, 1935-08-21
Indications Point
To New ActiUity In
Valley Oil Areas

miles northeast Of discovery. Is walt
ing on cement after plugging back
from 1905 feet to $500 feet and
setting and cementing "A Inch cas-
inc at 1900 feet. The hole is TO be
Sidetracked and deepened. Location
Is in Farm tract 2,297. block SO,
North Capisallo district.
Unions No. 4 American : Rio
Grande, In lot /, block 80, North
Capisallo District, about one and a
half miles southwest Of discovery, II
drilling In hard shale az 1926 feet.
About 600 feet north Of discovery,
Unions No. 5 American Rio-G rande,
IN farm tract 2,082, block IS. North
Capisano district. Is drilling IN
brittle shale at 4-28l feet.
In western Hidalgo county and
five miles northeast Of Samfordyce.
DSwney g. Morton,s ID. NJ. c. Oil
Coz No. / OSca Daskarl, block "a.
porcion As, jurisdiction Of ReynoSa,
Is still swabbing salt water with oil
scum and show OF gas through
tubing from sand az 4.l05-l4 feet.
:. j. Sloan ct ais NO. j Brock az
Showers, lot 8. block is, porcion 50.
Jurisdiction OF Reynosa, western
Hidalgo. is rigging up for immedi-
ate spudding on a 6.0c0-foot con-
tract.
The new producer at Samfordyce.
Harrison Davis Bishops No. 3 Fran
cisco Guerra, tract u, porcion Al,
about 6,l01 feet east Of discovery,
completed Tuesday with an
estimated initial production o. four
- six barrels hourly on A-incn
tEhing choke with tubing working
pressure OF Isl pounds and closed
IN casing pressure OF $50 pounds
from sand at 2.757-60 feet. It Is the
Samfordyce fields s0th producer 10
o. completed in exactly IL months.
the discovery well having been
brought in on September 20. 1884.
TWO highly important outposts
aie waiting on cement after PICK
ing up the Samfordyce saturatrOn
Tor extensions TO both the north
sast and northwest.
Ernest Powell'S No. / Mrs. Lula
George, tract Is. porcion Al, about
7O0c feet northeast Of discovery, Is
waiting on cement after coring the
seturation at 2.752-6l feet for an
expected extension OF nearly 500
Feet to the north.
On the northwest, HenShaw &
Rothert's No. / Seabury ct al, tract
256. porcion 80. about 500 feet
northwest OF discovery and 125O
feet northwest of production. is
waiting on cement after coring the
sand at 2.773-77 feet.
Skelly Oil company has acreage
on the north. east and south OF the
nshaw-Rother test and Barns
dall-PhillipS has a northwest Off
SCI in porcion 100. Jurisdiction OF
Starr county, Just across
tine county line.
About 6.5 0 feet northeast Of dis
covery. Mundy-Stephens' No. !
Guerra, tract II, porcion
q. Is drilling at 1,150 feet on a
z.o00-foot contract.
The only other active test &c sam
fordyce. w. =. Lacys No. 2 Seabury
q al. tract 256. porcion SO, about
ESQ feet northwest OF discovery, rs
cr .lling at 2,450 feet.
In Starr county. the Rio Grande
CITY pool shows the only activity.
Hiram NJ. Reeds No. Al Doyno
e. Chatfield. block 2, tract II, por-
cion 80, jurisdiction OF Camargo.
was rigging wire core-barrel line
Tuesday and was due 70 resume
Immediately at 1.TO0 feet
Sioux Heard No. 2 Goodrich,
southernmost test In the Rio Grande
City area, block 5, tract 5. porcion
81. about 1900 feet southwest OF DIS
covery, Is making hole below $50
fees.
W. W. zimmerman,s No. z Frank
Doyno, block l, tract TIA. porcion
81. about 1000 feet north Of dis
covery, is shut down at i.150 fees
repairing rotary table.
John Fl. Clopton's new wildcat
area consists OF about ago acres In
starr, about five miles
of the sun OIL Company's
o.150-foot Las Cuevitas pool. Clop-
ten has contracted TO drill four
10 depths from 1000 10 1900
feet and one hole TO 2,600 feet IN a
block composed Of surveys. $50. 357.
358 and 377. all owned by Mrs J.
? Bass Of McA1len. Drilling win get
under way within 30 days.
Seventeen different calendars are
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