, 1922-12-14
To Drill SMILE
LAKE STRUCTURE
COMPANY ORGANIZED To DEVELOP
FIELD WHERE BOTH OIL and GAS
ARE KNOWN TO EXIST

AS o as weather permits. prob
ably about May /, but not later than
June /. work will be resumed on the
Eight-Mile lake structure located, as
its name implies. s miles from Raw
Inns, and a deep test well drilled
which those who are backing the
new company which has just beer or
ganized for this purpose feel certain
will definitely prove that a vas pool
of oil lies untapped underneath the
ground which they have acquired.
Personnel OF Company
This newly organized company is
the Hatfield Oil Company. incorpor-
ated for 800 900. with the follow
ing officers and directors: President,
F. II. Hatfield; vice-president. H. E.
McFarland: secretary treasurer,
George NJ. Bergen. These three are
ex-officio members of the board OF
directors, to which are added the
names OF C. l.. Haines. N. r. Green
field and T. w. Craig. The corpora
ton has five sections of land under
lease, two of them being railroad
land and three belonging to the fed
eral government. Under the terms
of these leases work must begin on
or before June /, 1923. 1t is pro-
posed to locate the we'll on Section
s-lJ-oo, Wultu ID CONtItu ny Tic XIV.
eminent permit and which is pro-
nounced by biologists to be an ex-
tremely favorable site.
History Of Structure
This Eight-Mile structure, as It Is
called has an interesting history. In
1913 a we'll was drilled near the
present holdings OF the Hatfield COM
pany under the supervision OF
BILLY" Armstrong, who later took a
prominent part in the development
OF the Bair field and who made a
huge fortune in discovering oil in
the Rock Creek field. Oil was en-
countered at 1900 feet and the tools
pulled, but this proved to be a
pocket" although at one time 400
feet of oil stood in the casing. The
well was then drilled to a depth of
$500 feet A series of disheartening
mishaps finally caused the abandon
ment OF the we'll after an attempt
had been made to put It on The pump.
1t was found that the hole was too
small and continual caving at last
caused the promoters to decide that
they had better quit.
American Oil Co.
In 1914 the American OIL COM
pany made a second attempt to pene-
trate the lower sands at a point one
and one quarter miles southeast OF
the previous we'll. but still. as It de-
veloped later. off the zeal structure.
The drill reached the bottom of the
wall creek sands but struck an i'm
mense flow OF gas instead OF the ex-
pected oil. This gas showed a rock
pressure OF 1900 pounds and was
estimated co%nservatively at 2O.00O,-
900 feet.
The same company in the follow
ing year made another attempt to
drill this structure and sunk a well
4440 feet in the remarkable time OF
80 days and this time the result was
n real dry hole" II wes found
that the site chosen was well outside
the structure and In the dip"
Two years & this entire field was
plane tabled by one of the country's
most competent oil biologists and It
was then definitely determined hat
the first mentioned we'll where oil
was discovered. was at least n
quarter Of n mile outside the well
defined structure and that the Sec
ond well. the gaSser. was about tho
same distance. while the third was
entirely outside the limits and
abandoned for that reason.