The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-08-15

information concernin% the we'll :
men OF Jennings, Lake !
Charles and Beaumont were soon on
the ground and pronounced III the
most active gusher- of the klnd ever
witnessed. Real estate agents are :
constantly kept busy answering m :
ouiries concerning oil land ana 'he
demand for real estate is unprece-
dented.
Wednesday morning began the work
Of excavatino the boiler, drilling ma
chinery and pipes caused from Vle
eruption of sand and mud, ana III Is
thought it will be week or ten days
before drilling can be resumed. Inc
! hole is said to be clear and after the
machinery is in readiness there is no
fear of encountering further difficulty
and the work will be pushed TO COM
pletiOn.
The officers of the Welsh Oil and
Land Development Company, Tor
whom the we'll is being drilled, are
more sanguine than ever that 1helf
efforts will be rewarded by an aouno-
ance of oil and are confident that an
oil pusher will be brought in wlthln d
short time after boring is renewed.
The strong pressure of gas ana the
actions of the well Tuesday thorough
= ly substantiate this belief.
The drillers were down aoouo lf'o
O feet. three or four hundred feet peloW
:, the point where the blowout occurred
- last fall, and consequently much
80 nearer the oil strata.
Wednesday morning the well apaho-
~ oned last fall showed evidences OF re-
=. newed activity and all day gas ano
oil dubbed up and low, rumollns
~ noise could be heard distinctly a
no times.
LIZ There is no doubt in the minds
the people that the Welsh OIL nell
- will eventually be equal to any IN 'h
n, country.
WI A six-pound stone was thrown d
al most out of sight by the strong press
W. ,,re of oas and fell more than 100 te
~ from the we'll.
I'm president Robinson, of the Wels
cry Oil and Land Development Compan
vas was at his big plant, south OF to-"
'er- and did not arrive on the scene un
nearly noon.
The rotary which found lodging
rds +bo TON of the demolished derrick
alter said to weigh between two and TIN
tons. :.
DAY Seven and one-half joints OF pl
was twenty feet to the joint were thfo
rlll- slxvward before the top joint beg
1he to take it's course downward.
ting ,rha loss to the Jones & Keougt
oulo Company. sustained by damaging
cap machinery. is estimated at betw
l Gil $500 and 5000.
con- The sand and water thrown out
&C the gas was very salty and when
ent's 5 haoo,nes drv it has a whit
20, salty appearance.
oehU' Camera and kodak tiends wer
ming the grounds and many pictures OF
oel- spouter were taken in all It's pha
ocks' One mix-up occurred as resu
estl- . difference of opinion regarding
1U wv product of the we'll one oecl
"eh' that it was nothing but sand ano
were ter. while the more hopeful one
or an tended that it was oil pure and
to ap- dnlterated. There was war OF W
rrlch' and a little sprinting, but no hal
illers, lie
time =, an interview Driller Clay
had a,,i11ed in four ditferel
rrowly eo,ds and have been successful
rotary cry field, especially Beaumont
errlch jennings, and frankly say that
slider that the Welsh oil fielt
were prove the peer of oil fields
sand United States, and, in fact,
orning ,-l,o1o world :, Mr.. Clay is {
banked 49, ,,,os+ successful drillers in t
nach1n- tire country and the JOURNAL b'
luously w. Ill l,,,ing in a gusher hel
cry lit ,.in surnass any in the country
Late -"
lie spent WANTED.