The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-06
|CARTER COUNTY HAS VAST OIL POOL;
CRUDE PRODUCT FLOWS INCREASINGLY
TENS OF MILLIONS OF BARRELS IN BOWELS NEAR
ARDMoRE-oIL CITY IN HEAR ONE okLAHoMAs BIG
GEST FIELDs-FAST BEcoMi NG RIVAL FAMOUS
FIELDS OF BEAUMoNT-ouTs lDE OIL MEN AND
HERE

lies sleeping beneath the waving
| grass and springing daisies of Carter
county. A wealth sufficient to pay
off the national debt and to make this
one of the greatest oil centers of the
world. Five million, one hundred and
ten Thousand barrels-two hundred
and seventyhye million, nine hum
dred and forty gallons of crude oil
for each year of three hundred and
sixty five days. A yearly showing
in dollars and cents, at the ruling
price paid in this section, of three
million and siXty-six thousand dol
lars now Geing coaxed from the
earth's bosom, and ten hundred times
that amount lying stored awaiting
the caressing touch of the drillers
wand
A trip to the oil regions of Car
ter county will well repay any one
for the pains. After leaving Lone
Grove and passing over the divide
toward Keller, derriclls in the inde-
pendent fields begin coming into sight
while all the way from Ardmore to
Oil City a constant stream of wagons
are met coming into Ardmore, the
nearest railway station, for supplies,
while you pass equally as many re-
turning to the fields loaded with
drilling machinery. AS the distance
to Oil City grows shorter one be-
gins passing an occasional derrick
while the thump, thump of the drills
and the coughing of the engines fill
the air. When at last the main
Santa Fe fields are reached the
stranger in the fields sees sight
to open his eyes. Covering hundreds
of acres will be seen rows upon
rows of wooden posts set in diverg-
ing lines and standing as grim as
sentinels guarding a sleeping army
Across the top of those posts, NOV
ing silently and steadily, monoton-
ously and irresistibly are hundreds |
of long black iron arms. These
slender arms of iron, working with
pistonlike regularity, spread out like
the tentacles of some mighty octo-
pus from the engine room, and criss-
cross each other to every limit Of
the Santa Fe fields, connecting at
the well and that with some fighty
pump which sucks the oil from the
depths of the earth as the tabled
vampires of mythology sucked the
blood from the human heart.
Before reaching the Santa Fe
fields a number of independent wells
that are in production are passed
There is one of the Babcock wells
which was brought in some months
ago and which shows a test of sixty
barrels to each twenty-four hours
run. There, too, is the Lacy well
which will be brought in today. This
well was due to come in several days
ago, but delays in the matter of set
ting the casing and in getting good
water on the ground has delayed the
bringing in as a producer until now.
This well is practically one thousand
feet deep and promises to be one of
the biggest wells in the independent
fields. There, too, are other Babcock
wells-all of them producers. And
this side-that is to the south and
east of the Lacy and the Babcock
wells, work is commencing on the
Colcord leases. The Lacy and the
Colcord wells now extend the Oil
City fields considerably making the
proven territory some eight miles in
length by about three miles wide.
Despite everything which has SEEM
ingly conspired to keep a knowledge
of the magnitude of the Oil City and
Wheeler oil fields from being known
the truth of the situation is gradually
sitting to the outside world and to-
day hundreds of leases from inde
pendent holders are being recorded
where none were in evidence a year
ago.
From all sections of the United
all the oil regions of
Pennsylvania. from Ohio, from the
old beaumont fields, from the new
gushers at Cushing and from local
sources investigations are being
made and investors who know oil and
oil conditions when they see them
are beginning to become interested
in these really great fields. Should