The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-20
Impervious Black Limestone

great inequalities that are known In
geological parlance as "traps" which
arrest the ascending oils and gasses
and imprison them there, and the
domelike bends of oil strata supply
lust such traps, while crossfolds IN
the strata provide channels IN which
flow the gas and oil, where they are
arrested and held, making great
Pools And Channels Of Oil
And gas: and when the drill OF the
oil borer sinks into a great pool or
channel, the oil and gas seek an out
let Immediately, coming sometimes
with such force and power that the
drill Itself is shot out from the Wen.
With strong gas pressure the
Well Is A Gusher,
And oil flows above the surface In
great quantities, in some cases thefiow
being thousands of barrels daily from
a single well. With light gas pres
sure the oil has to be pumped or
swabbed out from the well.
In the Desdemona Field the oil
bearing strata has great gas pressure
and all the wells drilled into the sands
have been gushers, while production
is enormous. There is not pumper
or swabber among them. One day
Natural Gas
| Will be a great commerc,ar asset IN
this region, and it will supply gas for
extensive manufacturing purposes.
One we'll which has not been brought
in vet as an oil we'll, has supplied all
the power used in the field the past
eight months.
AS developed. to this time the Des-
demona oil field embraces a great
dome in monocline extend
ing north and south about
eight miles, with a width OF
the monocline is cut by three cross
about two miles east and west; and
the anticline is cut by three cross
folds about two miles apart.
It is in the intersection of cross
folds with the great monocline that
the
Richest And Best Wells
Have been developed with the
strongest flows of oil and greatest ac-
tivity in gas; the well known tendency
of intersections in mineral veins to
carry their richest ores at the con-
tact of intersection, hold good in the
case of oil pools and channels as well.
In Desdemona development has
been upon the first crossfold south
where there is line of strong gassers
flowing both gas and oil. One of the
wells, in the monocline at the axis OF
a crossfold was brought in" at 15,-
600 barrels of oil daily; and little
later another $4,000 gallon gusher
was brought in, on the same produc-
tive intersection. Both wells are cap
ped awaiting construction of a pipe
line for transportation of OF! to mark
ct. Upon all three crossfolds describ-
ed the
Mexico Oil & Refining Co.
Has very valuable holdings, all
three of which can be sold at great
advances on the prices paid; and de-
Ivelopments by boring seem certain of
great results.
Upon the first crossfold, just out
side the east line of the great mono
cline this company has five acres
about three-quarters of mile east
from tn first big gusher mentioned
(the Mcmahon Company's well on
the Reynolds tract). At a point 800
feet north of the fve-acre tract of
this corporation is the Skeay-Sankey
well, 5000 feet in depth, which came
in at 5000 barrels daily. On the
south of the same tract about a quar-
ter of mile is the Comanche North
ern well, another 5000 barrel well.
All these wells are about 5000 feet
deep.
Due east from this same tract of
the Arizona-Mexico Oil & Refining
Company about quarter of mile the
Prairie Oil Company (Standard Oily,
has erected a derrick and is starting
to drill upon one of their holdings,
with an expectancy of "brining in a
well.
The small tract in such good COM
pany cost the Arizona-MeXico OIL &
Company
:. A Handsome Sum
And within four days they were Of
fered and refused $4,000 for that five
acres of land-a clear advance of
about 80 per cent. The tract is about
1 1-2 miles southeast from Des-
demona.
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