The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-17
BEAUMONT IS INTERESTED
10 the Reports from the Fire in the
Jennings Field.
WORK IS GOING on At BIG HILL.
owners OF the Property Have Taken the
Abandoned Guffey Hole in Hand.
Salt Water Wells Brought In.

| beaumont, Texas. July is-rhe Jennings
.ue mas overshadowed everything as
.opic OF conversation among all classes here
souay' The latest messages received here
inuicste that Jack Inns Of this city, the
oiu standard Oil company nredog Of TWEEN.
" years service. has been placed In charge
OF the hre-6ghting brigade. rhe chief OF
.ne beaumont department. Ed L. Eastman.
Is also there looking after portion OF the
beaumont Ore force and assisting Inuis.
ms afternoon several boilers were shipped
on a special and the intention, according
10 Shief Eastman, is to place battery OF
twenty boilers as near the danes as is pos
sioie aud then blow the names with steam
10 such an extent as will permit the near
approach of the chemical engine which was
taken there by Mr.. Eastman from here
last night. II the engines spray can get
rose enough to reach the well there Is II
certainty that the ere viii be extinguished.
ihere Is very grave fear here that the
T Tane VIII burn on, In which event, the
Jennings Times thinks. there would be only
minimum chance TO extinguish the haines
until the oil has been consumed Captain
W I. Tyrrell has received several ines.
sages profering assistance. one from Chi
cago The messages simply show the In.
terest shown throughout the United States
IN fuel oil and the desire Of the manufac-
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Big Hill is again center from which
news may be expected at any time. The
Texas OIL Fields, Limited, the wealthy Eng.
lish concern which owns SO much property
here, has begun drilling what is known as
the Gudey No. l on the very top Of the
HILL Big Hill Is eighteen miles southwest
Of Beaumont and in Jefferson county. and
the well in question IS already down more
than 1900 feet. Ii was being drilled by the
j. NJ. Cndey company aud was abandoned,
presumably for the reason that the rotary
was no longer regarded as strong enough
10 keep the drl going. they nau, at the
time OF tue suspension OF operations, gone
through so feet of solid rock and Il was
hard on the machinery. Just what ar
rangement the English people have made
learned, but the fact tnat they have taken
hold is guarantee that they Viii 90 as
deep as Is possible They use the old Rus.
sian drilling outfit which is three times
as powerful as a rotary aud twice as
strong as the regular standard cable rig,
and II Is said chat they can drill mile II
they so desire. The well which they drilled
TO something over $500 feet short time
the well they have now started on. The
drilling was begun two or three days since,
but the announcement OF It only came to-
day.
John F. FIargraves Of the Hargrayes syn
dictate returned this morning from Calves
ton, where he went to superiutend the
placing of the machinery Tor drilling the
we'll on the Townsend place. A few days
since The Post correspondent inadv ertnntiy
connected Mr.. HsrGraves with the Atlantic
and Pacific company, The two concerns
both exp,F TO get results in the form OF n
gusher but they are distinct IN every par
ticular Mr.. Hargraves says that work Oh
his well will commence at once.
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j. W sturm. the former Beaumont oil
contractor. returned this morning to the
city after an absence of several weeks in
but has entirely recovered and Is simply
weak now from the effects of the long
siege.
The Union oil and Refining company was
today asking for bids OF the oil producing
companies on a contract for the delivery
Of 1000 barrels per day, commencing Octo-
Der 10. This means that they expect to
have their refinery going by that time and
that they want that much oil every day IN
the week They are already actively at
work with the construction and are losing
no time /, on any part of it ~, The plant his Is
Kansas City Southern.
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A concern which furnishes gas aud which
will probably be in shape 10 furnish city
gas also In a very short time is now re-
ceiv!ng. so 1t is understood, 3 cents for
every barrel of oil II raises TO the ground
from Spindle Top. II will be remembered
that cents Is the price for which oil
was selling in the winter, SO. that 1t will
AT once be seen In what trouble are those
contractors who undertook to make long
ot In ON q n
pSrea highly effective It is only neces
sary Ia connect up the wells with the
piping to get this kind of pumping done
II pumping II may be called, and then
from 1900 to 5000 barrels per day by this
method
The bringing in of four salt water wells
recently on the edge of Spindle Top gave
rise to fears that water was seeping into
the oil sands In some way. Most Of the
oil producing concerns attribute it to the
had not penetrated the oil sands or else
had gone through them Their reasons for
the belief are that the elders wells show no
signs Of 1t. The Higgins No. deep well
passed through salt water after Il had
passed the oil sands. and IL may be this
that the new wells have struck.
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The tone on the oil exchange was very
strong today and one or two new stocks
figured In the transactions. as is shown
from the following list of sales;
independence, 700 shares at csc.
Continental National. $500 shares at 1oc
Drlllers, 1000 shares at 4i5c.
Drillers COCO shares at SC.
Dividend, 10000 shares at 1c.
Gold Eagle, 1900 shares at 1oc.
Higgins share at $3.50.
C;reind Floor 100 shares at 90c.
Manhattan. 200 shares OF BE