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#BlackColonizer | “Many Blacks Shot Down,” May 1, 1903
#BlackColonizer | “Many Negroes Shot Down”

#BlackColonizer | “Many Negroes Shot Down”

“Blacks Under Hot Fire: Many Blacks Shot Down

A rush was made for a colony of several hundred negroes employed on bridge construction work and living in tents near the bridge. The negroes saw the mob coming and opened fire. A fusillade followed, and the whites fired with effect as many of the negroes were shot down. None of the mob was injured and it is not known how seriously the negroes were wounded. The mob pressed forward notwithstanding the steady firing until the negroes turned and fled toward a nearby wood, taking their wounded with them. The mob then fell upon the tents and burned them. After accomplishing a general work of destruction the mob dispersed. Extra police were sworn in, and the village is under heavy guard. Excitement is intense.”

The English News, [Indiana], Friday, May 1, 1903 pg1

CONTRACT FOR A DEEP TEST AT BLACKDOM | Roswell Daily Record Wednesday, April 7, 1920

Wednesday, April 7, 1920, Roswell, New Mexico-page-001.jpg

A contract between the Blackdom Oil Company and a large mid-continent drilling company signed this morning which calls for a deep test well at Blackdom south of this city on what is known as the Blackdom dome.

The terms of this contract provide that drilling must commence within 60 days from today and that well must be drilled to a depth of at least 3500 feet unless oil in paying quantities is found at a lesser depth.

This tract of 4,800 acres lies directly West and a little south of Orchard park where the National Exploration Company is now drilling and geologists who have examined It say that the structure is there much in evidence. 

The Blackdom Oil Co. is composed of negroes who blocked a large acreage early in the year. They received a bonus of $1,000 ($27,000 today) an acre and a bond of $5,000 ($133,000 today) has been deposited by the drilling company to show good faith. 

The machinery for this well is already in transit and will be moved to the drilling site immediately upon its arrival in this city.

Officials of the National Exploration Company have announced that the long missing equipment necessary for the starting of the Orchard Park well will be here the latter part of the week and that the big drill will begin pounding the first of the next week.


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