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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-05

The cotton market was more active to-
day than what 1t was yesterday. Liver
pool was somewhat lower than expected
resulting In lower prices here. The OPEN
ing abroad was points lower, while the
close there was 4 points down. The local
market was to 5 down; July sold at
7.3S, broke off to 1872, and later rallied
to 7.3s again. Port receipts today, 5000
The estimated receipts for tomorrow are
very heavy. Weather conditions are some
what improved, and the prospect. are for
fair and warmer weather.
Stocks-The stock market showed signs
of heavy liquidation today at the start
and prices were / to points lower by
noon. Sentiment continues very bearish
ST. Paul made a new low record. selling
below 1853. while Wabash preferred sold
at 49, T. c. l. sold to 70 and Sloss to n.
The entire list was weak at the decline.
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Ilxs Stock Market.

Chicago, May 4,-Cattle receipts. 1000;
steady; good to prime steers s,6Oq6. 10;
poor to medium, 81 4od5.4o; stockers and
feeders, s2.75db; cows, 81 75g5.25; heifers,
81. 50q5 50; Gamers, 81 5O2. 40 bulls, 81 50Qi
LIS; calves, $3Gs-
Hog receipts, 1900; 10c higher; mixed
and butchers IS. 30a5 STA; good TO choice
heavy, s. 35dt555; rough heavy, s5@5. 80;
light s.. 25d5 so; bulk Of sales, s5Sbu5 90
Sheep receipts, 1900; sheep and lambs
steady; good to choice wethers. shorn,
"a. 4o@5 fair TO choice mixed, shorn. 50. 500
IS; western sheep, shorn. 300; native
lambs, shorn, s4a6; western lambs, So. 75q
90
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IS reported IN the dry goods market and
yet prices are being held with additional
hImness I'm many quarters. 1t Is aeknowi-
edged that price advances are warranted
IN many Instances where other quotations
are maintained. Jobbers report lessen
ing Of demand. though cheap lines are
being taken fairly.
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Bonds.
Money on Call.

New York. May Mooney on call nrm
at 2lkds per cent; closing nib, 2ls per cent
offered at pa per cent; time money quiet,
sixty days 3l4 per cent; ninety days and
six months, 31a per cent; prime mercantile
paper Ss4@41s per cent; sterling exchange
firm with actual business In bankers plils
at 4s6. 3064s6. S. for demand and at 4s4 %
d4S4. 60 for sixty day bills; posted rates,
4s5a4s5la and 4S7@4s7ls; commercial bills
494ss; bar silver, 56ssc; Mexican dollars.
44lhc; government bonds steady railroad
bonds weak
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour--Steady.
wheat-No. 2 spring, 92a9ec; No. 8. s56
96c; No. red, 9llRM9415c.
Corn--No. 2, 4Se: No. 2 yellow. 4924c.
Oats-No q 2sssc No. 2 white, 321sc; No.
3 white. 30a32lc.
Rye-No. 2, 73e.
Barley-Good feeding, Ssdfoc; fair to
choice mailing, 44d47c.
Flax seed-No. l, 81 .25; No l northwest
ern, 81. 80.
Timothy Seed-Prime, $3.50.
Mess Pork-Per Dbl. sl2d12.05.
Lard-Per 100 lbs, s7.12lkd7 Is.
Short Rib Sides-Loose, $s.sT11d7.
Short Clear Sides-Boxed, s707 .12lA.
Whisky-Basis of high wines. s1.23.
Clover--contract grade, sl3.
On the produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creamy, 20G24c;
dairy. isaac.
Eggs firm, 15G15lac: first, 16A01s1kc
prime firsts, lie; extras, 1S15c.
Cheese steady at 131zq14c.
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bags against l2.75sS72 for the same time
last year, was an encouraging feature,
while reports of an advance in the price
of the two leading brands OF package cof-
fee also helped the market on the theory
that they reflected better demand from
the interior The close was steady at "a
net advance of 5ml0 poonts; sales, 6O.25O
bags; May, Sis: June, $50; July, 6.S5: Sep
tember. 5.05df7 10; October. 40; December,
Z. 80; January. 7.40 March, 7.60.
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Cotton Seed

New Orleans. May 4.lif seed oil
firm; prime refined in barrels. 2s1ac; off
refined In barrels, 25Ise; prime crude loose.
Bic.
Memphis. May 4.--Prime crude cotton
seed oil. 2oihc; off crude. nominal; prime
summer yellow, 23lze; off summer yellow.
nominal; choice cooking. less than carload
lots, nominal Prime meal. $40. T5di2i: off.
nominal; prime cake, $40 1921; linters,
3074c.
New York, May 4--Cotton seed oil
steady; prime, 26i4a26a.c; petroleum quiet
rosin quiet; strained, common to good,
So rs asked Turpentine quiet at 591k@60c
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice is terety given that the partner
ship previously existing between John M.
Caldwell and George B. Ward of Bir-
mingham. Ala, under the firm name of
Caldwell & Ward, is this the 1st day of
MAY. 1906, dissolved by mutual consent.
George 3. Ward retires and John M.
caldwell continues the business under
the firm name Of ]. NJ. Caldwell G. Co.
who are authorized to settle the affairs
of the old firm
JOHN M. CALDWELL.
GEORGE b. WARD.
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Chicago. May 4.-Fresh confirmation Of
favorable progress being made by the
fall sown crop caused weakness in the
wheat market here today. At the close
July was off AM$c. Corn is down 80
hc; oats are practically unchanged; pro-
visions are up 21am10c.
The leading furtures ranged as follows:
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New York, May 4.-Spot Rio coffee was
steady: No. invoice. 8; mild firm; Cor
dova. 1o41S. Coffee futures opened steady
at an advance of points on good buying
by importers and bull interests. European
cables were not encouraging. but the
worlds visible supply statement showing
decrease of 6ss.6s9 bags for the month
and making the present visible 2.297, 400
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cIearinos and Exchange.

! Memphis May 4.-Clearings, $7Os,2 22; bal
| ances. $151. 1913.
New Orleans. May 4-clearings, S,I44,-
AS; New York exchange, 81 per $1,000 prem
/ ium; commercial 95n5oc per $1,000 discount.
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Guarantee Is re-
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Trearury Statement.

Washington. May 4.-Today's treasury
balances, exclusive of the gold reserve,
shows: Available cash balances, 1888, 3d.
554; gold. $50, 255,624.
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Interior Movement.

Honston--Quiet; middling, 7lsc; net re-
ceipts BIOL gross receipts, BIOL; ship
ments, 530l; sales, 52l; stock, 1881.
Augusta-Quiet; middlng. 9-16e; net
receipts, $685. gross receipts, 1923; ship
ments, 1915; sales, 1876; stock, 44,575.
Memphs-Firm; middlng, 1-16c; net
receipts, 495; gross receipts, 1l41: ship
ments, PIP; sales 1900 stock, 59,l31.
st. Louis-Steady; middling, Lice; net
receipts, $50; gross receipts, 1145; ship
ments, 1854; stock, $500
Cincinnati-Net receipts, $40; gross re-
ceipts $40; shipments. is0 stock, 1855.
Louisyille--Firm; mddiinG, 15-i6c.
Total today--Net receipts. 512S; gross re-
ceipts $685. shipments, II, 252; sales, 2Sl9;
sales, 28l9: stock POS ass.
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Seaboard Air Line.


Baltimore, May 4.-Seaboard Air Line
common, 1Sd1e; do pfd, SSG3e.
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New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, May Spot cotton in
good demand, offerings light. Factors re-
fuse to make concessions and are demand
ing full board prices; sales. $500 bales, in
Guiding 800 to arrive and $50 f. o. b. Mid
ding and good middling advanced Lie;
other grades unchanged.
Futures opened duh and easy with the
active positions to 2 points down. Liy-
erpool opened to points down. but the
sales. 10000 bales. indicates an active de-
mand for spit cotton and cables report
good demand for cotton goods from In
dia and China The local market had no
support from any quarter and prices
eased off under moderate selling, but later
recovered May opened points lower at
I 80, sold down TO 7.27 advanced to 734
and finally declined to 1872 The market
closed steady with net losses of ] point
on May, on June and to 3 on the other
positions.
New Orleans, May 4.-cotton futures
steady. May, 7.92a73s; June. 72s6t7 81 ;
July. .29d7 30; August. 1891 "a; septem-
Der. 1871. 80: October. 7.4ia7.42; Novem-
Der 7.44N7. 40; December, 7.4sd7. 40; Janu-
airy, 7.51Q7.53.
New Orleans. May 4-cotton steady;
sales. 2500 Ordinary, 13-16c; good ordi-
nary, &c; low middlng. SIC; middling
rae; good mddling. l3-16c; middling fair,
sisc: receipts, 1929; stock, 194,49j.
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AT LAST!AT LAST!

A Haclsman's Exchange established.
Office, 1922 Morris avenue. Open at
all hours might and day.. Passengers
carried to all parts of city, 20 cents
during the day AMI 90 cents at night.
We have one conveyance that will
carry eight passengers. Save your bag
gage checks, as we handle baggage for
Is cents down stairs and rs cents up
stairs. Prompt and courteous atten-
ton given to all patrons in both the
conveyance of passengers and the
handling of baggage.
CHARLES JONES,
The Old Reliable, Manager
PHONES: Bell, 1863; Peoples, 1893.
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Local Staple Groceries.
Sugar -Granuia.c ., eX; r. t. ~.
Flour Fancy patent, $780, half patent,
$3.50.
Coffee Green, l0dl3c; Arbucklr p
Porto Rico s1355
Meat-Dry sailed ribs. Csc; dray sailed
rib bellies 7406fT90c. hams fancy, 12hc;
medium, lie, bacon bellies, eMc.
Lard-Leaf, Sc.
Compound Lard-5zc.
Molasses-Cenrifugai, l5G35c: sugar.
house. 40c Georgia cane. o6c.
Beans-Navy. $40 per bushel; Lima,
eye per pound.
rssrl iiTits-R pouu,is. 81 ~
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vulcan" the man who painted him Is
located at az n. Dth ST hermitage, Of
course.
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Liverpool Cotton Market.

Liverpool May 4.-Spot cotton in fair
demand; prices points lower American
middling fair, 4.7od; good middling, 4.9Sd:
middling. Ard; low middling. 4Osd; good
ordinary. 3.Ssd; ordinary, 372d. The sales
of the day were 10000 bales. of which 1909
were for speculation and export. and in
Guided 94OO American. Receipts, %, 100 all
American
Futures opened and closed quiet: Amer
lean middIing. @. o. c.: May. 4.O4; May
June. 4.05; June-July. 4.o7; July-August,
%. August September, All; September
October. 412; October November. Alb; No
vember- December. Ala December-Janu-
ary. AS; January-February. 4.1s: Feb
r,Iary-March, AIS; March-April. 41s.
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RAIL WAY SCHEDULES

showing the arrival ana Departure u
birmingham:
Objective April IS, I2o1 a. M
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
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MORTGAGE LOANS.

q Place your mortgage loans direct
with the United States Mortgage and
Trust Co. of New York. Capital, sur
plus and undivided profits over $5,ooo,.
900. Interest rate the lowest.
c. GAzzAM, Agent,
aae First National Bank Bldg.
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Feed stuff.

Feed Stuff
Corn. No. 2 mixed or white, or 3
lushel sacks, 6.c. klr dried. SIC.
Oats. No , r-ixed. 43c; No. 2 white. Nc.
Wheat bran, 50 or 100, S2l.
Cotton seed feed meal. $2i, Prime. SIS So
Purina food. f25.
Corn chops, S1.0s
Corn hearts. Sl9.
Shorts, 100 pounds, $22.
bplis mi,s N32iAc-
Hulls, sacks, IS ton.
HAY. choice timothy, $3.50; no. tim
othy $3.50; oJhnson grass, si2; clover, sl6.
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Dry Goods.

New York, May 4.-No general activity
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Fruits anc Produce.
Lemons-Per box. extra choice $3.50
$500.
Limes-Per 100, 500
Bananas-Per bunch, i5c4H. 10
Apples-Per barrel, baldwin. t40o.
Ben Davis, $1Q4.25; Rpssets. $500.
California navel oranges, ~. 75n325
Peanuts-FapcY per pound, &c; No. 2,
51k@6c.
Potatoes--Irish potatoes. DER bushei
So TO soc; new 81 per bushel; IS per barrel
Yellow Yams-SS@3.50 per barrel; white
yams. s3.0043.25.
Carolina cabbsgc-f err crate, S.75.
Onions-Per pound. 312c.
Hens-35c: chickens, 25140c.
Butter-Fresh, 121sd15e; renovated, 2Sc;
creamery, Sc
Eggs-Per dozen, 15c-
Florida Beans-Per crate, 500
Florida Squash Per crate, s1.O0 to 81 %.
Florida cucumbers-Per crate, 81.
Florida Tomatoes-Per crate, 3S00d3.50.
Alabama Peas Per hamper, 81
Straw berries-sou.h Alabama sf.5oi2 %;
Cullman. $3.50.
Peas-white. per bushel. u.5og1 IS; clay.
per bushel. $l61-h
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Total sales for day l,sol 500 shares.
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
SOME PosTsCRIpTs.

Houseboat life on the Thames is on
its decadence.
Windsor Castle has been in use as a
royal residence for nearly 500 years
In Brazil when an unmarried woman
dies the coffin. hearse and livery Of the
coachman are all scarlet
All Saints Church. Sheffield. has the
largest Bible class in Great Britain.
The average attendance is 100.
In Germany locomotive engineers re-
ceive gold medal and $500 for every
ten years OF service without accident
There is a professor I'm France who
owns a collection of 800 human heads
representing every known race Of people
farmer living near Marseilles who
carries off all the melon prizes at tie
local agricultural shows b. discovered
that by watering" his melons with
milk they will grow TO twice their usual
size.
The royal ministry of Bavaria pub
fishes a warning against the use OF
colOrs containing lead in the manufac-
ture of transferable pictures Children
attach these transferable pictures IN
SCRAP books and girls and women use
them for ornamenting glass Jars. bot
ties. cigar boxes fans. picture frames
paper cases. boxes, and many othe,
email receptacles.-Houston Post
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
NNORR|STOWN GROCER
PLUNGED INTO WELL
Fell Forty Feet Through a Trap and
Was Rescued With Much
Difficulty.

NORRISTOWN. Pa. Sept. ITO drop
into the darkness of a 40-foot well was
the thrilling experience of Harry Chalk.
a grocer OF Powell and Spruce streets.
the other night.
Chalk was visiting his parents at
Washington square. Desiring a drink.
he ran TO the pump, and while cross
ing the floor failed to notice in the
darkness that the traodoor was open.
and down he went-down, down twenty
feet through space, and then he struck
the water, and went almost TO the bot
tom. a score of feet below the waters
edge.
When he rose TO the top Of the water
he attempted TO gain n foothold and
climb out. but TO no purpose. Then he
called, but his voice was not heard.
When he did not return the young
mans father went to the door. and then
Ii was that the faint cries of his son
were heard and his terrible predicament
was discovered.
Two ropes with buckets on the end
were lowered and, standing in these
the nearly-exhausted man was rescued.
He had torn the nails from his fingers
I'm trying to dig handholds in the wall
while one of his shoes had h-+r kicked
off and the toe OF the other worn
through in his frantic efforts TO clint
back TO earth.
He is confined 10 bed as a result ot
his ordeal.
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
WIFE IS BEMTCHED,
HUSBAND THINKS
She Predicts in Detail the Outcome
of the War in the Far
East.

FREELAND. Pa, Sept. DIR ]. B..
Houston. of this city. in his practice of
ten years found himself confronted with
his first case of witchcraft this morn
ing
The alleged subject is Mrs. Andrew
Fetchik. the wife OF a Drifton miner.
She was taken to the doctors Office by
her husband. who asserts that his wife
is bewitched and despite the efforts of
the physician to disabuse the mans
mind he could not be persuaded and
left declaring that until his wife had
shaken off the evil genius which for
some time had possessed her he would
not regard her as his wife.
Fetchik explained that for long time
the neighpors had been telling him that
his wife was bewitched. but he paid no
attention to them.
The assertions were so persistent that
he finally began to watch her. and OBJ
served her make queer signs and prac-
tice such incantations that he became
convinced that his neighbors' cnnten-
tions were not unfounded. Before and
during the progress of the Russo-Japan-
csc war the woman told him in advance
what the outcome of the battles would
be.
She had filled the house with queer
papers and irons. with which she en-
gagged herself so industriousIy that their
cattle died the home was neglected
neighbors became frightened at her ap-
proach. and it reached the stage finally
that the husband as a last resort. before
abandoning her. decided 20 seek the aid
of physician.
To the accusation the woman said the
neighbors were queer and irritated her.
The doctor said she appeared entirely
rational. and when he told the husband
that he could do nothing Fetchik left
the ONCE declaring he could no longer
live with the woman. Mrs. Fetchik says
her neighbors have been conspiring
against her. and now have turned her
husband against her
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
C0LORED CROESUS GAVE
UP MUN|H|CENT REWARD
Man Who Returned Fortune to Him
Received in Return Five
Cent Cigar

KANKAkEE. ILL.,, Sept 2-E w
Taylor. a real estate dealer of this
city, has received a scent cigar as a
reward for his honesty in returning
So, 200. lost by Franklin p Koontz, q
wealthy colored man, of Birmingham
Ala
Taylor was returning from the South
on an Illinois Central train, and found
on the floor of the car the wallet con-
tanning So. 200. The handbook inside the
wallet showed that KOontz had on de-
posit in Birmingham $4,000.
Taylor went through the train and
located the owner. who carefully count
ed the money. examined the other con
tents of the wallet to see that nothins
Was missing, and then handed the
finder a somewhat frayed scent cigar
Taylor said he would not have cared
If IL had been 10-cent cigar, but he
does not smoke the cheaper brands
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
ANALYzING MEANING
Of THAT WORD DUB "
Friends of Former Governor Yates
Say it Means a Man of
Dignity.

CHICAGO. Sept. Friends of Rich
ard Yates. former governor. have been
investigating the meaning OF the word
Cub
Lieut.. Gov Lawrence Y. Sherman. in
a recent interview said that contest
between Cullom and Yates for the Sen
atorship would be a fight between "'an
antique and a dub
Scott Cowan, grain inspector. and A.
l.. French and James Neville. railroad
and warehouse commissioners, got a
dictionary and found antique 10 mean
''old. ancient, Of genuine antiquity -
This. they thought. did well enough for
Cullom, but they could not place the
exact meaning of dub
Il am afraid it means cnump'" said
Cowan. The best he could find was a
verb-"Dub: To invest with any dignity
or new character" From this he Gre
ated a noun-"Dub: A man invested
with dignity" From this they have
figured out that the contest between
Cullom and Yates would be a contest
between a person Of genuine antiquity
and "a man invested with dignity"
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
PRAYER CURES WOMAN
PARA[YzED FOR YEARS YEARS
Lay in Bed Twenty-six Years Read
ing Bible and Having Un-
failing Faith.

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. Sept. 2.-After
being bedridden and helpless for twenty
six years with an attack of paralysis
which enabled her to use only her left
arm and to move her head. Miss Deliilan
Breech. of Catawissa township. near
here, was today able to walk again
She says that she was cured by con-
tinued prayer and never-failing faith.
She was stricken when she was four
teen, and has never left her bed since
until the last few days.
II believed that If I continued to have
faith. Christ would some time help me
and enable me to walk again. she said.
''and during the last few weeks the
power to use my muscles has gradually
come back to me. and I now can walk
some distance.
During all the years when 1 lay in
my bed I had implicit faith. / was
a great Bible reader. and the more L
read OF the miracles the more I was i'm
pressed with the belief that some day
i would be able to walk. and this week
/ walked in the streets OF Bloomsbury :"
The Washington times., 1905-09-03
RUNAWAY OIL WELL
MAKES A FIERY LAKE
City, La-Flames Play Across Lake. Making Glare
Visible for Many Miles.

SHREVEPORT. La. Sept IA nm
away oil well of the Producers OF
Company az Ananias. one-haf mile
from Caddo City. continues with m
diminished force 10 squirt fire. steam
water. and gas. forming a fiery lake
over whose restless waters shoot
meteors of flame. ever changing colors
rising, falling. waving about in fan
tastic figures OF flying before the wind
like wili-o'-the-wis
sThe fame of the miniature volcano
has spread. and crowds coming from a
long distance visit the scene. The ennis
sion of gas has continued three months.
and shows no signs of dying away.
At first the gas wasted invisibly into
the air. But one night month ago
some person struck lighted match
and then the wonder grew
In spite of the waste of gas in the
burning we'll, II does not decrease the
pressure in the wells under control.
Began May 2.
The well ran wild on May .. and
from that time until now il has been
impossible TO harness it. When the
well went wild a tremendous cavern
occurred. and the machinery. derrick
and nearly a mile of casting were
swallowed UP.
The volcano is within 200 yards oi
Ananias Station. on the Kansas City
Southern railroad. On cloudy night:
the glare from the burning well can be
distinctly seen in this city, twenty
three miles away
Fifteen hundred feet to the north OF
the burning geyser is located large
gas well of the Citizens Oil and Pips
Line Company. which was brought II
two weeks ago and is under control
This well is owned mostly by Shreveport
The Washington times., 1905-09-03

citizens. who intend TO pipe \ gas to
the city for heating and il } mating
purposes
The company will at the next meet
ing of the city council ask a franchise
for laying pipe through the city II is
understood that the scale OF prices for
both fuel and illuminating gas will be
put low. and citizens have hopes that
the cheap fuel VIII result in the estab-
fishing of numerous factories in the
city.
Large Gas Supply.
]. w. Atkins. president of the COM
pany. estimates that the well at the
present time has a supply OF 100000
cubic feet of gas daily. When the COM
pany began sinking the well 1t was
strictly gas proposition. and the well
is the only successful one brought in in
| the Caddo oil fields.
Stratum after stratum OF oil was
found in paying quantities At a depth
OF loo feet the gas cavity was struck
and mud and rock were thrown into
the air to height of 200 feet. So great
was the pressure that the cap block Of
the derrick, Weighing 600 pounds. was
torn away. 1t was estimated that the
pressure was 500 pounds TO the square
| inch
The expert employed to drill the wen
had previously harnessed the caisson
and the well was brought under con-
troll The well was allowed to spout
! several days to clean itself out. After
the cleaning process was completed the
outlet valve was closed
! Experienced oil and gas men who have
examined the well say that there fs
every evidence of permanent gas field
/ The successful bringing IN of the well
| settles beyond doubt that an ass--.>-ess
| supply of gas exists in the Caddo %
/ fields