The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-04
TOOLS ARE BEING
MOVED FOR 0,C. ".
WELL BY NICH[0S
Test Mile South OF Country Club to
Get Going Soon; Rig Completed
and Machinery Being Placed
on Ground.
CONCORD OFFICERS TO
START COURTNEY WELL
Survey Land. Make Four Locations;
oropan Starts This Week; Watts
struby Build Rig; Other
Wells Starting.

I OUlN NIt Utiik ~ ht'tt
bs the Nichlos Oil and Drilling COM
pany for the new test located a mile
and a half south OF Chick -ha, on
the Bledsoe farm in the southeast
% the southeast OF section S'6n-7w.
This well has been designated by
]. B. Nichlos, manager OF the COM
pany. as the 20. c. w. Well,' In
honor OF the Oklahoma College for
Women, from the campus of which
school the derrick can be seen.
Just when the well will be snud'
ded has not been determined, but Mr..
Nlchlos states that the work OF rig
ging up the tools will go forward as
rapidly as possible. He expects the
start to be made in the next few
days.
Officers OF the Concord Oil COM
pany of Oklahoma City, are In the
city preparing to start their well on
the Courtney farm in the northwest
quarter of section 3S-5n-Sw. The
land will be surveyed and four loca-
tions made. Tools are to be moved
in at once. The location is north
west from the proven gas area and
lies almost directly between the gas
sars and the Cement field.
Grogan ct al, will start their Jiggs
No. in the southwest, southwest
of 22.5n-sw this week. Needed re-
pairs prevented their spudding
earlier.
other Tests Starting.
Preparations are going steadily
forward for additional tests in the
territory bordering on the gas area
in Grady county southwest OF Chick
asha, opened by the Nichlos MAN.
moth gasser and subsequent wells,
in section 26-5n-Sw.
Activity in the wildcat and semi
wildcat areas points to an ever IN
creasing number of tests. Among
these, and one which will be watch
ed closely, is the test of Watts and
STURDY in the northwest of the
southeast of section 4-5n-Sw They
have the derrick practically COM
pleted and are moving in tools. 1t
is to be $500 foot test with rotary
tools.
The test lies across four sections
northwest Of the Nichlos gasser and
is some three and half miles east
and north of the southeast extern
sion Of the Cement field.
Others pres,r to go northeast OF
the Nichlos area, which takes the
prospectors toward the Harness dis
trict where small well was drilled
in more than year ago. West Of
Ninnekah two miles, Fred Lugin-
byhl has spudded in section 32-6n-
NV. They intend to "feel' for the
Nichlos sand at from 1900 feet to
1850, but failing in this, will drill
at least to the depth of the Cement
sand
In the territory north and west
of Agawam, other tests are reported
to be getting ready to drill. The To-
cations have not been definitely an
nounced. There are well grounded
reports of tests to be drilled in the
near future between Chickasha and
the gas field and it is known that
another well is planned for terri
tory Immediately west of Chickasha.
There is every prospect that by the
middle of November, dozen new
wildcats will be plugging away in
territory extending from Chickasha
south and west to below the Nichlos
gas field.