Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09


C0AIINGA, Jan. 8.-The extensive
nnerations of the American Petroleum
comnany will result, within snort
time in doubling the production In TINS
field which now amounts 10 an dNel
age of 5000 barrels daily. The company
recently finished No. 8 on seclloIl 10,
and the well, which had been DONG I@rolll @
200 to 250 barrels, has increased Its NOV Soo
10 1870 barrels. No. on section 30 is 1OO
feet into the oil sand and is now balahS
the water off. The sand has been
reached in NO. 80 on IS, and the water
has heen" cemented off in six wells, on
sections 30 and 10, which Will De mn mn
jshed within two weeks. -Four more
wells are now ready to cement. In au-
ditinn four wells are drilling, two rig
gino nm. and the material is on the
ssroi1nd for two more rigs. In all the
connanv will bring in thirteen or four
teen wells in the near future, approx
matelv doubling its present producIlon
There are now thirty-nine rigs up, m
Guiding wells finished, wells drilling ana
wells rugged up, with ten strings OF
tools running constantly anu AoiO0
of III men employed.
Makes Surface improvements
Thomas O'DonneI, general manager
for the company, has been making eA-
tensiye surface improvements Whlle
drifrng the territory, and has complet-
ed steel tankage of 100000 barrels ca
nacftv and installed two modern hlSh
nressure boiler plants with a combined
capacity of 1000 horsepower; a large ar
compressor plant and a fully equlppeu
electric plant with ZOO llghts' which
furnishes illumination for all the prop
critics of the company are also IN COM
mission. A modern machine shop, com
rlete in every detail and thoroughly
equipped for turning out the work re-
ollired of it, is now being erected, ana
a $4,000 office building is nearing COM
pletion on section Is, which in future
will be the center of operations.
On account of a series or accidents
which interfered with the movement of
oil through the Monterey pipe line Oh
the Associated, the American Petrole-
UNI company now has in excess of 2o0,-
900 barrels in storage. The steel tanks
are filled and about $4,000 barrels are
held in the sump holes. The line has
been cleared and the company started
January / TO deliver 1900 barrels daily.
The contract with the Associated calls
for the entire production of the compa-
ny up to 10000 barrels daily.
Controls 1900 Acres
There is probably no other company
i'm the state which has made so rapid
an advance in developing its holdings
as the American Petroleum company.
ITS different leases comprise 1400 acres
of proved oil land, situated in sections
80, 10, IS and 6, township 20 south, range
Is east; and in section 80, 1915. A little
more than a year ago this was naked
land. with not a rig up. Fourteen
months ago the first two wells We're
drilled, NO and No. 6, on section 30,
both of which have flowed since with
out interruption and are now doing 500
barrels each. Snice then the company
has drilled seventeen wells, bringing
the total up to nineteen, and in four
teen months has produced and sold
100000 barrels of oil. With ten strings
running, it will take ten years to drill
the territory.
Territory Is Proved
Development since the property was
acquired, two years ago, has demon
strated that the entire acreage is oil
producing. Wells other than those of
the company which have proved the
territory are: Well No. l in section 20
and No. in is of the Nevada Petrole-
um company; the well of the Nathan
oil company in section 7, adjoining Sec
ton of the American, and the Empire
well on section 80. The company has
done no development on either section
or section so.
Amber in Rich Land
The Amber If In rich sand on its lease
on section 26, 31-22. and this company,
which is owned and controlled almost
wholly by Randsburg persons, has as
capped the possibility Of not making
good. The stock is widely scattered in
that mining camp.
This is the first venture of the resi-
dents of the desert mining town in oil,
and when they started the enterprise
was out in front. They were taking
large chances. Not only, however, have
they succeeded in getting oil in profita-
bic quantities. but have gone down 400
feet and more with ten-inch casing,
and will finish with that, making but
two strings. A small amount only of
water was found.
Farther out on the fiat the Santa Fe
has a 100-barrel well at a less depth,
which leads to the supposition that the
Amber is in a deeper sand ard one
probably much more productive. Where
the Santa Fe went into the sand it
finished with the Amber encountered
dry stratum. In its next well the Santa
Tie will drill deeper.
The Campbell-Whittier Investment
company of Los Angeles has bought for
the United Oil company the south half
Of the southeast quarter Of section "a,
q 90 CONSISTING Of eiphfxy aoree ar sQOO