The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-28
LATEST MAIL
NEWS OF OIL.

San Francisco Examiner, June 90
According to tests made by the
Standard Oil Company oil Of 2i5
gravity is being obtained from the
well of the Canadian Pacific Oil Com
pany, section 4, 1898. The well IS
more than 5000 feet deep and is Civ
ing a daily output of 800 barrels. It
is located in the big well territory
The company, which the name i'm
plies, is controlled by Canadian cap
italists, began operating more than
a year and a half ago. It has an
eighty-acre lease.
The we'll Of the Midway Royal Sec
ton 10, 1888, is giving several hun
dred barrels daily. The pumping
test made Sunday showed 500 bar
rels in twenty-four hours.
The output of the famous Lake.
view gusher is still close to 5000 Bar
rels daily, of which amount $500
barrels is remarkable oil.
The Pyramid Oil Company's well
is at the 3O5O-foot point and went into
a gas stratum which contained one Of
the strongest flows of gas that has
yet been found in the Buena Vista
hills section of the Midway field. fl
spite of the fact that the Pyramid
company has taken every precaution
to prevent a blowout on this well, the
flow of gas came so strong that its
roar could be heard for two or three
miles from the we'll The Pyramid
company has installed on this well a
blowout preventer which it is claimed
will hold back any Ow of gas or OIL
that may possibly be encountered
From present indications there Is
every likelihood that the Pyramid
will have a good well. It will be
brought in under perfect control, i
the plans of the management don
emiscarry.
Stirring activity is shown by com
panies operating in the Fullerton OF
field and especially so in the new
territory brought into the producin,
area by the Amalagamated well. Il
that section the Standard, the Uniol
and the Shaffer Oil companies viii
sink wells within small radiu
where leases adioin, and the Anal
gamated is also preparing to drill az
other hole close to the line betwee
the Standard lease and it's own tract
The Midway View Oil Company ha
also paid a good price for a five-acr
tract in this same section
The Shaffer Oil Company has take
a lease on a tract one mile north, BIZ
longing to Mrs. Anna Foster Anon
the operatives the WhittierDe
Moines is down 1922 feet with fou
and one-half inch casing. At 1886
feet the first sand was encountere
and continued for thirty-five fee
The Murphy is reported to have oil
tanned this sand at about thirty-fr
feet greater depth and on a tryo,
secured 300 barrels.
T The Standard mas obtained a rigl
: of way for its pipe line to the ,Toll
l. ranch, which adjoints the White
: Des Moines, so that the company wi
e be provided with an immediate ma
: ket.
8, S. F. Chronicle, June 1S.-The II
: mauma Oil Company, on section
L 31-32, on the Carrissa plains, is repol
d ed to have struck a prolific oil san
= Report has it that the well was COZ
pleted at a depth of 1900 feet, al
e that the oil is of a gravity better thu
d p How many barrels of oil this we
), will produce each day is as yet a pro
;, lem. If this report proves to
r founded on fact large extension
the present known oil fields of Il
J State will Immediately be dotted wi
}. many derricks.
s. S. F. Chronicle, June 20.-The Hon
> lulu Consolidated, on section -, 1922
y is $4,000 feet deep and flowing
+ gravity oil, although the sand is st
clogging badly in the casing. Tn
we'll is on the adjoining section to tn
81 Of the Pyramid Oil Company.
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