San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
KILLAM DISCOVERS
NEW OIL POOL NEAR
BRUNI ON ALBERCA
Wildcat Test on Block IS
Gets Both Oil and Gas
at 1855 Feet.


A new oil field was brought in yes
terday by o. W. Killam, pioneer oil
man in this territory. and diseoverer
of the Miranda field.
The Killam No. 1 on Block Is of
the Alberca grant, Bruni portion,
came in Thursday making consider
able gas and some oil. The oil con-
tlnued to increase, justifying the
claim to new pool. The well was
drilled deeper Thursday afternoon and
the bit penetrated eleven feet of ad-
ditional rich oil sand. The well is
being baled again today and no es-
innate can be placed on the amount
of the oil production, but judging
from wells about two miles north in
the Edgington field, the Killam No.
should make good pumper or even
flow by heads with the amount of
gas.
Casing is set in the hole at a depth
of 1904 feet. The bottom of the hole
before setting casing was 1860 feet.
When the well was drilled in, it stood
fourteen feet deeper and with the
eleven feet of new sand the well is
now around 1856 feet. At this depth,
the Killam No. 1 is shallower than
the wells in the east side of the Edg-
ington field by about an average of
20 feet. 1t is deeper than the wells
in the Discovery field, six miles south,
by around 200 feet. The well is on
top of the escarpment.
.. W. Killam pioneered this terri
tory and made several holes in the
Miranda valley of Zapata county be-
fore he brought in the discovery well.
He stayed on the job long after every
one had given up hope of ever get
ting oil. Operators came into the
field rapidly and his next job was TO
organize the Texpata Pipe Line Com
pany TO market the oil. In the mean
time he had used keen judgment in
leasing the Ojuelos ranch of many
thousands OF acres and started a wild
cat, Schott Oil Company's No. l, in
survey 400 of Webb county, twelve
miles north of the discovery pool. 1t
was duster and he moved to survey
Oh, about mile northeast and drilled
the discovery well of the Schott field.
Schott No. 2 came in a gasser spray
ing oil.
During the interim, the pipe line
was built and new town, Miranda
City, was plated and brought into
life. 1t is located at the end of the
pipe line on the Tex-Mex railroad,
fourteen miles north of Miranda val
ley discovery pool in Zapata county.
The bringing in of the Schott No.
? really made this part of Texas look
like an oil region and operators con-
tinued to come in. At times ever
since it has looked as though big
booms were coming. However, the
growth has been steady and sure and
ut no time has there been a let-up
of long duration in active drilling in
this territory.
Mr.. Killam has reaped the reward
of pioneer but he has not stepped
out OF the game with the enormous
profits which he could have made doz-
ems of times by selling his vast in
tercsts. He is continually organizing
new companies and getting more pro-
duction. He has been persistent
wildcatter and is following his bunch
that more and bigger oil sands are in
the field and he is spending money
every day looking for il. His COM
panies are dividend payers and he
has showed business acumen that
few men possess in any line of bust
ness. He was not an oil man before
he came TO Webb county and he has
learned the game through hard knocks
and vicissitudes.
Now with new oil field to the
credit of o. w. Killam it begins an
other line of good fortune to the en-
tire oil district and Webb county. In
a few days offset wells will be start.
ed and the latest pool in Webb coun-
ty will get a big play. 1t is not a
hard guess to say that some day the
intervening territory north to the
field and south to the Mi
rando valley field will be string of
oil wells.
Howard Stages is the driller Of the
Killam No. 1. He has been with Mr..
killam for more than two years and
he has drilled many wildcats in that
thine and probably knows the forma-
tons Of this territory as well as any
driller in the field. He has also
drilled numbers of producers for Mr.. |
Killam and his interests, but no job |
he has yet finished. places him be-
fore the public as does the bringing |
in of the Killam No. l on the Aber- |
"a grant. He has made a new field, |
the Alberca pool.
Mr.. Killam will not stop his Wild |
eating and it is safe to say that |
Howard Stages will be the driller on
them in the future as he has been in |
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