| Show nn In J V i g f N I THE TEXAS OIL BELT I I II Speculations ns os to Its Us Extant and ond Th The True I Caliber of ol tho Beaumont Petroleum YaUn Un 1 q I Attitude of tho Standard Oil Company i Toward tho tiro Now Field i 5 I Special Texas Aug I operators who have been men drilling gushers fairly good wells antI and dust duet dusters ers era since In the tile days day do of or Colonel Colone Drake the tho first of or their class 8 say that In soma respects the new raw Held field or pool of oil ell near pore hur Is IB the time mOlt moat remarkable In the history of the tho crude crudo petroleum bud boat ness nea ne 8 Very Ver recently there thee were ware 18 13 pro producing wells ull ail located l on a tract of I land not exceeding acres In ho extent About 86 6 dry hole hales had been beell drilled I Just Juel over n the of n tills at small n tract to the west northwest north north east cUi and east esst demonstrating d that tin the Held field or pool dill did not extend in directions and In tho the territory to th the south th alone remained the ht I hope that t th field would bo ho still further enlarged ll by bythe bythe bythe the opening of future wells In that dl di At that time It hud had thus been shown that If the territory to tn the south proved to bo lie ns as dry as nl the territory 01 ot the o 0 her tier throe sloes sides of the l 10 0 acre tract the Hold field would lo lio a 1 mere pool of limited It toll atoll aren and yet the fact that barrels of oil had already been lJ ou taken from the tho aero nero tract the Heywood No 3 tho the thirteenth well lell drilled 1 seemed HOmed to bo hI ng OB grout great gusher R a seemed 8 med to 10 be capable of producing ni as much touch oil all ag as the time first fint gusher the lire Lucas well ts oll which conservative men say any was Willi good for barrels of ot crude petro petroleum leum per day when schlep It was first struck Pools open un for business In n a 1 sensational way wn by b vast Ut quantities of oil all at nt the start and then speedily dwindle to insignificance Insl They fhe gu go up like the rocket and come corne down like the tho rockets stick Yet here hete Is op a n pool of a u very Ver few fow acres whosO whose 13 curbed cued volcanoes of f nil him hl w already lly produced barrels ImrI and the last well cornea comes In as string str ng as fill the thu th first l Old oil all men cannot this and there thero are many otner things thing about the Held field lie III that puzzle them There seems poems to be practical no gas al worth mentioning and Ind yet ot the tho wells all How lIow with wonderful strength and do not need the time usual Jolt siren alven by bythe bythe bythe the explosion of several hundred bundled quarts of nitroglycerine In the time oil bearing ana sanu or rock When the 1110 stream of oil all In the Heywood No Z 2 broke brolle loose It shot up fet In the air forming a n fountain of oil all that was lS very ver beautiful but ox pensive luxury and yet Ht when this title WIll well was shut oft off It 1 only had a n pressure of SO 60 0 pounds to the square Inch at nt the tho casing head hend The oil Is unlike any oth other er ever discovered In this country the wells are tire drilled 1 n new way because prevent the use ule of o the old apparatus The now new up the Ihl rock and sand so that no tell exactly how ho and when arid different formations are fO encountered and the tho conditions and Indications aree ar arso so that the tho veterans or art all alt unable to tell what the outcome will be hI beThe hIThe beThe The consequence Is that no one knows know anything as yot yet concerning the tho true caliber of Beaumont There Therl has Ins been a ft great grent deal written In the newspapers about gushers that produce or or ar even en bam barrIs Is of or oil of I per let perda day da tiny through Is in said to le be bt the true Irue figure for the tho Lucas well but no noman noman man can Ion tell toll how long Ion the gushers RU will gash Whether they the will to pour forth seas spas of or oil week after afler week and mouth month after nUr month or practically RII run dry In a few days daya s or a fortnight ht It must roust be born In mind that owing to the lack of not one of these thirteen producing wells hRS hiss yet et been unbridled and permitted to show what tt Jt can cnn do It Is one thing to have n a barrel well In good working order and another to care for such an on enormous enor enormous production The oil must be stored somewhere anti and the favorite receptacle for this purpose Iron tanks tank each eRch with n 1 capacity of or barrels are art very or ex IX expensive pensive structures strictures and anti cannot be built hum In a week or a n month In a new oil coun country country try Iry Some of the tanks even hold holl 60 GO barrel barrels and supposing that Duffey Ooley Onley the tho owners of at the LOCaS well II were able uble to perform the Impossible and create a n new tank tonk each day da this vast constantly growing scheme would only anI be bo capable of caring for one well provided It continued to produce barrels per da day for tor a n number of days or weeks When th thA the A t I tact fact In is kept hept I p t In III view that I there u 8 thirteen it itt wells well to be with task 1 fJ age ae not on one and th that t there hers th r wi wo wa Sot not It a I single tank link erected when the Iu lacas I f gusher began operations operation the tit wader reader Is lIS tit f t readily able to 10 understand unde r uI t td what w t T s Viet vat i problem th the storage problem iS is III sad and I Why thirteen gushers i have hav peen tightly must fr f the Ibe time since they were tre struck They h ha have ve not rot seen been tift the permitted to flow Row steadily stilly It liter after th manner manlier of most moat oil ull wells wel thug bUll giving expert X some IOme Idea of or their hair stay r fl Ing In qualities but have t beau w an un leashed for an hour or two tWI at a time at j felt fast M 4 new tanks tank could b he be built halt or of pelt new newIn r j pipe lines laid to neighboring ii and the gulf rulf In the land of the czar CUr a 1 few tew yean rillS rs t s II well was war struck that chat WM a n modern deluge of lit U II pouring forth 1 a 4 barrels barrell per rr day for forty fort days dan cia Wd ap t 1 forty nights until barrels barrell IRn had bed sees seen the light but bUI the I he Lucas Luca Man Ott Ij f j er or and some of its It I neighboring wells are by tar far the Urge large t ever er a ruck In I J the western e tern hemisphere r to the Ilia advent IId nt of the time luras well the he record t holder was 10 the Matthews Matthew will well which was wa good for barrels barde barre II a II day ht j i Texas Texal well wells are not only on the most to tl t core care for from the tha standpoint huh but there are j IP Ordinarily when II hili p new w J I fields eida h are discovered the United Pipe Lines Unea Un a corporation that has haa hundred i I of ot mammoth tanks and anti thousands oS of miles of pipe lines linea extends Its to them at onre once and pumps tn the oil Iway 11 m mas as III fast fart as III It II Is la produced it t slug ring It In hi Its ill tanks or e ling hag t 1 1 t I IU It alter CM oge Ate tho 2 Standard Oil company i Texas however does not love tl time Iho j i i Standard OH Oil company and ond bas baa enacted certain taws laws designed to prevent It J a from doing f In the Lone Ione Star State When the laws las wei wel wad made no noone noone h one hind hAd any all Idea Hutt In a 1 v very ry short Bhatt lime time Texas would posses PONeS some Mine of o ha time greatest greaten nil ail wells In iii history and ami now nowr that sits she he has hu oil ell In large quantities to rit sell ell the Standard tints nut not twin at all h In ht a hinr hurry to violate the tales states ua L friendly statutes lI by 11 purchasing It Standard agents dei delare Ian that the tha Oil all 1 11 has h little value val UP owing to the fie fact tint het N rr but H M small quantity of ot Illuminating g oil may ma be extra ted Id from It and the life oil all trusts trust n seems ml to b be about abot 20 JO i I rents cents i per r barrel lArge Urge quantities o Or of the petroleum however 19 r t j j i 1 have hal been bien sold for 36 3 cents per li for use ule as fuel on rice and an sugar plan Ilium I If II steamboats railroads and it Ir In i tiring establishments The Tha ill till I Ie rAid mid to be a better letter oil for t k Ing In than the Lima oil anti and It Il Ig I expect lid d that Its It will successfully t compete te with those of the Ohio and aijO Indiana oils Producers here are not lIot disconcerted 1 by 11 the attitude altitude of the time Standard Oil I company ny because they tho know kno that that company will sooner or later lator take a 1 business hand In the Texas game l Tank Tanh e to store 1 barrels of oil line been crested created felc l since i the lime th Lucas well I struck grid j are pl pipe pille lines to lo Port Pori Arthur anti and the tho son sea two farts fact Indicating butt the tile oil will he be fd d tf of to some one Stand Standard 4 and ard or no Standard In fact tOlt there are ara s those noose who claim that despite Us its al nl alleged f coldness the Standard is already j doing business here under one of Its Ita M aliases II II a theory thear not at lit all t n Improbable I At 35 U rents cents p per r barrel the t k oil sells tor for exactly the pries o f i for the Ihl product Of at the ford furd i per r 1 t 1 I Tl TI Ty Tlona ill illI t tOlla Olla ona oil Is le worth orth III sad and lint Ohio Indi Indiana rUI aria ana and Kentucky Kentuck oil about 74 21 cents ants j I f I Colonel J II U luffey the th most moat noted l s soil i oil producer In the United States Stoles and I tv he the Ih leading spirit in the J I party part In Pennsylvania Is one of ol tho the d principal owners of or the time Lucas well pad 1 1 has hRS thousands of acres acre of or Other i r tory leased near It He lie and his hi I I j i elates clat have already expended a fortune fortuna I 1 for tanka t pipe lines liner etc Itc and 1111 It I 1 proves 1110 to be a no pool but bUI t J money perhaps s none will be lit made t J T The boom here liere has bas been n over oter for or Joins atoms vv l time and the majority of ot those thoN Who i N land or leases lease at al town boom fires YOri IfS t q r have undoubtedly lost the money In Invested f felled o vetoed vested Most of the boomers boon tt have hAYe left Ift i i town ton owing to the had bad c t Uon tion here and a lh the streets have been re repeatedly sprinkled with crude trude oil all nUl firn roUS I Ithe 1 the wells tear lr by b to pre prevent ent a 1 f t 4 e f of or disease the oil all being eon con an excellent disinfectant dl Many f oil operators with large b hen hare r have haf followed the boomers and will re me remain 1 main mein away IY for a time owing to 10 the fur fear 71 that a shotgun quarantine II may be bb se Ie i r would shut hut ilium In Inhern 11 her hern for fur Wf 11 ks or even months 1 |
