Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-20
NEW STRIKES BOOST
SANTA MARIA FIELD
District Makes Rapid Advance
ment by Intelligent Prospect
ing and Development

SANTA MARIA. Oct. 19.-Palmer
No. is ready to spud in.
Dome B No. is about ready tor
production. IA.
palmer No. s is down 1900 feet with
121k-inch casing.
The Standard Oil company has IN
stalled the largest pump ever brought
70 the coast at Maftby station the last
station north on the line between 0s-
lersfeld and Point Richmond. -,
The rig on Dispatch was destroyeu ~ ~
fire a few weeks ago. me Nv onother
Going right along putting up ao4
;n and in the mean time nave ce
,aeentad of the water at the depth OIL
'OG palmer No. 2 has been shut down foI
+ta nast two weeks, but TINS Sie''
gusher will soon resume. ..4oa ~
palmer No. 8 is being per1orats9o 9a,,fb -,
the depth of 2S15 feet inns osino
was reached with a siX-inch caslhS 3
snd md the owners expect that NO; o .
Iii come a gusher like the other
wells of the company .,o,,-., hos
nba Tos Alamos Petroleum mas
obout 1000 barrels of oil in the suinp
ana has about succeeded in controllllss ls
the sand. There is over 2S0o Ie9I ~ ~
oil in the pipe and soon TINS WIZ q
summed ont and the we'll put Oh d a
rpo11ipe basis. The gas pressure IN TINS
1Tail is heavy and this makes 1t dllllcu!e u
AZ control the well, bat as there rs Is
= srrea+ quantity of oil every man III
the feld is ready to say that tle @ @hoS
Aienos Petroleum company VIII nave
one of the best wells in the eastern
fields.
4,,a Pnrissirna. Hills Oil company,
Cantain Henry Henderson, the superh--
tanden+ of the well, says they landed
fhe 10-inch casing at 1886 feet IN tIIe @
blue sha1e and have shut off the water
connletely, so the hole is now uIy'
After this the drillers proceeded WIN
the S-inch casing which now Is uoMil ,l
saws there has been great showing
of oil and some gas, and Is enthusias-
tic over the prospects.
THE Santa Barabara Press says:
After three years of drilling ana
when hope was about to be abandoned
nil was struck yesterday morning on
the holdings of the San Lucas rancn,
four miles south or SANTA neH' d.. s.,,o'
less than thirty miles from SANTA Bar
bara. 4as - +ho
ooynnanv. received the information
here at noon and Immediately COM
municated with Arthur Alexander,
another interested, who was at Los
O1ivos. Mr.. Alexander hurried by ma
chine to the well and later teiephoheo
q substantiation of the report.
The oil was struck at depth OF
9e0O feet. In the casing there was con-
siderable water which retarded the
flow: in fact, it prevented the oil from
getting to the surface in such a re,
fined state as to tell positively WhaI
gravity it is. ~.
Mr.. Alexander says, however. tnaI
the oil would test about "a or 30, and
that that which has come through $500
feet of water would go 25. The oil is
a light green, very much like the
Santa Paula oil. All other wells in
the upper end of the Santa Ynez-Santa
Maria field develop a black oil.
At the point of contact with the
oiT-bearing strata the casing is SIX
inch. This will be cemented, the water
pumped out and then the we'll will be
developed. Not before this time, how
ever. will it be possible to determine
Just what sort of well has been de-
veloped.
The company is made UP Of Santa
Barbara and San Francisco capital;
Santa Barbara holding 49 per cent,
while the Crocker estate of San Fran
cisco the remaining 81.
There is great excitement in Santa
Ynez as the result OF the strike, which
is considered the most important since
the Santa Maria field was opened, In
that it opens entirely new territory
The San Lucas company was formed
by capital interested in the Santa
Ynez valley for the purpose of testing
that region for oil. Now that oil has
been found there will be several rigs
placed on the ground and operations
start shortly on several properties. A
rush on the government lands in the
vicinity may also be expected.