Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1917-10-19
Made
for Oil Well on
Geo. o.Farris Farm
Blue Bel! oil and Gas Company.
Unlding 10000 Acres OF Leases,
VIII Commence Drilling West Of
Mead in II Few Days.


III" l<u" Bell Oil and Gas Com
pdny, Incorporated under IN" laws
of oklahoma, With II capital at
$ln".rnu. fully paid, has made "A To-
cation on the George Farris farm,
IN 'he SWi. of the SCI, of Section
."-5-1. four and one-half miles
west "f Mead, and will coinmenc"
drilling for oil just as soon as the
rig can he erected and the machinery
installed. The maternal is being
gotten on the ground now, and Pres
| ii"nt +. =. Corrick of Lincoln, Ne
| hraSka, who was here today, said
! that he hoped to be able to spud in
! in ten or twelve days The activi-
ti"swi II be supcrintended by A. X
Nanny of this place. an experienced
oil operator.
The company has made another
location, tentatively, in township 7,
range :. south of the present loca-
tion.
The plans are to drill 1000 feet
or deeper until oil Is found in pay
ing quantities. and the company Is
amply equipped with capital, equip
m"nt and casinr to carry their pro-
| jcct out.
The Blue. Bell Company owns ten
thousand acres of leases running
! from out west of Mead on down to
the Ed Love place and Platter, and
between there. clear down to the
Washita river. They have had two
Ccol0gists to make careful surveys
Of the holdings and they report that
the structure is high grade. charac-
ter of the formations such as to in
sure easy drilling. and the prospects
Of oil in paving quantities very good.
Oil has been found in several por-
tions of this vicinity before. al
though in small quantities On the
James farm. In section 30-6-, a test
well was made some time ago with
a water we'll rig, and oil was found
in small quantities at 254 feet. hut
the project was never carried out.
The well caved in. hut oil still comes
bubbling through the dirt
On the Houston farm a water well
was drilled on the SEA of the SWt,
of section 1861. and considerable
showing of very fine quality oil was
| made. to such an extent that the
we'll was useless for water. and oil
could be dipped out of 1t in consid-
cradle quantities right along
In still another we'll in 1857 oil
was found at 270 feet. and geOlogists
gave as their opinion that had tho
well be shot it would have produced
probably twelve or fifteen barrels a
day.
| On the Martin Newberry place. in
the northeast quarter of section 80.
oil was struck at 100 feet in terri
torial days when drilling for water
At that time. the story goes. Mr..
Newberry abandoncC the well for
his own reasons and said nothing
about it.
! The four spots where oil has been
found at these shallow depths prac-
tically surrounding the set made for
the we'll on the Farris farm. s"dve TO
max" tn" promoters sanguine of sue
cess in their venture Their geuln-
gis,s say that there ar" three oil
bearing sands underlying that vicin-
ity, one probably at the shallow
! depths of l75 to 215 feet. and two
NOR" on down. the third being prob
ably 1000 feet deep. They also say
that whore showingS of oil are made
AT shallow depths. II is almost Ger
tain indication that oil in paving
quantities will be found deeper down
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