anaheim-gazette 1921-03-24

NOTES ABOUT THE OIL FIELDS Items of Interest Gleaned From Southern California’s Producing Fields and Progress Made. Seven producing wells, with 7000 barrels of crude oil per day being sent out to the markets of the world, is the record of Huntington Beach to date. Seven thousand barrels a day means 210,000 barrels a month, or 2,520,000 barrels a year. Expressed in dollars and cents Huntington Beach today is adding to the wealth of the country $5,040,000 which is not so bad for the baby district of California, upon the anniversary of its first birthday as an oil field. There are few fields in America showing better returns for the first year of existence. At the present time there are 64 rigs in the field, which leaves 57 of them in the process of development. How many of these will manage to become producing wells no one knows, but the remarkable fact remains, so far Huntington Beach has not had a dry well. It is hardly fair to assume that all those trying to get oil will get it, for the real difficulty in this field is not so much in finding oil but in delivering it. The big sand body has been well defined by the operations up to date and while, it is no doubt larger than is positively known yet the district from the surf to the Bolsa Chica is well defined as oil bearing territory. The Long Beach Consolidated Oil Company is getting ready to start drilling on No. 2 at Newport, the very nicely after the recovery from the long fishing job. At Brea the Union Oil Company of California now has what is probably the largest producing well in Southern California. Stearns No., 58 located in Brea Canyon district, is the big well that has started all olddom. Drilled to 2676 feet, the well did not make much of a showing until the oil sands were reached, and very little of the sand was drilled into before it was seen that a big well was in sight. The first day's production registered 1200 barrels, the second showed an increase of 600 barrels and to-day the well climbed to 2000 barrels, mailing it probably the biggest producer in the southern field. At Stearns No. 59, the Union has an 1100-barrel well; No. 68 is making 250 barrels, and Nos 61 and 64 are good for 100 barrels each. In a few months the Union has developed a 3600-barrel production daily on the Stearns property in Brea canyon, making a record production on new property. A year ago this section of the Brea field was considered drilled up. Up along the hillsides are seen standing number of the little old derricks that drilled the shallow producers of 20 years ago. Beside them now stand the big towering rigs marking the location of some of the biggest wells. As evidence taining the as of prevent amounts alire Senator Speer sent figures to the United Military co Secretary He Extra cost g functions conditions Civilian day shipping a Red Cross Co Other Contri Congressional relief Credit exil Grain Corp Credit give Department Credit give can to Euionals Government European Total... The Long Beach Consolidated Oil Company is getting ready to start drilling on No. 2 at Newport, the intention being to carry the well into the tar sand at about 345 feet and produce from that depth. A 12-inch hole will be sunk into the tar sand. It is the plan to heat the tar sands so that the product can be pumped. As there seems to be an unlimited amount of the asphaltum present the idea of producing it commercially in this manner seems feasible. Asphaltum is worth about $3 a barrel and where it can be pumped from the ground the business would be profitable. The original Chapman gusher is about to start its third year of production. The big well has dropped from 800 barrels, a figure that it held for a good many months, to 665 barrels. Chapman No. 8 is a nice well that is doing close to 400 barrels. The Union has three wells in the oil sands on the Chapman lease that will soon be producing, Chapman No. 3, at 3300 feet; and Chapman No. 7 at 4260 feet. The biggest well of the past week in the Richfield district in the General Petroleum's Thompson No. 4 that has started off with a flow of close to 700 barrels. Drilled to 3275 feet, the new well gives promise of being one of the field's most consistent producers. It began showing oil sand at 3100 feet and continued unbroken to 3272 feet. Work is progressing rapidly on the Richfield-Consolidated No. 2, now one of the most promising looking producers in the field. Cleaning out with cable tools will put the well in producing condition and the carrying of a string of 6-inch casing to the bottom will give the well the necessary protection from heavy gas pressure and heaving sands. It will be only a matter of a short time now when the Richfield-Consolidated will have one of the big wells of the Richfield district. In a few months the Union has developed a 3600-barrel production daily on the Stearns property in Brea canyon, making a record production on new property. A year ago this section of the Brea field was considered drilled up. Up along the hillsides are seen standing number of the little old derricks that drilled the shallow producers of 20 years ago. Beside them now stand the big towering rigs marking the location of some of the biggest wells in California. While newer fields in Southern California are occupying a prominent place in the news, because of new discoveries, they will have a long way to go before they begin to approach the firmly established and steadily increasing oil production of the Richfield district. Although it is only two years since the Chapman gusher came in, Richfield is a field of derricks, for the most part producing wells, though there are always new drilling operations in progress. Big producers and younger concerns are reaching the deep oil sands. The sands at around the 4000-foot depth are furnishing 2000-barrel-a-day production in a number of wells. The field which Richfield dominates showed a production in 1920 of 39,917,000 barrels, easily the heaviest in Southern California, and the figures so far available for 1921 give every promise that this year will see records eclipsed. Great interest is evidenced in the Richfield Giant as it nears the level of the oil sands, as this well may prove that the southern limits of the Kraemer lease, adjointing Richfield Giant will have producers equal to the Standard's present wells next: the Chapman property. Heffern No. 2 is now drilling in the hardest conglomerates at 2100 feet. The drilling is so hard that only a few feet an hour can be made. The Orange County Petroleum Company is waiting on pipe with 1100 feet of hole drilled. THE NEW CHANNEL Flood waters of the Santa Ana River are now flowing direct into the ocean instead of through Newport harbor and members of the Orange county harbor commission are being congratulated now upon their wisdom. one of the most promising looking producers in the field. Cleaning out with cable tools will put the well in producing condition and the carrying of a string of 6-inch casing to the bottom will give the well the necessary protection from heavy gas pressure and heaving sands. It will be only a matter of a short time now when the Richfield-Consolidated will have one of the big wells of the Richfield district. Drilling on the Placentia-Pacific is going ahead nicely in spite of the fact that some very hard conglomerate was struck at 2850 feet and still continues to the present depth of 2900 feet. The Fullerton Oil Company's Anaheim Union No. 1 now approaching the 4100-foot mark, is looking very promising. The brown sandy shale is showing lots of gas. Another 100 feet is expected to put the Fullerton's well in the Kraemer gusher class. The Wonder Oil Company's No. 1 well on the Kraemer home place is now drilling at 3675 feet. The formation is brown shale with occasional streaks of sand in it that make an encouraging showing. The Petroleum Development Company's deep test well No. 88 is drilling at 4000 feet. At this depth the formation is a hard sand with little or no indication of oil. It is the intention to carry the hole in deeper and thoroughly test out the possibilities of the existence of a deep oil sand in the Olinda field. The Placentia Oil Company is now drilling in a water sand at 2800 feet. As it is the intention to go to 4000 ft or more the presence of the formation did not discourage the work in the least. Drilling is now going along The Orange County Petroleum Company is waiting on pipe with 1100 feet of hole drilled. THE NEW CHANNEL Flood waters of the Santa Ana River are now flowing direct into the ocean instead of through Newport harbor and members of the Orange county harbor commission are being congratulated now upon their wisdom in leaving to flood waters the task of excavating the channel across the sand pit. The commission now has available for use in other work. $20,000 that was expended to be expended in opening the channel to the ocean. The heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday sent a flood of storm water charging down the Santa Ana river. The Southern Pacific had not completed connection between its line and the Pacific Electric for routing S. P. trains over the P. E. bridge crossing the new channel and a culvert was put in to carry the water from the river to the new channel. The culvert was not large enough to carry the volume of water, with the result that the culvert was washed out and the full flow of the river is now running to the ocean unimpeded by railroad obstruction. A large channel has been washed out between the rock jetties and the storm waters have performed the work the commissioners believed the water would do when they were turned into the new channel. Before the railroad bank gave way a big volume of water was impounded in the area west of the dam at Ritter Point and this was drained off when the break occurred in the railroad embankment. Silt that would have been deposited in the harbor by the flood waters is now going into the ocean, where it ANAHEIM GAZETTE WILL DO NO HARM. It is estimated that it would have cost several thousand dollars to remove the silt that would have been deposited in the harbor by the flood waters this winter had not the change in the channel course been completed. HERE ARE WAR FIGURES As evidence of the need of maintaining the strictest economy, as well as of preventing further loans to our allies of the war and compelling the payment of the interest on the amounts already loaned to them by us, Senator Spencer, of Missouri, has presented figures to show the entire cost to the United States as follows: Military cost as per Secretary Houston ... $24,010,090,000 Extra cost government functions under war conditions ... 4,500,000,000 Civilian damages lost shipping and pensions ... 300,000,000 Red Cross Contributions ... 987,512,325 Other Contributions ... 490,000,000 Congressional European relief ... 100,000,000 Credit extended by Grain Corporation ... 60,375,000 Credit given by War Department ... 50,000,000 Credit glevn. by Shipping Board ... 3,587,000 Credit given by American to European Nationals ... 1,921,487,000 Government loans to European Nations ... 9,760,000,000 Total ... $44,173,948,225 LABOR COST OF TRANSPORTATION Following are further cases illustrated that perhaps the twenty-five million dollar grant to Colombia may not be seriously censurable; it is improbable that it will aid a whit in promoting better feeling for the United States in the face of persistent and unopposed anti-American propaganda which will interpret this appropriation as a confession of wrong on the part of the United States. The opportunity of American foreign trade is chiefly in this hemisphere and in the orient. Closer trade relations, better understanding and a policy of actively demonstrated, disinterested friendship for all the republics of this hemisphere should and doubtless will be a part of the program of this administration. We can gain and we can keep the respect of our neighbors, however, only by a policy of manly self respect, and a demonstrated determination to uphold our own rights as rigidly as we respect the rights of others. Bribes and apologies will gain nothing for American prestige in this hemisphere. The Latin American respects only the man and the nation with sufficient respect to firmly maintain its own rights and courageously defend its own just interests. Unless we maintain this self respecting attitude there is no hope for more friendly or mutually profitable relations with the other republics of this hemisphere. FARM BUREAUS IN OTHER STATES Texas has developed 45,000 members in 9 counties. Recently they put 75 policitors into these counties for membership work. The state is building wool and cotton pools as two of its projects. Rhode Island counties have all voted for a $5 Farm Bureau Membership fee and are ready to start a state membership drive as soon as a increase in Farm Bureau membership. Washington is federating. George Cannon, Spokane, Wash., has been appointed manager of the organization work of the Washington State Farm Bureau. The membership is on a $10 basis. Missouri farmers are buying government harness by ordering through the U.S. Harness Company who have a contract for selling government surplus stock. Ohio is 100 per cent organized every county in the state containing a farm bureau. Minnesota has organized with 60,000 members. Two states, Mississippi and South Carolina as yet are not affiliated into the American Farm Bureau Federation. There are 46 state federations. BRITISH PHYSICIAN FINDS CURE LEPROSY At last there is a prospect of permanent cure of leprosy, which means that thousands of outcasts may look forward with hope to the future. After 27 years in the Indian Medical service, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Leonard Rogers has announced that his efforts in medical research work have resulted in the discovery of treatment which destroys the leprosy bacilli in the human tissue. Sir Leonard says that while he does not claim to have discovered an infallible permanent cure, this achievement is nearer at hand now than it has ever been before. "In the case of one leper," he said, "sight was restored after treatment. Others have regained the sense of touch and in the case of a man who..." The Small Opportunity Southern California OFFERS Capital Stock Y Partial Pay Southern California Edison Company is Offering Its Common Stock at $94.00 per share in Monthly Installment This means that You May Subscribe for paying $5.00 down and the balance in 18 Months Stock Becomes Your Proprietor LABOR COST OF TRANSPORTATION Following are further cases illustrative of the fact that the labor cost alone of transporting almost any commodity on the railroads today equals or exceeds the total freight rate in 1917. In 1917 the freight rate on a bushel of wheat from Kansas to New York was 27 cents. At the present time the labor cost alone of transportating a bushel of wheat from Kansas to New York is 27 cents, or the same as the entire cost of the operation in 1917. The freight rate on cement from a New Jersey point to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1917 was 6.3 cents per hundred pounds. The present rate is 13.5 cent. The labor cost of this transportation at the present time is 6.75 cents, more than the total rate in 1917. The freight rate on livestock from a Montana point to Chicago, Illinois, in 1917 was 48 cents per hundred pounds. The present rate is 73.5 per hundred pounds, an increase of 25.5 cents. The labor cost in this transportation is now 36.7 cents, or about 11 cents more than the increase in rate. On copper from Anaconda, Montana to New York, the rate per hundred pounds in 1817 was 50.75 cents. The labor alone costs at the present time in the movement of 100 pounds of copper from Montana to New York is 55 cents, or 4.25 cents more than the entire rate in 1917. THE REAL CAUSE OF ANTI-AMERICANISM Secretary of State Colby, in his last speech as government official, declared that the failure of the United States Senate to ratify a treaty giving a sum of twenty-five million dollars to Colombia on account of the construction of the Panama canal, and the unscrupulous methods of some American business men are responsible for the antagonism to the United States and its trade interests in the Latin-American republics. These are certain excuses, but not the real reasons, for anti-Americanism in Latin-America. The chief actual sphere. FARM BUREAUS IN OTHER STATES Texas has developed 45,000 members in 9 counties. Recently they put 75 solicitors into these counties for membership work. The state is building wool and cotton pools as two of its projects. Rhode Island counties have all voted for a $5 Farm Bureau Membership fee and are ready to start a state membership drive as soon as a state organizer can be secured. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation reports that 83 percent of its membership dues for 1921 have already been paid. Most of the counties report Sir Leonard says that while he does not claim to have discovered an infallible permanent cure, this achievement is nearer at hand now than it has ever been before. "In the case of one leper," he said, "sight was restored after treatment. Others have regained the sense of touch, and in the case of a man who could not walk two or three hundred yards before treatment, he can now walk ten miles." Sir Leonard explained that for a long time the only drug known to be Southern California Edison Company is Offering Its Common Stock at $94.00 per share in Monthly Installment. This means that You May Subscribe for paying $5.00 down and the balance in 18 Months Stock Becomes Your Property which you have saved and which there is In the meantime you receive 7 pct. interest. 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