The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-01
In hit UlL ElElU.
Much Work in the Cherokee
Section With the Drill.
LiVeliest Portion i'm the Mid
Continent Territory Now.
QUIET IN NEOSHO CO.
Business in COwley Coun ty Has
Been Very Good.
A Buster on the Dillow Farm
Near Arkansas City.
QUIET IN NEOSHO CO.

Independence, Kan, April 1.-The
nveliest place in the Mid Continent fielC
at this time so far as lease takers is
concerned, and it might be said so fal
as drilling operations count is the shall
low sand district of the Cherokee. The
field around Nowata had been practical
ly drilled up and advance wells to the
north had failed to find any new pools
Dry hole after buster had been drilled
without paying results and oil men had
nearly all turned away from the fam
Gus pool.
A little while ago some farmers got
together and organized a company to
drill at the little town Of Delaware, just
norths of Nowata on the railroad. A
lease was taken of the Leatherwood
last few days the stockholders have
been refusing $3.50 a share for their
stock.
The well has been variously reported
to be good for anywhere from fifty to
$50 barrels a day, but the fact is 1t Is
making just thirty barrels day nat
ural, that is, without being shot. 1t is
only 695 feet deep, has good run OF
sand, and only cost about 500 to drill
The result there is a repetition of old
times at Nowata. All the old oil men
are back there they came in with a
rush and many new ones have come
with them.
Some time ago John Whittock. the
wood farm, considering the tract worth
less so far as oil was concerned, called
upon a NoXata land broker and listed
the tract Of 800 acres, including this
piece the well is on. for sale.
Get $35 an acre for it, he said, but
don't turn down $50"
The only operation in Franklin coun-
ty are at Rantoul where, the Rantoul
Oil and Gas company has completed No.
2 on the Osborn for a 5-barrel producer.
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the McCoon and Afford Bros. & Lamb
have a 10-barrel producer on the
Springer & Watkins. Two wells are
drilling in that county.
There was not much doing in March
in Neosho county. Several wells for gas
have been drilled around Chanute, but
there has been practically no work for
oil in that vicinity. over in the Erie
district the Amber Oil company drilled
a. well on the Allen farm, one mile north
of Stark, and got a buster. This was a
pure wildcat and was drilled into the
Mississippi lime. At 800 feet a pocket
OF gas was encountered. but it blew out
in ten hours. Drilling was discontinued
at s5s feet -.s<---ss =,ss sis-- .--- -
There is no new work In the Erie dis
trict, at all in sight. There is some talk
of a we'll or two in April but it does
not look as if anything would be done.
The Great Western refinery is ready to
take all the oil produced in that district.
It has "a capacity for more oil than it
can get.
The Arkansas Valley Gas company
got a buster on the Dillow farm at Ar
kansas City. 1t was the company's No
on that tract. Thes anne comDany's
No. 2 on the Golf is drilling. The Home
Gas company got gasser on the Hess
farm and has moved the rig $500 feet
south and is drilling No. 4 on the same
farm. Secretary Deering has just re-
turned from Independence. having
made arrangements there for pipe to
bring the gas from the wells to the
mills and factories of Arkansas City. 1t
will be remembered that business men
and factory men of Arkansas City or
ganized the Home Gas company for the
purpose of developing gas for their own
use They have been very successful.
Cowley County Gas Inspector Common
arrested Cornelius Cumins, of the