Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-06
OILATGRANITE
Valuable Discoveries Made in
Greer County Oklahoma.

THE following article is taken from
Especial despatch to the Austin, Tex
as, State Capital and the Topeka,
Kansas. Capitsl.-Ed.
Mr.. W. NJ. Stephenson OF Waco,
Texas has just returned from a two
months investigation Of the t.il situa-
tiOn in Greer County, Oklahoma, on
the Rock Island railway. When asked
what we're the prospects Mr.. Stepen-
son said that when fully developed
Greer County would prove to he the
largest oil producing field in the
world, not excepting Beaumont. He
said that at Granite, Greer County d
reasonable show of oil had been struck
at one hundred and seven feet which
would pump twenty barrels per day.
This oil is very heavy and suitable
for fabrication. Dir. Stephenson said
that he used it on his buggy just as
any other axle oil is used and that it
was a perfect lubricant. 1t is well
known that salt and sulphur are found
in every oil field. This belt it liter
ally charged with these substances,
and as gas escaping from the ground
Is one OF the sureSt signs, then this
country will produce guShers which
will make the SpOuters at Beaumont
pale into inSigniticance. This state
ment is based on we'll known cause
the gas pressure. It is the natural
pressure Of the gas at Beaumont that
makes the wells ',gush." The puddleS
Of water in Spindle Top were con-
stantly bubbling with escaping gas; at
Sour Lake the water is bubbling and
in one place actually boilS with eS-
Gaping gasl until the water is raised
fully one half inch above the surface.
Mr.. Stephenson says that he has
studied the gas indications very close
| ly; and as he has spent days at Sour
Lake and Beaumont watching and ex.
perimenting with the gas he feels
competent to judge and says that he
is actually afraid to say what the con-
sequences will be when the first well
is being drilled in the gas fields that
| he has witnessed in Greer county. The
escaping gas as it comes through the
water forces it up from tWenty-to one
hundred times as high as it does at
either Sour Lake or Beaumont, and
that il the pressure is any criterion
the casing will be shot clear out of
| the hole and stuck in the moon.
Prof. T. A. Edison of Chicago, an oil
expert, was employed by the Granite
Lubricating and Fuel Company, to
test the oil. The following is his re-
port: 81 have made careful inSpec-
ton of your oil fields and find the
most encouraging conditions to exist.
There is one Of the most startling evil
denceS of the richest deposits OF oil to
be found in the United States.
Nature has prominently thrown up
its massive guide-bOardS upon which
| have been able to determine these
facts. At the southern terminus of
the natural oil basin in which your
fields are located a range of mountains
is thrown up, exposing on it's walls
the stains OF oil carried up in the oil
stratum at the time of this upheavel.
There l found abundant deposits of
dried oil in the cOnglomerate and
Shale, also large deposits of partly
dried oil, ranging in consistency from
that OF we'll dried asphalt to that of
molasSeS. There are many other land
marks that nature has left, that when
thoroughly interpreted, gives startling
revelation Of facts, enabling one to
determine step by step down through
the formations everything the basin OF
oil. Here and there l found wells
that were sunk for water and aban-
doned on account of containing Sc
much oil that neither man nor beast
could drink the water. In three diff
ferent places 1 found gas escaping
from the ground, which, when tested
was of the best quality for either fuel
or light. The springs and water
courses all show oil in their margins
and surfaces. Several test-wells have
been sunk and oil found in each OF
tn EN-. This in addition to the indis
putable surface Indications noted
above are convincing indications of a
vast supply of oil. The chemical an.
alySiS OF the oil found demonstrate:
that it is the most valuable of any OIL
the crude oils on the market. 1t il
the cheap quality of oil generally
! found, but heavy lubricating oil
almost pure grease, containing onl,
elght-tenths of one per cent foreign
: matter and that is sulphur. TIVE
gallons oil this oil is worth a barrel Of
the Southern Texas oils"
A Rock Island official says, 1.-THE
indications for finding immense guam
titles of oil and gas in Greer county,
Oklahoma are certainly very hattering
It is an actual fact that from one vel
at Granite, Okla, only 165 feet deep
there can be pumped from five Il
twenty barrels Of oil per day. Thi
oil is of a very tine quality. and suit
able for fuel and lubricating purposes
as it comes from the ground. At the
: present time about five companies
composed of some very strong and re
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