The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
IN THE OIL DISTRICT.
Big Wells of Kansas Field Are
in Montgomery County.

Independence. Kas., Dec. 31.-The big
oil wells of the Kansas field are in
Montgomery county. Whether the big
gest deDosit is here is for future devel-
opment to reveal. but it is certain that
in proportion to the wells producing
I Montgomery county leads. Neosho
county produces more oil probably
than all the rest of the Kansas field.
but that is because it has more wells.
It's wells have been producing since
1900, while the Montgomery wells are
in the first year of their operation. The
percentage of flowing wells is also
greater in Montgomery county than
elsewhere in this field All wells flow
when they are first shot. but except in
Montgomery county they subside in a
few DAYS or weeks, and are thereafter
pumped. In Montgomery county the
gas keeps them busy indefinitely. This
is especially true of the Independence
district OF the rs or so wells in the In
dependence district probably Is are
pumped. The independence district is
producing about 5000 barrels daily, the
operators say, and the great bulk of
it pours into the tanks by natural gas
pressure.
The Banks well, five miles southwest
of Independence, in what is called the
Bolton pool" was drilled in October
%. It's first "a hours flow was 1000
DdTTelS, ana II IS now S6IIlGQ down TO
$50 barrels. The Atkinson WELL one
half mile southwest of the Banks well,
has been flowing more than a hundred
barrels day for some months. One
we'll in the Bolton pool paid a revenue
of $40, 900 in a days. The biggest well
! in the Bolton pool does $50 barrels a
day, and other wells in the same group
run up to 100, 200 and 300. A mile or
so east Of this group is a we'll flowing
$50 barrels a day. Wells 80 days old in
10 nrn Isa5-, -a1e.
a day.
Land is going skyward in value. A
Joplin man offered A. p. Mcbride, sec
rotary of the Consolidated Gas, OIL
and Manufacturing company, $25, 900
cash for an option of sixty days at
5000, 900 for 100 acres, and he declined it.
This company has $4,000 acres in fee
or lease, and it's chief owners are A. c.
Stitch, c. l.. Bloom and Mr.. Mcbride
The consolidated Oil, Gas and Man
ufacturing company has about closed
the sale of its gas rights of 5000 acres
to r. A. Long and r. M. Snyder for
$55O,000. The only condition is that at
the time of payment there must be
flowing wells in the land of rs million
cubic feet of gas daily. This, it is said,
the company's gas wells are now doing,
and the tests will be made whenever
Mr.. Snyder presents himself. The
money is to be paid within three
months.
Smith, Nicely & Co., operators who
have migrated from the Ohio and In
diana field and are investing thou
sands of dollars in Kansas, have just
completed what appears to be a still
better well than any of those which
have previously been classed as the
best we'll in Kansas" When the well
was drilled a. few days ago it began
flowing naturally and made an excel
lent showing However. it was shot
and the response was such as to war
rant the assertion that it would make
a very fine producer.
The first days gauge showed a pro-
duction of better than two 250-barrel
tanks, equivalent to about 400 barrels
in "a hours. 1t is now doing a good
two tanks after flowing for four or five
days. This well is on the Shaw farm,
in what is known as the Skoko pool,
five miles southwest of Independence, in
section II of Independence township,
Montgomery county.
The Shaw farm lies just north of the
S. Schoenberger, and is one of a half
dozen farms in the Slxoko pool which
are producing the largest quantities of
oil of any in the state. The Schoen-
berger, which, by the way, was valued
by its owner, n Kansas City tailor, at
about $500, is now producing 5000 bar
operated by the New York Oil and Gas
company. This company is composed
of Kansas City people
The ElchO Oil company, Miller, Rider,
Black and others, have completed n
fourth well on the Banks farm, in the
Skoko pool, and it is keeping up the
reputation of the district. The three
previous wells were making 500 barrels
per day and this one will bring the
output up to about $50 per day. It is
only 40 acre piece. Reese & Hazlett's
we'll on the Erhart farm. north of the
Banks, in the Skoko pool, is holding
up at a very gratifying rate, running
an average of about 225 barrels per day,
from the one weH-and the well has
been producing at this rate for nearly
two months.
She-"What are these magazine guns
the papers tell about so often?' He
Probably it's some gun powerful
enough to send projectile through the
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