El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-27
4 Shortage of
Machinery for
Sinking Wells
This IS Greatest Handicap
Now to Oil Fields; TraiD
Service Is Better.

Eastland, Texas Oct 27.-It begins
TO look as II the Esstland oil field is
in FOR a good delay in the produe-
ton Of oil from more than one
! source. This delay VIII be expert
{ enced at present mostly. however. by
I the smaller companies because Of not
having enough material on hand to
I continue work under present condi-
tons
For two weeks now hard rain has
been falling nearly every day ana the
z roads have become practically i'm
passahle for the large trucks and
wagons hauling supplies into the
fields and DELAYS have been caused
from this source and now comes the
manufacturers claiming that on &C
count Of the steel strikes in the north
and east. the manufacturing Of oil
field machinery VIII be curtailed 70
a great extent
This wiz hit many OF the newly
organized companies hard because
they are just preparing TO drill
Easier to Hire Labor
u is now easier 70 hire men in
either Ranger or Eastland than il has
been for the past year and there are
quite q few men who are out OF work
Rig builders have not had good
working day for two weeks and
there are many rig builders who are
idle This is not because there is no
work, but IS on account OF the heavy
rains which have been falling over
stop 10 the work.
Drilling is about the only kind OF
work around the OIL fields which has
not been halted By the rains
Drilling can be kept up during the
hardest Of rain, but all rig building.
tank building and hauling OF supplies
salt Water shows Up.
There has been more Of q showing
Of salt water in the Eastland field
the more experienced oil men say the
salt water now encountered In this
field is more OF an adTani aGs than
q disadvantage
The only well which has been seri- I
ously affected IS the Poteet No. g, Z
which was drilled too deep and there I
is such q strong mixture Of salt wa 1
ter with the OIL that the pipe line I
company has refused 20 accept the !
oil Poteet 10. Z was plugged just Z
above the salt water and saved and (
ls now making good production. /
Both Of these wells belong 20 Root, I
Hupp q Duff
Perkins Wen stops.
The famous Perkins ven, which at i
t-acted world wide attention is not I
now making OIL
The salt water in this field VIII do 7
no harms the experienced oil men I
say and many OF them claim they I
would not operate in a field where !
there was no salt water VITA the /
heavy paraffin base Of the oil here, 7
the salt water IS necessary to keep T
the wells from stopping up and not I
flowing, some say.
Better Train Service.
Traffic has been greatly facili- /.
tated in the oil field by the adding 1
OF new train. which arrives here /
AZ y o'clock noon from Fort Worth ]
and departs at 9 2. m Making no J
local stops between Eastland and 4
Fort worth, It arrives there at p. N. I
long and each coach VIII accommo- I
date nearly 100 persons, which shows !
that i alone hauls about 1000 per I
sons through the oil fields daily.
Before this train was added. each I
train through the oil fields was run I
ming from 2 10 hours late. due to .
overloading with both passengers /
and baggage
Completing New Road.
Within the course Of the next 90 /
lays Eastland VIII have ample rail-
way facilities Tor both passengers.
express and freight traffic BY THAI
Time the Eastlanc, Wichita Ealls e
Gulf railroad viii have its chart lire I
10 operation. connecting Eastiand I
with Mangui1 on the Il *. & T. This
VII be the first short fine oil field
-ailTTay in operation out OF the sew
sra- N1lcl are now contemplated.
The short lire may later on be ex-
tended % Desuemonas where connec-
lun could be made with the electric
inc which VIII be connected with I
,tepheusVllle and Desdemona-