The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-27
BAILING THE OIL WELLS.
Believed that the CattIemen win Have
10 Go a Bit Deeper.
A TALK ON THE NAcOGDOcaES FIELD
A California Prospeetor is Very Much I'm.
pressed with It's PossibiGties-More.
Wells to 6e Drilled.

beaumont. Texas July 26-The work OF
balling the well OF the Cattlemen's Con.
solldated OIL company was In progress late
this afternoon. While those in charge OF
the well think they may have gusher. II
is possible that they will have to drill
deeper.
The we'll of the Manhattan oil company,
which was put In n bad way by the blow.
Ing out Of gas pocket, is now in condi.
ton for the drll TO proceed and work will
be resumed tomorrow morning The treu-
BILE was caused by disiolRted pipe, and
for time II was feared that the well
might have 10 be abandoned However
Contractor Sturm succeeded In removing
the refractory pipe this afternoon, thus say.
Ing the we'll.
II Is rumored that since the settlement
OF the suit OF the Keith-ward oil com.
pany against the Spindle Top oil company
some Of the land involved in the suit win
be placed on the market. thus making the
cultivation OF The hill for oil even more
intense than at present The land In ques
tlon is well Within the proved neld. and
III 1t is placed oil the market IT WILL no
doubt have a tendency TO enliven things
again.
The Carroll well situated about two
miles down the river from the city, Is
now being bailed. An effort was made to
bail 1t couple Of days ago, but the bailer
got stuck and was removed with consldera.
bile difficulty. This is the well In which
the casing was forced M about three inches
by some power from beneath.
The Higgins Oil company shipped thirty
IL
Louisiana. The Louisiana rice planters are
using large quantities Of oil for their irrl
CATION plants and are hRding 1t entirely
satisfactory.
Colonel John r. Gaffey of the Ripper OIL
company, a man of much experience In the
California oil fields, has Just returned from
Nacogdoches. Colonel Gafey has great
faith In the result OF the Developments
that the efforts of the dhllcrs VIII be re
warded with u fine flow OF good oil.
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1.-THE Nacogdoches oil field Is about NJ
teen or sixteen miles wide as outlined at
present" he said lin 1861 the first well
was sunk with very primitive apparatus
near the town of Mlrosc ten miles east
of Nacogdoches. Again, In is656'I, behring's
were made In a belt of country extend
In 1887, some wells were sunk ten miles
south OF Mirose, near Chlreuo. The deep
est well bored was 400 feet and the aver
age depth of the forty-6ye wells sunk was
not more than $50 feet. In thirty eight
ont Of the forty five on was found vary
Ing In production from ten to 100 barrels
San attempt was made In 1857 to build
n pine line from oil Springs. the principal
petroleum producing territory, TO Nacog-
doches Owing to the lack OF railroads 20
transport oil and the fact that oil was
not generally used for fuel at thai time
and mad but little value for that purpose,
the project proved a financial failure and
WAS abandoned. OIL stepages and Oh hear
ing formations are found over an area Of
forty miles square to the east Of the cTTS
Of Nacogdoches. Five rigs have been put
up in that territory in the last thirty days
and Important developments are looked for
any moment from that sectton--as the
shallow wells already drilled only reach
the first sand.
The oil is Of lubricatlng quality and
for that reason more valuable than thar
found in the Beaumont field. Those who
have examined this section confidently pre-
dict that II will prove the most extensive
and profitable OH neld In Texas when the
second and third sands are pierced. With
inc crude apparatus used In the 'e9s II was
impossible 10 20 over 300 or 200 feet. All
OF the old wells have oil standing In the
sixinch casing on level with the sur
face aud some OF them flow over"