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Duncan Oil and Gas News
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BEN FORD Editor
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Latest From
Stephens
County Oil
Fields
DON'T RUSH INTO COURT TO
CLAIM OIL RIGHTS LESSEES
ARE ADVISED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
OKLAHOMA CITY :ril 23 — land which ‘they in their judgmenv
Advice from school land lerrca not think may be valuable for oil and
to rush into court to claim mineral pas v
rights to lands which they hold as a “The commissioners of the land of-
result of the decision of Judge Chan fire may execute oil and pas leases
Jones in Stephens ‘county this week upon the state land and the holder
holding in effect that separate oil and of an oil and gas mining lease ma
pas leases are invklid to school lanoajgo upon such lands -and reduce' the
already leased for apricullureal pur-1 oil or pas if found to his possession
poses was given Friday by C VVjNct Discouraginp Protecting Rights
King assistant attorney gentral
“But this office does not desire to
The attorney general's office r- be understood as discouraging the
reived Friday a part of the case— school land lessees from protecting
made in the Stephens county casoi their interests to the fullest extent
styled the case of the Magnolia Pe-
troleum company vs W T Pricv
The case will be appealed from dis-
trict court to the supreme court and
eventually to the United States su-
preme court according to all parties j
and presenting to the court at every
opportunity authorities in support ot
any right which they or their attor-
neys think may attach by reason ol
this preferential right
“It is the disposition of the commls-
to the suit I sioners of the land office to expedite
Unsettled Question Causes Confusion the settlement of this question to the
“The case has occasioned great in-
terest and doubtless each school land
lease who hears of it will be led to
believe that by reason of his agricul-
tural and grazing lease he has some
sort of right and interest in any oti
and gas that may be discovered upon
the land' said King
“There has been a great deal of
confusion occasioned by the loose
bandying about of the so-called pref-
erential right of the lessee It is well
that this question now seems to be
on the road to final determination
“It will not be necessary for each
school land lessee to institute individ-
ual suit and it is to be hoped that
the school land lessees will not eacn
incur the cost of such action both
for his interest and that of the state
One suit will determine the matter
once and for all for each lessee and
for the state”
“No Affirmative Obligation on State'
There are more than 1(1000 lessees
of state school lands most of who
might be affected in the final deci-
sion of the Stephens county casa
King called attention to a formei
cas in which the attorney general
of Oklahoma filed a brief protesting
against claims of lessees to demand
Immediate sale of lands as a result
of preference rights to purchase guar-
anteed by the enabling act passed by
congress prior to statehood
King said: “It’s ‘the state’s posi
tion that the most that may be con-
ceded by the preferential right claus
is the right to buy when or if sold
by the state such portions of the fe
or title to the land as the state may
- see fit to sell and that nothing in
the act of congress or in the statute
of the state enacted subsequently im-
poses an affirmative obligation upon
the atate or vests in the lessee any
additional right
No Oil Intorust Officer Holds
“This question can and will be de-
termined by the first suit which
reaches the court of last resort and
it would be equally detrimental to
both the interest of the state and
that of the individual or several lea-
sees to maintain a large number ot
suits all involving the - same que
tion " r
- “Briefly stated the position of tne
attorney general is this: A holder
of any agricultural or grazing lease
upon atate lands has no interest In
the oil and gas produced from that
land and the commissioners of the
land office are under no obligation to
sell or offer for sale and of the state
end that all may understand fully
their respective rights and privileges
“We do not have a copy of the
journal entry in the Stephens county
case and do not wish to be considered
89 discussing the respective merits ot
that particular case”
of-
Producer Struck
on Davis Farm
is Flowing 300 bbls
ARDMORE April 23— The Her-
bert Oil Company well on the Davis
farm in the southeast corner of the
southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter of section 27-4-2w drilled
five feet into the pay sand this after-
noon and flowed 300 barrels in ten
hours The well is being drilled
deeper All the water has been shuv
out and indications point to an es-
timated production of possibly 1000
barrels daily when the well is com
pleted The top of the sand was
reached at a depth of 2549 feet The
oil ia 36 gravity
The well is located about on
fourth of a mile south of production
in the Hewilt field and about om '
mile west of the Carter-Biackwell i :
section 26-4s-2w which found the’
pay sand at 2900 feet and is pump !
ing seventy barrels from two deep
sands
1 Important Find
The Herbert well is c -'-idered aii1
important find in loctal territory in
that it aids greatly in establishing
the belief that the Hudson-Gilliam-Coline
well in setion 25-4s-2w about
one and a fourth miles southeast L
an extension to the Hewitt field
There are several wells in the vicin-
ity of the Herbert well which were
abandoned some time ago as hole
which struck the water at producing
horizon but which were not drilled
to the depth of the Herbert well It!
is very likely that all these wells will 1
be deepened in an effort to reach the
Herbert sand ' j
Reports received here from Davis
this morning state that the Choattj
No 1 in section 17-ln-2e three miles
north of Davis reached the top of
a pay sand last night at a ‘depth of
2100 feet and made several good
flows of oil The well flowed on
barrel every twenty-four minutes for
a period of one hour Water fro
an upper sand broke in and the well
flowed about twelve barrels of oil
and water when the hole caved In
The hole ia now being cleaned out
and additional casing wilf be run and
cemented There is 160 feet of open-
hole at the bottom of the well The
report stated that a 100-foot water
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sand was passed through at about
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One-eighth to 12 inch Pipe Treading a Specialty
EAST MAIN & WALNUT ST PHONE 684 I
Back of Gin and Continental Supply Co
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200 feet and then the oil sand was j
drilled into Estimates as to the pro-
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Canada - SM
Corning - Ell
SomorMt - 200
Ragland 119
North Lima 24a
Oouth Lima - 249
Indiana 232
Plymouth 179
Prineoton 292
Bull Bayou 199
Kanooo AOkla 179
Homor 179
Illinois 292
Hoaldton 100
Coroloana light 190
Corsicana hoavy 79
Eloctra — 179
Moran 179
Burkbumott — 179
Henryotta 179
Howftt 179
Rangor 179
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Thone 660 Day or Night
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AUTO IGNITION COMPANY
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Building Material Rig Timbers
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North of New Court House
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Phone 212
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LEASES ROYALTIES PRODUCTION
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If it is production leases or
royalties that you want or de-
sire to sell we are adequately
equipped to assist and servo you
in an efficient and satisfactory
manner Whether same be large
or small — we solicit your business
for all kinds of surveys and estimates
Phone 660 Balcony Wilson Barber Shop
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Phone 660 V ’
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