The Petroleum Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 2

2 THE PETROLEUM JOURNAL SINCLAIR TO HANDLE THE TULSA BURNER FIND GAS NEAR WILSEY Gas has been encountered at a depth of 350 feet in the test being drilled by George D. Neiman on the northwest of the southeast of section 11, township 16 south, range 7 east, Morris County. Mr. Neiman expects to drill two tests in this territory. Gas has been encountered on this structure in several other localities.

At Wilsey a 16-foot gas sand was found at a depth of 620 feet and having a gauge pressure of 130 pounds per square inch. S. W. Forrester is also drilling a test on section 6, township 17 south, range 7 east. Gas has been encountered in this test.

The Wilsey structure lies along the granite ridge and the granite ridge is beginning to attract considerable attention from the oil fraternity. R. L. Dutton of Council Grove, is heavily interested in acreage on the Wilsey structure on a survey made during the months of August and September, 1919, by H. E.

Anderson. The kerosene burner, called the Hydro-carbon burner, invented by L. M. Bowman and W. A.

Smith, which has been the one particular course of pride to everyone in Tulsa who has seen it, has been purchased by E. Rogers Kemp for the Sinclair people and will be sold throughout the United States and all foreign countries where kerosene is used for fuel and heat. The burner uses a low grade kerosene or distillate and makes a wonderfully clean, blue flame and is economical to the last penny as a means of heating furnaces, ovens and stoves. It should have been used in the bake ovens in foreign countries during the war, but will now be recognized by all engineers as the last word in perfect combustion and economical fuel. The Sinclair people will be in a position to demonstrate it everywhere and that is all that it needs, as anyone can testify who has ever seen it in operation.

It is simple in construction and can be sold at a price well within the reach of anyone and will, best of all, add to the consumption of kerosene, a commodity that is manufactured here at home. PHILLIPS TO OPEN WICHITA OFFICE PIPING GAS FROM ELK CITY The Edgar Zinc Company is building a 40-mile pipeline from its smelter at Cherryvale to the Elk City gas field, and will bet its supply of fuel from the big gassers in this field as scon as the line is finished. Before starting the line the company had a number of gas experts go over the field, and pass on the future supply of gas in its territory. The Edgar Zinc Company is a million dollar corporation, and has one of the largest smelters in the southwest located at Cherryvale. It is said that after a thorough investigation the company decided on the Elk City as against the Oklahoma fields, which are about the same distance from Cherryvale, believing the Elk City gas field gave the best producers of an enormous quantity of gas, and a longer lived field.

The Phillips Petroleum Company, at a meeting of the stockholders recently, voted to increase the authorized capital stock to one million shares of no par value. The issue and outstanding shares of the Phillips Company now numbers 225,500, and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, transfer agents of the concern, mailed out to stockholders of record February 2 one share of stock for each share now owned. The stock distribution is not in the nature of a dividend, but is purely an assignment with no charge. The Phillips Petroleum Company recently increased its holdings in Butler County by the purchase of the lease and production of the J. C.

Scully half section in 17-23-4. The Phillips Petroleum Company is planning to open offices in Wichita. A. L. Campbell is trying to obtain temporary headquarters in the Hoyt building for the company.

While this corporation is among the newer oil producing concerns, it ranks as one of the largest independent companies in the Mid-Continent field. It has a many good properties in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Among its most valuable leases are the Paris, Larsen, and Scully properties in the Elbing and Peabody fields. AN IMPORTANT MERGER HAS SIX WELLS AT ARKANSAS CITY One of the most important mergers consummated in the Mid-Continent field in recent months is that whereby the Magna Oil Gas Company acquires the holdings of the Travis organization, which includes the Oklahoma Petroleum Gasoline Company of Oklahoma, the T. B.

Gasoline Company, the Mileage Gasoline Company, Oklahoma Petroleum Gasoline Company of Texas, Gotham Oil Corporation of New York, and other companies, and the personal holdings of S. R. Travis, who is known as one of the largest operators in casinghead gasoline in this country. The Arkansas River Gas Company of Wichita now has six producing wells in the Arkansas City district. The company is drilling two wells now and will start another This corporation, headed by George Shylock, has three wells on the Denton farm, two miles east of Arkansas City, and two wells on the Wynn Perkins lease and one on the Keefe lease, eight miles west of Arkansas City.

In the east field the sand is found at 1900 feet; in the west field at 1500 feet. The wells come in at one to three million cubic feet daily. The gas is used in Arkansas City as fuel by manufacturers. A 7-MILLION DOLLAR OIL SALE RUNS ITS FIRST CRUDE OIL The refining plant of the Beacon Refining Company at Henrietta, Texas, has made its first run of crude oil. The initial capacity of the plant is 1000 barrels daily, but the plant is to be enlarged to a daily capacity of 2500 barrels.

Sales and traffic offices of the Beacon Company are in Fort Worth. The Magnolia Petroleum Company is said to have paid seven million dollars for a controlling interest in the Fortuna Oil Company properties. The Fortuna Company was organized in December, 1913, by the late A. P. Crockett and associates.

It has valuable acreage and production in Oklahoma and in the new Bull Bayou field in Louisiana. The new officers elected are: M. J. McLaughlin, president; B. B.

Blake- ney, vice-president; W. L. Holmes, secretary and treasurer. T. T.

Taylor, former secretary will continue as assistant secretary and will have charge of the company offices at Tulsa. Gordon E. Carson, well-known in Tulsa oil circles, died at his home in Tulsa Wednesday afternoon of last week, following a short illness. Mr. Carson was one of the best known of the younger oil men in the state and for several years was associated with Henry N.

Gries of the Atlantic Petroleum Company and later with Graham and Bird. OPENS NEW TEXAS FIELD BUYS IN MARION COUNTY According to the latest reliable information from the Texas fields, the new Hillborn well drilled by Foster, in the southwestern part of Eastland County, has increased its flow from two hundred to around four hundred barrels daily in spite of the fact that it still has one thousand feet of open hole. That is regarded as a good showing and operators are growing enthusiastic over prospects for opening an entirely new field. In Stephens County the Long No. 4 of the Phillips Petroleum Company has been shot and is making four hundred barrels daily.

The White Oil Corporation has paid $225 an acre for the forty-acre lease on Sellars land in the northeast quarter of section 28-21-4. This is three-quarters of a mile east of the D. M. Ward well in the 1700-foot sand..