The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-19
OIL AND GAS NEWS

pared with steel storage. The compan,
mas one cement storage basin at Gaines
vilIe completed and IN ready 20 turn III,
oil into II. The capacity is 1000 bar
rels. Excavation is being made now fol
a second basin OF the same kind an,
the pipe connections have arrived. Tn,
company IN now starting Two reservoir,
OF the same kind and Of the same en-
pacity in the Eldorsdo. Kansas, Field.
Carrier Oil Company No II. i. Davis
In ll'4'3. IL still shut down M 1870 feet
The company plans also 10 make thi,
well deep test.
Geneva Pearl oil Company, in section
4'f'3. has abandoned It's plans 10 make
well No, a deep test and has plugged
the hole. 80
Harris.Strawn Oil Company No. II.
on the Sarasota. had n sand from 1925
to 1865 and was completed at a total
depth Of 1880 feet, The production H.
good for so barrels.
Summit Oil Company No. / Hernstsdt,
in section 1923. in the Fox district. has
reached "A depth of 2i65 feet and Is fish.
ing for lugs.
Carter Oil Company No. iG Rhondes
farm. In the center OF the southwest
quarter Of section 2f.i.3. has been drilled
to a depth of 1880 feet and Is shut down.
This in all probability will be made "A
deep test.
Some of the producers In the field
are holding storage oil for fear of the
excess profits tax of the government
and movement has been started among
Individual members of oil companies |
owning storage to induce the compa MES |
TO make sales of the oil and to invest |
the money in government bonds. do |
business as though the war was not !
on Is the motto OF these people. The |
nan who puts on business brakes. who |
'ails TO come forward with what he has
n this perilous hour of the government
IS morally as much Stacker as the
frafted man who resists. say the peo.
Die who are urging sales of oil to make
Investments in the issue of Liberty
,onds.
Scott Braden, secretary of the Seq.
eSated Oh Company, is here from Ok.
ahoma City and is negotiating for the
of some close in acreage 10
iealdton. Mr.. Braden's company took
Is name from the fact that il is oper.
ting on lands segregated by the state
or oil and gas purposes. 1t is drilling
well in section 22-fn-le in Cimarron
ounty near the west line of the state
he company has 10000 acres of state
inds under lease.
a. X. McLennan. general manager of
ne urbana Oil Company, is here from
awton.
George w. Reeder, engineer. who is
ping some work on the Rockinnd lease
section 23-A-3. was in the city TO- ~,
ny.
*. r.. HighnOte, of the Highnote Drill c
g Company, who is I'm Idaho looking ;,
ter some OF his mining interests, has .
'poi ted to friends here that he has
turned from hunt on which he killed ;,
big bear As proof of his claim he is q
ndins some Of the meat to his part
n, Fred Ryburn. Mr.. Highnote will go +
New York on a business trip before -
turning home, which will he in about a
20 weeks 4
y. j. Walker, superintendent OF the s
kla Oh Company. has returned from i,
business trip TO Ada, Norman and II
Il
}. E. Swindler Apd c. c. simmons, r,
the Frick-Reid s9pply Company. are n,
re from Tulsa visiting with the A
'aldton manager, ii. -. Paine. CO
K c. Hackstaff, with the Empire si
pc Line Company is here from Bar. III
sville visiting with Otto Bradford st
al superintendent of the company. Sc
:. Hackstaff has just completed the pl
'asant Valley and Gushing cutoff. ad
ich gives the Empires refinery at be
shing connection with the company's Tt
'duction in Kansas. Mr.. Hackstaff to
well known here to many of the old
lers. He built the Santa Fe line be
of Ardmore TO Wheeler several years pc
}. wa
---- pl,
he relative death rate between the pl,
tainer and the nonabstainer (which pr
ludes the moderate and occasional pe'
ial di.i,l.n..I L.