The Fort Stockton Pioneer (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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The Fort Stockton Pioneer
VJLUME XIV
rORT STOCKTON. PtCOS COUNTY. TEXAS. JULY 29. 1921
NUMBER 18
FOREIGN CAPITAL MAY HELP DEVELOP
OIL RESOURCES OF FORT STOCKTON FIELD
GRANT COMPANY WILL SOON HAVE TWO
NEW WELLS GOING DOWN FOR OIL
IOWA PEOPLE MAKING PLANS FOR
The Poland-American Petrol- edly make a wonderful appeal With the moving in this week, | up distinct areas that have a
eum company, an organization to laborers who are inured to the by the Grant Oil corporation, of particularly appealing force to
backed^ by foreign capital, it is rigors of the climate of Galicia, a heavy Star muchin.* on section oil men and qualified students of
give development campaign in duration and extremely severe. *1°’1“*'^ The test well the company is
the Fort Stockton field; and it is Too, the wide expanse of fer- , ’ . ... engaged in drilling on section 28,
understood that drilling activi- tile soil, sparsely populated, will making of a deep test that will hlock 10, H. & G. N. railway sur-
ties will be instituted immediate- present to the minds of the Pol- be watched with no small degree Vey, is progressing in fine shape,
ly following the closing ot nego- anders Aladdin-like opportuni- of anxiety by those who are firm- with the hole down about 100
tiations for a certain large area ties for colonization to people jv i,ersoaded that deeD drilling feet. The redbeds formation,
the field supervisors view with who are cramped up in a dis- .* .. virinitv «f th«* which has been encountered in
special favor. trict with a congested popula- »*• all the wells drilled in the Fort
It has not been possible to gain tion that averages more than .__th.. .4nH vvnn Stockton field, was entered into
definite information relative to two hundred thirty to a square' , ». ‘_ in t ; J " at the eighty foot level and has
the section of country the com- mile; and one can well imagine , ‘ f } j carried to the present depth,
pany contemplates drilling in. as that once any appreciable num- f ,‘’m 8et a{ r,,st the mi‘nd. Manager Grant is putting
the field men are unusually ber of these thrifty. of th ose wh oh ave bee n disused forth his best efforts towards
close-mouthed. In harmony with mg souls become acquainted w ith (o ,)Uustjon the veraciousneVs of the hastening of development
their secretiveness, presumably, the possibilities of this grtat • own evesi«ht work throughout the field and
it is told that the corps of work- kingdom of Pecos county, there The deepte8t tbe (jrant com- his latest advice from the Ore-
ers the company will place m will follow an exodus from .all- pany is 'arranging to make will gon-Texas Drilling syndicate re-
charge will al be foreigners, di- cia limited in numbers to naught lje (|ri]led jn at a point about 100 organizers is to the effect that
rect from Galicia, a one-time more than the immigration laws fegt directjy east of the shallow the men in Oregon who are iden-
province of Austria, largely pop- fit the United States. '*•*• ’ " • •* ....
ulated with Polanders and other A. F. Fuse, the Fort Worth
Slavonic races. operator who is drilling on sec-
If the company adheres to this tion 53, block 101, is endeavor-
resolve and does bring in work- ing to block up an area for the jjiiw wii ^ w 4jiv lwlS011iec,0
ers from that section of the company, it is said, and if terms and which has yielded produc- themselves to the end that when
DRILLING IN FORT STOCKTON FIELD
An Iowan, M. O. Kingsbury of
Audubon, is preparing to wage
drilling operations in the Fort
Stockton field.
In a letter to the Chamber of
Commerce Dr. Kingsbury says: action.
“I feel the Fort Stockton field waiting
got into grips he didn’t keep
pounding like Dempsey.
“Business appears to be in the
‘clinch’ stage. Because of con-
ditions there doesn’t seem to be
much opportunity for effective
Nearly everybody is
for the deadlock or
should become one of the great-
‘clinch’ to end. Why not try to
est fields in the state; and owing vv'hT'.’mt keep'Tatferb^
to the shutting ott of the flood- away with as much determina-
ing of this country by the oil tion as the world’s champion
of Mexico, I look for some great fighter exercised when he found
development work in the Fort *n a *i£ht place?
a. , , . ,i Of course, there are obstac-
Stockton field* in the very nearly
well No. 7, and on a line almost tified with the syndicate hope to
due north of the Wonder well, he able to interest capital suffic-
the first well drilled by the com- ient to justify the resumption of
pany, in which the bit entered drilling work very soon,
into oil at the depth of 51 feet, The reorganizers are exerting
in-
tion ranging from 25 to 45 bar-
work is resumed there will be
H rels daily, on the pump. all the money on hand necessary
With work started on this deep to drill the hole to a depth of
world, the Fort Stockton field mutually satisfactory to all
may, as one result of the oil well volved can be perfected, it
drilling operations, experience thought the company will ...................... __ _.............
»ome novel transformations, in- moving in standard rigs ready test 'the Grant p^ .T500"toi.OOoTee'f without the j make" arrangements!’’
as much as this remarkably de-tor drilling on, if not before, two wells in progress of drilling, need of again suspending to raise
future. To lend an impetus to
the boom all that is necessary is
to get things started in as many
places as possible, and I think it
is considerably up to those of
us who own considerable acreage
in the vicinity of the field to
start things rolling.
“I have six sections in Pecos
county and would like very much
to get a well spudded in on this
acreage before long. I also have
several thousand acres besides
this particular tract and will
start drilling on all of it before
the first of the year if I can
lightful climate will most assur- January 1.
each of which will tend to prove money.
NEW MAIL SERVICE
EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1
Acting Postmaster M. J. Mc-
Donald, is in receipt of an order _
from the Postoffice Department rear of the store. Upon a hur-
SUDDEN DEATH
Wednesday morning shortly
after the ojiening hour, the at-
tention of the proprietors and
employees of the Ellis Grocery
was attracted by groans emanat-
ing from the warehouse in the
PAST WEEK’S LABORS IN THE OIL
DRILLING GAME IN THIS VICINITY
is, and the prevailing deadlock,
yet it has been demonstrated by
quite a number of respectable
corporations, firms and individ-
uals that big results can be
achieved in the face of all these
difficulties.”
Mr. Forbes points out that the
National Cash Register com-
pany has sold more cash regis-
ters during the past six months
than in any other half year of
its history, by adopting inten-
sive and aggressive sales cam-
paigns, and he concludes, “most
of us are fighting in a ‘clinch’
at present. We are apt to feel
hand-tied and foot-tied—and
purse-tied. But what is here
said demonstrates that ‘it can
be done.' ”
“Fighting in the clinches,” is
The Detroit Oil company, with for A. F. Luse, the Fort Worth
a location on section 102, block oil operator, by Dave Humphrey,
10, H. & G. N. railway survey, a driller with an enviable rep-
This is only one of the many
letters indicatory of the keen in-
terest people in all sections of
the United States are manifest-
ing in the Fort Stockton field— the spirit that has been the gov-
an interest that is being main- ierning policy of Fort Stockton
tained and can be justly attrib- business men, and as a result of
uted to the bull-dog tenacity of that idea a large number of peo-
the local business men who are !p|e have maintained an unflag-
financing the Chamber of Com- ging interest in the Fort Stook-
merce and “fighting in the! ton field, that will eventually re-
Washinirton which establish- iried investigation it was found has its new heavy engine placed, utation in the Fort Stockton field, clinches.” Along this line an ex- dound to the great good of all
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es a mail service for Fort Stock- that Edmundo Carrasco, the 18- ready to start drilling again
ton from Monahans on the T. & year-old Mexican delivery boy [ _
P. railway. |was in the throes of death from Bower, Hale & Lamb, operat
The service becomes operative
Monday, August 1. with a daily
is making exasperatingly slow
time in a limestone formation,
............... ........ ...... almost flint-like in hardness.
an attack of heart trouble. jn8 a heavy Star machine on sec- Limestone, unusually hard, was
The deceased was a quiet, in- Hon 24, block 26, university entered into just a few inches be-
schedule (except Sunday)"asfof-! du.9trious employee and will be iancjs, Hre drilling in limestone low the surface and the drilling
lows:
Monahans to Fort Stockton
Leave Monahans____7:00 a. m.
Arrive Stockton____11:30 a. m.
Fort Stockton to Monahans
Leave Stockton----1:30 p. m.
Arrive Monahans___6:00 p.m.
The establishing of the above
mail route should prove a great
convenience to Fort Stockton and
surrounding territory. Besides
giving a daily passenger service
to and from the T. & P. railroad
it also improves the mail ser-
vice to a great extent. We will
be able to receive mail 24 hours
earlier than it is being delivered
under present conditions.
Edward Van Sweatt is named
as the contractor for the Mona-
hans-Fort Stockton route and
John Ernest Moore as sub-con-
tractor.
crew’s have had it to contend with
cerpt from an article by the well j concerned,
known finacial writer B. C.
Forbes, is apropos. Writing on
the financial page of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, Mr. Forbes re-
views the Dempsey-Carpentier
ring battle and makes it perti-
NEW TOWNSITE
NAMED GRANT
every inch of the way down, and nently portray conditions in the
Fin- JSgH
seventeen minutes’ fighting, & O. rail-
STATIONS REINSTATED
Austin, July 26.—The six ex-
periment stations located re-
spectively at Chillicothe, Temple,
Beaumont, Nacogdoches, Angle-
missed by employers and patrons around the 1.300-foot mark.
alike. _
Senorita Maria Carrasco, who tiiiii-
is employed in the dry goods de- Bower, Hale, Lamb & r in-. jg so limited that drillers are
hj* rt m** fi t of the Roonev Mercan- diess, w no are n«i\lllg a well qnmHU'hitt relneturit about admit- . ....vw..
tile Co., is a sister, and Joe Bar- drj],led °n *ect,on G C* f ting the slow time thev are mak- from which he emerged without *’»>' hfteen ™,les ('ast of
ron of the Rodgers store, is a S. F railway survey, by contract- h Drilling superintendent bruise or blemish, there are those Staton Men were put to
brother-in-law of the deceased. °ur Penney, are going in good (Humphrey is well satisfied, how- |who think Dempsey should qual- *ork thls week clearing off the
Interment was made Thursday ^aP^ ^,ththehole downaround'ever, under the circumstances,
in the Catholic cemetery.
HOW LONG?
800 feet.
It took the United States two 8 block 48 Texas pacjflc Sur-
years and eight months to get vev> northwest of Fort Stockton,
into the war after it started, and and are awajtjng the arrival of
it took it two years and eight a rig when they spud in, theirs
uoiM.cn,iify as a first class business man; fjte and grading the streets,
land while the hardness of the and the lesson the business men Lumber was also hauled out for
— present drilling irks him to a cer-|ought to draw from the prize- ‘ ^,?wrCe’
Maull & Frazier have made a j tain degree, he anticipates that i fight is based directly on what and we are informed the building
location on section 23, township j the drillers will make fast time j Dempsey did w'ith his fists. ° a W1‘* begin at once.
once they drill through the lime- “In the preliminary bouts the The Grant Oil corporation, own-
stone rock stratum. I boxers didn’t try to fight at all ers of extensive oil interests, ac-
— ! in the clinches, but simply wait- cording to our information, is
The Grant Oil corporation has ed until they got foot-free; but backing the project. The loca-
m0,"hS Looki! °we had'been »"1 ^ 'TJ" in- »"««.*» his «*ht “S
in that section of the field, and
ended.
just that much behind-hand in should they drill into oil it will
both rises like the man who confirm the judgment of several
was always pum-tua ly half an wbo pjn ^reat faith to that area.
We are not concerned in how
long it took the United States
The Texas-Top Oil company
to K0t Into and out of the war. dnll'o* with a standard rig on
What wb would like to know is Kakt r-W hite rHnchf flection
how'long " will lako to pay for >>■ Texas Central rail-
what Uncle Sam did do?
NO DEFICIT IN SIGHT
If the figures by
unquestionably a fissure, the vol-
ume of oil that yields produc-
tion varying from 25 to 45 bar-
rels per day, finding its outlet
in the hole drilled 51 feet deep,
way survey, has called a halt in
drilling work, and it is said drill-
ing will not be resumed for an
indefinite period. Good showings
Chairman have been reported in this well,
Satterwhite of the House Appro- from time to time, and it *is
priations Committee are correct, presumed the shut-down is of a i w hich is widely known as the
ton and Pecos, w'hich had their i there will be no deficite in the temporary nature, only. Wonder well—a real wonder in
appropriations cut off recently by State’s finances during the next; — |0il circles, as a like quantity of
action of the appropriations com- j two years, unless new appropri- The Pinal Dome Oil company,, oil coming from a hole of that
mittee were today reinstated by ations, in addition to the regu-1 operating a standard rig on the j shallow depth was hitherto un-
lar support of the Government, j Devlin ranch, section 208, Bur-1 known. That manager Grant
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during the clinches. road transportation conveniences
“Although he had to keep him- closer to oil development activ-
self thoroughly guarded when in ities of the Grant corporation and
these tight places and had only wiH eliminate considerable truck
according to the experts, about hauling distance of material to
six inches of play for his arms, the field of operations, also will
he kept fighting his opponent make a desirable shipping point
__ every instant—now'on the heart, f°r the oil production from the
made to the level from whence now on the stomach, now on the wells of the Grant Oil corpora-
wells up through that which is back of the neck, now on the tion, that are now* producing.
30-Star machine on section 19,
block 140, T. & St. L. railway
survey, for the purpose of drill-
ing a deep test in the immediate
neighborhood of its shallow pro-
ducers. Location has been made
an hundred feet north of the
Wonder well, and hole will be
face. It was palpable to even a Gerst & Gerst, of Fort Stock-
novice like myself that his bat- ton, are fiscal agents for the
tering ram method, wrhen in close townsite of Grant, and are ac-
grips, was certain to wear Car- tively pushing the sale of lots,
pentier out. The Frenchman ——
appeared to be more scientific, You can buy it cheap if you
more agile, and much faster do not try to wait till it gets too
when there was plenty of free- cheap. A 72-piece dinner set is
dom for action. But when he not worthless. Rooney Merct.Co.
the Senate w’hile the educational
appropriation bill was up^for con-
sideration.
are passed in the meantime in leson survey, northeast of Fort \ has implicit faith in the small
excess of $10,000,000.00.
SERVICE AND SECURITY
Are the essential requirements of
a banking: connection. You are
assured both of these if you
are our customer.
The First National Bank
Fort Stockton, Texas
[Stockton 8 miles, is drilling in a
gray limestone at ttie depth of
2,390 feet. Rumors that the
well is showing free oil are un-
authentic, with the log of the
well corresponding in a very sat-
j isfactory manner to the advance
sheets of the geologists.
Dave Humphrey, supervisor of
drilling on the Troy-Graham well
on section 20, block 140, T. & St.
L. railway survey, has complet-
ed the task of casing setting and
under-reaming and has resumed
drilling with the standard rig
•which the company recently in-
stalled, in replacement of the star
machine, with which hole was
i made to the depth of 1,125 feet.
With driller Shannon and tool
dresser Grove—two old heads—
handling the tools. Humphrey ex-
pects to drill the well into pro-
duction, or completion, in a
length of time vehr short com-
pared with that of other drill-
ing operations in the field.
Luse No. L which la being
drilled on aection 68, block 101,
iTocaa Onrtrnl railway aumg,
area environing the Miracle and
Wonder w’ells, is emphasized by
his determination to put down a
deep test. Money talks, and
manager Grant is making it tell
the world, in no uncertain tones,
that he believes in the field to
the uttermost.
iiiukox and'son in the
TOM GREEN COUNTY JAIL
We are informed that the ex-
amining trial of T. F. Hickox,
charged with the killing of La-
mar Schiier, held at Rankin the
latter part of last week, resulted
in the elder Hickox being re-
manded to jail without bail. His
son, Tom Hickox, who was charg-
ed with assault in connection
with the same affair, was also
remanded to jail.
There being no jail at Rankin,
they were taken to San Angelo
last Sunday in custody of Sher-
iff J. W. Garner and a Texas
ranger and placed in the Tom
Green county jail.
Geo. F. Pitman left Thursday
for hit former home In Oatnee
villa.
THE
FIRST STATE BANK
CAPITAL,
SURPLUS,
$25,000.00
$25,000.00
THE BANK
..OF..
FRIENDLY SERVICE
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Rose, G. W. The Fort Stockton Pioneer (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1921, newspaper, July 29, 1921; Fort Stockton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth848232/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .