Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-16
CARLSBAD IS IN
CENTER OF RICH
OIL TERRITORY
Especial Correspondence to The journal.


Carlsbad, N. NJ, March ID
Fifteen acres of land seventy miles
south of Carlsbad sold for $4,000
last week. A new oil rig is
going in twenty miles south of
Carlsbad. Gas has been discovered
thirty-five miles north of Carls-
bad, and it is said that the Illinois
company, drilling at Lakewood,
eighteen miles north of Carlsbad,
have ordered twenty-five thou
sand barrel storage tank for their
well in that locality. 1t is no
wonder then, that Carlsbad, right
in the middle of the new field, is
showing unusual signs of activity.
The bulk of the excitement now
is centered around the Bell we'll at
Dixieland, just over the Texas line
from Carlsbad. This well is flow
ing five barrels a day, and is con-
fidently expected to be five hum
dred barrel producer when it Is
swabbed out and the machinery
put in for a proper test Geolo-
gists say that this Is a most re-
markabIe well, for it is said to be
not over six hundred feet deep.
The gas pressure is not heavy
enough to gush, but the oil, the real
golden liquid, is there in wonderful
abundance.
Fifteen acres of land, an offset
to this drilling site, sold for $4,000
last week, and leases as far away
as thirty miles are going rapidly.
One Carlsbad man, who has sec
ton within a mile of this site, has,
1t is said, sold thirty acres Of it for
thirty thousand dollars. The rest
of the section with the exception
of ten acres, which Gossett is keep
ing for a luck piece, is under lease
to the owners of the Bell we'll.
Other Carlsbad people are in
terested in the Lura well, which is
more of mystery to the public
than is the Bell This well wa
recently filled with twelve tons OF
rich cement, which was allowed to
settle and the drillers have now
drilled through the cement, and
are preparing to bring in this
gusher A heavy pressure of salt
water compelled the drillers to fill
the hole with cement. This well is
utty OH sliSIlg anu AIibi
is a tight board fence about it.
Coming north toward Carlsbad,
D. Harkey has just closed a deal
for fifteen thousand acres of state
leases, with Kansas people, and the
drill, which is a light rig, is already
on the ground. Tho biologists be-
lieve that this drill is over the
same formation as that of the
Dixieland, and that the oil will be
found at a shallow depth,
Considerable excitement is also
manifested in the Toyah field,
southwest of Carlsbad although
this locality is further away from
Carlsbad, and thus less is known of
It,
The companies which are located
in and about the Immediate vicinity
of Carlsbad are quiet now, but new
developments are looked for short
ly.
At Lakewood, it is said that the
Illinois company has ordered a
rs, 900 barrel storage tank, in which
to store the oil, when the Lakewood
well is turned loose. This story is
denied by the management of the
Lakewood we'll. the same manage
ment which has been fishing for
tools for a year. and which is
known to have oil in its hole. This
we'll is located near the big Carls-
bad project reservoir, and much
damage would result to farms were
the oil turned loose into the reser-
voir and allowed to empty out on
farms. For this reason the pur-
chase of the storage tank is plausi
BILE, although the purchase is We
hemently denied by the manage
ment.
1t is also known that the Illinois
we'll No. 9 at Dayton has struck
gas, but the size of the flow has not
been given to the public. This well
is about twenty-eight miles north
of Carlsbad.
Whichever way the cat jumps;
there are Carlsbad men on the
ground and interested, and the
coming oil boom is sure to increase
the trouble of the, income tax coll,
lector in Carlsbad next year.
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