The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-29
OIL FIELD NOTES

f. j. frost, OF Port Arthur, Texas
secretary of the Proven Oil Field Co.
came over Wednesday morning to
look after his oil field interests.
The Hill Top Company has three
wells pumping at present. Well No
4, recently completed by G.. B. Speed,
is reported to be among the best il
the field.
Work continues steadily at the re-
linery and it is the intention of the
management to have the big plant in
| operation by the first of July. The
plant will be lighted with electricity.
! Jas. Hogan, driller and field mana
ger for the Big Mound Oil Company
during it's operations at Roanoke and
on the 'Lognion farm southeast of
| town, together with his wife, was
burned to death in hotel fire at
Montreal, Canada, last week. Mr..
and Mrs. Hogan were visiting in Mon
treal and had secured apartments in
a leading hotel. No further particu-
lars of the holocaust have been re-
ceived here.
j. w. Embry, field manager for the
Mobile people, while in conversation
with a Journal representative, stated
that Metropolitan No. 1, the well that
gushed wildly for twenty -four hours
after having been abandoned for al
most a year, has tested on an average
of more than 100 barrels per day I'M
der the pump. 1t was always the be-
lief that this we'll, with the proper
care, was second to none in the Welsh
field, and according to Mr.. Embry's
J. V. Saum, manager of the Big
Mound Oil Company, operating on
the Unkel and Lognion farms south
east of town, informs the Journal tn at
he will start drilling new well as
soon as j. K. Riley, the company's |
secretary, arrives in Welsh. Mr.. Ri
ley is at present. in Chicago undergo
ing treatment for his eyes. An at
tempt was made to fish out the broken |
pipe in the Big Mounds abandoned |
we'll, bnt all efforts proved futile. and
it was at last decided to put down a
new hole.
E. M. Sutton, of Decatur, ILL.,, was'l
mere Monday looking over the oil
in the Welsh field. Mr..
Sutton was making a tour of the oil
belt, having come over from Jennings,
Ind that evening departed for Beau
mont and other Texas points. He was
with the outlook here, and
n fact is organizing two companies,
composed of Illinois capitalists, to
est the merits of the Welsh territory
outside the proven field. He declined
o give the names of the companies or
heir officers for publication, but in a
hort time charters will be filed and
me company will seek oil south OF
own, while the other will explore the
'owels of mother earth north OF town.
1r. Sutton already has interests here
The Welsh field grows in Importance,
err wells furnishing an unbroken and
ncreas1ng supply as the days go by.
INVESTORS find conditions there very
ttractive but find that prices are high
l proportion. The consensus of
pinion is that the field extends south G
he several wildcattipg enterprises {
,e wat,.--.sssSsysso 81 Se' their way. s. ano
). -.adaSkins we'll III the city th07s,
ahding steam and smoke show some
ling doing. The Dirigo Co and the
lplorers on Krouse & lManagan's
ind, both near Sulphur, are actively
oring. The Bayou Serpent enterprise
silent. Indeed, there is increased
lquiry with TIE stiffening of oil prices
nd it is proba BILE that Calcasieu will q
ave other developed fields before the
lmmer is ended.-Lake Charles News. /