San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30
Brief Bits of
Oil Field News

among the operators in the Luling dis
trict pertaining to the possibilities for
deeper drilling in several section of
the field, with the possibilities of go
ing down to 300 feet unless pay is
found at shallower depth. Since
the showing made in the latest TABOR
well of the United North and South
Company, interest in deeper drilling
has been the topic in oil circles wner-
ever oil operators have met. 1t is
the opinion of biologists who have
looked over the field and taken the
data that has been prepared by the
State Department and from some Of
the experts who have been interested
in this section of the country, that
the Trinity sands will be productive
and will produce gushers such as has
been produced along the BALCONIES ter
ritory in Texas.
An announcement this week is to
the effect that Oklahoma and North
Texas operators are making overtures
to lease owners in the Luling field
that call for the blocking up of sew
eral tracts of acreage in the vicinity
of the Ivy Switch section and the ter
ritory south of the town of Luling
With the showing that has been made
in the Whittlesey well, just over the
county line in Gonzales county and
the possibility of this well making
deep pay producer, outside opera
tors have become interested and some
Of their representatives are expected
here within the next ten days to make
arrangements with the lease owners
for a large block of leases.
Work will be rushed on the develop
ment of the Soda Spring Oil Company
ON their well on the Bolton lease, near
Soda Springs district. This well has
had some very interesting showIngs
all the way down, and is now below
the 2500-foot mark. 1t is expected
that the Austin chalk will be picked
up around the 2600-foot area and i'll
the event of any kind of a showing
the drillers will test out the well be-
low the chalk. 1t has always been
contended that the Austin chalk pro
duces either above or below and that
some of the wells that have been
drilled in Luling have made some ex-
ceptional showings of oil but have not
been given a thorough test. The geol-
ogists make their deductions in find
ing the chalk at this level from tle
log of the Fensland Oil Company well
which hit the chalk at around 1900
feet. Representatives of the Soda
Spinf Oil Company were here this
week and have made arrangements for
speedy development.
The derrick is up and plans are be
ing made to move the necessary ma
chinery out to the Kittle well on the
Davis lease near Delphi and work will
be started in few days on this test.
Some very careful geological work has
been made in this section ind tohse
in charge are very optimistic over this
section of the Luling territory. The
company in charge have blocked up
considerable acreage and =, have the
financial backing of a combine Of oil
operators in North Texas.
Work is progressing with great
speed ON the Magnolia Company tank
farm and refining plant south Of
Luling and it is expected that the
plant will be in active operation in
November. The original plans called
for ten $1,000 tanks but this pro-
gram has been added to and there will
be fifteen of these tanks on the farm
before the work is finished. This
will give the Luling field ample stor-
age and will assure the operators a
steady output for their oil. With pipe
line connections covering every Sec
ton of the field a great volume Of oil
is being daily impounded in the large
tanks filling them to capacity as fast
as they are finished.
J. Ray McDermott, rig and der
rick builders, are planning for an ex-
tensive program of derrick building
and have quite a number of new Or
ders ON their books TO be filled in the
next few weeks. This firm has built
most of. the derricks in the main
field and in the extensions and are
also doing considerable work in their
teaming department. This week a rep
resentative of one of the large operat-
ing companies was here getting fig
ures for derricks to be built across
the Mexican line in the vicinity of
Del Rio.
"a. a. ouCudHdu.
who is doing considerable work in the
Luling field. has been called to Elec-
ira and other North Texas fields TO
drill a number of wells. He, is drill
ing the Mamford well for the United
North and South Oil Company and
has other work contemplated across
the Stn Marcos river for other COM
panies.
A party of local oil operators has
finished the legal work in lining up
the acreage on the Harris tract in
Guadalupe county, near the Mamford
test that is being drilled by the United
North and South Oil Company. This
tract was one of the few remaining
tracts not leased in this section Of the
Luling field. These men are figuring
with a number of people from Vic
toria to take over a part of this lease
and start drilling a well right away.
The Luling Petroleum Company
well on the Grady lease. near Joliet.
is attracting considerable attention
this week and is one of the most in
teresting tests in the field. A core
was taken Tuesday which shows that
they have reached the Georgetown
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