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Show DIXIE'S SHOOTING DECLARED SUCCESS President Bradley Says Flow of Wells Doubles Many Times, Ll G. Bradler, president of the Dixie Oil company, returned from tb Virgin field yesterday. Ho wus present during the shooting of four of the company's wells. The fifth one. No. 3, la still to be shot. Mr. Bradley expects to return to the field Immediately. Tt is necespary for a drilling rlsr to be over the wells when they hre shot, and Mr. Bradley says that the ahots were siK-h a thorough success that th cleaning clean-ing out has taknn a loncr time than planned, and It w!U probably be three or four days yet before No. ?. ran be -hot. "The shoot i ng of the wt-llj-," e aid Mr. "Bradley, "has exceeded even our expectations. expec-tations. It hp.s not onlv dowh'.ed many times the production of the held, but the oil Ls sweeter nnd better tinre the shooting. shoot-ing. There ha been a little nulphur water in the field, which had affected a'i of the oil. and, while we had the water successfully t-but off. we Mill had the effects of It. The ? hooting- cleaned all of this out and has been a preat improve-mc- nt. "We have only balllr.? tests on the other weils. except No. 2. as yet, ns the work of cleaning out has taken some time and the pumps have not been installed in-stalled and runnlntr. "No. 2 well on the pump is ftjiH five times as good a well as It w-as before it was shot, and No. 1 . according to the , hailing test, in inanv time stronger, but wo can not tell how much until we set the pump Installed. "We now e.-ulma'e that we have a? much or more ot) than we can handle with our refinery and that we will he running to capacity as eoon as we can get our pumps Installed. "Superintendent ( : ylord has the refinery re-finery all r:idy for operation, and we believe be-lieve that within fn days from thl d:ite we will be supplying our local trade with all the'.r casoline, kerosene and fuel oil products. "We believe that we bav reached a pr'lnt where we can kiv thnt Di ie will now he classed anion', the dividend payers pay-ers ln a short time." |