The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-18
Active at Blackwell.
10 Tho World

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Active at Blackwell.
Special 10 The World,
BLACKWELL. Jan. LITTLE
blackwell field In rapidly getting
back on the mai as the scon0 Of
much oil activity. Within the last
30 days. more leases have been TAX
en-, acreage bought and sold, loca
tons made and contracts executed
for oil well material than In three
years. Almost the entire country
from a mile south of the city, lying
on the east side OF the Blackwell
Tonkawa highway TO a connection
with the TUnkawa road and then
southwest to within five or six
miles northeast OF Billings, IL now
under lease. Most OF the desirable
acreage has been sold At figures
ranging from s400, $1,000 and up to
So, 400 per quarter section bonus, be-
sides the regular yearly lease rental
Four separate groups arc interested
In the acreage recently acquired,
Marland. McCaskey a. Wentz. the
Blackwell Oil a. Gas Co, and Tulsa
parties. Before 90 days n score or
more OF rigs will be up and an active
drilling campaign i~naugurated.
An important location Is reported
made by Marland on the Gillespie
farm, the northeast quarter Of IA
26-iw, four miles southeast OF
Blackwell. Should production be
had. II will connect up the Black
well field and the Tonkawa area.
The location Is reported on a we'll
defined structure, passed on u mum
Der of years ago by Professor Could.
former state geologist, who declared
~ TaRN.anNfAA ANFAnhAn IN NlnHhnF
and Billings.
The Alcorn oil company, one OF
the Marland subsidiaries. secured .
lease Saturday on the east half OF
the southwest quarter of 1l-26-lW.
The Gypsy company secured a lease
last summer of the southeast quar-
ter OF 1l-26-1w. The two leases are
near the Gillespie tract.
Boresma & Wilson are running
three strings of tools and VIII drlll
tests on the Avery. east half of 81
29-iw and the snyder farm, north
west quarter Of 33-29-l. Tho same
company has Just completed drilling
In a shallow gas well on the Avery
farm, getting production from IN
sand at g30 feet. The production
/ has been turned into the line OF the
Empire Fuel company.
The Spencer Petroleum company
has bought a new National drilling
machine and will put down a ties,
on the northwest corner of the old
Beaver form. north half Of the
southwest quarter OF 32-29-lw.
The National Union oil & Gas Co.
il moving in a star rig TO drill for
shallow gas on the north half OF the
Long farm, northwest quarter OF
29-2s-1.
Tonkawa has been put on the map
as a shallow gas area, The McMan
OIL company IL reported 10 nave
| found a nice commercial sand at 80
feet, while drilling on the Nc
| Daniels farm, the southwest quarter
OF 26-2l-lw.
Local oil men regard the purchaNe
NJ the southwest 40 acres of the
| McDaniels farm. northeast OF me
southeast Of 27-2J-1, by the Black
we'll Oil &c Gas Co, as n or inc
best deals this year. There are Two
wells drilling, one south ana th'
| other northeast, n quarter mile ais
tant from the lease, while the shaI-
low gas found in the well or the
| McMan Oil company, is but a nan
mile away.
work ia expected 20 commence
| within three weeks at laying the "
inch pipeline from Blackwell 10 inc
Tonkawa production area Dy my
| Hope Engineering company winch
was given the contract by the Back
well on a Gas Co. The line Is l6
miles i'm length and the estimated
| cost will be around $4,000. .
Garrett Waite Of tho Blackwell
| OIL g. Gas Co. has returned rom 4
trip to Mexia, Texas. Whlle there
he met Colonel HUMPHREYS, VINO
drilled in the discovery well IN thar
area. He was told by Colonel
| Humphries that present production
ON his Mexia holdings averaged ~
600 barrels daily and that by the
first of the yea the amount woulu
be raised to 100000. Before return
Ing home Mr.. waite stopped al
Co~rsicana and met Doctor raves
president of the Deep Sand OIL q
Gas Co., in which a number or loca
ueople are interested. Doctor Graves
IL drilling a dozen wildcat wells fol
Colonel Humphries and declare'
thai the former operator withln q
wear will be the largest i~ndepondeh'
OH producer in the world. Colone
Humphries owns some fine acreage
In the TonkaWa area, one or ni
wells being reported TO have a DAN
flow OF 5000, 900 feet OF gas
Ostot and others are spudding n
37O feet at their location on IN
BRADY Hughes farm, in the north
west OF the northeast OF 35-27-SW
II is reported that the same people
have a showing for oil and gas a
1895 feet on the Shipley farm "
the northeast OF the southeast OF 3d.
27-3w.
Schoenwalt, Curley and others arr
reported setting the 8 3-lb pipe a
2,67O feet on the Martin farm IN nv
southwest OF the southwest OF 20
27-3w.