The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1913 Page: 1 of 10
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"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS BOUND TO BRING SUCCESS."
VOL. VI.
CASHION, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1913.
NO.
struck Oil!
Last week we headed these columns
"Struck Gas." This week they are
headed "Struck Oil."
Sunday evening as the editor and
three other townsmen were driving out
to the "gas well," we met Mr. Miller
coming to Cashion with a sample buttle
of oil taken from the second well he
was having drilled —the one 50 yards
north of the "gasser." We stopped
and examined tha sample. It was red-
dish in color with a very thin watery-
looking oil on the top, which burned
readily when a stick dipped into it was
lighted. It gave out no smoke nd
very little smell when burning. None
of us could pronounce this oil as sim-
ilar to any we had seen before. The
editor has seen the crule oil from the
Kansas oil fields, but it was of a dark
color, nearly black. This was so diff-
erent. The bottle was left at the In-
dependent office and many have called
ered good authority, informed the ed-
itor that several years ago a prospect
hole was drilled within a mile of this
Miller place and then suddenly stopped
up. That an eastern oil company paid
two Kingfisher men several nun ired
dollars a month to keep what they
knew to themselves, the payments be-
ing kept uo for several months, and
then, the results in this well n t being
generally kno^n, soon died down. Cit-
iz ns, there is something to thix, and
those of you who have leased your
farms have not leased them in vain
Listen:
Comes another citizen telling us that
a gentleman once representing a^ rich
oil drilling concern, came along over a
farm east of the Miller place, and said
he had been an old driller of many
years' experience, and it is said he
drove several stakes in likely locations.
Several stories of this kind have reach-
ed us the past week.
These stories sound good to all <^f us
and those who are a( parently skeptical
are tempted to stop and listen. If
there is oil and gas anywhere it is in
the vicinity of the Cimarron river.
The best wells in the state? have been
struck along the Cimarron, and if there
to examine it. Several expressed the j is no oil and gas under this Oklahoma
opinion that it was like the crude oil
found in the Pennsylvania lields, and
that they had seen lots of it. One gen-
tleman, who has recently visited the
Cushing, and other oil and gas fields,
informed us that the sample was, with
out a doubt, the real stuff, and that he
knew what it was and had seen crude
oil just like it. Not being qualified to
judge oii and gas, the editor cannot
^ive a correct name to the sample, but
will let others who seem to know what
they are talking about, give their opin
ion Some think the wells are surely
wonders. The north wall was drilled
to a depth of 911 feet, Friday evening
Mr Miller phoned the news to the ed-
itor that at noon at at a depth of about
65 feet the drillers encountered the
same gas that had been found in the
first well, and that when lighted it
burned to a h ight of 3 or 4 feet avove
the ground. This gas was struck about
16 feet before a vein of water was
found. Mr. Miller was very much ex-
cited over these findings. In this well
60 feet of water, it having risen with-
in 30 feet of the top. The south hole
ia 75 fe*t deep and dry.
While we were at the south well,
several prominent Kingfisher citizens
arrived. About a hundred people soon
gathered to satisfy their curiosity. Mr.
Miller soon returned from Cashion, and
removing the board and soil with which
he had "capped" the "gasser," pro-
ceeded to "light it." He had little
success with his matches until the ed-
itor lighted a piece of paper and threw
it into the hole. Instantaneously there
was a roaring, rumbling noise in that
hole, pounding much like the roll of
distant thunder, and we imagined the
earth was trembling beneath our feet.
Considerable excitement was manifest-
ed. The rumbling did not last very
long, and the gas was not strong enough
to burn above the surface of the well
but later in the evening a passing party
dropped in and saw Mr. Miller light it.
It burned a few feet above the surface.
soil northwest and north of Cashion,
the white mule is yours. We'll give it
up, and say that the driller who had
more than 25 years' active drilling ex-
perience, that there is both oil and gas
in that vicinity at a depth of 18 or 20
hundred feet, doesn't yet know his bus-
iness. We are skeptical, too, but when
a driller with a small rig strikes a poet-"
et of natural gas in two wells, it looks
like there is something doing under-
neath. The best thing to convince us
that there is oil and gas beneath us is
that if it goes in veins and pockets,
why is it that it ia all around and none
in the middle? Some of you skeptics
answer that question and everyone will
be ready and willing to commence
drilling operations within the next two
weeks. Oil and gas is here and in
plenty. Our country along the river is
broken up and indicates some great
pre-historic subterariean upheaval.
Any geologist will tell you that if you
ask him to express his honest opinion.
Chas. G. Marriott made a trip to
Oklahoma City, Thursday of last week,
to see an old-time deep well driller.
He brough} back a little pamphlet con-
taining a list of a hundred or more
wells this gentleman had drilled over
varisous parts of the United StaUs,
wnich speak well for this old driller.
Mr. Marriott's purpose in visiting him
was to get him to come up and look
1 the field over. He promised to come
whenever called on. This gentleman
has two rigs, one of which is busy.
Several thousand acres of land have
been leased in the vicinities of King-
fisher, Cashion and Guthrie, most of
which is along the Cimarron river, and
while there is some that is not leased,
we believe now, with the present ex-
citement, that it is only a short time
until an unleased farm will be a scarce
article. These leases will, undoubedly,
at some near future time, be very val-
uable. Everyone in Cashion and vicin-
ity, and with Guthrie and Kingfisher,
should put their shoulders to the wheel
Citizens of Kingfisher and Guthrie who in an effort to get a drilling rig in the
hav«> heard of the gas weii, and some field as soon as possible to put down a
who have went to the trouble of seeing test well and prove out what most of
it, are very much excited and enthusi-
astic over the find and express their
willingness te invest should a company
be organized for drilling purposes.
One party, who is generally consid-
us think is below the surface. A drill
rig might be gotten in the field within
a fortnight. We must hang together
to obtain results In unity there is
strength.
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of Cashion, Oklahoma.
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Barnard, W. F. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1913, newspaper, December 18, 1913; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107167/m1/1/: accessed May 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.