The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-04-14
IMMEDIATE RELIEF
IS NOT OFFERED
HEALOTON PRODUCERS URGED
TO QUIT DRILLING AND TO GET
MORE PIPE LINES.

The hours talk OF Col George C..
Greer, general attorney of the Mag
nolia Pipe Line Company, before the
producers here yesterday afternoon
to be put in a few sentences means,
that the field cannot expect any fur
ther aid from the pipe line people be-
lore October or November of this
year The attorney pleaded with the
people to quit drilling in wells to free
him for a short time from charges
and investigations so he could work
on the matter little more, and to do
their utmost to get other lines to
build into the field. He said the Nag
no!ia people would never be able to
take more than $4,000 barrels of the
production, that the field promised
to be a big one, that the production
is now what his company expected
ii to be in SIX months from now, that
the field has every ear mark of being
Il fine producing area. The attorney
promised to do all he could for the
producers, but especially urged them
to look out for other purchasers OF
their oil. He stated that the com
pany was building plant at Fort
Worth, to refine the oil, that the plant
could not be completed before the
fi9t of October, that pipe line would
be built from Fort Worth to Alyord,
where it would connect with the line
to Addington and to Healdton that the
pipe line could be finished by the first
of July. The pipe has already been
ordered that the Magnolia people are
reducing their storage in the Flee
ira field, the storage tanks are be-
ing moved to Fort Worth for the pur-
pose of caring for the Healdton crude,
Feels Responsibility.
The attorney recounted much Of
the early history of the field which
was reported in these columns when
be made about the same talk in Ok
lahoma City before the corporation
commission. He told of the increase
in the capital stock of the company
10 provide funds for the plant and
for the storage and for finding a
market for the Healdton oil. He told
of Mr. Folger's refusal to subscribe
TO additional stock to build on to
Gushing until Healdton was cared for
the company, he said, felt partially
responsible for the rapid develop
ment of this field. and they were do
ing what they could TO relieve the
situation. He said the increase in
production since the first OF March
had been about 1000 barrels, and the
production now is $4,000 barrels
With reference to reported discrim-
nations, he said his company dad o.
dered their men to scrupuiously ad-
here to their rules Of giving each
man his pro rata part OF the oil. He
said there was law in this state re
curing that and he believed the law
was a just one and his company
would live up to it. He also stated
that Oklahoma laws were more rea-
sonable than Texas laws.
In speaking Of oil prices, Col. Greer
said, the price at Spindle Top had
been reduced from 80 to Ga, at Hum
BILE from % to 80 at Sour Lake, the
same reductions as at Humble. He
said his company was not buying Tex
as crude, that they had made an ef-
fort to surrender their contracts on
Mexican crude to give better care
for Healdton, that one contract had
been closed with the Trinity & Brazos
Valley railroad for 100000 barrels
a year for two years. He said the
oil delivered from this field would
bring SIC, and from the Mexican
fields, 75c. That his company had
given Healdton oil this advantage in
price Other contracts are pending
and will probably be made which will
give the company an opportunity to
handle the Healdton oil.
Oil Is Better.
Refinery tests have shown that the
sulphur in the oil amounts to two
thirds of one per cent which will not
be Nery difficult to remove. The
Healdton oil contains "a per cent
naphtha, 2O.9 kerosene, and 69-7 fuel
oil, and , per cent loss. He said, the
Mansfield and the Electra oils were
better than the Healdton oil.
Col. Greer urged the producers tC
bring their appeals direct to him and
they would get much quicker results
than to take them to the governor or
to other officials. His speech was lis.
tened to with much interest.