Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-31
Happenings of e Week
 From Texas Oil Fields
LATEST NOTES
 IF O|L FIELDS


 Statistic fiends have been trying in vain to find record of any gasser that equals the freakish Harrell hole, near Eastland. It has been figured that over 150,000,000 cubic feet of gas flows from the well daily, which is said to be a worlds record. A gauge capable of resigstering 100,- 000,000 cubic feet burst under the strain. All efforts to harness the flow failed, the first having resulted in tearing hole in the ground near the original casing. Men refused to go near it and one expert who thought he could handle it, after inspection, when asked what he was going to do replied: Do? Pm just going to take a picture of the darn thing"
 The Hog Creek Oil company of Desdemona has refused $S,000,000 for its holdings. The story is told of an automobile dealer in Waxahachie who swaped a set of castings for two shares of the Hog Creek stock, then considered very much of wild cat' If the deal last week had been closed this dealer would have realized $26,- 666 for his four automobile castings. So far this is high record price for rubber.
 Figures compiled by the Geographi- cal Survey show that the combined output of the Oklahoma, Texas, Kan sas and Louisiana fields, during the past year, was more than half of the nations deliveries. The North Texas fields totaled 17,2S0,612 barrels and Coastal Texas, 21,469,419. The North Texas production more than doubled during the last year.
 Just as the boy along the county road passes up the bushes bearing the smaller berries for the more lus- cious fruit, only to return for the less attractive pickings, so are the oil operators of Texas paying attention now to the shallow sands encounter ed in various districts. There are many large holdings all through the oil territory and large production has been realized at less depth than that from which the big wells materialize. It is predicted there will be much activity in the shallow sand districts before long.
 While the Burkburnett field is still the daddy of all the Texas oil dis tricts in the matter of production, Desdemona, the newest and most talked of rival of Burk, is coming along with marked speed. Despite many wells pinched down to the smallest possible flow to prevent waste in the absence of sufficient transportation facilities, thereby in- turing the wells, in the opinion of many, Burk recently recorded daily production of 109,000 barrels. while Desdemona is coming through with around 10000 and production increas- ing at rapid rate. Desdemona's goal of 150,000 barrels may be reached within month for the field is by no means fully developed. There are around 75 wells waiting to be drilled in.
 The term wildcat is falling into disuse in Texas for the very sound reason that operators and the public generally are realizing that every we'll in now producing territory was first a wildcat and the term is mis- leading. Past experiences in Texas have shown that where the structur- al formation is encouraging, there is as much change to find oil in wholly unproven ground as elsewhere and the mother pool" is still to be un- covered It might be found by the widest of wildcats or just on the edge of some producing pool. So the oil men are beginning to realize that operators in new territory are no more wildcatters than was Columbus, and he found the place where oil is found, first.
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