El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-22

One year ago in EasLand county
there were five standard rigs drilling
in the county Today SCOUTS re
port viii show for Eastland county
alone. 1S5 rigs drilling; 80 wells shut
down on top Of the sand; AZ prOduc-
ing wells; % dry holes. including
gassers; 40 rigs built, waiting for
drilling machinery. and more than
100 locations that viii be drilled
within the next month or so, making
a total Of 514 wells drilled. drilling
and making ready 10 drill The es-
timated cost OF well in the Ranger
field is around $4,000 for each com
pleted we'll You can figure an in
Testment there OF more than $4,000
600 not figuring the drilling tools
which are required TO drill q well.
nor the money that was paid out on
leases by the various companies. or
the steel storage tanks for storing
the oil. or the gathering pipeline.
All these add many more millions
TO the investment.
in Stephens county there are ~
rigs drilling; IS wells shut down for
storage % producing wells: IS dry
holes and gassers; ~ rigs UP, wait
ing for drilling machinery and more
than 200 locations that viii be drilled
within the next few months. making
a total Of 464; making a total in
vestmeut OF $4,000. 600 in Stephens
county. In the remainder OF the West
Texas counties outside OF Wichita
county, that are developing for oil,
there are nearly 800 rigs drilling
OF in some process OF getting ready
20 drill
Possibly no field in this country
has been developed with as small a
loss in crude oil with the initial pro-
duction Of the wells as has the cen
/ trial Texas fields. This was due
] largely to the great care exercised by
{ the big companies in not drilling a
well into production. until some stor-
age or carrying capacity had been
provided for the oil.
Build Pipe Lines.
Hardly had production started
when some Of the pipeline companies
announced their intention of build
/ ing TO the Ranger or central Texas
fields The Texas company has COM
pleted an eight inch pipe line from
its tank farm at Ranger TO its re-
finery at Gates, and now announces
that Il Will increase this line with
another eight inch line. which Will
give the Texas company a carrying
capacity Of $4,000 barrels daily. with
proper intermediate stations.
The Prairie Pipeline company has
completed an eight inch pipe line from
Ranger TO Drumright. Okla. and. in
stead OF building their 12inch line to
the gulf. as was the intention. owing
TO war conditions have changed plans
ana VIII Dullu anolner elEnt inch line
10 Downright. Okla. This will give
the Prairie n transportation capacity
Of 80 600 barrels daily.
An eightnch pipeline viii be built
by the Cosden company. IL is an
nounced. TO Gushing, which viii have
q carrying capacity of 10000 barrels
daily.
The Gulf Pipeline company is con-
structing a pipeline from its tank
farm at Ranger. east to Fort Worth.
This line viii be an eightinch one
with carrying capacity OF 10000
daily or more.
The Magnolia Petroleum company
is building an eiEhunch line from
the Ranger field 10 Corsicana. with
a capacity OF 10000 barrels daily.
The Sinclair interests are building
this year. an eightinch pine lire
from the Ranger field north. TO Heal
ton, Okla. This line will have 90
COO barrels daily capacity, and Il is
reported that Anderson q Gustafson