The daily tribune., 1907-01-14
on WELL DRILLING
WILL BIZ RESUMED
United and Other Companies Pre-
pairing to Sink Wells Out
hook u Bright.

look 70 Bright.
Prosperity IL ths vAscAverd q
the Unitsd Oil oonpAny. NOT osly
Ia tho building line alone. bat In
the disposition OF oil also. Orders
are coming In to The oempany's
efnce % rapidly that Ii is hard 10
keep the orders filled. and the local
management is assured that thsss con.
ditions viii sxi.t for sone time 70
come.
Although the company bas plenty
Of reserve oil on hand At the present
time. It will soon bs forced 70 In.
crease the number Of wells being
d lied out In the neld. At present
three strings Of tools are being op.
Grated day and night and one string ID
worked only In the day time.
Just - soon ~ the refinery exten.
siona are . little further along. the
company will start 10 work three
moro wells to drilling and will keen
drilling from three to eight all sum.
melr. This is necessary to keep
up the supply Of oil. because much
more than IL now treated will be
requir red when the capacity is In.
creased. Arrangements looking to the
drilling campaign are being made
now.
Arrangements are also being per.
fected TO shut the refinery down for \
short time. when the proper time
comes. At that time the pnectiops
with the present refinery. the new
one, some moro new oil tanks In the
refuery yard and elsewhere and aoms
new stills. will be made and II IL
thought now that this work can be SO.
complished within six days. Ordi-
narily the work would require two
weeks. but the work being done for
this purpose at the present time, wilt
savs just 90 many days later on.
Hereafter the United proposes get.
ting every cont ont Of its oil that 10
possible. Heretofore after all the
values were extracted that could be
taken out Of the oil with the limited
facilities the oil WAS shipped to othsr
refiners and sold for about twenty .fve
cents q barrel. These were condi.
tions that could not be overcome
with the present equipment. and
the company WAS the loser because
most Of the oil sold 20 oheaply.
was said to be worth about u per
barrel. and that 10 what the com.
panv expects 70 realize from Il in
future. Consequently there will be
no more huch shipments.
Tho present buildings are not the
only ones the company will build.
but IL may be for the present. Plans
are on foot for tho construction Of .
number Of others later In the yoar.
but for what purpose has not been
announced. sufiios II 10 say that
mAuv good shinss are In SIGHT for
Florence and the United OIL com.
pany IL the one wbioh will bring them
here.
In spite Of the present prosperity
over the country, the United IL ssll.
Ing its white oils for three osnta q
gallon cheaper than 1t any time in
the history Of ~ organization. Thii
10 one Of the direct results Of The oil
war wased against the local concern
BY the Eastern producers and Esnners.
Il may be generally understood shat
she oil war has been called on. hui
the facts are quite the contrary. And
since the Eastsrnsrs saw 6t to wage Z
war the United 10 dsad willing 10 give
them . run for their money.
And tbs United OIL company Is mol
the only one that will bs aotivs dur
Ing the presest year. II 10 announced
that number Of the indspsndsns com
panies are preparing to actively On
gage 10 drilling for oil and Il hai
been reported thst before the sum
msr IL over. shat the old time vigol
OF the nsld will bs restored: thai
Il to say that from ten TO nitssr
drills will be going toward China.