The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-20
IoTHER FREAK IS FOUND
Inns Company Brings In a Hot
Water Well.
h 70 EQUAL hot SPRINGS WATERS,
| !. Talk Of Opening a sanitariur.
f~s,,,.ssr,an Cooper Talks--Other
Oil News
90, gulv ly,--Auother won.


A.. come to Spindle Top. The hig
|. M and Fuel company, one or the
nrosresslve and wealthy companies
no min. has brought in hot water
nat is said to equal anything at
hin or Hot Springs.
NJ company was drilling the well back
h. pump house and were after water
mi oil, but they did not want salt
%, and IL is minated that the well
.nucb deeper than the other water wells
nave been drilled on the hill. A Post
I-.snondeut saw Geneal Manager Wallis
morning and he seemed highly elated
N me ind and believes that the Hig-
cowpany now has another source OF
Is,,S and income that will mean much to
~ He describes the find as hot sui
- uoter we'll rhe temperature is not
|pwn exactly. though II Is Thought to be
ueen 100 and 100 degrees He placed
/ hand in the wafer and could hardly
Ind il and when 1t was withdraWn II
n az ret as a beet. The sulphur gives
water an offensive odor. Mr.. Wallis
roine 10 have All analysis made of II
&r,sdie,py and Will then know whether
hos Ill that he now thinks he has lie
ms ~ entertain the idea that the COM
M uill Mt once erect gigantic SAM
5iam right oil top Of spindle Top and ad-
Iniug the well II the water proves TO be
,ss, he now th nks 1t is and Will throw
nsn IN the public He is imbued with
iIdea that beaumont will then attract
nis Looking for better health Instead OF
8rsnp the dlsagreeabe tales told I'm most
~ rnyrorrantcl) abont what bad health
h0d here by those who stay In the
N wallis is inclined TO be rather Sc
[,irs about the well as vet but has prom
M maj he would take pleasure In giving
|, Al, the facts Of interest as soon as ~
Zas whether or not he has the valuable
h,er that he now believes mas been
cos Already people are ciamoring for
w,ter and do no, nsk whether an an
els has hefn made or not ana do not
Sem 10 care ANYTHING about a scientihc
IN, an II They are also begging the
|r,nsnv IA erect n small BATH hor1e near
IA ednin n NJ once They believe that
IN dn all that Is now done NV the
,s,s M Marlin and Hot Springs and they
n N make the experiment. anyhow.
5Tbs necnllar part about the well to the
5one Is that no other drillers have FOUND
srch well, II merely proves to their
Ends That spindle Top below the ground
worss Than map Of China when II
mes 10 different formations and different
&odlcts.
&wlh regard Ia the deep water canal
ocosltlon Congressman Cooper this morn
4 informed The Post correspondent that
! would at the next session of congress
rodrce bill calling for an approprla-
bn sufficient to pay the owners of the
brit Arthur canal all that such n canal
Ipus cost II built by the government. lie
Ia @ 5sougse the government would not
wilfpN 10 pay MI that 1t had cost the
flglna owners hut that he thought they
koull he willing 10 pay what It wou!u
I've cost them. He also urges upon the
kope of Beaumont the necessity Tor
tpmpt action In the way OF preparation
u the coming Of the engineers who ARE
survey and report plan for the ouliu-
4 Of the canal to the Neches aud Sahlne
yers so that Beaumont and Orange may
Ii deep water Colonel Adams VIII nave
barge of this work and MIR. Cooper thinks
Nat the peOplc should take steps here now
J facilitate his work npon arrival.
&Mr Cooper also made the important an
obancement that the government Woulu
bt consent 20 the unrestricted passage oil
mmerce through the canal 10 reach the
Proposed government canal. He did no.
ky this IN The way OF a threat, nut sim
6y sald that thu provisions of the oh
= ad that way AMI there was no other way
Il getting around It. lie was not LOOKING
n light Of any kind but thinks MAJ
4 people here should at once take tnV
dter up With President Knott ana SCI
h. will not agree to the proposition am
Il The government 60 ahead with the worn
Thder that sort Of q contract lie sa,.
Dat ne might write the president himseI
ht that he thought the deep water com
ttee here should do that, Hs' Coups
as most emphatic IN his statement ma
be people here should 90 10 work at onee
\ \ +
There is still great deal of interest II
e Jennings of FIRE, but there is no new
fd startling news about 1t here today
he fire seems to be sdll burning with tn
me fury and force and will continue tina
ay until the boilers are connected an
r steam applied all at once. There
VI lot Of stuff going there from here 7
used when the time comes for auencn
the FIRE. This Will be tomorrow Or mex
y, II Is thought.
captaln c. T. Cade writes In a letter fror
ieh Island that the Guffey wells Nos.
are still drilling and the rigs runnin
eadlly. He can not tell just what d.
Mopments are coming about, but tn
eadlness leads him TO believe that the
ave good Indications.
~
40 iate news of value has come from tn
LIN slll we'll that the Texas OIL Field
nited. Is at work. but Il would not he Z
surprising 10 hear favorably from theI
III any tine from now on.
~
Inc Texas Transit oil company has
gu on the Keith Ward tract which
nwotng OF Its own accord at the rate
lIpnrs al I.ieis per day ty measure of 81
water shipments have been very low
d 'nls month. but 1t has been due 10 II
n mat In the latter part of last mont
H was great rush and the vcsse
KIM S o.Si slow In returning. The san
m ~ ~ occur In July. and the shlpmen
be n,nn.u eleased toward the latter part
sav KY II the same style. The Par
j MI i tue atlas and barges 81 and so al
nrin nh mfee capacity boats are expected
htng the early part Of the coming Wee
VIZ make the business run up rapi
Ia, ,ta all this however, II Is not like
rasaS glg June record of $40 cars w
I'm hs II is beginning TO look Ike
bsines. seplember or October before Il
oatb' runs up as heavily as 1t did la
e,sry A. D. childress and Assista
naneh left tonight for the centr
ess ,thern part of the State. Mr.. Oh
krly h.. re back Monday bright al
10 or IN tSMr; Bunch will not return /
n, a, "a = \
Eonlno. .auerstoe THAT a very strong Al
own ,Dgoker'7 firm here has chang