The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-02
Greenwood County, Kansas,
COMING into It's Oun

EUREKA, Kan, Nov Perhaps
whatever glory attaches 90 Green
wood county Kansas. may be re-
Elected from the brlllianco that
flooded Butler county, Immediately
adjoining II on the weet but the
county Is gradually coming to have a
reflection OF its own since Butler
county has been declining. About
six years ago tho Jones brothers Of
Independence. Kan. operating os
tho Great southern OIkCOmp1ug bee
gan drilling In the Sa!,yards neigh
horhood in the southwestern part of
Greenwood county with little fuss,
and soon had "A very nice production
OF high grade oil. attracting the at
teut.On Of the Tidnl OIL company ot
Tulsa and they sold "A half-lnterest
In the property. Probably sixty
wells have been completed In the
-~allyarda pool for production OF
about three thousand barrels daily
Some OF the reporters include In the
Sallyards district the FoN-Bush and
which district is credited with daily
production Of about twenty thousand
barrels This classification Is, per-
haps. somewhat confusing 20 many
people.
From 1917 for year or 40 several
Colorado ana other promoters tried
10 develop production in Greenwood
county but failed OF their cXpcctl-
tious and suspended work, which
may have given the county "a kind Of
black eye. Discovery of phenomenal
pools OF oil In oklahoma, TcXas,
Louisiana and Arkansas left tho
smaller wells and less spectacular
results Of this county away back in
the shade. ana tho slump OF crude
oil down TO 81 completed the quiet
ude that hung over GreenwOod.
Fun OF financial v!gor from It's
euccess in Butler county. the Empire
Gas & Fuel Go. slipped across tho
line in the northwestern corner Of
Greenwood three years ago and
opened the Tecter pool, nearly a
year elapsinB before much produce
ton developed. Fifty-threc wells are
now producing IN tho Tcetor pool
for total daily production OF about
200 barrels.
Near the ccnter Of the county on
the east side tho Virgil pool was dis
covered about the same time as the
Teeter pool and somewhere near a
| hundred producing wells have been
drilled along tho Ncrdigris river for
some miles, Woodson county claim
| Ing a third, probably, OF the produc-
| tion. which may be four thousand
or five thousand barrels: but tho
| Virgil wells are not as productive as
| those on the west side OF the county
coming from different levels In part
and some OF the oil is not quite as
good as tho north and west side
crude.
Othcr Pools.
The Rurkett pool, between the
Virgil and tho Thrall pools, has 10
wells. the Seeley pool, a little to tho
northeast, has wells, and the
| Thrnll pool has lust completed its
| tenth producer without any failures.
| Near Madison, in the north central
part OF the countyya few scattered
wells have been completed, ono OF
the latest being the Minnehoma OIL
| company. which Is pumping about
| 45O barrels after four months and
/ II has attracted the attention of
/ leasers
dust Year ago c. r. Roth OF In.
| dependence. kan agreed To drill n
! test well IS miles north OF Eureka
| for halt-intcrcst IN 1850 acres.
| The tenth we'll ON this tract was
| completed this week, With no fall
uros, ana the daily production Is
now $500 barrels, This has been
| a rather exceptional development
and most leasers and operate ors who
| visit Greenwood county to give It the
| once over look over the Thrali pool
owned by G. y. Roth and william
Faurot and the Mission oil com-
| pary
4 little southwest Of the Roth
/ wells $. j. Paulhamus OF Bartlcsyille
| leased block and drilled IA light
we'll, following II with three othcrs
/ that pump about two hundred bar
/ rels each up on the west slope OF
| the Fan river. lie sold an eighty to
| the Mid Kansas oil Il Gas Co. (Ohio
Oh company, which just completed
| its firs, well offsetting the Paul
| hamus No. 4, also just completed,
both wells looking to be as good as
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