The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-30

that IL s5 miles square. And II is not
claimed, either. that this area has
all been mapped out gcologically.
The very fact, however. that this
number of structures has been
found within this district dcsig-
Ponca City--head of the various
companlea associated under the
Marl5nd OH company is tho most
persistent and also the most sue
Ccasful wildcattcr that the west At
least has ever known. q might be
claimed truthful, that his record
viii hold good In tho entire United
states
II dovclopes that ~ the struc-
turcA In this district. 80 are credited
directly TO Marland, the result OF
either his own peraOuAl work or
that Of his staff OF gcOlogists. In
TIM connection, one OF the Marland
officials. speaking recently In regard
10 development In this section Of
the state, declared that "thc great
ost oil field the state has yet
known viii be that covering at least
portions Of Kay Noble and Grant
counties"
OF tho 3s structures, located
within this area. 10 have been
drilled or wildcattod. and u OF
them are producing today. only
two ~ tho 10 are dry and further
Development may bring them into
the fold And Marland has the
credit OF bringing in 10 OF the ~
producing arcas.
Nineteen Vet TO DiUi
or the 10 structures yet Ilntested,
MarlHnd will tost all but three Of
them. and work on 10 of them will
start this epring. Naturally follow
ing the bringing IN Of any particular
OF l..T f.I
paui"s have come in, secured acre
age and the work of devclopmcnt
has gone ahead rapidly IN "A ma
jOrity of cases. This has been dem
onstratcd very forcibly recently In
the new field. opened by Marland
south OF Tonkflwa. Although COM
paratively a new district entirely
vet there are now % rigs up in that
locality and additional locations arc
being made daily.
one OF the structures, developed
by Marland and that has rcgulted IN
n remarkable pool, IL 'he Burbank
district OF the western OsaEs. An
oil man stated this week that 'if
the entire Burbank diStrlc. was
owned by one company II would be
worth 100000. 900 20 that COM
pany; split up as II is among vari-
Gus concerns. II Is wor'h anywhere
from $4,000. 900 to $4,000 )0O."
Tho above figures, all u them Of
fetal, in regard to the number OF
structures and tho WORK OF Il davclup-
ing them. point to Marland as the
greatest individual wildcat!cr, ac-
cording to oil men. who say. at is
the greatest and most important
era OF successful wildcatting that is
on record"
Story Of General Pcrshlng.
In connection with the coming OF
Il. w. Marland to oklahoma and TO
tho Ponca city district, number
of years ago. there is an interesting
story that has never been written.
II has 10 do with Con. Jack" PERISH
Ing. then "A captain, and Col. Frank
Kenny then "A Lieutenant, who was
on Pershing's staff in the old days
NJ Oklahoma City lie became aC-
quainted with the Millera of the 101
ranch. an institution that even then
was know nation wide.
II IL said that II was Colonel
Kenny who In those days suggest ed
to Marland, living at PittsburR, the
homa as an oil producer with the
l01 ranch aa center, both for de-
yelopmcnt and for n name for an oil
! company, Marland had boen In the
| oil game In the east, particularly In
West Virginia. lie hardened to
Kenny's suggestion, came to Ponca
city, organized the 101 Ranch oil
company and brought about the
early development OF northern Ok
iahomn.
Development In the Otoc.
The contract that the Gypsy oil
company ret for its decp test in the
Otoe portion OF Noble county Ia for
| 1000 feet " necessary to find oil
and gas. Tho test Is in section "a
22-i east. or about five miles north
west OF sumner Drilling Is in prog
! ross at about 500 feet.
In the field south OF Tonkawa. in
extreme northern Noble county, an
outstanding feature " tho fact that
| tho leases are, MS a rule, divided
| into small tracts, which Will tend to
| mako the development more rapid.
| There are IL companies holding
leases within one mile OF the initial
well, The Champlin Refining COM
| pany OF Enid has completed two
hs o0o barrel storage tanks on the
! ED Morris farm In the south Tonk-
ava field and is now completing an
/ eight inch line into Enid.
Has Resumed Drilling.
waldo & Bucklin, who encoun-
| tered the recent natural gas find at
| about 440 feet west of Medford on
the Red nm Leasing corporations
|
! at I 1850 feet, where the slx-inch
saclng is set, The Red I'm syndi-
cate has $500 acres i'm its block,
OF which waldo & Bucklln control
! LOO. other concerns that hold
| acreage within this particular block
are the Marland oil company, that
owns the offset quarter; the Me-
Mann, which Is the most extensive
| owner within tho block; the Twin
/ states, the Atlantic oil, n. w.
Franchot and the California Pc
: troleum, the Burnsdall corporation,
the Phillips Petroleum company,
the Simms oil company OF Dallas,
Grant blanchard, DR.. II. l., Hall Of
| Pawhuska, and Earl Wherry Of
| Deer Creek.
The Day oil company has spuddod
In its test on tho j. $. Jonson fam,
four and a half miles northeast of
Medford; the Walker Drilling com
|, pany has started on the NATIONAL
Refining company test on the Duh %
ler farm, and the Northup well on
the MCkccman farm Is drilling az
about 1900 feet in northwest 2S-