El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-12
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4 The Ocran OIL End Refining Company.
/ One Of the newest companies compos-
ed largely OF prominent e Pasoans IS
The Ocean OIL AID Refining company.
which has ecquired a tract Of land By
purchase. IN the heart OF the Ranger
field and surrounded by Eushers. such
as the Roper well 70. the southeast. the
lsIsmua Terrell TO the east the Norwood.
EConnellee. the Harrison and Olden %
tths southwest and The Parrick well %
1.-THE northwest besides . - dozen
wells drilling IN different directions
and Is about SIX miles due vest OF ire
town Of Ranger Tho personnel o. the /
management OF this company IS con-
tpoeed OF successful oil men IN Texas
land Oklahoma and several OF e Paso's
tr1ost prosperous ard Influential men
The president IS J. A. D Smith o. Wish I
fita Fails and Burkburnett- head Of The Z
kLone star Refining company Other I
fpromiuenf oil men interested are. G
A. Souricksr. " c Best and c. r
johnson OF Burkhurneft Among The
DEL Paaoans interested are Il B. Nc
DoEel W IL Banner. J. R. FISK. "
&c Porterfieid. D BAKER Smith. Roy II
Jones and Robert H Crews. AZ proui-
fnsnt men O. affairS The new company
is planning 70 begin drilling On IT'S
T ground right away u has entered intu
a NaAlaAa'=A AAA AtAaAA III HA7a EaAAIAA @aAAa
.for beEinninE THE Assembly Of the drill
Ding equipment which The company has
b0uEht b the 18th % the present
month
Dir. Parterfield. tho attorney o. the
kcomnany. first visited The fed n the
interest ~ somf clients liking IN Fl
Pas5 who owned tracts OF laud there. :
and who were closing lease with tho {
Lone S-ar people we al vent down I
10 The Ranger fed togethar On the f.
ftrain. being only interested Is an At
tornsy.- says Nr. Porterneid
when We got there We met ;. 4 D. .
Smith. president Ct tho Lone star on
ard Refining company. and went oui
70 ire feds Mr.. Smith Is a nan who
IS widely known IN al OF ths oil fields
Texas -Tais Is his bushes. be knows
no ether,
II 7 never saw a man BECOME uaors en-
.f1husiastic over q pro2oSition than he
Z vas The day We visited the fields the
Norwood well had Jus; blown IN abozt
SIX hours before we arrived on the
scene Mr.. Smith. who IS worth ap-
proximateiy S3.0o0.eoo. completely lost
Y BIS head al the marvellous sight The
oil a. that tine vas spcuIinc over the
derricks and vas running through the I
! cotton fields aid mca vEith scraperS
cera building dicss 70 Rod tze oil slr-
| Sanlth goc 20 eathzsi1stic over the siEht
that he waJed on INFO the Middle o.
the stream. ruiainE his shoes ard
clothes He stated .hai he had pler.y 7
Of money 20 bug a-w shoes and clothes
He also STATED that be has been n TIRE
oil fields Tor ever - years but had
revsr seen a rear well befors and
wanted 10 set \ s0od Ioos A. one row /
Il Nr. Smith has IN income from royalties
amounting TO $50 Geo = month
4 promptly closed the lease cf the
first tract with him and I myself then
told him that had some Il Paso peo-
pie who could handle the adjoining .
tract. He said he wished Us al the
lucs N the World and would help u in
the drilling. he stated that his vel
i'wouid Be IN the adjoining tract and he 4
could look after two wells as vel as
one. As.er consulting the e Paso I
PEOPLE We decided 10 take AIr. Saith n +
as our president. and he agreed 70 say /
on the ground and help Us driu and az I
tend 10 an Of the business Of The cou- d
paaI
cir. smith. J. A. d. Smith. sad
This IS the finest location Tor an oil
Een that / have seen IN al OF the oil
4 feds ] have been IN all the Eushers
from Pennsylvania 10 Texas during the /
Fnasi IS years and fully believe that tins /
land IS the most Ideally located thar I
have seen IN al ny experience. To
show my faith in this property I am
willing TO put up ny Own money. time
] and any or al Of the six drilling rigs
which have 70 back this proposition [
know there Is oil in this land and in
as large a quantity as the Emmateriai. 4
1 Roper and Norwood wells. which are
or nearest neighborS
The Norwood wei was At that tine J
1 running about 1000 barrels a day a. a
I profit OF Approximately s200u0 a day
There IS one vel. the Roper vel. still
closer than the Norwood we'll when
cane IN a. $500 barrels a day. and
which IS now earning IFS stockholders Z
$500. 900 a month Wells Of this size
are On every side OF US The Emma B
teral wei. The largest OF them all. Is
two miles away The secret OF these |
large wells Is that they all lie IN the
valley OF the Leon river Biologists De- I
uevs that this Is the center Of the pool (
This ] should perhaps have stated. al
the head Of this storyl Biologists viii
point 70 the fact that the center OF The
great Ranger pool IS somewhere along
he valley OF this river. an OF the wella.
. struck in this valley have been extreme
Iy large Eushers-the largest n al
Texas Farmers and teamsJers who yes
terday had scarcely anything have be-
come wealthy over night Gsologists
have lcnr since said that the Leon river
large POOLS