The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-20

Corning - ESQ Indiana ----- 1.sS
Novth Lima 2.os Princeton - 215
South Lima--2,oS Plymouth - 1.eS
Petrolia Canadian --------------- 80
johnson, in section 2s.2-3 In the Fox
district, made a flow over the derrick
yesterday while the well was being
drilled into the sand that was found at
2142 feet. What the well will make
cannot be estimated but II probably
will be a better producer than any other
well in the field. This is on the east
side of production and II is likely to
encourage drilling operations in that
direction.
When the people of Dallas, Fort
Worth and other north Texas cities
lighted their fires this morning they
found rich flow OF gas. The mains of
the Lone Star Gas company are now
supplied with gas from the Fox dis
trict in Carter county.
Carter Oil company No. 1 Tucker
farm. in section 29-2-3, which went into
an oil sand at about 2070 feet. is run
ming a string of six.inch to shut off the
fore the well is drilled in.
Plains Oil & Gas company No. Nc
Gown, in section 1923, is in a gas
sand at 205S feet, and is waiting for a
pump large enough to put mud in the
hole against the gas pressure so that
deeper drilling may be done.
Franklin & Phillips No. 2, on the
Dougherty farm. is fishing for tools at
1744 feet. No. 4, on the same farm.
is underreaming at a depth Of about
1910 feet.
]. f. Fossett, who has taken a con-
tract to drill well No. 1, Tucker farm.
for Franklin & Phillips. in section 1928,
is ready to start but the location is
without water and water well Is now
drilling. This well will be the second
test in the Fox district to be drilled
with rotary tools. The tools in the first
WELL which is owned by the Sinclair
Astral companies, failed to pass through
the gas sand.
Ardmore producers are taking some
interest in the new well which has been
drilled by the T. & =. Coal company.
near Ranger, Texas. This well is a
little more than 3,40O feet deep. II is
making between 600 and 700 barrels,
and the production Is increasing. The
area has no pipe line. but a portion OF
the oil is being shipped and is selling
for 81 The same company that drilled
this well also brought In the field at
Strawn Texas located about twenty
miles to the northwest. The 7. p.
Coal company Is not a subsidiary of the
T. & p. Railway company
The union boys in the Gulf Coast
fields are losing the strike which was
declared several weeks ago for the pur-
pose of gaining recognition for the un-
ion. Some of the workers have broken
ranks and returned to work, the places
of Others have been taken by outside
labor and the fields in southern Texas
are making fairly good progress at this
time.
The Forty-Sixth Star Refining COM
pany. which is building south OF Heald-
ton in section IL, plans to celebrate
Thanksg wing day, November 29. by
making the first run of oil.
Loy Childress has returned from Tam
pico, Mexico, where he went to com.
pile special report on the properties
of Snowden Brothers.
Osaple Oil company. in section 9-3-3,
between Healdton and Fox, has reached
a depth of 725 feet and has the tools
lodged I'm the hole.
McMan.S Savoy Oil companies, in sec
ton 2O-2-3, on the Ellen Kicker farm,
are shut down at 100 feet in well No.
for want of water.
Gates Oil company No. Simpson 4
Dings. in section 14-4-3. is drilling at
depth below 1900 feet.
Lone Jack Oil company No. l Skid
more. in 11-4.3, is drilling at about 2,2O0
feet.
Edward f. Ertel has returned from
n business trip to Ranger. Texas and
will leave again this week for the same
place He says that much interest Is
being taken there and that the field
promises to be good one.
Alva l.. Mcdonald has returned from
Miami where he and his associates own
140 acres in the lead and zinc district.
Charles Won Weise has returned from
Miami where he spent three days look
ing over the zinc field.
Bus Rushmore. formerly with the
Gypsy Oh company here, is now with
the same company at winchester.
Tenn. He writes that the country Is
so rough that the Ford cannot be used
for oil field trips and that he does his
travelling on horseback.
James A. Cotner. Of the Chickasaw