The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-02
Concise Report of Oil Operations
in North Central Texas Fields

at the end OF the week to about l,OOC
barrels.
The largest we'll of the week be.
longed to John H. Markham Jr., ant
the Tidal Oil Company, and wa,
a third completion (well No. O. or
the Copeland farm, T. P. c. 8
Company sub-lease; its initial pro-
duction was approximately 5000
barrels. 1t is producing from the
first stratum of the black lime
found in this hole at SPAS feet. The
well is a location north and two
locations east of the Prairie Oil
4 Gas Company's Emma Terrell
gusher which is producing from the
second stratum of black lime, found
in the Terrell at 3,4O8 feet.
Disappointment has followed
deeper drilling in the States Oil Cor
poration's No. Parrock, which is
five or six miles northwest Of the
Ranger pool. This hole showed for
a pretty good well at 3665 to 500
feet. Estimates on its initial show
ing ranged from 200 to 500 bar
rels. 1t has been drilled deeper, to
3,840 feet, and lately has been ac-
cumulating oil in the storage tank
at the rate of only 40 to so barrels
daily. Other wells reporting are
as follows:
Humble Oil & Refining Co.'S No.
l Patton finally completed after two
shots, making 40 barrels of oil and
some gas.
McManus ct al, No. J. s. Nc
Dowell, Ranger townsite, shot twice
and making 20 barrels.
GhoulSon, Moorman and Dorsey
No. | ]. L. Harrison abandoned at
$3.50 feet, with hole full OF water
coming from below the 3,4O0-foot
lime. This well is a direct north
offset to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co.'S
No. !. f. Butler, and is almost in
line between two big gushers, the
Emma Terrell and the Roper, in the
western edge OF the Ranger pool.
1t is the first absolute failure, and
certainly a most surprising one in
the big we'll part OF the Ranger pool.
The Prairie Oil & Gas Co.'S No.
2 Meyers in the southern end OF
the Ranger pool was finally COM
pleted as a 30O0-barrel well, total
depth 5000 feet.
In starting a test on the D. Ear
nest farm, the Acme Oil Co. got
seven or eight million cubic feet OF
gas at $50 feet, and has decided to
Shut it in as a gas well, as gas for
drilling purposes in the pool is val
liable. The Gulf Production Co.'S
No. 4 Taylor, total depth 3,5l5 feet
is a good well, but not yet com
pleted, output Approximately l2Oo
barrels.
Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Com
pany's No. 2 /. B. Hands, southern
end OF the pool, was completed as
! ,000-barrel well. The same com
pany's No. 6 on the J. H. McCles-
key is a l0O-barrel well. The dis
covery we'll which opened up the
Ranger pool, was drilled on this
farm. !
There are $50 wells, locations and
rigs now working in Eastland coun-
ty; of these 6l wells are drilling
Or working between 5000 and $500
feet, twenty-one wells are working !
under $500 feet; twelve wells are
shut down on top OF the sand Tor
storage.
Stephens County Operations.
In Stephens county there are now
l68 locations, rigs, and
lrilling wells; thirty-four OF these
wells are drilling under 5000 feet,
but ten OF these thirty-four are
lrilling under $500 feet, and there
lore have more or less doubtful
prospects.
The latest well OF importance in
stephens county is the Texas Com
,anv's No. ]. s. Pierce, in the
southeast corner of section 2O72 l.
.. & l.. survey, a mile east Of other
wells in the Breckenridge district.
IN February 2S this we'll was re-
ported producing at the rate OF 81
,arrels an hour steadily, from a to-
al depth of $3.50 feet in the black
ime.
This we'll and two others recently
completed by the Texas Co. have