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OIL CHANGES THINGS—Not too many years ago, students
of the University of Texas at Austin were attending classes
in many old buildings such as the one at the upper left. Then
in 1923 oil was found under land owned by the university.
Now the institution’s main building is shown at the lower
left. At the right is an aerial shot of the $50 million campus.
In addition the university has a $144 million permanent fund
and a vast domain of oil-rich land.
Stonewall Bend
Strike Gauged
R. E Smith, Houston, No. 1 C.
E. Boyd, et al. Section 11, Block
D. H&TC Survey, has been com-
pleted as a Bond Conglomerate
discovery well seven miles north;
east of Aspermont in Stonewall
County.
Location for the new strike is
two miles east of the Boyd Con-
glomerate Field. It to eoperated
from the field by No. 1 Boyd which
was a dry holo.
Rising Star
Area in Brown
Gets New Test
C. E Joyce, et al, of Rising Star
No. 1 J. E. Watkins is to be drill-
ed as a Brown County wildcat. Le
eation is two and one half miles
southeast of Rising Star near ths
Brown-Eastland County line.
Contracted for 1,000 feet with
cable tools, site is 773 feet from
the south and 720 feet from the
west lines of Section 1L BBB&C
Survey. The lease to composed of
25 acres.
E. L. Dunn, J T. Craig & J. B.
Kerby of Winters comptoted No. 2
E. C. Byrd, et al. Stephen Jonos
Survey 282, in the Deborah (Cross
Cut) Field, one and one-half miles
south of Cross Cut.
No. 3 Byrd gauged 40.72 barrels
St 42.4 gravity oil. plus 50 per cent
water, per dsy. It is pumping from
M perforations at 1,383-87 feet
with the casing set on the bottom
of the hole at 1,97 feet
ERATH — A wildcat wea plug-
ged at 4.303 feet to the area 13
miles north of Stephenville. It was
Trans Western Oil & Gas Co. No.
1-A C. C. Russel, HT&B Survey
2, A-396.
No. 3 Boyd during the daily po-
tential test gauged 102.8 barrels of
402 gravity oil, plus 10 per cent
water. Flow was through ta 14-64-
inch choke with packer set on the
casing and 125 pounds tubing pres-
sure from 48 perforations st
6,118.28 feet. The casing is set on
the bottom of the bole at 6,128
feet. The well had a gas-oil ratio
of 420-1.
is perforations I
Dil, Gas Bring Riches to
Texas U. Permanent Fund
Throckmorton
Project Due
:A 5,000-foot rotary project to to
be drilled in the Burk-Gregory
Caddo Field, two miles south of
Throckmorton ta Throckmorton
Drillsite to 990 feet from the
South end 467 feet from the west
lines of the northwest quarter to
Section 280, BBB&C Survey.
The lease to composed of 180
acres.
1953 BRINGS
WEIRD INJURIES
RICHMOND, va. • - Rich-
monders suffered some weird
miuries In the flrot hours of
1 Here were the causes of
* some mishaps, as listed at the
J Medical College of Virginia
"-" ming at home with
. "‘suud M hood with Christ.
' mas tree."
“Boy Mend hit patient on
■ head with stick.", L
“Brother dropped lumber on
in the northeastern part of the
county, a new location was staked
in the Kiowa Peak Second Strawn
Field. It was spotted by Deep
Rock Oil Corp, as the. No. 4B
Drillsite to 18 miles west. of
O’Brien, 4,675 feet from the south
and 1,660 feet from the east lines
of F. T. Oliver Surrey 1, A-1738.
Contracted for 5,300 feet with ro-
tary, No. 4-B Brookerson to lo-
cated on a 528 acre lease.
JONES — Is the East Hamlin
Field, eight miles northeast of
Hamlin. Jones & Stesney of Al-
bany spotted No. 1 E. M. Bostick
as a 3,500-foot rotary project.
Location to 330 feet from the
south and west lines of the north
81.45 acre lease, and being 1.979
feet from the north and 2,000 feet
from the west lines of Section 117,
BBB&C Survey.
HASKELL — Four mites north
of Stamford, location was staked
in the new area for Pan American
Production Co. No. 2 C. P Uvea-
good. slated for 3.000 feet with ro-
tary.
Site to 2,370 feet from the north
and 1.830 feet from the rest lines
of Section 8, A. W. Terran (H&TC)
Survey, A-530 It to 933 feet north-
west of No. 1 Livengood, recent
Canyon Reef discovery. No. 3
Livengood win be the third proj-
ect drilled in the area. The lease to
composed of 134 acres.
G. E. Kadane & Sons of Wichi-
ta Falls have plugged and aban-
doned their No. 1 Arvilla Smith,
southwest Stonewall County wild-
cat failure on a total depth of
6,656 feet in barren Ellenburger.
No fluid of any kind was so-
countered in the Ellenburger. Top
of that formation was called at
6.526 feet. Location was to Section
271, Block D, H&TC Survey. It
was six miles south of ths town
of Peseock.
42, - w «
hay."
Strike Looms
In Schleicher
A Canyon sand discovery is in
prospect in central-east Schleicher
County at Ted Weiner, et al No.
1-13 Williams, rank wildcat.
Operator took a drillstem test
to ths top of the Canyon sand from
4,076 to 4,096 feet Tool was open
two hours and 45 minutes. Gas
surfaced in one hour and 35 min-
utes. No fluid came to the top
while the tool was open.
Recovery was 275 feet of clean
oil and 315 feet of slightly oil and
gas-cut mud. No formation water
was present Open flowing bot-
tomhole pressure was from zero to
280 pounds. Shutin pressure after
13 minutes was 1,350 pounds. ,
More hole will be made and
another drillstem test run.
Location tee the wildest to in
Section 13, Block 1, GH&SA Sur-
TZ: " 5 1 me cant of rider-
AUSTIN, Jan. 3. — A scientific
guessing game, with millions of
dollars to the kitty, has created
an impressive educational skyline
to Texas—and is making the Uni-
versity of Texas one of the world's
wealthiest schools. It is a story
of rags to riches (to this case,
literally of shacks to edifices) ri-
valing the best of Horatio Algeria
sagas of success. And it baa a
cast of characters that ranges
from a 15th-century saint to Col-
onel George Apple, auctioneer ex-
traordinary. -
Naturally, this being Texas, pe-
troleum has s part in the play. In-
deed all the players to this scien-
tific guessing game are oil and
gaa men, and the prises they play
for are oil leasee on university
land to West Texas. This heetie
game so far has netted the uni-
versity about $100,000,000, just to
bonus money. In addition, the
school gets one barrel out of every
eight token from these petroleum
reserves. The take to date adds
up to more than $144,000,000 and
the figure mounts every passing
day.
All this ths university owes to
the state's founding fathers who,
evidencing their faith to education,
voted an endowment for the school
established at'Austin 1a 1883. Mon-
ey was net plentiful, but of land
they had a lot, and out of this
surplus the school was gifted with
a domain of some 2,000,000 acres.
Forty years later, the university
could report little profit from its
empire. Only a trickle of money
was derived from the immense
acreage, and that came from gras-
tog leasee.
This was the situation when, to
1923, good news came out of the
bleakness of Reagan County, nine-
ty miles west of San Angelo. There
a well had been sunk, hopefully
named Santa Rita by two New
York,women who had bought stock
to the drilling company. The rea-
son for this choice of name is ob-
vious. Satan Rita to her faithful to
"the Saint of the Impossible.” If.
thereafter, the New York women
more diligently lighted candles in
her honor. it to understandable.
The wen “blew to” The Big Lake
pool which this dlaeovery led to
to still producing
NO SLACKENING
That was the beginning of aa
oil boom that has aot slackened
since. Today, When aa auction of
university leases to scheduled, the
occasion outranks any rodeo you
ever saw for nerve-wracking ex-
citement. Take, just for example,
the time when the university offer-
ed leases on 2,583 acres located
in Martin and Andrews counties.
Colonel Apple got a modest bid
of $7,500 to start.
Then spokesmen tor two major
oil companies got started—and
pushed the price past a million
dollors. At that point a third bid-
der got tots the act The price
reached $1,800,000, and one of the
early bidders dropped out Repre-
sentatives of another huddled
briefly, as if considering similar
action, but stayed until the colonel
called out: “Two million dollars!
Who'll make it two million one?”
The trace went for $2,050,000, an
alltime record. The whole crowd
of 200 men in shirtsleeves, gather
ed in the ballroom of the Hotel
Austin, bussed when the contest
ended Throughout it as the big
bids bounced back and forth, the
non-participants had followed the
action from side to side like spec-
tators st a tennis match, watch-
toe the bidders react
The colonel looked over the as-
semblage. "Don't say,” he told the
crowd, "that I didn't give you
guys a chance!"
RISKS CALCULATED
Do bids like this pay off? Time
alone — and drilling — will tell.
Sometimes, even when becked by
expert judgment they don’t One
$750,000 prize tract returned noth-
ing but dust to the drillers, and
other operators donated $5,000,000
for the privilege of drilling in the
same area — and they, too, got
nothing but dust.
These are exceptions., and are
canceled out as part of the cal-
culated risk which enters Into all
drilling operations. The garno
couldn't go on if, on the aver-
age, the scientific guessers engag-
tog to it didn't come out ahead
on the profit side of the lodger.
In June, at one of this year’s
auctions, the oil men paid $7,805,-
500 bonus for drilling rights on
33.433 acres. That figures to just
short of $200 an acre tor a petrol-
eum hunting license.
Naturally some luck plays a part
to such proceedings - or rather,
hick sometimes combines with
good “guessing." Once Cities Serv-
too picked up a lease tor $1,000
to an area where all other tracts
sold for 870.000 to $80,000. Frank
Cooter, division exploration man-
ager for Cities Service Oil Co.
(Del.), who regularly attends
these auctions, still can’t figure
out how it happened.
Cooter is high in his praise of
the whole leasing arrangement.
"Berte Haigh (the university's su-
pervising geologist at Midland,
Texas) is the key man,” Cooter
observes, "and be to entitled to a
major share of the credit for the
success of the lease program."
That's because most of the oil
men’s contacts are with Halgh,
but Hal P. Bybee to the geologist
in charge of university lands, with
headquarters at Austin.
COLONEL APPLE ON THE JOB
Considerable credit, too, must go
to the auctioneer. Colonel Apple
works only one or two days a year
on this job, at other times spe-
cializing to selling fancy livestock
..and he doesn't get as much
out of the lease auctions as was
once paid. Up to 1943 the auction-
eer go three-fourths of one per
cent of the satoe proceeds, but
when this reached 525.000 for a
day's work, the leasing, board (com-
posed of State Land Commission-
er Bascom Giles and two regents
of ths school) decided it would
be more economical to put him
on a day rate. The rate—$1,000
a day.
Cooter comes down from Fort
Worth, where he lives, to bid for
Cities Service, and to regularly ac
com panled by E. E. Dietert, divi-
sion geologist. These men go over
each tract carefully before the
safe, trying to figure out how
far to go in the bidding,and hav-
ing made a determination, they
stick by their judgment when the
auction comes. This to important
because sometimes the compe-
titive excitement of the sale bal
loons prices beyond the amount
informed bidders beifeve a tract
* EmeT service bomus bids
have put $1,716,750 into the univer-
Coleman Test
Slated for
2,800 Feet
Brannon & Murray. Coleman,
are to drill No. 1 Mildred M. Wood-
ward as a Coleman County wild-
cat.
Drillsite is one mile west of
Coleman, 667 feet from the south
and 990 feet from the west linos
of R. Howell Survey 154. Contract-
ed for 2,800 feet with rotary, lo-
cation to on a 115 acre lease.
Glen Cove Jennings Field in the
western part of the county added
two new wells.
Andrew M Howsley. Albany, No.
10 Helen J. Beavers, J. L. Dun-
can Survey 34, was completed for
a daily potential of 441.04 barrels
of 42 gravity oil
Flow was through a 20-64-inch
choke with 750 pounds casing and
375 pounds tubtag pressures from
80 perforations at 3.482-93 feet. Op-
erator set the casing at 3,537 feet
while the hole is bottomed at
3,538 feet. No 10 Beavero had a
gas-oll ratio of 425-1.
Howsley, et al. No. 11 Helen J.
Beavers, same survey, was com-
pleted for a daily flow of 38322
barrels of 42 gravity oil.
Completion was on a 20-64-inch
choke with 700 pounds casing and
250 pounds tubtag pressures from
112 perforations at 3,532-46 feet.
The casing to set at 3,581 feet and
total depth at 3,582 feet. Gas-oll
ratio was 450-1.
Tye Area Due
Taylor County
WildcafTry
A new wildcat location has been
staked in Taylor County as Clark
& Cowden Production Co., et al. of
Dallas No. 1 Carrie Laney.
Drillsite is one mile north of
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS . 10-A
Abilene. Texan, Sunday Morning, Jan. 4, 1M3 A
AT RECORD LEVELS
Shackelford
Well Gauged
/
alty endowment fund, and another
million dollars has been paid in
aa roysity. Present production from
Cities Service wells adds about
3500 a day to those totals. Besides
these payments, the company has
so far spent on development about
as much as it has received in oil
from its university tracts. It is
future production which will in-
sure that Cities Service experts
were "on the beam” when they
made their bids.
Right now, with leases on 20,415
acres in six West Texas Counties,
Cities Service has fifty net pro-
ducing oil wells. Up to August 1,
these wells had produced more
than 4,000,000 barrels of crude,
and have been delivering an aver- .,.. ....___________
age of 2,165 barrels of oil per day. Section 31, Block 17, T&P Survey,
NEW ADDITIONS
Latest addition to the university’s
expanding facilities is the Exper-
imental Science Building, at a con-
struction cost of approximately
$4,272,000. This was a project
urged by President T. S. Painter
to house porta of the Biochemical
Institute and the Departments of
Chemistry, Bacteriology and Zoo-
logy. Its more than 183,000 square
feet of floor space will provide for
64 research laboratories. 39 teach-
ing laboratories, and classrooms,
and offices. Incidentally, there is
no debt attached to this under-
taking. It was paid for to cash....
from petroleum income.
Companies "shooting" on uni-
versity lands for geological Infor,
matton share their findings with
the school This data la of great
value and la handled on a highly
confidential basis. Mr. Cooter says
he has never heard of the slight-
est leak through university chap
Tye, 330 feet from the north and
1.283 feet from the west lines of
and on a 490.76 acre lease. Con-
tract depth is 3,400 feet with ro-
tary.
The Blackwell Oil & Gas Co.
Abilene, No. 1-B Moore, Lot 29,
W. R. Willis Survey 122, was drill-
tag ahead after runing a drill-
stem test in a sand below the Flip-
nels.
“There is no place where honor
to more important than in thia
business." Cooter points out “The
a code we must follow ...and I've
never even heard a rumor that
anybody ever used for personal
advantage any of the information
which the oil industry supplies
to the University of Texas.”
pen.
It to s south offset to the same
firm's No. 1 Moore, Upper Strawn
reef discovery.
No. 1-B Moore wss tested st
2,604-21 feet with the tool open
for one hour. There was a good
blow throughout Recovery was 16
foot of oil and gas-cut mud, and
40 feet of salt water. Flowing
pressure was zero. Shutin pres-
sure in 20 minutes was 210 pounds.
No 1-B Moore has a contract
depth of 5,000 feet_______
Callahan Test
Scheduled
Shackelford County Regular
Field, U miles southwest of Al-
bany gained n new well with the
—me ESE MDa
section 4, Block 12, T&P Surver;
Daily potential was 195 barrels
of 37 gravity oil, pumping from
M perforations at 1.425-39 feet. Op-
erator set the casing st 1490 feet
while the hole to bottomed st 1580
fepiter to Sons, Breckenridge,
spotted No. 2 F. G. Coates in the
cater Bluff Creek Sand Field, 20
miles southwest of Albany.
Contracted for 1,750 feet with
esble tools, site to on a 160 acre
lease. It is 1,320 feet from the
south and 252 feet from the west
lines of Section 30, Block 13. TAP
^Roork. Hooker. Walker A HID of
Abilene No. 1 Roy C. McCoy. Sec-
tion 20, University Lands Survey,
wildeat two miles northwest of
Moran, was plugged at 4.908 feet.
In the regular field. 20 miles
northwest of Albany, Welch A
White of Breckenridge No 2-B
Chloe A. Nail. Section 128 ETRR
Survey, was plugged at 1,397 feet
Discover Seen
For Crockett Area
Cities Service Oil Company and
others have indicated Pennsylvan-
ian production at its No. 1-B Hobbs
west-central Crockett County wild-
The university, with all this oil
already coming up, and with 1,-
200,000 acres still to be leased, is
in a happy position----it can't be a
loser in this guessing game. Be-
fore Santa Rita, its wooden build-
ings were no drafty thst classes
bad to be dismissed in cold wea-
ther. Now 11,000 students attend
classes in stone and tile buildings.
Some $50,000,000 has been spent
so far on the campus and $10,-
000,000 more is going into expan-
“Texas *A. * M. also profits under
present arrangements, for a con-
stitutional provision makes It a
branch of the state university and
it gets one-third of endowment
earnings. Meet of the Aggies had
a little difficulty ewallowing the
suggestion of their school being
a "branch," for the schools are
traditionally more rivals than re
latives—but the money comes to
handy.
Of course, oil is supporting more
than schools to Texas. It is re-
making a ranch economy. Erst-
while cow towns like San Angelo,
Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Abilene
and Big Spring are now petrol-
eum centers. In four years two
big oil plays have hit West Texas.
Drilling to the Scurry reef devel-
oped e boom eround Snyder. The
larger, newer Spraberry formation
may prove to be a pool of 2,250, 000
acres of underground wealth — as
area roughly two-thirds that of
the State of New Jersey.
All this reflects itself not only
in the general prosperity of Texas,
but in the tax bills paid by Texas,
for oil and natural gas have be-
come the backbone of government
support. More than half the cost
of state government comes from
this source—and to many local
units of government, oil and gas
carry almost the entire load.
cat
The venture flowed oil on a drill-
stem test to the Pennslyvanian from
5,872 to 5,830 feet Tool was open
six hours and 13 minutes. It showed
gas to two minutes at the rate of
4,280,000 cubic feet per day.
, Mud surfaced to eight minutes
and clean oil to 30 minutes It
flowed 934 barrels of 46.4-gravity -
oil to five hours and 45 minutes. T
There wss no wster. Open flowing
bottom hole pressure was between
190 and 310 pounds.
At latest report, operators were
polling test tool. Top of the Penn-
sylvanian bns not been reported.
Location to in Section 7, Block
GO, CG&SF Survey and one mile
"A pf.dned.im Sewoneunip
It to also two miles southwest of
the shallow Olson Field__________
There are 19,855,857 acres with-
in the national forests of Califor-
nia, L
4
Independents Put Pressure |
On Rising Foreign Imports
pressed and again confirm our
agreement with the national oil pol-
icy statement adopted by the Na-
tional Petroleum Council statlag
that imports should supplement but
not supplant domestic production.”
TIPRO is eager to see the Rail
road Commission secure 1953 4m-
port schedules because TIPRO
feels the companies would be
forced into the position of proving
"good faith” on their pledge not
to supplant domestic output with
foreign oil.
The threat foreign oil poses for
Texas production long has been
recognized by the three Railroad
Commission members.
In December, 1949, Commission-
er Ernest O. Thompson comment-
ed: "With imports reported on the
increase end our oil exports on
the decline, the prospects for MM
do not look very bright for the oil
producer."
Commissioner William J. Mur
ray shared Thompson’s viewpoint
three years ago, noting that at the
close of 1949 “there was much con-
cern thst imports would continue
to rise until the domestic industry
had been very nearly wrecked and
the opportunity for development of
new reserves in this country had
been destroyed.”
In January, 1952, Commissioner
Olin Culberson pictured imports as
a "growing menace" and ex-
pressed fear Texas producers
would bavs a hard time staytag
in business.
Last Dec. 23, Thompson called
attention to an “alarming” drop
in drilling permit applications for
1952 in Texas and said "certainly
the great increase in imports of
oil ... is having an adverse effect
on drilling here st home.”
The next day, Culberson issued
a year-end oil review describing
the daily average of one millton
barrels of Imported oil as a “stag-
gering" figure. He predicted that
construction of a "tremendous
volume" of new tankers for trans-
port of more foreign oil would
give the domestic industry some
headaches in 1953 and 1954.
By BO BYERS
AUSTIN, Jan. 3 —Organized
independent Texas oil men are
turning on the pressure to force
a reduction in imports of foreign
crude.
Imports have increased to a rec-
ord level while the allowable flow
of Texas oil has been cut from
an all-time high of 3,387,245 bar-
rels per day Nov. 29 to 3,211,108
at the atari of the new year.
Claiming the situation la out of
balance, Texas independents are,
in effect, waging a campaign to
recapture some of the market
taken over by foreign oil.
Using publicity, the Texas Inde-
pendent Producers and Royalty
Owners Assn. (TIPRO) has de-
manded an explanation of why Im-
ports are rising while domestic
production is dropping in the face
of decreased market demand.
Parley Called
Six major companies were quer-
ied by TIPRO for statements of
policy and estimates on 1953 Im-
port plans. Five executives have
indicated they do not consider Im-
ports excessive. The sixth com-
pany head, President. B. Brewster
Jennings of Socony - Vacuum,
bluntly refused to give informa-
tion to TIPRO.
The Texan Railroad Commission
also wantn firsthand information
on estimated crude and products
requirements and a schedule of
1953 importing programs.
To get this data, the commis-
sion has invited top industry execu-
tives to testify st s state-wide pro-
ration hearing Feb. U. A almUar
bearing waa held in 1950 after
Texas had absorbed a large de-
crease in demand while Importa
were breaking records.
Say Supplemental Only
Importers insisted at that time
they believed in using foreign
crude only to supplement domes-
tie productioo. They still say the
same.
Eugene Holman, president of
Standard Oil, New Jersey, said in
response to TIPRO’S recent re-
quest, “We repeatedly have ex-
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Velma Petroleum Corp., Abilene,
staked location for No. 3 Holt as
. a Callahan County wildcat eight
miles northeast of Abilene.
Contracted for 1,850 feet with
cable tools to try for Cook Band
production, site is on a 150 acre
lease. It is 330 feet from the south
and east lines of the southwest
quarter in Section 66, Block 14,
T&P Survey.
Location for No. 2 Holt is 2,000
feet east of No. 1 Holt, dry at
4,150 feet. No. 1 Holt was plugged-
back to 1,830 feet in the Cook, but
it has not been completed. Loca-
tion la one mile northeast of the
Bon Palo Pinto Field.
Eastland County
Lake Project Gauged
G. A Bloomquist No. 1 E. C.
McClelland, Section 466, SP Sur-
vey, Bloomquist Lake Sand Field,
has been completed for a daily
potential of 10.35 barrels of 41
gravity oil, with a gas-oil ratio of
19.400-1. Location to 10 miles north-
west of Cisco in Eastland County.
The project flowed through 13-44
choke with 110 pounds on cosing
and 160 pounds on tubing from 42
perforations at 3,681-88 feet Total
depth was 3,725 feet and easing
wss set et 3,733.
Crows will set 19 bushels at to.
sects to one season on the aver-
age form. ________________.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652249/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.