El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-04


tend after thiS-that they are not get
ting oil ont of it, good OIL and fuel for
their engine. / know enough to guar
tee that they won't do that. The fuel
| they are using may be gas; 1T may be
oil. but it is coming from the capped
well. They have oil and it is coming
just like oil comes from gusher any
where else. All the piping is new; the
company has just finished its finishing
work on the well. 1t is true the COM
pany has paid fir its information as
Mr.. Freeman and Mr.. Morgan say it has
the payroll is $50 a day every day; the
expenses have already been 100000 In
the field and it has obligated itself for
land for more than twice that sum
and is entitled to keep that to itself
And the company is profiting by this
information An agent of the company
made an offer to a Toyah man just
yesterday of $500 for 40 acres of land;
with two men of the Texas company
preSent-looking on as spectators APP
parently-T- W. Owens bought section
Is, block 20, this week and drill IS
going out to it-and drillers of the
Texas company wells asked me yester-
day IF our other rig is being unloaded
at Toyah." Only recently according
to information that is most reliable
an official of the Texas company-and
/ can give his name-was asked by an
FL :oaso bank about a piece of land IN
the Toyah field and this official said it
wasn't worth taking over. The Texas
company is now said to have this piece
of land in its possession The Texas
company is keeping its information to
itself.
VIII Legislature Interfere.
The Texas legislature, according to
the best information obtainable now
is going to be asked to do something
to correct the status of all the land
around the field. Until that is done, so
the company can get clear title to the
land, it Is believed to be its intention to
keep secret what its officials know
about the well and the oil in IL When
the law is amended or fixed so that
oil prospectors will have protection
the law as now applied to the west
Texas lands is certainly most Ubiquitous
the company will be willing to let
the public know what it knows. UntH
then il is believed to be intending to
continue its secrecy.
Meantime the people about TOyah live
and dream oil and operators are leaving
no stone unturned to get control of all
the available land in the region L
am not backing my judgment in this
case" said a man who is as well known
in FL Paso as in Toyah, for am not an
oil expert. I am backing the judgment
of the Texas Oil company, which has
the best oil experts Obtainable at its
command The Texas Oil company is
not investing a hundred thousand dol
lars in operations and mourning liabill-
ties of more than twice that much just
for the fun of things When the Texas
company invests that heavily, L am
willing. to sink little and risk it."
This ia the way the others feel about
it The Texas company has started the
boom and has kept it up The secret
policy of the company has made the
people think the company had more
than il had really found. but it is hardly
possible that this is any longer The
truth lie eve and everybody who has
seen the field believes, that the Texas
company at last has just what every
body has thought ie-had for d long time
"a gusher. If the officials deny ii,
defy them to show their hand. L defy
them to take an oil expert there to turn
the valves and wheels that 1 will indi-
cate and disprove what 1 have said.
No Oil Hauled.
Then the company might also explain
why it has quit absolutely hauling any
more crude oil to the field. The last
was hauled out on Monday. The man
who was hauling it is not hauling any
more. There is no more oil at Toyah
consigned to the company nor are there
any receiving tanks. The company has
been receiving oil and hauling it out
to the wells for several mOnths-receiv-
ing it regularly-but now the man who
has been hauling it is out Of job and
he has been told that there is no more
hauling. Wednesday afternoon the
Texas company took up the big tanks
nto which cars have been unlOaded at
Toyah and hauled them out to the
wells. Why does the company need to
haul any more oil to the wells? why
haul oranges to California or Watts
water to FL Paso, or oil into the
Toyah field?
Texas Competitors.
The Teas company is no. the OILY
concern ~ the field. The Guft3y ~Cm-
pany ::ss nan there, tic Prairie cu'n-
paoy has a man. and so have IN. NIv:an
and the Sun. These men are taking
options every day. w S. Wrather is in
TOyah representing the Guffey COM
pany He has been here for some time,
Just looking on" f. Cockren repre-
sents the Prairie.
Last night at II o'clock CocErell went
in c. E. Sisters auto to Pecos, IS miles |
away, to sign up some leases. Other !
leases were signed up in Toyah; notaries |
were busy till II and later taking dc- |
before The Herald !,
StlS OuI With tne news Oh WIl3I Cley We |
got in the we'll
The Texas company is now preparing /
TO recover a lost drill in the well north |
east of the capped well"-just across |
the arroyo-and will find it with a ro- |
tary drill, which is now being prepared !
in the shops on the grounds.
The company has three rigs in the I
field The newest one is over the we'll |
that was capped so long; that is now /
producing the oil. The rig is covered
almost all over with ola gusher !
night have spouted-it; the drill tools
hight brave spattered it-but it is there
On top of the cap that holds that
1ubbling, Kissing, capped well in leash, !
;ets the drill tOOl-six thousand pounds
n weight. On top of the cap is a 2x12 ,
Ind on this sets the end of the tremen-
lous steel rod, about inches thick
md it looks to be 40 feet long. There
must be some pressure in that well be-
ow.
A Toyah report, from an oil operator.
S that the Texas company has been
officially notified that the we'll is a TO-
100 barrel gusher. How true this is 1
ant say, but the man who told il, had
zen to the well and knew just what 1
now now about the existence of oil-so
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