Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-17

The newly-paved thoroughfares are
kept more scrupulously clean than those
of perhaps any American city, and
where before the cobble-covered, litter
strewn thoroughfares rather discour-
aged the travel of visitors, now it Is
pleasure to traverse them"
SENSATIONAL ACTIVITY
At the Ebano oil field the Doheny
party found all conditions satisfac-
tory 1t was in the Huasteca dis
trict that scenes of sensational activ-
ity were encountered.
"Casiano No. Z, the greatest well Of
the district" said Mr.. Doheny, "has
an output of $4,000 barrels daily. 1t
is under a pressure of $50 pounds and
at present is shut in so per cent Well
No. 6, of 15,000-barrel output, is shut
in entirely under $40 pounds pressure.
All the production of the Huasteca
field is sold as rapidly as 1t is de-
livered. The largest pipe line delivery
a day to date has been $4,000 barrels
but when the storage at Tampico be-
comes sufficient the pipe line will carry
$4,000 barrels daily. BY railroad we
are transporting 10000 barrels day.
1--WE have everything but ample
storage but we shall not be behind
in that respect very long. When
was on the scene one 56,OOO-oarrel
pleted every nine days and arrange
ments had been made to put on an
extra crew Of tank builders. Steel
storage tanks, each of 56,o0O-barrel
capacity, will from now on be COM
pleted at the rate Of five month.
Nine are already in commission. TWen-
ty-four in all will be built.
"In addition, Mr. Leonardt, who is
the leading reinforced concrete con-
structor on this coast, has begun
building for the Huasteca Petroleum
company at Tampico reinforced con-
crete reservoir that will hold 1,250,0O0
barrels.
"At the San Geronimo pipe line
station he will later on build another
reinforced concrete reservoir that Will
have a capacity of 100000 barrels. A
third reinforced concrete reservoir
will be built one mile from the Cast
ano wells of the Huasteca field. This
reservoir will hold about 100000 bar
rels of oil.
before I left Mexico 1oO-mule
teams and scrapers had been brought
in from Ell Paso by the company and
started to work by Mr.. Leonardt ex-
cavating for the big reservoir at Tam
pico. twenty-five carloads of lumber
had arrived from the Chihuahua lum-
Der mills and seventy-five carloads of
machinery from Ell Paso. In addition
to all this, more lumber and all KINDS
of oil we'll supplies are arriving week
ly from the United States at the port
of Tampico. The business of the port
of Tampico is increasing by leaps ana
hounds 1t will continue to increase
and it is all petroleum business, Mex
lean Petroleum Limited business.
LOOKS TO MARKET
"Rut large as the construction part
of our business is we are not neglect
ing the marketing end. In october we
marketed $4,000 barrels of Huasteca
oil and 10000 barrels of Epano OIL
This month the amount SOLD VIII De
between 550, 900 and 100000 barrels from
the Huasteca company alone and up
ward of 200 900 barrels from the Ebano
fields of the Mexican Petroleum com
pany. .-.-.
Not the least important statement
made by Mr.. Doheny concerned the
construction of a seventy-mile steam
railway starting at the north end OF
the Mexican Petroleum, Limited's,
holdings and traversing their entire
length to the Tuxpam river. The ties
are already on the ground for this
road the entire cost of which will be
close to $1,000000. Construction cost
will be low, owing to the fact that the
grades will be easy and the bridges
few.
The land hOldlngS OIL the COIhpdHy
comprise 0,000 acres, a large part of
it the best kind of agricultural land.
Unlike the company's railroad from
the Huasteca field to Tampico, this
new line will serve the public also and
will facilitate the marketing of farm
products. Incidentally it will give an
impetus to other industries than pc
troleum producing in this newest of
the worlds great oil fields.
It will thus be seen that no feature
of Industrial development is being neg
| lected in that part of the Mexican re-
public that is the scene of the Mexican
Petroleum, Limited s. activities
The company has it's own telephone
| line from the Ebano field to the south
| terminus Of the pipe line, a distance
of 1O2 miles. 1t has also secured a
concession to lay a telephone cable
under the Panuco river at Tampico
also q concession to lay a pipe line
under the same river, by which it win
be able to reach the Waters-Pierce
tanks at Tampico and the loading
racks on the National railways.
Mr.. Doheny will return to Mexico
| Thanksgiving for n further inspection
| of his properties.