The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-26
WeUOkd Prosperous

| Special 90 The World.
WEWOKA, Feb. 90. Seminole !
county feels that It is destined to get !
on the oil and gas map Of the coun-
| try. Tests In all directions are !
blazing the way to either failure or
success.
Twenty years ago Wcwoka was q
village OF half dozen houses, both |
! business and residence. Al that time, |
November. 1901. tho first attempt |
was made to drill an oil well. That |
was on the Wowoka townsite. An |
old Tanneyhill we'll drill was used |
and but little progress was made. |
Tho Wewoka Trading company. Mt |
that time rated as one of the veal |
thiest concerns in Indian Territory. |
was financing the project. Inter- |
ostod parties Of Oklahoma city con- |
tributed somewhat. biologists were |
unknown in those days. STILL strange
to say, tho choice OF q location was |
not such n bad guess, as we will out
line further on. John w. Shartel. |
now manager of the Oklahoma |
Street Railway company. and, G. l.. |
! Long of Wewoka looked over the |
situation and picked out the low
lands OF the western part OF We
woka for the first test. After tho |
attempt with the Tanneyhill outfit |
a contract was let with some ono |
with string of heavy tools and a |
real test started. Trouble did not |
only visit the attempt, but took up
Its abode and nested with II. That
hole was abandoned at about 500
feet and tho rig built some hundred
feet farther west. That test went.
down 1900 feet. Gas was struck
and an excellent showing OF oil.
Trouble still abided with them and
for somo reason rig was erected
30 feet north of the gasser and the
drill started down. In July. 1907, Mt
1850 feet. n gushor was struck. 1t
made "A steady flow for 10 days,
throwing n five-inch stream OF oil
60 or 20 feet into Sand creek. This
was n heavy black oil of 80 per cent
gravity. The oil flowed down Sand
creek into Wewoka creek and some
one. anxious to see whether or not II
would burn, tossed match into 1t
two miles down the creek near the
Rock Island railway bridge. At that
time the price of crude oil would
startle the oil man OF today. The
best grade of Oklahoma production
was selling for AZ cents barrel,
There were no pipelines anywhere
near and tank cars We're almost un-
|, known in Indian Territory. The
Ntllt hlN'I lN III 81 lluNllI was put Oll
n pump and for two years pro-
: iduced 144 barrels a day regularly.
/ The streets were oiled and some of
/ the gins and furnaces installed oil
, burners and burned oil. II was
i. found TO be an excellent fuel Oil
| Other tests were made by the trad
I ing company, and II Is said that
s something like s150.0O0 was spent
In drilling wells. While the well
was flowing In 1907 the trading COM
pany was offered 100000 for its
! holdings. This was refused. The
offer was made by the Prairie Oil &
Gas company. Frank Chesley and
u Bob Galbraith, the people who
: opened the old Glenn pool and who
u were then rated as immensely rich
: men, took many leases in the Semi
= mole, but on account of tho titles,
. which were then practically impos-
. sible to perfect, no tests were ever
t. made by these men. At that time
i Tulsa, the oil metropolis of the
a southwest. was but village also.
y But even in those days It possessed d
y n class of men who were hustlers
: and boosters, and while other towns
. seemed TO have much the advan-
Z tage. its progressive spirit pushed II
into the city Il Is today Since that
9 time spasmodic attempts have been
!, made to bring in an oil field In
u Seminole county. In 1915 the Penn.
Z West well, six miles southeast OF
u Wewoka. was completed to some
i thing like 5000 feet and came In a
n good gasser with a good spray OF
u oil. Much excitement was created
among the oil fraternity and severa
G wells were drilled in that particular
i section but nothing developed. In
Is 1870 the Producers and Refiner'
!, company OF Tulsa completed a vel
u to the Wewoka sand in Sl-S-S for q
u b0-barrel producer. This well IL
y still producing small quantities oi
- oil and is still being pumped by The
!. company. At this time many test,
u are being made at different points
!, over the county. DR.. Rood's test II
!! 17-9-S touched the Wewoka sand a
)t 1880 feet and IL s''ut down with nj
l. estimated capacity OF four or fiv'
J. barrels an hour. The sand Is onl!
Is touched and It cannot be said tina
the well really is, The Shawnee
Wewoka Producing & Refining com
le pauy, with It's test on tho Wewok,
+ townsite, Is bailing out at 1893 fee
al with an excellent gas pressure ant
RI a good showing of OIL
" And so Il goes Wewoka, in thos
ly days composed OF but n few house
r and only one or two white men. wa
I'd the capital or the Seminole nation