The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-19

Developments in the local fields are
still tagging. either because OF weather
conditions or the proximity of the holi
day season. On the other hand local
interest in the Texas fields near Ranger
and Brownwood continues unabated
Reports from there, brought here by
local oil men, are to the effect that the
big Ranger well is still producing 1900
barrels daily This well has been va.
riously reported good for from 1900
barrels to $500 barrels; but conserva.
tive estimate seems to be 1900 barrels.
In the Srownwood district il is re-
ported that an average of three wells
a day is being completed. These wells
are drilled with water we'll rigs, the
depth varying from 200 to 800 feet.
The entire country, from several miles
north OF Ranger to a like distance south
Of Brownwood. is being combed by geol-
ogists who are hired 10 locate struc-
lures for producers or would-be pro
ducers. The T. & p. company is build
ing several rigs for deep tests. and il
will soon be demonstrated beyond theory
whether or not the deeper pool under
lies the shallow field.
In the Graham field the Kirk com
pany's. No ! is twenty-six feet in a
sand at 100 feet. where water broke
in from above just as they were about
10 complete the well, and ii is now
waiting on material to shut OFF the
water The same company's No. is
in a producing sand at 328 feet. a sand
was found at 100 feet that did not
appear in the No. well to the south.
and the sand the drillers are now in
is much thicker and more productive
than was the same sand in No. 3 A
\ sol NJ &c
and two more sands are expected be
tween the point they are at now and
$50 feet. Water found in the No. well
has not been encountered in No. g. This
company is operating in section 81
2s2w.
George W. Chaffee is spudding in an
offset to the Kirk wells in section 81
%, today.
The Oklahoma Fox company's Marion
Pierce No. / is on the pump with
gas engine installed and is reported
making about forty barrels. Their
storage is all filled and they are selling
locally to drilling rigs in that vicinity
No is drilling at 100 feet.
The Hickman well in section 33 2s3w,
in the Fox district. has finished pulling
the casing and the well is plugged and
abandoned.
Morris Sass, of Sass & Potter. is in
Texas, at the Hog Greek well, in the
vicinity of Ranger.
o. s. Sparks and Marion Pierce, OF
Graham were in Ardmore yesterday on
business connected with drilling opera
tions in that district.
Though many people still believe that
mo man can see farther into the ground
than any other" the present is an era
of systematic geologic search for oil,
and recently geologist stated that in
one producing region the use of the field
methods now employed by skilled geoio
gists reduced the number Of dry holes
from AZ per cent to 80 per cent or the
total There are still many elements OF
in the search for OIL pools,
but some of these are reduced to mini
mum in regions where rock outcrops
are conspicuous and the relation of the
oil pools to the structure of the rocks
IS relatively simple. These are the con-
iitions in the Big Horn Basin. Wyo.,
! report on which has recently been |
published by the United States Geologi- /
al Survey. department of the interior
as Bulletin $50, "Anticlines in the south
srn part of the Big Horn Basin, Wyo.
rhe report is one of a series on the ex-
sting and prospective oil fields of the
,tate. several of which have already
,een published.
Though oil was known to exist in
he Big Horn Basin as early as 1913
md sporadic attempts have from time
O time since been made to discover 1t
n large quantities, the production OF
ii in this region may be said to have
,egun i'm 1906, when wells were drilled
n the Byron field. Wells were after
Yards drilled in several other parts OF
he basin, and though small quantities
Z oil and gas have been discovered in
ourteen fields. the region is well known
srgely because Of the production since
ola from the Grass Greek, Elk Basin.