The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-06
PRODUCT OF THE LUCAS WELL
HAS NOT BEEN SOLD TO THE
STANDARD OIL COMPANY,
Cnn Duy IL II u Desires
Ia DO So.

Beaumont Texas. February 5.--Slnco
the representatives OF the STANDARD OIL
company left this leld tew days ago
there have been all SORTS OF rumors and
repcpts relative to the attitude OF tbs big
monopoly toward this held and what tho
company accomplished during It's brief
participation In The excitement hore, The
most persistent cf these rung9rs are 10
the effect mat the Standard oil company
hhs purchased the product Of the Lucas
we'll. or fatRer have contracted with
Mcnats. Guffy and Galley for all the crude
oil they may ilnd In this field. 10 set
tie this question 10 faF as possible, The
Post eorreap ndoni called upon Mr. John
IL, Galley tails mernlng for an interview,
ard he kindly qongcatod to fufn. sh any
information desired.
He Was frat td,d OF the runors yeln-
tive TO the peitGhasu Of the Guny aud
Galley oil by the Standard, and he inler-
tupted with a yehcpodt denlal that any
such rtnuor WAS true or that any eucn
deal had been closed
Tell me" eald he. Just what It Is
That Is claimed In regtrd TO the STANDARD
company
We'll In the first place II Is claimed
THAT the Standard OIL company Ia In real
Ity building Kills pipe lino and castrdct-
ing tho storage tanks. This rumlr. how
ever, is secondary and dependent upon
the other, that they hnye purchased the
crude product OF your hTm in thle Held"
Here the incident relative To The supcr.
ir.Andcnt OF the pipe line wls recalled,
ana NJ. Galley said THE shndard Oil
company IS not building this pipe line
aud has no.hing whRtcyer TO do with H..
Jack Ennis Inns In times past bean en-.
plryed by the Standard on clnaqnny put
he is now working n-0 rs and has worked
Tor us before. He is an expert AMI capa-
@lo pipe line hallder and handled an So.
GV0-balrel per day output for u5 In tho
Mulloruld field. We know what he can
do and whom We wanted man TO hai.d
lhlS limo we secured the services OF Jacg
ipnnis' w aid not make any difference
10 Us who his former employer was As
for MIR Ire, he has never. ne / know,
been employed by the standard company.
However this fact remains chat the
sNandaW Is not bnilding thlS line ana
hae nothing whntayer to DO With Il.
Guuy and Galley are building Il and wll
continue to have control OF IT,
Now, 0bont the Standard oil company
puichaHlnS the crude pt9,btct, ! can mo-
sec what inlercst IL can be 10 the publle
who buys this oil and Il certainly does
not make any difference to me who buys
H. ] would Ike TO scl Il 10 tho stand
ard or any one else wh3 win pay for 1t,
me truth is, tho standard dots not want
the oil IL is cheap VII and does no
contain an llluminant, and the standard
company has now mere chcap fuel oil
than they knsm what to do With.
New, | don't mind telling yau that We
are going forward with this pipe line and
VIII build hrgo storage tanks, aAd gtt
a slrnrly of this oil On hand We have
got TO have tho OH on top OF The grounA
oeiore we can sell 1t Ia large contracts.
We can not contract tcr oil In tho ground
because We don't kplsw what is there.
We don't know whethcr this we'll even
VIII flow when VIZ loosen tho valve, Il
might not 81 Yen see we have 10 got the
fuid In tanks
10 sum mp tho whole matter hrleny
We have not yet sold this oil to any one
but fcr thht matter we are willing 10 s1ll
Y aud would iaat as soon sell 20 the
standard as any one else Hut as for our
wtsht& pipe lines and holdings here We
have no iutentlou of selling thcm."