Arizona daily citizen., 1901-08-20
THE TEXAS GUSHERS.


did not need the discovery of OF
to attract attention to its great re.
sources. But the oil bas been
found and the State has been
booming ever since. "We have,
says ox-Governor Hogg, "the
cheapest fuel in the world and will
soon be able to offer greater ad-
yantages to manufacturing enter
prises than any State in the lTnz
ion. Texas may now look for ~
greatest era of prospeEiss; = ho.
ever..experiences|Ss
Last y..Asref~
=. 'ss'ss .',s@ss'ssss--ass%cek the twenty first
gushcr" in the Beaumont field
owned by ex-senator Charles A.
Towne of Minnesota, began
to spout oil A "gusher'- is
an oil well which is full of the
fluid that is destined, Ex-Governor
Hogg believes, to make Texas rich
The oil industry has an interest
ing nomenclature mostly of West
Virginia origin. A we'll which
flows without artificial means is
"gusber, or "spouter, and invar-
iably OF the feminine gender. A
man who went to the oil regions
and failed to refer to a we'll as
''she" would be regarded as hope
iessly ignorant. A cluster" is
we'll upon which an investor
spends his fortune only to find at
the last moment that it is dry and
worthless. When a man is lucky
in the oil business he is described
as having chit the sand" Texas
former Governor is confident that
all the wells in the Lone Star State
are "gushers, which will provide
an abundant supply OF the cheap
fuel for all the industries that may
be established in the State.
The use of liquid fuel abroad
has passed the experimental stage.
Oil has to a considerable extent
superseded coal in the French,
Italian and Russian navies. 1t ia
in use on British and French rail-
roads and also to limited extent
on railroads in the United States,
particularly on the Southern Paci-
fic. A large fleet of merchant ves
sells running between London and
Borneo uses liquid fuel exclusive
ly and with the most satisfactory
results. The Russian Government.
has sanctioned the laying of an oil
pipe from Baku to Batoum, on the
Black sea, distance of SCI miles.
The work is to be completed in
three years and then the Russian
oil industry is expected to be in a
better position to meet the COM
petition of the Standard Oil Com
pany, which finds a market for it's
product in all parts of the world.
According to the report of the
United States Geological Survey,
the total production of crude petro-
leum in this country in 1899 was
57,07O,S5O barrels of AZ gallons
each. Ohio led all the States that
year in the production of petrol
cum. with West Virginia in sec
ond place. The exports of illum-
mating oil from the United States
10 the fiscal year ended June 30
1900, amounted to nearly 10000.
600 barrels.
Ex-Governor Hogg's opinion
that tho possession by Texas of an
abundant supply of cheap liquid
fuel will add immensely to the
prosperity of that State is shared
by London trade journals. The
Commercial Intelligencer says tn,
opening of this new source of fue
supply will place all industria
establishments in the South de
pending upon steam power upon I
more favorable economic basis.
1t believes the influence of thil
new factor will be felt "far beyonC
the localities directly affected,
md apprehends that "the competi
Ton of the South In the cottor
Trade is likely from this cause t.
more severely felt by British
nnfacturers."
n refuse pretoleum used a
~ what remains after the fine