The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-24
HOW EXPERT CAMF|ELO
CLEANED UP 4 FIELD
Puzzled OIL Sharps and Sold 0ul
in Less Than Six Months for
Big Money
Special to the Daily Leader.

Muskogee. June 24--Some 81,
months there came into the oil field
of eastern Okmulgee county, abou
twenty-five miles west of this city
partnership known as Tippit e Can
field. The senior partner was Isaac
Garfield "A years old. a New Yorh
state man, who has followed the big
game of drilling oil wells all the way
from Canada to Texas for the last
fifty-four years. The junior partner
was a big man from Gainesville, Texas
who admitted that he knew much
more about steers than petroliferous
technicalities. However, he had su-
preme confidence in his elderly part
ner's knowledge as well as in GER
tain mysterious apparatus that the
latter possessed for locating subter-
ranean accumulations of the liquid
gold that many of us are quite mad
about in Oklahoma now.
The partnership drew attention
from the beginning The attention
was perplexed at first and then be.
came derisive, for Messrs Tippit 4
Garfield reversed all usual procedure
and began. figuratively speaking
cooping their chickens before they
were hatched Before they had even
started drilling their first test well on
the acreage they had elected TO test
out, they spent considerable money
in getting tankage ready for oil;
built a mower to pump their wells
and went to other expenses that nc
other oil man dreams of incurring un-
til he has oil Had they been locat-
ed within a proven pool and CLOSELY
surrounded by production, this might
have been excused as forehandedness
But their 420-acre lease was not only
six miles north of the good Booch
sand pool as il was proven when they
started operations). but was sur
rounded on all sides by dry holes
which had long since condemned then
locality as hopeless in the estimation
of the ordinary oil man
To those who cared to ask ques
tions, Mr. Garfield serenely explain
ed that he had ascertained by his
eoil locator" that their lease was un-
derlaid by so many good oil we'll
that they wanted to get ready to
handle the oil and thus save the waste
which often follows the drilling o
wells in new territory. Some though
Mr.. Garfield was jokingly telling then
to mind their own business. Other
believed he believed what he was
saying, and went off and laughed
The first we'll was drilled, and ]
came in an oil well, much to every
body's surprise. The surprise was 81
great. in fact, that 1t took about sixty
days to believe that the well was ac
tually good for 100 barrels on the
start. instead of i25 as was generally
reported. BY this time. Messrs. Tip
nett G. Garfield had drilled their sec
ond well, way over somewhere els
on their lease, and oddly enough il
TOO was an oil well.
The scouts" decided then to &c
out and look over the lease, but will
no great enthusiasm. Their com
panies insisted on having all compile
tions reported. however, and here
were certainly two competitions, ever
IL by all the laws of the game they
should not amount to much.
The scouts had less enthusiasm /
than ever when they had finally To-
Gated the wells for their maps. foi |
Mr.. Garfield. who had made the loca-
tions. had done so with an utter dis
regard for all accepted rules. IL
place of starting them $50 feet from
the north line and 450 feet from the |