The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-26
The New Pool on West Side of Carter
County Will Add Many Millions to
Wealth of Ardmore.
Means Another Railroad, New Pipe Line
For the Southern Field and Many
New Industries.

1t touch of life that given Ardmore yes
had been drilled in at Fox All else forgotten and those
who playing the game busy after leases and those
who not investing oil lands talking of the changes
that would be made in Ardmore The discovery of oil in this
area will bring another pipe line into the southern field 1t
It puts Ardmoe where will be the hub of vast oil and
district 1t means railroad for Ardmore and
new pipe line for the southern fields.
The initial oil well in the Fox district which reported
The top was reached at 1860 feet at 1000
feet the drill went into lime The production from the forty
An estimate by very conservative oil puts produc-
ton at $50 barrels The well drilling deeper to test for other
sands.
Chas. w. Clay at the well yesterday while it drill
ing in the sand He saw the gravity test made which showed
Headon crude and not quite good Gushing crude While
Mr. Clay there the production estimated at from 200
to $50 barrels with the drill 35 feet in the 1t max
ing The derrick painted clear to the top show
ing that the oil had poued out of the earth and ascended into
to the height of Me top of the derrick There
thing like forty autos at the well at time
The Fox district has been watched rather closely for
several Oil from all the state have been play
ing the field Local people have been dgen in purchasing
leases and if the should to be field large
Healdon there will fortunes made by local people
at Fox made at eadtOn The Kicama Company went
cana took its from Kimbre Carpenter and Mathers
all of whom local people The Plains Oil and Gas Com
cusvey of local people If Fox makes field of any size the
Plains Company will make as much money as the Crystal made
Scores of individuals have acreage holdings there and much
of the wealth of the Fox field will find its way into the banks
Il
city.
Two other wells drilling the Fox district this time.
They the Franklin Phillips well in which recently
had sand that made feet gas and being
drilled deeper for oil sand The other drilling well is the
property of the Gypsy Oil Company the Matte Morris lease
section 1928 which drilling yesterday in blue shae
at depth of 1880 feet The Gypsy also drilling well to the
northwest short distance section 1924 That well
shut down yesterday Approximate depth of 1000 feet
Still farther to the northwest Brode and others drilling
section 924. That well shut down for yesterday
at approximate depth Of 2400 feet
W. B. johnson stated weeks ago that if oil were de-
there would a
that He said the Santa Fe might take hold of the
proposition but it did not that there would be other people
who would construct the line.
B. A. Simpson made the remark recently that when oil
found Fox that the Ardmoree could that there
would be fine office building put up Ardmore The gen.
era impression the people that the discovery of oil
Fox will result doubling the population of Ardmore with
very short time Whether that is true not, every cit
of this city pleased with the growth of the town. The
people coming here faster than Ardmore preparing
them Two and three families often found
living house. and unless the house building activity is
doubled there will be many families living here in dur
ing the winter.