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Show PETROLEUM FROM THE GULF FIELD The quantity of lwtrolcum market ed from tho salt dome, pools of soutn eastern Texas and southern LutiNi ann, which constitute the (lair Held amounted to 20,677,10.5 barrel In 11(15, a quantity greater bv 7,iVt,."7i barrels or 57 per cgnt, than tho out put from thcBo Sources In VJJJ. htn-tlstlcs htn-tlstlcs prepiircdundur the suu'i vision ot J. D. Northrop of the I nl'ed Htotes Geological Suney show iho distribution of this output to havo ben ns follows: The nverago prlco received for this petroleum at tho wells was 48 cents a barrel, and the total murkct aluo was $9,802,901, a decrease of 1!) cents in unit price, but owing to the larger larg-er quantity marketed an Incmaso of $958,707, or 11 ler cent In total value compared with 1914. The petroleum yield of tho Texas division In 1915 records n gain of nearly 05 per cont over 1914 an J that of tho Louisiana division a gain of 24 per cent. Tho notablo inircaso In output In tho Texas division Is duo tholl) to tho rcjuvenatlun of ihc Humbly pool, in Harris County which robul'sd Irom nn acthe development of the dtep sand discovered in 1914. Cuy'icr wells, particularly on tho Stevensjn mid Landslide leases, producl'i,; (mi) the deep pay nt depths ot -',100 to 3,300 feet Increaser tho out.iut cf ' Ilumhlo from an avcrngo of li'.noo barrels a day In August to i.7 0'o hur- rels a day in November and Inbpl'.ed additional drilling which rcsultid l.i I tho southward oxtensiou if tho pcol 'for fully half n mile. The total urns of oil from this pool In 1315 nmuunt cd to 11,0C1,S02 barrels a iiu ntlty 'more than four times as uroat n8 tho output In 1914 but 1,000,000 Ur-rcls Ur-rcls less than tho record output of the pool In 1003 In tho remaining pools In tho Texas Tex-as division, Sourlaltu, Saratoga, II. t-ton, t-ton, Ua ton, Oooso Creek, Hplndletop and Miirlcliam opcrnlltino wero largoly of a routlno charnctcr and "vllhdiit exception tho production roeorded a nornnl dcclluo Cicdlt for the Increased output of ilu Louisiana division In ISir. lo loncs to the ndgcrly pool, in Calra-cloj Calra-cloj 1'urlsh, which Ins steadily in Jcmiui'd Its icld since Its discovery In June, iyi3. Vinton, which dcclln ed In production In lDUi and jleldcd (list place to Edgerly, ad Jed slightly to its productive area as tho result of successful tests completed In July south of previous producing wells .lenningn, WcIbIi and Anso la Unite, wero featureless. In all 802 wells wero drilled In tho coastal pools in 191B 7C1 in Texas and 101 in Louisiana. In tho Trxas division oil wells numbered 4 IS, gas welts 6, and diy holes 337; In tho Louisiana division oil wells 73, gin veils 2, and dry holes 2C. Tho now oil wells in coastal Texus averaged S03 barrels each the llrst day of productive pro-ductive llfo and those In coastal Louisiana 019 barrels each; tho cut-put cut-put of all oil wells, new and old, In the Gulf Held averaged 2jl barrels a ay each. |