The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-04-22
.PECOS VALLEY OIL
FIELD ATTRACTS
ATTENTION
Mining and Engineering
World Gives Illustrated
Description of What Is
Called Promising Territory.

That the Pccos valley oil fold.
now being developed ul the way
from Roswell Co below Artcsil. ls at
traCting attention tu the mining
world is evidenced 10y the appear
ance in the current number OF the
Mining and Engineering world"
on, of the standard mining publica-
tlout OF the country or the following
article by c. A. Dinsmorc.
The pccos valley Oh field b. again
| claiming attention, after almost %
year OF inactivity. At this time the
Seven Rivers Dil a Gos Co is arm.
ing with standard drop rig on It's
land A. mile. west OF Dayton. The
Hartford Co b. drilling with star
tools at Mckittrick Springs ~
miles west Of Carlsbad. The Carls-
bad oil y Gas co. is drilling with
standard drop tools eight miles east
OF Carlsbad. The Belt Petroleum Co.
Is about financed Co go 10 5000 feet.
four miles east of Dayton. the we'll
now being 1886 feet deep The
Urowu wen is pumping fifty barrels
per dag. this being the only produc-
tion In commercial quantity IN the
field. The artcsian water flow OF
coo gallons was cut of in the Brown
well with leather and fiaxsccd pack
or.
The Pccos Valley Oh and Gas Co
operated on three leases during tho
year-the Terry, Altus and Martin
No Information can be had OF re-
suits. a complete Sharp-1iughes
I snrfINnu s.ttf ff t.as ara.I al. tho aruW-
tin, while a rotary started on the
other holes, which were finished
with drop tools.
The Belt Petroleum co. erected a
derrick during the year aud equipped
other machinery. Fol five years this
we'll has produced about three bar
refs Of oil daily. with an artcsi6n
water flow Of 500 gallons per min
ute. With the water shut off theoll
stratum, and the pumps working
steadily the petroleum production
could not be increased. which. OF
course, was a great disappointment
The Seven Rivers ON q Gas Co.
had some trouble during the year,
which resulted In idleness at on
lCity for many months Mrs WWNl-
inms acccded to the management OF
McAdams and the presidency g
Glow. aud to their insistence Of con-
troll of everything for "A year, and
nov work Is going forward, the
hole at this time being 7tO feet
deep They have contracted 90 arm
1,5OO feet Is pay is not struck soon
or.
During the year T. n. Dcvore OF
~ Paso did considerable work IN
the VIM Ehuadcs place. Deyor's In
%tentiou was 10 make an oil well II
the artcsian well. and this looked
quite feasible as oil and gas were
abundant The well was g3S feet
deep. The oh came in at 9O1 feet
khoadcs had plugged the hole az 800
feet Dcyorc put up "a standard dci-
ri,k Installed tools and removed the
plug The indications were excel
lent lie tried To- SET "a rubber pack
or, but abandoned the plan after
having nine Of these devices de
stroycd. A. huliug of The hole pro-
coded the water pressure lcsscncd
the gas pressure bpramo $50 strong %
would tear the rubber into shfcds,
and the hole again became flooded
lIuully IeNure had "a heavy leather
tub, made. the size eft the hol, and
this hc filled with rlaNs"cd o. length
of nlno feet. when the packer was
lowered and set II was permitted
&C. remain ton days or until the flax
seed ha swylied when the hu!r was
halvd. The gHE pressure wt- trcmcu-
uuus. q there was some uil Just
as real results were being attained.
and some success seemed certain,
b,vorc financial backing %stopped.
when an operations ceased This wei
could have been brought in " sinai!
producer az least go 60 100 barrcls)
but % ala not give promise of a
gushcr' or a very high pumper and
the men ut means refused more
money
Thu uohcny syndicate did some
drilling in the eastern field. sinking