The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-20
Correspondent Says
This Is the Next
Pool in Arkansas
Special TO The World

special TO The World.
MONTICELLO, Ark, Dec. IL
The visit OF Jack Mobley, the we'll
known oil man, to Tulsa, where. IL
is reported. he Is TO confer with for
mor partners and associates Is be-
ing watched with much interest by
others engaged I'm drilling near this
city. Mobley has an oil woll mile
and half east of this city. His
statement that he has as much as
a 50O-barrel well IL suhstautiatcd
by other authorities in the petroleum
world who have been watching the
bailer I'm Mobley's well bring mp live
OIL However, Mobley has not Ce-
montod his casing. lie put IL down
In gumbo, thinking to keep out the
water sand, and he has not been
successful in that respect.
It is said that Mobley was re-
quested by Tulsa interests, I'm the
event his test warranted It, to place
the result before his friends In the
Oklahoma oil metropolis. Jack, It
Is understood. did not wait to wire.
but caught the first train and went
to Tulsa, whore. II is said. he Will
enter into thorough and detailed
account Of his operations here. A
great crowd watched Moblev bail
his well last week. Every trip the
bailer made brought up live oil, but
II also showed that water was drip
ping into the hole and Il was impos-
sible, Mobley asserted, to make a
test OF oil and water at the same
time.
There's just one way. to do this
thing and that Is do II right" he
said. II will have to pull that four
inch casing, get siX-inch, set 1t I'm
lat 10
ten days and then bring In the well. ."
There have been rumors from
time TO time that Tulsa capital
would, in the. event the facts made
II worth while, get Interested In the
local field, and while Mobley did no,
state the exact object Of his visit
or indicate whom he was to confer
with in Tulsa, It Is believed. never
theless. that there Is possibility
of Tulsa capital taking a slice ir
Drew county development.
The same trouble that Nobley OK
perienced was also encountered nj
the test DR.. Samuel r. Busey
credited with bringing In the dis
covery" well i'm the El Dorado field
is making eight miles northwest ol
Monticello, and If Busey desires 20
test later he, too, will have to ce
ment.
Another Oklahoman got into the
oil game here last week whpn T.. !.
Lasby OF oklahoma City signed a
contract to drill teHt well about
six miles south OF here. Mr.. Lasby
has been here for the past TWO
weeks, going over the county and
making a careful study of the en-
tire territory. He encounter I, n
said, a most excellent crosSt'l
structure, resembling the now noted
Haynesvllle field. and he q conii-
dent he will get production \ CON
been made Mr.. Lasbv received hi,
company, which blocked up ma
jority of the territoy and has ,hus
let 10 dilling contracts. OF that
number nine derricks have been
erected and four wells are under
way,
q. c. Graves well known In oil
circles in oklahoma. has also con
tracted to put down test wll about
five miles east Cf the Bus"y block.
Graves, IL Ia said, organized tn
company tha, laid out the townslte
of Oakgrove a few miles from tn 81,
IL Is also said he later orga 1l2cd an
oil company capitalized at $1,000. %
600 and which operated successfully
I'm Oklahoma and Texas. TEe com
Pany IL reputed to have paid four
dividends and Is still doing basil
ness controlling. according TO
Graves, $4,000 acres in five states.
Graves present home is in st. Louis.
Capital from that city and New