The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-19
|R0UT THE Big HILL WELL.
I,,,t that oil Has Been Found viii
4 Not Down.
! STATEMENT OF A RECENT VISITOR
place Where New Strike Is Al
~ ,.d 10 Have Been Made by
the Guffey Company.

..mont Texas, July 1s.-rhe report
M Mig hin well is In will not down
,.orv has been told Mt intervals for
,bree weeks. and some gentlemen
Pnd very high In this community
nv snch Tor the statement that the we'll
III IN and that they got their infor-
from a personal Investigation of
q well Mr.. H. stalti, well lsnown oil
i one Of these gentlemen, and this
4 INA, no SAYS about the well: "On my
j the Big hin well, which is the
z .r,v of the j. NJ. Guffey Petroleum
ID rasnv ! was permitted TO examine the
q "a its surroundings. In making this
u s-,noton not only inspected that
III X. ,,otld he easily seen with the eye,
N i' iir.,tcd under the floor of the derrick.
~ IL where / found unmistnkable eyi-
a 40 that the well Is producer, as the
asnd for several feet around the pipe
\ y" ,boroughly saturated with oil. the
n ~ IN charge Of the wen would give no
&sn,mation but volunteered n statement
!. M drill had only reached depth
III 90 feet lie stated this despite the
~ that there was nearly 500 feet OF
6,nnla living in the vicinity say the well
4 4 nroiucer, and several of them claimed
a have seon the oil flowing from the we'll
4bsre L no doubt in my mind that oil has
Nm struck az Big Hill, and ! nave reason
a helIeye that when the GumeT company
~ ready 1t will bring In a gusher equal
II any on Spindle Top hill.
"A NJ SaIh does not think the drllers
1--we completed their work, but that they
3a,e prosecuted II to point where they
&re assured that n gusher is Just Deneain
ihem and that the well can be completed
I l. NJ, IL iG 1axlr'n 4
IN Ia So A heavy pressure from the
&nmns Is kent on the well at all times
a plg Hin Ia about eighteen miles south
nest Of Beaumont and is Of considerable
.lrger area than spindle TOP, and Il Mr..
{tait's statements are not Mt fault the
Nv discovery will widen the oil producing
Territory sufficiently to guarantee an eN
f1hsnslibe supply Of oil.
~
\ The ]. NJ. Guffcy Petroleum company's
Gladys No VIII he drilled deeper The
2rllers commenced to bail this well Tues
Ray, thinking they had a gusher, but Cap.
Main Tourney. field manager for the Guffey
tompany. stopped the bailing this morning
&nd ordered the well drilled deeper. The
frll had struck large vein Of OIL, Int 1t
Ra not In gushing quantities. It is
Thought that this is the same vein which
MAS struck In the Columbia well, which Is
fhout 300 feet east nj Gladys No. 6, but
jn the Columbia we'll the vein was much
Stronger, In fact Of gusher proportions.
~
The coming in Of the Beatty well has
esan been delayed, this time through r''
inferior pipe. The inferior ouar,y of the
sale was discovered p ~ /, was placed in
Ahe we'll, and as ,nlractor Sturm feared
5t would not stand the strain. he has
Stopped the drilling until good pipe can be
$erured, which will delay the bringing in
bf TIE well for three or four days.
o.s,' ~
The tee HI and Crescent Oil company
bhs let ,nelcoiNract for a pumping station,
NJ be located about midway between Gladys
City and Lucas. The pumps will force the
spil from the field into the company's stor-
&ge tanks at Sabine Pass, distance of
twenty -four miles. The pipe line will be
completed within forty days, by which
flime the pumping plant VIII be ready Tot
lNork queer difficulty has arisen in the
construction of this company's pipe line
fnd storage tanks The mosquitoes are so
numerous and so fierce that many of the
imeH have been driven from their work.
Especially is this true of the tank build
lsrs who have had to suspend work entirely
, h
Nj. J. A. Paulhamus, manager for tnv
Roby oil company, has just recovered from
e two weeks attack Of malarial fever, and
'dlTng Ills Illness things did not go very
iSel win the company'S wells. The
spindle Top well got a pipe telescoped and
laee well on the Caswell tract caved in con
,saer9bly, delaying the work so badly that
lracucalIy no progress has been made.
4 \ y
At the meeting of the Texas and New
oHeans Oil company directors today there
vas not quorum present and therefore M
.seuea l was taken regarding the sinking al
FS wen on the company's -.,.-.,ngs. An
3Waei meeting will be held Saturday, wheG
~. Is expected that the New Orleans direc
'ois Will be here.
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tOllowlng are the closing quotations OF
ae Beaumont oil exchange:
Listed stocks RID Asked
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