The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-17
If Test Is Success City and
County Will Prosper to
Great Extent - Excite
ment Manifest in Oil
Circles.

Owing TO n broken nipple Oper.
ations on the Brock test ceased
at 2 o'clock until new one
could be secured from the near.
est supply house. Bailing and fur
ther drilling will start again ut
between 1870 and 3 O'cioci,.
According TO reports from the
well more casing had TO be run
intu the well this afternoon and
II was predicted that the well
would not be drilled i'm before
morning.
Operators of the Amerada Petrol
cum company cleaned out fifteen feet
of caving in the hole and ran the TO-
inch casing to the top of the sand
at their location on the Baptiste
farm near Brock this morning.
Oil now stands in the hole 150 feet
from the top and strong gas pressure
is reported.
At 1880 o'clock preparations were
being made to drill in.
A 500-barrel field storage tank has
been erected TO take the first flow of
the we'll.
Like Boom Days.
Discussion of the market condition
Of the petroleum industry with refer
ence to the puzzling situation which
1t has assumed during the past few
weeks, and which during that time
had been the main topic of conversa-
tion among the members of the fra.
ternity was thrown aside today
and Ardmore assumed the spirit which
prevailed here during the boom days
of the Healdton and Hewitt field with
the Amerada test near Brock as the
center of attraction. Interest ran high
and numerous transactions involving
sales of leases. royalties and the like
took place on the stamping ground OF
the oil men--the Hotel Ardmore lob
by. During the entire day and the
greater part of the night the lobby
was filled with lease men, scouts, geol-
oglsts. and men representing all
branches Of the oil game from not
only this city, but all parts of the
state and surrounding territory. In.
dications are that many more will be
added by nightfall to the great mum
Der who arrived during Wednesday.
for the Amerada find is the spark
which has set off the burning desire OF
try to participate in the oil activl.
ties in southern Oklahoma. Since
the beginning of the year all eyes
have been turned to this section OF
the state and Carter county due 10
the real worth which proven areas
already existing here have been found
TO possess. and the continued verifi'
cation of the slogan that ito have an
oil we'll in Carter county is to have
somethingl" The many sands founc
here their prolific nature. thickness
and long enduring qualities are the
spice of thu local production.
Great Development.
A well at Brock viii create
great development in local areas. There
In every reason to believe that II win
start intensive drilling not only on
the Amerada anticlne and the i'm
mediate adjacent territory, but will
tend TO cause tests to go down Ia
areas nearer Ardmore than Is the
Ameradn test which Is ten miles to
the southwest and within sight Of
the city. The rather shallow depth
OF the Amerada Is indicative that more
will exist at greater depths, the beliei
strengthened by the similarity Of the
oil and depth 10 the shallow sands
in the Hewitt field.
That activities will Immediately
be commenced In the vicinity OF the
Amerada anticline Is evidenced by a
statement made last night by Max