The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-20
'THE OIL AREA OF SOUTH TEXAS.
Gas Is Found in Several CountesO in WesThe Oil Pond
the GulfWhere Stearin Is Found

A. Ibis time y is only natural that much
interest," should Doe awakened regarding the
poss Bile area wthu which OH might he
found % souh TtNas II Is many years
40" s,pee iho theory was first advanced
'Aat oil Nigh, De touad here. About twenty
years ago q seulomsn in Galveston ralied
iao'r attention o tine possibility by writing
ana pubAshns several srt.ylcs on ;hc OBJ,
se'vanons be had made His attention was
hrst attracted by finding gas escaping from
'AN ground at 'erialu place on the gulf
( shore, aud from that he argued, and correct
/ ~, 700. as Is now proved. that petroleum
must ho hidden scm lwhcre underground In
| tna, LEGALITY.
| II was the same thing which first attract.
ed attention TO Gladys CITY. some twelve
or aiteen years AGO Gas escaped there. ana
| Men began to suspect that there must be
o" IN the ncghborhool A. that time. Of
course. ID VAS merely aurmse and specula.
ton No one at that time, in that par, OF
the country. had any scientific knowledge or
practical experience in the matter OF oil, and
IL is Wen remembered thu; those who dared
10 advance the opinion that oil was flowing.
oven in tiny rNulet. through Jefferson
county down inlo the Mexlc sea, were much
iaughed at
Sc looking through the vista OF the pas,
twenty years. these things come back to
memory, recalled by what has Just hap.
pen'd below Beaumont There is no gain
SAVING me fact that the earliest and Hrs.
h''t'o Indications OF an OF held hero was
toe sas escaping from the ground
/ Il gas, taen, has been the only indication,
and q true one so far. OF oil IN this section.
may be otiateres to know how far th,s
gas producing area extends. as from that
Nno"iedso only IL seems Just now, can We
form any dea OF tho possible boundaries
ot ihs neN Oh field
Tina; this dod cxtends from Sour Lake TO
Gladys has been proved already Thai 1t ex-
ENDS from Gladys dawn to the gulf OF
I MeNce IS admitted almos; beyond dispute
inst sss has heen found along the shore
Ane, an ihe way from the mouth ot the
/ sao ne river TO Bolivar point is a Well known
teot In spots alons this line the quantity
o' g's found has been even greater ihAn &
sVe was at Gladys, where the NEW on we'll
Is, which Is causing the ggeatest eSeltcment
'ha' has struck this section tor years,
From tme 70 tlae gas has been found
along hr shores OF Galveston bay This gas
mes CONS m out Of sriesan wells. when
'fey were being bored. raat ;her5 has been
gas tscapiny out or many o. these wells
Nach wax never discovered Is more than
likely, for SO far as kn0wA, the discovery
mas always been made, mp 20 this time, by
&c iaentally gnians the gas, and IN some
instances those accidents have not been Of
the k,nd 10 be much enjoyed
An Instance oil this k,nd occurred some
year- ago az the mouth OF Cedar bayou. An
e5tesan wen was being bored there. which,
When almost completed, was found TO produce
large volume o. gas, wh.eh became is-
n.'ed n some way, and lighted up the whols
country around tor miles,. At nlght The
volume Of gas, TOO. was 50 great that /, TOOK
me men working there several days 10 OK.
"nSllsh the burning column. which shol up.
ward nearly hundred feet However, the
hre Was finally out out by smetherng pro.
cess and the well was finished and turnishes
z nne How Of water. This was some six o.
seven yssss aso, but today there Is ain
sao1sa saa esesp!ng from II 70 tursish