The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
DERRCkS MARCH IN AN almost (JNBROKENLNE
FROM SUNSET NORTHWARD TOWARD MCkITTRICk

~ watched, is expected to come in any
day. Since the advent of the big gush-
ers several offers have been made for
the lease. One offer was $4,000 for a
single acre in the corner adjoining the
gusher.
On the west side of the North Sunset
field the Boston Pacific company made a
discovery but a short while ago that
may mean millions of dollars increase
In the value of the leases in the locality.
The country in which the Boston Pacific
company operates is near the anticlinal
and has been good for steady bumpers
at 600 feet. test well was put down
in the lease in the east portion of sec
ton "a, 1924 and 200 feet of rich sand
was developed at a depth of 1000 feet.
The Boston is beginning work on $50
acres north of the Honolulu gusher.
DEALS EVERY DAY
Land is being bought and leased
every day In the latter part of March
the Pyramid oil company of San Fran
cisco came into the field, purchasing for
$500 an acre all of section 20, the east
half of Is and the larger part of 80 G.
). Johnson, president of the company,
visited the holdings and ordered sew
eral carloads of lumber, which have
reached the lease. Rig building has
commenced. Before long drillers will
be running lower and the holes will be
down in the sand.
Another company to come into the
Sunset field is the Thirty-four Hill, or
ganized by Bakersfield capitalists It
has secured a 90 year lease at one
eighth royalty on the south half of sec
ton "a, 1923.
A coup was recently executed on the
lease of the Ruby oil company In sec
ton 2, 11-24 that somewhat resembles
in gold mining the working over of
h. I-If&
of Superintendent Charles Keller the
derrick of Ruby No. 5, a deserted hole.
was reinforced. The well was drilled
much deeper and has turned out a good
100 barrels a day. The Ruby has nine
pumping wells, one drilling well, and is
erecting a derrick for No IL. The
lease is producing about 5000 barrels
a month.
Near the Ruby on section 3s. 1924
the Sunset-Pacifc, which was formerly
the Acme, has four pumping wells and
has just brought in No. 5. striking the
sand at 1.040 feet. Twenty thousand
barrels of oil are in storage on the
lease.
Another of the promising leases is
that of the Nevada Pacific, which is
sinking holes to the first stratum of A
prove up its holdings on the fiat toward
the east The principal owners are
Campbell, Metson & Drew, the San
Francisco law firm, and ]. Lindberg of
Alaska.
APPLIANCES IMPROVED
These are only a few OF the COM
panies that are operating about the
Maricopa field. These few have been
selected to give a general idea of the
field. 1t has been the attempt to show
the safe. conservative figures that rep
resent the output of so called perpetual
wells. There have been failures in
many instances where small concerns
have entered with insufficient capital
to press the game to finish in the event
of accidents. Many wells that have
been abandoned were drilled in the DAYS
when the science of well boring was
crude at best.
With the vast increase of the oil
production the Improvement of the an
pliances by. which it is obtained has
been forwarded. The manufacturer of
oil well supplies has given study to the
ever increasing demand for better inn
elements,