Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
ECHOES FROM OIL FIELDS
SHOW BIC PRODUCTION
American Oil CO. GuSher Came
Too Soon for the Man.
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AS has been previously announced III
these columns, the American Oil Fields
company, of which Thomas A. O'Don-
nell is president and manager, recently
brought in a gusher on section 32-5z-z4'
in the Midway field. The big well is
an S000-baTrel property OF "a graVlIg
oil Owing to the fact that tacllltles
were not at hand for marketing the
oil the American company did not want
to bring in the big well at this time,
but the new gusher broke away from
them before they were ready. The we'll
was capped, however, and is not flow
ing at the present time, according 10
later advices received. Not much OIL
was shot out before the superintend-
ent had it capped and stopped.
The Coalinga Security Oil company
on section 8, 2O-15, is over 2600 feet
deep. This company has made excel
lent progress with the rotary drill and
is reported to be only about $50 feet
from the main sand.
The Kettleman Hills Oil company on
section 2. 22-1S, is down about 200 feet
with we'll No in open hole.
An oil deal involving 100000 has
lust been closed in Los Angeles. e.
A. Clampitt and his brother sold 13O
acres of oil land in the Newhall dis
trict to the London Petroleum COM
pany for the figure named above. There
are nine producing wells on the prop
erty and the production amounts to
250O barrels of oil a month. 1t is sold
under contract at 20 cents barrel.
After the Clampitts had sold their
property to the London Petroleum COM
pany the latter leased the property to
the Ventura Oil and Development COM
pany, which is being promoted by the
I ,ncoln Mortgage and Trust company,
with offices in the city of Los Angeles.
The sale is confirmed by the manager
of the Lincoln company. The oil pro
duced on the property is of high
grade. The Ventura Oil and Develop
ment company has other valuable
holdings in Ventura county and is
proceeding with the work of develop
ment as fast as is consistent.
The production of the American Pc
troleum company's well No. 8, which
was flowing up to the 10000 barrel
rate ten days ago, has dropped off to
q little over 1000 barrels. A few days
a~o the flow began to increase grad
uallv and lates1 'adYices say it is doing
a little better than 5000 barrels. Man
ager Crumpton states that the COM
pany has had no trouble in taking
care of the production and that there
seems to be no need of worry over the
cry of overproduction in that locality.
The Kern River Oilfields of Califor-
ria, limited, which took over tne Inpe-
ri ! and Thirty-three Oil companies,
in the Kern River fields, has put in
five strings of tools and expects to
d. Il ten wells per month
The Coalinga National has just COM
nleted a large covered receiving tank
to care for present production. The
we'll has been doing between 500 and
900 barrels of a II gravity Baume
scale oil and owing to the fineness of
the quality and to the soft formation
of the surface of the ground a great
deal of the fluid has been lost by
seepage in the sump hole. The deliV-
ering of the production into the re-
bic loss to the company.
The United States Oil company has
secured a lease from the Devils Den
Consolidated on twenty acres in town
ship %. range IS. Materials are now
on the way for rig and buildings.
1t is reported that well No. of the
American Petroleum company in sec