The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-30
A Big DAY FOR OIL.
Seventy thousand Barrels Were
Taken from The Ports Monday.
A COMMON SOURCE OF SUPPLY PROVED
BY the Action Of Two OF the Gushers
-Four New Wells Have Been
Brought In.

bine Pass and Pert Arthur today and the
total In barrels shipped ran up to Tu.uo
The most Of this went from the Lone Star
and Crescent Oil company and one OF the
vessels really went out yesterday. thougn
the records Of the company viii show them
as going today.
In this connection, that company made a
remarkable record yesterday afternoon when
1t loaded a barge with 500 barrels Of oil
In one hour and forty minutes. The barge
I came 10 under tow 81 the tug and from the
time her lines were tied 10 tnc time she
( was ready 10 turn lonse again this time had
! elapsed. IL shows cOnclusively how quickly
OIL vessels may be loaded. and Of course
4 thcy can be unlosded as quickly as they
I are loaded This was barge Nc. and tug
; Clarke Cnder ownership of the Beaumont
/ Transportation company, which is generally
known as the Clarke line
I The same company loaded the steamer
/ Maverick and barge ~ Of the standard OF
[ ompany with 24.OO barrels Of oil Ia ten
I hours aud that also IS considered as rapid
work. II was az a rate Of 24O0 barrels per
! nour he cargo was consigned tn New
I York presumably to the STANDARD Oh com
pany
/ The tug John l. Brady and barge Hsr-
( rison came in this afternoon and will load
With $500 barrels Of oil for Belle Isle. La
consigned 10 the Lone star and SresceDt
( OIL company.
~
J George a Burt the proprietor Of the
+ Kurt refinery. about which SO much has
/ be'n vutten left last night for New York
and VIII be there several weeks He Is one
4 tile many In the oil fields who do not
tel n theiI future plans, AMI II Is only
! necessary 70 state that his business inter
/ es;s are so large that he is kept going back
and forth between Beaumont and New York
almost continually Later on, as the con
stVofion " his plant gets along. he viii
nave % spend more tine here Re is secur-
Ing pipe inc rights of way wafer front az
Port Arthur and Sabine Pass extra land
around Beaumont and j. rapidly getting 10
shane 10 handle n tremendous amount OF
business.
The Lone Star and Crescent OF company
/ people today announce their intention Of
( doubling their carrying capacity 10 SABINE
/ Pass hy the erection az new pipe line to
+ that point from spindle Top. Mr.. NJ X
/ Fletcher. one Of the officials, when asked
/ II he had been troubled by the flHHs Of the
( older pipe line stated that be had not, but
( that the use Of the ''go-devii' was some
thing required il every field AMI that there
is no significance ia the fact that some of
} the companies here are preparing 20 use H.
] He believes that his company Will have 20
begin the same thing sooner or later. but
I 50 FAR they have kept oil pouring through
she line so continuously that there has
hardly been an opportunity for the oil 20
settle In any manner. This additional pipe
/ line is hut another step towards inrreasin
I the water shipments through the ports OF
Z Sabine Pass and Port Arthur.
There were four gushers brought IN On
I Spindle Top today. Two q them were
| brought in by J A Paulhsmus and were
/ both drilled hy himself. one being on b,eok
( n GLADYS City. and the other on block -
( OF the HoCE Swayue tract.
Another was brought In by Contractor 7.
/ J Wood on block IS Of the HosE Swayne
The Foster Wei Drilling company
brought In a good siyinch wen FOR the sam
( Houston oil company, on block 20
/ Last week " was thought that Governor
/ Hog. would be here tomorrow morning aud
1 Vice President Z. ] Marshall Of the Cit
liens National Bank was under that i'm
preston though he stated this morning
that II might be a day or two vet Hou
I !. " Sw0yne came IN This morning from
I q snort trip 10 Fort Worth and he states
I that be expects Governor HoCE here tomor-
row hut that i is nossihle ne may 20 -
Austin frSi Mr. VIII Q. HogE. the son ~
the governor, was IN the citv this morning
+ and he is inclined n Mr.. Swsyne'S views
The people here generally are very anxious
! 70 see ~ AK 44AHA fl' p a-44As
4
strong increase IN the couhden-a NJ the
I Oh people in the Saratoga field ~ been
manifest here during the last three or
four days It is largely due 10 the fact
that some n the leading oil concerns nota-
+ bis the Gufey company and the Burt re-
fnery people, are making efforts 70 get pipa
lur rights ~ way there aS well as 20 S0ur
/ Lake This means that these people have
. Fn1fs fEprn and where
they show up in such shape Inc lesser
lights Zee sure that there must he some
thing II interest.
Another well is expected IN at Sour Lake
in the next day or two and an announce
ment % that effect MAY be expected AZ
any time. The dangerous depth has 6cen
reached in one well certainly and IN an
other the driliug has heep going m with
regularity that Is leading the people 10
The couUtrT around there IN believe that
iAev Mil develop something IN TIE next
two or three days.
~
hessrs. McHivey Larcomb are report
ed as being down 1o4 feet In the OH sands
on block 81 of the Hogg SwarDe tract.
This Is the thirkest Of any stratum Of the
sand yet penetrated
~
A rerulisr thing came Up o few days
company They had made contract with
certain company 70 furnish If 50 many
barrels II oil and they sent for the oil ana
made preparations 20 have Il tanEed. SIX
teen feet away another well was just com
ing On. Or a. any rate was IB the OF sands
and The men were working Oh 81, pumping
[ water down into u for some reason. Tue
4 compressed air device was spplr4 10 The
well from which the National people were
TO take The oil and I'D came the water from
the other well. This sort o. thing was ~ u
. no for some little time, and later on me
I well near ly came SO and both rece we'd Oh
THIS proved coariusiyely two things one
. was thar the oil sands from which the spin
de Top wells draw their immense supply
are very porous The other i t1at The OF
from each well does not come from single
pocket but that these two wells ~ east
have the same source Of supply. There has
fcen a verr wide divergence Of opinion 81
E rhls subject al along and this Is, perhaps,
the first tests that have been made that
9 would 10 any manner prove that the sup
b plv was the same. though that theory las
. had a great many advocates all along. An
r. other thing however. must be considered
. 10 this proposition and that Is. that every
S well is not necessarily perpendicular. bur
i ( on the other hand II Is more than probable
rhst come ~ them are q little on. ana n