Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-06
SANTA Fl WELL IN
MIDWAY A GUSRER
DERRICK AND BOILER BATHED
IN OIL
Well Comes in with Roar and SPouts
Solid Stream of Oil--MidWay
Six Is Rushing
Work

The success of the Santa Fe well on
section 6-92-23 in the Midway Six in
Los Angeles, as the new well is within
$50 feet of the spot which the company
has selected on which to drill it's wells.
The Midway Six has its derrick on the
ground. and stimulated by the success
of the big gusher will hasten work.
The Santa Fe well was put down by
the Garfield -Chanslos Midway COM
pany and struck the oil sand Saturday
night at a depth of 141O feet, which is
another matter of imoortance, mas
much as the Midway Six company,
basing their calculations on the depth
at which the Midway Crude entered
the sand, expected to have to drill to a
depth of 1900 feet.
Although the Santa Fe was one Of
the spectacular performers of the oil
fields but little has been learned of the
well, the company being ultra-conserVa-
tive in discussing its properties. From
a representative of the Wnittier-Camp-
bell Oil company, which put out Mid
way Six, the details of the bringing In
of this we'll are learned. The we'll came
in Saturday night and blew off three
times within a few hours, covering the
derrick and boiler with oil. The pro-
duct of the well has been tested and
gives a gravity of 232. Its capacity Is
..e4f Of all
1000 barrels a day by oil experts. The
well is now clogged with sand and is
being drilled out. The pressure of oil
and gas was so great that 1t became
necessary on Sunday to flood the hole
with water, which has since been
pumped off. Within a few days the
sand will have been drilled out and the
Santa Fe will take its place among the
steady producers of that section OF the
field. About 200 barrels of oil were
saved from the spurts of saturday
night and Sunday.
The Midway Six will soon have two
strings of drills operating, and Will
hurry the work as fast as possible.
The company has a lease on the Hall
ground of twenty acres A special
Pullman will be attached to the regular
train next Friday and will be occupied
by twenty-eight stockholders of the
Midway Six company, who go up TO see
the new gusher.
A report comes from Maricopa, which
is about fifteen miles from the Santa
Fe, that very ordinary well of the
Abilene Oil company blew up recently
without warning and Immediately be-
gan to produce at the rate of 400 bar
reds.
The incorporators of the Midway Six
are c. f. Whittier, Z. D. Morrison, =.
p. Campbell, Charles S. Hall. M. X.
Hail. l.. 4. White and A. j. Hedrlck.
Bob Montgomery has returned from
trip TO his gypsum mine in the east
ern part of San Bernardino county.
/ Revert Lanka, who accompanied him,
will return Tuesday.
Capt. c. II. Thompson will leave
Saturday for Arizona and Mexico on
mining business.
r J. Carrigan, vice president of the
! Clara Consolidated, +. S. Osborne and
1 Frank Robbins, the latter a mining en-
gineer, have gone to Parker to start
work on some properties which Mr..
| Carrigan has taken over. Mr.. Robbins
will remain in charge of the work.
/ The Consolidated Copper Mines has
/ been Incorporated in Arizona with a
capitalization of $5,000000 to take over
properties in the Seneca mining dis
/ trict Arizona. T. J. Corrigan, vice
president of the Clara Consolidated, IS
president of the company