The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-23

The Chickasaw Refining company,
which is building plant In the Indus.
trial addition of Ardmore, has received
forty-three cars of material and only a
few more cars are to arrive to complete
the shipment. The brick work on the
power house is being completed today,
the foundations for the stills are IN
and fifteen masons are making quick
work of brick construction. The com.
pany has had some difficulty in get
ting water. Three wells have beer
drilled to shallow depths and the water
supply is still insufficient. The BesaW
Rubber company. in the same locality.
has experienced the same trouble. The
refinery is not depending upon wells
for water for operating purposes. as
the plant will have connection with the
city water mains. The plant will be
in operation by the first of the year
The Superior Gasoline & Petroleum
company has been organized here with
a capital stock of $500 900. The inc1r.
porators are r. l.. Steiner, l.. S. Dol
man and Guy T. Lawrence. The com.
pany'S plans have not been fully INA
tured, but it is assured that casing
1t is probable that refinery will also
be built by the new company. Mr.
Steiner has for many years been in
close touch with the refining end of
the oil business, and he was for years
manager Of one of the large refinerles
owned by the Standard Oil company
in the east.
Montana Oil & Gas company, on the
Cullen farm in section Il 3s2e, west
of Berwyn. has reached a depth OF $50
feet and has water sand at this depth
The Empire Pipe Line company is
running 10 900 barrels of water into
its concrete reservoir at Gainesville
The reservoir. which has a capacity OF
350.0O0 barrels. will carry this amount
of water permanently.
Plains oil & Gas company, on the
south line of section 21 5nSe, on the
Roscoe Gilmore farm in the Allen dis.
trict in Pontotoc county. has reached
a depth of 900 feet and is shut down
The Allen sand was due at $50 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum company, in sec
81 5nSe in the Allen district rs running
the IL 1-2-inch casing at 700 feet.
Lyndale Oil company, formerly known
as Lee Brothers. in section 2S 5nSe |
is drilling at 700 feet in well No.
This drilling Is on the Gilmore farm
and well No. / on this farm had II
feet of sand at $50 feet and is making
forty barrels now
The well of the T. & =. Coal company |
at Ranger, is still increasing in produc-
tion. 1t has been drilled four feet IN, o
n sand at 3,440 feet. and its production
has kept increasing until it is now max |
ing 1850 barrels
Magnolia Petroleum company. in Cole. |
man county, Texas. has a well at S+00
feet which has touched a sand that is |
making 100 barrels of high grade oil |
with 100 feet of cavings in the hole. |
This well. like the Ranger well, prom
ises TO open up rich oil area.
The country south of Alma. in Ste
phens county, in section 80 1s5w, pre-
sents rather puzzling situation. The
shallow sands there scarry oil to the /
exclusion of water and the lines laid |
to Wild Horse creek are useless for
water because the creek Is dry and II /
seems that the operations will have to
be abandoned until rain falls and the
surface water is impounded.
Czarina oil company No. 8. in sec
ton 1898, on the Czarina Homer farm
is drilling at a depth below 500 feet.
X. o. Dulaney. of the Fort Ring Oil |
company. returned today from a visit
to Burkburnett and other fields in
North Texas.
Sam A. Apple has returned from
Fort Worth.
Roy NJ. Johnson. Judge r. A. Hefner. /
n. Il. Feagin and Judge l.. $. Dolman
were in Tulsa last night to attend the