The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-22
OIL FIELD NOTES

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The Southern Pacific is having {
aoeo water we'll drilled near that com }
oil we'll in the local helo' I
THE new well belonging to the Hi }
Ton Company is now pumping s'e"u I
Nv and the production is oecioeoi'
gratifying to the owners
M.+erial for the Proven Oil Com
pany's pumping outfit IS beginning W
arrive and President Lamp hopes W
have his we'll in operation wl'hin' "
short time.
Tho Mac Fadden people have COM
Melted another 1900 barrel s'or"S0
tank into which their we'll IS no" gusn
ino After their other tanks hao oeeh
flled the we'll was permitted to gush
~, tho Ground rather than close 1he
valve and risk the chance OF II necon-
inc choked. This is the most reInark-
.hia nroducer in the field in that IL
has now been flowing steadily LOT
over a month and gives evidence VI
continuing for similar perloo.
5 At Welsh it is said the output OF
t the wells has increased with constant
t pumping and every indication IS 10
It the nermanency of the field. 1t is now
a the general opinion that this helo eN-
i tends to the southwest for a CONSIDER
/, able distance. The Metropolitan well,
l. reeontlv sold to the Mobile people al
% auction, has been tinkered up ana is
lie now gushing oil and gas at intervals
I'd IT. is hoped this well will be brought
f. down to steady workable Charies
of News.
Sunday afternoon Manager Maui
us of the Welsh Oil and Land DeVeiop
at ment Company, in the presence OF
er journal representative, took meas
he urement of the oil in the company
,es big reservoir and found 1t TO cohoai
be as nearly as could be ascertained o4o
barrels of oil. This we'll has pumpe
REGULARLY for more than year an
the production at present is decide
~ Improvement over that of year ag
80 President Robinson informs us tn
40 the local company will put down a
80, other we'll at an early date.
Petl After gushing wildly for twenty-to
re- hours the Metropolitan we'll hecal
the choked some time during the ME
Der last Thursday. Tons of sand we
on emitted from the hole and sto
eat weighing a half pound was thrown
was feet by actual measurement, p
and having been connected allowing
nim, we'll to gush horizontally. Inc
The was found to contain 600 feet OF sa
him, 1t was washed out Friday and Sat
egan day and Sunday the new screen
them placed. No bailing was required
bout the pump was set to work as soon
the hole had been cleared.
nlsnl The machinery used in drilling
DIV VI Hill Top Company's wells was
alnsV week moved to the we'll of the Col'
ullVy do-Texas Company and Drlller =
given Bowen will, it is understood, go q
an additional thousand feet.
II oe- we'll was drilled during the early
ialne' of last year. Several oil STRAIT
we're passed and it gave eyldenc
being a good producer, but when
= required depth was reached an
e'oil- compressor was pressed into SCI
parry and every other available means
anu used to bring in the we'll, but tt
FL avail, and it was finally abandt
III The matter of going down an
Vi"i.' thousand feet is an experiment
addi- Ill - o+cbed with interest
were awaited with anxiety, as the mer
e Ma 49, 1Wo1sb oil fold have never
hlIney tested to that depth.
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