Fort Worth Record-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 11

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Water at 3170 Feet in Noe Ike SHERBINO DRILL 3750 Menzie Reports Several Sands in This Well West Texas News IRA BELL WELL MAKING OIL OUT OF A TWO-INCH PIPE PECOS SENSATION 1 l'''41 A 4 I i 1 1 4 4 '4 I 1' 1 1 'r VV i -1 -V '''''''''''1 4 '''21 tr 0 eel'' -'i I I A'''''S k4ek4 1 00' x1'z4 4'4' liri-74tc: 4 or 'V 1 i' 4 cl -k tu 4 tit it 4 itet'PS't 7I -) I -4 Av 4--A 4 -7 Ic'' 1 7: 'f '5' I 0 40 -'1 7' 4 1 4 i I i 4 4 I 1 i i t' l' ti i 1 I I I I 1 I 1 I I i i 3 1 I 1 4 'I SAN ANGELO INItirch 20--Featuren in oil development in West Texas during the week just closed were: The spudding in of Pecos county's fourth well the striking of pis at WO feet in the Sand well of the General Oil company in county a sudden and unexpected increase in the gas tiressure from Russell No I in Runnels county auffieient to provide fuel for the drilling of the Lacy test two miles distant: and an lumen firmed report that ISPLINIUM Trees are planning to abandon well No 1 on the Sid Peterson ranch in Edwnrds county because of caving due to heavy gee and start a second well nearby Mcflurnett proprietor of the St Angelus hotel and president of the Great Southern Nyndiente of San Angelo re turned early in the week from Caddo and reported that the well which the syndicate brought in two weeka ago on the Cary tract in Stephens county will likely settle down to production of about LIU barrels per day The oil s811(14 were atruck at 337s feet and during the first twelve hours following the shooting of the hole the well flowed 21ti harreIL The syndicate has thirty-six acres under lease and has made a location for a second well about a half mile from No 1 San Angelo people are stockholders in the syndicate At the well of the Ranger Investment Development company On the John NV Herrin tract three miles north of San Angelo the crew is waiting on six-4: inch casing which will be underreamed to 470 feet in another effort to shut off water The recent running of 4-inch pipe with a packer attached filthy' to effect this result and the small sized caAing will now be drawn The Whiteside 011 Si Gas company on Willis Johnson ranch eighteen miles southwest Of the city is still fishing for I tools and a joint of damaged casing WiliCil 'ste" 5 co-t0-ot f't 34 1t-Arli 0- 1 to r-444 1 I 't- 1 1-: i 1 c-44 itt "1111p 51 ili''''''t 4'1 41001VAINAit: rt4 0" C' 4: 4'i 4 7 i 5: 1''''''''''4 "'''eg'''''''''''' 'Otiale-t0V '4I'fllgtafto4agflt-''CA4 --r-'4: 41 i4tcc v-- AV 5 4 '4ik- 'f11: it -p44114--: -s 11 4 441- A'114: 4 --Nifr -74-' (:4 '''3--: 4 4 i 1 l'k A -71r4' 'K 44i A344-'-f? -3 "34 "6- -41 1' 4 f- 1 ''''1" 4::: 4z 47 2i-i ii :1 4i -k 6 :4 -s i -4 tr ''N 'K771 7 5 -44 407c4k x-i-'''' pl' 'e: '0'1 44k -y-: i51: 2 ti4 et ii b1 -J: '''ia k12' A le 4i '-'fk: i' ''A4x11- iijfi A i i-i 7': I 4 i )-V '-''''-'7 -1''rik: rtt -0 i f'r :4 V- 1 It 'I 1 4 i )4? 13 '1'- 'f 4 ii-' 1 1 s4 A ''f -4 1' 5:5 f'' 11 1 cdtixte 004 is 4f 41 fr 4 YolekWg grAllfootmA04 got A '4 IRA BEM Head of the Dixieland S3ndieste Reeves County Ranchmsts and Fortner In 'nuance Commissioner of Illinois 4- A ak A 4 "41i 1 I i I I MONM BY DICK COLLINS If you want to start some- thing in Texas drill a well and get ad No matter how small the production may be- just bring it to the top of the surface and then watch the band begin to play Ira Bell former deputy insurance commissioner of Illinois later a ranchman and irrigation boomer in Reeves county Texas has just drilled a 650-foot hole in the Pecos field Reeves county that is now bubbling oil into a 250-barrel tank and the noise that followed this performance brought the writer to the Pecos country or the Toyah Basin as some call it Forty-nine other Investiga-1 tors most of them as skeptical as the writer dropped off the Texas Pacific flyer at Pecos last Monday Most of us visited the Bell well as soon as we could get a "jitney" to haul us to the well twenty-two miles northwest of Pecos The exact facts are about as follows: The iv' ell is approxi- mately 657 feet deep Agitnted the well showed a brisk two-inch flow Matured and seasoned oil men believe that the well will make from 25 to 200 barrels oh the pump The drill has penetrated seven feet of sand The above feels have started a rush for Peeos that threatens to SAN amp a little town that regards Fort Worth as the oil capital of the Southwest And will send all its business to the Tarrant courtty nietropolk Pecos is a hustling little town full of enterprising business mon merchants ranchers etc and she in packed to the roof now tvith oil tipertitorK scout brokers anti roaming trailers who follow oil field booms The toWn IITIM tWo hoION and two good eating houses A floating population of 1500 is now el-laming each other there Naturally conditions are abnormal The uriter had to stand in line to get something to eat three times a day We NVere fortunate in having access to II OW aril's room in the tirient Mr limsard has this room engaged for the year Ile is now in New York exploiting the revolt field I didn't have to worry about a bed which I Shared Ivith a friend You have to be accommodating in a booming oil field Pecos has one oil exchange the Res' there a dozen brokers are busier than bees marketing Wises Probably a tired other broker are operating down Mak street the trading thoroughfare of Pecos Stewart of the New York Brokerage company Shreveport a New York operator hits Just started another exchange that ill house a titlzen Shreveport Fort Worth and New York broker who are headed for the scene The New York Brokerage company handled over $5000000 worth of trades in the North Louisiana fil'hIM and ranks Avith the great oil leasing organizations of the Mid-Continent l'exas and Louisiana fields Stewart is an expert in the business and promises to build up a treawnloos trade in the Pecos field Abner Davis spent three days in Peens lmvested Vat0000 in leases and a subdivision to the towu Of Pecos and wound two by persuading tine of the leading VICTORY WELL In NVard County EaRt of PIWOIS Sunsiiist Oil Corporation Drilling Operations I pq hankers of 4Mo to lease his home to the Fort Worth operator Abner predicts that Peos will prove another Ranger I I Poo Jr Wichita Falls operator took tole squint It the Pecos field and pitched his tent there Pim is a North tgrolina lawyer who PPMf'd in the army and jollied the rush to Itorkburnett after the armistice Ile VONA for his Vielitta rails associates and thin combination organized tbe Southweet syndicate It iti SMT1P syndicate too I'h intend to tackle every phase of the oil Otto Wallas the geologist of the combination is an Oklahoma university man Peterkin the engineer was graduated from Carnegie institute burg and was a member of the IVestinghousworganizatiow before he tackled the oil game in NVichita 1Vil1 Cargiola soother member of tbill firm ix a Cornell university- Mitn and Henry Casey still another partner la Boston Tech man That onght to be enough of these boys They will be heard from if the Pecos field t4t ands IIP Early Ian who has played oil all hie life rode to Pecos with Inc Early heard of the Pecos boom over in Shreveport and grabbed the first flyer to the battleground Ile can aCent oil like a geologist Early is a smart gent Passing through Dallas be interviewed the land and leasing agent of the Texas Paeific railway and inquired for acreage in Reeves county "Ill sell you all you want for $5 an aere" said the stud man This information sent Dean worrying Into Fort Worth for a confidential inter-vie with one of the laud men of an oil company Early hunted on Sorelle of the (if Produetion company "What in there to this Peron inquired the suave Dean "Go down and see for yourself" was the reply "I can get a section of land five milem from the Bell well for $5 an acre is it worth that much?" Inquired Dean 'I should say it is snap it up" replied the Gulf man Early then returned to Dallas cornered the and land man and slammed down a check for $3000 "Hand over that acreage" said Dean "Too late New York headquarters wired to discontinue selling acreage in iteeven county" said the railway land man This significant reply started Dean arushing for the field Ile decided there must be something doing and after look ing over the ground leased acreage near the Bell I "The Bell is an oil well how nowt' it will make on the pump is 'something I Avouldn't care to estimate beyond venturing en opinion that it looks like a good bet at 6:50 feet: The Sunshine Oil corporation one Of the pioneer drillere of the field will build an office building at Cedar RIM Oak streets Pecos and lay out Sunshine City on a la from the Santa Fe railroad to the eorporation's Laura well i Alfred Tinally president of the Sunshine Oil corporation and the firet man no artniatice ite nireti fqr his Wiehita "sane asgsseietes and this combination or- anizell the Southweet syndicate It ix ome syndicate too 'I' hey intend to aekle every phase 1f the oil business Otto he allas geologist of the ombluation is an Oklahoma university lan Peterkin the engineer was raduated from Carnegie institute Pitts lag and was a member of the 1Vesting-the bre he ftttle orgn I zn ion- efoarklet1 mn Vich Nita Falls il gae i Will Cargiiila soother member of tbil irm ix a 4 7ornell university- Mitn and lenry l'aey still aother partner la Itoston Teeh man That ought to be nough of these boys They ee ill be brd rom if the l'eros field t4 a 1 If I 9 up Early Dean who has played oil all hie fn rode to l'eeos with me Early heard the l'eros boom over lu Shreveport and k' 10C'743" -4r7Ic''''-r'" 1 :1 11 1 -1 1 1 4 414 1 i''' 'I'il 1 -z ki 4 a 1 i --r 2 06 0 i I 4 A '-1 1 rA 414: II c' 1: e' $') '1 v' g9 7 4 3 t-i 4-' '''''''''''r'4t :1 3 s4 6' -4: TURNER Fortner General Passenger Agent of the Te18 Pacific Railway Now Boosting the Pecos Oil Field alcil Iv 01 'COS t'7 fe 4r) 7 1 BY DICK COLLINS PECOS March 20--tra Bell whit drilled in the first producing oil well In Pecos served as deputy insuranee remmissioner 'of DUMAN before he located in reeos ten years ego Thf Bell well was financed by Springfield Ill Chicago and Mississippi people The Dixieland syndicate operating name of the company that brought in the Bell well controls all of section 30 and the eau th weRt quartet of section 20 where the Belt was driller! Bell sold shares Ur the Dixieland syndicate for $50 which called for one-tenth ot an acre in eection $0 and a shareholder'r pro-rota in the syndicates well and holdings in section 20 Eighty-four locations have been made around the Bell well The new town of Irabel on the Santa Fe line has been established Chester Blinker of Fort Worth will sub-divide the town for Bell and associates Bell and associates control 50000 Beres along the strueture on the apex of whieh the first well was drilled The new oil field is situated near the Peens river the base of a slope eolleetion that reminds oil men of the Tampico field The great oil field of Mexieo is located at the slope of a great chain of hills Geologists claim that the Pecos etruc- ture can he definitely traced out over a range of sixty miles nertheast and south west of the Bell well Bell and his assoeiates have made fifty' drilling contracts with operators Good and Sallaska of Wichita Falls Howard of Fort Worth Campbell Burris Sims of Fort Worth T11 Paltrier of Dallas and henry Hutchings of Fort Worth plan extensive operations in the field ABNER DA IS BUSY Abner Davis of Fort 1Vorth will drill forty acres adjoining the Bell well Davis hen a star rig en route to the field He also closed for tuenty acres on the Santa Fe where he will erect a refinery Davis' was the bosiest operator In the field last week seeuring approximately 4000 aeres Ile lellSeil all ef seetion 8 block 54 township 4 'f survey eon elating of 640 rieres also 473 acres in section 8 bloek 55 township 4 This total of 1113 acres is south and IN tq of the Bell well and takes in territory on both sides of the Citizen' well now drilling Davis it is said mild an average of 4200 an acre for this land jimq ski kassd 3000 aeres I -rrounri- I jog the 7ne well vhieli sptuldtl in last lweek This acreage is northeast ot Pecos The Feet IVorth operator says he limit! Viti to $I511 foie itereage around the t'' I Zone 1 The Fort Worth pluteger also bought la subdivision consisting of ixtY-toor lot north of the town located 200 yarde from the Orient hotel the SSalliorfAstoria of Pecos I 111164 believes that if the Bell field stands the acid test the toii ti of Pecos will spread northward Ile hilt mk to start one of his one-man refineries oil this subdivision Immediately Davis wound up his Pecos campaign by leasing the home of a banker named l'arker for three months with an option to buy Abner has great confidence in the field and expects to make Pecos hit operating headquarters Ile informed the writer that he had invested approximately $500000 in Peeris realty and oil property' during the week "If I had hail that kind of money when Ranger and Iturkburnett fields were discovered I would hove made $100000001' said the optimistie Abner TINALLY THE PIONEER The Pecos oil field was discovered by I Alfred Tinally president of the Sunshine Oil corporation incorperated in Texas but financed to date by El Paco and Los Angeles capital 'finally came here some year ago to develop the sulphur fields of Ite0VPS coun ty While engaged in this enterprise he discovered surface indications of oil and switched from sulphur to the oil business The Sunehine corporation has 17000p acres in Beeves NVard and Loving coun ties The corporation is now drilling the Laura well in section 17 block 4 Reeves i county the first hole put down In the 'Pecos field the Victory well in Ward 1 county and the Leeman test in Loving county Geologists predict that the RAAilii Likilas- ----7 i it of the Now id vry 11 Bell oil well Inee remocated fn well wag icago and ad tryndi- company ontrols all quarter Is drilled tad syndi tcnimthao rd0o1 hod and hold bee been 52-30k11 4 t'' it -1''''' 1 i "'(:) i i 4: I TZone Weil Two Miles West I iof the Laura New Opera 4 I ation in Pecos Field to initiate a deep test in the Peeos field proper there are two fields down here Pecos and Toyah twenty miles apart has apologized for oil all over Europe and Amer lea Tinnily cut his eyeteeth in the oil game hi the Rumanian field where some great gushers were drilled Ile prospected Mexico for oil and came to Pecos to mine sulphor found surface indivatiring of oil and shifted from sulphur to the oil business Tinnily went over the Ranger field before it was brought in and reported favorably on the field Ile was anchored in Reeves county at the time and has stuck to his kuitting here ever since 'finally predicts that large gushers will be drilled in Pecos at 2000 feet Ile and his assodates have 170000 nerem in the field Tina Ily 4howell the writer a letter from the Dutch Shell company the Standard's competitor asking for an option on acreage in the Pecos field at $10 an acre "That letter came too late" said Tins ally "I am now holding the acreage at $100" This angle brings up the question are the big companies in the Pecos and Toyah I fields? They are and they aren't Most of them no doubt are corralling acreage for prideetion as an old-timer put it In other words the big companies are marking time in Pecos They are not infallinble however Independent oil operators prefer to follow the big companies and like to have them in the play but the major oil organizations passed up the Iturkburnett field and that didn't prevent Old Burk from coining in for the greatest of all fielib4 SO tieh for the expert dope that no field is field until the big eompanies take hold of it Bill Ilynn scout for the Eelipme a Ranger outfit gumshoed into the Western Union office at Pecom the other night 'how does it look to you Bill?" I asked CONTINUED OS PAGN are kalged aonieWhere above 2850 feet -T'4 1 A the bottom This operation has been un- ''7ii 4 -r'g61-1 l': dtv eray for several months N4 6 sy i :1 i- 4 i t1 Drilling was proeeeding Thursday be it )-zy ee '4: vi' wn 2 37 5 and 211)0 feet at I he San :4: -11 rk V' i OI() Texas Oil company's veil on the A 4'Vz1-1 54 Clegg ranch near Carlsbad sixteen 4 sts2: miles north of here A sixty-horsepower t-7': boiler vas installed during the week and -''41': f'''': :1 the equipment is now-in good Ehape NOELKE WELL A (Trapshooter) Reilly end broth- Judge Will Brady and Treasurer Barnum top of photo of Sunshine Oil er Reilly both of Hutchinson corporation drilliug the Laura well near Pecos Kan Ivere here early in the week en route from Sheffield to Fort Worth They stated that another vein of salt water foliT wo production will not be determined until had been struck at around 312:1 or 3130 IITH oltLAs tilitige itiiiillid arrrl ivte11 a iTlles Luilteuraap lti adrarialel le- feet in the well on the II Noelke ranch in Pecos county after water had been of cap rook and lifficials of the Nuushine 3 shut off at 11)0 feet in efforts that be- 011 corporation the owners believe they grin last sitninter The new vein of salt EL pilso opEDATHs are "sitting on top of a powder can" water has not discouraged the Reillys Abner Davis Fort Worth and Wichita who are confident that production will Falls refiner has announced two new be encountered A geological report just locations One is hi section 8 of block issued by the niversity of Texas sup- 55 and the other is in section 4 of block ports this belir ef live end three-oir- tool nuED pEcor being located five and four miles re- teenths-inh casing ca will now be set in the I spectiely south of the Bell well well to etop the latest water now cilia eSti 81V1wei)itimienterettfsNmene tOfr flenitmlinhaeePIiiin' Pecos (ounty's new well was spudded II I in On Monday it week ago on tbe order the tertlitories northwest and southeast ranch by the Bethlehem-Texas till syudi of the Bell well and is planning to drill rate twenty miles west of Sheff ield A PECOS March tomorrow li tral wells The 4mq location has twtyineh hole was started and 1514- will be host to 150 hominess men of Fort not been cI et 1 inch easing has already been set The ad orth nallam headed by 1 Bo-1 errnine atson has Vir I also been Inking over the fold for a group location is on seetion 51 block 2 Corpus nee and a party of fifty front El Paso christi man Diego Rio Orande Narrow who made the trip here in special cars of New Orleans oil men Two wells will be drilled in NN-tion 92 Gauge Ra a ilwy eopany survey to visit the new reeos valley oil fields Nlenzie on Siterbino brothers' tool (h1cation win ri) ow drill block 33 rallivrty survey i will the clfd-Ba ratieh also in 1'eoo4 county was repormd 'ing territory In a fleet Of automobiles One be ha or nger company represented here by Frank Lash early in he week hi have drilled to 3750 leaving the town at 9 o'clock and after feet at which depth work Wita SiNtentle(1Visliting he King Laura zone all drill- and Fox of Dallas They have until easing nreives Oil hes showed no ling and Citizens' wells took dinner On eighty owes in that section an have also in numerous enntla hut none liets been of the dining ears that had been switched i Purehased tract in section 1 of block 21 great th kness to the new I rebel station near the Bell i srh ool srvey in Re Reeves conty in the ic The Circle Oil min mut on Hertel I well on he Smuts Fe went -I miles shallow ToYa field brothers' ranch Iraq reported to ilo intik- 1 north of here I The other well in section P2 will be ing hole at 2750 feet: later work stop- I The purtY will inVoet the 657-foot Bell I drilled by a syndieate of Fort Nt'orth ped temporarily Cesing and other ma- I well in the afternoon end where the men They are A Dunnergen 11 terialm are being hauled by the Tellialail le bubbling wit at the rate of from 1 ()neer rred Foster ami it Hay --cozinNuxu os 'pAual throe to ties barris a ay Tho actual 1The latter wilt do the 4 -N '4' 1 4 I 4 tt A t- 1 4: r'- le 5' tC i A '1 4 A 1 -41 4 ---v21 4 -irf -01F2 'S' 9: 'i "'A 's l' '-'Ihv i ic' 1- i 5 '''1 -')3 At 44: 4 -2ri: :1: 440 lc i.