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THE KANSAS DERRICK. 13 Efbss, 000 CHANUTE, KANSAS. Dealers NEW and SECOND HAND PIPE, AND OIL ill SUPPLIES. and SlEAl GOALS LUBRICATING OILS, EIC. to a rachct arrangement placed directly above the sampson post of the beam.

The holes arc started with twenty-four inch stovepipe casing and about eight strings of this kind of casing are used, gradually reducing the hole in size to eleven inches, when screw casing is put in, starting with ten-inch and again reducing the size as the hole is deepened, until the well is finished with five or four-inch pipe. In this way about fourteen strings of casing are used, a feat that would make a California operator almost gasp. This will give some idea of the expense of securing a well. Mr. Drader states that a well 3,500 feet in depth costs the owner about and this, notwithstanding the fact that drillers are only paid from SO cents to $1 a day.

These drillers are natives of the country and have been taught to work the pole tools quite satisfactorily. Thus it is seen that labor is the smallest item of expense connected with the business. If California drillers were employed at the California price of $0 and $7 a day, drilling for oil in Austria would be impossible, unless much better time could be made with the cable system; which is very likely because the av-. erage time of getting a well down there is considerably over a year. Tn some of the fields, the water fiush or hydraulic system of drilling is employed, with the exception il.at regular bit, instead of a rotary, is used; but this is only in shallow ter-rintory, and would be useless for deep drilling.

The Bergheim McGarvey company own about G00 producing wells, and have two large refineries, where their oil is treated. The oil furnishes a high percentage of illuminating oil, which, of course, is the chief product, but all the by-products generally secured from paraffin oil are also manufactured. Mr. Drader is so well satisfied with the methods in California that he has decided to take back with him a complete Standard drilling outfit, such as is used in the fields of California, which, incidentally, is a high compliment to the oil operators of that state. Paint, Oil Drug Review.

We are offering for immediate delivery, 10 miles 3 5-8 in. I. D. Charcoal Iron Pipe with new threads and collars, and thread protectors, average length of joints 16 1-2 to 17 1-2 feet, f. o.

b. Channtc or any station taking same freight rate, at 20c per foot in carload lots. unload and store in pipe yards free of charge. Also for December delivery another lot of ten miles, 4 in. O.

D. or 33-4 I. I). vStcel Pipe with new threads and collars, 14 threads to the inch with protectors, average length of joints, '14'to 17 12, f. o.

b. Chanute, Kans, or any other station taking same freight rate, at 20c per foot in car load lots. is the best bargain ever offered in this oil field in the way of pipe or casing, and parties contemplating the laying of a Gas or Oil cannot afford to miss this chance to save money. Samples of till Pipe can be seen at the city office of The Oil Fields and Methods of Austria. Frank Drader, general manager for Bergheim McGarvey of Galicia, Austria, is at present making Los Angeles his headquarters, with Hie object in view of investigating the methods in use in California of producing and marketing petroleum.

The company which Mr. Drader represents is one of the largest oil concerns in the world and bears the same relation to Austria as does the Standard Oil company to the United States. Mr. Drader, in speaking of oil operations in this country, says they are conducted on a somewhat different basis than those of the United States, but, owing to a similarity in rock formations and other conditions, more nearly resemble the California fields than any other, and it is for that reason that Mr. Drader is now in California.

The oil business has been carried on in Austria more or less extensively for about fifty years, but not until about twenty years ago were any systematic efforts made io establish the industry on a modern basis, before that time the operators being satis-fiel with sinking shafts similar to those used in gold and other mining enterprises. There are still some of these shafts 500 feet deep, but they are no longer operated. All the oil fields of Austria are located in the Carpathian mountains and extend in the general direction of the mountain ranges for a distance of probably six hundred miles. The wells range in depth from 1500 to 3500 feet and are very expensive to sink, but the operators are amply repaid for the cost, as some will produce about 5000 barrels of oil a day. The oil has a paraffin base and is worth in its crude state about $2 a barrel.

While the formation is very similar to that found in the average California field, entirely different methods are employed in drilling. What is called the Canadian system of drilling is used almost entirely, although recently some of the operators have adopted the American regular drilling outfit. The Canadian system, so called because employed first in the oil fields of Petrolia, Canada, consists of the pole tools. The bit is attached to a string of wooden poles and in some cases iron stems, similar to California augur stems, but smaller, and as the hole is drilled more poles are added, taking the place of the cables. In place of a temper screw, the tools are lowered by means of a "drill chain" passing over the walking beam and attached 1 CHANUTE, KAS.

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