The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-19
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KANSAS OIL MEN ARE BUSY BRING
ING IN GOOD WELLS.
No Gushers in the List, but a Large
Number OF Moderate Producers
Some of the Best.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COFFEYVILLE, Kan, Feb. 1S-Rather
drastic was the method by which many
Doubling Thomases among the oil pro-
ducers of the country learned the latter
part of last week that Kansas is getting to
be a potent factor i'm the production of
crude petroleum. The big sensation was
the drop in the price of crude oil of 5
cents a barrel, and the cause is said TO
have been the big increase in the %produc-
tion of oil in the Kansas oil fields. Kansas
oil is now quoted as follows: South Neo-
desha. S131; North Neodesha. Sill: Neo-
desha heavy. So cents: Bartlesville. S1.15.
y drop in price does not affect drilling
operations, however. Operators will con-
tinue the quest after the oily wealth just
the same. on the theory that the price still
affords a fair profit.
This past week has been a season of
steady development, nothing of a sensa-
tional character, but just a straight bore
into the oil sand and the bringing in of
small but willing wells. Guffey & Galley.
Old-time operators in the oil fields of the
entire country. have a pretty fair string
of oilers in the Usage nation, near Paw
huska. They drilled in another nice one
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90, in the southeast quarter of Section Is,
Township q north. Within ten hours after
the sand was tapped the we'll had flowed
about ten barrels. Another ten-baTrel well,
in the same locality, was brought in by
the Colonial company, on Lot 43. in the
northeast quarter of Section "a, Township
20 north.
About a score Of miles "cross country
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Considerable work has been going on here
recently. The Asphalt Oil Company brought
in a good well the first of the week on
Lease So. Gas sand was struck at a depth
OF 20 feet and was found to be sixty feet
thick. Then the oil sand was encountered
ana penetrated to a depth of over forty
feet. The we'll was shot and connected with
the tank through a six and three-fourths-
inch casing. 1t is making about forty bar
rels daily. The Cudahy Company. which is
an extensive developer in the BartleSville
field. has had extraordinary success within
the past week, bringing in five wells. Two
are doing about seventy-five barrels each,
and the other three about fifty barrels each
daily.
Belleville township, near Peru, Chau-
tauqua county, came in with two good wells
and Gas Company brought in one on the
Hartzell lease in the southeast quarter Of
Sec. 10 The production is estimated at
a Pennsylvania operator, who failed last
week, brought in a well in this locality on
the Hucksten farm, southeast quarter of
Sec. IL. 1t is only a light producer. say
ffteen barrels, but as a test we'll for this
part of the field it is invaluable.
In the Independence field last week there
was no great number of wells, but the size
of all was very satisfactory. The Nelson
On Company, operating on the rich Shaw
farm, brought in three fine wells. All are
In independence township. The first is the
smallest, producing forty barrels a day.
The next will yield fifty barrels, while the
third is the queen of the bunch, a conserva-
tive estimate placing the production at 125
barrels a day. All wells tapped the sand
at depths varying from 500 to 1000 feet.
Chanute is having it's share of the de-
velopment these days. The Winner Oil and
Gas Company brought in its first well near
Chanute, in what is known as the West
carlton field. The sand was reached at a
depth of $40 feet and fifteen feet Of it found.
The well flowed freely before il was shot.
Whent shot the production settled down to
about fifty barrels a day. 1t is located on
the Midcap land a mile and a half west of
carlton. The Big Gum Oil Company
brought in its No. Is in the field north of
Chanute Monday, which will produce forty
barrels daily. The Hawkeye Company
brought in a well last Saturday afternoon
that is said to be about a twenty-fve-bar-
rel well. The Southwestern Oil Company
brought in its No. % the first of the week
and got a producer of about twenty barrels.
Kelly & Dennis are rejoicing over one of
the best welf they have yet acquired in
their string. 1t is located on the Osborn
land in the rich muddy trend Of the Chanute
field. Thirty feet of good sand was found
and the flow of oil was heavy. The we'll
probably will make ninety barrels a day.