The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-30

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A sixth refinery for the city Of Ard
more seems to be an Immediate proba
bility. j. Il. French of the American In
dustrial Refining company having Sc
cured a contract with the industrial cor.
poration OF the Chamber OF Commerce
for forty acres OF land on which he pro.
poses to erect refinery for the pro
duction OF lubricating oils. lamp black
and axle grease. This plant will he a
refining plant and not merely a skim
ming plant.
Coupled with the announcement that
he viii build this plant Mr.. French
makes two other important announce.
ments. He has bought the Kent Homa
property in section -. 3Ssw near OH
City, on which there is now one pro-
ducing well and on which he has con
tracted for the drilling of 35 more wells
by Bob Stutzel and associates. this con-
tract involving the expenditure of
$3.50 600
mir. French is convinced that the oil
from the Oil City district has especial
ppeS's from a refining standpoint and
kx,t,. =. chat 1t will produce at least one.
Ln,a,s uiu n ricating oil. although all pre-
", 'alyses have shown only one
aI,,da.,, n" .,1,suming that Mr.. French is
Aus !. will mean a large amount
oine' ONT work and the creation
ofN,o eat Nor production which has
hertne war Is fused for fuel oil almost
iexciautisIy. -
M French further asserts that II the
present pipeline facilities are made
quate that he will also build another
pipe line. and the present indications
l.
il any amount OF production is 10 he |
handled from this new district. as il is |
well known that the present lines only |
have capacity OF about $1,000 barrels |
a day. this being hardly sufficient 10 !
take care of the refineries now in oper- |
alton in Ardmore and the others near |
ing completion.
This should all prove good news and |
should also be a further incentive to
the business public to support whole
heartedly the Ardrnore Chamber of \
Commerce. which is the vehicle through |
which Ardmore's industrial expansion
must come and the usefulness of which
is largely governed by the supper; that
is given H.
Garvin county seems TO be due Tor
considerable exploitation in wildcatting
Z
structure that is leading the venture.
some wildcatter to look for oil from a
point west of sulphur in a northwest
erly direction 10 point near Chicksshs.
Garvin county seems to have been Sc
lected for the most of the locations 50
far made along fthe structure. Accu-
rate reports of these wells are not ac-
cessible at present. but below will be
found the latest reports ob;ainable:
Okla-Star. in 20, sn4w. is fishing at
] $40 feet on the Kate Allen farm.
Boston oil company, ,. 2n5w il "A RIG.
McTon company. 25 2n4w. on the Gau
farm. is drilling al 375 feet
Nicholson company, -, IN .
lw. on the McClain farm is shut down. ,
O. T. Nelson. II. ln2e. on the Matt
Wolf farm is RIG.
Murphy 4 Nichols. 2S. ln3w, on the Z
Abram farm, is drilling at 200 feet.
Davis. 20. 1n2w, on the Schooifield I
farm. is shut down.
Uncle sam. 27 4n5w. is fishing at
$40 feet.
Rush Creek Oil company. IS. snsw. is '
! location.
The Gainsnlore oil company has in
,reased its capital stock from s25.ooO to
100000.
The Terminal Refining company has y
increased its capital stock from sS5.ooo
o 100000.
The supreme court Of Oklahoma re- :
'ersed itself last week in what is known p"
Is the SciOta Oil company " OHern
ase and thereby took most sensible
Jew OF simple everyday procedure in b
ne oil business One Cooper had given %
lease on his allotted land in ii-i6l3, G.
nd the lease was duly recorded with v
he Indian agent at MuskoRc Cooper
hortly afterwards died and his heirs =
ought TO break the lease on the ground =
hat IL had not been recorGed in the ~
ounty. In reversing itself. the su- -
-eme court has held that the mere fl
AZ of the lease with the Indian agent =
-as due notice and that the lessee =
houli be protected.
Oklahoma leads all the states in the -
lumber of refineries. with - plants. =
,tai daily capacity of lis. .00e barrels -.
nd an investment representing si3s.- A.
10 600. Plants building OF in contem- a.
lation number - and an investment -
s5.5e0.Ooo. "a
M
A syndicate of Wichita men. kezdet
; {. T. Joselyn. paid Si0000 for a "
,e-sixfcenth royalty interest in the 16e n=
res in the southeast quarter Of sec 81.
an e1ss-z- The tract. known a. the tei
a-rnon land Is in the south extension foi
the Tovsnda pool and adjoining IL on 81
= west IS the Sargent Land. on which n
e Union OIL company = now drilling u,t
well Er
tin
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