The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-02-15
Reports This Morning State Badgctt
Brothers, Contractors Making
Hole Rapidly on Harness
Farm, South Of City
NEW WELL AT CEMENT
PROMISES EXTENSION
r. and o. Test Northeast OF Town
HIts 1900 Foot Sand: Looks
Like Pay; Claim 10 Feet
unbrokcn Sand

Badgott Brothers. drilling for tho
English Drilling company on tho
Harness farm In the northwest Of
tho southwest OF tho southeast OF
section 1851 Is making a hole In
earnest today.
Word from the well. eight miles
south OF Chickasha. this morning
was TO tho effect that they set tho
surface casing at about 100 feet
last night, having found a sand rock
formation making substantial scat
for this pipe.
The log OF the Rock Crock well.
which Is TO be watched closely in tho
drilling OF this test, shows that aside
from lime rock formation at
around $50 feet, thoy are to encoun.
ter no hard digging short OF 1000
feet. This prompts the belief that
progress will be rapid at the English
iost and IL is expected that by the
end of the week they will be down
500 feet, at which denth they expect
to put on the core barrel and test
the formations carefully between
500 and 800 feet.
Tho plan is to watch for the re-
ported oil sand, six feet In thickness.
as shown by the Rock Greek log to
be about $50 feet. If this sand shows
good for producer of as much as
10 barrels day. a Star rig IS to be
put in and drilled to that depth. in
dependent of the big rotary opera.
tlons. The tools being used at pres
egt would deepen the well for test
oi at least 1850 feet.
This well is being drilled Just 600
feet north Of the old Rock Creek To-
cation, as Is Just one location north
of the north line of the Rock Creek
Many Chickasha people
own Rock Creek lots and since the
starting OF the English well, a search
of musty records and files has been
made here, there being o nossibiily
of value in investments long since
forgotten.
New Cement Sand
That new sand at a new depth
ami in new territory Of the Cement
field is prospective producer, is in
dicated in the report from the r. and
B. Oil company's well in the southeast
of the southwest of section 35-6n-9w
where the picked up what apparent
ly is the pay at 1902 feet.
They had foot Of sand at that
depth, then a foot Of shale, then an'o'
other foot Of sand, alternating again9i
with a foot of shale. At this point,
reports state, they went into solid
sand and rat tailed 10 feet in it
WlJUOub DTctk. IL ID bHUWlHB Oh
and some gas and the owners OF the
well claim that 1t will be good for
a real we'll when cleaned out
This we'll is northeast Of the town
of Cement and OH the north slope
of the divide that runs northwest
and southeast through the Cement
field The majority of the wells along
the strip that forms the proven ter
ritory at Cement, are on the south
slope Of the divide.
In the event that the f.. and B.
well proves to be good producer at
this depth, shallower approximately
500 feet than the regular pay sand
of the field, it will boom develop
ment and extend the field more than
mile in territory heretofore un-
developed.
The f. and B. test Is now shut
down for casing which they expect
to set at their present depth and
give their showing q thorough test.