The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-18
PLANS TO STOP FIRE.
All Sorts Of Suggestions Being Made
by the Beaumont People.
WELLS SHOWING AN IMPROVEMENT
Those Which Showed Bad Month Ago
Are Again Doing Good Producing
Work. It Is Said

Beaumont, Texas, July 1.-THE Jennings
OH nre IS stlil upperlnost 10 the minds Of
the oil people here, and that is about the
only matter discussed on the streets Dewey
HeywCod IS here today and Is looking after
inc shipping Of material to be used in the
work OF extinguishing. If possible, the
names OF the monster He is shipping pipe
Tor boiler connections, pipe cutters, valves
and everything that could possibly be need
ed ON such an emergency. They are going
by express. Fire Chief Ed T. Eastman re-
turned from there this morning after a ter.
rible siege OF il. he remuined around the
IRE for twenty-four hours, but saw that It
was useless 30 do any work of any kind
with the chemical engine ana had II H.
turned. He thinks tuat Jack Innis plan
VIII result In putting she 1re out III tue
NE hhtlme the plans suggested by those who
haNe had experience Ur these who have a
Yersntlc mind are as thick as the men
themselves. One man says that the trolley
ant ieVator system would work. III other
words, he would swing a Dig wire cable IN
me AIR ana arrange II to run through The
names ana over the wei and would tn
send III an iron dirt box aud trip II over
the well; he believes that half a dozen
trips would stop il. The only thing ia the
| way or this would be the pressure OF the
OIL, which would probably blow the dirt OF
anu out as last as II fell. Another Is the
taxing OF FIRE steamer there and sending
into the flames A stream mixed with heavy
grained sand and that the sand would even
tually cover the well. The third and most
expensive and time killing is the digging Of
a tunnel TO the well far enough under to
prevent any danger and then twisting the
pipe off. This would certainly stop tha
fire, but would destroy the we'll at the same
| time. These Ideas are based upon various
tound5tions. The tunnel idea Is said to have
been used to advantage in Russia on Il six
months ire
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The following is the report Of oil ship
ments for yesterday;
Cars-By rail, 155; barrels, 1886
| Cars-By water, 15u; barrels. 10000.
Previous day--Cars 10; barrels ~ 7tt3
Total for the month-CarS, 800; barrels,
6l3,S54.
Tie Haywood Oil company has just paid
per cent quarterly dividend notwith-
standing the principal stockholders OF the
company are ut Jennings lighting the IRE
With all the energy possible.
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One of the officials of the Palestine. Beau
mont OIL and Development company TO-DAY
/ informed The Post correspondent thar the
J wells on Spindle Top that have come under
his observation have more than doubled
| their producing power He can not &C.
| count for IL but declares that the wells
! are doing this very thing Three weeks
| ago. he says, they were IN very bad shape
! aud things looked gloomy but the wells
| began getting better and today are sending
! TO the surface much more oil than they
! have for some time. He does not claim
| that this applies "a his wells only bur
! that II is the case With twenty wells that
he has seen. II is merely mentioned as
another OF those dozens OF mysterious fea-
lures with which spindle Top abounds.
49,
The same gentleman ls authority for the
statement that the FIRST well bored NJ the
HoggSwayne syndicate more than wear
ago hit salt water. He says that rnere
Is absolutely nothing in the salt water
rumors that are going the rounds rhere
| are three or possibly four wells OF that
kind on the hill but what he contends Is
that they do not furnish any basis for
alarm. II is simply something that has
existed since the field was started.
~
w g. Park the well known contractor,
has returned from Pittsburg.
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The oil exchange was rather TOO busy
taking an interest in Congressman Cooper
banquet for tonight to do much business
at the call this morning and the result
was dragging day, with the following
transactions:
Gold Eagle, 5000 shares at lie.
Anglo, 1000 shares at SIC
Continental. American, $500 shares at Toe
Dividend, 1850 shares at 1c.
Beaumont Oil and Mineral, 1900 Shares
at 90.
San Jacinto, 1000 shares at lie.
OIL I. o. b. Gladys
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