The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1949, Page 7

dil i. iL if i 4 (Others vateon by tech et te wertert the 1 ais he ‘he recently as ©. Murphree, head of one of the the off de: 5 netic than sedimentary rock. tl sometimes bulges the earth's surface to Before the “doodiebug” were slow and painful, wells were more often unexplored area of land or se (One of the major # oil. Senator Brewste: the National that Uncle garding Arabian oil purcha: complex (After Avameo got its conces sion and started money ed on paying from it own wry and i conceived the United States, To arouse the company rel, and to Uncle Sam Gets Stung (Taking the oil corporation’ word for it, the United Stat first gave Ibn Saud lend-leuse through the ‘This Geve the British: too much in, Arabia, and the U. can taxpaye seems likely to be recovered. (As for “well under world prices the Oli Co., offere ot at $1.05 a sareed price Navy, being pelled to buy). Of In Florida 40 cents Beck again in this country, the r to sed early in May, 1946, when Gulf| ‘oust Properties No. 6 well at most important oil news come out of Florida was rel initial showing here stor “Their ‘new Ime price tags proval and wed crowds hevause Mew Vers “Heauty of appearance combined with advanced utility and wtvling of Pontive models drew much attention from big crowds at deulers’ showeroums in New York.” Soesgonss eosmes. HE" vos rinks | LOVERING =, 1 with alarm” in these United| Key al oll reserves. of the con- up nearer to form “arches.” These may contain} haven't found it | pools of of! oo oOwm ander Vhornida was, Sound, and its of war Defense Program, » work it, King lon Saud of Arabia began to pester the cOmpany for more and got it. Aramco balk- treas- happy} notion of putting it up to the interest offered to set! Uncle Samucl fuel oil at 40! set aside | ‘at prices well under prices,” or at “cost plus!test on Sui | operation w | Oil Company’s State. | Key No. 1 well. Meantime Gulf’s | No. | Big Pine Key. well had been j sunk from 5,070 feet to 8,663 feet; announeed another indirect | and it. was British. | well was. to be started by, . Gulf, 20. miles seuthe: racntd ot Ameri money of which not more than 27 million dollars} tce Well N west Flori and the at war, was com- ui came in| Keys. | April a depth of 11,578 feet—a little less than two miles deep. rels of oil a day. | being dismantled. Work on that b ment required 6 months. In the year 1945-46 Humble Oil's only producing field at! s commit- ;Sunniland on the edge of | the | tee has decided after study of! ‘Glades, had yielded.over 60,000} barrels. Humbte’s _ biggest well! wm's buyers paid far} came in May 1, 1946. Up to that fee much for oil from the|date Sunniland had Arabian - American Oil Com-} peny's field. The situation re- about it was. released early | June, 1946. The three wells were the only three producing wells in the State. State Geologist Her- | man Gunter reported, but he! said eight other wells were being dritled.. Locations had _ been selected for three new ones, work had been suspended on five, and three had been finished, since | middle April, 1946}. without pro- duction. Gulf Oil was reported June 24, | 1946, to be cltaring ground for aj r Loaf Key. This to be called. G Mainland. Up-State, oil news from Walton County opped. came in, the announceme was me down!) The mark of Humble No, 2 Detroit: “ublic reception of new Pontiac ras up to the highest expecta- tions of company’s officials stor It looks like another good yeur for the division judging by customers’ en- thusiasm. EWAN, We EDITOR, DETROIT THES Dallas: “Despite 15-degree weather thousands of fashion conscious Dallas- ites kept Pontiac dealers’ showrooms filled throughout Introduction Duy stor Comment on new Styling key: noted enthusiastic approval.” CHARLES CATES, AUTOMOTIVE BUITO DALLAS TLMES HERSLD MULBERG CHEVROLET COMPANY Cavetine ot Tetegraph Lane Phone 377 The well produced a gas-oil ratio of 76 cubic feet of gas to}, one barrel of oil, or approximate~ ly 15,000 cubic’ feet of gas daily. Output was stated to be 200 bar- Three days after May 11, 1946, it was announced on May 14 that tthe of well being on Big Pine we Key West, was down nearly a mile—5,070° feet. The engineers said it would be “un-; fecen 4 usual” if oil was found at less | pounds, ‘ons. Commitice whose motives can be than 10,000" feet. Possibility of salt water seeping. into the drill| from Sunniland that. the -yield in hole is not likely until the drill | oil was 1,000 barrels daily from four wells. The Sunniland field There was trouble with: Big|is 60 miles west of Miami and.the zen as saying}Pine well because the cementing} Humble Oil Co., brought in all us enough / of the sides was not successful. | four of the wells. It broke several times - and the} Not.Top Grade Oil hole was blocked with rock. Marl was circulated continuous-| ther. Bonanza nor ment rock.” “This is more mag-j| ly through the boring to make a Florida oil has an In} smooth surface for the bit and to ihe history of the world scientists} help prevent water from seeping have learned that basement rock | through the sides. Meantime, in June. of 1946, it was announced that the Republic Oil Co., had abandoned hope of {striking commercial oil in Barnes that the derricks, the | vented by the magnetic method | standing in eight feet of water and test | off-shore from Key Latgo, were the com- mon way to hunt deposits of | the Bleck gold. But today a magnetic | gun in. September, )ietrument towed by a plane; i trieve the 7-inch pipe and equip- um Will map in afew hours a large, | as gone to 10,000 or 12,000 feet. ing was be- 1944. To ‘re- produced 59,231 barrels from two holes. The new well yielded. about 200 is} barrels daily when the first news} Sugar Loaf developed in north- where Logan Trus- . l.on ‘the Walton Land & Timber; Co., 16 miles south of De Funiak Arabian-American | ported oil showed a our Navy fuel| Backed by Florida and ‘Texas, arrel instead of the} interests, the well» was sunk to ! 2,900 feet when work s Just before December, 1946 Springs re- + 300 feet, | that Sunniland well on Big Pine had been drilled to 13,515 feet (Two miles and a half plus 312 feet more, straight hhad_ been in the work on the Florida (The deepest well in the world is 16,600 feet in West Dr Texas). 3 : Im Humble No. 2 the first few| A colonel. of the’ old schodl was addressing two guilty-look- ing privates, whose clothes’ were thousand feet were, comparative- ly @asy going. Coral and : lime-* stone yielded easily, but P| form and ragged.” ‘gress slowed down» when: dolo- : ; mite was encountered. At. 8,000 feet anyhdrite was found, an especiaNy hard substance. As the drill was sunk it became neces- sary to shift the casing from 4% inches to3%. The casing of the larger diameter weighed 220,000 Aug. 30, 1947, it was® reported WILL YOU SMILE? ~ Practical Illustration A soar * asked his father Ate Be a, “Well,” boc the ‘pater, “sup-} GAINESVILLE, March % — pose America’ quarreled with! Archie R. Potter and Schuck, students from Key at the University of Florida, are © }among the cadets of the Reserve “I know,” he answered, “but I. Officers Training Corps, at~ this in- institution who. will be honored ,at the annual , .uilitary ball on | the‘ March Sth. j {Potter and Schuck will receive “Pi have you know ‘But, interrupted the. moth- that I. simply ‘won't lighting in my Sin parit . j with England.” with the millions of qeubic feet, bo ming be ce cates developed. in western negligible is the quantity of gas; that it is utilized as -iuel oil to operate pumps. Th burned to get rid of it. ‘ The first Sunniland well; which: came in in 1943 brought to the Humble Oil Co. the aries award of $50,000 for the initi | Producing well. paws, ho ;: The flow ended a_ fruitless The oil was described as nei-) search of more than 50 years. |, top grade. Earlier drillers, had’ put down asphalt base/ wells to not more than a mile with specific gravity of 20 to 25. | below the substrata but Humble The best petroleums are with a| proved a greater paraffin base and twice the spe-| necessary—more than two miles cific gravity of the Sunniland; jdeep. The first well reached field. The petroleum is shipped | by tank car to the Standard Oil! refinery at Charleston,’S, C/ “You are misleading fies said the mother. “No, I am not.” he answered. {commissions as lieuten- “Yes, you are.” United States Air “T tell you I am not! It’s out- Force Reserve on ‘June Ist. They college training course fur offi-' \ “All right, dad,” said. the boy.! cers requires four years fur com- excited, I think I ion. } ww wars begin.” The military ball is an old tra- | dition at the University of Flor- ida. Graduating military seniors are honored at each ball, Barron and his orchestra will play for the occasion this year. OV re Pes ot ot =, Saag aa Your Horoscope THURSDAY, MARCH™3, 1949—' This day denotes one of aspir: tion who will rise to a good posi- tion. Devoted to work, with a retiring nature, you should aim even higher than’ the point you ‘Aftér the first succéss Humble: wish to. attain; for. there is dan- | officials ‘said they ‘believed wells! ger of a falling off in middle Production to date has showh of 20,000 feet may become com-. life, littte matural gas, and this in few mon. thousands of cubic feet comune Your Grocer SELLS That Goot | STAR * BRAND osc COFFEE and | ——Try A Pound Toduy—— | PHONE Wf? .. 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