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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Demand for Oil
Taxes Production

Fuel is one of civilizations great
factors. Coal permitted the develop
lnent of machinery to economic lab
or and to facilitate transportation
bringing the peoples of the world to-
gether. Oil IS recognized as the best
fuel man has yet developed. Its use
has made possible new era of trans
portation through the internal
combustion engine. The demand for
the fuel properties of petroleum has
grown to amazing proportions, and
gives every evidence of increasing
So great has the demand become that
the productivity of the United States
is now taxed, and will be taxed to
the utmost to keep pace with this de-
mand.
The broadening of the petroleum
industry in the past two years has
been phenomenal. Older fields east
Q fthe Mississippi have passed the
crest of their producing life, and COM
petition is kene in the development
of newer western territory.
We are therefore entering The Age
of OIL" Those who accurately fore
saw, the development of this country's
resources, and have had the courage
of their judgment in investment, have
been rewarded manifold. Probably
nowhere is this best exemplified than
in the history of the Standard Oil
company. Yet, in spite of the prop
erly accruing to this one-time power
full organization, or that of it's former
subsidiaries, authorities tell us that
the development of the petroleum in
dustry is still in its early stages. This
would indicate to us that the COM
ing years will bring not only an in
creased prosperity to the former
Standard Oil subsidiaries, but to the
independent companies now entering
the field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
THE RANGER FIELD.

Two business men, three farmers,
q tiny gas pocket and a little nerve,
and the problem of the National War
Supply was solved Ranger and the
largest gusher pool discovered since
the days of the Old Spindletop, had
come into it's own. A poor farming
cOuatry, staggering under three
years drought, that afforded moth
ing in the way of crops except goats,
lizards, cactus and hookworms, was
transformed overnight into frenzy
of realized prosperity-the true story
of which sounds like a fairy tale.
A country ravished by poverty that
suddenly turned into a Paradise Of
luxury. Poverty of soil, drought,
destitution--all of these have been
swept away like autumn leaves be-
fore the oily blast of the new wealth
and the prosperity of business activi-
ties. Less than year ago, Ranger
was a village of six or seven hundred
inhabitants. Today there are at least
twenty thousand actual residents, with
others coming and going, often at the
rate of nearly fifteen hundred a day.
Many of the extremely conserva-
tive Oil operators and biologists pre-
OANC tllao WIFI eilC POoiClNC iol HieAcioiio
which exist in this field that even
larger wells than those yet found,
that will produce from 10000 to even
10000 barrels day, are very posi-
BILE; that this field has the best out
look for becoming the greatest pool
in Texas is readily conceded by all
operators This statement is borne
out by the many millions of dollars
that are being spent in the purchas
ing of leases which are selling at
thousands of dollars per acre and be-
ing purchased by the largest oil OPP
Grating companies in the world, in
Guiding the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil
Co., the Magnolia Co., Sun Co., Gulf
Production, Sinclair, McMann Co.,
Ohio City, Empire, Fuel & Gas Co.,
and many others. These latter named
companies are drilling, rushing in
; and equippi ne with 's'' permanently ep
that is convincing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Home Oil Company
Gets First Well in
n. w. Burkburnett

Wichita Falls, Tex, Aug 4.-Well
No / of the Home Oil Refining COM
pany on block S1S in the Northwest
Burkbulnett field hit the top of the
sand at depth of | ,556 feet and at
eight feet the oil rose 1850 feet in
the hole.
This is the first production for the
Home company, though it is drilling
a number of wells not only in the
Burkbulnett field, but in Wilbarger,
Menard and other counties. On its
block in 1T acres in Burkburnett,
which it owns jointly with G.. G.. Wood,
the company is actually drilling on
six wells now and material for three
others is being moved in. The lease
is being operated from a large cen
trail power plant stationed near the
center of the lease. The company
probably will have twenty to twenty
five wells drilling on this lease within
the next two months, it is stated.
In addition to the showing in well
No. /, we'll No. is also on top of the
sand and likely will be drilled in this
week. Wells Nos. 3, and are each
drilling below / 900 feet.
The Texas company is stringing a
pipe line to the Home Oil storage
tanks on the lease and will care for
all production pending the compile
tion of the Home pipe line from Burk-
burnett to Iowa Park, where the COM
pany will have two $4,000 barrel stor-
age tanks. From Iowa Park the crude
oil will be shipped to the company's
Fort Worth refinery.
The refinery will begin running
some time in August and to meet i'm
mediate needs the company is laying
a pipe line from the Gulf tank farm
on the North Side to the plant south
west of the city, a distance of about
eight miles. This will give the plant
crude oil to operate on until its own
production is available.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
DECREASE SHOWN IN
MID-CONTINENT PRODUCTION

A general slowing down of i'm
portant developments was evident in
the OklahomaKansas fields for the
past week, with the single exception
of the Beggs pool in northern Okmul-
gee county. Both the main deep sand
pool to the west of the town and the
new shallow one being opened to the
south are getting good wells with
regularity. Next to Beggs, the
Usage came back with a few good
wells and another fine we'll brought
in near Ponca City further increased
the Importance of that district which
has five of the deepest producing
wells in the state of Oklahoma. Kan.
sas shows nothing out of the ordi-
nary, but appears to be getting a well
in Marion county that may make that
territory considerably more import.
ant
Production is beginning a slow but
sure decline, which began with s.
0OO-bbl. loss the previous week and
again shows slight loss of 1000.
bbls. this week. Although Okmulgee
county keeps up it's good work and
is the, only district in either state te
show an increase, this district now
producing $4,000 bbls., other districts
especially Cushing and Healdton in
Oklahoma and the Peabody and Eb.
ling pools in Kansas, are dropping
off, the former because of mere flush
production which has played out anc
puts them back at their old levels
The estimated daily average produc
ton on July 20 was as follows:
ALlnA~u
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
TRACTORS HELP OIL MEN. .

De Leon, Texas, Aug. 1.-Two
farm tractors, miniature in size, but
giants in strength, have made their
appearance on the oil fields roads pe-
tween DeLeon and Desdemona. Each
tractor can draw two trailers loaded
with twenty-five joints Of casing, ana
their appearance at work excites
laughter as we'll as wonderment.
Each tractor is lower than the
loads Of casing it draws and they
seem to be at home in beds OF sano;
A person approaching the loaded
trailers from the rear cannot see the
miniature tractor, which is complete
ly hidden by the casing and trallers:
One of these little tractors, hauling
it's burden of casing through sand
beds in which powerful automopiies
run on low gear, suggests an ant Tug
cling at a morsel of bread, three OF
four times its size. -
When a small tractor passes one VI
the mammoth tractors on the roao an
exciting race results, especially II
both tractors are moving in SAND BEDS
The little tractor is a dwarf com
pared with it's big brother when sl! y
alone is considered, but when y
buckles down to business it leaves lts
giant brother like snail leaving al
oyster.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Refuses Fortune
For Acre Where
Husband Buried

REFUSES FORTUNE-14
DE Leon, Texas.-Memory of her
departed husband, who is buried in
the Desdemona cemetery is prevent
ing Mrs. B. |. Terry from granting an
oil lease on one of the most valuable
two-acre tracts in the Desdemona
ted. Mrs: Terry has become sud
denly wealthy through the discov-
cry, OF oil on the farm, left bv her
husband at the time of his death. and
the leases have been granted on all
except two acres across the road
from the cemetery.
The land is mapped Sarah Bibbs
survey on an it three producing oil
wells have been drilled. They are
Warren Waggoner No. l, producing
5000 barrels of oil daily; Beaver VAL
ley No. l, producing at least 1000
barrels daily and the Comanche Cen
trail, producing at least 1000 barrels
daily. A dozen other wells have been
started on the farm, and Mrs. Terry
is beyond financial want.
At one time, it is said that she
would grant lease on the two-acre
tract, but later decided to hold it
Unbiased for awhile at least.
In the meantime rich oil compan-
les, and individuals have offered
modest fortunes for an oil lease on
the small tract, but so far Mrs.
Terry has refused the offers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
TWO GOOD WELLS.

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 1.-THE
Sinclair Gulf Oil company reports
two good wells recently, one in East
land and the other in Stephens coun-
ty. The company's Davis Mo. /, II
half mile west Of the Humble com
pany's Davis, and in the field north
west of Ranger, is making LOO bar
rels according to Wednesdays re-
ports. This well has been making
some oil for a week but was drilled
deeper when the big production.
The company's Coody No. l, off
setting the Carey lease Of the Mid
Kansas, is showing for 500 barrels
after several shots of nitroglycerin.
This we'll also has been making about
80 barrels daily for several weeks.
1t is near the big Carey gusher of
the Mid-Kansas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
! Up RIIII DING IN BELIEF
MI MI To SUPPL ANT COAL AS FUEL

Ten years ago the man who had
suggested that Albert Virgins of the
Chase National bank of New York
might be a partner of Harry Sinclair
in a gigantic oil corporation would
have been laughed at by even the
frenzied oil seekers and promoters
Of the Mid Continent field.
Today the news comes from New
York that associated with Sinclair in
the new project are the biggest and
most powerful banking interests of
New York.
1t seems that Harry Sinclair has
seen fit the everyday delivery of oil
to our cellar windows where the coal
man now raises clouds of coal dust.
Transccntinental Pipe Lines.
Ten years from now pipe lines will
be transcontinental. Texas may be
one immense oil field, but if not, if
the oil sands do not underlay as much
of Texas, as now seems true other
fields will be found.
The little chokings of the stream
of oil from the underground reser-
voirs to the market such as the pres
ent one at Burkburnett will never
amount W lHoIc CHdH d local SCrlke
Of telegraph operators in Dallas
might to the national transmission
of kilograms.
Pipe lines will web the country as
railroads do now. Refineries are
now built thousand miles from an
oil field. Oil will be the biggest bust
ness of the world in five years.
And Sinclair and his associated fl
nanciers are forecasting through
their organization announcements all
these things and are investing tens
of millions to usher in the Age of
Oil to replace the Age of Coal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Launch Nationwide
Move for Universal
Military Training

Washington, Aug. What is in
tended to be nationwide movement
in advocacy of universal military ser
vice was inaugurated by the Military
Training Camps association here to-
right with dinner in the New Will
lard hotel and speeches by Senator
James NJ. Wadsworth of New York,
chairman Of the senate committee on
military affairs; Senator Chamber
lain of Oregon, and Representative
julius Kahn, of California.
The prepared speeches of Senator
Wadsw0rth who presided and Of Sena-
tor Chamberlain strongly emphasized
diery.
1t was announced that Senator
Chamberlain and Representative
Kahn would introduce in congress d
bill drawn by Major Thomas Mcllva-
inc, chairman of the committee on
universal training of the Military
Training Camps association. This
measure is to enbody provisions for
six months training in environments Of
all young men at the ages Of lS or ~
years, aliens to become automatically
naturalized by completion of training.
Under this bill the regular army
would be small professional force, p
and the National guard would be ere
stored to its constitutional function"
and could not be ordered out of the
country without its own consent or
that Of the state authorities. The Ma
tional guard would be recruited from
the men who had completed their six
months of training. A certain num-
Der of men would be permitted to take
their training in the navy, constitut-
ing naval training force.
Veterans of the great war would be
asked temporarily to constitute the
reserve so as to transmit to the
younger men their experience and
training.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
MILLION
BbLS. STORED
AT ". COLUMBIA

Houston, Tex, Aug. 2.-More than
100000 barrels of oil are now in
storage, most of it in eastern reser-
voirs, at West Columbia. The Hum
BILE Oil and Refining company leads
with about 100000 barrels, the Tex
as company 100000 barrels; the
Crown Oil and Refining company.
$4,000 barrels, and the Gulf Produc
ton company and others, 10000 bar
rels.
The daily production of the entire
field is now $4,000 barrels appor-
toned among the different companies
about as follows: Humble. 1850:
Texas, 4,500; Crown, 1850; Gulf and
others, $3.50 There are 3* rigs run
ming with 10 derricks up at new loca-
tons
No new wells were reported COM
pleted in the week at West Columbia.
The Gulf Production company's No. |
McMeans which dropped the drill
stem in the hole just as it had tapped
a rich gas sand, continues to increase
its production and is now credited
with about 700 barrels daily and
enough gas to furnish fuel for all
the boilers IN the field.
The Humble Oil and Refining COM
pany has its line between West Co.
lumbia and it's tank farm at Webster
in operation and is running approx
mately $4,000 barrels daily into tank
age. So far it has not been able to
run any of its storage oil at West CO.
lumbia and is just about taking all
it produces from it's wells in this
field. AS it has more than 100000
barrels in storage, it will be some
time yet before it will be able to
run oil for any other companies.
Refinery Building Continues.
Work on the refineries is progress
ing as rapidly as may be expected
from the scarcity of material and
unsatisfactory labor conditions. The
Trans Atlantic Refining company at
Houston Heights is said to have dis
continued running Pine Island crude
and is now back on Goose Creek
crude and is said to be turning out
some very fine grades of lubricants.
The Mary Owens Oil company has
purchased the plant of the Humble
Oil and Refining company at Hum
BILE, formerly operated as the Globe
Refining company by Blaffer and Far
ish, and has moved it to position
on the railroad track at Humble and
will increase its capacity to approx
mately 1000 barrels daily.
The week has been very quiet one
and no large wells were reported. De-
velopment work was again held up
by severe ranis. The best we'll for
the week was at Hull, where the joint
test, No. 5 Morris-Phillips of the
Texas and Gulf Production companies
came in flowing 500 barrels oil from
depth of $500 feet. This brings the
total daily production of the field to
about 10000 barrels. This is divided
up as follows: Republic Production
company, $500 barrels; Big Four Oil
company, 2,750; Texas-Gulf, $50;
Texas company, 275; Humble Oil and
Refining company, $50 and Gulf
Production company, 200 barrels
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
KENTUCKY OIL FIELDS.

The state of Kentucky is the happy
hunting ground Of the oil prospector
of small means, yet the outcome of
his endeavors does not always make
him happy. The percentage of un-
successful tests in the state is some
what high-about 10 per cent-com-
pared with the average for the coun-
try as whole, which is about 16 per
cent, hut the oil is found at relatively
shallow depths, commonly 300 to 1000
feet, and the cost of drilling wells is
low The rock outcrops in the state
are plentiful, and the areas, where
the geologic conditions are most fav-
orable to the occurrence of oil can be
found easily.
The most productive group of oil
fields in Kentucky is in the vicinity
of Irvine, Eastill county, and is de-
scribed in Bulletin61-D of the United
States geological survey, department
of the interior, published in 1916. The
second richest group lies in and
around Allen county, more than a
hundred miles southwest of Irvine.
The fields in Allen county are the
subjec. of report by E. w. Shaw and
X. E. Mather just issued by the geo.
logical survey as bulletin 6S8, and
available on request from the direc-
tor.
A barrel Of oil obtained in Allen
county was sold in Bowling Green in
1850, but oil in Kentucky has only re-
Gently become product of great COM
mercial value, the production in 1913
having been ten times as great as in
1915. The oil in Allen county is ir-
regularly scattered through the pro-
ductlve area, and great many Of the
wells have therefore been failures,
but on the whole the county appears
tc be about as rich in oil as any other
county in the state except Estill and
Lee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
DRILLING NEAR EAsTLAND.

Eastland, Texas, Aug. IA NUM-
Der of new locations are being made
northwest of Eastland to drill for oil
in territory that is considered COM
paratively wildcat.
Several of these wells are three
miles from production and in the
event one of them is brought in, it
will open up several miles of new
territory which has been held up for
some time, awaiting test well.
All of the risk of these new wells
in the unproven territory is not being
taken by the small, independent COM
panies, as several of the wells are
being drilled by larger companies
where large acreage is held. A num-
Der of new wells are also being drill
ed between Eastland and Olden.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Release Friady-Aug 1 -
Canadian Strikes
Cost Seven Millions

Ottawa, Ont, July 31.-Despite
government efforts to reduce prices.
the cost of living in Canada continues
to soar. The high prices were cited
as the cause of unrest in every dis
triet, according to investigators of the
recent strikes throughout the Domin-
ion.
Government officials stated that the
high cost Of necessities was response
bic for the dissatisfaction of thou
sands of conservative workingmen.
They also asserted this subject gave
radicals an excuse for trying out more
ambitious schemes.
The average cost of 20 staple foods
IN sixty cities in June was $13.72, as
compared with 1858 in May, officia,
statistics show. In June, 1914 the
average was S7.35.
Winnipeg, Man., July 31.-Cana-
dian workingmen lost $1,000 900 in
wages in June and slightly more than
that amount in the preceding month,
according to estimates.
The Winnipeg strike alone cost the
worklngmen several million dollars.
Board of Trade officials believe the
economic loss to merchants, manufac-
tuners and the public was at least leo
per cent. more than the labor loss.
In June, the eighty strikes in Can
ada involved S7,917 men, women and
children. The official estimate
shows loss of about AS ,021 work
ing days. The average wage involv-
ed in the Winnipeg strike was about
SIS a day.
In May there were "a strikes involv-
ing 1858 workers who lost S93,S1G
working days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Big Oil Companies
Spend Millions in
the Ranger Field

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 4.-Here
are Just a few little items showing
what the larger companies are spend
ing to develop their holdings IN the
Ranger field, or deep sands area:
Texas & PACIFIC Coz Coal ao 4 Oh COM
pany, 1876 wells, $6,250,OOO:
Texas company, 123 wells, S6,l5o,'
600
Prairie Oil and Gas company, lOl
wells, $5,050,00O.
Gulf Production company, 80 wells
$4,500,00O. ~
:, Magnolia Petroleum company, ~
wells, 100000. 90
Sinclair Gulf Oil company, az
wells, $4,1O0,00O.
Humble Oil land Refining company,
SO wells, $2,90O,000
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

An oil refinery with daily capa-
city of five to ten thousand barrels
of crude oil will be designed and
constructed on the Mississippi river
TWENTY-FIVE miles above New Orleans.
It will cost $3,0OO,000 and have avail.
able an eighty-acre site for storing
and refining crude oil from Mexico.
Another corporation, with offices in
New York and capitalized at $751;
600. 900 has 83,643 acres of oil land
leases in Texas, Oklahoma and Louis
lana, pipe lines, oil refineries and
storage stations and will develop all
its properties by drilling wells, in
stalling gasoline plants, etc.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
$4,000 BARREL WELL.

Galveston, Aug. 1.-The Mexican
consulate here has received reports
from Huesteca county, state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico that an American COM
pany there has struck an oil well, "the
actual production of which is no less
than 10000 barrels with a POSSIBLE
ity of this being increased to 100000
to 100000 barrels" This gusher, ac-
cording to the advices, is the largest
oil well ever struck in that region.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
LARGEST CASINGHEAD, PLANT

Burkburnett, Texas, Aug. 3.-The
largest casinghead gasoline plant in
the world is being erected at Burk-
burnett by Charles F. Noble
Operators throughout the fields
ares studying the need for casing
head plants with the view of estab-
fishing them throughout the Ranger
and Burkburnett districts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
BORN BEFORE VICTORIA.

Bath. England, f9.-Miss Flea
nor Patterson, who was born a week
before the late Queen Victoria, sele-
brated her Tooth birthday heye re-
Gently. She still takes an active in
terest in public affairs and charities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

For store windows an inventor has
developed a system Of mirrors where
by persons behind the scenes demon.
strating articles displayed in win-
dow appear in miniature within a
picture frame. /
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Bringing in the we'll Of the Cad
do Claiborne Oil company TOUT anu
half miles southeast OF the discovely
well made an important extension %
the field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

About 10000 barrels of oil were
moved from the Northwest field last
week during the shutdown period and
likely more will be moved this week.
II the tank cars are pooled the situa-
ton will be righted without resort to
shutdown or forced proration.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

T. E. Briggs and associates are re-
ported to have paidV $685. 900 an acre
for three-quarteres of an acre off
setting the M. & P. Burk.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

The golf course at
the st. Petersburg
Country Club, Flor
ida, is the center of
attraction on a
b ri g h t, sunshiny
summers day.
There's good fishing
d o W n q t A n n a
Maria, on the west
coast Of Florida.
Just drop your line
of this dock and
feel 'em bite!