The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-10-18
DRY CREEK TOOLS
RECOVERED LAST
MONDAY MORNING

At 4 o'clock Monday morning the
crew on the morning tour at the Chic
Oil company's well at Dry creek, con-
sisting of A. G. Drum, driller, and
Stanley Jackson, tool dresser, sue
ceeded IN getting combination wall
hook and slip socket over the drill
stem that had been lost through the
pin breaking off from crystalization,
and hauled it out.
The boys were so anxious to be sure
and get good hold with the tool that
the offending stem was driven up into
the slip socket so firmly that SO far
their efforts to get it out of the fish
ing tool have been unsuccessful. The
socket holding the stem is now lying
BY the engine house, if any visitors
care to see how it was done.
When one stops to think that this
work is done nearly $500 feet under
ground, with nothing but fishing
tools fastened to wire cable, and that
the upper end of this steel stem was
tipped so that it gouged into very
irregular wall caused by dozen shots |
OF nltro-g lycerine, the results obtained
seem little short of marvellous. The
lost stem had to be Strengthened up
the the hole before the upper end
could be caught by the slip socket. The
crew on the other tour, consisting of
George Corbett, driller, and Bill Helm
richs tool dresser, labored Just as
faithfully to attain the desired end
but it fell to the lot of Drum and
jackson to bring this long drawn-out
fishing job to its successful termina.
ton. Night and day for Is months
these men with Len Bechtel, field SUI
peiintendent, have labored faithfully
and well, and it seems that soon their
efforts to get producing well at Dry
creek are to be successful.
AS no information from now on is
supposed to be given out by the men
at the well, the writer surmises the
depth Of the hole now to be about
4 65 feet, and a six-ineh bit is being
used to drill into the sand from which
he oil is seeping into the hole. The
gas pressure is very strong. A very
noticeable increase was encountered
Saturday and at present about 10000
100 cubic feet are roaring out of the
OPP OF the casing. A control head is
\ place SO that this gas can be shut
If III case of an emergency. The
writer IS of the. opinion that the oil
$ seeping in from the bottom of the
ole, the gas coming from higher up.
he oil not having reached the level
| the gas in the hole, remains and is e.
aled out, the gas throwing out dry T.
its of cement and shale with such :,
orce that the hand cannot be held -
yer the hole with comfort. In the =,
vent that the gas and oil were COM -
lg from the same place, the gas II
ould sweep the hole clean of mud ~
nd oil, and the various samples the -
cal rock hounds have been showing, 10
'uld not be gotten from the baler. 10
ne hole was baled Tuesday morning
I'D the writer saw four balers brim- f.
ing with oil brought to the surface ae
I'd dumped, and it looks as if the 90
AAAS h"N q SA4Aetli p1OuuCEI Ol Inc lii ,,al
t quality of crude oil, the like Of -, -,
hich men with long experience in oil I s.,
alds have never seen coming out Of
e ground.
No accurate information can be OBJ -
ined as to the amount of oil that > :, :,
e well is now producing, but as the To-,
Hing IS being continued, it is sup
sed that larger quantity is desired,
that the oil will rise to higher loo
eel in the hole, and the gas bring AZ
the long looked for gusher of liquid ~,
Id, that everyone, big and small, ~.
res to look at and talk about for ,,,ee
ars after. 20
The quality of the oil is the same san
W as it was 10 days ago, but is or
lie darker in color when first VOL
'ught to the surface, but on being mo
owed to settle, comes back to the crn,