Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-10-16
PRODUCTION OF OIL
GROWlI 4 In SOUTH.
Importance OF Fl = Shown in Report Of
y Slater ul for Month. H
WILT RAILROADS ARE HAULING
Louisiana Field Showing Up Better Than
Ever BefOre---Great Deal of Wild Gait
ing In Louisiana and Texas, Kentucky
and Tennessee---Fields also Booming.

Baltimore. Correspondence in the
Manufacturers Record throws inter-
esting light upon the increasing impor
tance of the South in oil production
as the older fields tend to decline.
From Beaumont, Tex, comes the fol-
lowing res
shipments of Beaumont aud Sour
Lake petroleum by water and rail dur
ing the month of September aggregat-
cd at 1900, 600 barrels. of which 8OO,-
600 barrels went by tank-steamsr an d.
barge from Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass to New York, New Orleans,
Philadelphia. Port Tampa, Fla, and
Plymouth, England. The other 7OO,-
600 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 its
own consumption.
"The Louisiana fields are showing
up better. In the latter part of Sep
tember 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-catting'
is in progress in Texas and Louisiana.
and strikes from several wells at diff
ferent points are reported, though no
confirmation of these rumors has been
obtained. The largest tank steamer
in the world the Pectan, owned by the
Shell Transport aud Trading Com
pany of London, took q cargo for
England of $4,000 barrels of desu-
lphurized Beaumont and Sour Lake
petroleum from the Guffay refineries
at Port Arthur recently. This Is the
biggest single cargo of Texas oil that
has yet been shipped"
During September, too there have
been encouraging developments in the
Kentucky Tennessee field Corresp-
cadence from Barboursyille, KY.
The new production is steadily in
creasing, and productive pools outside
.-of the regular developments are
being proven. Increasing activity is
apparent in oil 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 strikes in
Wayne county are attracting consid-
erable 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. It came in in the upper
formation and is good for $50 barrels.
Down in the Southeastern 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 well 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
a 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 capi-
talists have come in to make the busi-
ness centers their permanent head
quarters.