The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 15

THE SHREVtPORT TIMES KBRUARY 4, 1923 13 SUNDAY MORNING Expected in Suits Attacking Three Per Cent Oil Tax parly Decision HREVEPORT FIELDS INCREASED WILDCATONG INDICATES SECOND PHASE OF STEPHENS HAS 15 FRODUCERS 37 WELLS COMPLETE WITH 28 Tls filing of suits by ten oil companies to teat the legality of the 3 cent levsrsncs Ux in Iuiiian was oil Induitry during ths woek. Ths Monroe to Supply Gas to Many Cities Before Current Year Expires Spfcitl to The Times, Monrou, I.a Feb. S.The Federal Petroleum Company, regarded as th' operating division of tht Louisiana, Arkansas and Texua Development Com- pany, which proposes to pipe gas from the Monroe and south Arkansas gas belt to Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas eities. has begun a program for extensive gss development in Union county.

This is believed to bo the begin- ning of activities leading to construction of the Louisiana Development Comrf pany's pipe line from Sterlington to Port Arthur, Beaumont, Lake Charles and other points in Louisiana and Tcxm. The company also Is preparing ts drill in the Union parish area of the Monroe gss belt. The comnany owns one-half royalty interest in timber, gss and oil rights on 7H.0OO acres of lands owned by the Union Sawmill Company, of the msny enterprises and a similar royalty Interest in ap-' proximately 100,000 acre in Union parish. 1 Loratiors for wells have been made in Union parish ad In sectVn 14-1Tj 12 of Union county, on which drilling is to begin within a few weeks. agreement to pay the 2 per cent tax but contomi that the per cent I contrary to their rljfhts and confiscatory in nature, boinir above the unt of gross taxation fixed in the general, and Governor Parker conferred on tho latest turn during the i.

It hat been rumored that a special sesnion of the Louisiana It'gia- rs would be called, but thii tmwa cm within six months at a maximum, Mr. Coco aaid, even though the ation ba fought through, the supreme court of the United State. Completion! for the week in the Louisiana, Atkanaa and East Texaa gle of the Mid-Continent field totalled 37. Outstanding were two gas-one in rannla county, Texai, and the other in Webster parish. table wan the large number of; hole in the Smackover field and eline in the flush production of wells.

These two ciretimslances ther are ancp.pt ed generally as ndication that the ret of the ration has been In the est Arkansas pool. la believed that this condition accentuate wlldcatting, especial- the vicinity of Camden and operations in the offort to ex-the Arkansas light oii regions. le Stephens pool demanded notice a air. cable increase in daily Isge runs In the fnce of a gen- decline from the other proven i. mpnrative production figures This Wk.

Last Wk. i. Iisnt qi I I nil hfVT otl 2.4ti MM n-K1 ft her T.lin 7, mil wville :2 Jt.isn )0. 11.121 ue s. 'I :s.l 7S.S30 frs-1n SS.OID U.T1 tnver IS.Ciil It.C'iO mm SUO 476 1M.9M md tnNU lli.IJI Terence 13,92.6 months, Ouachita county is attracting operators from every section of the Mid-Continent field and California and Pennsylvania, who have come here to drill proven acreage or to make a wildcat test.

W'ildcatting. Twenty-five wildcat ti-sts are being drilled or will be started within the next 10 days, north, south and west of Camden. Another section of Ouachita county that the eyes of scores of operators are-on, since the favorable report of the territory by a number of promi nent geologists of the country, is the territory north of Camden across the Ouachita river near George Slciitz, Fort Worth operator, has begun drilling on a test on the Henry tract in the southeast of the southeast of section 15-11-16 in this area. W. S.

Hall has made a location in 19-11-16, and expects to move a rig in and stnrt drilling wishm 15 days. Trapshooter Riley has made two locations just north of Amy, and plans to begin his first test before February 15. The Forest Oil company, as well as a half dozen other operators, plan to have tests under way in tho Amy sector before the first of March. In the Chidester sector Black and Cochran are drilling around 2,000 feet in section 16-12-19, while Dickson and Springer are preparing to move a standard rig on their test, which is now down to a depth of 3,100 feet. The hole will be drilled to a depth of 4,000 feet, if necessary, in 'an effort to give the territory a complete test.

ii the immediate vicinity of Camden Dr. Fred B. Johnson of San Antonio, Texas, has made a location two miles west of town, and drilling will be under way by the twentieth. The Marr Drilling company has made a location on the Berg tract, two miles south of Camden, and will announce a location across the Ouachita river, five miles north of this city, during the coming week. A.

M. Sutton expects to begin drilling in the northeast of the southeast of section 24-13-16, five miles west of Camden, as soon as the rig on his Hughes No. 1, in section 28-15-16, can be released. RUSSIA LOOMS ON OIL HORIZON Pending Development by Sinclair and Barnsdall Interests Will Revive Output Tulsa, Feb. 3.

Are the giant petroleum-producing companies looking upon soviet Russia as the most likely source of oil in great volume when the fields of Mexico have be come exhausted? Such a possibility is indicated by the concessions lately obtained from the soviet by the International Barnsdall Corporation and the Sinclair Oil Corporation. Up until the end of 122 Russia has produced more oil than any other nation in the world except the United States. The majority of the production was from the ancient and famous Baku field, where oil has been produced since the earliest annals of history. Mexico did not become prominent as an oii producing nation until 1001, and she country had only two wells until Russia's petroleum producing potentialities have been lost in the chaotic conditions of careless government, war and revolution. In tho po riod between 1857-1921, inclusive, Russia has produced barrels of oil against Mexico's 729,921, 000, and the United States' barrels, (United States geographical survey figures).

On the other hand, Russia was producing oil centuries before Columbus hove in sight of San Salvador, and the earliest records of exports from the Baku district date back to the tenth century. World's -Oldest Pool. The Baku district, on the Apsheron peninsula, on the western shores of the Caspian sea, is the world's oldest commercial oil field. It sub-surface formations are as chaotic an conditions brought to Russia by Gregory Rasputin, communism und the cliekka. Its history includes being the principal- city of fire worship, and Hindus and others of the ancient civilized peoples made long pilgrtmnges to its ''sacred fires." This fire, caused from a flow of natural gas, was still burning in the temple of Surikhani as late as 1SH0.

For centuries it has been famous for its famous oil fountains" islands that have suddenly risen from its -Caspian shallows, boiling crater.i and cracks that have sometimes cum.i and gone within 21 hours. Its firs: appearance in history shows it to have belonged to the Persians. Realizing its value, Peter the Great, of Russia, annexed it in 1723. Later it was restored to Persia and re-annexoii by Russia in 18W. Owing to the confusion caused by the revolution, exact data on the field hue been hard to obtain and the last yearly production figures issued by the Lnited States geographical sur vey are for 1UIH, just before soviet Um tnnW a hold on the country.

Its principal nil elds are Balnk h-ini. Sahur.tchi. Roniani. Zubrat. liin- The Frost-Johnson and aliied inter-- esti have two or three small gas wells on thoir holding and steps to get a number of wells are, therefore taken so that, it is said, construction of the pipe line into Texas may begin.

Drilling in L'nion County, also is taken to mean that the company may have plans for early construction of a pips line to Little Rock and other cities. Negotiations are said to have been tinner way for somo time with the Gulf Refining Company and the Texas Company for contracts to supply their refineries with GO. 000,000 cubic feet of gas a day from Monroe, but the results of these negotiations are not known here. However, the inauguration of drilling by the Federal Petroleum Company, in order to have a largo supply of gas, is bf-lievetl to mean that there have been or will be favorable result in these negotiations. $250,000 Gathering System.

Announcement is made of the completion of tho Southern Carbon Company's project to link all of its carbon factories at Fairbanks, Fowler. Swarti and Spyker by pipe line and to connect these plants with all the companys' S5 or more gasscrs in the Monroe field. The project represents an outlay of $250,000 in addition to large expenditures for other pipe line construction and is one of the most important and largest undertakings ever put through in this territory since the discovery of gas. The company has laid more than 60 miles of six-inch line frcm Snyker, Morehouse parish, through Fowler nnd Fairbanks, to Svvartz, in Ouachita parish, where the company is engaged in building what is considered the largest carbon plant in the world. The company also has built a six-inch line from its producers to the nearest carbon plants.

Although the Spyker and Swartz plants are 20 miles apart, but the construction of pipe lines the company is able to operate all its plants as one. The company also has completed a pipe line to Monroe to supply local consumers through the Ouachita Nat ural Gas Company, but in particular to be ready for the extension of the pipe line alonir. the Missouri Pacific Railway to Alexandria, a distance of about 100 miles. Drilling Boom For Union. Alexandria and northern capitalists have contracted to purchase, subject to a clear title, 8000 acres of land 12 miles south of Farmerville, Union parish, where extensive developments are expected in an effort to find oil or gas.

The property will pass to the control of a syndicate that will spend a considerable sum in its operations, but the initial plans are for drillinj only one weil. The Oklahoma Oil and Gas Company, of Oklahoma City, also' is reported to have entered the Union parish part of the Monroe gas field with the purchases of leases at Dcwnsville, where several wells are to be drilled. Union parish is expected to witness extensive drilling operations within a few weeks, with a 'number of wells being drilled through the central part of the parish from the state line to the Lincoln parish line. WANT TEAPOT DOME INQUIRY TO CONTINUE (By The Assoriateil frees). Washington, Feb.

3. The senate public lands committee, which has been charged with investigation of the Teapot Come controversy today Instructed its chairman, Senator Smoot, of Utah, to eek t-nate permission to proceed willi the Inquiry after the adjourn, nicnt of congress, March 4. The committee also ratified the selection tan an nan need yesterday, of two geologist who wiU ltisixii the Teapot Dome i.il field and make; to tTiiunn wnn lie mere- was dai.Ker of drainage of oil from Well Per Week Record of New Arkansas Pool With 24 Tests Under Way Nperlal to The Timea. Stephens, Feb. S.The Wichita Petroleum Company has brought in its Jackson No, 1, in the northeast coiner of the southwest of the northeast section 23-15-20, making between and 200 barrels of high gravity oil.

This well is said to ba of excellent quality and arraiiRements are being mi.ilo to turn it into the pipe line as soon as the pump can be attached. It is located three miles due west of Stephens in the territory joining Hude and Aarncs and Srharfer Oil Company's welis. Completion of this producer made the fifteenth in the Stephens field. There hns not been a week since the first of tho year, that there lias not been a well brought in in the Stephens field. Every week new locations aro made and drilling activities are taking on new life.

More companies continue to come into the field and new wells continue to be brought in. Oil n.cn here are enthused over the outlook and the way drilling has Rtarted the year, and as the first month of the year passes a big change in development has been made. The big companies arc moving rigs in daily. Drilling Report. The week's drilling report follows: Drilling Report.

Ohio Oil Hall No. northexet corner e.f northeast at J-li. et lnrh raMna. Uulf lielinlr en.1 Proiiwlnir Conipaw. A'kin 1, "uth-mst northw-ovt of aourtiweet.

IS-IJ-je. i-t six-lnrh Hrit.lwtrtMM Oli CoTiipn-ny. Wilnpr No I nuhiveM corner suuintvest of nortliw'eii! AMantln Ke.f:ninc Slid ProdiKlni Company. Jliiner 2. norihwem comer.

nnibowesi oi liormwest, M-li-20, riaam up. Atlnnlic Tlefinlii end Produeina Com- j. northent corner, norlh-wet of northwftet. i'a-? i-20. dernck.

el el Weprr Xo. 1. eouth-eal corner, heist at southeast. li-20. drilling 700 feet.

Henmwy ar.d Ilarrlmton. Murphr 16-16-iM, ft Kix-iuch caiiiir. BummeHsi soutnwest northvreat. i rnn3conllnntal oil Company. Currv No.

1. corner, northwest nf 6-16-K. pulSlng- caeinjr et JISD ft. colflo back to 2100-foot lpvel no test for oil That was pa -it-Mi at lhi level. Thi.i convpany passed a well o.1 for in barrels in an effort to find a deep pay.

MRielard Oi! Company, Vv'alKon Xo. 1 souihenut cnrnir, southwest of northwest! 20-15-19. driUilia- ISiO feet. Mudjihy et soulhcnet corner, south west 1-4. 1 ti-19.

drilling 19TS feet. Murphy et southy.eet corner, southeast of southeast. 2I-1S-19, drlilirur 2U0 feel. Arkansas Invinerhte Corporatlim. Me-Kae No.

1, northeast corner, southeast of northwest. H-16-18. drilling fi. Oil Company, Wlliiama -'o. 1.

southeast corner, southeast of narlhwem, 12-41-1M1, drilling 2iWMI fct, Jlrmnie Cox. Burton No. 1. northeet corner, southf-ast of southwest 30-la-l7. settlna- A fine oil ar.d saji aand has been encountered in this well.

Jviroleuni Comoanv rtnntr iKo. 1, aoutueaat corner, northwest of soutii- eajtt, a-jn-iii. at 2000 feet o. 1.. Kay et Grave.

No. 1, I-H-n, drilling. Miller et northwest corner, southeast of southwest, 20-16-B, drillinx S0 feet. AlHler et northwest oorner. norlh-wn of norchwejt.

33-li-ll, drlMln- 600 feet. Oil Company, Atkina So. I. northeast corner, southwest of southwest. 13-15-20, 1000 feet.

Hude and Aarnaa contractor. Oil Company, Brown Xo norrhwRM corner, northwest of southeast. derrick. 8afer Oil Company. Brown No.

3. northeast corner, northweet of aouthea-t buildin derrick. Kaon nr.d Wof O.I Company, fmart No. 1. southwest cornr, of northeast.

3 J-lii-D. derrick. Kiss-Jog- tip Keen and wioif Oil Coonmny. smart No. 2.

aotttlif-a st corner, soulhivest of ortheoat. derrick. Clark and tirer. Hamilton and Burrls No. 1.

southeast of southwest, U-li-n. location. Jump in Crude Comes as Fourth Recent Advance The fourth advance in the price of north Louisiana and south Arkansas crudes within the last month, was posted Saturday by the Standard Oil company which advanced the price of ail grades ten cents. The advance had the effect of meet ing the ten cent raise posteoj on north Louisiana light cruder, by The Texas company Friday and tue price of Cad-do heavy, Bellevue, Kl Dorado, Haynesville, Homer and Smackover grades to the iew schedule, those grades not being quoted by the Texas company. Oil from these districts testing SO and above is quoted un-ler the new schedule at Hull Bayou Crichton 1.05; Catldo heavy DcSoto $2X'Q; Bellevue Smack-over 26 and above $1.15, below l'o gravity 70 cents.

Standard Oil's Pipeline Plant Is Transferred Formal transfer of the pipeline properties of the t-tandard Otl Co. nf to in f-tanflam ftpelitie m. was uiea in I Biico and otner parishes throuarh which tie line i i built, Saturday Consideration stated i in the transfer was XJ.m.iV,'! rl-viilpd rights' of way :M.44I; Cad- 1 puiro ata'iun 1 13.600; Mjete's sta- i J'n Lewis i pipr-iine department, of the company's hi, BOSSIER IS NEXT IN LINE Northern Portion of Parish Across Bodcaw From I larria Wcll to Be Tested Brannon Oil Company organised by W. Brannon, former L. S.

U. football star, has commenced drilling on the liotir.ger land in the southeast of the I thehst of 18-22-11, two miles no, jf Morefield and Tanner's gas well and four miles is becoming one of the most active wildcat districts in north Louisiana through the Harris weil and the several recent gas completions in several of which oil showings have been developed. Also completions north and east of the Harris wells which are about equally divided between gamers and failures have apparently determined that the pool tapped by Harris does not extend In those directions in We'bster. Consequently development itemda at present toward the southwest. There has been no activity of any sort due west or norhwest of the Harris welis.

The Fortuna Oil Company's No. 1 Baker, in section 35-23-11, is the latest development in the territory under discussion, the well blowing in triday afternoon with an eti mated capacity of 40,000,000 cubic feet of dry gaa from 2343 feet, with the drill stem in the hole. Reports from the well Saturday were that is running wild, but it is expected to be capped by Monday. The new gasier is but a few hundred feet south of Daniel' Boone's. No.

1 Baker, completed early in the year as a gasser from around 2700 feet. Tardee Oil Company commenced drilling No. 1 Boiinger in the northwest of section 3-22-11 approximately a mile south of the Harris wells, and Harris has drilled six-inch plug, drilled in and set liner for a test of his No. 4 Pinewoods Lumber Company, two locations west of his discovery well in 34-23-11, according to reports from Sarepta No information as to depth, being given out, it was stated. Activity in this particular vicinity of Bossier began several months ago, the first well being on the section line of section 27-23-11 in the Manuel O'Carte grant, whichif section-ized, would be section 33.

It was drilled to 3211 feet and developed a show of oil and gas at 2700 feet. The United Drilling Corporation also developed a show in the southeast of the southwest of 12-23-11, but finally abandoned the hole at 3250 feet. A showing of 'live oil at 2712 feet in 1-22-11 jailed to develop a producer in the next well drilled in this territory and the fourth well drilled by Lloyd Harris in 34-23-11 was completed as a big gasser at 2694 after his third attempt in the same section was brought in as the first producer in Webster outside of the Haynesville extension wells in 13-23-9. Harris is drilling another well a half-mile west of the discovery well which is expected to be completed within the next few days. Prior to Harris' activities the Atlas Drilling Company, composed of Henry Brothers and H.

B. Herring, who had been interested in Webster operations, crossed Bodciy bayou and leased a block of 3,000 in township 22, range 11, just south of the Webster lino and were the pioneers in that part of Bossier. One well is fceinpr drilled on this "block at present and two others in the vicinity are in sight. Other recent activities in townships 22 and 23 range 11, the Bossier-Webster district, were carried on by the Standard Oil Company. Daniel Boone, Fortuna Oil Company More-field and Tanner, Sales and Walker and others.

The Standard Oil Company got a show of oil and gas in No. 1 Rawles, in 15-22-11, at 2706 feet, but not enough to make a well and after drilling down to 3100 feet abandoned the rnrhs on account of salt water. Morefield and Tanner completed their Boiinger, in section 9-22-11. as a 15,000,000 cubic foot gasser at 2663 feet. The sand was penetrated IS inches and when left open any length of time the well sprays a smalt amount of oil.

Gas from this well is being used to drill the Sales ana Walker well near the center of section 32-23-11 und the Brannon test in 18-22-11. Bossier startled the world a year or so ago with the development of a commercially important field at 300 feet, due south of present activities in townships 22 and 23, range Jl, and it is well within reason that it may produce another pool during 1923. a- Favor "Reasonable" Oil Severance Tax Marnolia. Feb. 3.

The fol- lowing resolution was unanimously adopted at a general moss meeting of citizens in Magnolia last night: "Ilesolved that we as citixens in mass meeting assembled hereby go on record as favoring a reasonable severance tax and ask our two representatives and our senator to support same." FORTYYEARS COURTHOUSE FIGHT AT END neelal to The Tlinrv Texarkana, Txas, Feb. citizen from all section of Bowi County, Texas, attend the meeting at the court-hcrt'fe at Boston today, called ly Representative Dotld to give expression to their view concerning a bill he has Introduced in th Ifg-lfilature providing for a court nf law at TeNstkana, fur the convenience of the reopl of that clly but leaving tlip and all county offices at Boston. The meeting Is reported a.i hcing rntirely harmonious. It wai decided that a committer of twelv from the west end of the county inept with the Texarkana committee at tho rourUtciuae next Satur-riav and work out the d'talla of th agreement, the flndlnpa t'iio two committees tn be 1 milted for approval to a general 1 mass1 mertlnrr of citizen of the county to he held at the same place the following morning. Texarkana citizens attending nveilng say th final aet'le-ment of the courthouse controversy which have vexed the county fir nearly forty years seems in s.hL PRODUCING the most tmpdrtant development in companies aro prepared to tit ml by state constitution.

A. Coco, attor- unlikely. A deoiaion 1 expected in NEW RECORD FOR DEEP HOLE Toolt Lost at 7.579 Feet in West Virginia Test Prevent Drilling at 10,000 Ppeelal The Tine. Slstersvllle, W. Va Feb.

Hsepest hole ever drilled measures 7579 feet. It is known as the H. Lake No. 1, No. 4304 of the Hope Natural Gas Company's West series.

The well is located on the L. H. Lake, farm, on a branch of Trickett's creek, in Winfield district, Marion county, about six and one-half miles southeast of Fairmont and near the Taylor-Marion county line, close to the axis of the Chestnut Ridge anticline. This new record well Was started by John B. Corrin, of the Hope company, in June, 1916, and drilled to a depth of 6720 feet by September 11, 1917, when it was shut down awaiting a new wire cable.

Near the close of the war the delayed cable arrived and on October 31, 1918, operations again were resumed, The expert drilling crew had no trouble of any importance on this well in drilling to 7579 feet, which is 193 feet deoper than the famous M. 0. Coff No. 1 Hope Natural Gas Company well, locted a few miles northeast of Clarksburg, Harrison county, which heretofore was the deepest well, having a depth of 7386 feet. The deep Lake No.

1 well was finally plugged by a largo caving of its walls, covering up the tools at the bottom of the hole. In attempting to withdraw them the cable part ed about 4000 feet from the bottom thus effectually sealing them in the stony tomb, Much credit and praise is given to the Hope Natural Gas Company and the drilline crew, and is another deot which science owes. It is believed that had the caving shales and slate of this well been cased off nt a depth of 6965 feet, the drilling could have been carried on down to the possible depth of 9,000 to 10,000 feet. The following is an interesting record of the well, giving its progress chronologically, its operation and other data: Location of the well was made June 22, 1916, at an elevation of 1201 feet above sea level and approximately 850 feet below the level of the Pittsburgh coal. Drilling was commenced August 5.

1916, and June 13, 1919, the well had reached a depth of 7,579 feet. Approximately 385 days had been spent in actual drilling. No oil or gas was found. After drilling to a depth of 6720 feet heavier machinery and tools were moved in and drilling continued. At a depth of 7579 feet the toola stuck in the hole and cable broke, leaving tools and about 4000 feet of cable in the hole.

Work was discontinued. Diameter of hole, 13 inches to a depth of 310 feet; 10 inches from S10 to 430 feet; 8 1-4 inches from 630 to 2118 feet; 6 6-8 inches from 2118 to bottom. The casing was 10-inch for 310 feet; 8 1-4-inch for 630 feet; set in big lime, and 2118 feet of 6 5-8-inch casing set in limestone. The derrick was 20 feet high with a 20-foot base. A heavy sand reel with four and one-half inch shafe was installed at a depth of 5505" feet.

One of the very valuable scientific results made available was the accurate dletermination of earth temperatures to a greater depth tlian ever before attained, which, at 7ol0 feet, were noted at 108.6 difrees F. shoIHworry' whether paper are sold or not IMvial The Enid, Feb. 3. Jack Everett, an Eagle newsboy, rereived a draft for 237.50 from the Hcrcule Oil Company, operating in the Tam-pico, Mexico, fields. This Is the second draft for that sum he has received in about 30 days.

The first draft was received early in December. About one year ago F.verelt purchased $10 worth of stock in the Hercules company. He considered the investment lost, in the light of others' experience in oil stock investments, and tried to sell his stock last fall for $25. The company had 'at that time struck oil but had not completed marketing arrangements. Accompanying Everett's draft was a letter of apology for delay in pay-trg dividends, the company explaining that because of marketing conditions it has been unable to send out dividends before.

shouldIure self out as fishing tool le The Times. Meeker, Feb. 3. A bit was lost ii a 20-inch nnenjed hole where a test was being drilled on the Norton farm north of Meeker. A young man by thr name of Bognrd wa lowered by a rope 17fi feet intj the hole and fastened a cable to the tool, by which it was recovered.

Sson auer Regard's successful trip the hole filled w.th water. Declaration of Independence gives life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all American citizens, 1 775. Married men refuse to believe it, 1578 1922. ftpeeial The Times. Camden, Feb.

2. Two ten-cent increases, on Smaokover crude below 20 gravity within five days, numerous offers of a premium over the latest posted price of the Standard Oil company of Louisiana, and the beginning of an extensive wildcat drilling progrnin on three sides of Camden, nw locations being announced nearly every day, have been the high spots in the development In the Camden district during the past week. Small operators who last month were trying to get the big companies to accept a portion of their production at SO cents a barrel, are now being offered as high as 15 rents over, tho posted price, or 75 cents a barrel for three months contract, and quite a few offers as high as five cents a barrel over tho posted price have been made by companies having large storage facilities and insufficient production in sight to fill same, or those who have large contracts to fill, and expect the price to go higher. With more than 2,500,000 barrels of crude In earthen and steel storage in Ouachita county, the 30 cents a barrel increase since January 1 has caused an increased value of the crude in storage ofaiore than three-quarters of a millftn dollars. The Houston Oil company has begun work on its eight-inch line from the new station at Hebcrt.

two miles south of Camden, on the Cotton Belt railroad, to the oil field. More than five miles of pipe has been strung, and work is being rushed as rapidly as possible. The Cotton Belt railroad, who is building several miles of sidetracks to handle oil from the Houston's line, is temporarily held up on account of the wet weather, as the grading crew has been unable to work for the past week, lbs improvement being made by the railroad and the Houston Oil company at Herbert will amount to more than a quarter of a million dollars. With a record of more than 200 successful completions, wells that have or are now making oil or gas in commercial quantities, which has been accomplished in less than six NAVAJO MAY RIVAL OSAGE Discovery of 60 Gravity Oil on Reservation Also First in New Mexico Special to The Times. Bartlesville, Feb.

3. Will the history of the treatment of the American Indian record another paradox? writes N. D. Wclty from New Mexico. It appears at this time to be more than probable.

The Osage may have to acknowledge the rival claims of the Navajo and the blanket-weaving Indians of the New Mexico desert may be clothed with purple and fine linen and the American tsarist yearn for the rugs which are not. With the bringing in of an oil well on the hogback about 10 miles east of the Indian agency at Shiprock, the financial state of the Navajo may suddenly undergo a remarkable change and the oil men may have all the Osage experiences repeated in a new form in a new country. The Osages were shunted into land the whites did not want and it would take a Death Valley Scotty to see anything great about the great Navajo reservation a white man would want or at least it would have until the midwest's dream came true. The mid-west discovery well is situated on a 4800-acre Jease on the "hogback" which' runs northeasterly and southwesterly for something like 60 miles. The well is south of the San Juan and just west of the Chace.

The formations are remarkable. To the east of the hogback stands on end, at an angle of from 20 50 degrees, with a dip east of more than two degrees for many miles up, the Sun Juan. South, the formation dips wost and north it dips south, while at the well there is a startling visual display of geological formation. The rivers and the mountains near all show clearly the usual formations. Over 0 Gravity.

The oil is yellow and of very high gravity more than 60. The oil prospects on the strip of "proclamation" lands, adjoining the treaty reservation-proper on the east, are filed, covering practically all land east for 10 miles wide and 60 miles long. The reservation land near the weil will not be leased until such time as the Indians and the interior department decide upon an auction. Distant and new formations and locations may granted. The Indians stand to gain everything and lose nothing.

The Mid-West well, four feet in sand at 77S feet, is aupposed to have made 350 barrels, before the government ordered it shut down for cementing on top of sand to cut off, if possible, the 80 barrels of water and then to drill on down when sufficient tankage was secured. Oil claims here are rated as prospects. Four sections may, where this applies, be filed on. lhe fees are small Wells must be drilled 500 feet within six months, 1000 within year, and the prospect ia good fo live years One aection of proven oil land may -be retained alter discovery, five years at five per cent, and prospect holder has preference on other three 640 acres at 12 1-i! per cent for the five years Then the homestead land end lee land is sub ject to development or lease. Spanish fee lands.

School lands an.J i Tkt. I i ffrants are I tat t.av ntSr ertirie. Thie is no place for a snoestring opera-j tor and only the government is a sure 'winner on wild speculative filings. The future of the Navajos is bound up with the outcome and the oil ecouv is making the whole northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado see visions of great wraith and dream dreams of seeing a metropolis spring up over night. "Jl ST WHITTLE fOK ME." Feb.

8. Traffic police throughout France have been provided with shriil whistles which they ar-instructed to blow whenever they wir-a tn call a niotir st's attention to vio.i-tion of traffic laws. FIND f.F.RMSI London, Feb. Windsor resident found a big bund in his garage. It contained 24 small tubes.

Ka-h tube contained deadly disease laboratory tests liter thowed. Source of the germs is a mystery. Good Oil Show rr in 22 Feet of Sand in jlperlnl The Times. i Rich nill. Feb.

S.The bit of the drill in the l.ich Hill Oil Cem' pnny's well Xo, 1, located on th Philbrick farm, three miles iouth east of Rich Hill, has penetrate! the oil sand to depth of 22 feet, with a fine showing for success, ful oil well. The bit went Into the sand Saturday night at a depth 2288 feet and the drill was down. When the drilling was resume; visitors from all the surrounding country were at the well. The sand, known as the Trento-i' sand, is found below the Mississippi lime, and explodes the. theory of prom' inent geologists that no oil sand could be found below the Mississippi lime.

The Rich Hill Oil as its name indicates, is a home com-pany, and probably one-half the pop ulation of the town are stockholder in the concern. Calhoun County May Be Location Of Next Oil Pool; Special to The Time. El Dorado, Feb. 3. Considerable attention is being paid CaU houn county where a well abandoned and plugged several months ago if' now flowing 29 gravity oil.

The well-which is the center of discussion, i the old Natural Gas Company's Chil ders No. 1 well, in section 1-15-lS1 It was drilled in three years age, before the well that is known as ths Smackover discovery well was eveii started. The Arkansas Natural hs4 bought a checkerboard area of sevs era thousand acres in Calhoun ami Ouachita counties. In the first of the seven wells section 14-15-14, eight-inch casing had been set to a depth of I960 feet, On the second, in section 10-15-13, s.5 116-foot derrick has been rigged and the well will spud in this week. Two wells not inlcuded in the and far to the west, were dry holes.

The government geological survee, of this region gives the oil-bearing, formation a range of 18 miles by fou miles, running across sections 13, 1J and 15. This is in both Ouachita and, Calhoun counties. 31, Feeding the Hungry 1 Oil Field Oil Oil Oil! Where does ii. all come from? Wildcats and wild speculators and wild' guesses, and still the procession continues to new fields. records, new well.

Trooping to the call of thr magic fluid they come little fellows and big ones like the- children followed the Piecl Piper of Hamelin. And the Trail leads them to Bender, the oil man's source ol -supply, whence they away Byers Genuine Wrought Iron Upset Drill and Wheelin T. tVig -utI Tt IVIonkeV renches, we mean. Even lowly monkey wTench comes into its own at Bender's." are open erKj wrenches. justable wrenches pipe wrenches from the babies ta i the grown-up sizes; and 1 f11w -fL toilow totlgs.

and IO Otl Wllh i out end. Ve Ifc tne j0J, Qf rr thc man MWll A3 the HWi; mill man with just about ev 'erything worthy of membership in the Supply family. Phones 979-5032 iron Snpplj Cnmpani 1I3 Msmhal! fchr report. rati mrletions of th week were dis- ted as follows: Caddo, 2, one lucer and one dry; Haynesville, vroducers: x.lm Grove, two (icing oil wells and one failure; hatta, one gasser; Webster, two Irs and a failure; Panola coun- tos-t Texas, a zaiser; bl Dorado, In 1 Smackover, 15 produc ed one lailure; Stephen, one Lell. The completions of the follow: Louisiana Ltborne parish, Haynesville pool: Oil Company, three wells, fo.

unt, 16-23-8, with 75 barrels at feet; No. 7 J. R. Sherman, 150 barrels at 28S3 feet; J. R.

Slierman, same section, arrels at 2810 feet. abater sjarish: 01 Field Gas lany, No. 1 Camp, 25-23-10, with ,001) cubic feet gas at feet. fcr et al No. 1 Hodzen, 15-21-10, 36 million cubic leet of gas at feet.

Woodley Petroleum Coin- No. 1 Cam.pbe.1, 2-i2-10, salt abandoned, 2057 feet. pdo (parish: Arkansas Natural ompany, No. 2rS Arms anu l.ny, 15, dry and abandoned at 36Jo Fortuna OH No. 8 i heirs, with 100 bar- it 1852 feet Isier parish, Em Grove district: Lial No.

1 Kee, 22-17-12, hrater, abandoned at teet; Refininir Company, No. 11 let, 24-18-12, with B0 barrels at feet and -No. 14 Hodges z-with 25 barrels at 1MO feet. Vchiia parish: Southern Car- omoanv. i r.iften, 10.000,000 cubic leet of gas at feet.

East Texaa oila county: H. S. Morns, trus- Ko. 4 ti. werner, js.

-ht survey, 50,000,000 cuoic hi gas at 2600 feet. Arkansas himbia county, Stephens dis- Ohio Oil Company, No. 1 liu- 100 barrels at 2000 feet. Dorado, Kastside pool: Jarmen No. 2 Smith, 29-1 1 -14, zou nar- 2210 feet.

ackover pool: Amerada Petro- Comoanv. No. 1 t-iniBs, o-io- b.OOO.OUO cl.V.s feet eas and 75 Is of oil at 2010 feet. Bradstreet ompany. No.

1 Lewis, Ja-16-lo, 4500 barre at 20tio leet. r.m- and Fuel Company, No. A-2 36-15-16. dry. abandoned, ZU-u and No.

i lnahan, 36-1 o-lrt. 2015 feet. Federal Petroleum Wny, No. 1, McDonald, 34-lo-l. ,000 cubic teet ol gas ana -o oil at 2000 leet.

notision nd Refining Company, No. 5 32-15-15, 750 barrels oil ana 20 feet, and No. 1 McDonald, 16. with 10.000,000 cubic feet of id 25 barrels of oil at 2OO0 fpet. kit et a.1..

No. 1 Iter dry and abandoned at 221o Bf Refining Company, No. 1 Mc- 4-16-16. 50 barrels and b.uiiu,- klbic feet of gas at 2125 feet 1 J. W.

Pnrnm et 1-18- th 40,000,000 cub feet gas and IrreU oil spray. Olvey et -l Cmstead, 30-lti-lo, dry at feet. Pan-American Petroleum ny, No. 1 L. Werner Saw Mill iny, 82-15-10, water at 2053 Al.

Richardson, No. 1 Shoten, 15, 600 barrels at 20o0 feet, ir Oil Company, No. B-2 Lene- 36-15-16, with 700 barrels at feet and Nos. 2 and 5 t'laimi- ii 6-15-15. with 10'J barrels at feet and 150 barrels at 20m.

Standard Oil Ccmnany. No. B-2 t. 32-le-ln. 2O.U0O 000 CJbie feet id 176 barrels oil at 1090 feet o.

1 Saxon, 4-16-16. with 100 la at 2000 fret. Marion Travis, I Bradley, 13-15-16, abandoned 00 feet. Pan-American Oii ny. No.

A-l Saxon, 73 -barrels 10 feet. The Texas Company it K. b. Saxon. 4-16-16, with 60 at 2000 feet.

rison Oil Lease Is Sold or $10,000 to The Timet, phall, Texas, Feb. 3. Papers 'iled here this a'ternonn in the office by 1. M. Mays, of Wood, and R.

S. Allen, of iall, conveying half tntereH ii teases in Harrison county to .1. jrpen, In consideration of lease covers 10.445 acres eastern portion of Harrison four and one-half miles aat of Scottsville on the Wil-Inns; headlight. world' annual of raw reckoned at about .1.000. I pounds, of which about per i produced in countries ef the empire, the reserve as contended by Sec-' ne items continually devoured retary Kali, of the Interior depart- by lhe hungry oil field, in Justifying extension t-f a lease to Harry Sinclair.

Thette geologist are expected to. begin their investigation aa soon HOW iYlanV as Mtather conditions in Wyoming 1 atradi. Surakhani. Holy 1: land and oa station and Lane gate biui-Ei'oat. This latter field, which lies between two and three miles The Mandard Pipeline Company the south of the citv of Baku, has reorganisation of Standard yielded some very prolific wells.

I aa Yi i ,1 it i separMe oraniiat ion as the result of Many of the wells, especially I bsnt-i-abMittfhi field, about eight will permit, probhaly about March t. work will tk a nionlh and the committee plana to lay hearir-; until after the geologists have repotted. Leery Is Receiver for Haynesville Bankrupt W. Tary. appointed bv Judpe (1.

w. Jack in the federal court yesterday, as receiver for Marshall ft -ta-tielman. merchant of and Natchitoches pursuant to petition filed by A. Samuels ami othe-s In bankruptcy procre.l.ns, again.t Seinmelntan. Th? pptitionpr allege that Semmrt man iedr.

insolvency to thom in a letter. OF INTEREST TO YOIT Tndny thai mr Rar.ktr ard Snn. nin ntj wnii'n thi nr.ir.trr ov-r fi Itt oil nwi cf (jnrnd'K 'h TiirTvUH Mt on tkxa. UU tvl nth'- Mat ft not. 1 ttrvi'4TiE iriiiwfuuan.

ncT In it riM (in n't months. 12: tr m-'tith. nd l-Vrf rvify or y-r. $4 V'Tt or writ for utm- bt exBo-A-rf OTliy pAVT t'li hhrl )i i.tiitsin and Ainw. thss ft.MT.P tit Th OH.

HOKI rr'r admit milM fretw Ti ittit ttne. ad a out THE OH, WORM Hhmtwt. In. 1 vit itarflr l.tlfl. miles northeast of Btku, were the I largest the world has ever known.

phase of the contract, Capt. John F. They doubled and tripled the huge1 l.tirey, president of the l.ucry Manu-1 Mexican wells in estimated produc-; facfurit.g Corporation, whiih has su'o-tion. With little knowledge how contracted with the Barr.stlail inter-; ta control such wells, a largo per- est says: rentage of them were lost stud result-1 "We already have about' CO rotary! edin rivers of oil flowing into the; drilling outfits in Rusria, shipped Caspian sea. there before the war and during the Will Chang Methods.

Kerensky teglr.ie. Heiently we sent' r-. en todey many wclU a-e still ditg 10 retary outfits to the soviet gov-; by hand and known as shaft wells. eminent. The Ratnedhll contract The depths average about Oil to 70 for th- starting of at least 20 weMs feet.

Fire after fire, from the ear- th' yea-." ire-it history of the field. ha swept The field, up urtil the present, has over it and out upon the Ca'pim'been operated tinker the -fre fall': sea, its surface coated with petr t- jyte-n, reinhing v.el'.s being leuni. It was thee frequent disasters drt) el as near csch other' as they tha; ntade it krown the region of I could get. This was mused by the "burning water." I chsotlc conditions of the ub-sur'ae Very litCe development in the field I torn.ations. each me p-ej jring from has been done modern eq lin- a dil'ferert l.oriion.

Thr ment. In following the o-itl'nrs o'-fsTttain i-it nj to snare thp coir rvcn. 2ft rotarr kfpt working t.vr period of 1 fetus. Rtlativ to thi t.n n.i t- .1 dri 1 for rip fl-pn T-. horizon hav- ir had Lttl t.

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