The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-23
BEAUMONT BUDGET.
Progress at Port Arthur--Oil at Sour I.
THAT Temporary Chnnnel.

Progress a Port Arthur--Oil at Sour Lake.
That Temporary Channel.
Beaumont. Texas February ca-dhe
pretty weather which has prevailed for
the past two weeks has given the Port
Arthur Land and Townsite company an
opportunity to push improvements at the
new seaport, and taey have been vigorous
IS doing it, and yet 1t can be said that they
have hardly reached the beginning. The
big hotel is about completed, prcpara-
lions for construction of the Texarkana
ana Fort smith railway general offices
are under way and now arrangements are
being made to pave several of the prin-
clpal streets with Shells which are in
ncltiiul supply on the lake a few miles
rom Fort Arthur Other improvements
Mil follow.
Prospcrtors. capitalists and honest Elk
eFs cuhtlaCo tp arr We daily and with
SHOWING them tho new city, explaining
no proposed Developments and answer
III 'hs many nal iquir!es that come
HiiIy, Me SIS. f. G. Henderson general
hanger, G, H. FiEley local manager, and
tHtir assstants have about all they can
attend TO just et present. \ number of
lO,E ana some farming lands are being
SOM nut Mr., henderson says he does not
uHtlcluate general movement of either
us lcuitural o. city property until after
March 10, on which day there will be
hundreds OF cNcursionsts from the North
btppIc interested in the development of a
a cp water harbor on the gulf coast OF
4tNoS nave become cogniz mt of tll' many
advantages thar Pot Arthur as the uth-
Hrn terminal Of the Kansas city Pitts
burg ana Gulf railroad VIII afford the ex-
p'rlers OF grain and provisions, nnd ur.e
Sattsned WIN The prospects Of the city
Incoming the leading seaport on the gulf
coast At least. that is IL conclusion That
one must naturally reach after n pernsai
al t.ie m1uy letters that are daily received
company's office in this city.
OIL AT SOUR LAKE.
Tho announcement In The Post several
days ago that w. a. Savage q Co. had
struck OF at Sour lake created consider
able interest in this city. 1t has not vet
been learned whether the oil found exists
IN paying quantities, but samples which
nave been sent to Beaumont are pro-
nouh3ed an excellent quality of what is
C"ltu pidck oil in the crude state II 1t
exists Ia paying quantities 1t viii add
hHch TO the wealth of this section ana
VIII make beaumont an oil as we'll as "A
flllrQad and manufacturing center and
VIII he an impetus TO the DEVELOPMENT Of
me country, IL is believed, too, that oil
really e$ists IN paying quantities Tho
~ "Ne lnNlcaliuns OF oil not only Mt Sour
IKE INT az Gladys city. only three miles
rom Beaumont, have long created Inn
impression that oil would be found nj no
81 AZ aep'h, and an oil hnrhor IN the GuIf
mas led many to believe that an oil river
lows unuer the ground in Jefferson county
HHA elhPleS mo tire gulf where thty oil
tuor mas existed from time lmmcmoral
several wears ago an attempt was made
10 ma oil at Gladys City by the state. fhe
Wen boring being done under the suporyis-
,,YHn OF scientific gentleman who was at
5ldt the connected with the geological
department Of the State. but the exneri-
.ht was abandoned after a depth Of
spH"t hlnG over 400 feet was reached saw
ose a Co. who dug the Sour Lake wen.
are also under contract to dig one oe
Gladys city They are eyne~ienrsd oil
men from West Virginia md Pennsvi
wanna, end feel confident that they viii he
S,uireeSSlul both at Sour Lake and GLADYS
THAT TEMPORARY CHANNEL.
dispatch from Sabine Pass published
IN The Post this week has created n wrong
impression regarding the channel 10 be
dug from Port Arthur TO deem u-,to- a,
aaplhe Pass. This dispatch was as follows:
The tug Earnest arrived ~, Ia,.o
hdFles ana returned there v,ith Tive W.
, III uFeake IN tow. This dredge has been
r 'r'.'v' CnuVter 70 HE Port Arthur COM
~ ~ ~ HLte,hpted TO dig slX-foot
,haulei aeross the lake from Port Arthur
20 the pass, but We're conunelled "a aha ,rl
uYh mo undertaking. as the channel tIiad
rhe ei' fsst as iast as they could dg It out"
pittsburr and ,, ,n,Ss = The Kansas city, |
.-oel 20 snip rails for their road Nv vrote-
10 Saolhr FaSs, where they would be mn
U gl, ,n'iarseS ana Heated TO Port Arthur No |
l"clutHte matters. IL was dctsr,rinsd ~
ulg n temporary channel from port Ay,,,, ~, |
CIV 10 I'VE or six feet OF water in tho lsife !
~ S 4oti @ct lot this work was let ,lut |
4, , 10y furnished made such slow |
brogress that the railroad cofnnanV 49,
uolti Inc idea Of the temnorerv CbanneI
anu WIN construct temporary trastia All |
W "i'e'e rails can be unIoaded from !