Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 26

SUNDAY MARCH 11 mij SV FORT WORTH SUNDAY PAGE TWO Roses East Texas' Big Business Handsome Building in State Park Flood-Ruined Bridge Is Reolaced in the Weeks News Texan Texas PICTURES FROM ALL SECTIONS i pva Innre PICTURED ARE NEW $70000 RAILROAD BRIDGE AT WIN-chell and ruins of the old bridge destroyed by flood in the Colorado River at Winchell last Fall The crossing connecting Brown and McCulloch Counties now serves the Santa Fe THIS HANDSOME STRUCTURE BUILT OF NATIVE STONE IS THE CONCESSION BUILDING AT THE State Park in Stephenville It is just one of scores of attractive and permanent improvements which have sprung up with the development of parks throughout Texas an Hke these it was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor under the direction of state and national park authorities The depression gave these parks to Texas THE ROSE INDUSTRY AROUND TYLER EXPECTS TO MARKET MORE THAN 14000000 plants this year More than 1500 acrti of roiei are being harvested by the 150 groweri in a radius of 15 miles of Tyler The picture shows a truckload rose bushes going into the sheds for grading AREA EXTENDE NEW HDDESSA VIEWS DIVERGE Wrightsman Gets First Gas Well in Sooner Pool NEW SAND PAY nu phi imiPT Pool Opener in Andrews Will Be Placed on Pump Barnsdall Gets Big Producer in Monument Pool IN TEXAS OUTPOST HUE ON ALIO i lbULTUUHd bin nesl Shell Petroleum Corporation No 1 King which opened a new pool in southern Andrews County will be placed on a pump after swabbing 100 barrels of oil during the past 24 hours with 2900 feet of oil in the hole The producer in the southeast corner of section 10 block A-42 psl survey encountered its pay from 4450 feet to 4486 feet the total depth in lime SAN ANTONIO March 13 wells in the chalk in the Ba fault zOne extension of the pool in Zapata County and pi extension for the Placedo are Vc- Barnsdall Oil Company's prolific Alaska-Cooper lease in the Monument pool registered the largest producer brought in for over a year as the No 7 Alaska-Cooper center of the northwest of the southwest of section 7-20s-37e flowed 1076 barrels an hour natural for three hours through casing Another test will be made through tubing The new Barnsdall well is the biggest completed in Lea since the company's No 4 Alaska-Cooper set an all-time high for the entire State by flowing 623 barrels in 30 minutes with estimates of its size ranging much higher due to lack of equipment capable of handling the terrific flow The No 7 is a diagonal southeast offset to the record-holder It topped pay at 3800 and is bottomed at 3885 feet in lime the second and 932 barrels of oil the third and 40000000 feet of gas The North Bethel pool of Seminole County was extended to the east Wednesday when the Crosbie No 1 McGirt in the southwest of the southeast of the southeast of 25-10n-7e drilled to 3664 feet in the Cromwell sand and ran a swab through the tubing The well started flowing 40 barrels of oil natural In Logan County in the Langston pool the Eason Oil Company No 1 Smith in the southwest of the northwest of the northwest of 13-17n-lw drilled to 5128 feet in the Wilcox sand and took a Halliburton drill stem test and was opened for 50 minutes The well filled with 1200 feet of oil and very little gas and flowed 34 barrels of oil in 10 minutes The crew was to run seven-inch casing In the Crescent pool of Logan toria County were among the fe tures of the week in Southwe Texas Blundell Oil Company No 1 Lu at the northeastern end of the We ster-Branyon area Caldwell Cou ty latest producer in the chalk al Special to The Star-Telegram TULSA Okla March 13 In Southern Oklahoma the first gasser was brought into the North Tussy pool in Garvin County today at the Wrightsmith Oil Company No 2 Yates in the southeast of the northwest of the southwest of 33-ln-3w The well was completed for 5000000 feet of gas a day from sand at 1-720 to 1738 feet The hole bridged after a plug was drilled and the crew was preparing to drill through the bridge The same company was ready to spud a new test on the same location as a twin Completion of a commercial producer was positively assured at the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company and Foster Minerals Corporation No I Haller a wildcat in the southwest corner of the northeast of 32-2s-17w south of Frederick in Tillman County It was pumping seven to eight barrels of oil hourly 44 gravity crude and the production was expected to improve Special to The Star-Telegram SHREVEPORT La March Midway between the two-mile recent north extension of the Louisiana side of Rodessa where Edward Jones recently completed two flowing wells in the Gloyd horizon in section 4-23n-16w Standard Oil Company of Louisiana completed No 1 Mrs Parker at 6013 feet which made 330 barrels of oil in 20 hours on gas lift The latter well is in section 9-23n-16w One-half mile north of Edward Jones two producers William Monroe Layton of Texarkana made location for a 6000-foot test to Rodessa horizon at No 1 Rector sw (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) ducing salt water Disposal is an acute problem and the question ot disposing it by reintroduction into the formation to maintain pressures has been agitated to some extent There also is a lively fight going on over a bill by Senator Small to allow the Railroad Commission to reduce marginal well quotas below the present limit of 20 barrels per well per day With 22000 wells the present marginal allowable is 440000 barrels per day A production greater than 450000 barrels per day always has resulted in alarming inroads on pressure in the field and the present marginal allowance gives only a half barrel per well margin to permit difference in 1-lowables between the best and MARION COUNTY I a big well as have been othe Special to Tie Star-Telegram HOUSTON March Stanolind Oil and Gas Company No 1 Fitz- hugh William McFaddin survey may be the forerunner of revival of drilling in the old Big Hill pool Jefferson County which was discovered in March 1923 The well is flowing 94 barrels of 35 gravity pipe line oil in eight hours through a quarter-inch choke with a tubing pressure of 400 pounds and a casing pressure of 750 pounds from 4927 feet The well is producing from a new sand which never was tapped before A 12-minute drill stem test of Cockfield sands in Texas Gulf Producing Company No 1 Gillespie in the Aldine area Harris County showed salt water with no pressures through two quarter-inch choke from 6925 to 6971 feet At the end of the week the crew was preparing to core ahead The contract depth in that area The well complete at 2125 feet with the chalk toppei at 2069 feet about 30 feet lowd than the other wells to the soi SPACE RULE UP west is in and gauged at rate of barrels an hour It is in the Neall survey Open flow it estimate ed at better than 1000 barrels County the Carter Oil Company cent other wells in that part of i CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) GRAYSON pool have come in for 2400 to 30 barrels natural without acid treat' gw section 16-20-28 Miller County Arkansas Love is assembling a block around section 5-20-28 for a proposed deep test It is two miles northwest of Haynes Oil Corporation's No 1 Embree section 9-20-28 drilled to 6514 feet and ity When opened late Friday the test started flowing at the rate of 12 barrels in 30 minutes Overlees and others No 1 ment making that part of the fie at present the most attractive Magnolia Petroleum Company 4 Cuellar in Zapata County and a proximately a mile west of the fie is 7000 feet Several important wildcat loca WILL GET PLAY slightly Probably many new tests will start in the area as a result of proving the Hatler All other Southern Oklahoma tests were seeking pay and their operations are routine The southern boundary line of the Moore pool of Cleveland County was defined when the Gulf Oil Corporation No 1 Allen in the northeast of the southwest of the southwest of 27-10n-2w had a hole full of water Monday It drilled to 7- proper has sand at 1221-36 feel has set and cemented casing in survey No 345 in the southeast abandoned as a dry hole Gulf Oil Corporation made its debut at Rodessa last week when it started rigging up for a west offset to Jones' two producers in section 4-23n-16w Gulf however owns an interest with Standard of Louisiana in the properties of Haynes Drilling Company in Rodessa pur ern half and another sand at 119-37 feet previously tested wai No 4 Walker in the northeast of the northwest of the northeast of 33-17n-4w was completed for a potential of 9229 barrels of oil in 24 hours from a depth of 6300 feet The gas was estimated at 34400000 feet A new potential was taken on the Midcontinent Petroleum Corporation No 1 Statler in the southeast corner of the southwest of 2-ln-7e in the Jess pool of Pontotoc County and the test made 1468 barrels of oil in 24 hours an increase of 821 barrels over the old gauge which was 647 barrels It had drilled to 4-245 feet The Fitts pool of Pontotoc County was still the most active settled production area in the State and four new tests were starting up there Recently the Skelly Oil Company also announced starting three new tests on their Metropolitan Life Insurance Company lease in section 28-2n-7e Lizzie Henderson in the Bennington survey about nine miles southwest of the Arkansas-Louisiana test late Friday was flowing at the rate of six barrels an hour when jetted with gas and was producing through syphon installed as the week closed The test previously had swabbed 140 barrels in 24 hours In the meantime Dunn Fisher No 1 Susie Chatten A de los Santos Coy survey over two miles southwest of No 1 Ford is drilling below 4500 feet after topping red beds at 3645 feet somewhere about the level where it is believed to poorest wells in the field The margin is too small to allow a proration order which could not be knocked over in court and the field is at the stage where if this happened it would quickly go from the flowing class and probably from the market picture Most producers outside of East Texas are paying little attention to the problem due to a general feeling that the field has passed the point where it can menace general markets Most operators are willing to see the fields go along conserving its flowing pressures even though it means that the "potential" of the field in a sense still would overhang the market If the East Texas operators themselves however do not take steps to conserve the pressure it is expected that the potentials would go off with a loud bang and the present scramble of large companies to get crude supplies elsewhere would be intensified to the benefit of all the other areas dry The Placedo pool in Vict County apparently has been extend' ed a mile or more to the southeast Barnsdall Oil Company No Pickenng-Roos showed for a go oil producer in the 5900-foot san when at 5904-09 feet total dep'J (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Lowry No 1 Dozier about a mile west of the Big Indian well and in the same survey This test is nearing contract depth of 3600 feet but operators are withholding information In extreme southwest Grayson County near the Cooke County line A Shaner No 1 Blair Deaver survey abstract 361 has casing moving in preparatory to testing 18 feet of lime with saturation of asphalt base oil bottomed at 3540 feet Shaner had previously set casing at 3190 feet for test of 10-foot sand which showed for salt water Five and three-eighths casing will be run the remainder of the 296 feet in the Wilcox sand and then bailed down 2000 feet striking the water and was shut down for orders One location to the north in the Moore pool the same company brought in as a producer the No 2 James in the southeast of the northwest of the southwest of 27-10n-2v It topped the Wilcox sand at 7275 feet and drilled to 7281 feet A three-hour test was taken and it flowed 884 barrels the first hour 849 5911 feet it tested around 4001 chased some months ago The basal Glen Rose gas producing horizon of the Sligo field Bossier Parish was extended one and cne-half miles northeast last week when Louisiana Petroleum Company No 1 Edwards Estate section 5-17n-llw was completed as an estimated 50000000-foot wet gasser at 5184 feet It is shut in for gauge Unit-ed's No H-l Skannal section 23-17n-12w recently completed as this field's third oil well is being tions were announced in the Texas Gulf Coast during the past week and Jefferson County received most of the proposed wells Probably the most important location was made by Humble Oil and Refining Company 4300 feet out in the Gulf of Mexico Humble applied to the War Department through the engineer's office at Galveston for a permit to drill 4300 feet off shore of Jefferson County and approximately eight miles northeast of High Island pool Galveston County The company proposes to erect a derrick around 136 feet high and a floor about 60 by 90 feet at an elevation of 14 feet above the mean low tide The derrick and platform is to be supported by piles and the platform is to be approximately 14 feet wide A power cable is to be strung about 35 feet above the water level and is to furnish the rig with power The company plans to drill in 18 teet of water and has taken precautions against adverse weather The derrick is supported by four 115-foot guy wires which will be tied onto a three-pile cluster which are placed in the ground approximately 100 feet A public hearing is to be have cut the fault Arkansas-Louisiana No 1 Laura Mcintosh William Edmonson survey LOW IS LARGE WICHITA COUNTY feet of oil with 30 pounds pi in 19 minutes Casing has been a Sun Oil Company No 5 Marek the same field completed at 47 feet is making 57 barrels daily heads and Shell Petroleum Co poration another outpost ah" three-fourths mile to the southwe topped sand at 4638 feet and at 755 feet has set and cemented ing after several attempts to drill stem test proved Seaboard Oil Corporation and Allen No 2 Chapman about mile and three-auarters fron London pool and 12 miles southwest of Corpus Christi can The Louisiana Conservation Commission last week put regulations in effect in Sligo limiting wells there to one well to each 40 acres and setting the gas-oil ratio at 2000 is drilling below 5050 feet In the Jefferson area of Marion County west of the townsite Hunt Oil Company is credited with leasing the 40-acre Floyd tract in the Miles Reed survey for $8000 The company also took a mineral interest in the 205-acre Neilson tract and 160-acie Livingston tract in the Watkins and Bennington surveys for an average base price of $250 Land is north of Jefferson Another purchase included mineral interest in the 172-acre tract of Rowell in the William Archer and Perry Surveys for a reported $225 P1 IN ECTOR WELLS GETS BIG WELL way and set on top the lime Taylor Son of Tyler have taken an interest in the well and w-ill test the lime after acidizing Casing is moving from Tyler Shaner's location is about five miles east and north of the Jacobs field in northeast Denton County and his lime show is similar to that in the Jacobs field producing from a lime from around 1550 feet Reports that the wells in the Jacobs held in the district engineer's office cleaning with about 40 per cph the fluid oil which later dropped 10 per cent with the balance a of the State In other words most Texas operators feel that the East Texans can either help or hurt themselves If they help themselves they won hurt the others but if they hurt themselves it might intensify the boom in other areas Irrespective of production positions most Texans hope the answer will be "help" but there is a noticeable dispostion among producers in other areas to let East Texas write the answer themselves It is not generally De-heved that Senator Small's bill was requested by any West Texas interests but probably by producers in the East Texas field who want to give the Railroad Commission power to stave off the final stage as long as possible Brvson Townsite Play Is Spurred Another company active was the Atlantic Refining Company which water It is believed that a reportedly acquired a one-quarter cement job is the reason and 1 WICHITA FALLS March 13 Re-exploration of the Wichita Falls district for deeper production already encouraged from time to time by successes in the past several years received great impetus during the past week by the striking of gusher lnieresi in 11 acres in me jc heinc nulled in order to rr Walker Perry and Archer surveys a squeeze job and another probably be made over the to 1 Lide Marr and Greer staked location last week for another Travis Peak test on their big block in Bienville Parish where they are now drilling at 7650 feet in Travis Peak in No 1 Smelley section 13-16n-5w the new well being No 1 Smelley section 18-16n-5w These operators sold the gas rights on this block and are trying to get an oil well The present test showed for a big gasser below 7100 feet Leasing activity in the new Lisbon oil field Claiborne Parish is increasing James Co have been negotiating in an effort to buy Oakes et al's discovery oil well in section l-20n-5w that is producing around 200 barrels daily at 5379 feet No trade has been made Turmen Oil Company of Tulsa Okla took an option on NW SE section l-20n-5v for cash and $30000 from one-eighth end The test in sand at feet showed over 1100 feet ol on drill stpm tpst of 10 minutes' the oil 42 gravity If it is cor a commercial well it will open at Galveston in the new Federal Building on March 19 In the Cheek area of Jefferson County Magnolia Petroleum Company announced location for No 1 Phelan 2645 feet north of the southeast corner of the survey No 14 and 333 feet east of the west line of the Stivers survey Sun Oil Company announced another location in the Labelle area where recently the operators opened an oil pool The No 1 Ward is 467 feet west of the east line and 933 feet south of No 2 Broussard Burton survey David MacDaniels made location for a wildcat test in the Gilbert Ranch area of Jefferson County No 1 Nona Mills is 11 miles southeast of Nome field and in the Grant survey Glenn McCarthy No 1 Foley Land Palacios prospect Goodwin survey Matagorda County was eighth field for Nueces production by a Deep Oil Development Co test in the K-M-A district of Wichita County Deep Oil Development Co No 8-A Munger in Block 30 Wichita Valley Lands near Kemp City found Strawn sand from 3720 to 3745 feet which made 2400 barrels in 22 hours after a shot Though good wells in the Strawn previously have been drilled in the area the gusher production is on an entirely ditiereni north and northwest of Jefferson for a base price of $250 The company also is said to have taken one-half minerals in 102 acres in the Harris and Archer surveys for $150 In the vicinity of Douglasville Cass County Shell Petroleum Corporation is credited with taking a spread at a reported price of $15 per acre West of Douglasville Lawton who assembled the McAles-ter block is reported to have purchased 800 acres for the Humble Oil and Refining Company in the Samuel Moore and Latimer surveys for a consideration of from $250 to $750 it is said from the London i which is producing from sand around 4750 feet (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 the same owners' No 1-E Schar-bauer in section 10 now swabbing 150 barrels daily while waiting on acid treatment at 4210 feet and Landreth No 1-G Scharbauer drilling cement plugs from the last string of pipe at 4170 feet In the same area American Mari-caibo No 2-A Scharbauer section 19 is drilling below 4100 feet Bond and Harrison No 1 Kloh in section 35 block 45 T-l-V is nearing the casing point and Devonian No 2-B Scharbauer section 29 is coring ahead below 4145 feet and this owner's No 1-A Scharbauer in section 30 is drilling ahead in the top of the pay zone at 4193 feet Texas Pacific Coal Oil Co No 2 Scharbauer section 31 is setting pipe at 4138 feet and northwest of the Cummins area Empire No 2-D Cummins in the southwest corner of 23 is drilling cement plugs below 3905 feet and the same owners' No 2-C Cummins in the southeast corner of section 22 is waiting on cement near 4000 feet In the Harper pool 10 miles west of Odessa the Honolulu-Black Brothers was drilling below 4200 feet field are not commercial producers brought information from Clint Jacobs that three of the wells on his farm are still producing through two-inch tubing on pump about 30 barrels daily each although a fourth well on a nearby tract is not so good and is produced only intermittently These wells were drilled about seven years ago He said one of the Jacobs wells produced for several months 500 barrels daily and another 350 barrels daily and total production has been around 300-000 barrels The oil is now sold at the wells North of Sadler in west Grayson Clark No 1 Mulder Barefoot survey was shut down at 650 feet for title and reorganization work Southeast of Sherman the North Texas Oil Company (A Weiss of Gladewater No 1 A Smith Williamson survey abstract 1300 was shut down for about a week and is drilling at around 600 feet on 2-500-foot contract North of Pottsboro Olson Gardner et al were drilling around 3000 feet in their No 1 Dan Utieer Wildcat Heads Fl ex lo te at CI th qi McMillan of Tyler Texas leased SW NW 31-21n-4w Texas in Lea Count! Trading Company is leasing in 20-21n-5w 23-20n-5w Magnolia Petroleum Company north half SW 28-21n-4w and Greeley leased NE SE 4-20n-3w Lisbon Oil Company No 1 Burgess section 3-20n-5w had a show of oil at base of anhydrite at 4214 to 4242 feet but did not test it In this level Oakes had a show in his discovery well in section l-20n-5w is expected to give new incentive to further search The Wichita Falls district has produced oil from shallow horizons chiefly in the Cisco for nearly a generation and its accumulative production has marked it out as one of the major producing areas of inland Texas Featured by the Elec-tra Burkburnett and scores of lesser fields development had almost exhausted the shallow possibilities when the Deep Oil Development Co was organized a few years ago as a community enterprise to search for deeper production with the first objective as Canyon and Strawn and with Bend and Ordivician as even deeper possibilities Several successes have been scored (CONTINUED FROM PAGt stract 992 is said to be logging 20 feet higher than the Bryson pay and was drilling below 2700 feet Owners will start coring Sunday and ex-merly carried as Edwards No 1 Williams Ross survey ab-pect to standardize at 2900 feet The test is eight miles northwest of Jacksboro and considerable trading is reported here Nine years ago the Osage Oil Company drilled a well one and one-half miles southeast of the Williams test and got three pays with showings of from 10 to 15 barrels in each pay it is reported Last week the South pool continued to hold attention as the Han-Ion and Buchannan No 1 Mclntyre survey abstract 906 showed for a 150-barrel well at 2-740 feet A light shot developed production The well extends production two miles southeast from the reported down to 8500 feet at the end of the week During the past week it is reported that the well attempted to blow out No information is being given out on the well but it is realiably reported that the operator will make a test on the wildcat There is very little doubt in the minds of interested parties that the well probably will be the discovery well for a new oil area in the Texas Gulf Coast CONTINUED FROM A gas and 90 feet of mud: test from 3653 to 3703 sho feet of gas and no fluid and minute test from 3702 present depth showed IS-'1 ff gas and 70 feet of mud Locatiw the center of the northeast southeast of section The south offset to Co Federal Unit No 1 Farney ery well of the Farney Henry townsite Continental Fe Mid-Continent Petroleum Company to lime and heading about every Cadv survev abstract 301 to Wildcat Staked in Terry County 'CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Six years ago it struck 6500000 cubic feet of sweet gas at 5606 feet but found no oil by drilling ahead to 6148 and was shut down Rotary was moved in last fall by Loff-land Bros and the well deepened nearly 3000 feet without showing Some doubt that the test ever went out of the Permian while others claimed it had entered the Penn-sylvanian Humble No 1 Tippett wildcat two miles north and slightly west of the Toborg pool in Peco ward 6000-foot contract Tr ttlree nours alter a stl0w 01 011 and oi-twioi ivaunso anu uaKiiuia oac Trnm a 1 1 toot Tn a 71 toot Over in Fannin County south of I "'Petroleum Company recently took Bonham Morrow Scarborough of cmo iZLi -L The test headed 142 barrels of oil in one 23-hour period promising the largest production for that area In section 25 block 44 T-2-S Dallas were below 1000 feet in the township 19 range No 1 Fuller George Self I Parsons Company Into New Offices northwest of the nor tion 8-23s-36e was standing cementing 7-vs-inch ca- survev on 3500-foot contract South by the company during the period Of its operations Chief difficulty has been the assembling of suffi- ciently large blocks to justify the expenses of deep drilling since so much promising acreage lies in di- East pool of Bonham and south of Randolph Shiveley et al are assembling survev the test will be carried a block for a 6000-foot test in to 4300 feet and acidized for Stanolind' staked Iocs De Soto Paiish The largest sale reported for the i A Glazier et al No 1 Nathan week was the purchase by Hanlon Young Henrv Hitchcock survey Adding a mile of territory west i 0f the south end of the Cowden pool CHICAGO March The Ralph Parson Company refinery consultant engineer and contractor has Buchannan Inc from Bowden Rankin of Weatherforri the 160 a 6000-foot test is still idle awaiting rigging up of rotarv equipment verse ownerships perpetuated by shallow production The successes 1 Owen a semiwildcat in tne of the southwest of the nortnw-section 3-22s-37e It is thref flj ters of a mile northea-' foot test to be started within 60 1 of north Ector Alma Oil Company encountered a hole full of sulphur davs No 1-B Wight in the southeast cor- of the Deep Oil Development Co is just moved into permanent quar- water at 1205 feet drilled on To acres being the northwest quarter of after starting with spudder section 2 survey abstract 462 On a 4000-acre block located In northeast Fannin Countv O-J ters in the 310 South Michigan I 1220 feet and is beinc plugged to pire Oil and Refining Cor Pa Building Chicago The organiza- abandon Location is fi217 fPrt i Rpnnoiln-Rrnnson ner of section 9 block 43 T-l-S i not only expected to spur explora-at total depth of 4216 feet was shot I tion of the deeper strata but to with 150 quarts flowing 189 bar- provide the incentive for owners of reU in 24 hours through open eas- i shallow lease? in many areas to unit-irve Mze their holdings for deep tests tion has been occupying temporary from the south and 330 feet from I hour producer which and the 64 acres also Kee land in northeast of Bonham A Chaffin Oil Company (Joiner Sz Owens No the Burton survey abstract and Stewart of Bonham signed I 1 Joe Goss on west line of John 44 for the sum of This contract during the week with Stephens survey is still shut down land lies in the South pool I Richardson o-f Tyler for 4500- at 2700 feet offices on a lower floor of the same tne west line of section 538 I tended the Hardy lime i buildmg 1 survey I arKl a half farther south I.