Originally Posted by
Kent Fowler
There were 8 of us who had a South Texas lease in Zapata County back in the 80's. Unfortunately, for us, the ranch had a couple of oil wells on it. That meant 18-wheelers driving into the place at odd hours to load oil from the tanks. And since there were multiple companies picking up oil, the gate had a number lock on it and it seemed like half of Zapata County had the lock combination as we saw numerous people driving the ranch who had no business being there. Friend of mine was just about to get down off of his stand about one o'clock in the afternoon, when a '64 Chevy, with a man and a woman in it, drove up and stopped about 50 yards down the sendero. He didn't know who they were, but said they put on quite a show on the trunk of the car.