The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-29

OdUtu ------ G.oi lilluOib ---- lJI
Corning ---- 2.4O Indiana ---- LIZ
North Lima 1888 Princeton - 1872
South Lima 1888 Plymouth - 1888
Petrolia (Canadian) --------- 22S
There is an increase in the activity
at Healdton due to the feverish excite.
ment in the development of properties
in the southeast extension. During the
month Of May sixty-four wells have
been completed and only two wells dur.
ing the month have been abandoned
The total number of producing wells Is
1,575, the daily production is approxi-
mately 10000 barrels, and the average
daily production Of each well is some
thing like forty barrels. There are
sixty-nine rigs up waiting for the tools
to be moved in. The amount Of oil IN
steel storage at Healdton is 13,652,000
barrels. The month of May witnessed
more competitions and has more rigs up
than April had, and there is no lack
Of activity and interest at Healdton.
ran its first oil today through its third
six-inch line from Healdton to Adding
ton The pipe line people have mater
tally increased the capacity of their
line by the building of the third out Of
the field. The tendency is toward strong
er demand and a better price.
Pierce Pipe Line company has re.
ceived almost all Of its pipe for its
eight-inch line from Healdton to Ft
Worth and the pipe is strung from the
southern terminus TO a point four miles
this side Of Red river. Ditch diggins
machinery is being used and pipe is
being laid at the rate OF a mile day
Between twenty and thirty miles Of the
pipe has been laid. The company has
purchased a large truck and is hauling
material to the Healdton pump station,
located in 17-4-2. and by the time the
pump station Is ready the line will have
been completed. A second pump sta.
tion will be built at Muenster. on the
Texas side.
II Is reported. but not confirmed. that
the Producers Oil company has made a
location in section 1s5w. II is said
that that section Of the country has
some good looking structure, and when
the oil men were excited over the coun.
try in 2s and 4w acreage sold in 1.5
as high as S25 an acre
Dundee Petroleum company, In sec.
tion Q 6s6e, in Marshall county, has
abandoned its well at 227O feet. The
drill entered black shale az something
like 400 feet and never changed that
formation to the bottom OF the hole
No substantial showings were ever
found after the drill left the Trinity
sand at something like ZOO feet.
Dundee Petroleum company. In tho
southeast extension TO Healdton. has
completed well No. on the Westhelmer
& Daube farm and II has production
Of about thirty barrels No. wen.
located 800 feet south Of well No. l..
Will be started at once, and when Il Is
completed No. will be drilled 800 feet
west Of No. 1.
The Nicholson & Mortimer we'll west
OF Wynnewood in section % 2n1w, has
reached a depth below 1900 feet. six.
inch casing could not be secured, AMI
the owners are moving in a rotary rig
to be used in completing the test.
f. q Wallower, formerly OF Harris.
burg, Pa, but who now resides in Ok.
lahoma City, has purchased the Glen.
wood oil company The price paid
was about 100000, The property con.
The Oklahoma Fox well. located In
section 2s2w, was placed on the pump
today. The well was drilled to a deptn
Of 2725 feet and has generous sands.
and viii make fair producer
Ardhoma oil company on the r. 4.
Walker farm in section S.4.S. which lost
seven joints OF casing az 1000 feet. has
succeeded In passing six OF the Joints
0n1 the urosuects are good that the
drill will be able to pass the seventh.
sists Of ten acres located in the sw. nc
Sc Of section 4.4.3 and has four produc.
ing wclls making something like 200
barrels a day. The company had about
seventy-five stockholders, residents Of
Ardmore and Chlckasha. Harold Wal.
lace was president and @. A. Ramsey