San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21
Famous Deep Test on
Barnsley Ranch in Webb
County to Be Tested for Oil.
SCOUTS AT THE WELL
Mt Is Probable Well May
Spray Some Oil When 1t
Finally Is Brought in.

NO. Wednesday preparatory to max
ing a test. The well is being bailed
and it is the general opinion that a
big gusher will be made. There Is
every reason to believe that the well
will come in spraying some oil.
The tools were set up ut the Caro-
lina-Texas No. last week by Con-
tracing Driller II. Muckelroy. The
tools were run in the hole early in the
week and six feet drilled, making the
total depth slightly below $3.50 feet.
This is not the official depth and
should not be accepted as correct. The
cuttings and sand coming up showed
trace of oil and considerable gas.
Just before the well was mudded in
some three months ago it blew in 4
big gasser making petroleum gas and
soon bridged over. The liner was
pulled and the well drilled some deep
er and then mudded in.
y The oil fraternity and scouts have
been at the well for two days await
ing the result of the bailing. The
last word from the well Friday was
to the effect that the hole had been
bailed down to GOO feet of the bot
tom. Battling probably will be com
d pleted before night Sunday.
d Hughes Is Drilling.
IL The Hughes Oil Company No. Oh
II Survey 1101 started drilling Sunday.
| The well is being drilled my w. w.
Allen, who has an interest i'll the pro-
iect. Mr.. Allen is one of the oldest
and most successful drillers in the
field. He has drilled twenty wells in
this field and has his first fishing
Job to encounter.
X. L. Duggan is the head Of the
Hughes Oil Company in this district
and he has been an untiring worker
in developing outlying territory. His
present well will be drilled to depth
pf 200 feet to try and pick IN Il
Il high gravity sand which was found in
the Hughes, Butler and McMurry well
drilled the latter part of the summer
On Survey 33S. The present well is Il
| little southwest of the Hughes, But
Ter and McMurry well in a location
Baid to be very favorable for oil. The
bill struck in the well ON 33S was
tound in a rock and it proved to be
small seepage of 43 gravity oil of very
high gasoline content. 1t is the opin-
lon of oil men that this was an edge
\ we'll and that to the west not more
\ than O mile, that sand would he
! picked up around POO feet which
would be of sufficient saturation 10
make commercial well.
Hole Around 900 Feet.
Il The writer was in tn field last
Tuesday afternoon and the well was
lrilling at 450 feet. The hole is prob
|, IDLY twice that depth today. \ heavy
I rig is being used and Mr.. Allen does
rot expect any trouble in putting this
\ we'll down to pay in record time. Mr..
!; Allen knows the formations of this
territory and will use all his knowl-
.dge of the oil business to make
we'll should he encounter q streak OF
pay.
This we'll is also located almost due
forth of the producing well in the
Schott-Mirando City field which may
mean n great deal in the end rs it
leems that IN to the present time the
pay has been found along the escarp-
nent to be on due north and south
line all the way from the Zapata shall
ow field up through the Miranda Val
ey and Aviator and Wolcott pools to
The Schott and Miranda City fields.
The Andrews Petroleum Corpora
ion is rigging up tools on one of their
wells in the Aviator field with both
,etary and Star tools to drill TO the
seeper sand. This well will try for
die high gravity sand which has been
coated in the Schott field by Carna-
han and Magnolia.
The Schott field is due north of
The Aviato- field about six miles, and
t is the opinion of nearly the whole
Vi the oil fraternity that this high
.ravity sand is underlying the entire
proven area of the fields along the
,scarpment. The Andrews Petroleum
Corporation has decided to drill one of
heir wells deeper in an effort TO PICK
up this high gravity sand and by
,igging up with both rotary and stand
ird tools will take every care in not
,assing IN the sand however thin il
nay be, if in this field at all.
Means Big Campaign.
Should the high gravity be located
the Aviator pool there will be Il
big drilling campaign started. The
aviator field is owned in small blocks
- many operators and producers and
he. high gravity once located in this
isld. there will be n big play.
frhe oil fraternity in particular and
he entire country along the Rio
srande, is looking forward to some
hing in the Webb county oil fields
md announcement that the Cole Pc
rolcum Company is getting ready to
make test has spread quickly TO all
,arts and all eyes are on the vel
which is about a pile north of Bruni
IN Los Angeles Grant.
The hard line formation was drilled
through early this week and the bit
penetrated a few feet of shale and
land showing some oil. just under
his formation was a sand rock which
apped sandy shale. shell and broken
ime underneath which was four feet
& sand and when drilling was stop
led only four feet of this sand had
been penetrated.
A hard white lime rock has re-
srded drilling for several weeks. This
ock proved to be 60 feet thick. The
otal depth of the well is 1862 feet.
There are eighteen feet of hole below
he rock.
Oil on the Bit.
The writer learned from the man.
cement that the sandy shale brought
lpon the bit was saturated with crude
md that il would ignite when placed
n contact with a lighted match No
;laims are set forth that a well will
Ne made other than the fact that the
Dmpany will make a test.
Three hundred feet of perforated
J 3-16-inch liner willie be set in the
,ottom of the hole. Six and five
ighths casing is set in cement at a
lepth of 2101 feet. The liner and
cad seal was hauled out from Mi
nndo City Wednesday.