Show TEXAS IS EXPERIENCING GREAT BOOM IN OIL TRADE THIS YEAR Wells Are Being Being Drilled in in Counties o of Lone Lon star State and Tz Twenty Million illion Dollars Being n I Spent for or Development Work Wichita pills Feb With D. 9 With oil wells drilling in counties of the state and with ith new pools being discovered nearl nearly y ever every month Texas is is the wonder oil state of tho the Union and the greatest potential pro producer of the world From Irom tho the coastal fields s along the tho Gulf of Mexico to the northern boundary and from Wichita Falls and Fort Worth west almost to the Rio Kio Grande thou thousands ands of square miles of territory arc are being wild tatted sad and T the derrick 11 instead of the courthouse is the si sign of mans man's progress progress while the tho field fiel tank is is fast displacing the cot cotton ton press in popular esteem not m mand an and n. n as a source of wealth I Land was worth 15 an acre o for two years ago ngo commands commands com corn mands from 1000 to an aero acre In proven prO field lold and In prospective territory territory ter ter- Is good for tor upwards of ot 25 an acre if It within twenty five miles of or production Scores of or millionaires have havo been made almost overnight b by discoveries on lands which they owned In fee feo or which they the leased for drilling The big bl blI companies several of ot the Standard I Oil group the Empire Gas Fuel the Gulf Gult Production company compan the tho Texas company and dozens of ot others are prosecuting the most extensive drilling campaign In their his history tor while multitudes multitudes multitudes multi multi- tudes of or individuals and minor corporations corporations corporations corpora corpora- and developing tracts ranging from several thousand acres down to town lots lota In favorable sections TEXAS s HAS lIAS ROOM OF OP InI TREMENDOUS SIZE In short Texas is enjoying an oil boom of or prodigious size It Is a a. boom which Is Js growing dally daily and which from all appearances will win continuo continue to grow for years N There are 61 1 wells drilling in Eastland Eastland East East- land count county and the average cost of at ofa ofa a well in tho the area arca Is This means that a total of or is be being being be- be ing expended In this one county count outside outside outside out out- side of or tho the money that Is spent for tor tools and for tor leases for Cor storage an anfor and for pipelines One year ago there thero wore were five standard rigs running In tho the count coun county t In the Burkburnett field 1 in Wichita count county there thero were 36 1 6 wells completed In the tho first seven months of Its history an and completions since havo have averaged moro more than ono per day clay cIa with approximately approximately approximately wells now drilling and at least two locations per day la being made 1 Tho The average n cost of or wells In this field Is from Crom to Drilling operations cover an area arca larger than that covered b by the entire New ew England states There Thero are arc more men enga engaged ell in tho the oil all industry In these fields than thon there thero in Sherman's Shermans Shermans Sherman's Shermans Sherman's Sher Sher- mans man's arm army While the field Is divided into man many 10 called pools man many of ot these have I been merged b by the activity of ot the wildcatters who are extending tho the edges of ot all the tho pools Twelve counties I In tho the area were credited with production production production tion at tho the end of at 1918 and the latest I estimates of or production place pIneo It a at barrels dally This Is far from Crom representing what tho the field can cando cando cando do as ns manY of ot tho the wells are aro capped until an outlet t for tor tho the oil can bo be found The lowest estimate on the potential production with the wells already In Is barrels dally daily DEEP PEST WELLS AVELIS ELI IN IX FIFTY COU COUNTIES TIES Deep tests are being boing made mado In at least 50 0 conn counties tics near the tho present pro pro- Tho The counties In the a area ca producing now are Wichita and W ll- ll cr barger in tho the north and Stephens Palo I Pinto Eastland Comanche and antI Brown BrownIn In tho the south In the tho year 1018 1918 there were 1225 welts wella completed In this total initial production oi of field with a 0 barrels In tho the Burkburnett pool new production pro pro- developed after August and up to lo January 1 1 last amounted to barrels dall daily Is the tho wonder field of or tho world The pool centered under tho townsite This mado made every ery town to lot a prospective drilling site Government restrictions held back the erection of ot to some somo extent but in spite or of them tho the thick that the tho one so derricks aro are now boasts had railroad of or which the town to half halt miles beyond to go two and ono one in order to find room limits the to town n for Y a flower spreading Its Like a l giant extended leaves tho the field has been Productions has been found across neross the tho The river bed bedwas bedwas bedwas Red Reel river In Oklahoma placer pIncer the mining cd under was stal staked claiming under ct act an and others claim ie aw combating the tho the laws of ot Texas are aro bed Lcd locations Tho The right to the river be bo of or enormous to believed belle Is which the fought out In value is now being courts nt 30 ati COMPLETIONS WITH 1111 12 UZ Outside of or Durl Burkburnett in Wichita county count thero there were 3 completions In 1918 1018 with a n. now production of or 1 4 I barrels The Tho bringing In of or tho the now famed well at Ranger in October 1917 1017 was tho the beginning of or tho the nan Ranger cr pool It showed a n production of 1800 barrels at a depth of ot feet Today Today To To- day tho the Ranger Hanger field has hns the largest est potential production of ot any oil all field fieldIn In the world Roughly tho tiro Hanger Ranger pool is twenty miles square While Eastland and Wichita counties counties counties coun coun- ties are most discussed the they are but a apart apart apart part of or tho the great North Central Texas county count on January 1 field Stephens had 1117 wells wella drilling eighteen shut shutdown shutdown shutdown twenty nine down awaiting storage producing wells eighteen dry holes hole for tor I and und gassers two forty rigs waiting machinery and antI oo locations that will willbe willbe be drilled drilled soon Boon These activities represent sent an investment of or I lo lri lotho tho the remainder of ot tho the west Texas counties outside of or Wichita there are aro moro more wells drilling or getting I ready to drill I Tho The Texas company compan completed an anel el Inch eight Inch ht-Inch pipeline from its tank farm tarm I at nt Ranger n. to its refinery at Gates It Is now increasing this b by addinga adding a n second el Inch eight Inch ht-Inch line This will give capacity of or the company a carrying barrels dall dally daily n CO INCH EIGHT PIPELINE Tho The Prairie Pipeline company has completed an Inch eight line from Crom Ranger Hanger to Drumwright Okla Olela and In Instead Instead instead In- In lino to stead of ot building a Inch twelve the tho gulf as It planned to do cIo under the stress of ot war will build another eight eight- inch lino line to An Inch eight-Inch lino will bo he built b by Cosdon Cosden Co north to Gushing Cushing which will have a carrying capacity of ot 20 barrels banels daily dally Tho Gulf Gult Pipeline company ia 19 constructing constructing con con- a pipeline from ita its tank farm at Ranger Honger to Fort Worth oCth wh which ch I will havo have a a. daily dally capacity c. of ot barrels or more The Tho Magnolia Petroleum company U is II la laying an inch eight lino line with a dally daily carrying capacity of barrels barrels barrels bar bar- from Ranger nanS-er to Corsicana Tho The Sinclair Interests are arc building an Inch eight t pipeline from the tho Ranger Ranger Ranger Ran Ran- ger field told to Healdton Okla The Baltic Refining company is ready to build an nn inch eight-inch lino line from I Ranger to Fort ort Worth Anderson and Gustafson are owners of or a a. one ono half halt Interest In this company which Is also j building building- a barrel refinery at ot Fort Worth Several pipeline companies aro are preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring to pump crude from the tho Burkburnett Burkburnett Burkburnett Burk Burk- burnett field to refineries to bo be erected erected cree- cree ted at railroad points on the Oklahoma sl side e of ot tho the Red Reel river Tho The Constantin Refining company of ot Tulsa will construct a a. barrel refinery at Devol Okla and will In en enlarge enlarge enlarge en- en large It to barrels capacity as I soon coon as possible Tho The company contemplates contemplates contemplates con con- con con- templates tho the erection of at at least four barrel tanks The Tho refinery willbe will willbo bo be in operation in ninety days lays ram Barr Harry Johnson of at Philadelphia re re reff resenting largo large e eastern castern Interests anda half hal a dozen Tulsa refining companies has ns purchased o and acreage o for loading racks along tho Katy and and will make mako Okla the center of or largo large activities |