The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-05-20

THE LOCAL OIL FIELD.

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~ THE LOCAL OIL FIELD.
Big BattlfVRf Operations Regarding
Retroleum Industry.
( lopment at Welsh is at
~ erable local interest
w. rhw4.% Important tests that
ments Of il, [ SkA~Rde The most inter
e1 aassllssI N's''4 raao-rssas Com
down to !, aatoa .. Adso depth of
whion - - wear ago, is now be-
Geher"i <14N'Isf'SH 6S Bfuyon & Prather,
Inc ehein aumont operators. They expect to
An aly to the Jennings stratum, which has
than Sen found at a depth of 1850 feet in
1t IS lie we'll drilled by the Dutch Com
movingpany one-fourth mile east of the pres
and thtnt DEVELOPMENT at Welsh. The Col
up wit larado-Texas well is situated much
nearer the producing wells at Welsh
land had a good showing of oil in the
ShaI10O0-foot sand. If the lower sand is
thur sfaqnd to be productive a considerable
ly besiegSant of new work will be done. The
by land ANY gas pressure found in the sand
Thesacountered at about 400 feet has de-
that iaerred operators from attempting the
sians deep wells.
thus The we'll drilled by the Metropoli-
~ tan Oil Company in 1903 and aband-
e oned on account of defective strainer
= has been cleaned out and is doing
x from 80 to 100 barrels of oil daily. 1t
is at present the largest producer in
nv the Welsh field.
noS The daily production of the field is
tne figured as follows:
While Bbls.
ticipate bravo Oil Company (Southern
convention; dc) one well 70
committee to c ON three "et ose 100
Evention, Presidena ............... so
leaders of the reIBoor Company (Mac- -
ally have canvass De veil m Com.
:, subject of the natell ... 35
From time to timd Company one well. 30
rious prominent Az
/ been published in Of welsh beiro bni1t
chairml& IN ou'cll Nand Refining Com
matter ifad no iln-ring ! completion and
Z lecture ready for operation by July
= some eiine pacity will be about 300 bar
.e tary Cortelyo oil Investors Journal.
a iisl'n. Colorado and Texas we'll, north
= IL "> oven field, is being opened up
p sus''iAe d IS Bowen, the contractor who
" ohiS W., this well nearly two years ago,
also idepth of 1000 feet. He is now to
ed the coull down another 1000 feet. and it
&c sped that before the 1000 feet is
I'd ned the true oil pool of the Welsh
ge ill be discovered. The impress
mas Ion here among oil men is that the
AIDS resent oil field good as it is, can be
- eli Git one of seepage oil, and that the
~ elgn rye body of oil must be near, and
ne lie Mite likely is below, and it is to find
ns minhis oil pool th at the Colorado and
listerexas company is going deeper
aid HMany @oil men believe it is on the
OF sght track.
Gu, Welsh oil field is quiet. On
nty prem VISUAL pumping of wells is going
me frd'epara he Mac Fadden we'll, SO long
and heepara is now under the pump. Field
psn tertar Whitsett, in charge of this
isRciai sports that tsfF~outpab9 of fuid
Nc, he pre- less tha8rovine the well flowed
we os sFposits Are SEA oil and tw voc
ere s,is:a York: Accordin now if is two
,uD q t'gment the First aly[salt voter
ing Macon. Ge, owed deg-
It's capital is s2og Be journal Is
plant, president v9. G. Wants Oil Co.
lies Plant & SOM the proven
of SloV,ooo' 4 g @ p Instructions
the CADET 8 tur, Ill, to
the p;c,, ERE req - 1t once. Mr..
ne t.an ,Ssss q 81 .4urtt1er t2ag s. w. Clay
ited ha- Ire 81, sss5 all probability secure the
W. SOU for drilling the next well
ated Ses psssr Lamp, president OF the Proven
cost sDs x Tield Company, who was painful
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