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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. SUSTPAY. JULY 23, 1922. ITHIIITEEN GULF COAST WELLS PRODUCTION DROPS -Barbers Hill Saratoga Sour Lake Spindle Top Somerset West Columbia Orange Kdgerly Jenning." Aiisele With exception of ano'lier' sen- I rational welj completed the forepart of the week by the Gulf Production Company in No. 2 Chapman-Bryan at Goose CreeH.

which was good for S.OOO barrels, pinched In, the coastal fields had but little to offer Jn the -way of new completions. The Gulfa No. 2 Chapman-Bryan was completed Monday and was brought in without screen being at 4 360 feot. However. Wednesday night it Bonded up and )t was decided to set screen and restore production This well Is 300 feet north of No.

1 Chapman-Bryan, brought in March SO from an open lials at 4.26U feet, and which up to July 21 when it sanded up ha4 made close to a million barrels ot oil. Screen will alao be get in. No. 1. The fact that norie was set and the formation held up within saving waa attributed to the large volume ot oil and heavy gas pressure.

There appears to be very little worry among coastal producers over tha unstable conditions of the oil market during the It was the consensus of opinion that the fluctuations were only temporary and that when conditions werq set- ujd prices would go back with a The vice president of one of the Vinton major companies this afternoon Totals that it was his opinion that as long aa coastal production continue to fall Off as it had been do- inp for the past few weeks there was little danger of a cut in South Texas all. However, he stated that should production begin to mount and it became necessary to place a large surplus of storage a reduction in the posted price of crude in srulf coast territory could be expected. Not AJfoctnl by Strike. In so far as the railroad strike situation is concerned, the coastal operator feels that he ia sitting on. top of the world.

While other sections of tbe state and county are be- inf handicapped by tha Inability-to move oil by rail, the fields of South Toxas enjoy an outlet to the refineries-and to deep water by adequate pipe line facilities to every field. With a coal famine assured the coming winter, and the fact that the intrusion of salt water lo the oil fields of Mexico will by. materially affect the imports, from that country, removing coastal fuel oil from with Mexican crude, the coastal operator sees very little cause for worry over present existing conditions. Figures compiled by the Oil Trade Journal show that stocks of crude oil In the states, of Tjxas and Louisiana on 1 to be estimated at 58,011.900 barrels, representing: a decline of 122.609 barrels from those on hand June 1. On July 1 coastal -were os- timated at 17,865.166 barrels, as compared, to June 1 stocks totaling 17,387463 barrels.

In North and Central Texas stocks on hajid July 1 totaled St.458,383 barrels, as compared to those of-June 1 amounting to barrels, and in Louisiana July stocks were estimated at 10,688,151 barrels, as compared to 12,446,938 June 1. Field on hand July 1, 1921 in the states of Texas and Louisiana were estimated at 33.365,723 barrels, distributed as follows; Gulf coast district. 13.261.932 barrels; North and Central Texan, 14.486.688 and Louisiana, 5.617,103 barrels. At Barbers Hill the Hlndman- Pugh-Bennett's No. 2 Japhet lute in the woak had gotten the hole cleared and were resetting a finer scnv in the hopes of combatting the sand, cam5 In when it blew In and gave indications of being a big producer two weeks, ago.

but soon sanded up. Thn Kirby Petroleum Company's No. 1 Richardson Is reported preparing to around 2.300 feet At Damon Mound the Hyde duction Company's No. 1 Lockwood Is drilling around 3.700 feet No. 1 Gibson ia down below 2,760 feet and the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company's No.

4 Williamson i.s i i around 3,860 feet and Is reported in. a good- looking sarid. Both these latter wells are offsets. At Pierce Junction the Humble Oil and Refining Company's No. 9 Dooley Is drilling at 3.850 feet: No.

2 shut down 3,766 No. 3 sidetracking 3,580 feet: No. 2 Cooper i i 4.350 feet: No. 3 Whltehead fishing- 4.ISO foct. The Sun Company's No.

3 Whitehead drilling 3,700 feet; No. 1 Tiapior drilling 3.395 feet. The Junction On Company's No. 1 Howe i ing. Florida-Texas Oil Company's No.

1 Myers drilling 3.650 feet. Tex- GTJIF COAST PEODUCUOH. The average estimated production of the fields ot the gulf coast for the--present week was barrels, representing a decline from the- previous week amounting to but 1.435 barrels. Production-by fields for the present week as compared lo that of Ids previous one was as follows: Last Previous week, wruk- 1.115 375 1.175 2.700 75 15,400 1.210 375 A A Itidge 1.900 Damon Mound 6 Dayton 75 12,000 MOOS Humble Markham Pierce 75 2.400 1.725 4,635 820 1,850 27.000 16.000 GO 3,430 102.440 6.5UO 75 2.500 4.650 830 1,850 28,000 15.000 230 500 75 3,500 103.875 as Coast OH Company's No. 1 Set u-gast drilling 3.COO feet The Production Company's No 1 UJnso idated Royalties drilling 4.31U IpuV No.

1 Fitzsimmons-Hamman fish ng. In the Sour Lake field the oulf Production Company's No. 60 Tarver. Hardin has been at feet; No. 61 rigging up.

Ihe Humble Oil and Refining Company a No. 10 Humble-West drilling 2.225 feet The Texas Company's f-o. i43 iee sidetracking 1.535 feet. The Lake View Oil Compa.uy'3 No. 28 rigging up Hardie Oil Company No.

21 drilling 900 feet. The Sun Company No Merchant 2.000 feet The Xlnitod Oil and Fuel Company No. 14 derrick. The Lake Oil Company's No. 6 Jackson balling 1,860 feet.

Tom Barkley's No. 4 Carpenter Ridge field the Gulf Production Company's No. 6 Luscher which extended the field a half mile south wherf it cams in July 12 flow- log 1,500 barrels is still holding up around 1.300 barrels daily. Tho Texas Company's No. 9 Robinson set eight at 3.100 feet and drilling around 3.175 feet.

Neils No. 1 Ewing drilling 2.805 feet In the Hull field the Gulf Production Company No. 9 Scarborough drilling 2,720 feet: No. 10 drilling 2850 feet; Phoenix drilling feet; No. 31 drilling 410 feet: No.

1 Hanna Fee rigging up. The Empire Gas and Fuel Company's No. 6 Bnrngrovsr balling 3.526 feet F. H. Carpenter trustee's No.

1 Steng- Jer bailing 3.158 feet. The Higgins 011 anti Fuel Company's No. 1 Merchant bailing feet; No. 2 drilling 1.500 feet rhc Houston Production Company's No. 3 Slangier abandoned 701 feet; No.

11 Barngrover drilling 2.6GO feet; No. 7 sidetracking. The Humble OIK and Refining Company's No. 1 Hooks-Spell rigging up to work over; No. 2 flowing 100 barrels through drill stem; No.

lo Guedry pulling screen to deepen: No. 1 Taylor drilling feot. Link Oil Corporation's No. 1 Revere derrick. The Republic Production Company's No.

1 Hanna on the-western side of the Hull structure which had a good showing of oil around 1.950 feot which proved up the Hull field as having production on all four sides, is drilling around 2..50 feet: No. Hanna is drilling around L550 feet: No. 47 Dolbear showing oil at 2 525 feet The Yount-Lec Oil Company's! "Id well No. 1 Merchant is still flow-Ing around 4.000 barrels, 40 per cent basic sediment and water; No." 2 fishing' 1.810 feet; No. 1 Stengler, another old producer, is still putting out 2.000 barrels dally, 30 per cent basic sediment and water- No.

3 drilling: 3,400 feet: No. 3 drilling 1,176 feet. The Fuson Development Company's No. 1 is drill- Ing at 570 feet and the Monarch OH and Refining Company's No. Harrison is showing oil and gas at 2,835 feet.

In Other In the Batson field the Ada Bell Oil Company's No. 63 Carlton is a derrick. and Refining CoraiSany's No. Simma-Smiih is drilling at feet: 'No. 32 Shilling is drilling at 3070 feet: No.

48 Gaillard Is drill- ink' at' 4.600 feet; No. 25 Sweet'la drilling at 1.800. eft; No. 25 Gaal- lard Peninsula is. drilling at 3.525 feet; No.

1 Harrell. bailing, showing little oil at 4.250 feet; No. 2 is drill- at 3.475 feet; No. 1 Isenhour shot to sidetrack around 3.400 feet: No. 1 Isenhour is drilling at J.650 feet: No.

10 Beaumont la drilling at 650 feet The Higspen Petroleum Company's. No. 1 Scuriega is pulling liner at 4,425 feet; No. 2 standing; No. 1 Busvh.

shut down. 4 feet. Goost. Creek Oil corporation's No. 5 Freenian-Stateland Fa drilling at 3.510 feet Turnbow Oil Corporation's No.

Schilling is shut down. Gulf Coast Oil Corporation and the Crown Oil and Refining Company's No. 36 Gaillard is drilling nt 3.300 feet. Crown OH and Refining Company's No. 17 Gillett.

derrick. The Gulf Production Company's No. 3 -Chapman-Bryan is drilling at 2.900 fec-t: No. 5 Isenhour is drilling at 4.500 feet; No. 15 J.

Gaillard-Pc-e is drilling at 2,950 feet: No. 7 Houston-Smith is drilling at 2.875 feet; No. 10 Prftther Drillers is pumping 40 barrels at 2.600 feet; No. 1 Hirsch-Stateland. derrick.

In the West Columbia field the Gulf Production Company's No. 5 H. Masterson is drilling deeper at 2.5iB feet: No. 5 Eyres, rigging up to deepen. The Humble Oil and Refining Company's No.

1 Badge is drill- Ing at 3.376 feet; No. 34 Japhet drilling at 3.465 feet; No. 35 is drill- ins? at 3.745 feet: No. 9 is drilling at 3 390 feet- No. 2 Williamson is drill- in" at 3 460 No.

4 Melgard. derrick; No. 2 Badge, derrick; No. 1 Wilson, fishing at 3.000 feet The Texas Company's No. 21 Arnold Is bailing at 2.850 feet; No.

7 Abrams. sidetracking at 3.045, feet; No. 8 is drilling at 3.475 feet: No. 9 is drilling at 3.170 fpet; No. 72 Hogg is balling at 4.635 feet; No.

73 is pulling screen at 3.670 feet; No. 74 is drilling at 4.295 feet; No. 76, derrick: No. 77 is drilling at 2.800 feet; No. 78.

shut down at 2.SOO feet The Hyde Production Company's No. 1 Nash-Faikney is drilling at 2.765 feet- the Crown Oil "and Rciinlng Company's No. 3 Melgard is milling at 3 390 feet: No. 3 Olscheweski IB drilling at 2.935 feet. The Monarch Oil and Rfining Company's No.

2 Brooks at 3,700 feet. Wichita Petroleum Company's No. 2 Faikney is drilling at 2.500 feet At Orango the Gulf Production Company's deep well, No. 4 Kishi- Lang- feet. Is repairing collapsed casing and when completed will test open hole at thai depth where around fifteen feet ol broken formation has been picked up showing considerable oil: The Amerada Petroleum Company's No.

1 Stato A. drilling 3.050 feet; No. 3 State sidetracking 2,790 feet Atlantic Oil Producing Company's No. 4 Moore, going on air at 3,315 Jeet. Brownie Babbette Oil Company's No.

4 McLean, drilling 2.925 feet: No. 5 drilling. 2.675 feet: No. 8. rigging up; No.

4 Peyito bailing 3.200 feet; 5. pumping parrels 10 per cent basic sediment and water; Edgerly Petroleum Company's No. 9 Carbello, 3.425 REST FELT IS IEEPTE5T5 BEIJEVZD NEW WELLS MAY RESULT IN MARKED PEO- DUCTION fflCEEASE. Special to Orange. July 31- There was a revival of interest on the east side his week whan the Humble Oil and efinine Company struck 25 feet of ich pay sand In No.

2 Aronson, trhieh is JOO feet farther east the Humble No. 1 Aronson. extended the field westward 800 feet several weeks ago. The Humble Aronson No, 1, while avlng produced otl at rate of rom 250 to 700 barrels a day. has feet.

"Gulf Coast Oil Company's No, 3 Leon, buildiPE standard rig 3,550 feet. Hamilton Oil Corporation's No. 1 Chesson milling 3,840 fnet; No. 2, washing 4,075 feet; No. 6, flowing 1,500 barrels.

18 per cent basic sediment: No 7. bailing 3,910 rfeet: No. 8, bailing 3.900 feet: -No. 9, derrick: 10 drilling. 3.600 feet.

Humble Oil and Refining Company's No. 9 Chesson drilltog 3.390 feet; No. 13 Chesson drilling 3.120 feet; No. 15. location No.

16. reaming 3,220 feet: Myers, feet: No. 5 Win! free, feet: No. 5. side tracking 3.160 feet; No.

2 Aronson, drilling 3,280 feet; No. bailing 3.220 ffet: No. 1 Carbello drilling, 3,430 feet Orange Petoleum Company's No. 3 Chesson blew ou and sanded up at No. 3 Win! free, drilling 2.750 feet.

Paraffin Oil Compaov'e No. 1 Garner, drilling 3,400 feet. Pryitt Mexia Oi! Com pany's No. 2 States, flow-Ing 800 bar rels pipe line oil at 3.330 Th Sun Company's No. 2 Belile.

fish ing 3.680 feet; No. 1 Brown, flshin 4,200 feet; No. 3 Gunatream, rigjrin. up; No. 1 Kishl.

drilling: 4.350 feet No. 1 Minor, pulling strainer, dfppen. Sinclair Oil and Gas Com pany's No. 2 Granger, balling: 3,30 No. 1 States-Parker, drillin 750 feet.

Thrift Oil Company's No 3 McGuire, blowing outvsa.lt -wate and sand 2,780 feet. Monarch The Rio Bravo-Oil Company's No. and Refining Company's No. 2 Gail B-2S at Saratoga is drilling at 750 More, drilling 2,690 feet: No B. san feet The Gulf Production Com- showing oil at 3.290'feet.

Suprem pany's No. 1 Mayo is drilling at 600 Oil Company's No. 2 Jackson, drill foot. Ing 2.100 feet (Copyright 1S22, At Goose Creek the Humble Oil i Fred Ennist.) FIEUHHICH HIGH MATHT OF 250 BEACHED TIME SINCE FIELD OPENED. American Petroleum Institute disclosed today.

May 12.229,975 barrels of motor fuel were refined, topping by over a million barrels the highest previous record m.ide in September, 1922. Yet. n'ccnrdtnp to the institute's figures. If all production should coase simultaneously there would be only I'igtuy-two gallons a piece for the 10,448,632 automobiles registered In country. Despite the record-breaking production month of May.

849,004 bar- wero withdrawn from reserves lo simply the current demand, it was shown. Special to The Cameron. July the first since the 'discovery well was. drilled In the Milam County shallow pool, production has reached the high mark of 250 barrels per day. The wella being completed lately arc of the twenty-barrel variety and aro being drilled in what Is believed to be the heart of this pool.

Drilling has been carried on In a somewhat fever haste by the operators, who have boon endeavoring to Increase the production. The Owens Refining Company on the Sap Railroad ncvcn mllw south of Cameron In a i the entire output of the field. The price for ilia Mllam County crude oil has been reduced by this company following the cut in midcontlncnt and North Texan crude from J1.75 to $1.50. The former price hns held since the first day of Fobruary this There arc now some i wolls that arc producing in the field although nomc of them aro not con- Ducted up to the pump. Some, seven or eight wells arc drilling in the proven territory with several that ihave been shut down foV somn llmfe waiting orders on the outside.

Some of the In the southern part of Uij; county havo brcn expected in but have had trouble with water and r.avlngs Jn the r.olon. Severn! of the largo companies have, representatives in the field checking up on the production and i i In the district. Thn number of new locations made In the county and the thousands-of ncres that have boc.n loaned for development Is cauning commotion In oil circles on account of the reduction or crude prices In the mid-continent fields which fixpoctert would curtail wildcattlng. An nounccmnntii have been made that unveral of the larger Independents arc praparlng to enter the shallow pool to develop property they have recently purchased. Thi- Felix Company or Fort Worth will develop the Robert IHIMICS lease, which already hat.

one producing woll. Cut in Crude Oil Should Result in Good oi Industry T.6TAL PRODUCTION FOE PAST WEEK IS ESTIMATED AT 25,000 BARBEIS, Special to The News. Worthom. a large quantity ot water, and the well been oiie of the nost beautUul gas'-produceia in the listen" oi the field. Interest had begun to las In the vest side of the field following the ailure of the Port Arthur Tetro- eum Company to brine in a.

well on he LeFleur lease, half a mile east the field. The west side had icen detracted from considerably by he Keen activities on the east aide, vhere new suds were found and. vhere splendid production was had. With the locating of sand on the vest aide of the field, the field area ias widened to a total of near- one mile, while the length is around two miles. The Sun Company has been engaged In clearing up the hole on No.

Carrie Brown, where a lent of 25 eet of sand under pink gumbo at ,200 feet waa interrupted as a re- ult of a gas eruption that made it mposEJble for the screen to be got- en down to the bottom. The gas pressure drove the up around he drill stem to tho extent that the piping is being backed off in sin- jles, -doubles, triples or quadruples. There is still a pervailing: belief this, deep sand in its locution far to thn south and east on the east side of Cow Bayou will prove to be a wonderful producer of oIL The Gulf Production Company ia drilling- away at 4,800 feet in No. Carrie Brown, just 95 feet north, of the Sun Company's No. i.

BtK Glut Production. The Gulf Production Company's s'o. 3 Lee Hager Fee, which came two weeks ago, is being pepped up by the Gulfs No. 6 Lee Hager which has produced gas at a tremendous rate since it blew in ten days ago. This is the first circumstance of this kind where a nonoil- gasser was used to help jear the burdens of regular oi producer.

The Orange Petroleum Company's 3 Chesson blew out this week in process of trying to get to the Dottom with screen. It was though that the hole had been lost, but the efforts to get down -were finall; successful. A test will be made in this well in the next few days. Interest again centered in the Gul Production Company's No. 4-B Kisht Lang, the world's deepest rotary drilled well where oil sand wa found.

No event in the history the Orange field has held such sway in the program of activities In th Orange field as the more than a. mil' deep well, which, while representing a tedious procedure, has at.no tim permitted interest to lag in the least even at a time when the first misha: came last Sunday, when the six-toe casing parted at a depth around 1,50 feet below the surface. The indications at this tim that there will be a test made on th value of oil sand found at a depth 5,435 feet The depth of the sand found snugrly encased between tw substantial structures of gumbo, i twenty-nine feet The sand is ot th coarsest ever found in- this sectio and constitutes an extraordinaril hard formation. Oil men feel sure that the oil will be yfaf a much higher gravity than the average crude of the Orange field, although this features does not particularly appeal to them. The very outstanding odor is a feature different to any sand ever examined by local oil men on the gulf coast, they say.

While the feat ot adjusting the casing troubles was one that the average operator thought could be handled, it is admitted that the men did a splendid job in removing the casing by backing off down to the defect and replacing the old with new. In the meantime a supply of liner was provided and the well was. lined from the top to connect with the liner set from 3,600 feet on down to the pay sand. This, it is.thousrht. will moke a snug iob that will keep out salt water and allow the oil to There was an abundance of gas showing in the mud in the process of bailing the well of its column of inud when the collapse occurred in the casing.

Had it not been for the cas- ng trouble, the well probably would lave been a reality ere this time. for Bis Well. While the two weeks' careful handling of tlus well has had the effect of quieting the interest that would have otherwise been sensational regarding the well, there are who still believe that this well will surpass any well on the gulf coast. They realize that the new area touched by this well has never had The First Law Self protection is the instinct i requires -but little prompting. To select a reliable bank is an act of selfyguardianship which should not be neglected.

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Do It today-you even do not pay postage. seat. July Special 19 The News. York, July favorable to the oil Industry In the United States should result from recent crude oil price cuts, in the opinion of G. Dawcs.

president of the Pure Oil Company, sailing or. the Homeric for Europe where his company's Interests arc developing. "Crude oil cuts reflect greater activity by operators iu this country and large imports of Mexican oils," iu said. "Thrsi: conditions have developed dc.spile warnings from time to time- In Oklahoma, where now operations in January numbered 1,492 with initial production 62,000 barrels, now operations at the' end of Juno were 839,. with initial production 125.000 barrels.

"Consumption in recent' months has increased, but production and Imports increased faster. Accumulations of crude oil and warnings of overprodiictlim have never been effective In reducing operations. It Is when pressure of overburdening stocks has forced the price down that activity could be slackened enough for i to catch up and is tho natural course brought about by the present situation." Mr. Dawes said unprecedented demand for gasoline had stimulated production and that while, heavy go-soline stocks were piled up last i present rate of consumption Indicates practical exhaustion of reserves by tho end of August RESERVE SUPPLY OF GAS FOE U. S.

GEOWS SMALLEE By AwocUtprt Prow. New York, 23 Although jranollnn refineries in the United Statca aro breaking all for production, the reserve supply of "gas" for thr nation's automobiles la atcadlly growing sniallor. the 1NCRKASK PRODUCING WEL1.S lUJI'ORTKO FOR SprcUl lo The Mown. New York, 22. Further reason for the downward tendency of crude oil prices is shown by the report of tlie American Petroleum Jn- ntltuto that a total of 1.606 producing oil wells wore completed during June, or a dally average of i wells.

There has a steady increase In i i activity for about nine months, the number of successful ccnnpli-llona month being more than twice the number reported for October. In the first half of the current year there wore 78 producing woll.i completed, a dully av- uroRO of i compared with 6 5fil In the last six months of 1521, average of. Uiiny-ono, Coastal Petroleum Company. Mew Edieerly Field Well. Last week the Gulf Production Company had a well-brought Jn by accident in the Edgerly Afield that yielded pipe line oil in at the rate of 600 barrels.

Del Scott, a local contractor, shot the well at 2 800 feet, and in a short time the oil was gushing up in the derrick. The well was immediately connected up with tank. The Hamilton Oil Corporation is still engaged in an effort to release the screen in No. 1 Chesson with the view of pulling and reworking the welt At No. 2 Chesson the well has been put on the pump, but for some reason it has been found necessary to rewosh.

Wells Nos. 6 and 8 are being set with screen on the Chesson lease at depths from 3,800 to 4 000 feet All of these wells have been cemented for the last caamg The Atlantic Oil Producing Company's No. 3 Leon, which was screened at 3,350 feef, after several days bailing, was pronounced as a pumper. The Humble has the work of bail ing No. 5 Myers in progress.

This well was screened at 3,350 feet and promises to make a good pumper, as most of the wells have proven to be for the past few months on the south side of the field. The Thrift Company's No. 3 McGuire. which blew in a week ago. has proven to be the most powerful producer of water and gas to date.

While there'has been some oil coming up with the water and gas, it hkl not been handled. There are grave fears that the well will bo a ThfHumble No. 1 Paraffine, on the side of Cow Bayou, is being red for a test in the 3.200-foot sand." This well was bailed ihe open hole and sanded up. The showing was regarded as being officials ting final Wortham-Curry oil field the past week has shown a steady increase in Its production and developments. It is estimated that the total production is now about 25,000 barrels.

Snowden, McSweeney- Longbotham No. 2 haa set caging and is drilling In with good showing. There is much interest manifested in the Ranger-Vindicator Oil and Gas Company's D. Thornton well, live males west of Wortham, which has very good showing. They are now baling well and Indications are very good for production.

Trapshootcr Development Company's derrick on Mrs. R. V. Bounds' Lrack blew down last week. They are now rebuilding tho rig.

Trap- shooter Development Company will shoot well on Crouch tract at Wortham within Ihs next day or so. Trapshooter-Rieley set- casing today on tho O. Bounds No. 2 and is drilling on tho 0. Bounds No.

7 at a depth cf 2,207 feet, baying hit chalk in this well at 2,165. O. Bounds No. 11 is drilling now at a depth of 850 feet. Several wells are now setting: casing in the Wortham-Curry field.

The Star. Gas Company, which is building gas IJne to supply Wortham, Is making rapid progress in the work and it will only ne a short while before gas will be used by practically all homes in Wortham. Humphrles-McKlnney-Strangrc 1 In holding Us own in production and is one of the few wolla In this field that has produced 100 per cent pure oil from the start. No. 2 came in yesterday with over production.

It threw pure oil over 100 feet the top of a 112-foot derrick. It Is said by oil men be the beat and biggest oil well to have come In this field. No. 1 came In Thursday and, while no grange has yet boon Installed, it Is a safe estimate that Is good for over 5,000 barrels. Snowden-McSweeney-Ijong- hothom No.

2 blew In big gasser yesterday, with every Indication of a big producer. It IB Mowing 3,000,000 fowl of gas and some oil at tho present, anil it Is thought that it will be like the No. 1 and blow Itself In without being drilled In. FKBE TBIAL COTJPO" FKONTIER ASTHMA Roo'm 500-G Niagara, and Hudson Buffalo, N. Send free trial of your method to: Cures Malaria, Chills, Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds and LaGrippo.

Do wo CEIWrcn need tutoring? Tou can find a good teacher for everything, from B. to Latin. Use Thg News classified columns. an opportunity to show what could bo brought to bear on the surface. Twenty-nine feet of pure coarse sand, with'plenty of gas to pep the oil up.

is thought to be sufficient to make a well that will be the equal of the Humble's famous Chesson 5, which was an acknowledged world- beater. Three active wildcats in Orange County, with prospects for the fourth and fifth wild ones, is the history of this i of operations here. The Gulf Pipe Line Company apparently recognized that tha time to act in pipe line extension was before new developments had been started beyond Its sphere of activities. This concern is at this -time connecting the Orangu oil field with the Ged and lidgerly fields with a lpe line. This pipe line passes easy reach of the Sandy Creek Oil Company's No.

1 Stanton. near the Blltie Parker No: I Heard lirothers Taylor, and goes directly through Jacks Island, where the Jacks Island Oil Company is putting down a well. The Jacks Island Oil Company has made good progress this week since breaking loose its drill stem, which was stuck for several days as a result of a mud famine in that part Hundreds of load of mudmaking materials wero hauled for a distance of three miles to permit the work to progress. The. last report said, that a around 1.000 feet had been drilled and that a sand trap was being taken.

The drill passed through two or three well-defined gumbo strata, and then through tho proverbial shell that delights the hearts of the oil man seeking for a sign of oil. The Blllle Parker Oil Company, while battling with fuel troubles, has made sood progress for the week and the drillers looking ahead now with care for a suitable sent for the 10-inch casing, which will be set between 1,000 and 1.200 feet. Tho only showings of any consequence since leaving the surface in this well have been In gas showings on the mud. A deal of care is being exercised to hold down the gas to prevent blowouts, that have been so costly in tht; producing area of the field until operators became familiar with the tricky traits of gulf coast gas. line M.

Hruncr. who, i H. Tucker of Orange, manages the affairs for the Bllllc Parker Oil Company, Is spending some time In Kansas and cities of the North among old-Umo operators who are keeping in close touch i tho Orange field. The Sandy Creek Oil Company will probably bo takon over and operated in the completion of. the Stan- location is Sablne River through which materials will probably moved from Orange to the drilling territory abai The" CaVteV-Jewett Oil Corporation nrfir the field this week after having 1 ence.

TJEJUING BEPOET SHOWS PROGEESS IN EEKHAST OH miles here, closer to the town of sTocum, a derrick is under construction for the Colony Oil Company's initial test on the Clarence Turner farm In the Jesse Gibson headrignt company has also for a Colony in ou, mUcs "east of Slocum near Dcnson Springs a group of Tulsa. operators composed of H. L. Kollv G. Hotclikiss and B.

B. Putter have closed a contract for the drilling of a deep test in tho Joac Maria Mora league. A structural survey is now bTmg made under the of Dr. Cox, well knowa geologist and petroleum engineer Active drilling on this well will bo under way within the next thirty days, according to the con- PRODTJCTIOB' DUEDia WEEK Iff CREASED 2,500 BAEBELS OYEELAST. SpecIaT to The Ncwm.

Electro, July three fourths mile extension of the 1,500 foot-sand was the most significan development of the week in th south Electra. field. Watson, Fer guson Dyson brought in a well a that depth 4.000 feet west of Joh O'Neill's No. 2 Rio Bravo. Other com pletions were in territory that has already been proven.

An- increase in production 21.000 barrels a day, or 2,500 barrel more than a week ago. is credited the completion by the Planet Com pany of its No. 50 for 750 barre and No. 39 for 400 barrels. Thes were 1 in the sand.

Gris wold No. 20 came in for 60 barrel Griswold also pot a 100-barrel in the sand. The Texas Company completed tw wells in pay. and th Shamrock Oil Company drilled in i No. '4 Wednesday night at 1.900 feet, with an estimated production of 300 to 500 barrels.

Griswold interests have announced that they will not bring in any more wells than necessary until the price ot crude oil is advanced, following the cuts of this week. Other companies operating in the Blectrc. field expect to go ahead with their drilling. A new sand, picked up In the No, 2 Fisher of Strawn Brothers Fisher at 1,800 feet, baa aroused considerable interest in the east Electra manifest When You Subscribe for The Semi- Weekly Farm News You Get More Than Your Money's Worth-- "and Then Some" Those who axe already readers of THE FAKM NEWS know this to be the fact. aiH those who do not know find It out It they will subscribe tor it and read it.

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DO IT $1.00 a Year in Advance The Semi-Weekly Farm News GAJJVESTOK, North ing made on Montalba salt woll of the reported OreTM 'Elkhart good time Is be- i Jennings lease the refinery 'yard drilling gumbo shale with showing of chalk. TEST FOB. OH. OX LAND IX WILLIAMSON COUNTY Special to Barlelt, July 22. The north end of Williamson County is to have its first test for oil i i the near A contract has been let to the United Workers' Oil Company for a well to he drilled lo a depth of feet or pay on 5.000 acres of land aliout six miles west of RartlotU A cable tool rig i lie uxod and tha well spudded in by Aug.

1. and the railroad, c- still flowing and I is reported to be making better than i 300 barrels in the 1.900-foot sand. Offset locations have beon made by the on both tho Douglas and Jennings tracts. W. J.

Green has a new test in section 3, Grace Jennings. Green Dale have started two new wells on tho refinery grounds and across the road in section 14. Another test is under way by the Black Cat Oil Company which completed a nice test in tho 1.900-foot sand two weeks ago. The Camp Oil and Gas Company Is prepitrinp to drill Its first well on the P. Doufflas tract east of the Gulf Company's well.

McDannald's No. 1 Poufflas, section 11, is a in tho east Eloctra pool. Gumley Wbartou have a derrick up for their No. 1 Kemp Newby in section 10. not far from the.

foot well on the Fisher. The test of the National Oil Fields Company on the Grace Jennings, about half way between tie foot producer of Cuznley et al and the original south pool, is reported drilling below 1,000 feet. Harvey Cullum have completed their No. 7 Rio Bravo in section 31 for 300 barrels. This is an offset in the 1.900-foot sand to the Hereford Oil Company well on the Allingham.

SAXT WATEIl CONTIXUES TO MAKE HEADWAY IU WELLS Special to The News. New York. July Wall Street Journal says: Salt water continues to make rapid headway in the Toteco, as is shown by the soing to salt entirely of the Gulf Oil Company's No. 9 well. The subsea level of this well is 1,332 feet.

This well is located along the Toteco-Corro Aiul border, where one of the tirst wells to show water was the Gulf Company's No. 1 which has a substa level of 1.4S3 feet. The same company's No. 4 and Mexican Seaboard's No. 4.

in the heart of the field, are water at 1,313 feet, which is 170 feet shallower than the deepest well in the field. In other words, water has traveled upwards 170 feet since July 2. Tho shallowest well in the fiolo Is Mexican Seaboard's No. IS which has a subsea level jot 1.245 foct or aixty- Write for Proportion SKAT CO, Hartford, Conn. eight feet shallower than the present water level.

The proposed cut in production to 120,000 barrels a day compares with a high point of 480,000 barrels a day from the pool last February. Under the proposed agreement Mexican Seaboard is to get 38.700 barrels as against 92.000 which it was recently taking. The loss for the Gulf Company is practically the same. Mexican Petroleum is to take 42.600 against withdrawals of more than 200.000 from the Toteco pool at one time. BAILING STARTS OX ORANGE! WELL OVER MILK IN UEITU'' Special to The News.

Orange, July everything in readiness, the Gulf Production started bailing No. 4 E. Klahi Lang, the mile-deep well, this forenoon. The work of repairing the broken casing and setting of 3.600 feel of liner wan accomplished. It required a balling line of mil-i and a quarter la length, to this well..