Western Oil Derrick (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1920 Page: 3 of 4
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WESTERN OIL DERRICK, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920.
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Get In With the
Winners!
Why Risk Money
on Deep Holes?
FOLLOW THE MUL
THE GREATEST OIL FORTUNES IN THE WORLD ARE BEING MADE BY SUCCESSFUL INVESTMENTS IN
OIL LEASES
Rich and powerful oil companies are drilling thousands of deep oil wells. They will make hundreds of millions of dollars in finding oil. Investors can get some of the mil-
lions by making the right kind of investments in oil leases in sections where the big companies are spending millions to open
NEW OIL POOLS
Why not let the rich and powerful oil companies do the drilling and lose the money which is, of necessity, a p art of the immensely profitable oil business.
Big oil companies grow enormously rich. They make hundreds of millions of dollars. Also, they have some losses. But-
The Western Oil Derrick Leasing Company No. 2
Invests its money in the same fields where the influential oil corporation, do the drilling. Our company buys lease, to J'™ when the big ',rilling
tions open up the gushers. The Western Oil Derrick Leasing Company No. 2 could hazard the money of its shareholders by drilling wells. But—
This company proposes to do nothing of the kind. We let the strong oil companies do the dr.ll.ng, and we invest the company s money .n fields where great gams can
come, and where the shareholders' money is not gambled away-
CASH DIVIDENDS
WERE PAID BY THE WESTERN OIL DERRICK LEASING
COMPANY NO. 2 IN APRIL AND MAY
THERE WILL EE MORE DIVIDENDS
Why gamble in spots where the small investor has not one chance in a thousand?
Whv not invest in a company that is managed as skillfully as the successful oil
companies'? Why not take advantage of th e experience of the oil companies that have
piled up—
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Shares in this company are of the par value of $1 each. I he capital of the com-
pany is $100,000. The company is incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma.
This company owns more than 6,000 acres of leases located in many of the stra-
tegic oil sections of the creat southwestern petroleum fields that are embraced by the
states of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Iexas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
With these investments scattered around in the marvelous fields that are creat-
ing hundreds of oil millionaires, an investment in the shares of this company is most
inviting. The management of this company challenges any other organization on earth
in the possibilities of enormous gain coupled with the minimum risk.
Western Oil Derrick
Leasing Company No. 2
Oklahoma City
Shares $1.00 Each, The Par Value
There Is No Promotion Stock
There Are No Salaries
There Is No Expense
EVERY DOLLAR GOES INTO LEASES \ * |
In view of the increasing value of the rich leases owned by the company, the
price of shares will be advanced to $2.
Investors can acquire shares now at $1 each, provided that when a well comes in
on or near one of the company's leases, all stock will he withdrawn from the. market.
The rich man can buy an oil lease ner a gushing well.
The price will be about $100.00 an acre. ' , •- ,
The poor man cannot buy that kind of a lease. However— * '
The man of moderate resources can invest in the shares of the Western Oil Der-
rick Leasing Co. No- 2. can be part owner of the thousands of acres of leases owned by
the company, and can know to a certainty that not a. penny of his money is used to pay
salaries or any other kind of expense.
Every dollar of the shareholders' money is invested in Oil Leases in territory
where wells are being drilled or are contracted for.
Millions of dollars are being made in oil leases. The metihods of this company
are so careful that the chance for loss is small. The opportunity for gain is enormous.
\\'e can furnish a dozen bank references to any investors who wish protection^
of that kind.
A W'HSTERN oil. DKRKICK LEANING COMPANY NO.
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Huckins Catatr Building
oklahoma City, Okl .
Gentlemen fheck for I is enclosed to pay In full f<>r shares of slock
valu. >1 • ,irh in Hi- W. -ion, oil horri. k L'-.'t -itiR <'« . X<>. I in inv. • tjnjr in thr shar. f of this company und# r
y the explicit KUHrantei "f the management that th.- stork Is fu11 > p < <! and non ■< • thai «very dollar of th«-
V stockholders' mone\ is invested in leases in territory where well:- hi. beln« drilled or arc contracted for; that no
V promotion shun s ever will be issued? that no Planes bsiv been pn.l or will l- paid; itial the . .inpany has no adver-
V MsiiiK expense; that no commission-- are naid by the company for the ale of Its stock; that officers and director® of
V the <-ompan.\ bought and paid for their stock ;it the full par v.lue, and that the company'docs not owe a dollar on any
£ of its valuable leases In six wonderful southwestern oil states.
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GEOLOGY OF SEMINOLE CO.
BY C. MAX BAUER, GEOLOGIST.
Location and description: The area
described in this report lies about one
*ille and a half southeast of Seminole
"Ky and comprises all of section 35
T9N R 6K and of section 34, SE
quarter section 27, SV& section 26, WV4
Island railroad which parallels We-
woka creek. The central part of the
area contains a ridge extending in a
northwest-southwest direction with an
elevation of about 125 feet above the
surrounding land. The area is drained
to the east through Wewoka creek.
A detailed reconnaisance survey of
U. S. Government
LAND
IN McKINLEY COUNTY
NEW MEXICO
IS OPEN FOR LOCATIONS FOR
OIL and GAS LEASES
Subject to the Development Te~mt of the Federal
Government As Covered By Recent Federal
Law* On Public Land.
There is still in McKinley County, New Mexico, about 4<>,000
acres of Government land which is held subject to oil and gas
leases according to the terms of the recently passed Federal law.
This land is between a shallow field where upwards of 20 wells
are producing oil and 157,000 acres recently acquired by a syndicate
of Philadelphia capitalists who plan development work in the near
future.
This land is in some places within 2 miles of present shallow
production and the most distant is about 12 milea from production.
Geologists have passed upon this region and indications are
that early developments will produce interesting news.
We Will Make Locations, Survey and Attend To
All Necessary Details Covering Claims For
a Fee of $250.00 Per Section.
Our charges for making the necessary claims and looking after
the details incident to obtaining title, subject to development terms
of the Federal Government are extremely reasonable. We handle
the survey; file necessary papers through our attorneys and deliver
your c |lm to you in shape for immediate development
The Federal law limits the amount to which claim can b6 made
by any individual or corporation to four sections. Our price for
handling your claim to one section Ik $250. a very small charge is
made for larger tracts.
Many Rigs Are Now Up In McKinley County and
It Will Not Be Long Until the Entire
County Is Prospected.
INTEREST IN McKINLEY COUNTY IS GROW-
ING—ARRANGE FOR YOUR GOVERN-
MENT LAND AT ONCE
WRITE OR WIRE FOR FULL INFORMATION
T. P. ANDREWS
THOREAU, NEW MEXICO
of SW quarter section WV4 of W1 _•
section 36 of the same township, also
NW quarter of the NW quarter section
1, the N% of the NV4 section 2, and
the N'i of the NE quarter, section 3,
all of T 8N R 6E. tural conditions which were observed
This area is crossed by the llock jon a former visit of the writer to Semi-
nole county.
Geology: The rocks exposed in this
area belong to the Pennsylvania series
nd correlate with strata slightly high-
er in the section than those of the area
at the big bend of the North Canadian
river in northern Seminole county.
This is due to a swing in the stjike |
of the sedimentary rocks from north
of the Gleen sand of Gleen pool would
be about 3.200 feet in the area here j
described. Many productive sands are
known below this one. however, and a
test should be drilled at least 3,500
feet unless oil or gas is encountered in
paying quantities at a lesser depth.
Structural conditions: In the area
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line of the SE quarter of the NK
quarter of section 34. same town-
ship. Any test hole in this acreage
should be drilled'at least 3,500 feet,
unless oil and gas in commercial quan-
tities is encountered at a lesser depth.
Other acreage may be blocked around
this if desired.
this tract was made because of struc- here described a plunging anticline has
been found and mapped. The dip
symbols indicate the position and di-
dection of dip of the stratified rocks as
exposed in this area The main fea-
tures of this structure are based on
the outcrop of a white limy sandstone
which weathers to a dark brown color
in the western part of this trad No
evidence of direct east dip was found, ,t
but northeast, northwest, west, south
west and southeast dips were noted
east in the northern part of the county |The structure is undoubtedly that of
GOOD INVESTMENT
BRINGS MILLIONS
Desdemona, Texas, June 5.—-W. F.
Johnson was a plumber and steamflt-
ter. He rolled out of the hay before
16 every morning, and he put in a full
day with his sleeves rolled back.
' He worked where it was greasy and
J often got all smutted up, even to the
jbrirn of his cap. His pay ( heck looked
fat, but old H. C. L. always had® its
number, and this good mechanic
didn't need to heave a lead line lo
locate the bottom of his liquid capital
at any time, until—
His good old daddy, R. F. Johnson,
of Cleburne, Texas hit upon the happy
thought of giving each of his children
$50,000, port of the proceeds of his
Hog Creek oil stock, just to live and
share in the happiness all his new-
found wealth would bring. A mighty
fine idea, and so mnch 4 better than
precipitating a scrap andihard feeling
among one's heirs after a man is
gone.
So the youngster Johnson Us no longer
fitting pi|ie for the Santa Fe Railway
at Temple, Texas. He Is doing bigger
things, his own boss, one of five
brothers and sisters* whose father had
faith ip a "wildcat."
Johnson, senior, w*s one of the
origiual investors in Hog«Creek when
it. was Just a big parcel of rolling,
rocky. dun-colored land. He recently
sold out his holdings for $1,500 000.
His original investment was only a
few thousand.
to southwest in the southern part.
Owing to this fact the normal dip of
the beds in the vicinity of Seminole
City and southward is to the south-
west.
The thickness of the sedimentary
strata in the vicinity of Seminole is
not definitely known, but from meas-
urements at the outcrops of these beds
to the eastward they are beliqved to
^ ; be thicker than 5,000 feet.
V The productive sands known in the
Cushing field and in the Okmulgee
'district will be found at greater depths
,in this area owing to the gradual thick-
ning of the formation toward the
i south as well as to the dip which is
j mostly westward and northwestward.
The exact correlations of these sands
nor their depths can not be foretold
without further drilling. The approxi-
mate depth of the "salt sand" of Ok-
mulgee county which is the equivalent
plunging anticline with its axis plung
ing toward the northwest. It becomes
very flat near the center of section
35.
Recommendations: The structure is
favorable for the accumulation of oil
and gas. The rocks underlying the
area are known to be oil and gas bear-
ing elsewhere, and the chances for this
area becoming productive are better
than any other the writer has ex-
amined in Seminole county. The likely
productive acreage has been outlined
on the plat and two locations for tost
wells have been made. No. 1 is the
best location for a 'est hole and the
No. 2 is second choice of location
These have been made after careful
plotting of the structural data. The lo-
cation for No. 1 is the SE corner of the
SW quarter of the NW quarter of
section 35, T 9N R #E The location
of No. 2 is the center of the east
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Texas Oil Fields
Eastland County --- Hilburn Field |
I have taken over a large tract of :and lying 4' miles northwest \
of the Hilburn well and have subdivided it into 10-acre tracts I offer .j.
the oil and gas lease on these 10-acre tracts at $ 10 per acre There y
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are 21 drilling wells to the southeam, 5 to the north 3 to the
and about 11 to the east Never in the history of th^ lease game has
the opportunity presented itself to you like it does in this tract. I
have sold leases up to $350 per acre In the same vicinity but because
I want to make money for you, I am offering these tracts at this price
of $150 per acre for a short time, hut drilling a< tivities in this
immediate vicinity may cause the price to go to $1,<JT>0 per acre like
it did the day the Hilburn well came in. I will reserve any 1 n acres
or more upon request by wire and corflrmation of money being
placed In escrow My attorneys have carefully examined and pre-
pared the abstract on this land and I will deliver the same with a
certified copy of the abstract and attorney's opinion together with
a blue print of the particular acreage you buy.
H. A. STILES
•j* fog Mr- j fort Worth 1Mu v
SPECIAL OFFER
$225 *
BUYS
5 Forty Acre Oil Leases
IN FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN
EASTERN NEW MEXICO
QUAY COUNTY 40 ACRES
ROOSEVELT COUNTY __40 ACRES
CURRY COUNTY 40 ACRES
CHAVES COUNTY 40 ACRES
LEA COUNTY -40 ACRES
We have recently purchasi d extensive holdings in this well known field
at a price much under the market value, otherwise we could not make this> ex-
ONLY EIGHT GROUPS OF THESE LEASES AVAILABLE
This offer good (subject to prior --ale) until June 22nd.
NKW MEXICO promise- to produce our next big oil field. I he storv of
Ranger, Burkhurnett, Homer and the others are likelv to be repeated and our
next crop of millionaire - are liable to be the men who are buying New Mexico
oil leaser today. A word to the w: <■ i- sullieient.
This Is Your Opportunity—These Leases Will Be I aken Quick
Don't wait—Wirt for vour resena tiun TOD.W !
BENEDICT & COMPANY
Fourth Floor Southwest National Bank Bldg.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
DEALERS—BROKERS—Wt «pecialne In large block, of letsei at wholesale prices. Send for detail*
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Bisbee, Sumner T. Western Oil Derrick (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1920, newspaper, June 5, 1920; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152248/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.