Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-09
,O|L, 00Z|NG OUT
OF GROUND, DRILL
TO START WORK
DERRICK IS UF SEVEN MILES FRDa
BROWNSVILLE AND DRILLING IS
TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK.
FINEST SURFACE INDICATIONS IN
OIL BELT FOUND WITHIN 10
MINUTES AUTO RIDE.

Triple H. present population and $10,-
100000 Of new capital for the city of
Brownsville within the next three months.
j. the prediction of local business men
who have formed the Brownsville Oil com
pany, an association, which has erected 4
derrick seven miles from the city, near the
Alice road and 81. Louis, Brownsville &
Mexico railway. and will start drilling for
oil next week The drilling place j. half
mile from the Puente de las Negras, and
within sight ~ the railroad. The derrick
i up eighty feet IN the air, the machinery
J. rolling and will arrive within the next
day Or two. sEa21
There A. Oh around Brownsville IL u
oozing out uf the ground along q Trtch
of land seven miles In length IN ;he Hl-'rict
where We are about To begin drIlIHy II
shows without question the hprst surface
indications of Oil. far better than The sur
face Indications in the Beaumont and Sour
Lake fields, or those of any other proven
field. Ii A. not n question of one well. or
two wells. or three wells. The proposition
H., know there T. oil here, and we are
going after ID until We find III"
The foregoing was the statement made
today to Herald representative NY y. NJ
WaterhouSe, manager for the Brownsville
Oil company, and n man ot experience IN
OIL matters. having represented the Pier~o
people III Mexico for many years. Nj
Waterhouse called attention to the fact
that foremost geoogists in the United
States have described The indications sur
rounding Brownsville a. Enquc~tionablv
the best. They have gone the length and
breadth ot the gulf coast oil field. extend
ing from the TampcU district 10 Lon~iunu,
and from twenty ID forty miles inland. and
nowhere nave they found the indications
brighter for oii than in this territory.
The presence of Oh In the Puentr de- IaA
NegraS section has been known for many
months. The only question IL it, quantity.
Men who have gone along the resaca. be-
fore the reSaca filled from recent over
flows. noted trickling oil here and there
found there merely Nm digging up litfh
dirt. What appears 0Ililary rttv at
inl ob-rrr..ituM r4pve- t If
saturated rit tAe valuable --ID4rt
The Organization VII tL, company INV
back the drilling of the first pil well in
Cameron county. nr along this -ectinn of
the guilt coast. wlS started several months
ago. and resulted i'm the formation ot the
Brownsville Oil company. uuincorporated
with the following officers:
Ill., y. - Randall. mining man Of McNiro..
lnlt now n resident Of Brownsville, prcs:-
dent
J. III Lind of San Antonip, interested N
oil development in various fields, vice
president.
A. Wasnc Mood. cashier of the First
National bank, treasurer.
Amos Rich, lawyer, secretary.
The board VI trustees are III. II. =. Ram
dall s. n. Iiallam. J. ri. Lind. Nj Ill Craig.
A. Wasne Wood. n. q. Tucker. Among the
stockholders are A. Albert Browne. jaime.
A. Browne. l.. N. Iiallam. III. NJ Harrison.
r. l.. Stell. MrS. III. Bollack. H. l.. Speru.
The depth t. which thu drill will be sent
H.. IT course. an unknown quantity. % a.
Also the length of time II will require 10
send down the drill. Iii rock formations
are encountered the drilling naturally VIII
he slower. II may take SIX weeks tn ~ aS
! far a. D. necessary with the fir-f we'll and
N max take longer. II l. the belief lhe
oil men connected with this ir-i Hi u,,-
ment that the first strata will ht +fraai
tered nj from 1000 ~ 1000 feet. i .t'
anticipated that N VIII be necessary . ~t
, deeper than 2000 feet, and the drii'+r
not intend 10 20 further down than hat
a The men who Will drill the well arn ~
Ilindman brothers, well known thronel u
}. the oil fields ri the gulf coast. and M u
i rir IL declared to he one Of the best cprr M
q ing m the field One interesting dri MI
a. connection with the letting Of thi,
4 tract. according to Mr.. Watcrhou~e.
: the fact that when they had gone over ''''
:. local proposition the Hindman brother ,r
r. clarcd they would not want cash for ti NJ
n work, but would take stock In the propose
@ tion, so strongly were they impressed witt
the conditions existing in this district.