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Volume 4, Number 1.
NORTH TEXAS
FIELDS MAKE
. Lease and f ee ?
At Big Prices
Oil's Greatest Newspaper
"OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1920.
OSAGE GUSHER FLOODS SURROUNDING FARMS
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Copyright 1920 by We t«rn OH
Derrick Publishing I'o.
Price 5 Cent*.
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FORT WORTH, Texas. July 3.—
Oil production from the Burkburnett,
Iowa Park and Eleetra fields now ag-
gregate close to 100,000 barrels a day.
Extensions of the fields pear these
pools promise to Increase the output
of oil that has made Wichita county
famous.
Stephens county !■ producing more
than 50,000 barrels dally, and fields of
other sections In the central and north-
ern parts of Texas continue to add to
the mineral wealth of the state.
Enormous plans for drilling tests in
the new territory are under way, and
more pools are expected in the late
summer and early fall.
Some of the newer producers are as
follows:
Burkburnett Completions.
Apple and others' No. 2 Roberts, 60
barrels, 1,575 feet.
Aggers Oil company's No. 4 Daniels,
100 barrels. 1.290 feet.
Couch & Winfrey's No. 4 Daniel, 150
barrels, 1,314 feet.
Chappell & Owens' No. 8 Daniel, 75
barrels, 1,315 feet.
Danclger & Emerick Oil company's
No. 7 Misrna, BOO barrels, 1,610 feet.
Danclger Oil and Refining company's
No. 1 Siber. 250 barrels, 1.620 feet.
Gypsy Burk Oil company's No. 1
Mien. 50 barrels, 1,610 feet.
Goodley Weber Oil company's No. 7
Srannon, 75 barrels, 1.710 feet.
Same company's No. 16 Brannon, t5
barrels, 1,710 feet.
Klrby and others' No. 1 Helserman,
400 barrels, 1,650 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum company's No
14 Lawler. 15 barrels, 1.670 feet.
Oklahoma Petroleum and Gas com
pany's No. 4 Taylor Lease 1, 75 bar-
rels, 1,650 feet.
Same company's No. 5 Taylor I.ease
1, 60 barrels, 1,665 feet.
Old Colony United Oil company's
No. 2 Mlchna. 60O barrels, 1,635 feet.
P & P. Oil company's No. 2-B
Mlchna. 500 barrels, 1,640 feet.
Same company's No. 3-A Mlchna, 300
barrels, 1,665 feet.
Pioneer Oil company's No. 3 Roller
50 barrels, 1.030 feet.
Panhandle Refining company's No.
15 Heisermun, 50 barrels. 1,660 feet.
Smiley and others' No. '2 Mlchna,
500 barrels, 1.620 feet.
Sioux Oil and Refining company's
No. 3-A George, 200 barrels. 1.610
feet.
Sinclair Gulf Oil company's No. 7
Yarbough, 40 barrels. 1,620 feet.
The Texas company's No. 7 (' Birk.
600 barrels, 1.600 feet.
Stephens County Completions.
Ibex Oil company's No. 1 VVragg,
2,0000 barrels 3.113 feet.
Plateau Oil company's No 1 Ward.
1.200 barrels, inc.. 3.400 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum company's No.
i Brown. 3,500 barrels. 3,230 feet.
Gulf Production company's No. 3
Smith. 1.100 barrels, 3.140 feet.
Invincible Oil company's No. 2
ii.:ks. IB barrels. 3,360 feet.
Chapman and -others, No. 1 Johnson,
)0 i birrels, 3,240 feet.
Cooper & Henderson No. 1 Martin,
>00 barrels, 3,220 feet
Mid Kansas Oil & Gas company's
No. 1 S. 11. Hill. 50 barrels, 3.115 feet
Same company's No. 1 Richardson.
10 baiTels. 3,330 feet.
Riley .ind others' No. 1 Johnson. 600
'ja rels, 3.24S fret.
Sapulpa Oil & Refining company's
r.o 1 Ball. 175 barrels, 3,322 feet.
Scott Oil company's No 1 Max
v'ance, 600 barrels, Inc.. 3,180 feet.
Breckenrldge Oil corporation's No. |
2 Wragg. 300 barrels. 3.105 feet.
Brown's Oil company's No. 1 Guest.
L5o birrels . 3.145 feet
Same company's No. 5 Heatlev, 125
barrels. 3,165 feet. 1
Del Tex Production company's No. i
1 Smith. 50 barrels, 3,180 feet.
Humble Oil and Refining company's 1
\'o. 1 Alexander. 25 barrels, 3.244 feet.
Ranger Brooks Oil company's No. I 1
Rradshaw. 4.000-000-foot gasser at 2.- '
130 feet
Sinclair Consolidated Oil company's
No. 2 Fambrough, 50 barrels. 3,370
feet.
The Texas company's No. 2 Rosen- |
•jues*, 15 barrels, 3,384 feet.
Virginia Oil company's No. 1 Peeks
1,100 barrels, 3.172 feet.
T. P Coal and Oil company's No. 8
Hohertz. 50 barrels, 1.725 feet.
Same company's No. 7 Harris, 150
barrels. 1.812 feet.
Mahlstadt Mook Oil company's No.
\ Syvanus. 500 barrels. 3.1?>7 feet.
Eastland County Completions.
Chapman and others' No. 4 W right,
35 barrels. 3.490 feet.
Magnolia Peadleum company's No.
V SAPULPA. Okla., July 3.—The X
£ Kewanee Oil and GaB Co. has
v purchased from the Oil Fields v
•j* Producing and Refining Co., the
$ lease on 120 acres and fee of 160 ^
acres in 37-18-10 in Creek county Y
on which there are twenty pro-
X ducing wells. The price is re-
ported to be $300,000. •
<*
3 Howard, 3,000.000-foot gasser at
3,386 feet.
, States Oil corporation's No. 1 Car-
(ter. 50 barrels, 3,666 feet.
i Same company's No. 3 Par rack, 100
'.barrels.. 1.780 feet.
Sinclair Consolidated Oil company's
No. 4 Earnest, 120 barrels, 1,870 feet.
Gulf Production company's No. 1
j Ray, 225 barrels, 3,590 feet.
The Texas company's No. 19 Little-
jton, 770 barrels, inc.. at 3,390 feet,
j Root and others' No. 1 Baumgard-
ner, 8-000,000-foot gasser at 3,598 feet.
MILLIONS PAID
TO OSAGE TRIBE
PAWHUSKA, Okla., July 3. — The
Osage Nation in Oklahoma, which has
• been producing a steadily Increasing
amount of crude oil for eighteen years,
i is now producing approximately 50.-
000 barrels daily from 5,400 oil wells.
1 Under the tdministration of Cato
Sells, commissioner of Indian Affairs,
the oil and gas operations have been
conducted with unusual business abil-
ity. In the year 1913, about the time
jie took office, the nation received In
oil and gas royalties $973,822.95; last
I year, 1919, approximately $11,000,000
.! was paid the nation in royalties and
. lease bonuses, and about $6,000,000
more was earned but not divided.
Prior to his administration the na
I tion received practically nothing for
the gas produced from tribal lands;
ilast year the gas royalties alone
amounted to $838,941.38.
His Plan of encouraging exploration
of the non-producing Osage lands, fol
lowing with frequent sales of leases
in the districts given value by these
explorations, has proven enormously
beneficial to the Osages, a fact eon-
jcluslvely proven by the fact that oil
companies to acquire these drilling
j permits, have paid $30,185,794.84
, bonuses since 1915.
jjHfe if- ■'sSjgg
m
| 2,448 Wells
Now Drilling |
t AUSTIN, Texas, July 3.—There ^
X are 2,448 prospective oil wells Y
| drilling in tho state of Texas. I
Y according to a carefully com-
Y piled report. As a result of this 4*
❖ extensive drilling campaign sev-
.j. eral new oil pools have recently
^ been discovered and the outlook
*x* for the opening up of other dls-
$ triota sIho appears exceptionally
brilliant.
OIL OUTPUT
UP AGAIN IN
TWO STATES
SI,000,000 IS
EARNED IN 42
DAYS BY WELL
TULSA, Okla., July 3.—An increase
of 4,000 barrels in the daily averagf
production of Kansas was posted last
week, making the daily average of thaf
state 92,685 barrels.
At the same time. Oklahoma increast
ed more than 1,000 barrels, despite
the heavy load of maintaining las*
week's heavy flush increase of 11,0061
barrels, and tho total output of the tw<j
states averaged 379,335 barrels com-
pared with 374,085 barrels the weelc
previous.
The continued Increase of Oklahoma,
and the remarkable showing of Kan-
sas, which is attributable to the fields
north of Peabody, constitutes the lead,
lng news of the Mid-Continent field..
Production follows.
Oklahoma.
Barrero.
Cushing 34,Omo
RANGER, Texas, July 3.—Tho Ken-
neth Stoker well of tho Gulf Produc-
tion company has the distinction of
being the youngest million dollar well
in the Ranger field. The well when
forty-two days old had produced
slightly over $1,000,000 worth of oil.
The Stoker well came in May 4, and
has produced as high as 12,600 bar-
rels of oil in one day. The initial pro-
duction was in.430. This dropped after Eldorado Peabody-Flbing
two weeks to around 8.000 barrels and Augusta
tho well is now flowing about 5,000 Other fields
.barrels daily.
Healdton 31.lw
Hewitt 23.000J
Other fields 198-500;
Total 28M60
Kansai. «
Test for Beckham County.
SAYRE, Okla., July 3.- The Pierce OH
corporation is rigging up cable tools on
tho Klino farm, in the southeast cor-
ner of the northeast of 21 8n 26w.
Monroe and others No. 1, flyers farm
In the southeast corner of 9-12n-15w,
is a location.
Total
92,68^
NEWSPAPER MAN
IS MILLIONAIRE
FROM OIL GAINS
LOUISIANA OIL
PRODUCTION BIG
SHREVEPORT. La., July 3.—Twen-
ty-four new wells with more than 5,-
000 barrels initial production, was the
record of the week in the north Louis
iana oil fields. Of the completions,
fourteen were producing oil wells,
four
BEGGS. Okla., July 3 — In these days
of the bringing In of big wells In the
.Beggs district, unusual interest at.
J Cache A to ti', ',p at ions of Frank Bll-
iingslea and associates, as oil put
Frank Billlngslea in the millionaire
class. A few years ago this young
j man was reporter on a daily news-
paper at Oklahoma City on a salary of
$15 a week.
BUlingslea left his reporter Job at,
n were pruuuuiug on wann,
■re gasuers, and the olhora won Oklahoma City to work on a Tulsa pa-
Hale and Hiatt.
listed as unsuccessful
Runs from the field showed little
variation from the week before, fig-
per so that he might have the oppor-
tunity to become acquainted wtth oil
men. He soon became a small aper-
MANY RIGS WORK
NEAR AMARILLO
variation irom me wucr uc «i©,
Hominy, Okla., July 3.—Here is shown a picture of the Marland gusher in Osage
' "n- oon "barrel now on the way toward the multi-mil*
county near this city. This well blew itse1 f in before J c dri,,e" ^7^2* or f^pe "" n~ field .cored half •n..6~"Pte.
die the oil. Usually the drillers have time, or rather take time, to prepare .anks o P!
ithe completions for the week,
lines to care for the gushing oil. But this w ell burst forth, surprised the operators, and ^ . . |u ^ ^ yl„ld
flowed at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day. An emergency call was made to farmers who
.... ■ i .. 1 "11.. * L «m.in nn in p1 Tnri* savp the
f " vpIoub opportunltloa presented In thai
dis-
oit fields of Oklahoma.
from
U Darreis a aay. cmci gcuvj --—— thf Garrett leases. Red River reports j
came with their teams. Embankments were hurridly thrown up m^efforts to save the only
came with their teams, tmbankments were nurnoiy inruw.. uy. ... ;—[only three now well*. De Soto
oil but the flow was so terrific that the crude stuff flooded the land, many acres beint; brought in two i:,r«e naa well.,
ru'ned for agriculture by the petroleum, yet, while the land was made unfit for crops. Caddo a small pumper Morehouae a
,,.0 Texas, July ,-AI S fXh to give the owners Of the well the juicy sum of more than $15,000 each,*asser, wh„. Bossier broke even for
number of tho wells in thl. day. The Osage field is one of the wonders of Oklahoma.
AMARILLO,
though
locality have been shut down awaiting
supplies, each day brings forth new- , . o ...
, . . „ . ... 4i.„an npr- In a white lime formation at a depth
developments, and not only those per
' sonally Interested In the wells, but f< e .
scouts and unprejudiced onlookers be- j The Gorton Trust well, which is be-
'lieve it to be only a matier of time ing drilled an the Herring ranch
I the week with a gas well and a fail-
before something interesting will de- reported to have reached
velop.
Drilling was resumed upQii the Pud-
vine well, which has been shut down
for a few days.
A n^w location has been made by
the Smith Cappers people, because of
sand trouble at the old hole. The
derrick Is being moved at the present
time.
The Gulf well is reported as drilling
depth of
1.260 feet
The White-Parks well is reported a
(trilling at a depth of 1,450 feet.
According to reports the Tallyho
well, on the Lockhart ranch, has been pated. They
recontracted and operations will begin ; Pennsyl vanli
; in the near future 1 The Kndee
The Masterson No. 1, being drilled
GIL LAND BOUGHT WITH 10
COWS IS WORTH$1,000,000
by the Emerald Oil company, h£
down awaiting casing.
Matador No. 1 has ceased opera-
tions for a time, awaiting a fishing
tool.
Drilling on the McGee well, near
Tucumcari, was resumed. Consider-
i able water trouble has been encoun-
tered, but accord'ng to latest reports
| i no easing Is holding firm, and no
future trouble of this kind is antici
are now drilling In black
lime.
well, being drilled by K.
A. Haines, is reported as having
reached a depth of 1.600 feet.
The Standard Petroleum, north of
I Tucumcari is drilling at <>0C feet.
I The Comanche Home, drilling in
San Miguel county. Is fishing.
. being drilled by
shut drilled by this company.
i Eddy county still maintains her
lead in the number of wells drilling
or contracted for, and it is expected
that this number will be Increased
again in the very near future.
HOMER FIELD HAS
FIVE NEW GUSHERS
$1,000,000 LOST
BY REFUSING TO
PAY $28 RENTAL
Mulhall Test Spudded In.
MULHALL, Okla., July 3.—What is field In one day.
expected will be a thorough deep tesf Landry'. Oil and t
for this territory was started h
when the Mulhall Oil corporation
Parsons, Kansas, company, spudi
in its well a half mile south of h*
.The test will go to 3,500 feet if net
SHREVEPORT, La., July 3.—Five1
The largest
company
in section 18-21-7, flowing 2,<
rels. The .well was drilled
Tulsa Oil and Gas company. This is
the latest northern extension to the
Homer field. The well Is 1,450 feet
bar-'
3.—Oliver M. Morris, one of the most
Duncan field, has been here for eleven
., brother of J. Walter Morris, president of thel'311
iKtie. and E. E. Morris, former United Stat « i
DUNCAN', Okla., July
successful operators in tin
years. Morris
Tc\a> baseball
commissioner fur southern Oklahoma, and until recent 1\ general
attorney for the Pacific Electric s> stem of Los Angeles. lie
Morri- 'brothers are big factors in Stephens county od.
Oliver M Morris got on the ground floor earl) and picked
up 20 acres of the Surber farm for $400 an acre After the l ig well
Masterson No. 5
the Amarillo Oil coi
a depth of 1.N00 fee
lng set. Blvins No
ampany well, I*
reached a dept
The Prairie well,
ml'es west of Hall,
pets of tools have
well and It may b<
around the lost toe
ip;-i
setting
i of 45<
in bloc
ched
A MILLIONAIRE FROM OIL,
BA1RD STILL SELLS SHOES
SHREVEPORl
in the oi
•orkintr.
fub
t<
O.
York
than the
been lost In this <:J
necessary to drill 1 |
this
iagc
>r $1.500 an
a settled producer he disposed
acre to Wirt Franklin of Ardmore.
Oliver M. Morris tells *ome good -lories illustrating th
velouse increase in acreage values, following the completion
original Surber well.
"1 Rurkleo owned the 160 acre- adjoining the Mtrbe
on the -outh," said O. M Morris " \fter the Empire'- Surhet
making oil, he leased 80 acres to Wirt Franklin for $80,000.
leo also leased 20 acres for $18,000.
"The Rurkleo property ha- an intere-ting hi.-tor>. During
great rush to Oklahoma thirty years ag" the Burkleo farm \
settled hv a Missouri.'!!!. 1-ater he sold the 160 acres to E. Bill k
CALIFORNIA MEN
READY TO DRILL
ft the stal
being a
1 some .
if Shre>
before the
Bull Bayou,
Illinois tc
ot
AMARILLO, Texas, July 3.—A group
of oil men assembled here talked about!
some of the marvelous gains made iQt
tho price of oil leases. The conversa*.
Hon turned on Creek county, Okla.u
—, — i where tho famous field of Cushing
ere brought in in the Homer turned the oil world upside down a fetf.
years ago.
Among the oil men who told intws
esting stories of oil riches was Freci^
1,10 Sutton, a capitalist of Oklahoma City^
who made some large investments In
this section. Mr. Sutton finds It profi-
table to invest In acreage in section®
where the big oil companies plan tc
drill. Yet Mr. Sutton has not alwavj
been a winner on leases. He paawed
up one chance to become a raillionalrei
itlng a lease slip away when the
of $28 came due. This is thfc
.Mr. Sutton tells the story:
"Some yearn ago my friends and I
ng. owned a lease of R0 acres in the Cush-
fun lng field. Operations had not been
fairly started in that wonder field, so
vhen the rent of came due on th*
n acres, we decided not to pay the
mall sum.
all men who make their mil
to spend it in riot 10
did before, just foi
of these
iddi
Homer and others were disci
make hi- fortune in the oil
i. He
Pine
-ered.
A. P. r
the job,
Home
Id. Ir
KlllCtP
e fully
v and
what
■eks hi'
nvesting
unceasing
was later
us money
work, lie
discoverer
/as prover
thi
aid he
le lea
iany, ths
ould pay
ett and hi
adjoining
160
is in
fo?
url
(SPECIAL BY WIRE)
'ompany sps
for ten cow-
time. The 160
million
"In this co
joining the Sur
- tate of Okla!,
lecting the ro\,
sume
•s tr.i
ded fc
□rth about $100
, is now worth
t that
But h
citv fo
:ol- l>ee
ds he, associated wi
the new business th
a downward toboggi
iunt that had not be
attained his purpo
ollowed the lead.
I millions more in recc
his work. He seems
millions hive not turn
tra
\o\
v a plan of buying lef
iscb while
1 prl
ces are low, holding at lc
of
them until the field rea
rhes a pe-
id of development that
ought to
ike uh a lot of money. V
Ve are not
pa
using up any more bets
of $28 tc\
1106
o the chance yf making \
I ^OOO.OOO."
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