The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-20

Toh Ah' kt- N'liN ti'
TO he longer lived and when az many
wells hare been drilled az have been
drilled at Blackwell Fox may take firs,
place In the state i'm the productions oi
gas. The Lone Star Gas company has
made the announcement that its line
from Gainesville to Dixie win be com
pletcd by the first of November. This
line is n I6-inch from Dixie ii will be
built into Loco and into Fox.
The Allen pool, located in S north and
east. In Pontotoc county, promises 10
become a more interesting area. The
X. C. Oil company has brought In the
best well In that area, which extends
the pool mile west and other wells are
starting on that eide of production. The
wells are $50 feet deep, the production
averages about 90 barrels. the oil has
a ready market at the wells at $3.50.
The Crystal White Refining company
has been acquired by W. NJ. Bonner of
Oklahoma City and J. S. Mullen of
Ardmore. The refinery operates at AL
len and is capable of handling the en-
tire output of the field. The principal
operating company there. the X. G. on
company. has been acquired by Simon
Westheimer and his associates and Mr..
Westheimer is president of the COM
pany Several strings Of tools are op'
Grating in the field and the new pro
ducer a mile from the old area lends
much encouragement to operators. Pom
totoc county has been very slow in COM
Al. xu kttt a
county has nice gas production. But
the failure to uncover a real oil Held
has discouraged some of the operators.
f. =. Barker. vice president and gen
eral manager of the Baltimore Finance
company, of Baltimore. Md, is here to-
day accompanied by his company's geol'
ogist, Col. J. ". Sullivan. Mr.. Marker
is here looking over Healdton proper
ties with view of making purchases
Of production. II is very likely that his
company will enter the southern fields
with the drill and will become an i'm
portant factor in further development
Of this area.
Hugh a. Ledbetter of this city, has
recently acquired 1850 acres of oil lands
in the shallow area in Rogers and Craig
counties. near the town Of Chelsea in
- and IS north and II east. The prop.
crty acquired has four producing wells
at this time Philip B. Hopkins, Of
Muskogee a member of the constitu'
tionai convention. has entered into q
contract to take charge of the property
and Is developing it, Activities are TO
he begun at once J. T. Darby also Of
Muskogee will he associated with Mr..
Hopkins in the development work.
Local interest is still being manifested
in the Fortuna well near Cement. In
section 81 6n9w The well Is making
more than 80 100000 feet of gas and
there is demand for acreage there.
Guy T. Ledbetter and Errei Dunlap. of
Ardmore. and W. A. Ledbetter. of Okla
IONA City. own n large acreage sur
rounding the new well.
franklin & Phillips No. Dougherty.
i'm section 1929. in the Fox district.
rs at n depth of l715 feet and is on top
of a heavy gas sand. The I5-inch pipe
has been pulled and the 1e-inch is now
being removed from the we'll. The
sand will be penetrated with the drill
when the outside casing has been pull
I'd. No. on the same farm is making
from four to five million feet Of gas
at 1875 feet and is being underreamed
before the drill is sent into the sand.
These are days when the oil men re-
sort TO duck hunting fOr -ccreation.
J. X Davis. of the Empire contarY.
on the Eaves lake. near Poo.eviiie.
bagged thirteen fine ones. \ party oI
four composed OF II. a. Simpson. &. Y.
Sykes. w. ID. Potter and X. u. Poland
have returned from the Thackerv'le
lake on Red river where they spen;
three days duck hunting. They had
the sport OF killing the limit every day
and could have taken more. but tae
law created a limitation on the sport
The Ardmore district has been gwen