The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-15
PRODUCTION OF OIL
GROWING In SOUTH.
Importance of Field Shown la Report OF
Statement for Month.
WHAT RAILROADS ARE HAULING
Louisiana Field Showing Up Better Than
Ever BefOre---Great Deal of Wild Gait
Ing In Louisiana aud Texas, Kentuck y
and Tennessee.-.FieIds also Booming.

Baltimore. Correspondence in the
Manufacturers Record throws inter-
sting light upon the increasing impor
ance of the South in Gil production
rs the older fields tend to decline.
From Beaumont, Tex, comes the fol-
owing
shipments of Beaumont and Sour
Lake petroleum by water and rail dur
ing the month of September aggregat-
I'd at l, 800, 900 barrels, of which 800,
200 barrels went by tank-steamer an d
barge from Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass to New York, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, Port Tampa, Fla, and
plymouth, England. The other 7OO,-
BOO barrels being shipped from the
former point. Probably $1,000 bar
rel day are being hauled out of Sour
Lake by the Southern Pacific for it's
own consumption.
1.-The Louisiana Gelds are showing
up better. In the latter part of Sep
TENDER the Jenning Pipe Line ship
ped two solid trains of oil from Jenn-
ings to the sugar planters in Louisi
ana. A great amount of wild eating
Is in progress in Texas and Louisiana,
and strikes from several wells at Diff
ferent points are reported, though no
continuation of these rumors has been
obtained. The largest tank steamer
in the world the Pectap, owned by the
Shell Transport and Trading Com
pany of London, took a cargo for
England of $4,000 barrels of desu-
lphurized Beaumont and Sour Lake
petroleum from the Guffay refneries
at Port Arthur recently. This is the
biggest single carg) of Texas oil that
has yet been shipped"
During September, too there have
been encouraging developments in the
acknowledgements field. Corresp-
ondence from Barboursville, Ky.
"The Few production is steadily in
creasing, and productive pools outside
OF the regular developments are
being proven. Increasing activity is
apparent in ell the older divisions, es-
pecially where the marketing of oil
has been progressing for some time.
This is due partly to the desire of
operators to get as big production as
possible before winter sets in and
partly to the advances in the prices of
crude oil. During the past month there
have been no less than hundred wells
completed. Several rich Fstrikes in
Wayne county are attracting consid-
cradle attention to that section which
is at present leading in production.
One of the best strikes in several
months was made in the Steubensville
territory. 1t came in in the upper
formation and is good for $50 barrels.
Down in the Southes stern part of the
country work is equally active. Ope-
rators who are now at work in the
Richland division hail from the north
and east and consider a we'll if it pro-
duces but two barrels day as pay
ing proposition. To this class of ope-
rators the field owes more than to any
thing else. During the past few weeks
q number of contracts have been let
for the drilling of new wells. Tests
for deep oil continue to be made, and
several wells of that class are going
down. On the whole, the oil develop
ments in Kentucky have already re-
suited in great good so far as industry
is concerned. Towns have doubled in
size, land owners have realized great
deal by leasing their lands and CAPT
talists have come in to make the bust
ness centers their permanent head
quarters.
Grain Rates MAY be Much Disturbed