The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-17
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A severe wind and electrical storm
last night is reported to have done
Some damage in the Healdton tield,
but details are indefinite. Several
rigs were blown down, garage at
Writ was unroofed and a barn near
Healdton was destroyed. No 1ires
In the field are reported. The ram
bas put plenty OF drilling water INTO
the tanks.
George W. Daniels OF Ringing
passed through Ardmore yesterday
On his way to attend directors
meeting of the Peoples Refining
Company at Oklahoma City. 1t IS
Tumored that the Peoples Refining
COMPANY is seriously considering
moving its general offices from OK
lahoma City to Ardmore. The plant
is located at Ringing.
The general offices OF the I'M
perial Refining Company have been
moved from Tulsa to Ardmore ana
are located in the Simpson building
rooms 2l2 to 2l1.
Toe HNick has spudded in on a
well on l2-acre lease in the Ranger
field. owned by George Parton ct
al. of Ardmore. The location Is
said to be in practically proven ter
ritory.
Pat Murphy who is drilling in
section "A ln3w, was in Ardmore
yesterday on business.
!. T. Arnold OF Wichita Falls
Texas, purchasing agent for the
Humble Oil Company, IS in Ard
more on business.
! &c. VOORHEES, OF Anita, Ia. is an
Ardmore visitor. Mr.. Voorhees, Is
interested in oil properties in this
part OF the stare.
A street rumor that the big Mag
nolia well in Stephens County had
drilled into salt water seems to be
without foundation. The more au-
thentic are to the effect that IN run
ming 4 liner the well was started
flowing again.
! Reports from the Brownwood,
Texas, oil field are to the effect that
Crowell & Cant are drilling at about
400 feet in an offset to No. ! on the
Coyle tract. Burford & Brim have
resumed drilling at go feet on the
Caps farm. The Plains Oil and Gas
Company is drilling at about 500
feet on the Boysen tract.
Securities Suggestions The Mid
continent field, which includes the
best oil areas in the states OF Okla
home and Kansas, now enjoys the
reputation of being the greatest oil
producing field in the United States,
supplying more than Is per cent OF
the worlds petroleum production, as
we'll as about half OF the total pro
duced in this country Therefore
this field is II present the most I'M
portant oil area in the United
States, it being estimated that it has
thus far given up only about 50 per
ent OF the petroleum it will event
ually produce.
1t is said that the first oil wa.
struck in the Mid-Continent iielC
in 1882 when a 5O0-barrel well wa.
developed in Kansas, but 1t was no
until 1901 that the real development
of the field began. Several well
were drilled in the vicinity OF Bar
tlesville, Okla, from 1901 to 1908
while other pools were discoyere'
in neighboring territory, and insld
OF five years the combined annua
production OF Oklahoma and kan
SdS mas Incl cdSCu ~ llplO tliall 81
100000 barrels. In 1906 100 well
were drilled in the Glen pool, nea
Sapulpa, Okla. In 1918 sensation.
developments occurred in Okla
homa, when, from a total daily pre-
duction Of about 25OO0 barrels ]
December OF that year, the outpr
of the Cushion pool increased witt
in 4 years time to more than 800
700 barrels 4 day, many OF the wei
being Of the gusher type, producin
from 1000 to 1000 barrels per we
a day. The present production
Oklahoma is in the eighborhood ,
l35,OOOO00 barrels annually III
leading oil districts in the state al
Nowata or Cherokee shallow fiell
the Bartlesyille, or Cherokee dee
field; the Tulsa, the Sapulpa, Il
Okmulgee, the Muskogee the Osag
the Pawnee, the Kay, and the Heal
ton, all located in a general way
the central part OF Oklahoma.
An indefinite report OF a tank
reservoir fire of oil at Ganesvil
last night is received here this NOR
ing. Parties passing through Gaine