The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-28
HAYWOOD BROS
PROPOSITION.
Contemplate Building q Pipe
line from here to
Morgan City.

I'VE are going to build a pipe
line from Jennings to Morgan
City for the purpose OF sending
Oil up the bayous and the Miss
issippi river TO the sugar planta-
lions and we viii do this in the
immediate future" said Mr.. w.
Scott Hey wood, to a States re-
porter at the St. Charles hotel
this morning.
"Ihere is in our minds now not
the slightest doubt of the sue
cess of the jennings field. My
brothers and my self have 22OO
acres Of the center OF this field
and while our first Well on ac.
count of inexperienced boring,
did not come in right, yet its
spouting continuously for seven
hours until we capped it, is all
the proof we need that the Oil be-
low is there in the necessary
quantities to make gushers gal
ore. In few weeks at the most
there will be another well down
to the depth of our incomplete
hole which stands at 1922 feet,
and then, mark my word, there
will be full-fedged gusher with
out any limitations. We are put:
ting down another we'll ourselves
now about "a quarter of a mile
distant from the Jennings No. l,
which despite all our efforts and
an expense Of something like
$4,000 still contains 800 feet of
pipe which we can get out and
which makes it impossible to
complete the hole.
"As regards the danger from
fire where ifaaeel oil tanks are loca-
ted and which question is now
exercising the minds Of the bust
ness people of New Orleans and
the reasoning powers OF the
mem bers Of the city council ana
commercial organizations, L de-
sire to cali attention to the recent
fire which destroyed nearly the
entire town Of Jennings and to a
fact that seems to have been
quite generally over looked.
There was an oil tank in the
ground in the midst Of the pOr-
ton Of the town burned and 1t
was filled with oil at the time OF
the confagration, but it did not
catch fire, although tirebrands
fell all about it.
Gas to the big Nixon pipe line
scheme which has been exploit
ed so thoroughly in the news
papers during the past few days,
| notice that it is capitalized at
100000. Then the newspaper
stories go ahead and state that a
pipe line is to be built from Beau
mont to New Orleans, one to
Galveston and one to Houston.
Now, d little figuring by an Gu
gineer who is cOnVersant Win
the cost of building such pipe
lines, will show, | think, that Ii
would take much more than this
amount Of money to pay for this
cOnStructio so there must be
something at fault with the
story. After a pipe Thine was
built to New Orleans, consider
ing the cost Of both construction
and maintenance, l believe that
oil could be brought here much
cheaper by bargeS and more OF
it brought in the same length Of
time, expense considered.
''The main thing in the fuel OIL
business is to find markets first,
and then to find the cheapest
means of transportation. The
man who forgets these two prin-
cipals will scarcely make any
great Roadway in the business.
owe are in the Beaumont ana
Jennings oil fields to stay. We
are now buying machine shops
in Jennings and town lots for
other purposes. We have faith
in the field not only for the
immediate future, but for all
time to come and expect to put
our money in it right along. The
pipe line we propose to build to
Morgan City is the shortest, best
line to deep water. From that
point we will be able to furnish
more sugar mills with oil quicker
and cheaper than will any of the
Beaumont wells. We will have
easy and direct access to the
Mississippi river by barges and
above all, we are convinced that
we have the oil necessary &c
carry out these plans at Jennings
and within few weeks, before
our actual construction of the
pipe line begins, we will demon
strate that fact TO the satisfac
ton of every oil man in the coun