The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-14
Big oil DeUciOBDent
Starts In Arkansas

/ Starts In Arkansas
FORT SMITH Ark. Jan 30
/ tgion county has attracted moro
attention lately than any other IN
Arkansas because of the report lhaI
1 tho Trinity Petroleum corporation
has struck oil In lts well near ShuI"r
There has bcvu no positive Cuulirut. +
/ ton that OH has boon found iu ra} I
/ ing quantities but the showing HI
considered important u important I
/ iu fact. that leases IN that vicinity
/ hayc sold for $3.50 an acre lately
Tho oil bearing formation was 'u
/ tered at about 1000 frot ana ~ has
attracted many gcoloEiats from utcI
/ the Mid. Continent district
/ -Four miles from the Trinity we'll
/ Dr. II. II. NlohuHs leased 100 acres iu
/ ". j. Miles, truHtrc, for tll.uoo
This was out OF block ~ tI.uun
acres leased by pr Niohuss several
months ago for tho bowis. Goodwin
/ OH A. Gus 60. g. A. Berry De-
reported to have paid $500 for an
undivided half interest Ia twenty
acre tract near the well LuuiSidn1
operators have rushed into thr
county by the hundreds, ana many
others have gone there from Fort
Worth. Dallas. Tulsa, wichita Falls
and oklahoma CITY
Material shipped In
n a. a fact that many locnuoni
have been made FOR wells IN Union
county and that several carloads ut
tank material have been shipped 30
El Dorado. The GOnstnuiiu 'il
Gas Co the Big SiN bil com
pany, tho Sloan company pt Ih.li-
delphia. James Proctor Of Junction
CITY, and the victoria on q Gns
Co. are among those that have be
gun drilling or made preparations
for early drilling.
Ddnclgcr Urothcrs NJ Kansas CITY
recently blocked leases In Columbia
county, through j, v Scott, their
representative, and are reported to
plan drilling a test early In The year.
A. 4 Pope, circuit clerk OF
Opiachita county. reports that during
the year 1919 over 1850 oil leases
and deeds were placed on record In
that county because Of possible oil
development.
In the vicinity OF Tcxarkana tho
Tcxport companys No. ~ drilliQg,
near Nash. Mt about 500 feet. Prep
nrations are being made to start No.
.. aud locatl has been made for
No. = Near Dckolb, 80 miles west
OF Tcxarkana, well IL drilling at
about 1000 feet. Preparations to
, drill near Red water are being made
, by the Postal Employees company.
A derrick Ia being erected near Dalhy
Springs.
, rrod Harrison, OF the oklahoma
- OIL company. announces that MS
? company has n location near Gar
4 land city, t2 mules east OF TcNir-
a kama. In Miller county
Tho Damon Oil COMPANY which
r has n block Of 10000 acres In the
/ vicinity Of lIigdcn. is reported e.
haVo contracted for four test wells
there, the first to be started not later
than April /.
suits Arc Won
Suits involving oil lenses In the
neighborhood OF sutton having beer
II decided IN favor OF the lossceS aut
a against tho farmers who sought I,
@ cancel them, by Chancellor James u
r Shaver OF, ToNarkhna, drilling ncal
= sutton In 10 start within the next few
d weeks,
r Tho South Arkansas oil compan'
is drilling two wells In Columbia
county and IN soon to start third
near Calhoun and six miles south o
Magnolia.
II Offices OF the Kentucky oil com
~ pany have been moved from Pop
y lar Bluff, Mo, to Advance, Mo,
IT point nearer the Company's lease
y along the border OF Arkansas AM
Missouri, and officials announce tina
drilling will begin soon near Ad
vance.
oklahoma and Louisiana operator
conferred recently with Mayor j. j
Kres and T. w, Reagan of Arkadel
phia with reference To oil leases 4
Pike county, where Mayor krcss ha
i largo holdiugH The oil men prom
20 ised early development II leases wer
secured,
Louisiana Gas. Promised
Two big wells recently have bee
IT completed In Claiborne Parish, In
by the Arkansas Natural Gas com
pany. one Of them was an oilcr est
? mated TO flow $4,000 barrels "A day
IL and the other a gaSser estimated {
have a capacity OF 5O,0O0,000 cuhi
feet a day The gas well. officials q
y the company report will guarante
l. II al the gas that is needed for Al
U, kansas clients during tho rCst ~ IN
winter. Gas wells of Louisiana ar
reported to give evidence OF hetn
y longer lived than most or those /
y Texas,
Dr. n. T. Drake, head of the dc
partment OF geology OF tho Univert
s. ity Of Arkansas, in q paper recent
p- yaid he believed that oil may h
"a found In paying quantities In IN
A. southern and eastern parts or IN
state. oil, no says, probably Will NJ
hc found where az was formed bt
m In rock beds and crerasSes due
c. gravity. lie said that on account {
IN a high degree Of metamorphism
ut the northern part OF the state o
m probably would not he found there.
Pipe Lines Proposed