The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-01-08
LIVE OIL NEWS OF CENTRAL AND
WESTERN FIELDS
a Resume of All Important Opera
tiOns in. the New Mexico and West
Texas Districts


again shows brighter outlook; two
wells make good oil showing, end a
third we'll has been spudded in for
"a deep test
a party of spectators from Tu-
cumcari recently visited the Drip
ping Springs we'll, which is located
on spur OF thc Byzantine anticline|
near the south end of Union county
and report That much oil las flowed
from the we'll and that parGfine is
an evidence in considerable quanti-
tics. The we'll has lain DORMANT for
some time, hut work on it will be re-
shmed at once according to the in
formation obtained. ''i
a second sand with good satura-
tiun is reported i'm the Buffalo Syn
dicate well at a little below eight
hunderd feet, Drilling has been sus-
pended for some weeks but the COM
pany has made financial arrange
ments for completing deep test,
and drilling is again resumed. The
prospect for commercial oil in the
deeper sands is very promising.
Activity at Artesia
The Allison oil Company of TT.
Worth Texas. "spudded h' their
we'll at PasamOnte last Thursday.
and after some further work is done
in placing the equipment will pro-
ceed steadily and the company ex-
poets to drill a thirty-five foot test
unless commercial oil is found at
a lesser depth This result is pre-
dicted by all geologists who have
worked the anticline
Reports from Artesia indicate that
the place is still in turmoil of eX-
citement since oil gushed over the
derrick at the Illinois Producers
when it was shot with three charges
of nitrOglycerinG the day before
Christmas. The largest quantity of
oil gushed at the fourth shot, and
while il is not a flowing we'll it is
estimated at about fifty barrels per
day, and The company is now build
ing its second tank As the well is
near the railroad arrangements are
being made to convey the oil direct
to the tank cars on the track
The Kansas New Mexico Oil Co.,
located about six miles from the
above well, found oil at 6l2 feet,and
this we'll also will be shot as soon
as the explosives are secured by the
company, and il is believed to be a
commercial well at the present time
if put on the pump.
Danciger Brothers at Gallup
The Danciger Bros. of Tulsa, Ok
lahOma, have purchased a large
tract of leases in the Gallup field and
have contracted To- drill test well
on each section. The field is proving
a good producer of shallow oil at
$50 to 600 feet, and a number of
companies arc securing leases there
and preparing to build a pipe limo
for marketing the oil. II is interest
ing TO note that the Danciger Bros.
spent their childhood days at Taos,
New Mexico, leaving ther about ~
years ego for Tulsa, Oklahoma, and
went into the oil business in HE
Oklahoma fields. Today their COM
pauy sknown in practically every
producing field in the United States
inG recently they have invested in
the Gallup field, which Is not far
from their fOi mer home.
Liberal, Kansas, Field
The Traders Well west of Liberal
is 'oemented in at 300 feet, and the
gas pressure at last reports was as
strong as when it. was first struck
1t is believed that this we'll will pro-
s dpce commercial oil, but may not
b. opened until spring The Trader
oompany's No. 1 we'll on the Bunting
farm is being drilled with a large
rotary rig and is going down rapidly.
A third equipment for drilling has
arrived and is ''On track at Liberal,
but the drilling location on which
ii will be placed has not been given
out.
Eiiasyille. located about 30 miles
southwest OF Wichita Fails. is the
latest big gusher field TO be opened
in Texas, and it is believed by many
oil men that this field win be as
important or probably greater than
Breckenridge OF hanger. Large and
small companies, independent oper-
ators. and oil scouts are gathering
rapidly into the field and many
wells are drilling, and a number of
large producers have been brought
in Among the large companies in
lerested TO date are: The Dutch
Shell Co. of Holland; American and
North American Roxiana; Oklaho-