El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-20
PEcOS AND T0YAH FIELDS
STILL MYSTERY IN OIL WORLD

men who are developing the fIeI5
Z Ineir stories were an alike vrftb -
specL 70 what was going on T NJ.
one OF them made any rash nredfc-
ions Not one OF them boosted mi
they ali said they had faith and 80
spending their own monev-
T lnaiy, ! got hold Of r Shaner.
o1s or the most widely experienced
on men anywhere. His father driIIed
ne ne Iirst OIL wei in the United states.
odeh IN Pennsylvania lIr. Shaner
took me in his flivver 10 everv wen
around 10 Ioyah and let me see for my
Producing Wells Visited.
The first producing wen visited
was the hole owned BY Booth & 90
located on section %. block 30 This
Wen IS l66 feet deep. Fifty-four feet
OF oil stands in the we'll which is =
I'VE inch hole This well Is about
10 3 miles northwest OF Tovah The
second producing well I visited was
stanton No. I, on section Il. block 30
rms Wen is owned by A 4. Stanton.
who holds many OF the leases in that
Elclnity. i IS u miles northwest OF
Ioyah- The depth is IA feet There
IS ia feet Of oil in the we'll
Inc third producing wei was Stan
Ton No 2 owned by the same man
This veil also is in section II, block
~ me wei is $50 feet deep. There
Is l5o rect OF oil in the well On re-
Ierrlng 10 my notes 7 find that II
Of Toyah's 30 wells are on This same
section There IS also one gas we'll
Nlne q tne y wells have oil and
some OF the others may have as they
haven't been brCught in. Drfllers are
using gas from the gas wen in their
COOK stoves lIr Shaner and I meas
ured both the depth Of the wells and
the oil in them The fourth pro-
ducing well visited was the Oldest
well in the country. Il was q wears
old II Is on section z. block 50. about
q half mile north OF stanton No. 9
II is $50 feet deep and has 125 feet
Deep Test Going Down.
Across the Cottonwood draw from
the above wells is the deep test well
2, X TroXel is putting down All
along the road are Keystone rigs Dor
ing as rapidly as possible. A number
Of deep test wells are to be put down
by Fort Worth men. J. H Waddine-
ton. manager OF the Queen Drilline
company told me he had contracted
Tor three shallow wells right away
Leases are selling around S5e an
acre on the average, according TO An
thony McCauley-
The skeptics are insisting shat they
can see SATISFACTORY sand in these
I SHALLOW wells. They admit. however.
tnat the oil Is Of excellent quality.
one OF the features Of the Toyah field
IS the old Texas company well about
10 or miles northwest Of TOyah.
drilled in 1903 TO a depth OF 1886 feet
and then abandoned
Log shows Formations.
The log Of this well runs as fol
. lows. 30 feet. yellow clay: 30 20 80
conglomerate OF hard pebbles: 80 TO
z4O, blue shale; 2f0 10 245. limestone
. tcrystalsl; Z45 10 2S5, blu shale. 2S5
10 525. hard lime rock; 325 70 $50
sand. sulphur water and showing OF
oil; 800 to 555, blue shale; 335 10 3s3
white lime rock: 3S3 20 $50. water
sand (br0ken formation); $50 20 400
gray lime rock $50 to 4T6. sandstone
and shale and sulphur water; 176 q
$50, hard lime rock. $50 10 547. lin.
rock, 5f1 10 SO, blue shale. $40 O.
coo, hard-pan sand. 500 to go. whit
lime and sulphur water; SO to 49,
blue shale; 40 to 935. white limo
oklahoma; 955 to $50. brown limo
$50 to 1850, red bed (supral: 1850
1850, sand and water. strong gas
1860 10 1910. red bed; 1910 20 ISL
gypsum; 1910 TO 1915, sand and gas
1915 TO 1850, sand and gypsum. OF
and gas. The oil rose TO 400 feet
The rest was limestone and gypsum
This log resembles with some vari-
alton that Of the shallower wells. ex-
cept that sand is usually encoun-
tered at intervals after 100 feet in
the shallower holes
sample Analysis.
As to the analysis OF the oil found
! VIII give typical sample The
following analysis was made by
Bacon & Hamon. chemists. from q
sample taken from a los foot well
standing 65 feet in oil. in section 9
block 3D. public school land. Reeves
county:
Specific gravity. 0.9079: point OF
distilation. 172 degrees C; distilation
by volume at $50 degrees c. none.
$50 to 300 dc. % &C: specific gravity
after distilation, O.S449: residiuum.
l6.t &C. specific gravity. 1902, total
-Cs9-4; sulphur, none; paraffin. none; 4