The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-08
OIL FIELD NOTES

Welsh OIL ana l4uA" ,ooO y
company Tuesday made sale VI wv
barrels of oil to Buck u WalSn ~
,e used as fuel for an lrrlSaUAnS &
station.
Hill Top No. was put IN re"uineS
for the bailing process yesterday CIV
will probably be brought IN oeioio
tho close of the week. G. B. Speeo'
j., CHARGE of the work, is sangulpe tna'
the we'll will be made producer.
The oil fields at Welsh has long
heen considered as extending w Oho
southwest, and prospectors no" pro-
nose to work in that direction. A1ano
has been bought and options taken
preparatory to the test.-Lake CnarleS
News.
At the hour of going to press yes
terdav everything was in readiness TOT
numping Metropolitan No. l, the well
RECENTLY sold at public auction ana So
long out of commission. j. w. Eli
brv is in charge of the we'll, ana IL 10
believed it will be made one OF the
o,1lv rood PRODUCERS in the field.
The Texas Oil Company's drlllers
have ceased work at depth OF l'Aoo
feet to await instructions from heau-
~, arters as to whether Or not an addl-
tional thousand shall be drilled. AL
though some oil was encoun'ere'.
nearer the surface, at the present
deptb conditions are very unsatls1ac-
torv and the development at this polnt
would he of no commercial value,
consequently the management is con-
sidarine the advisability of going
| deeper.
T. V. Saum, manager OF the Big
Mound Oil Company, informed a
I Journal representative yesterday
: morning that his machinery had oeen
2 moved to the Lognion farm and placeo
5 into position and an effort would be
made at once to extricate the pipe
e twisted off last spring. 1t Will be re
o membered that the pipe twisted OH II
y this we'll in ninety feet of oil SAND or
/ the eve of bringing it in. The work O
e removing the broken pipe proved
RUTHLESS and the we'll was abandoned
ii In the event the detached poruon
Sc not fsbed out. a new we'll will be pu
down Immediately.
The value of the prospective OF
field in Calcasieu parish IS grown
every day There can be out HUI
at doubt that the territory In Sour
u west Louisiana of which Calcasle
wv Parish is the center, will be the ne2
III storm center of oil Development y
to the other fields decrease in output, an
D. it is only necessary to read the d1
to matches from day to day to dlscoV'
nv that fact. the value of the Calcasle
les territory becomes more and more d
is parent. What we have needed mo
ID in this section is not SO much oil tie
in ritorv as oil demand. This is COZ
err ING and it means that Calcasleu w
IL vet be a great oil field.-Press.
ay The. Mac Fadden we'll continues
er- flow as it has been the past three
IKE four weeks. When the wind bio
'el from the south the flow increases
lon idencing beyond doubt the erect
dr. the tide on Welsh oil wells. N
~ ~, Speed. of the Hill Top Compar
when asked his views as to intiuer
of wind and tides on the Welsh
wells. said: 81 don't know, but it L
IAN fact that Friday we'll No. }, recen
ana finished by me for the company, 81
out the plug out and spouted about ii
lch- feet and it was still flowing wher
ana left the field A south wind, alWi
'ers noticed, at Beaumont, caused ma
ana wells to flow after they had ceased
give oil in that way"
ma According to advices received II
APP Welsh Wednesday morning the
/, T. field at that place is busy and de-
opments are being carried on q
extensively. The introduction OF
Getty-Rowbotham screen in this II
eSno promises to revolutionize the p
ne,. and indications for an era Of p
perity are certainly encouraging.
N. the Welsh field like the Jennings
DAYS of adventure, the rush, VIII
the and hurrah of the gambler are
city longer dominant The field has
tne yeloped itself, and grown so in
ana portance that the world is having
ohn- truth before it. True, the lacE
ng of tuonorortation facilities was a ia
arge in retarding development; but