The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-01
FOURTEENTH GUSHER IN.
Higgins No. ? Spouted Early Yester.
day Morning.
IT DOES NOT WIDEN THE PROVED FIELD
is Almost Surrounded by Other Gushers.
Twenty-seven Feet Of Rock--Paul-
hamus No. 1.

81 Beaumont. Texas, June so.--Higgins No.
b spouted this morning between 8 and o
O'Clock making the fourteenth gusher in
sthe field The aim OF Mr.. Carroll, field
manager for Fhe company, to bring In an
8eightinch well, was defeated by the
&heavy pressure of qucksand against the
+ hghtinch pipe, making the substitution
\ OF a six-inch necessary. However. the well
was finished In most satisfactory manner
land is one OF the best In the field. Ii Is
Swel tomorrow afternoon.
The new well was almost surrounded BY
Sgushers and does no tenlarge the proved
Aneld in any particular. Ii simply in
tcreases the number of gushers that seem
8destined TO supply the world with a large
zportion of its fuel.
Il The formation in the new Higgins is n
Snttle different from that Of the neighboring
2gushers in that the Higgins passed through
8twenty-seyen feet of rock before striking
the oil
Besides these two welsythe Higgins com
Epany receives a good-sized royalty from
Fthree others and is becoming splcndldly
Equipped for the handling of the grease
Manager Wallace of the company said 10
$rhe Post correspondent this morning:
a I'VE are receiving new cars nearly every
&day and the demand for fuel oil Is con
Sstantly expanding. We are now getting
beaumont oil into the West Indies and the
Sfeld for its use is spreading corresponding
8ly In other directions. OF course all the
drawbacks Incident TO new industry OF
8business are encountered, but we expecte /
xthem and are meeting them as best we can
8Some things that would seem very simple
&are giving us much trouble. For instance
1--WE had a customer write us a few days
4ago that his car of oil had arrived. but
Ahe could not draw the oil from the car
lowing to the fact, as he thought, that the
4valve was choked with rock or sand He
requested us 70 send a man to look after
M, and when our man reached the place
Hit was found chat the customer had simply
3unserewed the cap that protects the valve
4and had not opened the valve at all /
#naye a letter on my desk from customer
Hwho can not get into his car of oil He
Shas probably the same trouble as the man
4who did not open the valve
A Another thing that gives us consider
cable trouble Is the fact that many OF OUT
irrespective customers seem to have the
y dea that II is part of our business to equip
fthelr plants with oil burning apparatus
fand we have to explain to them that this
rs not IN our line and direct them to some
fiirm that can do the work for them. 9th
ers want us to stand the expense of putting
in the oil burning apparatus as an induce.
gsmont for themb TO buy our oil, or that they
sfmay see a practical demonstration Of its
8this. 1t would he cheaper to pay the rail
Broad fare of prospective customer to some
Etown where the oil is in use as fuel, than
Ito equip his plant for him. We receive a
fgreat many offers to buy our oil II we Will
sequip the plant of the prospective customer
Nbut We are doing none OF This, for the rea-
\ son that the burning of the oil Is no longer
IAN experiment, Tut 1t has proved in thou
sands of instances Its superiority over
I coal"
~
4 Mr. J. A. Paulhanus is now very hope
sfu over the prospects for a producer In
4 Paulhamus No !, the well sA which thr
water has given him so much trouble He
fsaid this morning that late yesterday after
8noon more oil came from the we'll than
lat any previous time lie also talked very
hopefully of bringing in a producer, now
#that he Is to some extent overcoming the
effect OF the water. The coming in of this
siwerl would rejuvenate speculation won
#derfully, for while other wells between
%this one and the hill have failed, the com
%ng in of the Pauhamus No. l would es-
&tabiisn new base for operations The drl-
Fers are not working on the Paulhamus to-
3day, they having instructions to suspend
#Nork whenever ANYTHING new shows up.
HFhe work is proceeding very carefully, and
Awlll tend to bring in a producing well.
n The we'll of the American Oil company,
which Is being drilled on Cornstreet ridge,
north west OF the city, is said to be show
Sing good indications by several persons
awho visited 1t yesterday.