The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-04-08

Oklahoma crude alone is greater
than ever before in the history OF
the state, and is straining the pipe
lines to full capacity, and then
some
On top of this, the Louisiana
fields have lately almost doubled
their production, with the natural
result that the southern deliveries
of the Oklahoma pipe lines are be-
ing much lessened For instance
the deliveries Of the Prairie oil
d Gas company 10 the Oklahoma
Pipe Line company at Muskogee
| for transportation TO the Baton
Rouge, La, renneries, have neces-
sarily been lessened by the fact
that the Increased Louisiana produc-
ton more than supplied these south
ern refneries and tend to shut the
Oklahoma crude out.
Thus. the Prairie Oil & Gas com
pany, and probable also, the Gnl'
and Texas pipe line companies, both
of whom deliver Louisiana oil as
Iwel as the Continent crude are
encountcring big increase in pro-
duction here and a lTetty good de-
crease in markets AT the other end
Of the pipe lines.
Oklahoma producers are TO some
extent at least fortunate, therefore
that their own price of $lO5 Is
maintained while in the Louisiana
and Texas fields there have lately
been reductions in every district
This reduction on Louisiana and
Texas crude has ranged all the way
from 3 to so cents a barrel. The
south Oklahoma or Healdton held
likewise suffered, though for local
rather than general causes.
In the meantime the Prairie Oh
& Gas company has just closed the
biggest month in its history. Dur
ing March. the company took from
producers iO9O,6OS barrels of crude,
ian average OF l3l955 barrels a day;
delivered 3,l3LO5l barrels and put
the remainder, G53,556 barrels, in
storage.
! owing to its own heavy produc-
tion at Cushing the check in It's
southern deliveries and the sener-
lany increased Oklahoma production,
4 the =. O. d G. has undoubtedly
been up against a big proposition
TO handle the oil they have had
to cut off transportation for the
other pipe lines, such an order go
ing into effect the fifth Of April;
have put gate valves on their wells
at Gushing. and are going 10 some
lengths to provide additional s;or-
age ats the .oloying Gushing dis
/ patch shows:
AS part of the effort to find
a way 10 handle all the oil produc-
ed in the Cushing field, the Prairie
!, OH and Gas company has been
topping ont all storage tanks in
which the cold weater sr.nkage
and natural evaporation have left
a little room. running from 100 to
500 barrels per tank in some in
stances In the Glenn pool tank
farm at Glcnnpool village il was
discovered thar the twenty -four So
oCo-barrel tanks there had a lot Of
water in the bottoms and this has
been drawn off, some tanks having
nearly three feet of water, an ay-
erage Of more than two feet per
tank. as fifty-one feet OF water was
found in the twenty-four tanks,
which would De approximately So
900 barrels OF room Fields vary
somewhat as to the quantity Of wat
er coming with the oil, the older
the wells the more water generally
! the Glenn pool now being old enough
for plenty Of salt water to show.
There are nearly 200 tanks IN The
Praire's farm at jerks. all Glenn
pool oil. and if the same condition
[ is found in these tanks as in the,