Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1920 Page: 1 of 4

                                
ABANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Number 49
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, APRIL 2, 1920
Volume XI
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAILS
NEW a'A. & A. P. TRAIN
TO BE ADDED SUNDAY
OIL IN SOUTH TEXAS
BACKED BY GEOLOGISTS
AMERICAN RED CROSS
SOUTH TEXAS DISASTER RELIEF
[S GREAT OIL FIELD
KLEBERG WELL NO. 2
FISHING JOB AND FASTENED
DRILL STEM IN SIGMUND WELL
HE AST OF SAN ANTONIO
BLOWS LN A GASSER
The Kleberg Oil and Gas company
well number two commenced flowing
gas yesterday morning at 8 o’clock, ac-
cording to telephonic communication
from officials.of the company at Kings-
ville. Sand and mud were thrown
more than twenty feet above the peak
of the 112 foot derrick and heavy strata
sand scattered in the vicinity of the
well.
The fires in the boilers were extin-
guished before the gas ignited and an
effort was made to decrease the flow.
The gate valve on the Kleberg corn-
well number one a gas well, ap-
or over 300 teet oeiow ca>mg,
boulder. All day,.Friday a heavy 6-inch
casing weighing 450 pounds was used
as a battering ram over tlie rotary
stem and the drill stem was pounded
■ downward, as it could not lie pulled
upward. Up to 0 p. m. no progress had
been made, when a 10-inch casing
* weighing 650 pounds was used. This
we kept on battering' until 9 p. m.,
making n^i headway. I decided to stop
then and went to town and telephoned
our Superintendent Perreuott to come
down at once. I went out again at 11
p. m. and ordered the battering ram to
try and drive down. We went at it
harder than ever and when we had
sj only about one inch left yet to batter
! on befores triking the big rotary table
the stem all of a sudden gave away
and we knew that the boulder was
crusded. We took away all the con-
traptions around the stem and pulled
up 800 feet to inside of the easing,
| getting through at 2 a. m. Saturday the
1    balance of the stem was pulled up and
,,    all crooked casings thrown out,
straightened and rethreaded, and
about 2,000 feet put back into the brio
again. Sunday the balance was put
back and 10 feet drilled. Monday we
only drilled Id feet, reaching 8500 feet
in blue shale and well gasing very
strong. We ran completely out of fuel
oil. A car shipped March 25th uot ar-
riving, compelling us to shut down.
We will overhaul engine, draw works*
boiler, and grind valves and get in good
shape so when car does come’ we can
make up lost time. We have done no
drilling since Monday afternoon 8 p.
m. Expect ear fuel oil in today, Thurs-
day. Below is the log from last week:
3474
8477
34S4
3500
pany
proximately five hundred feet from the
number two well, was opened in hopes
that the flow would cause the pressure
However, after an hour
Houston, Texas ...............
From Mayor of
Baltimore, Mel.....................
From various other donators
direct to American Red
Cross, detailed record on
file ..................................
to diminish,
had passed, the pressure began to sub-
side and the flow decreased.
It was at first feared the well had
become plugged and gas from the old
well was piped to the pumps and en-
gine at the nbw hole. Mud was forced
into the well and the drill pipe rna-
Tlie-drill was working at
Corpus Christi at 3 p. m.; the second
leaving San Antonio at 2:20 p. m. ar-
riving at Corpus Christi at 8:50 p. m.
land the third leaving San Antonio at
10:00 p. m. and arriving at Corpus
: Christi at 7 a. m.
i Returning trains leave Corpus Chris-
' ti at 7:15 a. m., 1:25 p. m. and 9:15 p.
m. and arrive at San Antonio respect-
t
' ively at 1:4o p. m., 7:35 p. m. and 6:45
1 a. m. The night train each way will be
equipped with standard sleepers which
; permit devoting the day to business.
Between, San Antonio and Hoiiston the
schedule is arranged to leave San An-
tonio at 8 :30 a. in. and arrive at Hous-
ton at S :40 p. m. ,or leave San Antonio
r at 10 p. m. and arrive at Houston at
7 :45 a. m. Returning it leaves Houston
at 9:30 a. m. and arrives at San Anto-
nio at 7:35 p. m. and leaves Houston
> at 9 p. m. and arrives at San Antonio
- at. 6:45 a. m. The night trains each
. way are equipped with standard sleep-
ers.
It is understood that the new sched-
ules are also arranged as to make good
connections in many instances with
other lines out of San Antonio and
Houston as well as Corpus Christi.
5,705.00
Tulsa. That city, he said, had grown (
from a population of about 1,000 ppo- 1
pie to 70,000 because of the co-opera- <
tion of business and oil men.
Mr. Brown declared that many, of 1
the people of San Antonio knew nothing 1
of what was being done to develop the!1
oil business around tin' c-ity. Forty '
rigs are working night, and day, lie said 1
in fields, south of tlie city, and eon- 1
tracts have been let. for more than 50 1
wells. He declared that from indica- :
tions tlie fields near here are like the
Corsicana field, which has been pro-
ducing for the last 20 years in quan-
tities as large as when the field first
came in.
Progress on a. number of oil wells
close to San Antonio was reported to
be .encouraging yesterday. The Lamm
well No. 1 will lie cased in a few days
and drilling resumed. Work of hauling
the casing was expected to he complet-
ed today. Because of the excellent
showing of oil, the company shut down
and ordered casing with the intention
of testing the well out. ‘ The work of
casing up will be started at once and
the well drilled into the saiul.
The crew of the Empire No.' 1 at
Benavides has also completed hauling
the easing for that well along with ad- [
ditional tools and it is understood to
Ho the intention to resume drilling
this week.
Perforated 6-inch casing for the Al>-
ercbmbe well near Benavides was un-
loaded yesterday and the company
proposes to test out at a depth of 1.750
feet.
On the Driscoll ranch, in the Santa j
Rosalia grant, gas is said to have been j
encountered at a shallow depth with
so great a pressure as to almost pre-
vent .further operations.
The Kimball No. 1, winch for a time
was seemingly in trouble, is said now
to be in good condition. The lower
part of the. well mudded up but the oil;
sand had been penetrated but a short!
It is now proposed to go
From America Red Cross
Chapters ..................
Total Contributions from
all sources ........................ ;
EXPENDITURES
Expended in entire area up to and in-
cluding March 27, 1920, for relief
only.
Port Aransas ....................
Aransas Pass ....................
Rockport .................:........-1-
Corpus Christi, rural and
small communities other
than above mentioned .... 177,287.87
$309,142.99
Salaries' and all other expenses of
Red Cross personnel'in devasted areas
NOT included in above figures; these
expenses are paid out of special fund
provided by National Headquarters,
American Red Cross.
1    HUGH A. BERGS,
Director of Accounts, American Red
Cross, Southwestern Division.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this the 27th day of March, A. D. 1920.
(Signed) C FRIIAN L. BENTON,
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas.
ni pulated.
2.025 feet when the well came in. Of-
ficials of the company said ten-inch
casing had been set to 1,359 feet and
that the well would be’ sunk through
the gas strata’ before eight-inch easing
inserted.—Corpus    Christi
19,414.35
would be
Caller.
19,036.87
59,721.81
53,096.44
GRADUATE NURSES AT THE
TEX.jVS STATE UNIVERSITY
March 26!—Twelve
Austin, Texas,
graduate nurses have registered for the
in public health nursing at tie-
University of. Texas for the spring
The students of the winter term
course
term.
who completed their theoretical course
March 20 are now in' Houston engaged
in field work under the direction of
Miss Sabina Frits;eli, supervisor of pub-
At the completion
lie health nursing,
of the course in Houston these nurses
will be ready to assume their duties in
various’ communities throughout Texas,
working under the auspices of. the
nursing committee of the Red Cross
chapters.
3 feet, brown gumbo
7 feet, blue shale ....~
16 feet, blue shale ......
Casing strong.
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Others express the tbeo\”,' that in the
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Jesse J. Todd
EVERYTHING NEW
distance.
deeper into the oil sand with cable |
tools and it is believed .there is a, strong
probability that a good producing oil
well will be brought in.
In addition to these, the Biriz No. 1,
as reported yesterday, lias been cased
and everything is in readiness to drill)
into the sand.
Drilling, has been going forward in
the Sigmund No. 1 at Aransas Pass and
at the last of the week the. well stood
at 3,474 feet, having penetrated five |
feet in brown gumbo. The well was
temporarily, interrupted last week when
the drill stem pulled in two about tlie
middle, but with fortunate and quick
work on the part of the driller, the
1,800 feet of drill stem in the bottom
of the well was soon fished out with an
afternoon's work and the drilling pro-
ceeded the next day.
R. "Tt. Redits yesterday closed a con-
tract with the Fort Worth Securities
Company to drill 13 shallow wells in
the Somnierset oil field for George
Leonard. A forfeit has been-posted and
the' first of the wells must be started
down by May 18.
The Somnierset shallow oil is of the
i highest quality in the State and in the
aggregate the field is one of the best
paying oil fields in the State of Texas.
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' The field annually produces over $600,-
j000 worth of oil and the addition of 12
I new wells in'this proven field will add
very materially to the output.    j Washington.
Ilarrv Troll, an attorney of St. Louis \ As soon as the government dredge,
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Land Ben Wessels and Charles Holman, the Comstock, has been repaired, the
‘also of St. Louis, are in South Texas j Aransas Pass channel will he deepened
•investigating oil lands with the view to: to a navigable depth of 25 feet he-
nna king purchases. They came first to! tween the jetties, Captain Reiueeke
I San Antonio and yesterday left for the; said. An estimate of the cost.of re-
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[South. It is understood' if they he- storing Turtle Cove channel to its for-
! come interested it will be on an ex- mer depth has been forwarded to the
tensive scale.—San Antonio Express, chief of engineers.—Sail Antonio Light.
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is at the Following Places; so
Please Bear this in Mind, and
You Will Know Just What You
Are Getting:
A navigable depth of 2(1 feet in Aran-
sas Pass is now available, which will
soon be increased to 25*foet, according
to C-apt. P. S. Reinecke, assistant en-
gineering officer of the Galveston riv-
j ers and harbor district, who was in
j Corpus Christi following an inspection
! of the dredging work being done at
I port Aransas. He was accompanied by
Regular or Young Men’s Sty 1
$20.00 to $45.00
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