The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-08-31
SHOOK WELL IS
LOOKING BETTER
VISITORS STATE
Reports from Grady County Test
Indicate Good oiler Probable;
Oil Flows Over the Top of
Cashing, Declared.
CEMENTING WATER OFF
TO PREPARE DRILL IN
Location is II Miles from Chick.
asha Oil Men Point Out Will
Mean Much to This City;
May Be a New Field.

That the Mckay test on the Shook
farm in the southwest of the south.
west of section 1853 shows every
indication of being a real oil well
when completed, was the report
4 brought to Chickasha yesterday ev-
ening by local oil men.
Men on the well stated that thew
struck the showing at 2l40 feet and
at that time water stood in the hole
to a depth of 1000 feet Within two
hours after the sand was struck,
about 200 feet of oil was standing on
top of the water and yesterday
morning oil ran out at the top OF
the casing, 1t was stated at the well.
Evidences that considerable oil
has come from the hole were shown
about the derrick floor and slushpit
yesterday afternoon 1t was stated at
"i'V "OH yootSiudy dlteluOOH ny
mag who has been on practically
every well in the Cement field and
who has been Sitting up" with the
Shook test, that the Gtady county
well looks better to him at this
stage than any other we'll he has
seen in the Cement field at like
stage.
Workmen are todaYi completing
the job OF cementing to cut the
water off and it will be probably 10
days to two weeks before they will
be able to start drilling again 1t is
understood that in the meantime
everything to take care of produc-
tion will be put In shape, in the way
of storage tanks. Oil men of this
city are not to say excited over the
well, but several of them who have
seen the well in It's present state,
declare that it looks very favorable
and they predict good well Some
declare that If the statements of the
drilers are true concerning the
amount of oil that rose in the hole,
together with the statement that the
oil flows over the top of the casing,
the well should be good for 100 bar
rels.
1t Is being pointed out by oil men
today that the well granting thai
1t will come in for 100 barrels or
better, opens an entirely new field
as it is from four to five miles from
the nearest production at Cement.
The well is exactly II miles from |
Chickasha, as shown by an automo-
bile speedometer and it's in Grady
wherefore, oil men state. it
is a Chickasha well and bears pros
poets of becoming a real Chickasha
oil field
One oil man stated this morning.
after requesting that his name be
at this time that he has
already opened negotiations toward
securing acreage adjoining this well
for the purpose of putting down an.
other test. He declared that as soon
as 1t Is proved that this is a real
well, he will be ready to start an
other test as soon as material can
be moved to the ground. 1t is known
that other interests have been
this we'll with a view to
starting operations there in the
event the Shook test proved to be a
producer.
"Chickasha didn't get very excited
over the Cement field" said a local
)il man today while this city was
n position to get more benefits from
he Cement field than any other
own, there was little done to in.
luce the oil men to favor Chickasha.
Should this Shook test prove to be
/ good producer, opening perations
IN large scale as it would around
his production, Chickasha would be
Utmost forced into the benefits. The
egal business of the field would
)ring the oilers to Chickasha. It !
,rings the whole proposition back to
he old story about a good road. It
will be absolutely up to Chickasha
o build good road to this well, il
t is producer, and my advice II
o get busy now with the preliminar-
es as the thing looks to be like it's
soing to produce"