The Green Forest tribune., 1902-05-03

com1ng back up on the outside of the pipe 1t carries the dirt away as fast as the bit digs it up. A rig similar to the one in use at Green Forest is attached in case rock is struck.
 When a gusher has been brought in and gotten under control, that IS having pipe attachments per- fected so as to save the oil by conveying it to tank, there is nothing to occupy the attention of the owner but the securing a market for his product, which is by no means of small conse- quence. The output of the wells now in operation is too'great' for computation. It seems that a large amount of country between Beaumont and Port Arthur is to be utilized for tanks. Two pipe lines have been laid to Port Ar thur and three more are being laid to that point, while other lines have been run to Sabine Pass further down on the gulf, while tanks or reservoirs are go- ing up all over the country and enumerable other schemes for taking care of the oil is in con- temptation if not in progress.
 The crude oil partakes more of the nature'of lubricating oil than anything else. It is found to contain about 52 per cent coal oil, which makes it valuable when refined for lighting purposes, but the greatest use for which it is being utilized at the present time is fuel. It is found not on- ly one of the best but doubtless the cheapest fuel in existence in it's crude state. All the power used in putting down the wells is now driven by steam produced by oil fuel. The Southern Pa cific railway is using 1t as fuel for it's engines, and 1t is stated that the governm ent has in consider ation the use of this oil as fuel for our gun boats. The present market value of this oil in tanks is four cents 8 barrel, while to the people about Spindle Top who use it as fuel it has no value at all. They simply go out to the ditches and secure all they want of the thousands of gallons that go to waste daily.
 Our scribe spent the greater portion of one day about Spindle Top, taking in the sights, secur- ing what information he could from those with whom we came in contact and incidentally taking few snap shots of the great things to be seen there. It was too much to try to learn it all in a day. In fact, people are on the ground who have been there almost since the oil boom starded who could give us little informa- tion save that which concerned the business in which they were engaged. The rush of business going on about Spindle Topis too great for one mind to comprehend, even if it were engaged in noth- ing else.
 The boom of the town of Beau mont and the country surround ing consequent to this great oil industry is something wonderful. Like vast field of vegetation in the spring the city of Beaumont is all growing up at once. The flow of money about that place is exceeded only by the flow of oil out of the gushers. Capital is being turned loose in a manner that moves things almost so rap lv that an onlooker becomes diz- zy headed.
 The oil field of Beaumont af- lords great opportunity for speculation and still greater one for the man with a small purse to lose money. It is always the case in such booms that more people lose out than gain in such speculation; it is only the men who are on the ground floor in the oil business and the capi- talists who can make money. Of course the real estate and other speculations and the wages paid to those who do the work afford q free for all field, and while the former is always of an uncertain quantity, the latter is safe prop