The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-03-29
MATTE MORRIS LEASE PROVES
TO HAVE BEEN GOOD
SELECTION.
.SHOW MUCH INTEREST
Development Of This Field viii Mean
the Most Stirring Time the City Of
Ardmore Has Experienced Since
OH Game.
CJohn F Easloy)


the big oil fields of the world. was
called the impossible from a gcologi-
cal standpoint, $50 has the Fox area
been called the smokestach of Heald.
ton, a broken country that gave little
promise of a rich oil development. But
there has been faith and persistency
backed by a mint Of money that has
fought with dogged tenacity and it
looks today like a big winning has
been made
Gypsy OH company on the Matte
Morris lease In section 29.2.3 has
well standing full of oil and would
flow If it were opened At 1879 feet
"a G-loOt broken sand way found and
at 1895 feet the drill entered rich
oil sand Just how far the drill has
penetrated the sand is not known but
probably TO a depth OF ten feet.
Tankagc had not been provided in
advance and the well was not put to
producing It was shut in while work.
men are building tanks but It will not
bee many days until the sand Is test.
ed The gas was not very heavy but
IL Is believed II will be enough 10 pat
the well TO flowing nicely. The sand
here is probably on level with the
sand found i'm section 20 to the north
In the McNlan-Savoy well. The sand
in the latter well was reached at 1860
feet but the elevation at the Gypsy
well is approximately fifty feet high
er.
The S-inch casing has been carried
to the sand and II deeper drilling IL
ever required the hole is I'm good shape
and OF good size to admit of deeper
drilling Conway & Kiser are the
contractors on the well. In l04 drill
ing days they reached the sand, which
Is the best time that has been made
in the field.
While the Gypsy has made heavy
purchases at Fox, local people have
not been asleep and the Astral Oil
company composed Of Roy NJ. John.
son, n b. Feagin, l.. S. Dolman and
Walter Cant, have 60 acres surround
Ing II and they have two offsets to
drill which this well gives them The
Astral has rig up and has provided
water and is ready to begin operations
to protect their holdings.
There Is nothing to be gained in be.
coming excited but still there is
chance that Fox will be one of the
wonder fields of the world. The Gyp-
sy company in section 2S on the Nor
ris lease is making every effort to
drill through a gas sand found at an
approximate depth OF 1000 feet Pro
gress is being made at the rate OF
about three feet a day, The drill is
still in the big gas sand and the pro-
duction Is gradually increasing Ush.
or Carson, state conservation officer.
who Is stationed here. has spent much
Of his time at the well. He says the
production al this time rs not far from
ninety million feat Of gas day and
ne would not be surprised II this "
not the largest gas we'll ever drilled
in any field anywhere.
ID. G. Fitzgerald was in the Fox
country yesterday and he stood ON Nv
Cminonce and counted II rigs up I'm
the district other wells I'm that coun.
| try are the Plains oil a. Gas company
ON the north line of 2S2.3 which has
reached "a depth OF 1920 feet and Is
expected 10 reach the sand now at any
time The formation at this depth ls
blue shale. the hole Is eight inches IN
size and Is IN good shape. Gypsy oil
company In northeast corner OF 80.
28 Is drilling at $50 feet. same com
pany In section 32 is drilling at 1850
feet and the same company in the
northwest quarter OF 80 Is drilling at
$50 feet.
The exact location OF the well that
Is making oil In 20 today Is the north.
vets corner OF the ne. SO. ne.
Matte Morris. who owns the fee TO
the land which Is being drilled by the
Gypsy in 2S and %. Is little girl ten
years old and lives with her mother
in Duncan, Okla.
The people OF this city and Of Car.
| ter county may as well get ready for
| the greatest influx OF people this
country has ever seen. The southern
fields are no longer an unknown
quantity. Those who have maintain.
ed that only the surface OF oil pro.
duction in this country had been
/ touched. told the truth. The country
has just begun to give up lbs millions
OF liquid wealth and newcomers will
be begging to sleep in Railways and
on the front porches OF the homes OF
Ardmore people before the summer
months have arrived