The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-09
SCOTT--OIL KING.
Ex-POpuIist Politician Is in
Topeka.
Tells About His Big Oil Indus.
try at Beaumont.

S. M. Scott, formerly prominent as a
Populist politician in the Fourth dis
trict. now a Beaumont oil king, came to
Topeka. today for the first time since
he struck it rich in the oil fields. Scott
has lost none Of his breeziness and if
that is possible, has acquired more en-
thusiasm than ever.
He is now vice president of the Esx-
port Oil and Pipe Line company. At
the head of this immense industry IS
Charles A. Towne, of Minneapolis, as
president.
H J. Hopkins, a director in the com
pany, is here with MI Scott and their
business is to dicker with the Santa re
for the putting in Of railroad switches
to their gusher and getting material to
their proposed big refinery The rennery
is to cost d quarter OF a million dollars.
There will be one hundred carloads OF
machinery to haul in for its equipment
They are here to deal with the tratnc
department for the freighting OF this
big shipment
On the side they have display of the
by-products that are to be nanufactur-
ed by their company at the Natlo12i
hotel One of these is a case containing
asphalt made from their Oil that weighs
quarter of a ton.
Going down in their pockets the men
bring out one surprise after another;
First Mr.. Scott produces chunk OF
black stuff that looks as If 1t might De
a plug of tobacco. This is a sample
of the asphalt. Then Mr.. Hopkins hauls
out a square of roofing material out
Of an envelope in his inside pocket he
burns a match under it. A wet Spot
appears on top of the card over the
burning match as if the grease was
being fried out of it. But 1t VIII not
ignite, and as soon as the flame is re-
moved the Wetness dries up Inc caro-
shows not a mark of the test
''An those things come out Of oil"
asks the astOnished onlooker.
Eyes. sir"
Anything else7"
RUBBER
Mr.. Hopkins hand goes into a vest
pocket and brings, out a gumTny chunk.
AS he rubs it on paper an oily, yellOW
streak shows. IF it were not for that
streak. this would be an eraser ne eN-
plains. IT'S rubber, just the same but
there is oil in it,"
what can you make out of it?"
Anything that can be made out OF
rubber, nearly-gutta percha receivers
like that on your telephone over enere'
for instance"
Kansas relative to Mr. ScOtt's strike AT
Beaumont have been rather hazy-
There is nothing indefinite about the
way Mr.. Scott tells of his business MN
d1ur gusher runs $4,000 barrels a day
It was struck on the 18th of last month
We have contracts to sell 1oVO parrels
a day to the Central Asphaltum com
pany out of such a days run 442 bar
rels of asphalt can be manufactured OF
500 barrels of paint and the Hqlid that
will be left afterward is just 1900 bar
rels. And it is white and is illuTninat-
s7The oil land in the Texas field is not
limited to the little area that some
people think It runs for a distance OF
l25 miles, at least. We have LOU
acres besides the tract we have already
opened We have gushers and as long
as they flow we will make use OF the
e1lshers. / venture to say that almost
anywhere on our other tracts Oil lies
in Immense quantities. There is lay
er Of oil sand said to be $50 and ESQ feet
thick in the bed. By drilling go to 2oo
feet into this we would get $50 to 500
barrels a day. AS long as the gushEesrs
blow there Will be no need to do TINS But
gushers may blow out any day -
s'The refinery that we are about to build
win be next to the largest in the worio.
Some idea of the immensely of It may pc
Gained from the fact that our first order
for machinery was for IA boilers S3s feet
in diameter and SO feet long and "A boilers
91s feet in diameter and 30 feet long. IN n. Il
We will rnanufa cture all our productS;
asphalt rubber, paint and many others