The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-28
In the Oil Fields
Location Mate for wildcat
Test on Bar l. Ranch
Of MHieys

PUMA tIl1, Aplil E4.-A lOtd-
ton has been made by the Comar
OH company on the Bar l. ranch
of the Miller brothers at a point IL
miles south OF pOnca city. The test
ig on the Buffalohead allotment
uOuCI Iudian) in 12-2i-3e and In
what is known as the big bond Of
the Arkausns river. II Is under
stood that the Marland interests. OF
which the Comar is ono, have an ex-
tcusi,o acreage In the bend and also
across the river north In tho south-
western portion Of Usage county.
Tho Bar l. is one of tho 101 ranch
holdings.
This makes tho twelfth test for
the ponca and Otoc Indian coun-
try south Of the Salt Fork river,
really the boundary line between
Kay ana Noble counties. The White
Nula allotment test OF the Gypsy
OH company Gin the Otoe) In north
west 2i-22-io Is one Of the most
important Hud is now drilling at
close TO $500 feet. oil men believe
that this test viii get tho oil sand at
5000 10 400 feet, as compared with
the same sand at $500 feet in the
wells north Of Morrison In the Otoe
country in township 23-3 east. They
maintain there is a dip OF approxi-
mntcly five hundred feet within that
distance. II is argued. I'm this con-
ncctlon that the 2,lO0 foot producing
sand IN the South Ponca field be-
comes the 1900 foot producer in the
Bllss-Tonkawa about fifteen miles
farther west.
Phillips Gets Acreage.
Tho Phillips Petroleum company,
which Is securing acreage in various
portions of the northern oklahoma
field and drilling in several OF them.
has recently taken over n big block
In the territory Just east of Dexter
Kan, and extending on eastward to
IIooser. IL ~ said that only very
few landholders within that block
have withheld their acreage. Two
new oil tests are now being drilled
near Dexter { In Cowley county, on
tho William Rodcliffe and George
Branson farms. A pocket OF gas was
encountered Mt 1000 feet, the past
week. In tho Radcliffe test. and re-
port has It that four additional wells
are 10 be started. at least one on the
Phillips acreage.
business Increase at Ponca.
oil shipments have increased TO
HUtH IN extent from lUt lbilfd Wy
refining plants that the Santa Fe
railway company has been forced to
put n second swltching crew In the
yards to handle the business at
nights. In this connection It is an
nounced that the Santa Fe receipts
locally for March this year exceeded
those OF March, 1921, by s65,000,
thus giving an indication of the bus
iucss increase.
The Globe oil company OF Dem
yer. which according ts recent an
nouRcemont had decided to aban-
don tho wildcat test on the Lind
sey farm In 34-2S-2e, two miles
southwest of Newkirk. has made an
Arrangement with the citizens of
| NewkirlS whereby tho test will be
deepencd. II is understood that
Nowkirls people have put up $4,000
for this purpose. Tho holo is 3,64O
feet deep with n showing of oil. a
crooked hole is said to have made
tho Denver concern determine TO
abandon tho test.
John McCaskey. OF tho McCaskey-
Wentz company OF Ponca City. has
been so critically Ill at his home IN
Pittsburgh. Pa, recently that Mr..
Wentz was called from Ponca City
to his bedside. The illness was very
sudden, caused by n poison OF some
nature. McCaskey-We hold ex-
tcnsive producing areas in this coun-
ty and also in Texas.