Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-15

| TAFT, Jan. 14-Work has been sus-
pended on the well of the Midway six
lease by the United Oil company, pend
ing the closing of a contract for the
oil c. F. Whittier and C. B. Camp
bell of the United have gone to San
| Francisco and unless there is a hitch
| in the negotiations they will contract
| 100000 barrels to the Standard at Go
cents. They are expected to return
| here not later than tonight with word
to go ahead. The Standard has agreed
to lay a pipe line to the lease and in
stall pump, and to be ready to take
the oil within sixty-six hours after the
contract is signed.
1t is understood the officers of the
United have decided to accept the offer
| of the Standard because of the inabili-
ty of the Producers to handle the oil
! for some time to come. The directors
are desirous of drilling the lease as
rapidly as possible, and also wish to
put the United on a dividend paying
basis, for the company has other hold
ings and, evidently, plans to become
an important and extensive operator in
this lie1d.
Three rigs are up on the Midway Six
lease, and not less than three strings
of tools will be kept running, opera
tions to start as soon as the contract
lS SlSu6u. NO we'll Is uOWn ClOS0
to the sand and can be finished with
in short time. The lease is on sec
tion 6-32-23, and the first well was
drilled 300 feet from the Santa Fe 2-6.
Buy f1o Acres
G.. w. McNeIr and P. E, Bowles of
Oakland have bought 10 acres of oil
land in section 26-3122 North Mid
way, paying $1,000 an acre. The tracts
purchased are described as the north
west quarter of the southeast quar-
ter from r. e. Graham; the north
half of the southeast quarter of the
northwest quarter, twenty acres, from
ST .)ervisor Houser and DIR. Knox, and
the north half and southeast quarter
of the northeast quarter of the north
west quarter The land adjoins the
Amber lease, which Is in a lively oil
sand and has prospects for big well,
on the southeast and the north, and
is in direct line northwest from the
Santa Fe 2-6, and the new well of the
Eagle Creek company.
While no strike had been made on
the land prior to the withdrawal order
of Nthe interior department, September
27, 1909, each quarter was being drilled
at that time. Title is also protected
by gypsum locations.
The purchasers are officials of the
Reward Oil company of McKittrick,
and both are wealthy men. The for
mer owners of the land and the stock
holders of the Amber Oil company all
are residents of Randsburg.
The Carlo Oil company, section 20
1928, will proceed to drill the entire
lease, which adjoins the Mascot on
the. west. The company has two wells
finished in 275 feet of sand which are
producing 100 barrels day each, and
is drilling No. 3. The sand is reached
at a depth of 500 feet.
Sells Its Production
The Hawaiian company has sold it's
production at 30 cents a barrel to the
Associated. The we'll will be opened
as soon as the Standards line is laid
to the lease, this company taking the
production according to arrangements
made with the buyer.
What this, the Crandall, we'll really
amounts to has been the subject of
great curiosity by all including it's
owners. 1t has been shut in for weeks
awaiting connections.
The st. Lawrence's gusher on sec
tion 532-23 has settled to a 500 barrel
per day turn-off. This oil is being
sold to the Standard, daily runs, at
so cents the barrel. The gravity is
% degrees,
The La Belle Oil company, drilling
on section 4-32-23, half mile to the east
of the st. Lawrences gusher, has
reached a depth of 1900 feet. Oil is
expected within the next 300.or 400 feet
at which depth it is believed the ST.
Lawrence stratum will be tapped.
The Standard, which got a crooked
hole on 16-31-23, has moved 500 feet
to the west and started another Well
The indications for oil are said to have
been good in the first well.
An oil has been shown here which
will burn in a kerosene lamp in the
crude state. The oil is about 400 de-
grees gravity. Some mystery has
been thrown about the article but it
can be obtained in small quantities
from a seepage eighteen miles north
west of the Erume springhole wells
on the west flank of the Carissa range.
There is another seepage of oil of
the same quality apparently to tha
southeast of the old Sunset field.