The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-01
oil Constitutes FHtB-ORe Per
Cent Of Santa Fe Business

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PONCA CITY. Nov 30.--Ir re-
drced freight rates aH the products
Of oil are brought about ag the re-
suit Of requests being made at tho
present time by oil refiners tho
Marlnnd Refining company Of Ponca
city viii start Immediately upon
further enlargement of the PonCa
CITY plant with the intention tf
turning out n greatly Increased total
OF such products and also OF maxi
ing tho local plant the most eXtcn-
Hivc in the entire Mid-C Continent
iicld. This is n scmiuftcial an
nou1cemont Of tho company.
II has boon known for some time
that the Marland company has been
contemplating still further increases
in the ronCa city plant. Tho Off
cialA believe this IL justified from
the fact that this h the center of
the greatest light oil production
chat which makes the most gaso-
linc) in America. aud that the pres
Cnt production aud reserves of the
company within this district Eupran-
tee "a supply for many years to come.
II developed, at "a recent meeting
In Houston, that 81 per cent ot the
freight business of tho Santa fe
Railway company Is derived from
POLL and oil products during the past
ten mouths and that ponca City n
responsible for a big portion OF that
business. being the greatest business
producing industry for the railroad
on its entire system. that Pcnca
| city business has been greater dur
Ing that period than that Of wichita
| oklahoma City and Guthrie COM
| bined,
TO Take over Refinery.
| Announcement comes from Paw
| huska that tho refinery there. which
| has been shut down for some time.
win be taken over by Messrs. Ward,
! Hawley and buchanan and will be
roopened in the near future, with
| II. T.. Smith In charge as superin-
! tendent, The announcement follows
! the visit to pawhuskn OF q. B, Ward
of Kansas city, Mo. ono OF the trio
| who win take IL over. II Is am
nounced that oil contracts have been
| made and that a pipeline viii CoI-
meet with the plant with wells MIR,
! Hawley also goes to pawhuska from
Gushing to be associated with the
plant,
Total production OF the Deer
Creek pool of eastern Grant county
amounts to 222 barrels at tho pres
cut time. OF which the Prairie oil Il
Gas Co. has l35 barrels. Wells that
were drilled to the 3,300-foot sand
produced satisfactorily for a time
and then went down and tho ma
iOrity OF them are now being deep
encd TO the Marland sand, which is
found at $500 feet, in the south
Ponca field.
The No. 3 Martin we'll OF the Kay
oil company continues to produce
around seven hundred gallons OF
casinghead gasoline daily and q
considerable flow OF gas Th,
company is selling .the gasoliu,
at So per drum OF 90 gallons. Th,
crude oil from this well, the frs
tank Of which was sold recently, hal
"A gravity of as, believed to be th'
highest gravity oil In the Mid Cont
mont.
The fourth attempt To find oil 81
tha Niclnity ct Was!ts. ~ GCrta
western Grant county. ended during
tho past week when tho casing WA
, pulled from the wildcat test on III,
Holtsclaw farm, two miles south %
Wakita. and the rig torn down
, Tho we'll had reached a depth q
1885 feet and no one could be fount
to take over the contract 80 drIl
to 1000 feet waldo 4 RuckliI
, Idrllled the wildcat and are moVini
the casing 10 the wildcat recent!
started by waldo. CroNton and 9th
ers on the crosby farm four mile
west OF billings IN western Nobl'
. county, where a depth of Hrouu,
, eight hundred feet has been reached