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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (84245)	4/6/2002 7:42:54 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117072

(In Part) "He purchased large tracts of land for cotton farming. And he sold fertilizer tanks. A lot of fertilizer tanks. Much of the modern-day farming success in Reeves County is due, at least in part, to the man whose name is now synonymous with "big con." The fertilizer tanks were merely the straw that would break the back of Estes’ empire following an exhaustive federal investigation in the early ’60s. In February 1962," Copyright © 1999 Odessa American. oaoa.com Yes, I lived in the Panhandle & West Texas before moving to Colorado.