Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-01-27
Oil Find at Bca1pOnt Attracting
Much Attention
MANY NEW SCHEMES.
Throughout the Southern States tn
Industrial Movement Takes on
New Ylgor In the Establish.
msnt Of Enterprises.

billtlcH, the on utNtlopultht near hcau
mont, Tex, has become more than o.
nine days wonder, and during the past
week has fixed the attention Of persons
interested in southern industry upon
southeastern Texas. At the same time
other parts Of the south have been main
tanning their healthy progress in divers
fields.
Among the notable announcements OF
the week in the Manufacturers Record
Is the organization Of company with
probably $4,000 capital for the deyel.
opmeut Of kaolin beds on about 400
acres Of land in Cecil county, Maryland
and the erection Of plant for heating
clay aud for the manufacture Of trt
brick and pottery.
In Blount county. Tennessee. experts
from Ohio are inspecting lead ore prop
critics with view to their development;
II company TO make brick and tile has
been organized at Walden, Miss. the
brick and tile works at Cartersville, Ga,
will be- enlarged and improved; plant
with u capacity Of 10000 bricks a day
Is 20 be- established at Decatur, Ala; u
marble quarry recently opened near
Knoxville will be developed ON a large
scale; quarry company Of san Antonio,
Tex, Is installing $4,000 worth of new
machinery; at Alexandria, Va, plans
are making for the establishment of "A
glass factory, Development Of coal and
other mineral lands in several states is
being pushed.
Suggestive Of the greater attention be-
ing given 70 wheat growing inthe south
is the large number Of new flour mills
70 be- built or Of older ones to be- remod-
eled.
Though few new cotton mills have
been reported, with the exception u a
800. 600 one at Cedartown, Ga, for the
manufacture Of hosiery yarn for colored
goods, improvements in "a number Of
others are contemplated The Nokonia
mills Of Lexington, n. g., will increase
it, equipment to 1900 spindles and 100
looms, it is only IA year old; the Jones
willie Knitting mills Of South Carolina
will increase from $4,000 10 $4,000;
the Darlington Manufacturing company
Of the same state will add $4,000 spindles
u It's equipment; a company has been
organized 20 build knitting mill nj
Admission, Ala; an association Of farm
ers will endeavor 10 establish mill at
Pine Bluff Ark; at Athens, Ga, a
company viii erect a knitting mill and
an overall and trouser factory; a mill "a
make hosiery and perhaps undershirt.
will be built az Nottingham, Ala; tn,
sweetwuter Tenn Wooden mill may
make an addition for the manufacture
of cotton yarns and warps.
New timber regions are being opened
and lumber products will take new
forms in furniture factory at New
Bernc, y. c., a sash aud door factory
at Athens, Ga, buggy factory al
Goldsboru. n. C.:a Ash and blind fac
tory at Jonesbo.o. n C;a keg factory
at Birmingham; a staye factory ut Col
umbus, Miss, and Woodworking facto
ries at Tampa, Fla, West Point. Va.
and Montgomery, Ala Other new in
dustries include mattress factory al
Anderson, S. g.; packory at Fort
Worth, Tex, and plant at New Or
leans for the manufacture of iron beds
iron castings and hardware specialties.
Industries Of many kinds will be Civ
en- an enormous impetus in Texas II Oh,
oil in the Beaumont section has the
great fuel value attributed 20 It, 4
special correspondent Of the Manufac
tuners Record. who is ON the ground II
the new field estimates the situation a.
follows:
1T is not aside the mark 20 say thai
At the present time everybody, including
the owners Of the Lucal well, is consid
ernbly mt sea. All are as one who had
fallen from a fourth story window and
not yet had time 10 find out whether
any bones had been broken or not TIL,
magnitude Of the flow is not the sol,
element " the perplexity The char
ncter Of the oil seems 10 be- different
from that Of other fields, and the natur,
OF the flow is also unusual Unhk,
most gushers, where the oil Is forced
out for few days by an accumulntilI
Of gas, there is no gns behind thi, oil
II flows In "A steady, even stream, ~anC
, without the noise which is Away
present where there Is gas. Whenc,
the pressure Is another Of the problems
Is the source Of the supply a river, lax
or pool, and is there au artosian pres
sure behind the oiE Are some Of th
questions which present themselves
The wise acres are simply looking pro
found and saying nothing. They wan
more evidence before committing them
selves 10 any theories Pc is not agree,
: rs 10 the geological formation OF rh
strata In which the oil was found. Som
say It is shRle or conglomerate, and !
30, is not regarded as 70 promising 70
long lived producer Others affirm
that the rock is a sand stone, and ther,
fore, fulhlls tho best requirements ]
will take time and may take some NOR
wells to settle definitely some moote
questions"