The Rice belt journal., 1902-08-08
HEYWOOD'S PREDICTION
helieVes the Welsh Oil Well, VIII BE or
the Gusher VarieCy.

- From the New Orleans States.
Louisiana has more fuel oil III .
IeXas and more than the whole CON,
{ try can burn in the next ten ye.,s
) said Dewey Haywood at tho 9,
oharles Hotel, He came in fror
; beaumont and Jennings with TT K
1nluklH, general manager of tn
: 'outhern Oil Company. They ar
} gong 10 st. Louis to complete SOM
arrangements which have been unda,
consideration for several weeks lool.
ing towards transportation. The Hev-
} WON oll corporation has been o,..
sanlZed by the four Heywood b,.oth
ers Tor the purpose of develon;n, ~,
' throughout the state, and at this
T,lie IL Is putting down a well on
bayou Boulllon, about sixty mi1es
aoove Morgan City, one on tho A.
ohalala river and one at tAnse.l.-R,,t.o
4nf. haywood was sure that >,
susher would be brought in at
o''e' ana he was also eouallv =. g
e'.'lVe that Welsh would be deyel-
opeu INTO an Oil producing field of tho
susher variety. ''Of all the amnS;rr
experiences of my life. " said M IL
wood, that in connection u,;.,, -;
we hiade TO reward anyone who
pu' out the fire on JENNINGS
suSner NO when it was burnino
ie" uays ago,was the most amnsinn
we received hundreds of teleor.,,s. .
iroll everywhere from people who b.d
"n eye 10 the $4,000 reward. and not
ie" cablegrams. Why we inst no
''eu announcer telegram Yesterday .f
'er tne hire had been put ont
'han a week. Zone old woman 80.
Us saying that she was IS vears ~
i,,os '' iido experiences with gasoline
ii her lie. She told us there
"s out one way to put the fire ont
''o ', 'iia1 was to get a number of laroe
ahets, soak them in water and then
ak right up to the blaze and tbrou-
le,n on quickly. The only objection
""o 70 Trying her scheme was that |
"uiliilig gusher would have cook-
ih1o crisp any man who eot
lough to it to put on q b1.n1-a.
one old native came in nerson 49,,
I'd US that he could put ont 49,
iiC'ie ounce bottle he held in his
'nu' L looked at him a moment to -
'certalh II he was joking. but he w.s
w. ne meant every word and mora G
an meant it, too. But we had +ho
Vie 10 lot OF expense to have aver,, X
7"ni ooller IN the vicinity moved m }
oi'Se proximity to the gusher 81
a' we could try the steam process of &
V'lhg out the blaze. I looked tho
chap over the second time vow, =
refuIly and told him that in.s,,,at, >
nau gone TO so much trouble to <
ouU Ihe IRE as we had, if he should
'ceeu IN putting it out with the 1itt1a
'he' we would all look so foolish =
W preferred not to undergo the b,,-
latlon. The old chap looked rea1l,,
appointed when he left. Ona
wrote that we could put it out bv
owing solid stream of mo1asses &
the burning column of oil. An
er said in his letter that stre.r,,
nlk would likewise quickly snbdra
names. u Mr.. Haywood and NJ.
k1f We're both of the oninioro +ha:
lsh would deveIope ousha,C n1.
'tly. Mr.. Midkitf told of an inn; -
:, 5,L - Ille developing of the Southern
Conlpahy gusher No 3 at Jenninns
nta5 tery interesting and should
9ted o carefully everyone who has ~
d IN bringing in gushers on Land and
showed oil signs. when we
fhompleted conn 6e the well which is now j
'hern NO. 3, one of the hipmest
ers the world has ever seen onr
fr e. told us before we had bailed It
hat q II was failure. that it did
nave n " tie ten barrels of oil in it ali
narrated Mr.. Midkitf tBmt
'e e the bailing had been completed
II began to gush and it kent on
lh& until it went up l25 feet
the top of the 70 foot derricL
goes to show that an inexperienced
'lller might go right through an
post and not know it. -
oally shipment of oil from Ten
now by the Jennings Oil Com -
ana the Southern Oil COMPANY ~
TWO concerns have Joint Dj6ea
ieie, amounts to more than fiftv
besides about the same amount
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