The Weekly Examiner. (Bartlesville, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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ries, brick; Johnstone avenue, be-
tween Second and Third streets;
Masters clothing store and Right-
way hotel.
American National building,
two stories, brick; American Na-
tional bank, Cloyd's drug store,
Martin's poolroom and offices;
corner Third street and Johnstone
avenue.
Leidecker Tool company, two
story brick, Third street; oil well
tools and machines.
Woodring building, two story
brick; store, lodgerooni and of-
fice; Second street.
Garfield school building.
Waterworks.
Electric light and power plant.
Prairie Oil and Gas company,
pumping station and pipeline.
Bartlesville Lumber company,
two story frame, office and yards.
Michaelis Lumber company,
frame office, warerooms and sheds.
Santa Fe depot and sidings.
American Well and Prospecting
company, shop.
Oil Well Supply company
warerooms.
Great Western Glass company,
factory building, office and ware-
rooms.
Colorado hotel, addition.
Piazza hotel, addition.
Church of God, edifice.
One hundred residences, rang-
ing from $5,000 down.
The population of the town and
immediate vicinity has been in-
creased by many families of well-
to-do farmers from Missouri,
Kansas and middle western states,
besides the families of a number
of eastern oil operators and work-
ers, and the town is rapidly near-
ing the point of being a desirable
residence.
A MARVELOUS OIL FIELD.
While Bartlesville has made re-
markable progress as a town, a
correspondingly greater expan-
sion has taken place in the past
year in the development of the
oil field of which Bartlesville is
riot only the logical center but the
necessary supply point and head-
quarters of all the interests in-
volved in the exploitation of oil
and gas. It requires but a glance
over the figures of the field today,
and those which were given a year
ago, to realize how great this in-
crease is, and it is only just begun.
In January, 1904, thirty-five com-
panies and individuals were oper-
ating in the Osage and Cherokee
belt, the combined development
aggregating two hundred com-
pleted wells, and the daily ship-
ments in tank cars reaching the
small total of 1,000 barrels. Today
there are over one hundred com-
panies and individuals operating
in the Cherokee and Osage belt
that have production from 663
wells, the dailv total of which is
14,000 barrels, and the production
is now all handled through the
pipeline, the tank cars being a
thing of the past in the Territory
field. The most of this remarka-
ble increase has come within the
last six months of the year. The
production is not all handled by
the Prairie Oil and Gas company
because it has increased faster
than lines and storage tanks could
be completed.
The purchasing and transporta-
tion agency is not the only one to
feel the heavy demands of opera-
tions, for the supply houses have
been kept busy enlarging their
shops and stocks, and rearranging
their methods of meeting the bus-
iness. The pioneer houses the
Oil Well Supply company. tin-
National Supply company and the
American Well and Prospecting
company -have been on a contin-
ual strain, and see a much greater
business ahead. The Liedecker
Tool company, one of the most
extensive manufacturers of drill-
ing and fishing tools in the world,
has established in Bartlesville a
western branch of its Marietta
house, and finds plenty of business.
Three' additional tank manufac-
turers have come to the field and
located at Bartlesville the Park-
ersburg Tank company, II. W.
Harry and T.J. Moran -and the
combined output of all the tank
houses cannot meet the demands.
The frontier line of development
has left Kansas, is surging over j duction now, it ca
Indian Territory and lapping the \ mated what the p
can easily be esti-
.. .. |— — ....... possibilities of the
boundaries of Oklahoma. Of ne j fie|d are. and to what enormous
cessity the various branches of j proportions the oil and gas indus-
the supply industry must keep in j tries not only may but undoubt-
touch with the business, and this t*dly will go in the near future.
has made it imperative for a num- j The Creek country and Okla-
ber of concerns to establish offices homa. over which prospecting is,
and warerooms here where they rapidly extending, embraces as
can be near customers. The In- much acreage as the main field
dependence Iron Works, Boviard already proved.
& Company, the Bessemer and I osage operations.
the St. Mary's gas engine compa- In the Osage reservation the
nies are among this number, and following companies and individ-
three of the heaviest eastern man-1 uals are operating:
ufacturers of oil well supplies are! Arkansas Valley Oil and (ias com-
now negotiating to establish ex- SS StI* itoS 'u
tensive plants in Bartlesville. 8' wells
\ i_ /, „ ,, 1 • , ,. I Barnsdall & Gieno, .$0,000 acre*, 47
Aside from the industrial line wells.
of work contractors and leading 1lDdiau Territory Illuminating Oil
... ** oompaov 17
operators arc steadily coming to National and American companies
Bartlesville to make their head- (A. T. Fanctaer) 18
. Almeda.
quarters, and many of them their i Lahoma
permanent homes, because th
business in which they are en-
gaged is growing about the town
so rapidly that the Cherokee and
Osage belts are today considered
by experienced men who have
studied conditions to be the great-
est deposit of illuminating oil in
the United States. The Boggs
Drilling company, perhaps the
largest contracting firm in the
southwestern field, has found it
advisable to move its offices to
Bartlesville, and a score of other
contractors who have two to five
strings of tools at work find it con-
venient to be where the bulk of
development work is going on.
Had there been lots to buy and
houses to live in the oil men would
Asphalt y
Sand Fork «
McOuire Brother! 5
Kinser &
M. A. E. Patton & Co 5
Colonial 5
Skehon & Moore io
Carter Brothers 5
Markham & Florer 2
4o company I
Keesage 5
Minnehoraa 5
Weir & CildreD ...5
Matson Brothers 5
McQonnel I & Graham.. . ...
Boston-Osage
Oklahoma
Kelley & Co
Matson Oil compauv
Stevens Point company
Uoth, Argue & Maire Brothers....
Jennings Brother;
Sagamore
Duugla*, Lacey & Co...
Appleton-Osage
.). B. Jones
«">!) company
N. B. Barnsdall
Washington 1
Manhattan 1
PITTSBURG, PA.
OIL CITY, PA.
BRADFORD, PA.
in. veu surriT cikpant
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Oil, Gas and Water Well Supplies.
STEAM and GAS ENGINES
Derrick Rigs, Drilling and Fishing Tools, Drive Pipe
Cables, Casing, Tubing, Line and Steam Pipe
Pumps, Sucker Rods, Pumping Powers, Etc.
BRANCH STORE AND WAREHOUSES Bartlesville, I, T„ Ramona, I, T.; Cleveland, O.T.;
Peru, Kan,, Independence, Kan., Chanute, Kan. MACHINE AND BLACKSMITH SHOPS—
Bartlesville, |nd. Ter, and Cleveiand, Oklahoma.
BRANCH STORES IN ALL PROMINENT PETROLEUM DISTRICTS.
foil s Kisi.br, Pivs'i and Oenl Mar.
Troas-
THE INDEPENDENCE IRON WORKS CO.
Drilling and Fishing Tools
GENERAL OIL WELL SUPPLIES.
have doubled the present popu- j federal
lation of Bartlesville. i Philadelphia-Osage..
With the close of holiday visits J CaUsb*&' Smith'.. . . . .
and good cheer hundreds of op- Miller, Rider Blael
_ . . . , i • United State?
erators and people employed in I Hazelwood
the business will come to Indian I Carpenter
T •. . , I Wah-rhuh-ahe
Territory to actively engage in
developing leases already produc-
ts and to test new territory.
The improvement of the year
which has had more to do with
the development of the Territory
field than all else is the Prairie Oil 1 Ritts & Co.
and Gas company's pipeline.' kUSBlan
which, with the extensions now
under way, connects the outlying
belts at Cleveland. <). T., Red
Fork and Tulsa, Chelsea, Alluwe.
Ramona and Ochelata with the
Bartlesville station, from whence
it is pumped to the Caney tank
farm and the Neodesha refinery
and on to the Kansas City refinery.
By July of next vear the line will j Meridian
have been extended to ;;;;
Ind., where it connects with the j kittle Hock company..
Bavonne and New York termi-: KSate tirade.'!!!
nals. The network of laterals and ! Indiana-Ohio
the acres of tankage will ,h„, ■■„-! '
able the great purchasing and Eli Oil company
transporting agency to handle all fITion'.
the production of Kansas. Indian Headlight
Territory and Oklahoma. Active ^urid*e
development of proved leases, M«^°d Oil Co
testing those adjoining production i Southern
ENGINES
AND BOILERS
Our Branch Shop, now builing at Ramona, .
will be ready for business in a short time.
Shullis
Pawhuska
Florer & Stern
Cluster & Co ....
Clint Moore ,V Co
P. M. Aiken .V Co
Devonian
Mowris iV Co,
Brvson, Stilwell A Curl.
Rills A C
Ilussian
A. C. Stich l
The total number of completed wells
is , A number of other companies
and individuals have Iea«e.-, l>ut a*
yet have drilled uo well.-. The pro-
duction is upwards of 7,000 barrels
daily.
CHEROKEE OPERATORS.
Cudahy Oil company i>8 wells.
Cherokee Oil company, Chelsea. . . .120
Superior
Stubbs .% Low
National Oil and Development Co. . ..">
Renfrow Oil aud Gas compauv . .14
j
} We are Making a Specialty of Heavy Tools for Territory Work. I
t Tel. 461. IlVDEPEIVDEIVCE, Ka1V. J
and wildcatting can then go on
uninterruptedly, and no one doubts
that it will go on at a merry pace
Consolidated •?
Owens .V Co '.. T
Gar butt & Co
McConnell & Graham '.'.1
The Cherokee and Osage belts, j Lenap^ctmpaV....'.'.'a
under which oil is known to exist 11'ossum Creek company i
Ha terO Oil COIDDaUV. AMuwh 1
paying quantities, embraces Hochatetter Oil company, Alluwe' I
3,500.000 acres, and Bartlesville is i CollinsvilleOil company. '^1
4.U i*i . I * elob Oil comuao v 7
the geographical center and trade. Bartlesv.lleOil and Development <jo' .;i
supply and financial metropolis of; aDtl Texas compauv l
this great area. With only 663 ' s ' ;7v2!L^TaDJ'. ' 1
wells and 14,000 barrels daily pro- s. L Johnson. .'"V'* " "•>
M arguerite company
Hoc Oil company 2
Brown & <'0.. Claremore 2
A local company at Vinita, the
Home and the Southwestern com-
panies at Wagoner, the Pryor
Creek company, the Verdigris
company at Nowata, and several
individuals at Alluwe, have drilled
sixteen test wells at the places
named. The total number of
wells drilled in the Cherokee is
353. with a total daily production
of 7000 barrels.
At Red Fork, in the Creek na-
tion, 59 wells have been drilled,
with a total daily production of
600 barrels.
At Muskogee. Creek nation, 40
wells have been drilled, with a
total daily production of 300 bar-
| rels.
At Cleveland, O. T.. 38 wells
have been completed, with a total
daily production of 1,000 barrels.
Test wells to the number of 131
have been or are now drilling at
various points in thr Cherokee,
Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and
Seminole nations, and scattered
all over Oklahoma.
'THE BEST MAP1
Of the ludian Territory Oil Fields
is that prepared bythe OSAGE MAPPING CO., Bartlesville,
1.1. Compiled from government surveys, are authentic and
accurate and are recognized by Southwestern operators as
eminently reliable authority. We issue TWELVE DIFFER-
ENT M APS of the Indian Territory-Osuge district. Our
CHEROKEE-OSAGE MAP, 6x9 FEET, $10.00.
Sent anywhere in L. S. or Canada, carriage prepaid, on re-
ceipt of price. Address.
OSAGE MAPPING CO., Bartlesville, Indian Ter.
W. H. WHALEY, Civil Engineer, Manager.
Home Figures.
The Kan-a* oil Held is rupfdlv
coming to the front us one of
the greatest lields iu the country.
During the month of November the
average daily runs amounted to
21,20fi barrels. The daily consumption
for the month averaged .">,41") barrels.
There was, according to these figures,
IMO,192 bair.ls produced anil Hi2,4Hl
barrels consumed 'Phis means that
the remainder, 47,'i,7;40 barrels were
put in Morag". Drilling new well, i.
constantly >n progress and wildcat-
tin'.' is going on in a number of
sertions in Kansas, Arizona and In
diari Territory, where wells are
liable to be brought in almost anv
time. Suppose that the production
and consumption of oil in the Kansas
field goes on another vear, like the
figures given above. We would have
in storage up there ">. K84.760 barrel*.
The daily average of the Pennsylvania
lields for November was 73.♦iO.'t bar-
rels, while that of the Ohio lields was
, IM,000 barrels. Let's figure some
more. The daily average of the
Jennings lield is barrels, or
j 2.250,000 barrels a mouth. The daily
, average of Spindle Top is about .">o0l):
Qatsou, 17,000; Sour Lake, 15,000;
| Saratoga, .'i,000; making a total daily
, production of the fields named of 28ti,*-
j 804 barrels, or 8,004.270 barrels a
• month, and 103,ill,240 barrels a vear.
} This is not taking into account the
fields in Wert Virginia, Indian Terri-
tory, Kentucky, California, nor the
Matagorda. Heurietta and Corslcana
fields in Texa-. Rouphlv, it would be
safe to say that if all the wells now
producing keep ou at the same rate,
the total production next year will
j not fall short of 10."),000,000* barrels,
lliis does not take into account a
number of places where an immense
volume of oil is liable to be poured
into the market at anytime. If this
: oil is con-limed, the enormous amount
of 287,671 barrels must be handled
j every day. Of course, oil is being re-
| fined and used in hundreds of ways
I iu the crude state, yet the production
is gradually overtaking the con-
j sumption, aud If the same rate is
\ kept op for, say five vuars, with the
figures above suggested, oil people
i may see the same condition of affairs
j as is now experienced in other in-
dustrial pursuits -cost of production
I exceeding market price.
VliiW SHOWING A PART OF THE DEVBJ.OPUHNT IN IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF BARTLESVU.Ui THE FAST TWELVE. MONTHS.
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