The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-14
ARDMORE IS HUB
Of development
IN NEWEST POOL
Amerada Announces They
Will go Deeper; Tests Be-
ing Made on All Sides
Of City.

With production figures revealing
that q total of 1910 barrels of better
than "a gravity oil has been put into
the tanks resultant of the yield of the
first sand drilled through in the Amer.
ada discovery well in section 20, 5s-1e,
near Brock. and with the finding cf
second sand estimated as u 5O-barrel
pumper, all doubts as to the existence
OF a new Carter county field in the
vicinity of the Criner Hills has been
authoritatlvely removed, and Ardmore
may without hesitancy prepare for
rapid Increase in its population and
commercial activities.
Two facts Of more than ordinary
interest have been established by the
discoveries made thus far in the Amer
ada well, first of which is the rich
yield of the top sand which only had
a thickness of five feet--l312-17 feet
but which nevertheless put large
amount of Gil into storage during the
brief periods it was bailed prior to
being cased off to permit drilling for
q deeper pay. The second fact of in
terest is the reverse of the first, name
ly that with a thickness Of 81 feet
1371-l42S feet--the production as
swabbed was only three barrels per
punper.
No DiscOuragement
The richness of the first sand dem.
onstrates for itself its possibilities and
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make pay well if completed there.
The second sand does not in any man.
ner tend to he a source of discourage
ment, for it indicates that in another
part of the structure 1t will yield
much greater production.
Sidney Powers, chief geoogist with
the Amerada company who has stud.
led the Criner anticline more closely
than has any other man, has express.
ed similar opinion relative to the
second sand as it exists elsewhere on
the structure, and after close examina.
ton OF the nature OF the sand, which
is Of a fine quartz quality, was rath-
er surprised in that its yield in the
discovery well was not greater. He
believes that a shot might increase
production.
Amerada to Go Deeper
The Amerada peopel intend to OK
plore for still deeper pay, and with
this in view, are running the SIS
inch casing to shut out the second
sand will be found, a belief substan.
tiated by finds in other fields Of Car.
ter county with particular reference
to the Hewitt area where prolific
sands are encountered ranging from
1900 to 1900 feet in large radius Of
territory.
Find Is F0rerunner
The Amerada people intend to ex-
the fcrerunner of others which can
truly be prophesied will occur this
year and perhaps within the near
future. 1t can safely be said that
there is more activity in Carter coun-
~ oil circles at the present time than
in any other part OF the state and
perhaps in any other part Of the
country relative to radius of area in
which more than fifteen tests are now
ritory. The proven areas are not be-
ing neglected during the play for
new pools as is evidenced by test
drilling off the edges In an effort to
extend the fields. as Is the case in
the Fox, Graham. and Hewitt pools.
while at Healdton q deep test now go
Ing down Is exploring in that dis
trict.
Ardmore Is Hub
Ardmore Is vitality interested in
practically all operations now under
way. for the tests surround this city
on all sides. On the east drilling IL go.
ing on three miles from the borders
OF Ardmore. A test will son be drilling
five miles south of the city. Eight
miles TO the ncrth. between Spring
and Berwyn. operation il now in pro.
gress on well. and 10 the west
northwest and southwest are the prov
en- fields playing for extension, and
new tests closer to Ardmore building
rigs and ready TO spud in.Ardmore Is
the hub OF activity.
Restoration of confidence on the
part of the oil men In market stabil.
ity of crude oil and its products, and
on the part OF the big financial inter.
csts In legitimate oil enterprises, has
been the chief factor In the revival
OF operations. Purchasers OF the crude
have been building storage continual.
ly. despite slow market for refined