The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. XVIITH YEAR, No. 213, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 3, 1901 Page: 6 of 34
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ican will be the first to make a thorough
test
Down 360 Foet at Moody
Moody Texas November lTh well of
the Stampede Valley Oil company on th
Haunted hill Is now down about 3G0 feet
and has the drill hung In a sticky bluo
clay or mud Water of a very sour taste
and strongly impregnated vlth minerals
was encountered at 200 feet and ross to
within aeventyflvo feet of the surface As
toe strata so far encountered are so differ
ent from any other wells drilled In this
ne ghbornood something Is expected by the
drillers The surface dirt burns readily
when thrown Into the furnace
Resumed Work on Lueas Qasser
Velsseo Texas November 2 The four
Inch pipe has been started la the famous
Lucas gas well on Bryan Heights and up
to last night the pipe had gono down four
feet In the rock The driller had no
trouble In putting the water pressure oo
the gas and holding It down They are
now golnc right along and It will not be
long barring accidents before tho country
knows whether oil exists at Bryan Heights
or not
Another Holo Abandoned
Corpus Chrlatl Texas November 2 The
Test correspondent learns from a reliable
source that tho drillers of J M Guffey
r r0 u < > inv drilled tn a depth of
iv uctio i KlnS > ran
J of 1 oil icar tht Vufra ch In
abandoned the task todsy and
are preparing to move the drilling outfit to
near wbeii t
HJI
well was
i7 0 Thl llt he con n 11 abandoned
li i r7 ° in tlas found or not enough
Justify further operations
6old 739 Cars of Oil
Palestine Texas November 2At ths
close of the first months business on Oc
tober 81 the Merchants and Mechanics Oil
company ef this city had sold 730 car
livery This company ovns a cuaher r
Beaumont and they have been very aetl
In putting their product on the nwrket
New Aoent at McGreoor
Temple Texas November
2Mr M F
Knight who bss recently been
acting as
reUef agent for ths Santa Fe has been
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checked In at once Mr Knight was for
mcily chief clfrk In the
freight of dee
here and many friends regret to lose him
QUICK TIME TO LONDON
Route Selected Over Which Trip May
Be Made in 100 Hours
New York N vemhcr 2 New York to
London In 100 hours Is the problem for
which two great American railroad com-
panies are considering two solutions says
the Journal and Advertiser The New
lork Centrals englneon aro working out
the detnlls of a plan InvoMng the follow
ing route to llurope with n view of deter-
mining Its mechanical nnd commercial
probabilities New York to Boston by New
York Central and Hudson JtK r and Bos
ton and Albany lines Boston to St John
N n by Boston uud Maine lallroad and
connBCt0nSl h Jonn l0 polt ou th
Irish west coast by a line of swift steam
ships to be established by rail to Dublin
from which packet across the Irish chan
nel rail to London Time four days four
hours
Pennsylvania railroad officials and Clem
ent A Grlscom of the American Steainsbln
company are haUng brought to tbelr at
tcutlon nnew the long cherished plan of
Vi ln Fmbln Vfh0 desired in establish a
steamship port at Montauk lolnt cuttlnc
many hours off the ttlp by way it 8ai 1
jloofc rid making through traffic for Si
Und Mro d TH Corbln plan as
modiUed and proposed by the Pcnnsjlvsnla
TJlili ° Vouro oB Island road
makes tyo Junipt of the ocean lojaco as
follows New York to Greonport by Lws
Island railroad tthe Kast river tunner
when completed would J
make this no
f ni n wh0if from a terminal
nwi k > < t York reenpoit to
BIQ FOUR TO ADVANCE WAGES
Will Restore the Pay of Employes to
What It Used to Be
Following the action of tho Illinois Cen
tral and other railroads In raising the
wages of employes
swordlng to a specie
dispatch to the vSt Louis
Republic from
Chicago the Big Four system Is about to
inaugurate
sn Increase In the pay of train
men Officers of the system
are consld
rlng the advancing of
mi wages of MOO men
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HOUSTON DAILY POST SUNDAY MOKNTNG NOVEMBER 3190L
and rcderal Crude Oil com
47 Madeline Oil company
4S Mercer Oil company
40 Ground Floor Oil company
60 Ground rioor Oil company
51 Gladys Oil company
Well shown Just above that of Gladys
Oil conipauy belongs to Arkadelphta Oil
companj
US Vmerlean Oil and Refining company
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St Marys Oil company
Spangler Oil companj
Gej > er Oil company
Hayne Brown
Twentieth Century OH company
Drummers Oil company
Bricp A Parker Oil company
Queen Oil company
Oklahoma Oil
company
Alamo Cltj Oil
company
Queen of Waco Oil company
understanding that thev were to bo raised
when business
resumed nor
mal conditions
Judoment Aaainst the Santa Fe
Cloburne Texas November 2 In the
case of B B Prickett vs the Gulf Colo-
rado and Santa Ve Railway company the
Jury tiroueht In a erdlct awarding Mr
lrlckett 10000 The cause of the suit-
s n a ount of the plaintiff loslug n
limb while In the employ of the company
CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED
Many People Are Winterinrj in Nome
District This Season
Seattle Wash November 2 Lleutenant
I II Jan la who was anioug the last to
Icavo Nome reports that from 3000 to
3W0 people are wlnteilng In the district
Lieutenant Jar la had been tho government
treasury agent doing customs work at
Nome this summer Of the number he
mentions which Includes tho mining popu-
lation of tho whole Seward peninsula
about 2000 are In the town of Nome Lieu-
tenant Jarls states that there will be a
scarcity of food supplies this winter He
stntfs also that the coming season will
be a good one and the outlook for the fu
ture from a gold producing stnndpolut Is
encouraging The condition of the natives
u stated to be much Improved over that
of the sca > n of 1P00
A CENTENARIAN DYING
He Particioated in the Indian War Under
Jackson
Denlson Texas November 2John
Lottka who says ho Is more thsn 100 years
old Is slowly dying of old age at his
little homo two miles south of Lufauls I
T John was 80 odd years old and a vet
eran warrlcr wbcu ho mine to tho Indian
Territory from Alabama with his peopleT
He is one of tb few survivors of the In
dlan war with Jackson
° ° lr MCN AI D DRILLERS
Wo have for sale cheap a Now Austin
mJh 1 0 anjrwScre M AIne capable if
foot It delh from 100 to 2000
JH m rct jMoeh cosing 300
casfng s nd U0 ° t < Mnch
prkc he Sb0T Ml b9 roI < 1 bout hlt
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K5l w irtS
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The Post presents hsrewlth a rasp or the crty Is divided up Into small riots It has
famous Splndls Top 11011th of Beaumont been found lmp Mble
on account of the
which should serve to give a very fair Idea restricted spice to gba the name of the
ef the condition of t > 0 old flfldi so far the companies owning the various wells All
number of wells the division of property of tbe wells tn he fielll naV been num
etc Is concerned bwli however and
an Index showing th lr
It should be borne In mind honever that Is
ownership given below It must be uu
the map from which the above was made derstood that a number ef concerns own
length of time many new wells have been It haying been found possible to Include
brought in several transfers of property the
names only of those ownlnjr wells at
have been made and on tne whole
many the time this map was made This belnir
changes have occurred so that the map the case any company or Individual owning
fiI Te not scl present laud or a well on the hill will understand
the oil field a It Is today However a that they have not been overlooked tnten
be ore stated It should serv to give a tlonnlly If their name do not appear
Vwa VT TJ showln h °
owncrsMp f the
in the HoggSwayne territory where
the various wells derricks etc according to
wells are very close together
and the prop th ley on the map is given herewith
Texas nil and ripe Line company
J Klnlay
3 T J Wood
4 Hong Swayne
5 niadjs LiicUt Dime Enterprise and
Victor Oil companies
0 7 S Missouri Kansas and Texas Oi
company
0 Texas Standard Oil company
10 Kxport Oil and ripe Une company
11 Texas Standard Oil companj
12 rvnnlngton A Mayfleld
15 Bcatty Oil company
id Kin Oil company
17 nureka Oil company
18 Paragon Oil companj
10 Manhattan Oil company
20 O w Graves
SI IloggSnayne
23
21
23
27
2S
20
SO
31
as
so
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3S
30
Cattlemens Oil company
Borcalls Oil company
Manhattan Oil company
Ilcaumont Confederated Oil company
Tountaln Fuel Oil companr
El Beaumont Oil company
Oartvrlght Development company
Two Republic company
3J 32 GermanAmerican Oil company
33 Trenton Itock Oil company
Hogg Swayne
Alamo Oil company
Groe Oil company
Drillers Oil company
Buffalo Oil company
Kort Worth Oil company
41 42 San Jacinto Oil company
43 Citizens Consolidated Oil company
4i Sunset Oil company
A MAP OF SPINDLE TOP HEIGHTS SHOWING THE
GUSHERS AND THE WELLS NOW BEING BORED
1
WUe Oil company
Commonwealth Oil company
Jeikes
Oil company
Ilii cinanUeeht company
OS AngloAmerican Oil company
Kl Paso Oil company
Wooden tanks
San Jacinto Oil company
Transinlssissippl Oil
company
73 74 Yellow Pine OH company
in 70 Lone Acre Oil company
77 Guffey Galey
78 Geyser Oil and Development cex
i0 SO National Oil company
SI Kaye Oil company
82 83 Mississippi Oil company
M 60 New York Oil company
S7 Beaumont and Pacific Slope Oil oota
pany
S Beaumont Petroleum and Qua com-
pany
60 CO 01 Guffey ft Galey
02 03 04 National Oil
company
05 00 Star and Crescent Oil company
07 08
DO Guffey Galey
100
101
102
103
104
105
pany
10t5
107
10S
panv
100
110
Columbia Oil company
Gober Oil company
Guffey 4 Galey
Higclns Oil and Pqel eotoyajA
Guffey Galey Q
Beaumont Confederated Oil a
KeithWard Oil company jj
Hoywood Oil company 3
Beaumont Confederated Oil H
Heywood Oil company jfi
KeithWard Oil 2 i
company
111 112 Spindle Top Oir compiny 3r
113
Ileywood 0l company T <
114 115 116 117 Guffey Rley
116 110 Darrers OH company BobertWi
Oil company 9
120 Beaumont Confederated Oil orfj
pany
121 Spindle Top Oil coaijMLny
122 Ouffev 6aley
123 124 Guffey Q U
125 120 Hlgsins Oil and Vort
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iESULTS FROM FUEL OIL
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DEMAND FOR FUEL OILISKXSiiii
udurttslng for bids but the GermanAmer should hae
The Trade Is Picking Up and Some
Big Contracts Are Being Made
TWO WELLS HAVE SPOUTED FOR A TIME
About a Dozen Others Are Now Nearly
Ready to Come In A Test
Earthen Tank
Beaumont Texas November 2Hardly a
da passes but that some big fuelusing con-
cern In Texas or Louisiana announces a de-
termination to substitute Beaumopt oil for
c oal and backs up the announcement by
contracting with some oil company for a
supply oi fuel The oil business Is jrow
Ing and while the growth of consumption
has pot been as rapid as oil producers could
lsh foy some big contracts are now belnj
booked and t e atjiegate number of bar
rets contracted for to be delivered within
five earj has run far up Into tb millions
Boole days ago it was announced by an of
ficial of oua of the big companies that his
concern had contrscts ngeregstio 12000000
barrels and It Is known that other com-
panies have contracts that win run th
total amount of oil contracted for away up
Into the millions Cf barrels
The SbteT p rt Brick company Is oris of
tl e latest Urge users of fual ti > contract
for olU the eonttMt being for 100000 bar-
rels which will be o d to operate the
company brick plant at Sartveport I
The ceaiUrUa and export tsads In fuel
oil is also rery promising Ths Lone Btar
nd Creicent Oil company will Begin 8111ns
one of the largest ell tanks in the countiy
i riroS wJu olt fw tola branch ef the
t 0 ta ir W h a capacity of
pleted and the company expects Its first
vessel next week The cVmpiny announces
that it has contracted to delhcr 500000
wlH rcaulre the son Ices
several ves
What Is said to be the
largest oil carry
Ing essfi in the world
H now on lts av
or l Ar lnM r t0 ttha cargo of nil
f
from the tanks of the J M Guffey IV
HvieLm0np B an1 ll lB expected to ar
rive within
a day or two
+ + +
There are now about n dosen wells In the
field that are either In the oil sand or
very near It nnd
among these wells are
somo that hne ghen the drillers no end of
trouble In aorae eases It has been a
twisted nltio and In others unusually thick
ThSV tatrt rock have caused th deSa >
The Beanmont
Confederated Oil
company
IwnMar eon AlSn
Just now In the first lnxtance the drillers
ground away for a long time on a stratum
of hard rock se > en feet thick having to
h3Trr < l wantno
o cut
through the rock Yesterday the well
spout oil near y to the top of the derrick
but choked Itself off An CMmlnatlou
showed that tho top of tbe plpo vas fllled
with mud This nAbb of lun ffiiemled tS
wnVl 7JIlh f th rtJllle were re
moving it today with
a slush bucket This
kViS HL0 MPertena la drilling on
Spindle Top and goes to show that the
driller never knows what he will strike
+ + +
The KeithWard well No 2 situated oa
3 Rued Jvterm en tnl morn
Ing but wilt r
doubtless have to be drilled
+ + +
Following ar the sales cf ell stock en
the Beaumont oil exchange
Huffalo 600 elm at 10c
National Oil and ripe Line 200 shafts at
Beatty 800 shares at 12C
+ + +
The fierrasnAmerlcan Oil
company Is ex
cavating near the old Strlbllng well for a
lf JLJarnen reservoir It will hold about
20000 barrels nnd Is Intended to tl t thi
fitness of the soli to hold oil A great man
oil men believe that tho earthen tank wffi
L in the Beaumont clarbStYhe
tefore OeraanAroerican doing proposes to give It a test
any extensive ratng
ku bs a T rl ctsajaaiu jrv
I mil i 11 I I it
Fuel Gosf io Compress Cation Reduced to lie per B I j
Three Barrels Oil Equals One Ton of Coal J
Mr A M Stafford engineer New Compriss ctrapany Greenville Texas YrUtst J-
On 23d Instant we pressed 1044 B C In 0 hours using 31 barrels fuel Ul ttjfi
had no trouble In keeping steam With coal wo used about one tan Six lf
we
This averages 14 gallons to one B C which at present pries of etl
to about Hie D r B C
This result was obtained from the Held Hydrocarbon atomiser aad
pumping outfit t
The best results obtained ia Texas are from enr equlpiaent wheravtr tke JJ
la use
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R W QAMBLB CO Houston Texaa
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H L FAgiM HON B C DUFF x BTr AKDESaWj
President OaaiiW
Oeatral Counsel
THE FAGIN 1NVESTAENT CO
Successors to FsglnDorsty Investment Co
OAPITAL 260000
i Blilr9vl S J11 T a Oil Stocks OIL WELL CONTRACTORS
oaned ou Oil Stocks High claks Industrial enterprises financed W trill supply
ri M11 011 Busrantee gusbtrs Deal with a cencern In whloh yen may
implicit reliance
THE FAGIN INVESTMENT CO ° orntittM B hBVSx 8X
lismbirs Houston end Beanxoeat Oil KxcbaogMU
mwum TOiM isMwrau
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g BUFFfiLO OIL 00MPIH7 bluilEBir0IL OOMPINj >
PRODUCERS DEALKR3 AND
BXPORTER8 OF FU L OIL
PROMPT 5MIPMENTS BBAUnONT TBXAfc
will
chMrtully stnl trartltsg fad cxpsrt to visit thast l t r Ul
DISAPPEARED MEXICO
Prominent American Miners Mysterious
Disaonearanee
Has Caused Alarm
Ran Antonio Texas November 2 Hugh
L Lleborman a prominent American min
ing engineer who recently made Important
mineral discoveries In the State of Guer
rerro Mexico has disappeared as com
pletoly as ir the earth had opened up and
swallowed him Fifteen daya ago be left
of nrovlstons The search for
will ba resumed at once
Dont forget to remember that >
crn Uhrottos books of the opera f
Fish words story of tho opera la to
at Grunewalds 810 Main
j cum u th > i B
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of water nnd never returned Fo S
weoks his companions searched the Jjm
tains for bins but failed to get Ji
iM
trace of tho missing man and were
to havlnc roa
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