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MALLET RANCH COLLECTION

Manuscript: Mallet Ranch Records, 1865-1992 and undated: 135 boxes and 9 ledgers (138 linear feet)

TRANSFERRED MATERIALS (Framed Items, Maps, Oversized Item, and Photographs)
See below for details.


FRAMED ITEMS

Description

Oil Drilling Platform, undated; Frame #836

Old Ranch Home, undated; Frame #837

Windmill and Shed, undated; Frame #838

Ranch House, undated; Frame #839

Old Shed and trees, undated; Frame #840


MAPS

Description

  1. Slaughter Field Secondary Recovery Projects, Amoco Production Company, Houston Division, 1974
  2. Mallet Ranch plats in Hockley and Cochran Counties, Texas, 1964
  3. Cochran County showing plats and unorganized county school lands, 1887
  4. Traffic Map of Hockley County, Texas, 1960
  5. Texas Highway Department Right-of-Way Map in Cochran County, Texas, F.M. hwy 1780, 1956
  6. Texas Highway Department Right-of-Way Map in Yoakum County, Texas, F.M. hwy 1780, 1956
  7. Texas Highway Department Right-of-Way Map in Cochran and Hockley Counties, Texas, F.M. hwy 1585, 1969
  8. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Texas 1948
  9. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Texas 1948
  10. El Paso Natural Gas Company, Slaughter Compressor Station and Microwave Site in Hockley, Texas, 1957
  11. El Paso Natural Gas Company, Line from 24” Dumas Line to Llano Grande Gasoline Plant, Cochran County, Texas, 1954
  12. Location Plat, Bay Oil Company, Slaughter Field, Cochran County, 1942
  13. Location Plat, Bay Oil Company, Slaughter Field, Cochran County, 1943
  14. Plat of Mallet Ranch north of Magnolia “F” to “G” and west of Falcon, Cone, and Richardson, 1943
  15. Plat showing portion of Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, “F” Lease, Hockley County, undated
  16. Plat showing portion of Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, “F” Lease, Hockley County, undated
  17. Plats of Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, showing new pipes and rodage, 1944
  18. Plats of Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Magnolia Pipe Line Co., showing changes of gathering lines, 1943
  19. Plats of Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Magnolia Pipe Line Co., showing new pipes, 1943
  20. Plats of Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Magnolia Pipe Line Co., showing new pipes, 1943
  21. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1943
  22. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1943
  23. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1943
  24. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1943
  25. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1943
  26. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1942
  27. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1942
  28. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1942
  29. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1942
  30. Magnolia Pipe Line Company, Plat of New Gathering Lines on Mallet Ranch. Hockley and Cochran Counties, 1942
  31. Right-of-Way Map, Proposed pipeline crossing of Mrs. Helen DeVitt Jones, et al property in Yoakum, Terry, and Hockley Counties, Texas
  32. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Texas 1946
  33. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch, Cochran and Hockley Counties, Texas 1946
  34. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch,Yoakum and Hockley Counties, Texas 1946
  35. El Paso Natural Gas Company 24” O.D. Dumas-Eunice Line, right-of-way across Mallet Ranch, Yoakum and Hockley Counties, Texas 1946
  36. The Cross Section newsletter showing Depth of Water in Ogallala Formation, 1967
  37. Ownership map of Hockley County, Texas, 1955
  38. Ownership map of Hockley County, Texas, 1965
  39. Ownership map of Hockley County, Texas, 1974
  40. Lubbock County, Texas map showing property lines, undated
  41. State of Montana roadmap, 1947
  42. Hockley County, Texas showing saturated thickness of Ogallala Formation, 1963
  43. Slaughter Field Secondary Recovery Projects, Amoco Production Company, Houston Division, 1980
  44. Slaughter Pool in Cochran, Hockley, Terry, and Yoakum Counties, Texas, undated
  45. Map of Plats in and around Cochran County, Texas; also showing Slaughter Field, undated
  46. Mid-America Pipeline Company, 4” Slaughter Plant Products Injection Pipeline, Hockley County, Texas, 1963
  47. Plat of Survey for City of Levelland on approx. 60 acres adjoining airport, Hockley County, Texas, 1963
  48. Bravo Dome Carbon Dioxide Gas Unit at Union, Harding, and Quay Counties, New Mexico, 1980
  49. Plat of Survey on 27.35 acre tract of land for Levelland airport proposal, Hockley County, Texas, 1966
  50. Plat of Survey on 27.35 acre tract of land for Levelland airport proposal, Hockley County, Texas, 1966
  51. Map showing Subdivision of Mallet Land and Cattle Company’s Ranch [Pastures] in Hockley, Cochran, Terry, and Yoakum Counties, Texas, undated
  52. Map showing Subdivision of Mallet Land and Cattle Company’s Ranch [Survey] in Hockley, Cochran, Terry, and Yoakum Counties, Texas, undated
  53. Magnolia Petroleum Company, Map showing Mallet Ranch Subdivision, 1940
  54. Mid-America Pipeline Company, Proposed measuring station tract in Hockley County, Texas, 1963
  55. Map of Mallet Ranch subdivision showing oil companies and farms on property, 1943

OVERSIZED ITEM

Description

“Thornburgh’s Battle” poster by F. T. Johnson showing U. S. Cavalry defending against an Indian attack


PHOTOGRAPHS (SWCPC 824)

MAIN ENTRY: Mallet Ranch Photograph Collection, 1949-1957 and undated

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 b & w 8 x 10 prints and 23 b & w and color 4 x 5 prints

BIO/HISTORICAL:

The Mallet Land and Cattle Company, founded by David M. DeVitt and John Scharbauer in 1885, was incorporated in 1903. Its brand assumed the shape of a croquet mallet. The Mallet Ranch at one time covered some 200 sections in four counties: Hockley, Terry, Cochran, and Yoakum. By 1990, the Mallet Ranch covered nearly 45,000 acres in Hockley County. Oil a useful resource was discovered in the late 1930s, which made the land more valuable and the DeVitt family wealthy. The Mallet cooperation was dissolved in 1944. It is now held in common by Johnson and DeVitt family members.

After Mr. DeVitt’s death in 1934 his surviving family included wife Florence (d. 1945) and two daughters Christine (1885-1983) and Helen (1899-1997). Christine DeVitt and Helen DeVitt Jones both became philanthropists and founded the CH Foundation and Helen Jones Foundation. They contributed to Texas Tech University, Lubbock’s food bank, and other community organizations. The Mallet Ranch continues to operate in the South Plains of Texas as a historic ranch first founded in the late 19th Century.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

This collection of photographs contains images of a building construction in downtown Lubbock, Texas (1957), home back and front yards (1953), an unidentified flooded town with homes underwater and boating (May 17, 1949), some unidentified family and New Mexico park scenes (1951), and a pump jack at a ranch water well.

PROVENANCE: Donated by Helen DeVitt Jones, the photographs were pulled from the Mallet Ranch Records.

NOTES: The color prints have turned yellow but in good condition.

SUBJECT TERMS: Building construction; Floods; Water – Floods; Home yards; Park scenes; Pump jack; Water well; Boating; Towns and Floods

PERSONAL NAMES: Jones, Helen DeVitt

CORPORATE NAMES: Mallet Ranch

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: Lubbock (Tex.); New Mexico