San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
FUEL SUPPLY
! GREATEST IN
I COUNTRY
No City Can Compete. With
San Antonio's Natural
Gas Fields. -.

NO lty III INoftu AhiShASo ANS $3.50
potential fuel supply that exists at
San Antonio. The growth of the city
industrially rests in large measure on
three important elements, fuel, water
and labor. These three items are
found in San Antonio. Chief in i'm
portance is fuel because the cost OF
fuel is becoming larger burden with
each passing year in the great indus
trial ccnters of the north and east.
With five immense gas fields nd
jaccnt to the city and all of them
between this city and her deep water
port facilities, the fuel supply is SUI
ficient for IN industrial city of
million souls.
Added to these, the known and
potential oil fields and the immense
dcposits of Ignite, and the fuel sup
ply of San Antonio for the next one
half century is solved. San Antonio
will have cheap fuel of the very best
quality.
FUTURE ASStnCD.
Hence San Antonio's future as an
industrial city requires only advertis-
inc TO present her claims to manu-
facturers who can not fail to grasp
the advantages to be found here wnere
climatic conditions make heavy ex-
penditures in plants and housings
necessary. The present supply Oh
natural gas comes from the Three
Rivers fields in Live Oak-McMuiien
counties.
There is another immense gas area
in Webb and Zapata counties con-
sisting of three great gas fields with
potential fuel enough for all OF south
Texas. Another large gas field, prop
ably the greatest gas supply. IN inc
South, is at White Point IN san
Patricio county, near Corpus Cnristi
and right at the deep water port be-
ing constructed there. There is an
other gas field in Refugio county:
destined to supply large amount OF
fuel. At Goliad, at Kingsville and
in other sections, gas is also obtain
able for commercial uses.
SHALLOW OILS.
The Somerset shallow oil field'
only eighteen miles southwest OF san
Antonio in Bcxar and Atascosa
counties is a potential fuel supply
that no other city in the South pos,
sosscs. The wells are shallow and
produce by pumping and the oil is
made in 700 to 900 feet of shalcs 50
that these wells have an estimated
life of Is years or longer. The proven
are, of this field is the largest shall
low oil proven area known to the IN
dustry and is capable of drilling foi
MANY years to come. The limits OF
the field have by no means been de-
fined so that the potential oil sup.
DIV there is entirely a question OF
just how large.
II can at this time. supply the fuel
needs of a city twice the size OF
San Antonio for oil burning appliances
and can be rapidly expanded to meet
increases as they are needed. Inc
gueher fields adjacent to San An
tonic, will in due course, become ex-
hausted but the Somerset pool will
continue to produce for more than the
next half century increasing the out
put from year to year as more wells
are drilled.
OTHER POOLS.
There also are known to be other
oil bearing districts close to San An
tonic and the pro5.. bilitics Of immense
gas fields within n few miles OF this
city are emphasized by the biologists
and oil men who are familiar with
this district.
The Ignite supply is tremendous.
1t IL being developed at this time IN
keeping with the market demands and
all Of il is Immediately adjacent to
San Antonio with direct rail trans
portation into the city so that it can
be relied upon as further bulwark
for industrial concerns locating here
in figuring on their fuel needs.
Plans also are already under way
to supply this city and much of South
Texas with cheap electrical power by
means Of power lines and the develop
ment of the water power possibilities
of the Comnl, Guadalupe and other
streams in this section.
These factors assure San Antonio
of immense inustrial development be
cause no other city can successfully
compete with the fuel supply avail
able here for all industrial and do
nestle PURPOSES.