Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-08-07
TWO MORE WELLS.
A DOUBLE SURPRISE FOR THE
TEXAS OIL FIELD.
Guney's Gladys No. and Yellow Pine
Co.'s Well, Making Twenty Producing
Wells in the Field--The Manhattan Not
Yet Gushing.

Beaumont, Tex, August 3.-The
field scored two more aushers this
afternoon in quick succession, and
makes the whole number now 20.
Neither of the wells which came in
this afternoon was expected-that is
one of them has never been mentioned
in the newspapers, and the other was
thought to be in condition such that
it would not come in for several days
yet. The first well in was the j. M.
Guffey Petroleum Company's Gladys
No A, which spouted about O'clock
the second was the yellow Pine OF
Company, only few hundred feet
away, which came in about 4.
The Guffey Is a four-inch well, and
there Is no significance attacher to it
whatever, unless it is the fact that it
is the gusher which blew out several
weeks ago and destroyed the derrick
and seriously crippled the rig and
damaged the hole. A. w. Hammill is
the contractor, and it was not until
few days ago that he managed to
get the well in condition where it
could be drilled
AS was stated at the time of the
gas blowout, the drill was near the
oil sand, nearly wrecked the well, and
the contractor at one time thought he
would have to abandon it, but he finally
managed to get the drill down and sent
it through to the sand.
This well is several hundred feet
north of the Crescent No. l and about
the same distant east of the Columbia
we'll The well was finished by setting
the four-inch pipe, and the Oil came
after running the bailer one time
Eevrything was in readiness, and the
valve was Immediately closed. 1t will
be connected at once with the Guffey
pipe line system and will add its pro-
duct to the whole.
So far as Importance to the field
is concerned, the Yellow Pine well,
which is about 100 feet east of the
Gladys No 4, has no significance, either
1t is located on an acre of ground pur-
chased by number of local capitalists
and business men. and it is under
stood that the company has not yet
been chartered. Among the gentlemen
interested in the well are John l..
Keith, John C. Ward. Joe Carroll and
perhaps others who can not be learned
of tonight.
They purchased this acre of land
and begun operations before the com
pany was organized. George A. Baugh-
ton was the contractor The we'll is
a six-inch, and said to be fine one.
1t is the on5depth-between 800
and 1850 feet This well, naturally,
came as a complete surprise to every
body, because no one but the owners
and perhaps a few others knew that
drilling was going on, and as con
sequence there was considerable diff
fieulty in locating it for a while.
The Manhattan well has not yet been
finished. 1t is reported however, that
they have met with considerable sue
cess in the effort to drive the casing to
the rock in order to shut off the sand
and water, which is making in the
well from below.
The well was making considerable
stream of oil this afternoon, and it
is possible that they will finish it up
tomorrow. 1t could be finished in
q very short time by setting four
inch pipe, but the contractor is bent
on bringing it in with six-inch and
everything bids fair to success in that
respect.