The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-07-13
.0PE ERAT|ONS DUE
START SOON FOR
!. NEW RUSH WELL
Derrick Completed, Tools On Ground
Rigging Up East Of Rush
Springs; r. C. Hall Has Con-
tract to Drill Test.
NORTHERN STEPHENS
AGAIN SHOWS ACTION
Triumph Test to Be Completed; !;
.cottingham 'Gasser To Be
Cleaned Our anG Turned
Into oil Producer, Report.

Actual work is to start on the oil
test in southern Grady county, two
and half miles east of Rush
Springs, on the Slaton farm in the
southwest of the northeast of section
1854 north west, in the next few
days.
The acreage was blocked for A. r.
Slayton, representing Pennsylvania
capital and the drilling is to be done
by contract by f. c. Hall and
associates of Chiekasha. The opera
| tors have completed liz foot rotary
derrick and the machinery has been
hauled to the location, the outfit be-
ing Of the heavy type of rotary tools.
They are rigging up and expect to
spud in the last of this week The
water well which is said to be ade-
quate to furnish plenty of fluid for
drilling purposes has been completed
and car load of casing is on the
ground.
They are erecting tanks for fuel
oil, which fuel supply is understood
to have been ordered for immediate
delivery. The operators state that
nothing with the possible exception
of a delay in the supply of feul oil
will check the spudding in of the
well this week.
While reports have it that two or
three more tests are to be drilled in
the Rush Springs territory in the
near future, no definite announce
ment that other contracts have been
let has been made There is one
tentative contract Tor a well on the !
George Hill farm north and east OF
Rush Springs is reported, but it is
understood that it has not been def
nitely consummated.
The leasing activity is still strong |
and there are half dozen sets Of |
interests attempting to block acreage
to put down tests. 1t is understood,
however. that these are meeting with
little success because of the fact
that the territory has already been
checker boarded" to such an extent
that il is difficult to block solidly,
sufficient acreage to interest the
drilling companies.
In Stephens County.
That operations are to be renewed
in northeast Stephens county, just
south of the Grady county line, are
the reports from that section by j
M. Berriman of the Triumph Oil and
Development company. Mr.. Berri-
man returned last night from a trip
through that section.
The Burkburnett Cement Oil and
Gas company, who had a contract to !
drill the Triumph well in the south
west of the southeast of section 30
2n-7w, has awarded the contract to
II. w. Chaplin, drilling contractor
who will complete the hole. They
are at depth Of 2060 feet where
operations will be started with
standard tools which are now being
moved from the Walters to the Tri
umph location. Gas is being piped
from the Cruce wells to be used for
fuel at the Triumph location and it
is expected that they will be drill.
ing again in ten days.
Smith-cottingham "OiIs."
The Smith-Cottingham well in the
northeast of the northeast of section !
14-2n-5w, where a monster gasser
was struck several months ago, is
to b echanged into an oiler. The
well, it is understood has been max
ing considerable oil when opened up
and standard tools are being put in
to clean out Tubing and rods are
on the ground and the well will be
put on the pump when the cleaning
out process is completed, reports
state.
The Santa Fe operations in the Sn
5w section are again active. There J
are five of these wells. one a deep !
test near the Grady-Stephens county
line and the others are just south o:
the Grady line. Oil men state that
production of unknown quantity has
been found in some of these wells,