The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-28
ABNER DAVIS GETS
 1 INTO CUSTER FIELD
Great Interest Now in the New Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, Oil
 Field

Shreveport. La, March H.-(Special0-
 The new Pecos. Reeves county, Tex, oil
 field. Bell No 1, when opened up gushed
 high into the air and flowed the highest
 grade oil in Texas.
 This we'll was drilled purely upon the
 strength of surface geology, upon an
 anticline plainly visible to anyone All
 geologists have agreed that this is one
 of the largest geological structures in the
 world, and now by drilling, the field is proven as cammorceial producer, open ing up the onIy oil field between East land and Ranger field and the Pacific coast.
 The city of Pecos and the entire Toyah basin is on a boom and full to over flowing with oil men and investors, with others coming on every train. several deep test wells are going down, in addl- tion to many shallow wells, which will prove up an area of many square miles. 1 This looks like a real Fl Dorado for l fortune making in big new field where very shallow wells have produced for l years, where a gusher has now come in, and where there is every reason to expect ] wells of almost unlimited production when the present deep tests, some of which are now down 1,40o feet or more are completed.
 The lease can be had reasonable. the drilling can be done quickly; the oil is very high gravity and extremely rich in l gasoline.
 1 The Santa Fe and Texas Pacific lines 1 traverse the fields. A new town is being i built on the Santa F'e in the geld twenty three miles from Pecos. The town of I Irabell was named by the Santa Fe ir honor of Ira J. Bell, the pioneer and dis l coverer of the first gusher in the great l Trans -Pecos Empire.
 Abner Davis has refinery site adjoin' 1 ing the new town. A pipe line has al ready been built from the new well tc | the railroad and the refinery shipped. Ex- | perts will go down from Fort Worth tc install the refinery, and put the plant in l operation under a contract to make gaso- I line in thirty days.
 1 T was able to arrive in the field before 1 the discovery well was brought in,' said Mir. Davis due to telegraphic advices 1 from confidential sources, and therefore 1 succeeded in securing options and drilling l Iontrac as well as purchasing leases
 and lanH in fee, before the well was known to be a gusher
 j, "I have contracted for and purchased i i ,10O acres on the apex of the Bell well 1 anticline, and on both sides of the Citi- zens well, now drilling. l have the closest l 40-acre drilling site to the famous Bell discovery gusher. with other scattered l holdings throughout the field. 1T also have a contract to purchase 5000 acres additional in the field. This land is adjoining the Zone well, now being drilled by United States army officers and their friends at Fl Paso.
 "The greatest portion of this land not only carries the usual oil. gas and min eral ealse, but also includes the deed to the property in fee simple, as we'll as a royalty interest.
 These entire properties represent very considerable sums of money, but my ex- perience in the past was put to good use in this new field before the excitement had reached fever heat l was able to protect myself in making purchases with an agreement whereby I am to receive the pc crtion paid for and representing the cash that I paid. and have the further protection of getting leases. or the land itself, for all money that I pay in the future, simply forfeiting that portion for which l do not pay"