The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-13


most nervously. These three men wert
the drill crew. Ea was clothed in al
oilcloth outfit that was greasy with
the green spatterings that had beer
thrown of by the cable; each was
grinning and joking; each was watch.
ing very carefully every bucket tha
come in
"Ah-h-h-hl" came from them il
chorus. as a faint, hoarse rumblt
sounded from the we'll.
80 we heard the devi' grunt them
cried the man at the lever
And the three of them laughed up
ioaringly.
Lets find out what's hurting him,
laughed the lever man.
"Whlrr" went the spool as the cable
spun down, down, "chug" into
the oil when IT struck it-and still
down. past the gray gravel, past the
cap rock. until the bottom of the bailei
rested On the bottom of the well.
Now. let's see what we gcti" cried
the jolly leverman as he started the
spool TO winding in the cable.
II has become common now 70.
every bucket to come up bnbbling
over. The gas is near the top, and Il,
makes the oil boil and foam, and fly
nut Of the bailer in great brown fakes
e'oh the stiff wind bespatters into
altered spray. 1t rs a tina OF tn,
attest anxiety. VIII she come IT
y roar? Will she give one vas
nile. shoot the bailer straight up
o~ph the derrick throw a greasy
IN in every direction, and roar like
ousand locomotives blowing on" OF
&C come in softly-with a miat
.-- OF g4s 2nl a maximum OF oilf
The last bucl.~t full has boiled -
v!olentl" thai II has almost spouted.
There is . gush Of brown foam aLc
through its middle, comes the top %
the bucket. '-~a~se ~ iesfSs,as- 80
Hi" shouts everybody. she's com.
ing"
"Thisll fetch hertz shouts Bill
And she won't be no gasser. neither
She's coming in all oil!" - sssySA
Down goes the bucket-100--2OO feet
when the engine is started and tbs
spool whirrs as it brings In the cable.
The splice at the lo0-foot line flashes
upward. and the cl.nging oil glints
cheerfully. Fifty feet more-75 feet
80 feet--95 feet.
And up bubbles flow of solid green
oil!
shes inl" shout Smith and Sharp.
Look outi" shout Bill and the bail.
er man.
The bailer swings up and is left
there, hanging; for the oil stream Is
mounting high.
There is no roar-no gush-no sound |
save the splash Of the oil as it falls
back to the earth-until Bill opens the
whistle valve, and a joyous screech
echoes over the field
Up-up-mounts the stream-in a
sories Of gushes that might indicat,
the pumping of some giant hear
through a giant artery.
Bill and others of the c.ew run into
the valve handle, which has beer ex
tended under the floor Of the derricl
to point almost twenty feet from tn,
pipe. Bill seizes the handle, for Bill
realives the truth of the Fat man'i
statement, previously quoted. thai
you've got to handle a gusher as you
would handle an elephant"
The flows grow stronger; the pulsa.
tions are freer
"Ah-h-h-Lp in chorus from every.
body, as thin spray shoots high VI
toward the top of the derrick.
She's spouting rocks!" comes a cry
as a pebble the size OF an egg rises
above the derrick.
"Ah-h-h-h" comes another chorus
as thin spray spatters the top OF tn,
derrick; and a moment later there is !
another cry OF pleasure. for a stronger
spray goes thirty feet above the tor
and the main stream rises hve-slxths
as far.
The wind is blowing a galei the oil
stream must fight for every inch tha
1t gains, and il is decided that ther,
will be less danger if the streara is sen,
at an angle instead Of nerpendicularly
The valve is quickly shut, the joint is
placed and the stream shoots with {
force that roars and a volume thai
darkens the field.