The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-15
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BIG BREWER WELL BURNING
News of the Brewer we'll fire near
Ranger, Texas, comes this morning
by wire from Fort Worth, stating
chat the big Brewer we'll caught fire
at 2 o'clock this morning fatally
burning three men and seriously in
juring several others. The well is
still burning and the storage tanks
have been destroyed.
The Hastings correspondent in
yesterdays oil news from that dis
trict reported locations by the Tex
as Company in section u 3s9w and
) 5s9w, but these locations are de-
MED at the Texas office here. The
Texas Company has some lease
holdings in these sections, but has
not made drilling locations.
In section 80 ls5w the Texas test
went into small gas sand at 1875
feet. There was rumor on the
street this morning that this gas is
spraying oil, but inquiry at the Of
tice and of scouts who have visited
the well does not confirm these re-
ports; in fact, there is no oil show
ing at this time.
The Texas test in section SO 3s3w
has been abandoned at 800 feet.
a string OF tools was lost in this
hole, but was recovered, leaving the
hole, however, in such bad shape
that further drilling had to be aban-
doned.
The Schermerhorn test in the
northwest corner OF the southeast of
the northeast quarter OF section 4
4slw has the derrick completed and ,
Is waiting on a string Of tools.
The lokla No. p in section 3 IS
3w, drilled into the sand yesterday
and will make about 65 barrels
daily. There was enough gas in the
sand to throw the oil over the der
rick when drilled in. Just what the
settled production may be is uncer-
tain, as the No. well, to which this
is an offset came in good for 800
barrels and settled down to about
80 barrels. 1t is claimed this big
falling off in No. is caused by
cavings.
The Carter Oil Company is lay
ing 4inch gas line from the Tuck
er gas well in section % 2s3w, to the
ilealdton field. The pipe is being
welded at the joints by the acetyline
process.
The Ranger Duncan company, S
drilling on the Shipley tract in the a
Ranger Texas, field, about two and i
one-half miles southeast of the big T
Brewer well, has about 100000
cubic feet of gas at SIS feet, which Y
will be bradenheaded and used for
fuel to continue the test on to the v
deep sand. q
The Royal Dutcl-Shell group. "
parent company OF the Roxana Pc Il
troleum Company, has invested $l2,- <
100000 in war bonds of the allies, tt
as well as giving assistance in num-
erous other ways. This probably
sets record unequaled by any other
industrial concern. The Tulsa W
. orld, in which recently appeared G;
A full report OF an interesting talk II
by the Roxana president to en- bl
ployes, says OF President Van der tn
iracht: al
wv. A. J. NJ. van Waterschoot van 70
Ter Gracht, who is a native OF Hol- o,
and, is well-known resident of te
Tulsa, and is the head Of the Rox- 70
ina Petroleum Company, with head OF
quarters in the Mayo building. He III
5 intensely patriotic and his heart ga
; bleeding for Belgium, from which NV
ountry his family originated, and 10
which has been SO ruthlessly de- to-
troyed by the Germans. The Rox- th
ma is 4 subsidiary OF the ROYAL pr
)utch-Shell group, which has placed tin
IS vast recourses of men and mon fol
y at the disposal of the allied las
orces now fighting ior the freedom m.
# the world" on
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