, 1935-06-12
Especial TO The Heraid)

MISSION, June IL. HldAlgO
county wildcats attracted much at
tentlon in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley oil area Tuesday, one
making drill stem test in q new
sand, another setting pipe in a
new sand, a third preparing 10
deepen to test a new sand and an
important new wildcat location be-
ing reported.
In the new Mercedes deep pool
Of eastern Hidalgo, Union Sulphur
Company's No. 2 American-Rio
Grande. a drill stem test Of sand
at 4.lo5-l5 feet showed only con-
siderable salt water in three min
utes. The test Is now drilling IN
s~idetracked hole below Ais feet.
This test Is 200 feet southeast OF
the Union No. 3 American. diScov-
cry well Of the pool. which is pro-
ducing from sand az 7.477-93 feet.
About one and a quarter miles
northeast OF discovery, Unions No.
/ American, picked up with an
overshot a drill bit and collar stuck
IN the hole at 6.396 feet. On the
way out. drill stem parted, leaving
$500 feet in the hole. The entire
drilling string Is now being fish
ed out.
Mission promises 10 loom i'm
portantly in wildcat operations for
the next two or three weeks. one
6.000-foot test having started
making hole below surface pipe
Tuesday and a new wildcat loca-
ton being announced.
Bluff Petroleum Company's No.
l Porcion Land Co. in share IA,
porcion 40. Jurisdiction Of Reynosa.
about three miles southwest OF
Mission. resumed drilling Tuesday
at 629 feet after drilling plug IN
surface casing C2 l-2 inch o. d.,
which was set and cemented at SO
feet.
The new wildcat, also a 5000
foot contract, will be known as
Maddox. TIrnbull a. Twins No. 1
John Fl. Shary, and has been To-
Gated 800 feet from the north and
100 feet from the east Lines OF
tract q. Shary subdivision, por-
clones 58-59-60, jurisdiction OF
Revnosa. about four miles south
and slightly east OF Mission. Loca-
ton Il In porcion SO. Operations
are to get under way between July
1 and July 10. Several major COM
Danies. including Magnolia, Cont
mental. Sun. BarnSdall and Simms.
have taken spreads around the
new wildcat.
on the east edge Of the Sam
fordvce field. casing is being set
atop a new sand Just below 2.s9O
feet and an edge well in the pool
Is being deepened for another
test Of the same sand.
About $500 feet east OF the
Samfordyce discovery. Harrison
Double D's No. 2 Mrs. Lula George,
set and cemented casing G-lnch q.
d. Tuesday night atop the new
sand at 1924 feet. The hole Is bot
toned at 1894 feet and the small
recovery after two attempts 70
take cores made such an excellent
showing for oil that casing was
set without drill stem test. II the
new sand produces. a new area OF
AZ least two to three square miles
will be opened to immediate dri-
ling. No test In the Samfordyce
field proper has been drilled deep
enough TO determine whether the
new sand underlies the S@nfordyce
horizon. The Harrison-D Double ID
test cored the Samfordyce gas
sand at 2,7li-36 feet and the sat
uration at 2.736-91 feet without a
show Of water and can be COM
pleted for an excellent producer
at that depth. The Samfordyce
section was thicker in this test
than in any other hole drilled In
the field to date.
Cortez Oil Corporations No. CT
c. z. Smith, about $500 feet east
Of the Samfordyce discovery and
about 300 feet due south OF the Har-
rison-D Double ID test. has been tenn
porarily removed from the CON-
pleted list Of Samfordyce producers
after 1t made nothing but gas or
original completion as well as after
being reWOrked. IL was killed Tues