The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-26
OIL OPERATIONS ACTIVE
IN THE KANSAS FIELD
Number of Good Wells Have Been
Struck and ProspectOrs Are More
Energetic than Usual.
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COFFEYVILLE, Kan, Feb. 23.-DeVelep-
ment the past week in the Kansas oil fields
has been of the progressive sort rather
than a period of results. Everywhere rigs
have been at work drilling steadily toward
the sugary sand which promises so much
to the prospector and which rarely fails
him.
Chanute played the principal part in the
development festivities of the Kansas fields
the past week, though the amount of work
accomplished was rather trifiing. The Adj
vance Oil and Gas Company seems to be
the capital prize winner. such it is, this
week with a splendid thirty-barrel well on
the Harltes farm, four miles south of
Chanute in Section II. The well was put
down TO a depth Of about 800 feet, and
twenty feet of rich sand penetrated. The
well was shot with sixty quarts of nitro
and responded nobly by throwing a stream
of oil high above the derrick. This is the
company's second well and is accounted
good steady producer.
One of the strong features of good well
brought in the first Of the week by the Boss
Oil and Gas Company, was the thickness
and quality of the pay sand which was
penetrated at depth of nearly 900 feet.
The sand was sixty-two feet through and
was exceedingly rich. When the we'll was
shot the rush of oil was very effective in
cleaning the well out The we'll is good for
about seventy-fve barrels daily, for a be-
ginning. but it is thought it will settle down
to steady production of possibly thirty
barrels.
Johnson & Kennedy have brought in some
good wells just south of Urbana this week
But one of them is worth mentioning that
on the John McCord tract of land. The
well has twenty feet of good sand and is
running about ten barrels naturally.
The X-Ray Company brought in its No 2
late last Saturday afternoon. and it was
shot Sunday morning 1t now has a set
rels The well filled to within a few feet
of the top with good crude petroleum soon
after the shot.
ating on the southwest quarter of Section
35-27-1S. brought in its eleventh well Tues
day 1t will run about ten barrels.
The Buckeye Oil Company operating
three miles west of Thayer and putting
down its first well, is having a nice bit
of luck for its first attempts. The pay sand
was struck at a shallow depth of 400 feet,
and eighteen feet OF it penetrated. The
first sand was well saturated with oil, but it
was decided to penetrate still deeper, in
hopes of striking another sand.
The Southwestern Oil and Gas Company
brought IN its No. 26 on the Rosenthal land
Wednesday. There was nearly sixty feet of
fine sand and the well made a magnificent
showing when the rack-a-rock shot was
put down. The flow may approximate forty
barrels a day.
In the independence field activity is con-
fined to drilling away, and as in other dis
tricts the results have been very few so far
Only three wells of any particular note
were brought in. Frank Breen, who is get
ting good ones wherever he drills, brought
in splendid little we'll on the Painter
farm Monday.
Glover & Nicely. two other lucky gentle
men, had their rabbits foot with them
this week. On the T. b. Elliott farm, Sec
ton s. Township 49, Range Is. where they
already have a bunch of good producers,
the firm brought in its best WELL possibly
l00-barrel producer.
McDermott & Co. brought i'm a forty
barrel well the Stansberry farm, near
Wayside, the first of the week. The well
is in the midst of proven territory and was
up to the expectations of the drillers.
In the Bartlesville. l. T., field nothing
much of note has taken place. Barnesdale
* Glenn brought in two nice little wells on
! lease No. 2S3. each good for fifteen barrels
production.
John T. Easley of the Hoosier Crude Oil
Company. brought in a good ten-barrel well
on the Ingmire farm, two miles east of the
city. Monday.
The Cudahy Oil Company. which has
been doing some extensive development in
the Bartlesville field, and which only re-
Gently entered the Coffeyville field brought
| in fine well six miles due east of COffeV-
vile, on the Guernsey farm, last Friday.
| The well was put down over COO feet A
good pay sand was struck, the drill pulled
| then lowered again until a second and
| heavier vein was encountered. Then the
string of tools was removed and the strata
shot one at time. The first brought forth
a good flow, estimated at possibly five bar
rels. The second shot was followed by q
| everything in close proximity The driIIers
| say that the well will have settled pro-
duction of about fifty barrels.