Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-15
oil ACTIVITIES
| IN TOYAH BASIN
ARE INCREASING
Contracts Were Made for
Eight More Deep Test
Wells Last Week; Many
Big Operators.
Inv Antllorr McCauleY.

$SCaie, Contracts were Itliue Ioi
&xight more deep tests, and deals
iavolving a number of deep drill
ing blocks that include arrange
nlents for score of other deep |
axePs. are on the tapis. 1t is eX-
IL .ected that official announcement |
BE about a dozen deep tests Will be !
hi 1rthcoming this week.
# Deep test deals closed in the last |
reek include the Following:
81 Daniel j. Sully and his associates
Ncf the Ranger Valley Oil company |
Nsnd the Cotton & Cane Co. who |
Med already purchased in fee about
Ia so 900 acres on the west size OF
NHhe basin, have now bought w, u.
sa, asey's Davis mountain ranch, en- |
sD0racing fifty-siX sections lying east
II Ortheast and southeast of Gomez |
S1eak.
81 The famous New York and Chi
stago stock market plunger is tax
F6ng a bigger gamble than any other
&bil operator in the whole basin.
IN lis invasion of the east side OF the
lasin presages the most extensive
IAslrilling campaign ever put on IN
Htbe southwest by one outfit in one
field.
# SuIly's drilling superintendent,
mick McDermott, IS establishing
Sully's southeastern headquarters
In the town OF Balmorhea, twenty
#fne miles from TOyah, on the
Il ecos & Toyah Southern railroad.
LII of Sullys equipment, oil and
stamp supplies for the Sully jobs
#on tho east side, will be un'oaded
Ian Balmorhea, which over night
Sha. leaned into prominence as
Sshipping and distributing center,
XPalmorhea is now experiencing
#the excitement characteristic of
III snall town IN the first thTHas CT
Mau oil boom
IA The West Texas Oil association,
S&ccmprised of a number OF Yuma
R#and Parker, AriZ., capitalists, rep
S# resented by Frederick M. Hall, mas
arnounce that it win put rs fnst
I'd deem test in the Balmorhea coun-
IS ttv down on Section /, Block 3D.,
81 Township 10, in the southern eX-
ri tremity of Reeves county THESE
M trizonans have grown rich by sell
M ING irrigated lands and raising sea
"a island long staple cotton, ana now
81 want to enjoy a big gamble in the
u oil game. They have purchased a
ri drilling block of several thousand
IA acres from the b. H. Mason inter-
Y ests. located on structure selected
a IN G. w. Erickson Their first
well will be drilled ten miles south
Of where the Ell Paso- Sargosa COM
nGny is putting down a deep test
The 3. II. Mason interests are
NEGOTIATING with California and
Utah capitalists. including several
r,ulti-millionaire mining and OIL
y GENERATORS, who want to put down
n two deep tests in Block 81. Town
ship and School Block CHA. a
4 few miles west of Balmorhea.
on the north side of the basir
the BLACK River Petroleum com
Y,env organized by Carlsbad, N. M,
d rapitalists. will put down two deer
tests on the r. f. Taylor ranch, or
Rlocks GO and So, Township l, Cul'
1erson county, and other rancf
lands running northward into EDDY
county. New Mexico, the drllllns
q block covering more than fifty sec
81 tons. This outfit is capitailzed d
# 100000. a,,;+o
M Eastern and Pacific coast capita
& has lust leased the ID. II. Harke!
On ranch. in Blocks SO and 60. Town
% slim / also on the northern bound
ary of Culberson, and other ranehe
runnins into Eddy county, NeV
II Mexico and $4,000 deposit ma
"a lcen placed in a Carlsbad pank a.
guarantee that drilling on the ITS
a of two deep tests viii start Wlthli
ninety days. -, - ~,
1 basin great activity is evidenced II
81 u Horn, which is the oil suppll
a az ibuting center for vast yer
a rory. Negotiations are penn
~ iaaae for the sale OF the leases y
huge Russell Durrell rahch an'
be putting down or -FOUR oeei
tsts in the, Baylor mountain ois
f4t The Durrell ranch covers
dozen blocks. -
"a ed his leases on the siX-biocl
Il mes belonging to Ed Jones, W
"a "A. Ackard and j. II. Watson, noftl
# of plateau, in Culberson county, az
81 Joining the Durreh ranch ON TN
81 east, Or. c. C. McCauley, Of Dial
81 las, who bought these leases iron
81 NcGregor. has made a deal with
crowd that cleaned UP 100000
# in the Hog Greek field, and half
Z dozen deep tests will be put dow
a5M 1fnmGuldltly Oh pOllI SiNNS VI
81 southern extremity Of the Delawar
81 mountains.
The Tom w. owen test, drilling
on section 9, block 81, p. S. L., east
@ ern Culberson. is down 100 feet.
| A big shipment. of fuel oil, whic
@ has been on the road for some tim
M and delayed resumption OF dfihlh
III by the b. III. Mason interests on tn
"a 10 fpCt ciXtnn
III miles northwest of Toyah, has al
rived. This outfit is expected t
a put up another standard rig ON
n new location within the next tw
u weeks, and it will be on block 5!
u p. S. L., Reeves. Jess Knight is 0
n the way from Los Angeles with
party of rich oil and mining mag
81 mates who have joined the Maso
81 interests on the Toyah-Alabam
81 drilling enterprises, and on Ma
H sons $3.50 drilling contract on tn
81 Troxel Oil company's 12,000-a
Eli block.
n A. A. stanton & Co. have let
II drilling contract for 1,500-fot
Fl well on dhe southwest quarter {
section 80, block SIS, P. S. L
Reeves.
Judge ]. f. Quad of Ell Paso an
Joe Hopper have bought the drill
ing equipment belonging to tn
latter's father, w. NJ. Hopper, an
will put down a flock Of shallo
wells on Sec. II, block SO, P. S.
The Powell well, On the northea'
onarter of section As, block 5S,
S. L., is down $50 feet
The Neutrality-suspicious. dee
teet uas snudded in with a No.
star on section SO. block So, p.
L L., Thursday. This is a steam an
tractor outfit.
NJ. Love, who has been drillin
yenty miles west of Roswell,
is bringing five rigs overlan
- sroyah, including two big Star
l. Il