The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-22
IN THE OIL FIELDS
Office, e24i VIII PECK Residence 2442
w. II. PECK
Residence 2442

rolls utr duv. Then comes about
live wells an located within hulf
Go thrDo.gun ~ q mile east ~
the first one, making from 100 to
. 200 barrels per day
Three weeks ago what ia known
aq tho Aiken well. belonging 60
/ stone r. NcMurray and located
/ run mile from the first well ana al
most due east, was brought In. MAX
iDr between 500 ana 1000 barrels
. This wuIl has been making 100 hnr-
. rolls since the first week OF rs bring
/. Ing m
Last wednesday night the Lucky
| 10 or King well, located mile duo
east OF the Aikon. was brought IN
. This well came in Unexpectedly nud
/ made around 400 barrels when the
pay had scarcely been touched.
/ Thcy aro drilling deeper and expect
t to rot % i.OOO-harrel we'll
This last well proves the field
/ FUN two miles long east and west.
This field has been defined ON tho
/ north but not 90 the south. Tom
/ ~. Slick got IN carly and now hag
| five rigs up. There are now ten
/ producing wells and 3j rigs up,
with number about rcndy to arm
| In. This crude runs a. gravity with
] faHN Ili'l NNlI ENNDlllF NhIIIf.I4ls h0-NN
now navy specifications, with an end
/ point OF dii, l75 per cent Kerosene
/ aud 20 per cent cracking gtoch
Tho first or digrovory well iu this
| field was brought I'm last Scptcm.
/ Der or October Rt about 200 barrels
/ This well vs. today making around
/ lTO barrels, Tho next well was
| brought in about October ! o ana the
/ third ono In January. All OF them
are holding UP.
The prnirie oil & Gas company
until last month had twO-lnch line
into this field and was taking all
the oil. IL has since put in n
aIx-lnch limo TO within about three
miles OF tho field and has four
inch gathering lines.
Tho western on corporation. tho
only other pipeline in the field aud
the only Independent, has loading
rack. storage, gathering lines and
facilities for handling the crude via
tank cars ana started loading out
IN tank cars about ten days ago.
This crude oil H. so valuable to small
roflnors that II is greatly I'm demand
and tho Western on corporation
scored point by getting In on the
ground floor. IL has the pro-
contracted for over a year.
Four weeks ago Pioneer. Texas,
was q road -CrossinR stop fpr. the
one train each way day onsthc
Cross plains branch. a depot sec
ton house and two or threc small
cottages on Main street. which Is
that portion OF the highway passing
by the postoffiCc, and perhaps 90 in
habitants, including the farmers In
tho vicinity, constituted tho littlo
village. Two weeks ago yesterday "A
. visitor to the village would have run
into between $500 and 1000 people
on this Main street. and Main street
was built up almost solid for dis
, tance OF three blocks with shacks
cottages and business houses OF al
DESCRIPTIONS. A lot 90 by l20 on this
street sold for Si,500.
a Soldier OF fortune" from Ran
. ger and Eastland Immediately land
ed at Pioneer, paid $4,000 for 9
3O-acro cotton patch across the raj
Y | road from Main street. put survey
0 ors on tho ground. laid out an ad'
! dtion aud had the streets graded
, lie has sold number of the lots
1 from this field Mt from S30O to $500
4 each. An Eastland hotel man tore
4, down his 40-room hotel at Eastland
\ and shipped II into Pioneer. An
! other bunch Is now erecting n 100.
5 room hotel, built over about half q
- block OF ground. Two large 20.
q room "Blll Hart" rooming lunch,
. dancing hotels have been In opera
tion FOR about three weeks. These
places do IL thriving business al
night There Is perhaps no place ~
the country whero the wild frontier
town capitalized by bin Hart is sC
Q viyidly portrayed as at Pioneer TO-
n day
II Tho farmers in this particular ter
\ rltory have always been used 4
O. hard times" II IS a matter of gen
e cral knowledge that out IN this west
~ orn, sandy, dry portion of Texas
c crop every five years is all that cal
g be expected Farmers. therefore
10 could not be expected TO be prosper
'e Gus, Wells have been brought In ol
d several farms. and when we'll get
D. close to tho sand the farmers an
IN their families for miles around con
Is Eregatc at the well. some OF thCI
with children I'm their arms, and re
!" main there eight TO "a hours at
~, time, waiting for the fateful rosul
a., II Is a genuine pleasure to see thcs
I'M Old people getting rich. althoug
o. many of them won't know what
do with their money when the
get H.
ha with the bringing IN OF tho Ia
is well last week the boom was on an
at lit Is possible that 1t will grow
h. enormous proportions In the ne!