The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-10
Well Dug With Pick an dshovel Pro-
duces Three Barrels Of High
Grade Oil Yesterday After
noon, Reports Say.
GAS AND FUMES FROM OIL
CAUSE NEAR SUFFOCATION
Test of United American Hits Three
showinos Since Sunday, One Was
Gas Sand Three Feet Thick
at 900 Feet.

III the prospective OIL ana gas Ilelu
at Tuttle, they have found a new use
for the gas masks that the boys
used overseas in fighting the Huns.
These masks are being used to en-
BILE the workmen to withstand the
gas and fumes from the high grade
oil found in the Tuttle water wells
which are being dug with spades
The necessity of these masks was
found yesterday when workmen who
were digging with spades and show
els such a well over the discovery
well' at the Tuttle light plant Sew
eral months ago high grade oil test
ing so gravity was found in the water
well at the Tuttle light plant at
depth of SO feet. The we'll was ruin
ed as far as water we'll is con-
cerned. This week workmen started
to dig, with pick and shovel, well,
four feet in diameter
They Strike Oil.
At depth slightly below 80 feet
the workmen struck this high grade
pil in the top of water sand ac-
cording to reliable reports reaching
Chickasha last night The we'll was
down several feet when the gas and
fumes from this high grade crude be-
came so strong that the workmeh
gave the distress sign and were
pulled out of the well.
During the afternoon, reports say,
dozen men were lowered at differ
ent times into the we'll with the same
result. After being in the hole only
a few minutes, they gave the signal
to be hoisted. Then is when the gas
masks were procured. Chiekasha men
who were at the well stated that dur
ing the afternoon, three barrels Of
this high grade crude were taken
from the we'll 1t is estimated that
the oil, considering the current price
of average crude, would sell at
around So to $40 a barrel.
Among the Chickasha men who
saw the performance" of this well
is w. A.. Davis who has worked in
the Burkburnett field for four years
He states that in his opinion the oil
is coming through crevace in a
strata of shale somewhere and be-
ing refined as it passes upward
through the water sand
Il don't own a foot Of acreage
around Tuttle,' said Mr. Davis. II
just happened to go to Tuttle yester-
day on another matter and run into
this freak" oil proposition"
Deep Test Looks Good.
J. d. Nantz, vice president of the
United American Oil and Gas com
pany, which outfit is drilling a deep
test on the Thomas farm a mile and
a half south OF Tuttle stated this
morning that they are drilling at 1872
feet after having passed through
three oil and gas showings since last
Sunday.
The last gas showing to date was
struck yesterday at depth of 900
feet Mr. Hantz stated where they
had three foot gas sand. Above
this sand, he said, the cuttings show
ed that they were drilling in choco-
late shale, which formation is found
in the Cement field at about 1875 feet
above the oil sand.
The test of the United American
picked up the high grade crude at
depth of SO feet and the showing was
strong enough to come up we'll on
the slush pit from a rotary. Leases
have advanced in price and the ac-
tivity has doubled in the the past "a
hours.
Several farmers are planning to
dig wells similar to the one at the
ice plant and prospects are that pick
and shovel will be plying merrily i'll
the Tuttle district soon.