The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-21
SANTA f CO.
HAS NO SECRETS
REPORTS OF OIL PRODUCTION
ARE NOT MlNlMIzEO, ACCORD.
ING TO RECORDS.

The Ardmoreite is convinced that
the statements made Sunday morn
lrg in The Ardmoreite to the effect
that the Santa Fe was giving out
reports that minimized the oil pro
duction in the Santa Fe wells west
of Ardmore, are incorrect. Mr.. +.
A. Redmond, acting manager of the
fuel oil properties of that company
furnished to repre- sentative of The
Ardmoreite a statement showing the
number of each well, together with
the cost of drilling, the day it was
connected up with the pumping ma
chinery and the number of barrels
pumped each day from each well
since the machinery was installed
Fayette Blake, a former emplOye of
The Ardmoreite and an Ardmore-rear.
ed boy, guages the wells in the field,
the production record of each well Is
kept in the Santa Fe offices here by
Miss Gwyn, an Ardmore girl, and all
the supplies purchased for the field
passes through the hands of W. b.
Trlce, who is also an old-time citizen
CT this town. An accurate record is
kept of the number of barrels of oil
produced each day since the field was
started, and the number of cars ship
ped daily from Ardmore since the
pipe line was finished into Ardmore
and after a minue examination of
these records, which was done at the !
invitation of Mr.. Redmond, The Ard |
unhesitatingly states that the |
r. ports gathered from visitors to the |
fled and from drillers in the field
have been exaggerated or else the
Santa Fe is keeping its accounts
incorrect, which is a very unreason
able thing to believe. While Mr.. Red
mond is Of the opinion that there is
a larger pool of oil somewhere in
this county he is very fran kto state
that the Santa Fe, has not found it
yet and he states that while his COM
pany has three rigs in the fled at
work, that they are not acquiring any
more property and not making any
effort to extend their operations fur
ther than to develop the holdings they
have already acquired,
With reference to the tax rendi-
ticns made by the Santa F'e, Mr. Red
mond states that the seeming incom-
patiiblity of reports grow out of the
quantity of oil possessed by the COM
pany at different taxpaying periods
and that he has furnished the county
with an itemized statement of every
thing the company owns. In this
regard. Robt. f. Scivally, former chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners, says that no individual or
corporation of this county has rem
dered tax values with the same pre-
cision and eXactness that the Santa
Fe has rendered, every foot of pipe,
every piece of machinery and every
bolt has BEEN itemized and ten per
cent reduced for wear from first
cost. In addition to the fair rendi-
ton the Santa Fe paid it's taxes in
advance for which the company re-
1sived the thanks of the governor of
the state. The pipe line holdings
are rendered by Attorney Bledsoe di-
rect to the state equalization board
md that property is not included in
he valuations taxed directly by this
county.
The Ardmoreite appreciates the
rankness of Mr. Redmond and his
lonest and patient efforts to place
n our hands information of just what
he company has done in an effort
o develop the Carter county fields
md of the results of their work. The
santa Fe is in need of fuel oil, they
re using their best efforts to get
rom this field all it produces on ac-
cunt Of their necessities and it does
ot look reasonable to anyone that
he company would hold back it's pro.
uctions when they are not attempt
ng to acquire more property and
hen they have immediate need for all
ley can produce.