O'Pry, Alvin, 1940-1944
	51	Overstreet, R. W., et. al., Lynn County, Texas, 1937-1939
	52	Pep Drilling Block, 1943-1946
	53	Phifer O. R., Lease, 1937
	54	Polk, S. J. T., 1937
	55	Porter, J. C. and Owen Thomas, cancelled, 1940
box	folder
3	1	Redfern, John J., Jr., 1939-1945
	2	Republic National Bank, Dallas, Texas, 1934-1944
	3	Republic National Bank, Dallas Texas, 1944-1946
	4	San Andres Production Company, 1944-1946
	5	Seale, Mid, Royalty, Hockley County, Texas, 1944
	6	Sherrod, J. F., 1937
	7	Showalter, M. R., Sundown Townsite, 1940
	8	Simmons, Bay, 1937
	9	Slaughter, C. C. and W. P. Soash, Cochran County Lands Contract, 1939
	10	Slaughter, R. L., Jr., 1939
	11	Soash W. P., Subdivision in Lubbock, Texas, 1931
	12	Soash, W. P. and G. W. Soash, Interest's in McCulloch County, Texas, Oil and Gas Leases, 1950-1952
	13	Tax Receipts, 1954
	14	Texas Company, 1937-1941
	15	Thomas, Owen, 1936-1937
	16	Thomas, Owen, 1937-1939
	17	Thomas, Owen, 1940-1946
	18	Thomas, Owen and Robert B. Violette, Lynn County, Texas Lease, 1937
	19	Thomason, M. H., Wichita Falls, Texas, 1939-1940
	20	Thomerson, Cora and Lofton L. and Dwight M. Johnson, Gaines County, Texas, 1944-1952
	21	Thompson, Hattie J., 1937
	22	Veal, Dr. and Mrs. George T. (Minnie Slaughter), 1925-1943
	23	Veal, Dr. and Mrs. George T., Mineral Rights, Vealmoor Lands, 1927-1948
	24	Vealmoor, Texas, 1924-1929
	25	Vealmoor Missionary Baptist Church, 1941-1944
	26	Walker, Andree and Walker Abstract Company, 1953-1957
	27	Watkins, S. M., Lease, 1937 and undated
	28	Weaver, O. J., and W. G. Burrage, 1932-1937
	29	Whiteface Drilling Block, 1943-1944
	30	Whiteface Drilling Block, 1943-1948
		Wiley, R. D.
box	folder
3	31		Lease in Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	32		Lease, Violette, Robert Violette, Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	33		Soash and Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation, Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	34		Soash and Texas Company, Lynn County, Texas, 1937
	35	Williams, B. C., Leases, 1940-1943
	36	Wilson, Andy, Drilling Contract, Lubbock County, Texas, 1937
	37	Wright, Ben F. and Owen Thomas (cancelled), 1940
	38	Young, C. V., 1937-1938
	39	Zant Family letters, 1945-1946



Personal Files
box	folder
4	1	Halsell, H. H., 1944-1947
	2	Hamner, Laura V. 1935-1956
	3	Hunter, Tom, Bills, 1934-1936 and undated
	4	Jameson, W. R., 1939
	5	Larson, C. E., 1908
	6	O'Neal, John Tullis, Jr., 1943
	7	Peterson, Maurenus "Dynamite", 1927-1936
	8	Schwingel, C. C., 1943
	9	Slaughter, W. B., 1924
	10	Soash, W. P., personal, 1908-1928
	11	Woerth, Paul, 1940-1941



Correspondence
box	folder
4	12	Letter Press Book concerning W. P. Soash's real estate business in Iowa, 1904
	13	Gracy, Alice Duggan and W. P. Soash, 1944
	14	Personal, 1909-1961 and undated

C. C. Slaughter

box

folder

Correspondence, Manuscript and News clippings, 1928-1942 and undated



Financial Material
box	folder
4	16	Miscellaneous, 1910-1936
	17	Oil and Gas Deals, 1946-1952
	18	W. P. Soash Land Company Financial Statement, 1949

Gulf, Soash and Pacific Railroad

box

folder

Correspondence, Financial and Legal Documents and Map, 1909



Legal Material
box	folder
4	20	Leases, Contracts and Titles, 1909-1945
	21	Olton, Texas lot for W. P. Soash Land Company, 1908
	22	Standolin Oil and Gas Company, 1942-1954 and undated



Literary Production
box	folder
4	23	Federal Writers’ Project Material, 1906-1954
	24	History of Soash family and Pulver, 1922-1928
	25	Interview Transcript of W. P. Soash, 1936
	26	Radio Script, 1954



Printed Material
box	folder
4	27	The Golden West Magazine, 1909
	28	The Minute Man bulletin, 1930
	29	News clippings, 1909-1967 and undated
	30	Promotional and Other Publications, 1894-1955

Scrapbook Material I

box

folder

Soash, Texas photo album, 1908-1909 and undated

Memorabilia

box

folder

Button of W. P. Soash Land Company, undated

Scrapbook Material II

box

folder

Photographs of Soash, Texas and Soash office, 1906-1909

Scrapbook on Soash and his company, torn and fragile, 1905-1933