The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-05
CATTLE, RICE, OIL.
Company Proposes Utilizing Every
Feature CT the Land.

Company Proposes Utilizing Every
Feature CT the Land.
From the Beaumont, CTex) Journal OF
December 81. 1901:
The Kansas City Oil and Rice Land
company brought IN well about
o'clock yesterday afternoon on block IS
Of Spindle Top Heights subdivision Of
the John \ veatch survey which IS &C
counted one Of the best gushers which
has been finished on the hill in recent
times The well. a six-inch was drilled
by the well known contractors. w. H
Graham & Co. in just four weeks. and
Mr. Graham in speaking Of the operations
and result says It Is one OF the best
finished holes on Spindle TOP and his
arm has also drilled some other good
wells. When the well was bang1 and
started yesterday afternoon IL was too
late 70 give any extended test Of the fow
but during the time the valvle was kept
open the oil poured out steadily and with
q constancy which convinced that the
hole is thoroughly completed to the oil
and that the casing is properly set.
Among oil companies the Kansas City
oil and Rice Land company is a very de-
cided exception even as the name would
imply. The concern has beeen known
as the Ten Thousand Acre OIL com
pauy." because of the fact that it owns
10. 90 acres OF land in jefferson county.
much or all Of which may be oil land.
hut IN case il is not oil land certainly Il
is the best rice and grazing land in the
county. The Spindle Top holdings. II is
thought. VIII furnish all the oil the COM
pany car utilize for the present and in
the meantime the management purposes
&c develop the surface Of the land well
as prospect beneath They intend 70
place the entire tract under good fences
and put a large number OF cattle 10
grazing on it. II is the purpose to place
this herd OF cattle there and let them re-
main untu they have Increased 70 such 2
number as VIII justify shipping them
1Y lille this stock IS returning a nice profit
as il is known IL VIII do. that part Of the
land which IS suitable VIII De utilized for
rice culture. Irrigation VIII be supplied
from the bayous and from surface wells
Canals VII be laid out together with
Iaterals and Ievees and the necessary
pumping plants ard ether equipment VIII
De supplied Altogether the proposition
is one OF the most aIluring ones in JET
ferson county. combating stock raising.
rice culture ana oil prospecting. The
first two industries are known 70 b.
certain profit producers and the latter IS
. proposition which offers unlimited pos
sibaiaes-
This tract Of land is located OF Big
HiI bayou. about SIX miles wes- OF Port
Arthur ard eleven miles south y Spindle
Top II has three and one-half miles
frontage on Taylor's bayou. IS On the Sc
lecte6 route Of the Port Arthur, Houston
and western railroad and the haroor Of
Port Arthur is only four and one-half
miles away.
The company IVES promoted ard Is
under the Iocai Management Of Col a
Oswald. than whou there Is 10 nan II
this county rnore deserving g the con-
Cdence whiea has Seen placed II HIN
The officers ard principal stockholders os
THE concern are Kansas City citizens TIE
advisory board includes Governor ". E.
Stanley cf Kansas. W : Co-hstt Of
Kansas CITY IS president; 3Ir. Oswald
ri-a PRESIDENT C. s. walker u Kansas
City. secretary ard treasurer. and 2. 2.
Ashbaash is assistant secretary.