The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-01-29
OIL Fraternity Keeping Close Tab on
Cannon and Tuttle Wells; Both
Near Production Depth
and "Look Good"
CUTTINGS FROM CANNON
SHOW GUMB0 AND SHALE
Al TuttIe Work 10 to Start Monday
After Weeks Shut Down; Com.
pany has TIekeIIsh Job
In Finishing Well


In Grady county. two stand out II
the center OF the stage. drawing the
full glare OF the spotlight at thii
time and decidedly shading III,
others as concerns the interest oi
oilers. local and otherwise.
These two wells are the tests Of
the Cannon Drilling company near
Bradley in section 2-i.5 and OF the
Tuttle Oil company. a mile and a
half south OF Tuttle In section 1896,
being nearly equal In depth the local
oil fraternity's interest is drawn
first TO one, thcn the other and pill.
grimages are being made a'most
daily to both places by those in
Chickasha who keep In touch with
the oil game"
The Cannon Cuttings.
Tom Cannon. the wild Irishman.
who is boss OF the Cannon com
pany's well. was in the city this
morning and brought with him a
bundle OF cuttings. taken from the
bottom OF tho hole at 1864 feet.
These cuttings have been placed on
display at the Daily Express office
where they are being viewed by
numbers OF the wise ones as well as
novices.
These cuttings show practically
perfect chocolate shale. blu, gumbo
and sandy shale. Parts OF the gumbo
are greenish In hue and when the
cuttings were first brought in, being
fresh from the well, a trace OF sui
phur could. be noticed. The texture
of the gumbo is especially fine
grained, being nearly as smooth as
talcum when dry and and the con
census of opinion is that the offer
ings "look good'
Il don't know whether we will get
well at our present location or
not said Mr.. Cannon. 81 do know
formations and | know that what we
have is contaner for the oil that
we are after We may strike 1t dry,
but somebody is going to find a big
oil pool under just such formations
as we are drilling in now"
Tuttle To Resume Work.
For week the drill has been
idle at the test Of the Tuttle com
pany. They shut down week ago
today when ]. f. Thomas, a director
of the company, who died last Mon->
day was taken critically i'll.
DR.. A. e. Hennings, one of the
Tuttle company's directors stated
yesterday when seen in Tuttle, that
work would bo started on next Mon
day. He talked freely of the pro.
gress of the we'll, stating that delay
In procuring a needed tool had held
up operations the latter part Of this
week.
eve expect to be going by Mon
day. said Dr. Hennings. "We are
down 1900 feet with the bottom OF
the hole and have carried the ream-
ing job to around 1900 feet. We are
faced with peculiar situation. We
think we have some kind of gas
we'll at 1900 feet. That is mmdded off.
We can set nothing larger than six
and five eights inch casing, as our
hole is only nine inch one. If we
set this size casing, and then have
to go deeper, we may have trouble.
II we clean the well out now with
out setting casing and have fair
sized gas well, its pressure may
tear the sides Of the hole up and
ruin it. We are trying now to figure
out some way Of getting an IDEA Of
what we really have at the bottom
of the hole without either setting
casing or pumping the mud out of
the whole and washing. We believe
we have it solved. The coming week
should tell us something"