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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1917
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Your
tion
1916‘S RECORD IN ,
it. OIL PRODUCTION
NORTHWEST TEXAS YIELDED
! - 5,500,000 BARELS VALUED
AT $7,000,000
‘ Let Us
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Be Your Drugg
This Year
When sent to us will receive
our immediate and careful at-
tention, and our motorcycle
" delivery assures you of ,
—---ry—: .
speedy delivery
I# OTHER DISTRICTS
Much New Territory Opened During
Year, and New Record Estab-
ished In Country
There are many thing to demand of your druggist—many things that you have a right to
expect from your druggist. We believe we are in a position to meet all your demands, te
fulfill all of your expectations. We carry a complete stock of the purest, freshest and
best Drugs, and we never try to offer you “something just as good." We always fill every
order just as it come to us—at the earliest possible moment, and no customer is kept wait-
ing. We also carry a full line of all druggist sundries, and can fill your wants in every’.
thing that pertains to the drug business. Our prescription department is in charge of ex-
perienced pharmacists, whose first duty it is to see that the doctor’s orders are absolutely
carried out, without loss of time. Your phone orders will receive the same prompt, care-
ful attention as if you come in person, and you will always find our prices most reasonable
The Miller Drug Store
RELIABLE H. T. THORNBERRY, prop.
d: Green Stamps
Phones 193 and 925 727 Ohio Ave
Free Delivery
Wichita Nursery
| With production of approximately
- 5,500,040 barrels of oil in .1916, ac-
cording to government estimates, the
Northwest Texas oil field held its
place as a factor in the petroleum
business of the country, though not
recording the increase that some other
fieds showed, according to federal re.
ports on oil production.
I. The value of Northwest Texas oil L
Is estimated at approximately $7,000,
000 for the year.,
That 1916 was a record-breaking
• year for the petroleum industry of 1
the United States is indicated in a 1
I preliminary estimate of the output of!
crude oil made by John D. Northrop i
I of the United States geological sur-
‘vey, department of the interior.”
Northrup estimates that during the
: year just closed 292,300,000 barrels of
crude petroleum was produced and
1 marketed in the oil fields of this
country. This quantity is greater by .: . e-saea
| 11,000,000 barrels, or 4 per cent, than activity in the oil pools and in newly-discover new areas of equivalent 1
the output in 1915. In addition to theidiscovered extensions had been at. Value.
iquantity of oil produced and marketed|fended with success so great as toSo successful in developing new I
jin 1916, several million barrels were bring about overproduction. The production was the drilling campaign
I produced and placed in temporarypormpt curtailment of production in in the mid-continent region, inspired
field storage in Kansas and Okla-the more prolific newer fields precent-by the waning of Cushing and the
homa. led further reductions in price. and prompt advance of the crude oil mar
| The following table shows by States the features of the closing months of ket, that Oklahoma was enabled to
the marketed production of petroleum the year were an advancing market retain in 1916 the premier rank as an
—in: 1915, and an estimate of the pro-that affected Pennsylvania grade on oil-producing State, and Kansas to
I Auction in 1916. in, barrels of 42 gal- Septebmer 26 and Oklahoma-Kansas secure recognition as an important
long each: 1 grade on November 29. The closing source of crude oll.:
1 State- 1915 — 44 4414* **.-5-------L‘" --"
Oklahoma... 01,010,210
I California 30086591035
Texas ... 17.467.698
I ilinois,
— Lenislawa
Richardson-Taylor Drug Co.
“The Store of Better Service”
Phones 65-1792
Ohio it Seventh
The discovery of « prolific “pay’”
1915 1916 prices per barrel for these typical ‘sue uurenjuj ,-uny
97,915,243 105,000,000 grades were: Pennsylvania, $2.85; below the Bartles vilie sand m the
arest 39,000,000 Oklahoma-Kansas, $1.40,
1487.588 20,000 400
%..
& Floral Company
If you want to get something that will be worth
the money, varieties that have been tested and
backed up by thirty years’ experience, at reason-
able prices, call 271, or come and see for yourself.
on .As a consequence of an ------------
2:2 19,941,095 16 500 000 I demand for oil and a decrease in the
LEr.R 1:9539 15,800,000 stocks held by pipe line companies
1500290 ae rebasing agents, the
Cushing district, Creek county. Ok-
increasing lahoma, and the completion of a great
RET number or gusher wells in the Sham-
rock or south extension of that dis-
ARC triet, together with the successful de-
ncen axeloprocat. AC--ANENNL-A WX
FINE CANDIES
. MADE IN WICHITA
They are the finest that can be had.
rIIIQ o. an 722 Indiana
FELLU Cl UU. Phone.... 626
ginia.. 9.204.71
snetsoegedo | fotieinden of Gegroleum produced In-IC 704 RuRZciy-itiiymmnm
oimme *M, AFT O Na u --------- - TrEe: —---—--=**==**==RA *
114,245.25 6,500.000 posted on December 28, 1915, remain-pressed the market for all high grade , ANDERSON PATTERSON -an for
437.274 1,200,000 I ed inceffect until February 1c when crude oils east: of they ltocky, mount IAII LIOVUN
- tnsuranc sr an inasAlsma mean Estate and
. Total.. 281,104,104 292,300,000 Mr # Lenta ad: invorinr Ai xrnden there were about 500 producing wells -
The increase in 1916 is accounted of oil produced the State became t he Eldorado district, the € -
for by the continued ability of the errecuive September 20 and Novem. bined daily capacity of which wases tributor to the oul output of this re-1
now fields in the midcontinent and I ber 21 ,.. . timated to be in excess of 5,000 par | gior throughout the year. The com-
Rocky mountain regions to supply tinder the stinted relatively rels. in the Augusta field more than pletion late in October of a 6,000-bar- |
enough oll from new wells to xieindemethereeinirdlua 100 producing wells were drilled dur: rel oil well, at a depth about 2,000
in offset the normal decline in the ! . s.for crude P Lining 1916, and at the end of the rear feet, in the Goose creek pool added
the estimated daily capacity of the largely to the output of this erratic!
field was in excess of 30.000 barrels, poor and made it the center of drill- 1
" er " ing activity at the end of 1916.
High average prices for gulf coast
grades of oil in 191G resulted in great-
er activity in all the pools than in
1915, and to this activity most of the!
old pools responded with increased i
production. | nan
The petroleum output of WyomingLTTi I ,
result of the installation of a refinery Vtnt Sst NUWS 1
was materially increased in 191G as a:. 1
leooutide of the u - M2 FOLOAN 7 44 7 OF CHIEF INTEREST :
: ESErygenirunegie Wi-Er OH Ik be- M Onnttormet srtinner u=e: inap Pint ra: SOMA" now # 7 7 —•:
a barrel . ., much greater than in This . Basin field, in noruern Park county,1
— In Pennsylvania, the extension of particularly true in the Healdton field, the Burlington railroad at Panle
I the Dorseyville" pool, in Allegheny Carter county, where the large in-imne most-ome eveopmem or
county, was drilled by a number of crease in the production was record-the year in wyonine was the opening
wells, which produced from the third ed and where several million barrels or the new on the Big Mudas
Wye. Mont. .
Kentucky:...
Indiana ....
New York .
Colorado ......
Other States .
Rentals. 616 Eighth.
BELL-A NS
_than offset the normal decline in the h
SHADE TREES OF ALL THE BEST KINDS. Folder nieids east of the NIENtssippI. moimier *or Sia" AmTX at Alive _
1 eiThe m ansed the in- liroughout the country, not only in | Siunreant discoveries or on, the value
Rluekberry and dewberry plants, omeat mewells whiupriene draths proved areas," but in places far from or which had not been determined by
$2.00 per hundred. .drilling in all nels: decreases in I eveloped areas of off and gas. The the end of 1916. were made in Kansas,
Strawberry plants, 75e per 100. Inroduction in the Cusbie Orla.l greatest wildcat activity was in Kan-near Beaumont, Greenwood county,
Roses, 2 years old. 25 cents; Amer noma. which allowed the product lor 1 was. Oklahoma: Texas and Wyoming. and northwest or Winfield, in Cowley
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Plums, apricots, pears and_cberries. Grafted pecans. $100 each: Seed-innua mho new T of many new wells on “Inside oca-in Wensville district, Franklin
28 oach.” In Ponn 28 CT 10 50 €6ms. ion Ina - A-FA W"___________"
On orders of 50 cents worth of: The principal centers of increased per welsna whose operaLon.41 ""-I which remained the center ofinteres!
Un orders oI Po we Wlit DU sent NOEUA o I production in 1916 were in Estill and
r Allen counties, Kentucky, Butler coun-
plants in addition, and OR orders amounting Ity Kansas, Carter county. Oklahoma,
to $10 will give $1 worth of plants. 5 yomTIEPrk and Natrona coun-
Prices of crude petroleum at the -** ---.....2— --- - cu eu ----- ----- 1 te new on ne on ine big munay
1 wells averaged considerably higher in Fani and whose capacities were about of oil was placed in field storage:! anticline in western Converse county. 1 —-
eg we be 9 nn
grade advanced from $2.25 to $2.60 a interpreted as indicating the discov. of the Osage reservation an especial the Salt Creek field, to the north west or so will 6 o 2
I barrel and Oklahoma-Kansas grade ery of a new pool of oil in the Gor; ly rich pool of his h grade oil" in Natrona county. w ne re I m e 1
| from $1.20 to $1.55 a barrel, and the don sand. covered and partly developed by nthel or less potential importance was the % men have Aase
1 product of the Cushing oil pool com- In West Virginia the most import- Tidal oil company, on its shear i discovery of oil in smaller quantities: the Conines well
I manded a premium of 50 to Go cents ant results of deld activity in 1916 Hominy. indication W
above the price last quoted. Except F include the discovery and partial de-Bluff pool. discovered in, 1915 west corner of Sweetwater county, t enness" arsunt or
1 for reductions of little insignificance Ivelopment of a rich pool of oil in the ed in the development of 1am US A number of productive wells were Ins too far ine
: in the price of one of the low grade "foot sand on. Dents runnear Man productive areayieldig completed in the Pilot Butte field, are confidently expectiemoond
crude oils produced in northern Louis- nington, Marion county; and the proor : oil in Southern Wagoner counts Fremont county, opened in 1915 by the I from the Orton,
liana in June. and in the premiums of a northeastward extension of the miles south of Billings* Hall Oil company. i in Oregon and gavori nawnoim
paid for Cashing oil, these high prices Berea sand pool in the Cabin Creek county, the discovery in August ! Little Buffalo basins, in eastern Park Several new companies are being
were maintained until the middle of district, Kanawha county, beyond the tural gas and of encouraging o! county; additional drilling in 1916 re- for drilling Archer coun.
, July when, led by all northern I onis. 1 boundaries of the territory controlled. ings of oil resulted in the startins o: suited only in gas product ion. Hand As soon the water situation
: iana grades on the 15th and followed by the company that discovered the of other tests in the hope of Although a number of wells were improves," marked inc rease in the
by Oklahoma-K ansas grade on the pool Jate in 1914 ling an important field. To the west drilled in southern Montana in 1916, numberor may be expected. I
1 24th and by. Pennsylvania and asso-i The petroleum output of Kentucky of this locality, in Garfield s oil production in this State at the the-meantime of the wells
I elated grades on the 29th, a retro-res. I was increased nearly 200 per cent as wildcat test completed in November end of the year was restricted to the maw driline mrave th he nmdnictire
i sive movement was began, which Tastin result of the remarkable stecess | as a 5-barrel oil well was ntern | north end of the Elk Basin field, in
. e4 until late In A ugust and reduced t hat attended the search for exten- i as the forerunner S PTonAIRS I southern Carbon county,
the price of Oklahoma Kansas" grade sions of the Irvine pool. In Estill coun- velopment near Sarber A moderate increase in production
to 90 cents a harrel, practically elim- 1 ty, and of the Scottsville-Petrolemn In financial circles the eadls: * i was t the response of California’s oil
I inated the Cushing premium and district, in Allen county. ture of the year s developmentAE. fields to the steady advance in prices
brought Pennsylvania grade to $2.50 a . The quest for oil in Tennessee was mid-continent region Was erne! that was the principal feature of the d NGTRIONERE
1 harrel This depression in the prices continued in a desultory fashion in of many independent interests. Pre crude oil market in this State. Drill- etineSoders probably be held
I of crude oil was centered in the mi. | 1916, but wi thou t notable success. d ucing. t ra nsporting and re activity in all fields was nea ri § w
, continent fields, where, mbsequent to Pate in September It was reported to strong corporations among which twice as great as in 1915, but the sizeonang set an the ganital stock
1 me wd eel ito o r Cushi n % tiem. general that oil in commercial quantities had the Sinclair oil and Refin Aof the new wells completed contrasted that an
— 2-4- -=- been discovered in a well drilled near tion. Cosden & Co., and the Cosdea strongly with those of three and four be offer-
Clenmary, in the southern part of Oil and Gas company are perhaps the - years ago. The scarcity of oil of fuel as some Wichitans who
ADIUMNTUCD RACU Scot county, about 15 miles south-most conspicious examples. Scarcely grades resulted in especial activity in Hailed to it in An the nrraalstae
est of Nnieda t he sea t of the oil: less important was the absorption by 1
JRAAA AN N uff limar:........rosluet n at ACIMME: a A
There Was Nothing So Good for eastern Ohio i 1916 was the Union refining and gas distributing inter-
s Congestion and Colds Furnace district, in Hocking county, ests in this region. . . L
as Mustard 1 which supplied a large number of An increase in drilling ACt
| as Mustard . creditable wells during the year. A throughout Central and Northern Text |
: % Rue dies olclcd.hs Nuwmoeard glister crofi %# smmintcm eana nelMNA End A ECE ." U *=*= E:
burned and blistered While it actees Sou townships, Vinton county. In Knox the productive area at Burkburnett-
Ican now get the relief and - help that and" Holmes counties drilling in the+resulted in an appreciable increase in. ---
mustard plasters gave without the pl. % vicinity of the wildcat producer com the petroleum output credited to this
| ter and without the blister. - pleted near Brinkhaven in 1915 was’area. Wildcat activity resulted in By Being Constantly Supplied With
Nusterole does it. It is a clean,, attended with indiff srent success. i nrom ising d iscov eries of ga 4.01k the —= E
white ointment, made wirli oil of Fouthwest ClerelinrhoE Mersrand Pimononnisnoteoh and was Thedford’s Black-Draught,
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‘ Just massage Mu terole in wi h’the UITVinus producing wells in In Eastern Texas a wildcat test near McDuff, Va.—I suffered for several and Northwest Texas, however, the
, finger t ps gently. See how. quickly mat woolter "Wayne county. nethany, Panola county, was complet-years,” says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, of oil price situation at present is more
. it brings relief—how speedily "Deamite the fact that the greatest i ed in July as a productive oll well of this place, "with sick headache, and matter of permlums than of posted
Phone 497 1 pain disappears. .activity in drilling in the Lima dis- | sufficient capacity to justify additional stomach trouble. • rotations on redit balances.
E 4AR 7: ‘ U’se Musterole for sore throat, bron- strict of northwestern Ohio Was in drilling in that localityments in | Ten years ago a friend told me to try.
tonsilitis.. croup. stiff-neck, "Wood county the best results wereThe important developments 1-2 - *—• - E • 1
_____2 Laithma, neural gas h c ad. ache, conges- oh stained’in the
Storage Batteries and ===========
, 4: 2 MAY (it often prevents pneumonia). TI litdiana the bulk of the field new district south of Shreveport:
rsest,WWUGatvity in 1016 was in the south west. De Soto parish the discovery of an
- 1.: ern part of the State. The comple : defined area of promising all near
I t lon-in August by the Indiana Refining 1 Texas boundary: in Red River Parish
, . 1T41995 1 remnant ta.iiewrcrr/ CEDE the Cincerrayon nmict or/ding Black-Draught."
TVTTTIEATI ton Pounty.’ north or the Princeton ine Chrielton field; in Boaster par:!. Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
! pool. furnished an incentive for fur- ish, the discovery of ran important vegetable, and has been found to regu-
IICFunsl) ther activity in the hone that a new source of gas near Elm Grove west | late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
. h I noni might be developed. of Lake Bistineau, and in Morehouse lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
..._____-----__---., ... No developments of consequence parish. the discovery of a vaN field 9 1 headache, sick stomach, and -il
resulted from drilling activity in mli- promise a few miles southwest of symptoms.
, DR. “J. D. PROCTOR." ‘. ifrvude oin"tre reorana, Tentroibie enally retained frit rank in | „h has been in constant use for more
r ‘ The productive territory in the Colnetivity and of 1
I CIAICB CHUBS , . mar district, ArDorouch county. In suome puwin v. 35 --- -7
1 offire ever Morris Drug Stere the western mart of the State. was plain. despite a decided waning ofthe ‘.. --------- -=- --- --------------.....vint
ms 1 A 131) AHIasz D DIGITI mo 802 1-2 Indiana Ave. practically all drilled, and wildcat ac- anpnisy of cil obtained from Ideen Black-Draught. Price only 20c. Get a Wise
TRY TIMES WANT ADS FORUCA EESUIS Phones. Office 1415: Residence 249 trity in ndincent. counties failed to rands. Sour Lake was a steady con mekage to-day. nc on Yoling.
4 foot trees, 15 cents. Blafkberry and dewberry .plants,
Gfoot trees, 35 cents. $2.00 per hundred.
8-foot trees, 50 cents. Strawberry plants, 75c per 100,
Larger sizes, 75 cents to $1.00 each. -...---, - .------. - --, -
Evergreens, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 to Ican Beauty plants, 36 cents each.
$1.50 each. Lilac. Flowering Almonds, Japonica,marketsand .
Peach-trees, ze cents each; $15.00 Ponleana. Althea, Balviagregi and man Frently increased
‘ Honeysuckle, 25 cents each. mand for crude 01. expressing
Our Christmas Savings Club
Opened January 2nd
Come and Join One or More of
the Series
CITY NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS, $480,000.00
J. A. KEMP President * ” ..
C. W. SNIDER, Cashier
P. P. LANGFORD Vice Presiden
WILEY BLAIR, Vice l’residen
W. L. ROBERTSON, Ass’t. Cashier
T. T. T. REESE, Ass’t. Cashier
3 A Kemp
I' I’..Langford
Wiley Blair
DIRECTORS:/
yw-cihirrson . J. Perklis
J.T. Cuuman W. L. Robert
it • Harvey C. W. Snider
0. T Bacon
on Dr C. it Hartsook
T. T. Rteeso
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Choice Prairie Hay!
We have from ten to twenty carloads choice Pmirie
Hay on track, which we can make prompt shipment with.
Attractive prices on ton lots, delivered in city. Out-of-town -
- customers, call us at our expense for prices on ear lots.
Maricle Coal & Feed Co.
707 Tenth St.
We re-charge and rebuild all kinds of Storage Batteries. We are open
day and night. We do alt k nds of Auto repair work. We hive "Ambu" the
electrical trouble shoots. Will locate all starter and lighting troubles quick,
ly and accurately No guess work about this wonderful machine. Bring us
all your Auto troubles.
Shuler & Wallace
Phone 2169 704 Scott
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 25c at all druggists.
Not Far From Sand—Refinery Plans
Proceeding—No Oil Advance ‘,
Here Vet
! strated presence of high grade oll in part of the field, si miles away where
two principal zones of promiction that Coline No. 1 Orton is rapidly hearing
rarregnd in nosition to the Shannon a _____At) ___G
improves, a marked increase in the
! now drilling prove to be productive
1 still more operations will be under
1 way: for t he present. lack sot water
| continues to hamper new work on ev.
ery side.
Plans for the new refinery are go-
ing ahead rapidly and a meeting of
, to get in on the proposition
1.....pportant was te ansoruon Ng MIB"Kerm river and wekittnck "ndde | ire nowcanstons to do so ir opportune
the City Service corporation of ================================= :
gas producing, ge a At noon today the ten cent advance
distributing InterFAMII Y posted in Oklahoma by the® Sinclair
I A Frompany had not been “followed by
.wtu large pine lines, and oil men here
eynrutrna were watering the price situation
SERIOUS SICKNESS
with some interest. While the action
of Sinclair in putting the price up in -
the face of the big companies is con-
isMtered a nervy deed. is said by
those who know Sinclair to he typical
of him. The course followed by some
I of the big companies when an “outs
sider" boosts the price, ia to prompt-
ly boost it, within a few days, to a
point where the. outsider cannot fol-
low. So far this has not happened in
Both in Oklahoma
seien thopthor dime memnetnets Ma lIn I lo te Ine test Maly ME - UrNINOnTHwest =
me eris, #... The Mooringsport cine for young and old. TEXAS TO DECEMBER 13
district. south of Caddo lake. to the I keep Black-Draught on hand all the ine gove
south and west, and the completion of time now. and when my children feel a ginnings in
a number of prolific gas wells in the little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it December
ct south of Shreveport: in does them more good than any medicine County —
trish the discovery of an they ever tried. - Archer .....
Atm-rprn. we never have a long spell of sick- Citresi
ery or new oll termory in news inuour family, since we commenced Dickens . 1
Foard :
Hall .
Hardeman .
The government’s report on cotton (
ithle bad, they ask me tor a dose, and ii berember : JInt ATo , TONE P to
444 Hain *4 “AAA Iha *** adiale * * 5 1916
..........4.962.
.........12,687
*2,661
3 1914
2,906
Haskell
Jack . ......
Knox
Montague
Morris
reamer uImu **uLE - ----75 == Stephens
actvy anu or production among the man 70 years, and Bas pepefited more Throckmorton
AnIdome pools of the gulf coastal than a million people. "-Wichita
similar
.Wichita ......
Your druggist sells and recommends Wilbarger .
AC on Yoling •
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6,290
7.341
He
22.194
4.962
20.985
. 18.992
9,813
1.062
2.725
1,557
19,681
16,256
. 11,912
13,291
20.215
4.281
10,722
19,349
7,468
4,971
17.684
15,903
8,428
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