The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-07-03
=The-Week in the Sunshine State


4 multitude os delays. The rock which
they are now working IN Il very hard
and very difficult 20 drln. The string OF
tools which they have been using for
over a year began TO give out a couple
OF months aEo. and they took them
20 Roswell and had necessary repairs
made TO them, They were too badly
necessary to discard them and secure
new ones. which was done.
The Major oil company has spud-
ded In Its first test well a short dis
lance from the Corona we'll site, on
the strength OF the showing In that
test. Another company. made up OF
san Francisco capitalists has spud-
ded In n test well. These men claim
that they Will continue to prospect
this section OF the country regard
less OF the outcome at the Corona
well which they believe will strike
they say that one We'll will moi ,sst
out any section. a. u often happens
that a dry hole and a producing hole
may be put down within a few yards
OF each other.
c. n. Van Houten of the Ponil
country reports having visited Red
River city. where there IL unusual
activity at this time. The manage
ment OF the carlbeI mine is WORKING
every available man on a general re-
organization OF the property.
Active work has been resumed At
the Eureka well near Ration, after
considerable delay from the breaking
OF n drill stem. The stem was taken
TO Trinidad to be mcnded, but the
Job i said 10 rave been unsatisfactory
and the stem was finally welded in
inc Ration santa Re shops. The well
wal down TO 1899 feet at the time OF
resumption. and still in shaie.
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The Vaiverde Development COM
pany or SOcorro. n new oil corporation
has recently filed papers OF i%ncorpor-
alton with the corporation commits
sion's office. and q announced that
Il intends TO start drilling operations
at once on the La Joya grant. 20
miles north OF Socorro. The test well
which III company will start lmmed-
iaely win be the first test OF oil pros
poets In the lei vicinity OF Socorro.
The company has already pie ced a
derrick on the grounds, and work
men with loads or material are being
sent to the spot daily. The incorpora-
tors o. the new company are G. l..
Price. Socorro; II. $. Bowman. Santa
Fei and J. W. C~anteion. Santa Fe.
J. Il. Younger. an experienced driller
Is in charge OF the drilling operations.
While drilling for water recently
In the Ramah section. Evon 8. Vogt
struck n vein OF coal at n depth OF
about so feet. Another vein, posslbiy
a continuance OF the first was also
struck by Albert Hagy while sinking
an arteslan well three mixes north
west OF Ramah. While the Incident is
important In It's Significance. the coai
IL not present In sufficient quantities
for mining.
The oil well OF the National Explor-
alton company, six miles south OF
buchanan has been shut down for a
few days recently. waiting for re-
pairs 10 the bull wheel. which was
broke last week. A rig builder has
been at work fixing the wheel, and
u VIII be In operation again shortly.
The officials OF the company are
hopeful Of encountering oil sand with
In the next two hundred feet.
Dispatches from Roswell state that
the machinery OF the picacho test
well near Carrizozo has been taken
TO Roswell. and the we'll abandoned.
When abandoned, the work had
a depth OF 1900 feet, the last
500 feet being in very hard lorna
ton. samples taken from the bottom
the drilling we're sent To biologists
at the universities OF Columbia AMI
and this discrimination
IL evidently the result OF their report.
Carrizozo oil men are disappointed In
the outcome OF the test well, as the
appeared quite promising.
Everything Is In readiness for the
spudding In OF the Spaulding Dome.
twenty-three miles northwest OF Fort
Sumner. and officials OF the company
expect TO begin operations the first
part OF this week. The Spaulding
Dome company possesses 3.2OO acres
land covering most favorable To-
cations on the dome. The drilling rig
which the company has erected on the