Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-12
MORE BIC WELLS
IN MIDWAY FIELD
Companies Energetic in Search
inu for GusherS in Kern
County
lcorresronaence Daily Herald.l

TAFT. Cal, April 10.-Two more
eushers can be added to the many in
the Midway fields, and furnish addi-
tionai proof of the oft-repeated asser-
tion that this section of the state has
only been scratched. The wonderful
oil industry has just begun in the Mid
way; what 1t is capable of producing
is only conjecture, as the biggest wells
have been brought in recently, and how
many more gushers will lengthen the
list cannot be estimated.
Recently the Pioneer Midway COM
pany struck the big oil on section
30-31-23, which shot high over the der
rick for a few hours. then bridged.
1t is estimated that it produced at the
rate of 1000 barrels a day and showed
a heavy gas pressure. The gusher was
brought in at 2700 feet. 1t is stated
that no attempt is being made to break
the bridge, and the company will not
put down the agitators until they have
sumps dug and are in shape to take
care of the oil.
This we'll is about a mile from the
Mays famous gusher which caused SO
much excitement few weeks ago II
is said to be as big a producer as the
Mays, and will equal 1t in gravity
Later the Standard on section SO-32-24
began producing at the rate of 25O0
barrels a day 1t Is located on the
same section as well No. 2, which has
been flowing steadily since 1t was
brought in over a month ago, ana Is
now doing about 5000 barrels a day.
The Standards new Wen Is aoWn 10 d d
depth of about 2400 feet and began
flowing when an agitatng string was
put down.
The Lake View WELL which has been
flowing at the rate of 10000 barrels a
day, is still keeping up its unprece-
dented record. A heavy bulkhead
thirty feet high and twelve feet square
was completed Thursday, which in
closes the we'll and serves to keep 1t
from snraving all over the surround
ing territory. Since the wooden hood
has been put on the company Is able
TO save more of the oil, and 1t is esti-
mated that not less than $4,000 barrels
is running into the sump holes daily.
A brief history of the big we'll was
given in the Maricopa News and is as
follows:
Located on fractional section 25-12-24,
one mile north Of Maricopa.
Property of ]. M. Dunn. Parker Bar
rett. Julius Freid and A r. Hodges
kinson; under a sixth royalty lease TO
the Lake View Oil company, 5l per cent
of whose stock is owned by the Union
oil company, which drilled the well
and has charge of the property.
The we'll is 2225 feet deep ana nhlsheu
with six-inch casing.
1t was brought in at 1880 TUESDAY
morning, March Is, and excepting for
about one and one-half hours on the
evening of the same day, has gushed
oil incessantly at the rate of between
35 900 and 40, 900 barrels a day, throw
ing the oil from 100 to $50 feet high.
Despite the fact that three large
pumps have been going day and night
since the afternoon of the first day,
pumping the oil into storage tanks, ten
mammoth sumps have been filled and
an eleventh is being constructed.
Two hundred and fifty men and
nearly one hundred head of horses and
mules are in constant service caring
for the product from this well.
The whole surface of the earth tol
a distance of from one to two miles
around is black with the oil spray from
the we'll: the Unions new quarters
recently built near the well are prac-
tieally ruined.
A large ten-inch pipe line has beer
laid from the main sump for distance
of four miles out on the fiat, and In
case the wells production becomes
more than can be taken care of, 1t VII
be turned out there and burned, bui
II is not probable that this eXpedlen
will have to be resorted to.