The San Francisco call., 1910-10-05
VISALIA MIDWAY
STRIKES OIL Sand
First Two Wells Ready for Pro-
duction When Storage Fa-
cilities Are Completed

The visalia Midway oil company.
operating on section 253122, has
finished it's first two wells, with the
exception of perforating the second,
and will be ready to begin producing
oil so soon as little more storage is
completed.
We'll No. is 2.321 feet deep. and
well No. 2 is IA feet deeper. In each
the casing was carried through the oil
sand and grounded on blue clay be-
meath. Each we'll also penetrates 200
feet of light oil sand beside 250 feet
of heavy oil sand, which was struck
between 1000 and 1900 feet and has
been carried off with the larger outside
casing. The oil in this upper sapd is
IA gravity and has not been struck by
any of the other wells in the vicinity.
1t will not be perforated into the
present wills, but shallow wells will
be sunk later to tap the stratum.
The first well has been perforated,
but theshole is still kept full Of water
in order to hold down the oil and gas.
The gas pressure is so strong that the
oil is sent boiling and bubbling to the
top of the 1900 foot column of water.
Superintendent w. r. Struco says that
none of the wells in the North Midway
valley have looked so we'll when they
first came in. 1t is expected both will
be flowing wells.
RESERVOIR BUILDING
Storage facilities now ready for
handling the oil are $4,000 barrel
concrete tank and so 900 barrel sump,
and a 100000 barrel concrete reservoir
is building. The latter reservoir will be
about 20 feet deep. half below the level
of the ground, and 300x260 feet on the
bottom. Thirty scrapers are now at
work on the excavations. The dirt
taken out will be fanked against the
outer side of the concrete walls and.
as the reservoir is on practically level
ground where there is no danger from
storm water, the oil stored in 1t Will
be safe from injury.
When work was begun on the Visalia
Midway property, May IL, Manager
Fred H. Hall promised to have one
well producing by September l. Had
II not been necessary to close down
drilling for 80 days on account OF
water famine the two wells would have
been finished in the time stated.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GUsHER
Another big gusher was developed in
the Midway Maricopa district Friday
night, when well B on the Sunset
Monarch property, section 26, quar- :
ter of a mile west of the famous Lake
view gusher, came in. The well is
now flowing at the rate of $4,000 bar
rels day.
The we'll is the property of the
Spreckels interests of San Francisco
and originally came in about month
ago. when it spouted $500 barrels in
55 minutes, but sanded up. Since then
the company has been making elab-
crate preparations to control the we'll
and save the product. The well is
2200 feet deep and 118 feet in the oil
sand.
well known Gilman from Maricopa
reports that water had broken into the
gusher of the Consolidated Midway oil
company on section 30-12-23, and was
appearing in such quantities as to pre-
sent a serious problem not alone for
the Consolidated Midway, but the en-
tire gusher belt e. A. Wiltsee, the
there was a show of water, but eX-
the upper strata, and that the damage
would be insignificant.
The rig for New Penn on Fugler is
soon.
The newly installed air compressor
on the New Pennsylvania No. / Fugler
tract is doing fine work and the man
agement is more than pleased with the
outcome of the installation.
The Producers transportation com
pany expect to have one of their mon
ster cement reservoirs located at the
San Luis Obispo tank farm completed
next Wednesday and will commence to
run the oil into it that day.