Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-08-21
OIL AT GRANITE.
Valuable Discoveries Made in Greer
County, Oklahoma,

MT. w. NJ. stephenson OF w AGO
Texas has just returned from a two
months investigation of the oil situ
alton in Greer county Oklahoma, or
the Rock Island railway. When ask
ed what were the prospects Mr.. Steph.
enson said that when fully developed
Greer county would prove to be the
largest oil producing field in the
world, not excepting Beaumont. He
said that at Granite, Greer county, q
reasonable show oi oil has been struck
at one hundred and seven feet which
would pump twenty barrels per day.
This oil is very heavy and suitable
! for fabrication. Mr.. Stedhenson said
that lac naed il on his buggy just as
ony other axle oil is used and that it
was "A perfect lubricant 1t is well
| known that salt and sulphur arc found
in every oil field. This belt Is liter
ally charged with these substances, and
as gas escaping from the gaound is one
of the sures signs, then this country
will produce gushers which will make
the SpOuters at Beaumont pale into
| lns ignilicanee. This stateiiient is bas
ed ON IA we'll known cause.-the case
pressure. 1t is the natural pressure
of the case at Beaumont that makes
the wells "gushn. The puddles of
water ON Spindle Top were constantly
bubblins with escaping case; at Sour
Lake ,he water is bubbling and in one
place actually boils( with escaping
gase) until the water is raised fully
enc inch above the surface. Mr.
stephenson says that he has studied
the case indications very closely: and
as he has spent days at Sour Lake and
Beaumont watching and experiment.
ing with the case he feels competent
to judge and says that he is actually
afraid to say what the consequences
W II be when the first well is drilled in
the case fields that he has witnessed in
Greer county. The escaping case as it
comes through the water forces il up
rom twenty to one hundred times as
high as it does at either Sour Lake or
Beaumont, and that if the pressure is
any criterion the casing will be shot
clear out of the hole and stuck in the
moon.
Prof. Il. A. Edison of Chicago, and
oil expert, was employed by the Gran
lite Lubr.cating and Fuel Company to
test The well. The following Is his re-
port. 81 have made careful inspec-
ton OF your oil fields and find the
startling evidences of the richest de-
posits of oil TO be fOnnd in the United
States. Nature has prominently
thrown up its massive guide boards up
on which | have been able to deter
mine these facts. AT the southern
terminus of the natural oil basin in
which your fields are located a range
of mountains is thrownup exposing
On It's walls the stains of OH carried uD
in the oil stratum at the time of This
upheayeI. There | found abundant
depos Is of dried oil in theconglomer-
ate aud shale, also large deposits OF
partially dcled oil, rang ing in consis-
tency froIa that of well dried asphalt
to that of MOI laSSes. There are other
land marks that nature has left, that
when thoroughly interpreted give
start ling revelation of facts, enabling |
one to determine step by step down |
through the formations dutlylng the |
basin of OIL Here and there found |
wells that We're sunk for ater and abb |
andoned on account of CON, aiming so |
much oil that neither mad nor berst |
could drink the water. Iu three diff |
ferent places l found gas escaping |
from the ground, which, when teste
was of tee best vuality fog either fuel |
or light. The springs and water
courses all seOw oil in their margins
and surfaces Several test wells have |
been sunk and oil found in each of |
them. This TN addition to the indis-
putable surface indications RotiU above
are convincing indications of vast
supply of oil The chemical ANALYSIS |
of the oil found demonstrates that 1t is |
the most vaMable of any Of the crude |
oils on the market. 1t is not the cheap |
quality of oil generally foand, but
heavy lubrieating oil, almost pure
grease, containing only eight-tenths of |
one per cent foreign matter and tn at is |
sulphur. Two gallons OF this oil is |
worth a be Tsel of the Solsthern Texas |
oils"
A Rock Island official says, "The |
indications for finding immense quani- |
ties of oil aud gas in Greer county,
oklahoma are certainly very hatter-
ing. 1t is an actual fact that from
one well at Granite, Oklahoma only |
l65 feet deep, there can be pumped !
from five To twenty barrels of oil per
day. This oil is of a very fine quality
and suitable for fuel aud lubricating
purposes as it comes from the ground.
AT the present time about five COM
panies, composed of some very strong
and reliable men are at work in this
field.
If the predictions of Mr.. Stephenson
are true the strike of oil and gas at
Granite will prove most valuable
one. especially for the reason that the
Granite oil field is at least 800 miles