Show PANHANDLE COUNTRY TEXAS IS NOW IN THROES OF sensational OIL BOOM producers of barrel proportions are becoming ordinary affairs in the panhandle field of texas and it is now an accepted fact that in the present gusher area many wells of this and 6 greater size will be tapped this summer dispatches of the past few days to denver papers relate tile the following news A late visitor to the field states that the mover movement nent 0 of f truckloads truck loads of material from the railroad every day looks like the mobilizing of an army he says the amarillo panhandle field is the biggest 6 thing of its kind in the world the amarillo bank deposits were on january 1 and have now grown t rown to pipe line shipments during last week totaled barrels or at the rate of barrels daily three more casing head gasoline plants are to be erected in the panhandle oil field at a cost of each amarillo building P in may placed this city sixth in the entire south and third in texas the fly blackburn section 19 block Y hutchinson county is the newest great gusher to be announced from that part of the field the well ran wild for a half hour before the workmen were able to get the control head in position and those who were present say it would easily flow at the rate of barrels the gusher started to tear things loose when quarts of nitro were set off at feet although actual field work is steadily gaining hutchinson county failed to hold its high mark on daily production during the past week and declined to barrels daily from 91 active flowing and pumping wells the natural decline of the large producers in the county accounted for lor r the bulk of the loss nearly two thirds of the present oil production in hutchinson county is coming from wells completed in sections 11 12 13 and 14 block Y and these four adjoining sections are the most prolific part of the county as far as development has shown these four sections are also destined to be closely drilled owing to the acreage being split up into small tracts especially in sections 11 and 12 humble oil refining company is showing an interest in the territory lying south of the ridge in carson county and is purchasing acres from the S B burnett estate for a cash consideration of along with a drilling contract flush production testing above 42 gravity was developed late last week for the first time in the wilcox field gray county when the wilcox oil gas companas Comp anys wor ley reynolds no 3 gauged ba barrels frels per hour initial from broken sandy lime and granite wash pay at 2975 87 feet this producer is the largest completed outside of the hutch inson carson county section of the texas panhandle dis strict and is the best crude in the district since it tests gravity at 60 degrees temperature with no water or basic sediment in evidence another attractive feature about the wilcox oil is that it is not troubled with a heavy wax and paraffin content as is the case with other oils produced in the panhandle the latest completion in section 12 block Y of tile the amarillo panhandle field hutchinson county texas is the west tex no 3 well which came in june 15 flowing at the rate of 2200 barrels a day without being shot according cording to information received nt at the office of the stern stovall corporation there are 20 wells drilling in section 12 which is the most active in the entire field and a commentary on tile the importance of aitchinson Hit chinson county as compared with the rest of the panhandle district may be had by a comparison of daily production totals says the report of barrels daily production for the entire field hutchinson county is supplying barrels it is estimated mated that production will continue to mount steadily and that today the field has a potential production of barrels if all the oil were taken panhandle oil company no I 1 well in section 12 block Y now has the 20 inch casing on the around preparatory to an immediate studding spud ding in and word is awaited daily by the denver office of the company that actual drilling has commenced this operation is surrounded on all four sides by drillen drilling al wells and situated as it is in the same section with the canyon oil companas Comp anys well which is reported a barrel flush producer it is anticipated by the officials of the company that the well will come in a bigone production 1 is s as certain as anything can be in this location say these officials the only question is the size of the well panhandle oil company has announced its determination to drill in proven areas only the company has under option many outside pieces of acreage including some in hutchinson county waiting for development to come closer but the main idea is to get production as quickly as possible As mr brookins aptly puts it we cannot get production except with inside wells or a lot of outside luck and panhandle oil company is working only on the sure stuff |