Volume 15 , Issue 38

One Hundred Years Ago - 7 October 1913, Tuesday

One hundred years ago today, 7 October 1913, Tuesday, The Daily Ardmoreite reported on its front page headline: "Oil At Hewitt In New Well." Producing sand was 100 feet nearer the surface than the driller expected.

The Ardmoreite went on to report, "A local company, composed of Mr. Elzey, F. J. Ramsey and others, who had been drilling near Hewitt in Section 26-3-2, had reached the sand. The drill was at a depth of 740 feet when the sand was touched. The driller was expecting the sand one hundred feet further down and the water was not cased off. The sand gave a showing of oil and the drill was immediately withdrawn.

What the production would be was not known, but the members of the company were of the opinion that a fairly good well had been found at this depth. The fact that the sand is one hundred feet nearer the surface there than in the Oil City field was encouraging to the drillers, and the country around Hewitt would no doubt be thoroughly tested. The water would be cased off at once, the drill would penetrate the first sand to a greater depth, and until that was done no one knows whether it would develop into a paying well or not. The driller was also of the opinion that the second sand, which he expected to find at a depth of another hundred feet, would be a better producing sand than the first encountered."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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