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BEEP DRILLING DEMANDS
PERSEVERANCE AND STICK- \
TQ-II-IVEI-JESS.
| Special t? 1 1-e News.
ARDMORE, Ok. July 3.—"A
■ person can not bo a successful oil
! producer and be a pessimist. He
must have a certain amount of re-1
i ligion in his make-up or ho can I
■ > not endure the suspense .-of deep
; drilling. A person without religion
often lacks the perseverance and I
stick-to-it-iveness, that quality of
. hanging on. which an operator
needs. In all lines of business, re- 1.
ligion is one of the most impor-
tant characteristics of the business
man’s make-up.”
This is the. straight-from-t’m-.;   .;.F;
shoulder opinion of George .. .
. Strawn of Ardmore, member of tho ,
firm of Baker- & Strawn, among
the most successful operators in [I
the midcontinent field.                GEORGE IV. STRAWN.
Owe Debt to Firm.        ~~
Southern Oklahoma owes a great
• debt to Baker & Strawn. They
were the explorers who initiated,
the '-per drilling in the fields
of th. section of the State, leading
off several years ago with a. 2,800-
foot produc er, which at the time
was below all known producing.'
| horizons. Again, in a similar
■ manner a month ago, they brought
; in a 3,525-foot gusher, also bob--
rill known production in this field.;
At the time they completed their ■
, 2,800-foot well tho deepest wells.
were producing from a level around
2,500 feet. Finding of the deeper
pay stimulated deeper drilling ac-,
tiv’ity and as a result deeper wells;
were put down in all fields of'
Southern Oklahoma and the depths
regarded as necessary for tho "fair
ept” were lowered. With the bring-
ing in of their 3,525-foot well, a
similar campaign was inaugurated,
and, most important of all, the
. depths of wildcats .vere increased. .
Hewitt Beauty Spot.
Both deep wells were brought in
1 on a forty-acre tract whl. <i Baker-
Strawn own in section 22-4s-2w, in;
' the heart of the Howitt field. The,
l»aso is one of the best equipped
in the local districts, and is one
of tho beauty spots of tho Hewitt
I area.
; Frank Baker is a prominent
citizen of Tulsa and is a native
of Indiana. George AV. Strawn was
born as Bacon. Marsha a County. '
' Illinois, and during his early life
! was a pioneer in homesteading m , •
ioyd and Wheeler Cov ties, Ne-
.;ka. For about six years he
employed as a teacher. Tho
wn family were pioneers from1
! Ohio and as early as 1 -..20 settled. [
j in Illinois. Mr. Strawn’s grand- r
father, who was a large landowner, I
■'had as his attorney Abr -ham Din-
coin.                                 .
Mr. Strawn’s first venture in on
occurred in 1910, when he drilled
a. tract of land owned m fee by
the Harris brothers, one of whom
. is Big Jim. Republican national
committeeman, who 13 brouter-[
■ in-law to Mr. Strawn. The tract
was located In tho Turkey Moun-|
i tain district, six miles onth of |
) Tulsa.. He first came to Oklahoma
1901 and located at Waggoner.
'where he was engaged ’ i buying;
. corn and later in the real estate.
business.
Join as P, xlucers.
Strewn and Baker joined hands
as producers following their meet-
ing at Tulsa, at a time V ben Baker,
owned a lease in the Turkey Mono-,
tain district, which offset tho Har-
ris tract. This was in 1910.
Tho jorty-acre tract v den tnej
town in the Howitt field was ac-1
I ouired by them on Sept. 20, 1910, i
three ears ctor' tho tool was;
discovered, aney completed then-
first well in February. 1920, and1
now has sixteen producing wells •
on it, i- -hiding a set of tr’plets and
’ six twins. The wells are producing
from nine sands.
In connection with their u»n?
discoveries it is Interesting to note .
that they were the first operators
ir, this section of the State who
undertook to drill through tho thick
lime in which other producers had
ceased operation, fearing that the;
limo was of indefinite thickness,
without chance of going through it.;
for production. Their discovery of
oil below the lime shattered this,
belief.
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