San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-17
SPINDLE 7 OP
WELL MAKES
5000 bbLS.
Big Production of First
Coastal Field May
Return.

That Spindle Top may yet come
back and take its place in the rank
of important producing fields of the
Gulf Coast seems probable. This
week the second good completion with
in the past two months was reported.
lount-Lee Oil company brought in
its second producer from deep sand on
the McFaden tract. for an initial flow
of 5000 barrels. The sand was struck
at 300 feet, about 300 feet deeper
than the first we'll.
When McFadden No. . was re-
ported about the middle of November,
good for 500 barrels of IS gravity
oil. the general belief was that the
well was freak. Such wells have
been discovered in various coast fields
and big well found out of the regu-
lar horizon in nm old field is al
ways looked upon with suspicion un-
til it proves itself.
EXTENDS FIELD.
Yount-Lee's first deep sand well
is located 1900 feet from the old
productive part of Spindle Top, and
the well brought in this week is 800
feet further out from the first well,
extending the field approximately 1900
feet.
Other deep tests have been made
at Spindle Top and a few have had
encouraging showings, but these two
wells are really the first deep ones
to hold up sufficiently to justify the
conclusion that big output may be
developed from the deep horizon.
Possibilities of big yield from
Spindle Top again led one into in
teresting speculations about oil, to
say the least, inasmuch as that field
was the one that led the way for
Gulf Coast development.
FIRST COAST POOL.
II was the first coastal field to be
developed and the Lucas gusher has
become famous wherever oil history
is known. In 1901 when the Lucas
well blew in, Beaumont Immediately
became the scene of perhaps the big
gest oil boom that has ever happened.
Oil sold for ten cents n barrel and
then there was no market for it.
The field soon spent itself, how
ever, and for many years has just
been producing enough to be called
a producing area. All the oil so far
has been from shallow sands, not
deeper than 1900 to 1000 feet.
With both wells drilled by Yount-
Lee making good, it looks as if this
first of Texas Coastal fields may re-
deem its name and push to the front
once more.
The week was good one for the
entire coastal district. A total of
sixteen wells was reported, all but
two of which were producers. Initial
production amounted to 9015 bar
rels.
HULL ACTIVE.
Hull showed the most activity.
Seven producers were listed, all of
them good wells. Humble Oil and
Refining company got the best COM
pletion in its Guedry 10 which flowed
2200 barrels of grade "a" oil from
300 feet. Humble also got a 60
barrel pumper in its Merchant 4, n
workover, at AGO feet. Gulf Produc-
ton company's Phoenix Development
81 flowed 1000 barrels from
1850 feet. Republic Production COM
pany's Dolbear "a, n workover. made
go barrels from 1850 feet. No. SO
also a workover, made so barrels from
2390 feet. Empire Gas and Fuel
Barngrover II made 200
barrels from 1865 feet, and Higgins
Oil and Fuel company's Taylor 5,
a workover, made 175 barrels from
1910 feet.
At Orange the Rycade Oil Corpora
TONS State B-14 flowed 5000 barrels
from 1850 feet. Chesson Dab COM
pleted by the Humble, flowed 1900
barrels from 1870 feet.
South Liberty showed a dry hole
IN the Gulf Production company's F.
). The well was abandoned
ut $500 feet.
The Gulf worked over its Gladys
ZIG, at Spindle Top, and got a 300
barrel producer.
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