, 1935-07-24
TESTS ARE
DUE TO FLOW
IN HIDALCO
Other Wildcats Are
Busy In Valleys
Wide Scattered
Oil Areas

producers were being completed
Wednesday In the Samfordyce field
OF southwestern Hidalgo county.
four other tests were drilling and
two others were rigging up
Three tests ar under way in the
Rio Grande City pool Of southern
Starr county and a new wildcat
Is cortng at the south edge Of the
Barbacoas pool Of south central
Starr. A number Of wildcats In
Hdalgo county are busy.
~ Plug Is Drilled
About 800 feet northwest Of the
6amfordyce discovery, King-Woods
Oil Company's No. 5 John Law
renee, in tract 274. porcion 80.
drilled cement plug and started
washing Wednesday. The revised
sand record on this test Is as fol-
lows: cored oil sand at 2.7595-2,-
1885 feet, set and cemented casing
G-inch o. d. at 2.760.5 feet.
HarriSon-D Davis Bishops No. 3
Francisco Guerra, In tract II,
porcion Al, about 6,l00 feet east OF
discovery, drilled cement plug and
started washing Tuesday night.
The test had the Samfordyce sat-
uration at 2,745-53 feet and set
casing at 2,748 feet.
In the western section OF the
Neld, w. F. Lacy's No. 1 Seabury
al, in tract 256, porcion 38.
bout 1850 feet northwest OF dis
covery. is drilling at 2,45O feet.
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Wednesday night.
On the south edge Of production.
Windsor OIL Company's No. 3 DR..
J. M. Doss. about 1850 feet south
east OF discovery. is drilling below
500 feet.
Henshaw & Rothert's No. / G.
II. Smith, in tract 3-B, porcion Al.
nearly $500 feet east OF discovery.
Is drilling below 1900 feet.
The fields new northeast out
post, X. ID. HarriSon-Double ID oil
Company's No. 3 Mrs. Lula George.
about $500 feet east Of discovery.
n making hole below 600 feet.
Another new test at the fields
tRftheast extremity, Ernest Pow
3 S No. ! Mrs Lula George. about
AL feet north Of the Harrison
Double d, is rigging up.
A western edge well will get
started within a day or two. It is
Gem Oil Company'S No. BIZ sea-
bury ct al, about 400 feet north
west Of discovery, and Is about
rugged up.
Several Hidalgo county wildcats
continued making hole Tuesday
and wildcats in both Willacy and
Zapata counties were reported act
i've.
A fishing job IN Maddox Turn
bulI-Irwin's No. / John III. Shary,
five miles south OF Mission. was
successfully completed Monday
night when one joint OF drill stem,
collar and bit were removed from
the hole at 4.478 feet. The test Is
now drilling in hard shale at 4.595
feet.
Bluff Petroleum Company's No
1 Porcion Land Co, three miles
southwest Of Mission. is still
awaiting orders at $3.50 feet.
In the Mercedes deep pool OF
eastern Hidalgo. Union Sulphur
company has two rigs drilling and
another moving in.
Unions No. / American-Rio
Grande, a mile and a quarter
northeast Of discovery is drilling
I'm sandy shale at $685. feet.
Unions No. 4 American-Rio
Grande, one and a half miles
southeast OF discovery, Is drilling
ct 4.691 feet in red shale.
Unions No. 5 American-Rio
Grande. is skidding rig to new loca-
ton about 600 feet northwest Of dis.
e@yery.
80 Iearly Is miles northwest OF the
ions deep production, Deering a
r<yser's No. / John G. Engelman.
IS still trying to remove testing tool
and drill stem from hole at around
$3.50 feet. Tools were hung In the
hole shortly after drill stem test was
made Of sands at 6.685-6.720 feet
and Just below that depth.
In Willacy county, King-Woods
Oil Company's No. l Santa Rosa.
started making new hole at 1890
feet Tuesday after roaming down
$500 feet Of rathole.