The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-02-05
Late oil Field News.

8. NJ. Scott, of Beaumont, presi
dent of the Central Oil aud Refining
company of Welsh, was here Monday
looking after the refinery now being
built here.
An accident occurred at the well o.
the Proven Oil company Monday thai
will probably delay operations week
or ten days. After reaching a depth
| of 500 feet the pipe was twisted of
within forty feet of the surface an6
| has not yet been recovered.
The drilling rig, engine, boiler and
material used by the Big Mound Oil
company in drilling test wells on G.
II. Zwick's farm at Roanoke and or
the Lognion farm southwest of town,
has been purchased by w G. Tynel1,
of Beaumont, and was this week load
ed at this place and shipped to
Brooks, Texas, where Mr.. Terryll ex-
poets to put down an oil we'll.
Peter Lamp, president of the Proven
Oil Field company, of Port Arthur,
operating exclusively in the Welsh
field, and E. L. McShane, of Omaha,
Nebraska, interested in the Texas oil
fields and director of the Belen Gold
Mining company, an American COM
pany operating in the Chihuahua dis
trict of Mexico, were in Welsh Tues
day and Wednesday and spent a
greater portion of the time in the oil
field.
The Welsh field is not a great pro-
Queer, but it is a money maker. The
oil here commands the best price paid
in Louisiana territory, and there
the pumps going. The new oil well
being drilled by the Hill Top Com
pany, of New Orleans, is down about
800 feet, and it is reasonably sure to
be an oil producer of the first class,
located as it is close in to the other
wells of the company.-L. G. News.
Well No. 3 of the Hill Top company
of New Orleans is down over 1000 feet,
and Contractor and Driller G. B.
Speed states hat if no accident hap
pens he will bring in good we'll be-
fore the end of the week, as the midi
cations are fine. Manager Preston
has just started to pull the
broken screen in we'll No. of the Hill
Top company, using lines and jacks
for tn at purpose. Already he has sue
ceeded in moving the screen, and feels
confident of success.
Lake Charles American: In consid- |
Grafton of stock valued at $780, 900, /!
Wynne w. Woodwork, of Calcasieu |
parish, F. E. Woodwork, of Acadia,
G. N. Woodwork, of Hennepin coun-
ty, Mimi, George L. Woodwork, OF
Grant county, Mimi, and E. E.
also of Minnesota, have
sold to the Allen Dale Plantation Oil |
company forty acres of land in town
ship ten, south range three. 1t is said |
this is valuable oil land and will be
s. W. Clay, a former driller in the
Welsh field, was here day or two
this week, and in conversation with a
JOURNAL representative stated that
matters were now being arranged for
an early resumption of operations in
the Welsh field and that he already
had several propositions for drilling
wells here under consideration. He
further stated that number who OPP
Grated here during the early part of
last year would again be in the feld
this spring, more determined than ev-
err to push development. He said it
was certain he would be in the field
within few weeks.
While bailing the Mac Faddin well
Tuesday night about 9:30 the bailer
became fastened in the bottom of the
we'll. All efforts to free it having
proved Intellectual. a trial was made
with the full force of the engine, when
suddenly the big fly wheel flew off and
heavy fragments of cast iron were
thrown in every direction. Harry
Madden, who was standing inside
the derrick, was struck on the left ell
bow and his arm literally shattered.
He was brought to town and DR..
Cooper removed several pieces OF
broken bone. Fifty-pound pieces OF
the broken wheel we're thrown a dis
lance of 300 feet. A barn standing
within fifty yards of the derrick was
struck by three or four pieces, {
10 MIRO hn1a having henD made in thI