Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-06
News of the Oil World


June operations in the Kansas oil
fields show a twenty per cent decrease
II, compared with May In May there
was completed " wells that Furnished
"a production Of I'D barrels, while in
june - wells were completed for -
barrel, new production. On July !,
10 wells were drilling in Kansas rs
against - ON June /.
IN Miami county three wells were
completed, two Of them being produc-
crs and one a duster IN the Rantoul
development in Franklin county nine
wells were completed that furnished
50 barrels new production, Six wells
nrc drilling there,
In Ncosho county / compIctlons
were reported good for - barrels. in
.cmdiug two failures and four gaSSerS,
.aul eight wells are drilling.
o" the five wells completed in Will
son county, three produce 30 barrels,
two were dry and one gasser -Four
wells are drilling
The recent development at Bronson,
in Bourbon county, is not very active,
only two wells being completed in
June. one being a Is barrel producer
anl one dry. The Holmes Refining
coo.p1uy has installed small plant
to treat lis crude oil and is drilling
WELL
Montgomery county reports 2l com
u'c'iouo. of which 10 are producers of
III barrels. five were failures and six
are en,ScrS. Nine wells are drilling.
ChnutnuQua county completed 10
wells in June for Il total of 40 barrels
new production, including one du>ter
Seven wells are drilling.
or the six tests drilled in CowIeN
county. at Geneva and in Labctie
county. three were busters and three
were small gasscrS. Five wildcat tests
are drilling ut Arkansas City, at Cam
bridge and near the Labctte county
line. gas being the commoditv sought,
Fuel Oil in Demand
Production is generally decreasing
i'm the fuel oil districts of Nco~ho ant
Montgomery counties and the small
contractors for fuel oil are nearing Il
shortage. In nm effort to secure enough
crude to supply their customers they
have created a stronger tone To the
quotations for that grade OF olI. hut
there will be no boom, rs the quantity
handled by the half dozen dealers is
50 small as not to affect the general
market. Increased drilling and supply
would soon glut the local markets.
For contract oil in small quantities aS
high ms so cents a barrel has been
paid. but the prevailing price Is %
ccut,. the Prairie Oil & Gas company
paving - cents for 20 gravity oll and
ij cents for the bulk of the lower
grades
In Oklahoma
Although there is 30 per cent de
crease in new work throughout Okla
homa. June operations were almost aN
heavy a, during May I'm the Chcro-
kcc and Creek Nations, the Usage res
crvatiou and old Oklahoma, X}o wells
we're completed in June, compared
with lO4 in Nav when lj,sll barrels
of new production were reported. the
.ucv production in June being l4.113
barrels. q decrease of only l,26l bar
.rcI. In July 2l5 rigS were up and
.wrll, drilling. compared with 800 on
lurc : On July the daily produc-
iion of Oklahoma was $4,000, d'Str-
hutcd ms follows Bartlcsville district,
10000 barrels. shallow field along the
Ncrdigris river i'm the Cherokee, 2D,-
OOD barrels, Tulsa district, including
pari of the Cherokee. Cleveland, part
.of the Usage and the Creek Nation.
l2.OnD barrels; Usage reservation, 20
.DlO barrels; Kansas, 5000 barrels
making total daily production in the
entire Mid-Contincut field OF 100000
barrels. only 10000 barrels of which
/, being regularly handled.
The Outlook.
I'm the face of rapid increasing
production i'm the Illinois oil fields,
which Is quite likely To 90 to 3O.OOO
or over by September |, there is NJ
immediate prospect of better prices
for Kansas and Oklahoma crude oil
a. there is now troublesome surplus
to bear the market In ease new work
l. curtailed long enough to permit the
pipelines to catch up with present pro