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Week-End Edition, April 10-11,1920.;FLL PASO HERALDPECOS, Texas, April 10.—A big standard derrick with an electric light on top, in plain sight of Pecos and which may be seen by passengers as they speed into Pecos on the Texas Pacific, will be Pecos’s next oil well. The well is to be drilled by the Sunshine Oil corporation in section 69, block 4. It was stated today that the machinery is on the ground for this well and also for another deep test well. The well in section 69 is to be known as the Laura well No. 2, and the other will be known as the Tinally well No. 1. “The drill will drop as soon as hastened labor can assemble the machinery and raise the derrick,” it is announced.The rigs to be used for the two new Sunshine wells are known as the extra California standard rigs, having been developed In the oil fields of California. They are described as having little or no w’ood about the rigging, the ‘‘bull” wheel, calf wheel and all the rigging being of metal. They will also be supplied with the finest type of return tube boilers.The Sunshine, whose operations were recently disturbed because of boiler troubles, now has drilling again all its nur wells—the Laura No. 1, Victory, Grogan and Leeman wells. Excellent progress within the last few days is reported. The Laura,the . pioneer well in the Pecos field, was shut down because of boiler trouble, which has been remedied.Mnny Digs Drought In.Drilling rigs from the older oil fields of east and central Texas are being rushed to Pecos in response to the hurried messages sent out after the Bell well had been put on the pump.. Abner Davis well was spuddedin Friday. It is half a mile east of the i Bell well. Mr. Davis Intends to erect : a r^finerv here, too.The Bell well’s showing has made for increased activity in the area immediately surrounding it, and five wells are now racing to the depth at which the discovery well struck oil, while the Abner Davis well on the same section with the Bell is ex-, pected to spud in on Monday.Drilling East of Ppoos.East of the river in Ward and Loving counties there is activity among the deep tests projected. The Trans-Pecos company is assembling rigging and a gasoline engine for a test in section 206, block 34, H. G. N. railway survey. The Toyah Valley Oil company is daily expecting the arrival of machinery that will permit it to start on its two deep tests, one to be on section 12, of block C-26, Loving county, and the other in the territory, 25 miles to the east.Ira Bell Well At Pecos Holds Up Under Owner is In El Paso Buying Machine ToPumping Save Oil1IMIMELL*PHE Bell well, 23 miles northwest X of Pecos has a proved capacity of 35 barrels an hour on the pumo. according to its owner, Ira J. Bell.Ulfin XT'1 _ -r-, T-____'J’HE tan*, and derrick of the Ira J. Bell well near Pecos are seen in the accompanying picture. The photograph was taken from the south side of the well and shows the structure fairly well.
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El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Apr 10, 1920
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