, 1935-06-05

bottom in an effort to cut off the
salt water.
About three miles southwest OF
Mission, Bluff Petroleum Company's
No. ! Porcion Land Co, set and
cemented 3l5 feet of l2h Inch sur
face casing Monday. The big hole
has been drilled TO 629 feet and
picked I'D a sood gas show at 585
feet. The long surface string was
made necessary by l85 feet OF II
face sand and considerable water
sand.
One wildcat abandonment in
western Hidalgo was reported Tues
Gay. <. L. Smith Oil Company'S No.
Ia Astruberto Flores. about 9,40O feet
northwest Of the Samfordyce dis
covery, was abandoned just below
$500 feet, the contract depth. No
interesting showings were reported.
| Completion of the contract finished
a series OF three holes on La Joya
Oh e. Gas company leases In por-
clones 80, 80 and 40, Jurisdiction Of
Reynosa, two of which went TO
5000 feet each.
The two compilations in the Sam
fordyce field were:
Rogers Oil g. Gas Company's No.
B-3 Francisco Guerra, in tract 254,
porcion 40, about 1920 feet east OF
discovery, is making its daily al
lowable through 3-32 inch tn ng
choke with tubing working pressure
o. 200 pounds and closed-in casing
pressure Of 800 pounds from Satura-
tio,. at 2,756-6l feet.
Showers & Moncrief'S No. 2 G. Z.
Smith, in tract 3-B, porcion Al.
about $500 feet east Of discovery, Is
making an estimated 65 barrels
daily through A-inch tubing Oh e
with no guage on tubing and l25
pounds cloSed-in casing pressure
from saturation at 2,745-54 feet.
Two other tests in the field are
Icing completed and a third will
set casing shortly.
On the north edge Of production.
Gem Oil Company's No. 2 Sea-
bury ct al. about 800 feet nort..-
west OF discovery, showed nothing
but gas on original completion ear
" this week. Installation of special
flow valves resulted in a spray OF
oil and it is believed that the test
vii, be completed as an oil well
with a little handling.
About $500 feet east Of diScov-
cry on the east edge of production,
Cortez Oil Corporations No. C-1
G. K. Smith, has been revoked
and is showing for oil production
after being washed with oil. On
original completion, IL made no.
thing but gas under high presSures
and was killed and cemented under
pressure to kill gas. The lower end
OF the casing was gun-perforated
at 2,740-52 feet.
Nearly 1900 feet west Of discov-
cry, w. F. Lacy's No. ! Eusebio
Flores. cored the Samfordyce sat
uration at 2,783-87 feet and will set
and cement casing Immediately.
The casing Is o enroute from
Houston.
On the east edge Of production
about $500 feet east of discovery,
Harrison-D Double DIS No. ? Mrs.
Lula George, is coring in the up
per gas sand at 2,760 feet after
topping the sand at 2.7ll feet.
About $500 feet east Of diScov-
cry, Harrison-D Davis Bishops No.
2 Francisco Guerra, spudded in
wednesday. The first Diesel-pow-
cred rig in the field in drilling the
hole.
The fields new southwest out
post test, K. A. Davis ct ais No.
/ Tomas Flores. about $500 feet
west OF discovery, is drilling at l.
500 feet.
Southern Starr seems destined
for a considerable wildcat play.
Two tests are making hole and
three new tests are TO get started
within a short time.
On the west edge OF the Rio
Grande City pool, Hiram M. Reeds
No. 2 Doyno a. Chatfield. about
1000 feet southwest of discovery,
set and cemented 20 feet Of 10
inch surface casing after spudding
during the weekend and is now
making hole below $40 feet.
About five miles east Of the pool,
Hugston Oil Company's No. Al
Gregg Woods, about 1000 feet north
OF the Missouri Pacific is reported
drilling below $500 feet.
Hughston Oil Company's No. 2
Gregg Woods, about 900 feet south
Va 0bdbC highway y IA AOA1%OAA ONf
Is moving in a new rig for this
test and has completed erection OF
water and fuel tanks and installa-
ton Of a water-line.
Accumulative Royalties Com
pays No. ! H. F. Ferry, is about
ready TO Spud in.
Still further east, John II. Clop-
tons No. l Kelsey-BasS, is rigging
up and will be ready to spud in
shortly.
About two miles north Of the
Rio Grande City pool. John II.
Clopton'S No. ! Dionicia T1jerina.
was abandoned dry at 3,942 feet.
High winds and heavy rains
wrecked four derricks in the Sam
fordyce and Rio Grande City areas
Tuesday night and flooded both
sections. In the Samfordyce Sec
ton, King-Woods Oil company lost
two wooden derricks. one over a
completed well and the other owe
a dry hole. Nedler a. Graham lost
a wooden derrick in Porcion As in
Hidalgo county, on the site OF a
wildcat location. John II. C~lopton's
wooden derrick over the Tjierina
hole. abandoned last week, was