Associated Press: Like thousands of other Texans living atop one of the country’s most productive natural gas fields, folks in this tiny town were giddy when drillers started offering up the fat checks. The mayor likened it to the Gold Rush, and many of the 200 residents of a town that once sold its name to a satellite television company were hoping to be next in a long line of landowners to strike it rich by drilling into the Texas earth. Many in the town on the rural plains of Fort Worth …