The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-20
MAY Use TEXAS OIL.
1Ileago Fuel Consumers Are Bothered
by The Coal Strike.
SHIPMENTS HAVE TAKEN A BIG BOOM
'hey May Reach Seven Thousand Five
hundred Barrels for the Month OF
'une--Pinna Takes Out CARGO

nelumont, Texas, Juue io.-Nr. j. n.
D.'s"t olle of Beaumoht's most prominnpt
H'u loit a row days since for Chicago
@t "'uaE wired 70 the German. Amer Lean
'n't'hS insUuctng them 10 request
''e'arF Chi'dlcsS To send him official data
Nho' tank ears and how much tank
,ou'u pc had to supply the Chicngo
nWnu!acturcrs with fuel a / Tao n,hss,cn
to, ~ mat the information was wanted
,irotne reason that they are again In the
VIM "a 4 veal strike which Is most pro.
II, A.ns anu expensive inst at the time wh N
,a Wish to he doing most Nith their
r,',ts' M Bright has done q great deal
No Il Wy OF exploring tho do.ngs of the
;, - u, GUY Nc has undoubtedly mn against
(. PREF oSitlon in Chicago thar ear he NO, ii
No. ~ advantage. II IL Secretary Chi.
don Se sntSenlion To give him ali the informa
L,in,r M9S'p!c ana 10 help In every way 10
adyas,.'ue 'ltepton OF the Chicagunns To tho
naSulHge which the fuel oil has over the
,E Soi 3lu induce them. IL possible. 10 make
no ."4nbeS' The manufactures that far
af"nI| cdH he supplied within a wear more
u The present rate OF Increase kecSs IN MIN
the facilities A''P' up WIN
Is stated today that another big block
ol oil stock has changed hands. and this
'lhe W. B. Dunlap is the seller. He today
ihegissi,ged 10000 In cash for portion of his
r rotoilnss anu the money has already been
itce'pttd for and deposited I'm one of the
oanks here Mr.. Dunlap still has largo in
dispose Of. VIZ wv
me big Shell Transport and Trading com
panys steamer Pima arrived in Port Ar.
lhur late yesterday afternoon and is today
taking on a Go,ooo-barrel cargo of Beaumont
u nestdee g Oil The boat has been OK
pTgtVlgu tor Two or three days, and this
suipneht WI run the oil output for the
month past the 1OoO.car limit and IL would
not no az all surprising to sec tho totl
SnIpInehtS 81 the teld for the month of
June run 10 l.3250CO barrels The boat has
made her round trip IN pretty good time.
ana the cargo Will be cleared by the end
~ the week. II is the second TIN of thl I
.esSoi mere, and she will he regularly In
tne trade II the present intentions of the
company arc followed. The boat Is being
loaded by tho Gulf Refining company WITH
on desulphurlzed from the j. " Guffey
company wells.
The shipments for the moath are running
up much better than for any previous month
and the Increase Is going to show larger
per cent Of gain over the month lust past
IMAM any similar comparison There will
pe 10 trouble In rcaching a total Of 1900
cArs ana the amount may even run higher
AZ me present rate 1t certainly will. and
re any railing of yet 1t would seem alnos,t
100 ulg 10 he true to expect more than 1850
cars ior the month. That would mean
2JU solid trains of oil with thirty cars 10 Inc
jIin. which gives an lf.hand idea Of The
Immense amount of production.
The Gdily reports show the following:
BY rail Cars 22h barrels IS, 80
kv watcr-Cars 142; barrels. "a, $40
Previous day-Csrs 230: barrels II SOS.
SEQ. ''''S' -
Messrs, Eastman & Call today received a
message from Kimball Brothers stating ttat
the big seyenty-foot tug which Mr.. Eastman
INSPECTED IN, Mobile Yesterday would leave
hat Place tomorrow for Sabine Fass md
would IN obahy he here in four or live dave
~ the outside, This is the largest tug chat
mas ever been seen in the Neches river and
Wll Ge PIT N he oil barge line service Al
oncc. MI. Eastman returned today from
Mobile, delighted with the purchase, and hC
thinks that the business up and down the
river here IS going to ne something much
larger than is at present imagined T "a
already have several harges built and others
Under way and are entsing into contracts
fer handling oil for the producers.
49,
MIR. +. G. Murphy was last night elected
general manager of the Alamo Oil com
pany and assumed active charge of the
cutles of his office today, going TO the
Hclu ana lntIe thoroughly inspecting all the
property of the company. Mr.. Murphy has
been identified with the oil business here
ever since IL was started, and is we'll
equipped for the duties 10 which he has
been elected TO fill.
~
Secretary A. u. Chidress ftday wrote
General Manager W G.. Van ~.eck asking
TINT he do whatever he could to get The
spur built from Beaumont to Sour Lake
instead OF from the station twenty miles
west of here, Mr.. Chldress Justly thinks
that IL will be much better for Beaumont
10 have the spur go from here and he also
believes that IL viii be more convenient
for the railroad.
The rumored purchase by the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway of the Orange
and Northwestern also prompted Mr.. Chll
dress 10 write a lengthy letter TO that line
asking them TO consider Beaumont In the
fighting for any proposed extensions that
they might contemplate making The
prominent business men here think that me
/ road viii soon he coming this way from
some source or other.
! ~
Joe Lee Jamison, general sales agent OF
the Beaumont Confederated Oil and PIP,
| Line. is in Beaumont and viii remain mere
I several days with Manager =. H. Harms
! Nh Jamson is said to have brought with
/ MIN some DlCe oIucTS OF tue million va
riety
The ladies entertainment committee fol
the land and immigration agents met tbi,
afternoon and is rapidly getting the worE
mapped ont Secretary Childress, who ha.
rceu advising with them seems delighted
with the outlook and thinks that the *
cnrsioutsts will he delighted with the view
/ thoy vlll get ot the oil city.
The site for the refinery for lubricatnt
OIL will bc in the northwestern part Of tn,
civ instead Of between the Southern ia
clhc main line and Santa Ie trucks, rs wa,
m. IMMERSION. II VIII he located on hvC
acros purchased from W. 4. -. McFaddlr
and while the land Is between the Southern
lnelic aud the Santa Ne yet Il is the DaI
1 las extension % Inc Southern Racine In
siend Of the main line la the rep. 1T 81
/ In abont ten days since The Post CORE
| snopdeut neglected 70 state whether tn,
main line or the branch was the line IN
tended. The particulars Of the plant vii
! countless he given the public In the Mex
| tev DAYS II VIII consume 800 barrels nj
crude oil and will turn out only lubrcatni
oil ~
The call on tho exchange today was hard
Il, 20 good as on tho past three or foui