The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-13


the oil area of the state in Carter Coun
~. A new field has been opened up un
expectedly to the big companies and
there was a wide acreage Of virgin ter
ritory that was thrown upon the mar
ket. The Texas company which drilled
the well In section 97.4s.2w that looks
exactly like the initial well in an i'm
portant oil field did not back its judg
ment with very large acreage and no
one company had large holdings I'm this
area and as a result the locals have
scored again as they did 1t iealdton'
Much OF the wealth Of the new pool
will 20 into the hands OF local oil pro
ducers and will be used to make Ard
more and other towns In Carter County
more wealthy, more popular and more
important as community centers,
Had Small Acreage.
While The Texas company developed
the new field II Is possible that in time
other companies will have more produc.
ton in the new area than 1t will have,
The Electra pool was opened by the
Texas company in the same way. While
the company held a large acreage there
yet there We're other producers that at
times had greater production than the
Texas.
This condition creates a harvest for
local people, 1t places many valuable
acres in the hands of local oil men and
they have not slept upon their rights.
As Headton was largely purchased
and owned and developed by local peo.
pie SO will the new Hewitt field be
owned by local people
A Deeper Sand.
The sand in the new well which prom.
ises to place Carter county at the head
of oil production in the state of Okla.
home was found at an approximate
depth of 2,l0O feet. This depth marks a
new epoch in oil production here. Many
localities have stood out as condemned
because wells drilled to n depth of from
800 TO 200 feet were abandoned as dry
holes. The impetus that has been given
oil production in Carter county by the
new strike will sweep over these shallow
tests and they will pass into history.
No longer will they scare traders and
no longer will they keep out develop
ment and no longer will they stand in
the way of the progress of the oil in
tereStS OF the county.
In Condemned Territory.
The new Hewitt pool has been opened
in a nest of these dry holes. The well
drilled by the Hewitt oil and Gas com
pany about the time of the discovery of
Healdton and the Whittle we'll drilled
just north of the town of Wilson We're
both abandoned but neither of these
wells were drilled to depths that en-
titled them 10 be called tests and the
operator will give no heed to these
wells.
4 Good Guess.
George ]. Ames was striking close
to the area and may have been over a
good producing sand when he aban
daned his wells in section and Z in
township 5s and range 1w. Those wells
today condemn nothing and will be
given no heed in the area of the deep
sand development which has come to the
county.
See Them Smile.
The oil fraternity will smile when we
talk of deep sand development at 1000
feet. While it is deep for Carter Coun- |
ty ii is not deep as considered in the |
light of drilling in northern Oklahoma |
and in the famous Ranger and other
fields of Texas Deeper tests will in
time be drilled all over this area in the
southern portion of the state and then
we will look back to these times as
only the beginning of real oil develop
ment here.
Hewitt TOwnsite.
There is every probability that as
Burkburnett has been drilled so will |
the little town of Hewitt That little !
town was left out by the turn of the
tide in railroad construction in the coun
but it has a chance now to become
important as an oil producing town. 1t
will not be the end of the year before
the construction of rigs will have been
begun on the townsite of Hewitt.
Wilson Elated.
The town of Wilson which had al |
ways been a good town since the first lot .
was sold in the place is looking to the
new field for a greater growth. VIII.
son expects to be madea depot for sup
plies. it is the closest railroad town to
the new field and the hopes of the
citizenship of that city are justified .
and there is n probability that the field .
viii reach out in that direction ana IL Is |
possible that drilling will be done on
that townsite.
Healdton's Hopes.
The town of Healdton which is a
creature of the Ringing railroad and .
of the first real oil field found in the .
county is looking forward to the fur
ther development in the Fox district
and also in the Graham district and the .
people of that town are looking for
ward to a rapid and substantial growth .
before the end of the year.
Local Refineries.
No business enterprises in the coun
~ have cause for greater rejoicing than
the local refineries. There are plants
in Ardmore. Wilson, Healdton. Writ
and Ringing that will be fed by the
Iew pool and they will be better money