San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
BIC WELL IS
4 EXPECTED IN
/ WEBB COUNTY
Carolina Texas Finds Sand
at 5000 Feet on Barns
ley Ranch.
ACREAGE TAKES JUMP
Great Excitement Prevails
as Possibility of
Gusher Looms.
ACREAGE TAKES JUMP

miranda City. Tex, March a.
The discovery of a sand said to be
highly impregnated with oil at 5000
feet in the we'll of the Carolina-Texas
No. 5 on the Barnsley ranch in cen
tral Webb county is undoubtedly the
most important happening in the Mi
rando district since the field was ex-
tended so miles north by the Schott
wells. Biologists who have examined
samples of formation from the well
say that there are indications of a
1t probably will be 80 days before
the well is drilled in. The hole will
be reamed for about 700 feet and six
inch casing set at 30S5 feet. A new
drill will be used to prevent the pos
sibility of an accident.
Great excitement prevails in Mir
Ando City and in Laredo as the pos
sibility OF gusher looms. When it
was noised abroad that deep oil had
been discovered there was a mad
scramble for acreage. Lease prices
jumped sky-high almost overnight
Eight-inch casing was set in the
No. 8 at a depth of 210S feet in or
der to shut out gas sand 76 feet
thick. Five big gas sands have been
encountered below where the eight
inch is set, before reaching the gumbo
cap of the big oil sand. A good gasser
could have been brought in from any
of these five sands, it is believed.
Twenty-Five feet of hard gumbo caps
the oil sand. 1t required four days
of drilling TO pass through this gumbo.
VIII Set Casing.
Six-inch 26-pound casing will be
set at about 30S5 feet in the gumbo
seat and cemented. Every precaution
win be taken to bring the well in
properly. 1t will be probably 80 days
before the well is drilled in. The hole
will have to be reamed for about 700
feet. New drill stems will be used
on the job so that all danger of an
accident will be eliminated. Time,
money and patience will be used free
~ in making a big producer of the
No. 5.
The sensation Of a deep well in the
Miranda district sunk in slowly and
it was a full day before the country
really awoke to the fact that the
Jong-looked for turn in the life of the
Miranda oil field had arrived. When
the awakening came n wild rush for
acreage took place. Everybody want
ed to buy and the man who had stuff
to sell boosted the price and still the
excitement prevailed and many big
deals and hundreds of small ones have
been made. The hotels and streets Of
Laredo and Miranda City have taken
on life with everyone you meet hold
ing fast to a map and talking acre
age.
Aladdin has rubbed the magic lamp
and oil is the talk that is making
citizens wonder. The oil man pre-
diets great things and all now look
forward to the big play which proba-
bly, will come with the first deep test
which shows the big pay.
Started in all.
The exact location of the No. is
IN the south center of survey 26S of
Webb county. The we'll is $50 feet
north of the south line Of the section.
It was spudded in late last fall and
drilling has been carried on carefully,
using the core and ratholeing almost
continually.
Officers Of the company are ]. n.
Hinton, president; u. T. Burton, vice
president, and D. N. Chadwick Jr.,
treasurer. All Of these men reside in
Wilmington, N. G. The first well in
the field was located by Bertrand de
Giraffe, Laredo geologist. The No. 5
was located by W. r. Jewel geolo-
gist-
The Ross-Segunad No. 1 set cas-
ing Monday on survey 2253, in the
Schott field, at a depth of 1856 feet.
This well Is located in the southeast
corner Of the survey, and should be
q good producer, as 1t is offset to
some Of the best wells In the field,
A derrick has been erected as an
offset to the No. i well and will be
started as soon as the No. ! Is COM
pleted.
The ]. K. Hughes Development
Company set casing Monday at 1878
| feet in its No. 6 we'll in the north
west part Of the PUG reserve of the
; Aviator field. This well is an off
ret to the Black Panther well. 1t
win be drilled in early next week.
Hughes Gets Producer.
The j. K. Hughes DEVELOPMENT
Company brought in its No. z well
on the PUG reserve Of the Aviator
field last week. This well is esti-
mated as being good for 20 barrels
of oil daily. It is an offset to the
Black Panther No. 2, which came in
about two weeks ago. making an ini-
tia1 production Of $50 barrels of oil
at 1890 feet.
Abercrombie & Kavanaugh set cas-
ing Tuesday in their Aviator No. q
at a depth Of 1856 feet. The well will
probably start drilling in next Mon
day. It is an offset TO the Hughes
No. I. There have been 30-odd loca-
lions made on this 30-acre lease. and
st is understood the drilling campaign
will be pushed until the acreage is
drilled uD.
A wildcat well will be drilled near
Sam Fordyce in Starr county by Aber-
crombie and KavanaucS. A derrick
pattern was sent out from Miranda
CITY last week
The geological formations of this sec
zion of Starr county are said to be
favorable for oil production. 1t is
The general opinion that big gasser
in this territory would he much more
valuable than an oil well on account
Of the nroximity to the irrigstion dis
tricts Of the lower Rio Grande valley