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

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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Additional Sources

Description of Series

General Office Files

Personal Files

Correspondence

C. C. Slaughter

Financial Material

Gulf, Soash and Pacific Railroad

Legal Material

Literary Production

Printed Material

Scrapbook Material I

Memorabilia

Scrapbook Material II

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

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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.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research

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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

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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

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

W. P. (William Pulver) Soash Papers, 1894-1967 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Acquisition

Gifts, 1963-1978

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

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Additional Sources



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

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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

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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

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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

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C. C. Slaughter

box

folder

4

15

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

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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

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Gulf, Soash and Pacific Railroad

box

folder

4

19

Correspondence, Financial and Legal Documents and Map, 1909

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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

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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

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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

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Scrapbook Material I

box

folder

4

31

Soash, Texas photo album, 1908-1909 and undated

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Memorabilia

box

folder

4

32

Button of W. P. Soash Land Company, undated

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Scrapbook Material II

box

folder

5

1

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

2

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

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