The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-10-03
CONTRACT FOR
ANOTHER WELL
LET ON FIELD
Foster to Bring in Drill Rig
to Spud in Immediately;
West Coast Company Has
Leases on 1400 Acres

Further developments Of the
Kennewick gas fields have been
made public this week. A contract
for an additional well, making
three in all, has been let since last
week, one new company has made
arrangements for the development
of their property, another is COM
pleting arrangements and the syn
dicate headed by E. Edgar Atkins
reports that it's plans are progress
ing rapidly and that the work viii
be started soon.
With additional facilities for the
disposition Of the gas as speedily
as it is produced, the further de-
velopment Of the fields is an as
sured fact. Disposal and distribu-
ton in the larger cities is now
certain and with a steady market
available, still other companies
are making arrangements to enter
the field with drilling outfits.
The West Coast Gas and Oil
company formed with several local
stockholders, including S. M. Fos-
ter, has sent Foster to California
to superintend the loading Of q
large rotary drill. This drill weighs
between so and 65. tons and Il
will take several cars to trans
port it. 1t is capable Of drilling q
hole a mile and half deep, start
ing with a hole as large as %
inches.
The company expects to have
the machinery arrive in about two
weeks and will spud in new well
in the present field Immediately.
The hole win start with sixteen
inch diameter. In the location se-
lected they expect to strike the gas
flow at depth Of about 74O feet,
and they expect to reach that depth
within 60 days after the erection
of the derrick.
This company has finances suf-
ficient to guarantee the construc-
tion Of the first well, but others
will be drilled as fast as possible,
providing the original one brings
in production sufficient to warrant
further operations. The West
Coast company has leases on some
fourteen hundred acres in the gas
fields, some of which are immed-
lately adjacent to the present
wells. In fact, the first well viii
be close enough so that water and
fuel can be obtained from one Of
the wells now producing.
Another company has leases
amounting to 64O0 acres, most Of
which lies within the present
proven territory. Several of the
men interested have been to the
fields this week and are returning
with favorable reports and il is
expected that immediate develop
ment will be started by this COM
pany. They claim to have some Of
the very best land under lease and
hey anticipate splendid production.
A phone message from Atkins
this week states chat his plans for
development on large scale are
maturing rapidly and that he ex-
poets to have his affairs wound up
IN time to begin work before the
first of the year. He plans on in
stalling at least six standard rigs
n the field TO start with.
Of such magnitude is the Ken
newick field, judging from all re-
ports, that attention is being at
5racted to Kennewick from all
parts Of the west. Financial in-
;erests on the coast are daily maxi
ing inquiries concerning the pos
sibilities Of industrial develop
nent as well as the liklihood Of Sc
curing oil in commercial quaint
tiles that the district may exper-
ience unparalleled activity within
The next few months as q result.