San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30
FIELD HAS $50 DERRICKS.
Luling Producing $4,000 Barrels
Daily-Ficld May BE Widened.

The Luling oil field to date boasts
of approximately $50 derricks. about
60 drilling wells and more than 100
producers of clean oil. The field is
six miles long and only four locations
wide. 1t begins in Caldwell county.
five and one-half miles northwest of
Luling and extends southwest across
the San Marcos river into Guada-
lupe county. There is a section of
about mile in length, between the
Guadalupe and the Caldwell sections
of the field which is not producing
any oil. Through the center of this
section, the San Marcos river runs
and near the center of the river bed,
test for oil is being made. Bas-
sett X. Miles is drilling the river bed
and it is on this test that the join
ing of the two pools depends.
1t is estimated by oil men that the
Luling oil field is making $4,000 bar
rels Of oil daily. Most Of this is be-
and $. =. railroads daily. Every day
May Widen Field.
Whether the Luling field will con-
tinuc TO be four locations or approx
mately 2400 feet wide has been the
subject of considerable discussion
among oil men of the field lately.
Some think that the field will be
extended several miles further TO the
southwest and others do not disagree
with this conviction but seem to think
that the Caldwell section of the field,
ut least, will be extended 10 the east.
They say their reasons for this are
as follows:
The United North and South Oil
company. which is drilling more than
so per cent of the Luling wells, in
cidentally. is drilling at a depth 400
feet deeper in its No. 3 Gideon well
than in any other well in the entire
field. This well is located on the
eastern extremity of the Caldwell Sec
ton of the pool and according to re-
ports it gives every indication of be-
ing a good producer. The well al
ready has made large amount Of oil
and gas and drillers say they believe
il will soon be completed for n
steady flow Of high grade oil. If their
predictions prove true, some oil men
say. the Luling field will be widened
considerably.
Several months ago at least. three
wells were drilled cast of the present
Luling pool. They have since been
abandoned but owners and drillers
say they are not certain that they
were really dry holes. These tests
were put down slightly below the level
of the Luling field wells and it was
thought that there was but little use
of going deeper.
One Of the wells, the No. 1 Walker
of the Big Gushcr Oil company, To-
Gated about n mile and One-half east
of the center of the Luling producing
area, was drilled TO depth Of slight
ly below 2400 feet.
Making As Gravity Oil.
The well is said 10 be making some
oil and tests show that its gravity
is unusually high. Some tests showed
that it was as light ms 40 gravity
and upon the announcement of this
fact there was considerable excite
ment at Luling over the possibilities
of discovering oil on the Walker
farm in paying quantities. Today oil
is flowing out of the casing head of
this Walker well and drillers are said
to have admitted that the oil was
coming through a large number of
old tow sacks that had been stuffed
in the hole as it was being abandon
cd.
People visiting the well carried
some of the oil away in buckets. Soon
some visitors began to commercialize
their find but owners of the well
put a stop to this by mailing large
two by twelve board over the cas-
ing head.
Experienced oil men are expressing
the opinion that q shot in this well
might DO some good after the hole
is cleaned. There is also hope. il is
said, for the other tests east of the
field, namely and principally the No.
1 Crenshaw and the No. / Robinett.