The San Francisco call., 1910-01-09
THE OIL WELLS
Standard Bids 65 Cents for Oil

The Standard oil company is offer
ing to contract for oil in the Coalinga
field at So cents a barrel.
Not long ago this company through
Its local representatives announced to
the producers of the field that it would
pay 40 cents a barrel on daily deliver
There were no responses and the offer
was soon advanced to so cents. And
now 1t has gone to 60 cents.
The Standard is anxious to obtain
high. gravity oil, and .its most recent
overture to the oil men of the field is
for oil Rf Irax ~ gravity .y or lighter:
some contracts at this figure are under
way, but whether or not they have been
successfully conSummated is not
known.
The Standard is apparently willing to
recognize that oil in Coalinga is now able
to bring the producer something near
the price 1t is worth. In the Midway
field the Standard, which controls the
key to the marketing situation there,
is paying the producers but so cents
for the same product it is endeavoring
to procure in Coalinga for 65 cents
Los Angeles Herald
Palmer Gusher
News from bakersfield is TO the effect
that the Palmer gusher is still going
about the same pace. which for the last
80 days has avera ged from l. 400 to 1900
barrels a day. This is what the well
has settled down to as a steady thing
since the bottom Az inch casting has
been shut off by the inner tubing at
the depth of 2,775 feet.
This demonstrates that the oil comes
in through the six inch casing between
2,400 and 2,775 feet. The regularity of
the flow is accounted for by the fact
that the enormous gas pressure which
depth of 5000 feet is not so strong at
a depth of 2,775 feet. The gravity is
also conclusive proof that the oil comes
from this depth, as 1t is one-half of
loo icrh a 10 hnf Of r Ia
well.
No effort will be made to remove the
tubing as long as the steady flow
makes it dangerous to attempt to re-
move the obstruction.
The No 2 well, which is only 500 feet
from No. l, Is close to the 2,400 foot
mark, and the formation closely re-
sembles No. l at the same depth in it's
oil sands and the bituminous shale and
gas pressure. There is every indica-
tion that No. 2 will come in as a gusher
when the right depth is reached.-Los
Angeles Herald.
CoachelIa Oil Strike
The town of Coachella is greatly ex-
cited over discovery of oil a quarter
of a mile south of town. Mckay
brothers had been working on water
well on Doctor Thurston's ranch for
the last five months. encountering
great trouble in drilling, which showed
fault in the regular strata which covers
the valley. Two weeks ago the drill
ers noticed oil coming out in small
Quantities, but paid little attention to
it. A few days after work was sus-
hvdraulic Jacks. This morning work
was resumed. A rope was lowered into
the well to determine water level, but
when it was brought out it was COW
cred with oil about six feet from the
end lowered into the hole. Buckets
were arranged and ABOUT 10 gallons of
the well having been tampered with
and as the hole was plugged securely
and found in exactly the same condi-
dition as when work was suspended. no
evidence shows that any person poured
oil into the hole from the top Only
one solution remains. namely, that the
oil came In from near the bottom of
Streaked cement formation lies at
depth of about 500 feet; This is the
first real discovery ", Of 90 oil in this sec
oil experts have said there was oil
here. Hills on both sides of the valley
were located as oil s, claims few years
in Coachella valley. 134 miles east of
Los Angeles on the Southern Pacific
railroad.-Los Angeles Herald.
Ethel Dee Gusher
The Ethel Dee operating about
mile northeast of Marie.ops. brought in
December 10 This gusher is about 800
feet from the big well brought in by
the Wellman people short time ago
The Oils OF nne gravity ana will aver
age from 10 to 2o.-Los Angeles Herald.
Mascot Oil
In an effort to determine depth the
Mascot oil company, operating in the
Midway field, has just struck the oil
sand so feet below the producing point.
which is at 900 feet. The drill is now
in this stratum 40 feet and the well is
said to be in splendid condition. The
Mascot finished well No. 23 yesterday.
showing good results at 1,475 feet
Los Angeles Herald