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The
flagship picture on this site is designed particularly for Wade
Choate. He grew up under this Texas sky. He has lived all of his life in the "shadow" of this mountain, as three generations before him lived. Pump jacks, like Choate #1 shown, and the land have been central to his life. The rope around the picture is appropriate for his family's ranching background. |
| Choate Company, Inc. has been directly connected with the land of Howard County since the first permanent white settler came here in 1877. | 
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| That first
settler was W. T. (Uncle Bud) Roberts, pictured on his horse above,
the great-grandfather of Wade Choate, founder and owner of Choate
Company. His dugout at the site of what is currently called
Moss Springs was the first permanent home in the county. His
dugout at the water site gave him grazing rights to the area around
it, according to the law of the time.
Someone understood the law better than he,
however, and they paid money to the State of Texas for the land, and
Roberts had to move one mile to the West. This time he paid
for the twelve sections that he homesteaded, and his descendents
still own that land. | |
| Find us here at the Crossroads of the West!! | 
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