The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-12-28
Drill on Sand in Burk-Burnei Field; Set
Casing; will Drill In Today; Was
Surprise Strike
Oil STATE STARTS
OPERATIONS ON FOUR
Ninnekah Location Again Active After
Shutdown for Weeks; Finish Water
Line; Busy at CARRIER

The long strink of hard luck that
has been pursuing the Beaver oil and
Gas company, is broken. This was
made evident this morning when the
offices Of the company here were
surprised BY message from the
Burk Burnett field, stating that
well had been secured.
This producer is No. Of the com,
pany and the drill struck tho sand
at depth Of 300 feet. Drilling on
this well started on Wednesday, Dec.
10. and drilled the remainder Of the
week, when it was shut down for
Christmas. It was thought at the Of
fices here that the drill would re-
main idle for the remainder Of the
week but they were pleasantly sur
prised 70 the contrary when the
driller wired today that he had a
well.
To Drill In Today
just how big this wen will be is
not known. The message stated that
the drill had reached the sand and
that they were setting the casing,
preparatory to drilling into the sand.
It is thought that the we'll win be
brought in today
In speaking Of the well, MT Holmes
Of the Beaver company said this
morning, "The 'Cockoo' wells on the
same section are producing about 50
barrels each. We cannot tell what
we will make, but we believe we have
picked up the same sand At our No.
location, which is a mile and half
from our No. q we missed the 300
foot sand, but believe we viii strike
the 445 foot sand. At this location
we have had nothing but bad luck.
When we contracted for the lease,
we also contracted to purchase a new
rig. 1t was long time about com
ing, so we procured an old one and
started operations. We have had
nothing but grief ever since and the
well is now only 400 feet dep. Our
driller assures us that we are going
to get a Well at our NO 1 location as
all indications are good
"It is our intention to finish drill
ing in No. 2, then move the No. rig
to a new location on the same lease
and continue drilling. The old rig
will be used on the No / lease. We
feel mighty good over our strike as
this is the first producer we have"
OIL State Busy.
From the office of the Oil State
Petroleum company this morning
came the announcement that they
have started operations again at the
Ninnekah location. Drilling started
again at a depth of about 200 feet.
This location has been shut down for
several weeks on account Of a short
age Of water It became necessary
to run a pipe line to the river. dis
tance Of about two miles This line
is just complete and operations are
again under way.
Speaking of the operations in the
CARRIER field. Mr.. Jaggers said,
"Things are going again after the
Christmas holidays. We have three
drills running in the CARRIER In the
upper Hoy field. our we'll on the
Barnes farm is drilling at 1850 feet
having progressed 40 feet since
Christmas
Go Deeper on 5elveai.
ron the Belveal lease. we have five
producing wells. Our No S is now
drilling to the Botson sand which is
at 1900 feet. This sand shows about
| 275 barrels, steady production. Our
/ No. 2 well on the Belveal farm
which was our smallest well, produc
ing about 100 barrels, is to be drill
Cd also to the Hotson sand. It was