Protection Is Necessary.
Only one gate, according to the size of pipe is required, and yet they say this is a great burden and to some extent paralyzes the industry. But it is in keeping with some of their other reasoning. They seem to think that a pipe line is built for the storage of oil, and the Guffey people have one and they have none. Anyone who knows anything about the oil business knows that a pipe line is only a means for transporting oil from one point to another. It is true that the Guffey people are building some tanks, none of which will be completed until after most of the wells now drilling in the vicinity of Beaumont are down.