The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-06
lBy Geo. H. Wyatt.)

| Few OF the citizens of ArdmOre ant
Carter county recognize the magni
tude of the oil interests which will bt
developed in this section as soon as
the world at large becomes advised
of the great, the lmtless quantities
of oil which now lies bubbling be
meath the surface of the greater por-
tions of this county
For the past several years constant
drilling has been in progress in what
known as the Santa Fe Oil Fields.
Occasionally an Independent concern
has dropped into the territory and
sunk a few wells. Some few local
concerns have operated in half
hearted and desultory sort of way, but
the majority of our people have been
content to sit down and know that
there is "some oil in Carter county,
Beyond the shadow of a doubt those
who could have long ago given to the
world the story of the oil situation in
Carter county, have busted them
selves in keeping things dark In
formation as to the approximate
number of wells now in production
in the Oil City fields has been a.
most impossible to obtain, and the
general impression held by the home
folks, as well as those at a distance,
| is that during the six or seven years
that the principal company interested
has been drilling in the territory
west of Keller and up to Oil City,
about fifty or sixty producing wells
ave been brought in having an aver,
age daily capacity of from twenty
to thirty barrels. The truth
the naked, unvarnished truth
of the matter unadorned by fiction or
Iunchausen-lik dreams and sub
stantiated by occular evidence and
the testimony of residents of the Oil
City country, is that approximately
one hundred and twenty-five produc-
ing wells-some of them flowing
wells have responded to the pierre
ing strokes of the oil drills.
OF the total number of wells put
down the Santa Fe people are daily
pumping on from forty to ninety.
For twenty-four hours each day from
forty to ninety heavy suction pumps
in as many wells, throb and jerk
and groan and spew forth into vast
reservoirs the richness of the earths
bowels. For twentyfour hours each
day, day in and day out through the
weeks and months which pile up the
years and mark the passing of time
on the pages of Carter county's his
tory, battery of three gigantic
boilers throw their quickening steam
into three mammoth engines which
snore and tremble as they turn their
wheels bringing forth answering
throbs from near hundred pumps
from the pumps which spout a golden
stream into a monster tank of three
quarters of million barrels. Three
quarters of a million-seven hundred
and fifty thousand barrels, represent
ing a wealth almost beyond the
dreams of avarice.
Test runs on the greater number
of these wells show an average
yield of one hundred and twenty
barrels to every "a hours of pump
ing. The only time the pumping
stops is when the shortage of cars
at the Ardmore end of the Oil City
Ardmore pipe line demands tempor-
AIRY shortening of the output |
of these wells and when the giant |
seven hundred and fly thousand tank
is filled to its capacity.
In addition to the wells which are
nder the pump there is the giant
flowing well which was brought in
a number of years ago and which /
has been capped ever since. This
well showed a test of eight hundred |
barrels per day. The California, an
other well which was capped as soon
as brought in, tes shoe to be a
well of not less than five hundred
barrels per day A third well of tre-
mendous capacity was brought in only
n short time ago. 1t, like it's two
predecessors of giant volume, has had
the cap placed upon it and will await
the sweet will of the oil interests
to, be permitted chance of vomiting
its oily wealth into the Golfers of its
owners.
And, unadvertised, the great wealth