Weekly journal-miner., 1919-05-14
IS . A BIC LESSON
 ID KNOCKERS

and a halt miles northwest Of pro duction in the new Burkburnett pool, came in flowing around 5000 barrels day. All around, for several weeks, you could find people who wagged their heads and said, "The boom is off; Burkburnett is gone" The Stock Exchanges had gotten to the point where the gloom was so thick it could be cut with a knife, and every once in a while stranger could come to town and find a bed, 1t might be in a tent, but at that 1t was bed. It's true that the Burkburnett pool was still putting around 55,OOO barrels of oil into the pipe lines daily which for a dead and gone one was pretty good, but the dopesters had al ready held the funeral, said the bur ial mass and all that sort of thing over poor dead Burkburnett, w1icu was putting more oil into the pipe lines than any other pool of three times the acreage covered by this wonder pool of the world"
 Some Left Town
 Some of the "oil cooties," lease hounds" and other floaters that the big boom had brought to the town left, after their little individual games had played out, and they carried tae glad news to the outside world that Burkburnett was dead. So, it was generally accepted that Burkburnett was dead-everybody believed it-that is everybody who didn't know any thing about the facts.
 Just when Witchita Falls was settling down to a halfway normal condition, after having had about 15,000 people added to her permanent population within dight months. BuFkburnett came back with a tremendous wallup, knocking all the pessimism, all the deadness, all the wisdom dope out of those "on the inside" clear into limbo. The Burk-Waggoner well came in, way out past Thrift No. 2, which was dry, bound to be dry ac- cording to the dope, because of the armed guard, barbed wire, bulldog methods used by the operators in keeping any one from their property It was in territory that did not look good and when the well was drilled in and started swabbing, then made a short flow, before 1t was shut down, the swab being broken-the oil didn't look just right-it was too volatile, and was off color In fact it was just like the Fowler well, when 1t started making oil.
 By Sunday the we'll had good start flowing. And it was a well. Even the most pessimistic person in the entire Knockers Club said that, after watching it flow. It was so much of a well that it made, and is still making, right at 5000 barrels a day.
 Knockout Blow
 This deadly blow was followed with the real knockout, right in the solar plexus, which put the oil boom back in the ring for the present, at least. Three big wells, all of them good for 5000 barrels, came in, and this was all that was needed to set the large crowd that had begun com ing in absolutely mad. One of these wells, the Golden Cycle, which met with disaster in the shape of fire which will put it out of the producing ranks for a few days at the most was right where it had been doped out, even after the Burk-Waggoncr came in, by some of the Anvil Chor- Us, that nothing but salt water could be found. The sand was found in this well at 1.74S feet To drill to l.748 feet in the Burkburnett new pool proper would have meant salt salt water and nothing else, according to close students of the logs of wells in the new territory. But the Gold en Cycle, during its brief but notori- ous existence, put a phenomenal lot of oil into the earthen tanks and the tankage proper. It flowed in a steady six-inch stream, right out of the top of the casing, and it kept on flowing until it caught fire. It will doubtless start flowing again when the proper connections are made and the ray ages of the fire are repaired.
 Two Other Wells Reported
 The two other wells reported com- 'pletcd on Wednesday were the Gilll- land No. Y Hardin, 5000 barrels, and the Humble Oil Company, No. , Herndon, just north of the No. l., which was the first sensation, to tne west. This latter well had all initial flow of 150 barrels an hour, or > 600 barrels day.
 The effect of these four new wells has been electrifying, Stupefying and all sorts of other adjectives Every one was as busy in Witchita Falls and in Burkburnctt, too, for that matter as during the Winter, but there was not the tense feeling i'll the air that had marked the carly weeks of the boom It had gotten SO that oil maps had ceased to thrill, and many had put away this impedi- menta and had for the time let dis ctIssion of oil stocks and wells rest.