TINSLEY FIELD 1939 - 1974 A COMMEMORATIVE BULLETIN

TINSLEY FIELD 1939 - 1974

A COMMEMORATIVE BULLETIN

William H. Moore

BULLETIN 119

Mississippi Geological, Economic and

Topographical Survey

William Halsell Moore

Director and State Geologist

Jackson, Mississippi

1974

TINSLEY FIELD 1939 - 1974

A COMMEMORATIVE BULLETIN

Moore

BULLETIN 119

Mississippi Geological, Economic and


William Halsell Moore

Director and State Geologist


1974

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Hon. William Lowe Waller . . Governor

MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC ANDTOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

BOARD

Hon. Gordon W. Gulmon, Chairman Natchez

Hon. James G. Hawkins, Vice Chairman . Columbus

Hon. Robert L. Abney. Bay Springs

Hon. O. B. Curtis. \ . Jackson

Hon. Troy J. Laswell Starkville

STAFF

William H. Moore Director and State Geologist

Alvin R. Bicker, Jr Chief Geologist

Wilbur T. Baughman Geologist

Michael Bograd Geologist

Sarah C. Childress Geologist

Victor N. Fischer Geologist

John W. Green, Jr Geologist

Edwin E. Luper Geologist

James H. May Geologist

John E. McCarty Geologist

David R. Williamson Geologist

Freddie L. Smith. Logging Technician

H. Randal Warren Logging Technician

Cynthia C. Cote Librarian

Norma B. Shows Secretary

Mary J. Sims Bookkeeper

Jean K. Spearman Secretary

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

Office of the Mississippi Geological, Economic and



June 27, 1974

Mr. Gordon W. Gulmon, Chairman, and

Members of the Board

Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographical Survey

Gentlemen:

I am pleased to transmit Bulletin 119 of the MississippiGeological Survey entitled, "Tinsley Field 1939-1974, ACommemorative Bulletin," by William H. Moore.

The discovery and development of the largest oil field inthe southeastern States is an exciting part of Mississippi'shistory. The fact that this giant field was discovered throughthe application of basic geology, in an investigation notnecessarily slated toward oil and gas exploration, is a tributenot only to the geologist making the discovery but to allgeologists engaged in similar undertakings.

Respectfully,

William H. Moore

Directorand State Geologist

WHM:js

4 MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

CONTENTS

Page

Introduction 8

Newspaper History 14

Later Development 47

Impact on Yazoo County 51

Epilogue 55

Acknowledgments 55

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Anomalous outcrop of Moodys Branch onPerry Creek . 8

2. Union Producing No. 1 G.C. WoodruffDiscovery Well on Tinsley Field 11

3. Location Map of Tinsley Field 13

4. Production from Tinsley Field 48

5. Pennzoil United Water Flood

Equipment for secondary recovery 50

PLATES

(Courtesy Pennzoil United)

1. Surface configuration of Tinsley Field andstructural contours on base of Woodruff Sand . . Pocket

2. Electrical Log of Cretaceous Sands Pocket

3. Cross section of portion of Tinsley Field Pocket

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PHOTO BY DR. MARTIN J.M. BLESS, SEPT. 10, 1967

This commemorative bulletin is dedicated to Frederic

Francis Mellen. Mr. Mellen was born at Mississippi StateUniversity, then Mississippi A & M, on August 21, 1911. Hewas educated in the Public schools of Starkville, Mississippi,holds a BS Degree from Mississippi State University and a

Master's Degree from the University of Mississippi. Mr. Mellen served on the staff of the Mississippi Geological Surveyas a geologist and Assistant State Geologist. From the periodof 1962-1965, he served as the State Geologist of Mississippi.His work career encompassed work with the Tennessee


Valley Authority, British American Petroleum and manyyears as a consultmggeologist: He is presently a consultinggeologist in Jackson, Mississippi. Although Mr. Mellen isbest known for his discovery which led to the establishmentof the Tinsley Oil Field, his geological work also led to theestablishment of the Mississippi Valley Portland CementCompany in Warren County, the development of an agricultural lime plant at Cedar Bluff in Clay County, and the Miss-Lite Lightweight Aggregate Plant at Cynthia in HindsCounty. He also was a leader in the exploration of theWarrior Basin area in northeastern Mississippi. AlthoughMr. Mellen has received many honors and much recognition of his geological work, we think that on the 35thanniversary of the Tinsley discovery other recognitionshould be made. Almost daily we see persons of mediocretalents held up as leaders and their accomplishmentsextolled far beyond their worth. In the day of the ordinaryman it seems fitting to pay tribute to an extraordinaryman.

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RESOLUTION

Board of

Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographical Survey

WHEREAS the mineral production in Mississippi in1972 totaled approximately $261 million, and

WHEREAS mineral fuels production was valued atapproximately $266.7 million, and

WHEREAS mineral fuels accounted for approximately 85 percent of the mineral value of the State, and

WHEREAS Mississippi ranked ninth in the Nationin production of petroleum (crude) and eleventh in theNation as a producer of natural gas, and

WHEREAS the month of August 1974 is the 35thanniversary of the discovery of the first and largest oilfield in Mississippi,

Therefore be it Resolved that the Board of the

Mississippi Geological Survey recognize publicly the workby Mr. Frederic F. Mellen which ultimately led to thedrilling of the discovery well in the Tinsley Oil Field, and

Be it further Resolved that this resolution be a partof the Tinsley Field commemorative bulletin to be published by the Mississippi Geological Survey as Bulletin 119.

Gordon W. Gulmon, Chairman

James G. Hawkins, Vice Chairman

Robert L. AbneyO. B. Curtis

Troy J. Laswell


Introduction

At the end of 1938, Mississippi ranked 41 in mineralproduction among the 48 States and the mineral productionfor that year amounted to only $5,200,000. In 1938 a chain

of events began in the hills of Yazoo County that wouldchange Mississippi's mineral economics forever. The Mississippi Geological Survey, working in cooperation withthe Works Progress Administration, undertook a geological survey of ten Mississippi counties. Dr. William CliffordMorse, Director of the Mississippi Geological Survey,assigned Assistant State Geologist Frederic Francis Mellento supervise the surveys of several of these counties.Mellen and his workers surveyed Yazoo County with theidea in mind of finding good ceramic clays. In the courseof this investigation Mellen found several indications ofgeologic structure. In February 1939, while observingoutcrops along Perry Creek near Tinsley, a small exposureof Moodys Branch marl was discovered at an elevation of250 feet above its normal position (Figure 1). Mellen reported this discovery to Dr. Morse, along with reports ofother structures.

Figure 1 -Anomalous outcrop of Moodys Branch on Perry Creek. (Photo by W.C.Morse)

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Dr. Morse decided that the Tinsley structure was ofenough import that a press release should be formulatedand issued, and on April 12, 1939, the following releaseappeared in newspapers in Mississippi and others in theSouth:

MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

University, Mississippi

Memorandum for the Press

The Tinsley Dome

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

APRIL 12, 1939

A structural "High" in Yazoo County has been discovered by Frederic F. Mellen, supervising geologist of theW.P.A.-Mississippi State Geological Survey, in the minerals survey of the county, in which the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce and Board of Supervisors are actingco-sponsor.

The first indication of the structure was noted in Oc

tober, 1938, when a thin bed of bentonite in the Yazooclay member of the Jackson formation, a bed believed to bea reliable stratigraphic marker, was determined to lie at250 feet above sea level six miles southeast of Yazoo City(Center of Sec. 26, T.ll N., R.2 W.); at 225 feet 2-1/2 milesfarther south (SW. 1/4, Sec. 2, T.10 N., R.2 W.); at 220 feet9-1/2 miles southwest of the latter place (SE. 1/4, NE. 1/4,Sec. 32, T.10 N., R.3 W.); and at elevations of normal southwest dip at points farther south. Approximately the sameelevation of the bentonite bed at two places 9-1/2 milesalong the dip is the significant fact.

In checking his Yazoo County stratigraphy in February,1939, Mr. Mellen discovered 12 feet of the Moodys Branchmarl member of the Jackson formation on Perry Creek, amile southwest of Tinsley (SW. Cor. NW. 1/4, Sec. 13,T.10 N., R.3W.), in an area where normally only youngerYazoo clays should have been exposed. Test hole C-60


revealed the base of the Moodys Branch marl 6 feet belowwater level; and 26 feet of the underlying silty, lignitic,pyritiferous, argillaceous beds of the Yegua. At this pointthe base of the Moodys Branch marl is 150 feet above sealevel; in test C-34 in Yazoo City, ten miles northeast, it is15 feet above sea level; in a small stream 1-1/2 miles south

of Eden and about nine miles northeast of Yazoo City, it is160 feet above sea level. The inlier of the Moodys Branchmarl on Perry Creek at an elevation of 150 feet above sealevel shows, therefore, the Tinsley structure to have anorthward contour closure of at least 135 feet —a structure

so favorable for oil and gas accumulation as to warrantfurther geologic study and seismographic exploration.

Although the existence of the Tinsley structure in athickly loess-covered area is based largely on the evidenceof a single outcrop of the Moodys Branch marl on PerryCreek, the structure of the higher bentonite bed tends tocorroborate its presence; although all elevations are barometrically determined and are, consequently, not precise,and although the area was leased, seismologically surveyed, and surrendered, some ten years ago, nevertheless,the Tinsley structure should be further explored, especiallywith a seismograph, to determine whether or not the

subsurface structure is sufficiently pronounced to warranta commercial test well, and especially should it be furtherexplored for the reason that it lies less than 35 miles northwest of the Jackson Gas Field.

Because of the great expense involved in oil and gasexploration and especially in deep drilling tests, this pressnotice is being released by William C. Morse, State Geologist, who spent a few days in the field, and by Frederic F.Mellen, the discoverer, only on the condition that this

article be accepted in its entirety.

After the press release almost immediate leasing activity took place centered around the Tinsley structure.Union Producing Company (United Gas, now PennzoilUnited) had been interested in Mississippi for some time

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and had concentrated some of its exploratory efforts inwestern Mississippi. After the release, Union Producingwas active with its geophysical crews and soon assembleda lease block near Tinsley. Drilling of the first well on this

structure began on July 18, 1939, and on August 29, 1939,a successful drill stem test at the Union Producing No. 1G. C. Woodruff indicated a significant oil discovery (Figure2). Prior to this discovery there had been natural gas production in Mississippi from two small fields, this productionamounting to some $3,200,000 in 1938. Now the boom wason!

Figure 2 - Union Producing No. 1 G. C. Woodruff. Discovery well on Tinsley Field.(Frank Noone photo)


Many oil companies, independent geologists and leasebrokers rushed into Mississippi. Jackson and Yazoo Citybecame centers of the activity. Other wells were rapidlydrilled in the Tinsley Field, and by the end of the yearonly one dry hole had been drilled in the growing Field(Figure 3). The significance of Tinsley Field, its productiondata and other details will be discussed in later pages, butat this time we will turn to actual news releases from the

Yazoo City newspaper and other papers throughout Mississippi and the south to chronicle the events of the monthsafter the press releases. The news clippings are from thefiles of the Mississippi Geological Survey and the personalfiles of Frederic F. Mellen. They make up a fascinating andexciting story of the birth of a giant oil field.

TINSLEY FIELD

FIGURE 3

i L-C^i-l'l {'-LOCATION MAP/ pi. ^J

OF

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13


THE YAZOO CITY HKRALP, YAZOO CITY. MISSISSIPPI FfUrvW, JULY 21. 1939.

Union Producing CompanyBeganActive Drilling For OilAt Tinsley Dome This Week

Thorough Survey OfOil Possibilities MadeBefore Company BeganDrilling Operations

drillingi.d . i tlit

i.lriitr .:

WoodruM :Mo. I

,st what those operations m.-.nito Yazoo City and Ya/u.» Countycan best be attested by citizens

iding in the neighborhood ofTinsley. where several thousands ofdollars have been paid to landowners for leases on mineral rights. Onewomen in that section received $2,-200 for her mineral rights.

The Union Producing Companymade a thorough survey of the possibilities of oil or gas in that section before moving in its derrickand drilling rig lrom Monroe. La.The discovery of oil or ,;as in thissection would revolutionize economic conditions in the lower Delta.

The Tinsley Dome was discoveredin April of this year by the WPAclay and minerals survey projectunder the supervision of M. F.Mellen. who had charge of th?Yazoo County survey for the Mississippi Geologic Survey.

The clay survey was completedduring the first part of this yearand its results will be made publicshortly by Dr. W. E. Morse of theUniversity of MississiDpi. directorof the Mississippi Geologic Survey.The character of the clays in thiscounty will be shown, and an estimate given of the quantity of valuable clays to be found in this section It is known that a vast struc-

of I .ek-i

propWell I

•ll.v

lighls. h-al, ammaking the <•!.•

it wrr ;>.• rehave kept abr<the original smrecast of the

office space towardy survey possible,

ailed by those wholist of the limes that

vey was made at theexecutive committee

'oin.ly Chamber ofis organization hasslnictive service to

who <|iiite often find

the

Co i Th

I he

t difficult to

in living quarters.Not the least part >,( Hie \

this original :mdsi

vim havi

This mo

harvest t

a positioiAnothe

ture is

• he

•ndowi

eial the

•ral rights

t. at pr. sentof lifty out-

Yazoo Cityhorn outside

•r part or Y;ty and tests of the i.iaV.rrun shortly by the University ofOklahoma at Norman.

At the present time. Yazoo Cityiind.s it difficult to house and take

care of the large number of workmen now in this section exploringthe mineral situation. The Explorations. Inc.. an affiliate of the UnionProducing Company, has been in

< Cm/ill be

or.-sighl amihe board ftr

!ef aldermen"!jaccorded to thivr of t'o.m

malelv $0,000at groupn-i.iiie lor Ya-

Countv wascommendable

exercised by••is and boardii-.r when they

the Cham-

clay and> County.

lliesl umerce for

vey of Yazu

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YAZOO OILTEST SEENPRODUCER

United Gas Siihsidiarv Owns

Leases Mile and Hall In

All Directions

Jar Of Yazoo Oil Shown Here

AT THK mi, WKM.

Avis. 29— Mississippi 'j«

lioiue section whai amounts in -'Louisiana oil rir-kl.

Amonc early arrival: m ihe '•veilthis HiU'iii^nn was H M. Mm-'r

earned samples "f Ihe llmo h'"!-to Jackson.

Absence ol water iji ih<- "U v -«•an "enroma-ing sit:n." SupervisorMorse said. Hp said the oil wsvabout 33 cravn:

Sunt. Quisle-, said H would takra week or ten dav- <u run down ihecasing, bui exper: oilmen bolicvcc;the well will flow irorly when ,hsupply is ennlrolKvl.

The United 0»i Cnrpo:vlmn hi.leased the are:i wiihin ,i ra..••••- "Ionr and -nw-l-.i!! miles from 'ft*'well. The Uni'.n Prortuciic . em-pany is a subsidiary of United Gas.

Local resident wondered howdiscovery of the black thud wouldreact, on n slate which never tic-fore has seen such in cinisai-: inrii-cat'-os ni a regular nil-Held.

V the annnunccmoni result ma t • oral migration iwn this territory? Is Yazoo Ci:v destined iobenefit or will Iho little Tiusleycommunity, only a mile from thewell site, become ii thriving deltametropolis?

Tc Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wondnilf.owners of the land, the discoveryis an inspiration for veal reioirinc:Mr. Woodruff is a farmer-planter

•ficpd at Yazoo City vc-terri.e.Clarion-Ledger o/fice when H. Mand showed it to Editor T M H<

in the oil is a "most en con muni a sii

II. Mr Woodruff const ni< ten ale :anriwich stand nci'.rbv whenII operations started several

lodny lie did a thriving business,hundreds of people from all sec-

iv- o! Ihe stale converged onislry to p."' a clinipse of the tallrrick which guards untold oil re-

lue automobile parked in theId note a Missouri licen.se tag.Mr:;. Wood nilf. bustling aroundtli friends and repeating the storyhow the well began, look time

t io wait on :he customer,'; at theuncli stand

Because her husband owns another store near Tnisley. she jok-nglv called litis plate the Wood-n'ff Cliaui Store Number 2.

According to Mississiroi custom.">twecti driller and land - owner.\At. and Mrs Woodruff are en-

one-eighlh of the revenue

,-le

o!

well.L-inc Compai

while Ull

Mr and Mrs Woodruff may sellthis eighth portion, too. if theywish. but. they pfbbably won't.Thev didn't, discuss it. today.

aht. Supervisor Mi

ml routine which acinic operations, the

drill-stem to a depth

with something, but thev thoughtit wa- salt water.

As they broke down ihe drill-'1cm. the black fluid gushed upward, rising 130 feet from thearound And while thev drew outthe stem and made plans r,r sinking Ihe easing, ihey wondered justhow many barrels nl oil the wellcould (vrorttn e.

The superinicnrienl on the job isH. Ci. Barnes, and Preston Fergusis ihi- local geologist, oil Ihegrounds The t rew this morningrcroverrrt 12 tribhjrs and one double of ml

>)it. and it Mowed again in

rrvisor. brought back a jar-rse said the absence of wat-


THE VKKSBURG EVENING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1939.

This May Become Mississipp i's First Commercial OilWell Casing Expected AtSatartia Oil WellEarly This Afternoon

Casing was expected to arriveearly this afternoon (or the UnionProducing Company's WoodruffNo. 1 "11 well near Satartia. Meanwhile there wag tittle stir In thearea as ihe well crew markedtime, and the pace of curiosityseekers slackened somewhat.

Olficials of the union Compsn)predicted yesterday, on the basisof a drill stem test, that the wellwould produce In commercialquantities.

Officials of the company saidoil was struck yesterday morningshortly after six o'clock by one ofthree shifts that have been pushing the steel drill point downwardthrough the earth's outer formations since July 15.

W. J. Quigles. general superintendent, said the well was notbrought all the way In, however,a drill stem test, taken Immediately after th» discovery wasmade, showed a flow of 310 barrels per hour. The oil coming fromthe well, he said, measured to aspecific gravity of 32.8, slightlylower than the high gasol tie-content oil of Louisiana and Texas.

Oil was discovered, Mr. Qulglessaid at a depth slightly lower tna.i4.500 feet. He voiced no prediction regarding future oil dlscuver-les In Ihe section, but, predictedthat within thirty days, fifteen rigswould be at work In the Immediate vicinity.

"Tills may be nothing but anoil pocket, but I do not think £0,"Mr. Qulgles declared. He then saidit seemed certain the well wouldproduce oil In commercial amountsand went so far as to predict emethod of getting It to market.

" all probability, he explained.a pipe 1:

crude oil transported viaThe well was discovered on whet

geologists have termed the Tins-ley Dome. O. C. Woodruff, veteran farmer of the Satartia sectionowns the property on which thewell is located, and slightly lessthan 800 acres in that particular

thi

Glaus Prospect* Good

Asked for a comment regardingpossibilities of oil on the OlassDome, Mellon said his report onthe survey conducted stood as Itwas printed, and added that asfar as surface formations are concerned, the two areas check verynearly the same.

The thing which set the wholeInvestigation off. Mellon said, wasa formation of rocks he found Jut-ting from the ground nearby theWoodruff well. This, too, he compared to a formation near the

The Woodruff well Js the thirdto be drilled by the Union producing Company In Yaidb county.Another near Flora showed 'Indi

cations" of oil, but the findingsthere consisted of saturated lime-stone. This is the First well to bedrilled into the area designated asthe Tinsley Dome.

By a dome. Otologist Mellon explained, geologists mean a stratum with an underground structurein the shape of a hill. He compared It to an orange cut in half,and said oil was usually In sucha formation An anticline is another popular formation for oilfindings, he explained,

elate.

Tn the vicinity of the Woodruffwell the Union Producing Companylicensed in Houston, Tex., hasfrom two io three thousand acresleased, Mr. Qulgles opined thatthis constitutes the most promising section In the Tinsley Dome

The i

this i of

deternI Woodruffby of

reflection seismograph, an instrument which "shoots" vibrationsInto the ground and determineswhat lies beneath by means of thereflections which rise when the vibrations hit and bounce back fromthe different underground formations. He described it in the nature of an echo, where vibrationsfrom sound bound back from adistant object.

VYjodrufr Family Man

The owner of the property whereon sits the big Woodruff rig, isdefinitely a family man. He rearedthree of his own children, and Is

lap" of raising eight

Mississippi's first to "cash In" onliquid gold. He sat musingly behind the counter of a makeshiftstore he built to serve cold drinksto the "roughnecks" and merelysmiled at the Jibes about his sudden good fortune,

Surrey MOt

The story of the Woodruff No.1 well dates back several month',when a young man named Fred-

c Mellon started a study of thestated

up.

Mississippi's prospects of finding oil In commercial quantities were heightened yesterday when theUnion Producing Company of Houston. Texas, announced It had struck oil at its Woodruff, No. 1well near Satartia. The top photo shows the big rig, with smoke billowing from one of three boiler*which drive its machinery The lower left photo shows O. C. Woodruff, owner of the land, while th*lower right picture shows Fredric Mellon, geologist who made original recommendations for drilling tnthat section.

reached _formation. Mellon said, was Indicative that It existed throughout thestratum. Had It been farther downin the sand, he added, the possibility of a small pocket wouldhave been Increased,

a Works Progress Administration and Mississippi Oeo-loglcal Survey, clay and mineralsurvey, young Mellon made an extensive study of formations inthat and other sections of westernMississippi, operating from his office at Washington and Speedstreets in Vleksburg.

In a report made the early pa-t

which he had studied showed definite signs favoring oil. One wasthe Tinsley Dome area, and significantly enough, the other wasthe Olass Dome section neatOlass, eight miles south of here.Mellon spoke favorably in his import of a section near Blake Iy,north of Vleksburg, but recommended a seismograph study be

Mellon was on the scene of theWoodruff well yesterday. Hechecked with company officials regarding their discovery, and studied carefully the oil which hadcome from the well. Mellon

predicted other wells in for that

lea, expressed a degree of confidence that the well would stand

well t

The I

,, Me!-

n forced byat oil was

bird in l

TheB oil a

. is

as he tossed a nickel Into Ihecash drawer after selling a colddrink.

Yesterday, people flocked to thesite from far and near. Workmanhad curbed the flow of oil, h'jw-ever, and all the greater part of

away. Curiosity seekers scoopedIt up In bottles and any availablecontainers to take home some cfthe first oil that has ever comeout of a Mississippi well In quantities large enough to Justify prospects for a commercial flow.

Should the well live up to expectations this section may experience a new era of development.People who went out to the wellyesterday could visualize a villa:.-?of oil field shacks and In contrastother more-Imposing buildings Inthe neighborhood.

In the next few days, the futureof the well should be a matterat least worth betting on. M".Qulgles said new casing has already been ordered, and should arrive by noon today. About a dayand a half will be required to in

activity i the i esterday

crew maintained operations of

t*>e water pumps in order to ke*j»the weli open. If the operationwere stopped, B. G. Barnes, driller said, the well would soon cavaand fill Itself.

in the meantime, Satartia is enjoying at least a temporary sortof boom. People Irom far and wlrtocame there yesterday and weredirected through the winding nlllroads (hat lead to the site. Wnetti-er the boom will last will dependupon the future of the Woodrutfwell.

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THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3. 1930 SECTION I 7

Yazoo Countians Anxiously Wait As Oil Drama Nears Climax

m- * 3

A batirry of steam boilers powen the drilling for oil near Yaioo City, where "blackgold" fever it ra.ching high pilch. A derrick it shownbehindthe boiler, on the farm of G. C.Woodruff, countrystorekeeper.

9-&\.-. $

A drlling crewsets * "Christmas tree" (drilling appai-fus) in place. If will be placiubing in the new well for actual determination of the oil tupply, et'imated roughderday at several thousand gallons daily when the well is brought in.

On the derrick floora drilling crew tightens the collar or.a casing. Leftto right: S. G. Storage tanlt standreadyfo holdthe oilif if it found Recording lo epectationMcVallum, driller; L. Gilmore, A. L Moore, J.6. Moody andW.L.Green. 30-foot concrete plugin the well it pierced tomorrow nightor Tuesday morning.


DAILY CLARION-LEDGER,

JACKSON, MISS.,

MONDAY MORNING,THE YAZOO CITY HERALD, DAILY CLARIONLEDGER. JACKSON MISS..YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939 SEPTEMBER 11, 1939

Two New Wells Infeley SectionWill Be S

Wells To Be DrilledNorth Aud Souih OfWoodruff No. L FirstStale Producing Oil Well

John R Ki.'Ur'.eru. district nuna-yei uf the- United Gas & PipelineCompany, iwihui organization ofth*1 Union Producing Company. dis-i-overfis of Misriflsi)..pi's first oilwell producing m commercial quantities Ima .-nt'cunced that hib company is planning to put down twoadditional wells m the Tinsley section starting work at once.

It is though' thai one well will bedrilled on the J<-nnifc Stephens tractabout a mile noiHi r>t th* Woodruffjv... i v.-.-ji ,-md another will bf put

• the south of Woodruff Nl,i ill'

The pressure in the Woodruff No1 well i: i eportid to be increasing:-.teadiiy as cleaning progresses, andapparently the well is slightly increasing its production. Wednesday the guage showed approximately 312 barrels of oil per day througha quart'T-ineh choke

It will be about 30 days beforeofficials of the company can arrange for storage facilities for thfenormal flow of oil from this well,and m the mean time the crudeml is being stored in tanks nearthe well.

H M Morse, state geologist, stated that no drilling permits havebeen issued through Thursday, butit is said that the Southern NaturalGas Company, who have 12000 acresin this territory under lease, is contemplating drilling at an early date

it is expected that the work ofdeveloping the Tinsley Dome oilfield so as to bring it into commercial production on a large scalewill go ahead at once, as this ispractically the only "free" territory in the United States, with fewstate laws regulating drilling orproduction

Leasing activities and the purchase of royalties and mineralrights have been going on at a feverish pace, though the excitementcaused by the discovery of oil nearTinsley and the attendant ruch ofthose interested in speculation inthe field has almost died down.

Mayor Sees MetropolisHere In Near Future On

Heels Of Oil DiscoveryPredicting a city of over 100.-

noo population in Irs* ilia lireyears due to the discovery of oilnorth of Jackson Mayor Walter

Scott yesterday said the City ofJackson is formulating- nlans io

provide facilities for a rapidlygrowing municipality.

The mayor said city engineershad already been working onplans for the future for a greater

,Jack*on but the recent discoveryjust north of the city has prompted the realization that the program will have to be speeded tokeep ahead of the growth.

He pointed '.o the building of472 residences in Jackson the firsteight months of this year providing housing facilities for 618 newfamilies.

Plans for a Jackson of 100.000pnmlation include extended thoroughfares to take care of increased traffic: enlarged schools, water mam extensions and m oresanitary sewers, larger police andfire fichting forces and largerheadquarters to house the municipal departments.

Picturing a Capital City-metropolis growing at such a rapid ratethat facilities are already pressedto render municipal service, the2mayor said "we might as wellface the facts."

"Of course the proposed improvements will not be madewithout thp consent of the oeoplein Jackson." the mayor added.

Asked to elaborate on Whatimprovements will he needed first.the city's chief executive mention

ed the following in the order nam

ed:

Galloway School, on Bailey a\e-

nue. recently condemned as un

safe, must be rebuilt,

city must be torn down and re-Anolher public school in the

built at the end of the next schoolterm. Several other schools willhave to be enlarged.

Due to the $7 increased traffic,toroughfares east and west andnorth and south must be oi 3 openedto relieve the congested areas.

This would include extension otRoach and Lamar streets, extending and widening Pearl. Pa«cago-ula and Fortification strees to thenorthern city limits.

Extension of the water mains,sanitary and storm sewers andconcreting th ebotton of T o w nCreek from Fortification to Rankin street to keep water flowingand stop the breeding of mosquitoes.

Larger police and Hit lightingforces and larger headquarters totake the place of the already obsolete and inadequate CentralFire station and police department quarters and city jail.

Mayor Scott said Jackson is tobenefit by the production of oiljust north of the city and surelyYazoo Citv will benefit by its proximity to the oil fields.

Reiterating his prcriiclion of acity of 100.000 population '•beforeyou can begin to renli?,e it." themayor said "we cannot be <•ausivnappmc by not planning for thenear future. '

YAZOO OILFIELD HASACTIVITY

Three Supply Houses Seek

Spur Tracks; Lease

Scene Shifts

YAZOO CITY. Sept. 10—As an

evidence oi outside confidence inYazoo county as an oil producingcounty and as concrete interest inYazoo City as a distributing point,three outside supply houses havemade application *o the Y. and M.V. Railroad company for spur trackaccommodations. These applicationsare being promptly handled by therailroad company through local of-fciial P. l. whalen jr.

R. M. Poindextev ot the SuperiorIron Works and J C. Judy of theContinental Supplj company, bothof Shreveport. La., were in townthis week end completing arrangement* to move a branch to YazooCity.

Cliff Robertson ot the Bowrey J.Smith Supply company of Houston,Texas, was the thud firm makingapplication to the iailroad companyfor facilities.

The Superior Iron Works and 'heContinental Supply company havebeen furnishing supplies to theUnion Producing ompany for man;,years and the move on their partholds considerable significance forYazoo City.

Trading in leases has shifted nowfiom the Tin.sley section, to thesites of the old Free Run well and

the old Amerada well. The FiveRun well was sunk in Section 2S.Township IS. Range 1W in ihrsoutheast, quarter of the northeastouarter. Drillers went down 272.1feet. The old Amerada well was mSection 24. Township 12, Range 2Win the center of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter. It ison these two fronts that the nextactivity is expected to break.

TINSLEY FIELD 19

DAILY GLABIOELEDGER. JAOKSOK. MISS.. WEDKESDAY MOKKIKO, SEPTEMBER 18.1W9

YAZOO OILIS SHARINGLIMELIGHT

Cotton Combines With New

"Black Gold" To Spur"Boom"

By JAMES B. GibsonYAOO CITY, Sept. 12 — This

little delta-hill city, nestling in thegiant elbow of the muddy YazooRiver, finds itself today betweentwo big "booms" — one resultingfrom the discovery of oil and theother from the rising price of cotton and cottonseed.

Its people appear undecidedwhich boom to follow — the "blackgold" which if flowing from thepoor hills, or the "white gold"which is being hauled by wagonsand trucks out of the rich flatlands.

Both booms are contributingtheir share to the acceleration -ofbusiness in Yazoo City and few ofthe natives are seen these dayswith frowns upon their faces.

Perhaps, the oil boom, which hasfollowed in the wake of the discovery W the magic liquid ofwealth oh the Woodruff iarm, about12 miles Wmthwest of Yazoo City.two weekfe ago, holds the majorshare of attention at present.

This is due to the fact that Yazoo has never had an oil boo mbe-fore. while cotton booms have become routine affairs in the life ofthe town.

But while the people everywhere— in town and in the country —talk Incessantly of the oil strikeand its possibilities, they keeptheir hands busy picking an dgin-ning the excellent cotton cropwhich, man's labor and nature'smagic has produced.

War Helps MarketAnd with a war going on in Eu

rope, the market news is gettingto be about as exciting as the warnews and the oil news from downaround Tinsley.

mA 'SST1town-Yazo° C1ty*« verylittle different from any other townthat happens to be close to the spotwhere oil is first discovered

The air Is thic kwith stories offabulous lease transactions andyarns about what is happening inthe "oil field."

However, the chancery clerk'srecords do not fully bear out thestories about the leases, nor doesthe "oil field" Itself reveal anygreat activity. y

True old "Woodruff No. 1" isstill spewing its liquid gold intothe storage tanks near Tinsley, butthe road down there Is rough, hotand dusty and very few of the

oil men" In town take the troubleeven to go down and see the marvel of the Yazoo highlands.

But in town there is" a lot of oil"drilling," leasing, gossiping andplanning. You can ask the first fivemen — or women — you meet onthe crowded streets any questionyou think to ask about the oilboom and receive five separateand distinct answers.

In that respect, the Yazoo boomIs running ture to the form followed by the booms of other years.4There is lacking most of thecolor which attended the g|r e a tevent in ElDorado eighteen yearsago. the Burkburnett development,or the East Texas discoveries somethirty-odd years in the past.

By that I mean that Yazoo Isnot filled with drillers, riggers,gamblers, and the nondescriptarmies which were attracted bythe booms of yesteryear. Instead,the city is working alive with menwho hold college degrees and bigimportant-looking maps.

True they talk in low tones, butthey eat in the town's restaurantsand they sleep in regular beds,either in the hotel or in roominghouses and in private homes. Sofar there have been no sleeperssnoring in the streets, on the stepsof public buildings, or in the hotellobby and you can't sell a cot asquickly as yo ucan dispose of alease on that "back forty" acresof the old homestead — providedthe old homestaed happens to bein the vicinity of Section 13. Township 10 North. Range 3 West

They All Sell MapsNow and then you can se ea man

— usually one of the army of geologists here for the big show —walking around with knee-highleather boots and khaki trousersand skirt, but most of the "operators" and hangers-on wear ordinary seersucker and linen clothing, plus straw hats of varyingtypes and models.

Almost every business house intown, it seems, is selling mpas and"oil forms."

Of course, everybody knowswhat a map is, but there mav bea few uninitiated who can't figureout an "oil form." Well, tt issimply a standard form of leasecontract, all ready to be filled outsigned before a notary by theparties of the first and secondparts and recorded in the office ofthe chancery clerk.

Actually there is a lull in theoil boom right now and the natives are taking advantage of theletup to get their cotton out of thefields and to the gins.


THE YAZOO CITY HERALD,

YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI

FRIDAY. SEPr^-ljEF: L". 19S9.

f&mk h Readyfor Seiond We!!En Tiasley Held

?£o^ Tiinka Kr^ iedAl Woodruff No. I WallTo T,.koO»re of Flow?Heparaior Installed

;:cl.:. nick

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;t.-\. .. ti... I fi.i tht Jennieri>. I .-It. less than a

ri. .,* ihr Woodruff No. 1.i••.••. n'. n eduction.

*".<e-ii l'jai'ii^d that h crew.«liioii»id o... a subsidiary:..ta.idar.:! On Cc.nipanv of!•• is r-vijSnrfc-d in making.-i-i 'radiii^s of the Me-

r-l-.-..:' ui !.---.._!11»*rj It,. ,.,! Four•.•-..>• Uu.l s uf 1000 barrel

iv.|.:..itv w'fjv erected this week. I •• • ••' !ii<- ftii.-r two tan!:;: whichi i- .-•'"< l-:n-vf.-i • i-.-ii'h. A separatorh;v been installed which is ex-Ti':n'-tiiiE from the oil the smallam..unl ..!.' c:r. pie-nriit. Uiid it Wasi.|.i:il-.i iliat tin-. Has might be.-.••li/.-il f. .i w-11 juj'-hinery. Gpe-...I 1 a. !<:, ai- o;:j.erte.i to'be laid... tin.: :..va -iioitlv and these willbt- ti->-.t to ti:..i..jjOit the va.>t amount• •i jjif-r- anci c.uupiVicnt necessary inilie rir-Ki Ai tc-iian ' water is to be-jui^iifd fi.-.i, a .veil dug and aivservou u,nk is aoon to be erected.

YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939

812 Barrels of OilProduction ofWellIn Twelve Hours

Showing ConsideredExcellent by Oil MenAs Test Run Was MadeBy Officials Monday

Reports here late yesterday indicated that the Woodruff No. 1well of the Union Producing Co.,located on the G. C. Woodruffplace near Tinsley. produced at therate of 812 barrels of oil in twelvehours, in a test run made by officials of the company Monday.

This showing is considered excellent by oil men who are familiarwith conditions in a new field, andthey say it points to quick development of this area in oil production.

Actual drilling of the Stevens No.1 well, about three-quarters of amle north of the Woodruff well,started last night, while Perry No.1 well, a short distance south ofthe first discovery, is expected toto started very soon. Part of thecrude oil coming out of the discovery well will be used for fuelfor the engines that will drill thetwo new wells.

Fred Endom. Jackson derrick contractor, is in charge of erectingderricks for the Union ProducingCo.

Arrangements have been madethrough P. J. Whelan of the YazooCity office of "the Y. & M. V. R. R.for tank car shipments of the crudeoil recovered in the Yazoo Countyfield, and he also expects to conclude a deal for spur track facil-

Iities with three supply houses whohad made applications for sites

DAILY CLARION LEDQEB,

JAOKSOK, MISS.,

WEDNESDAY MORNING,

SEPTEMBER 20, 1989

NEW WELLDRILLINGIN YAZOO

Actual Drilling Gets Under

way At Stevens Site;

Boom Continues

(From Yesterday's Late Editions.)YAZOO CITY, Sept. 18—Actual

drilling at Steven's No. l well, Justnorth of the Woodruff producer,began last night, and drilling operations at Perry No. l, south of theWoodruff well are expected Immediately.

Woodruff No- 1 is choked down,Supt. B. J. Barnes stated, becausecf lack of storage facilities for theoiL A part of its output will bepiped to the two new wells to supply fuel for the Diesel engines usedin drilling. Movement of the oil bytank car is not expected for twoweeks.

P. J. Whalen, of the Y. and M. V.railroad, announced this afternoonthat the railroad had its facilitiesready for tank car shipments, andthat he expected favorable responseto petitions by three concerns forspur track accommodations.

Another new firm opens tomorrowhere when the Mississippi Realtycompany, backed by Barnwell andBarbour, insurance agents of thiscity, and Grant Alexander, ofGreenville, opens its doors. Alexander will manage the firm.

Supply houses, lawyers, and otherInterests, seeking locations, considernothing less than five year leaseswhich indicates uae soundness ofYazoo City's future.

The local telephone authorities reported today that an average of twonew phones per day had been installed during this month.

TINSLEY FIELD 21

THE YAZOO CITY HERALD, YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT OIL WEIL

A group of distinguished Mississippians visited the Woodruff No. 1 oil well nearTinsley last Wednesday afternoon, and made an inspection tour of the roads serving; thatarea. From left to right tbey were: George Godwin of Jackson, president of Dixie Advertisers, Inc.; Sidney T. Roebuck of Jackson and Newton, highway commisioner of th?Middle District; K. J. Ferris, president of the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce; andC. W. F. Harper, district engineer, with the Mississippi State Highway Department.


11« TAZOO CITT HERALD. TAZOO CITT. MISSISSIPPI tdesday, SEPTEMBER 26. 1939.

Regulations Governing TheTinsley Oil Field AdoptedBy State Oil and Gas Board

Only One Well May BeDrilled In Each 40Acre Block Under TheDecree Issued Monday

Jackson. Miss.—Regulations gov-erning drilling of oil and gas wellsin the newly-discovered and defined Tinsley Field in Yazoo Countyincluding a restriction of one wellon each 40-acre block, were issuedMonday by the State Oil ,ind Cn.>Board.

The proven area was described as3^4 miles east and west and fivemiles north and south, with theWoodruff Discovery Well in thecenter of the field. Regulationswill apply only in this prescribedarea and will remain in effect until

In event of proration, the orderstates that it shall be on the basisof the drilling or spacing units uponwhich a producing well is located,with each such producing unit approximately 40 acres constituting aproration unit and each such producing unit less than 40 acres shallbe a fractional proration unit. Theproration from each well would bebased on the number of acres inthe proration unit, whether fractional or not.

With respect to the limitation ofwells, the order, adopted by Governor Hugh I,. White. Attorney General Greek L. Rice. Land Commissioner Guy McCullen and William

Morse, follows:"The Tinsley field shall be divid

ed into drilling or spacing unitsfurther developments change the!sPProximately 40 acres eacb.. con-boundary. The board also sotsafety regulations. No prorationorder was issued.

The only objection raised was ...relation to limiting the number ofwells, which was withdrawn byLewis Peyton. Jackson attorneyrepresenting independent companies, when it was shown thatmajor oil companies have most ofthe holdings in proven territory defined by the board.

Tip Ray. Canton attorney, representing the Union Producing Co..owners of the discovery well 12miles south of Yazoo City, ox-plained the regulations were designed to encourage developmentof the area by major companies.He pointed out that these com-panies would not be inclined

forming as rlosely as possible to theboundaries of the sectionized subdivisions of said land, and as thelimits of said field may be furtherextended, additional 40-acre unitsmay be added by the board. Onlyone well may be drilled on eachdrilling or spacing unit to eachproducing horizon and in all instances said well shall be located asnearly as practicable in the centerof thu unit :jpon which it is drilled,•v-. ;,t that where it. is impracticable because of topography or otherwise to locate said well • in thecenter of such unit, it may be located within one hundred and fifty• 1*m'. toct of the center thereof.

"A:- to all tracts containing lessthan 40 acres, the board, in orderto p.cvcnt waste or to prevent the

spend large sums in development conflsc«tion of property, may grantunless some protection were accorded.

Governor White was inclined toelimination of the drilling limit.but agreed when it was pointed outthat two major companies. UnionProducing and Southern NaturalGas. held most of the land involvedunder lease. There arc. however.several small blocks which will beaffected.

As defined by the board's order.the proven Tinsley Oil Field is asfollows:

In Tovmship 10 North. Range 3West, the following sections and ,part sections: East half of Section Isn;i" be filed with the board, fully3: east half of Section 10: east half jstating the facts, which applicationof Section 15: east half of Section sna)l bp accompanied by a plat22: east half of Section 27: and all |"rawn to the scale of one (1> inchof Sections 1. 2. 11. 12. 13. 14. 23. equaling four hundred <400» feet.24. 25 and 26. Iaccurately showing to scale the

In Township 10 North. Range 2 !prop5rty on which the permit-nrWest, all of Sections 6. 7. 18 19 w,,«ht to dr'" » well under theand 30. exception to this rule, and'accurate-

One section of the orderrequires \ly. ?*!?wJn*.fo spi,,t" "" othor co">-owners or operators to report all P|etod drilling and permitted wellswells producing two per cent or l°n . P^P^ty. and accuratelymore salt water to W C Morse !snow|n6 to scale all adjacent sur-state oil and gas supervisor. An- round,n8 propertes and wells there:other requires "plugging"of a well cn Ibrought in in violation of regulations.

exception to permit drilling on suchtracts upon application therefor ashereinafter provided: provided, however, the board will not grant anapplication to drill on a tract ortracts containing loss than 40 acresuntil the applicant shall have firstmade a bona fide effort to pool suchtract or tracts with a contiguoustract or tracts or parts thereof, soas to establish at least a 40-acrcdrilling or spacing unit. In allsuch cases applicant shall offer evidence at the hearing on his application concerning his efforts to enterinto a pooling agreement. Anysuch application for an exception

•Such application shall be verified by some person acquainted withthe facts, stating that all statementsand representations therein madeare. within the knowledge of theaffiant, true, and that the accompanying plat is accurately drawntn seal" and correctly reflects allpertinent and required data. Suchexception shall be granted onlyafter at least ten <10> days' noticrto all lessees and operators of adjacent properties affected therebyhas been given, and after publichearing at which all interested parties may appear and be heard, andafter the board has determined thatapplicant has been unable to poolhis tract or tracts with contiguoustract or tracts or parts thereof sors to establish at least a 40-acredrilling unit, and has determinedthat an exception to such rule isnecessary, either to prevent wasteor to protect from confiscation theproperty belonging to applicant."

TINSLEY FIELD 23

DAILY CLAMON-LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS, WEDNESDAY MOBNTNG, SEPTEMBER 27, 1939

PERMIT IS ISSUEDculty tax setting the casing. Thisdifficulty was easily overcome, how-

«**•* m«m«T **** mm * ever- and the company reported

FOR NEW OIL WELL asssr ™Artm°M»•••The permit granted yesterday to

~~~"~— the Shreveport concern makes theA. . _ — - „, fourth Issued by the oil and gasShreveport Concern TO Drill board for the Tinsley area. The

other three have been taken out byTest Near Woodruff Pro- **• union producing company.

ducer In Yazoo City

A permit for the drilling of another oil test well on the JennieStevens farm in Yazoo county, aahorV distance from the WoodruffNo. 1 well of the Union Producing Company, was granted yesterday by the oil and gas board toJones and O'Brien, of Shreveport,La.

The new well Is located withina few hundred feet of the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of Section 13, Township 10,North. Range 3, West.

The Union Producing Company,a subsidiary of United Gas PipeLine Company, drillers of the firstcommercial well in Mississippi, isalso drilling a well on the Stevensfarm.

Jones and O'Brien are Just beginning preparations for drillingtheir well while the Union's wellhas already been drilled to a depthof 1,527 feet. Casing is now beingset in the latter well.

The Union company also is drilling a third well on the Perry farma short distance from the Woodruffwell. This test is known as PerryNo. 1 and has been stink to a depthof 1.334 feet.

A slight delay in the drilling ofthe Perry -well was experiencedwhen the drillers had seme diffl-

Base Prices For RoyaltiesAndLeases Givenln Yazoo;Work Begins On 4th WellYAZOO CITY. Sept. 38.—Prepa

rations are under way.here todayto sink the fourth well in Yasoocounty, it was announced here thismorning. The new well is locatedjust east of Stevens No 1 andnortheast of the commercial producer Woodruff No. 1. Materials.iav been delivered to the site andle driller's rig Is being assembled.Vctual drilling should get underway this week.

The well is being drilled forO'Brien Brothers, of Shreveport,Louisiana. The Rex Drilling company Is handling the drilling withleorge Thurber, Jr., in charge of

operations.Meinwhile drilling crews of the

Union Producing company arepushing the work on Stevens No. 1,and Perry No. l. The Stevens well,just north of Woodruff No. 1 hadreached a depth of 1600 feet today.The Perry well, south of WoodruffNo 1, reached 1500 feet last night.These wells are expected to becompleted within two weeks.

The Yasoo Realty company todaythe following as base

Vfets for feuiMtioa jd

and leases around the wells: Within one half mile of Woodruff well:Leases. $350.00 to $35040 per acre;royalties $175.00 to $350.00per acre.

Within three quarters of mile ofwell: Leases $150.00 to $350.00 peracre. Royalties $175.00 to $250.00per acre.

Within one mile of well: Leases$90 00 to $125.00 per acre. Royalties$100.00 to $135.00 per acre.

Within one and one half mils* ofwell: Leases $70.00 to $100.00 peracre. Royalties $75,000 to $125.00per acre.

Within two miles of well: Leases$80.00 to $90.00 per acre. Royalties$75 00 to $95.00 per acre.

Within three miles: Royalties$26.00 to $4040 per acre. Leases3lightly toss.

Pour miles: Royalties $20.00 to$30.00 per acre. Leases slightly less.

Five miles: Royalties $17.80 to$25.00 per acre. Leases slightly less.

These figures are approximate asto transactions consummate duringthe past week Sales are not asactive a« inv»«+"rn are awaiting thesnowing of the two new wells wbktoJl I "-' " "


JACKSON (MTSS.') DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2R, 1939

OFFSET DRILLING

CALLED GUIDE TO

YAZOO OIL FIELDBY CHANDLER DIEHL

YAZOO CITY — iAP> — Thenext three weeks may well be classedas the most important in the state'sindustrial history—they should determine whether Yazoo county'snew nil discovery is to be a boom ;for all Mississippians or just a 'handful few.

Within three weeks drillers oi the |Union Producing Company will havecompleted two offset wells to theiroil-producing Woodruff No. 1 hole, iand the state will lemn whether it;has on oil field here oi just a single •well.

Oue well has meant Downtimes—ait estimate $1,000,000 of new money ,—to Yazoo county.

A field of producing wells could |mean boomtimes for many Mis- <sissippians; might afford tax re- |lief to all citi/ens because of new ;sources ol state income.

A field of producers would mean ia rush of capital to the state; should ;mean a suciden surge in business. i

The drillers will leave nothing un- idone to prove the field. It is report- :ed that even though oil should belocated at the same horizon as inthe discovery well «4.540 feet), thedrilling will be continued in athorough testing for additional oil- ibearing horizons.

With such prizes at stake, statewide interest is approaching levaheat. Thousands of persons arepoiiiiiiE into Yazoo couiUn to lookat their "interests."

One month ago these same citizens were lackadaisical about oilprospects in the Magnolia .state.Hadn't there been 4fl0 wells sunkwithout a commercial oil producerresulting'.'

Then, on August 29. midway between the two present drilling locations. 12 miles south of here, tluUnion Company brought in the :state's tirst worthy producer, a jprobaele ft.000 barrels-a-day well.

Yazoo county citizen immediatelytested the sweets of an oil boom.Scoutv promoters, leasemen swept;in filling hotels and boarding,houses, giving restaurants a rusli;business.

Rental properties, already scarcebecause of highway and river worknearby, disappeared from the market at. top prices

And the rush continue.-:..Landowners. especially those

within a five-mile radius of the dis- ;covery well, are receiving envelopes jof cash for leasing and royalty irights.

Drilling leases, on land assessed •on county books at $2.70 an acre,started selling at $5 an acre, hasrisen as high as $50 an acre. Thereare reports a top of $350 has beenpaid for acreage close to the discovery.

Royalty rights, too, sell at fancyprices—up to $350.

A boom town has been surveyedat the railroad way-station of Tinsley and enterprising salesmen noware disposing of choice locations.

Supply and tool companies haveapplied for railway spurs, anticipating a heavy surge of business. ....

Minature settlements have sprungup around the two offset wells, thePerry No. 4, a half- mile south ofWoodruff No. 1. and the Stevens No.1 about 3-8 mile to the north.

These baby boomtowns are unique. Outstanding are their fieldkitchens and restaurants on wheels.And—for a wee bit of the oftplc-tured "frontier" lawlessness— thereIs a lone slot machine. i

Already deserted is the baby:boomtown at the Woodruff wellsite. There four stores stand empty <and quiet while a lone surviving .establishment tries to eke a living :from the sale of cold drinks to thsfew visitors who still call that way.;

So great was the leasing boom -that Governor Hugh White and iState Land Commissioner Guy Mc- ;Cullen moved to place a moratoriumon sales of state-owned tax-forfeited ;lands in 23 counties. i

The zovernor also started a poll;of next year's legislators for au- ithorization of an immediate allot- 'ment ot funds for the work of the ,Oil and Gas Board. ]

The board met, defined the Tins- iley field, and set up a code of field \regulations. i

Governor White said he would" Irecoiiimeuri to the next legislature !thai the stale enact a law perrail-tuig retention ot a 1-16 royalty onall Mate lands. Governor-ElectPaul Johnson toured Oklahoma tocheck legislation and regulations,there relative to the petroleum in- !d'iMiy.

Oil and Gas Supervisor H. M. 'Morse announces now that drilling jactivity throughout the state has1Quickened since report, of the Yazoodiscovery. Drilling operations are |underway in Itawamba. Prentiss andKeir.Dcr counties for the first timein history, leaving only 13 countiesye' 1-.ithoul. a test ol some sort.

Mississippi's first well was started in the spring of 1903 in Clarke it runty. The drillers reported a :f h<m ot oil at. 900 lect. continued to I1.300 feet, and then shut down operations, apparently giving up hope 'thry would obtain commercial pro- jduc'.jon.

In the next 20 years sonic half-a-hundied wells were drilled in thestnte but none went so deep as theWoodruff discovery well and none jproduced oil in commercial qualities.

A half-dozen wells producing jsmall quantities of a heavy asphai-tic oil were brought in shortly alter the opening of the Jackson gasfield in 1930 but none produced inwhat is generally considered commercial quantity. i

Explanation given for the heavy ;percentage <( "dry holes' Ls that:many of the wells were not drilled :on oil structure and of those onstructure many were ndt drilled sul- :ficiently deep. I

The Tinsley structure was locatedby Frederic p. Mellen. supervisinggeologist of a WPA-Mississippi stategeological survey in Yazoo county.Mellen noted an outcropping of theMoody Branch marl formation andfurther tests indicated the possibility of oil.

The Union Producing Companywas the first to move into the area.Success followed.

Now all Mississippi awaits reportson the offset wells, which, completedsuccessfully, will herald the opening of a new industry in Mississippiand prosperity for many.

H. M. Morse, state oil and gas su

pervisor, said today casing had beenset at 1,500 feet on the Union Producing Company's Stevens No. 1well in the Tinsley field and thatcasing would be set today on Union'sPerry No. 1 hole.

This work, he explained, Ls in accordance 'with the Oil and GasBoard's regulatory orders of September 25.

The piping, extending from theground surface to below the Spartasands and the underlying Cane riverformation, protects drinking watersupplies from contamination by anyoil that might be located at lowerhorizons.

The piping Ls set in cement which,under Oil Board order, must be allowed to stand a total of 48 hoursbefore drilling is resumed.

TINSLEY FIELD 25

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS,,

DAILY CLARION LED^S? JACSSftTE. MISS-

THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939 _

STATE SWEPT permit is issuedBY OIL FEVER for NEW OIL WELL

Single Producer in Yazoo

Inspires Flurry of

Transactions

Shreveport Concern To Drill

Test Near Woodruff Pro

ducer In Yazoo City

By CHANDLER DIEHLYAZOO CITY, Srpt. 27.—i/P)—

More than 600 wells have beendrilled in Mississippi, only onehas been brought in a commercial oil producer, yet "oil fever"today is sweeping the Magnoliastate.

Northeast Mississippi has seen anew wave of lease-buying. Sohas mid-Mississippi. Prentiss. Itawamba and Kemper counties aregetting their first drilling tests.High hopes surround the sinkingof wells in the southwest sectorof the state.

Interest in the oil industry. :nfact, abounds over the entire state.

Source of all thLs "oil fever'ls the' 5.000 barrel well broughtin by the Union Producing company in Yazoo county's Tinsleyfield near here August 29.

Mississippi's first well to produce oil In real commercial quantity, the discovery well—WoodruffNo. 1—has restored faith in theMagnolia state's potentialities: hasroused thoughts of a new majorindustry within the state.

Just now the eyes of Mississippi'stwo million citizens are focusedon the hill-bumpy edge of thedeltalands, south of Yazoo City,where the Union producing company is drilling two offset wellsto its discovery.

All citizens are interested vitailyfor, should the additional wellsspout commercial oil. Mississipoiwill have an* oil field and notJust a single well, and there willbe the possibility of new revenuesfor the state to be enjoyed by allits citizens in added benefits orlessened taxes.

The answer is expected in thenext two or three weeks whenthe wells are completed. Alreadydrilling Is below the 1,600-footmark and the Woodruff No. 1tapped oil sand at 4,540.

(From Yesterday'* Lite Editions.)

A permit for the drilling of another oil test well on the Jennie

Stevens farm in Yazoo county, ashort distance from the/WoodruffNo. 1 well of the Union Produc

ing Company, was granted yesterday by the oil and gas board toJones and O'Brien, of Shreveport,

La.

The new well is located withina few hundred feet of the southwest, corner of the northeast quarter of Section 13. Township 10,North, Range 3, West.

The Union Producing Company,a subsidiary of United Gas PipeLine Company, drillers of the firstcommercial well in Mississippi, lsalso drilling a well on the Stevensfarm.

Jones and O'Brien are Just beginning preparations for drillingtheir well while the Union's wellhas already been drilled to a depthof 1,527 feet. Casing is now beingset In the latter well.

The Union company also Is drilling a third well on the Perry farma short distance from the Woodruffwell. This test is known as PerryNo. 1 and has been sunk to a depthof 1,334 feet.

A slight delay in the drilling ofthe Perry well was experiencedwhen the drillers had some difficulty in setting the casing. Thisdifficulty was easily overcome, however, and the company reportedyesterday that drilling had beenresumed.

The permit granted yesterday tothe Shreveport concern makes thefourth issued by the pil and gasboard for the Tinsley area. Theother three have been taken out bythe Union Producing Company.

THURSDAY MORNING.

SEPTEMBER 28, 193D

MISSISSIPPI TO SHIPFIRST OILOUT TODAY

Yazoo Activity Continues AsOther Firms Enter Field

Spocial to Th* Commercial Appeal

YAZOO CITY. Miss.. Sept. 27—First oil ever to be shipped fromMississippi will leave Tinsley Station, 12 miles south of here, tomorrow afternoon, when four tankcars holding 8000 gallons will besent to the Standard Oil Refineryat Baton Rouge.

Shipment is being made by theUnion Producing Co. owners ofWoodruff Well No. 1. first oil wellin the state. W. D. Quigles, generalsuperintendent, said the oil wasbeing shipped for testing purposes,with the results to establish thegrade being taken from the Woodruff field.

New Well Planned

The Southern Natural Gas Company will probably be the nextcompany to enter the drilling fieldin Yazoo County, a report receivedhere today indicated.

The firm, the report stated, willdrill on the A. G. Johnson place,and operations will begin as soonas the titles are cleared. This isexpected within the next twoweeks.

The A. G. Johnson place is justwest of the Jennie Stevens property and the Union ProducingCompany's Stevens No. 1.

Boom Continues

Yazoo City continued to showsigns of the boom today. M. B.Dolan. manager of the Yazoo Citydistrict office of the SouthernNatural Gas Company, announcedthat his company is planning. toconstruct an 18-inch pipe line fromits pumping station at Onward inorder to guarantee an adequatesupply of natural gas for the anticipated growth in this section.The project will cost approximately$200,000.

Work also began this week onthe warehouse and building of theSuperior Iron and Supply Companywhich is establishing a branchhouse here.


BEGIN REFINERYIRK NEXT WEEK

5200OOti PLAN"; <> »LL BE PUT INHV YAZOO REFINING "• '•>••

INC.

ideation Secured Near E. W. Cooper Place Asd Short Creek

—Surveyie; Now

Ydzor- City will ooon have itsfirs'- i-f.:-.t-ry. a statement from W.C. j;r>i^r-r. president of the Ya-zv> Rn'r.ng Co.. Inc.. revealedt'.d.y.

T;-.• corporation has secured atears on fifty acres three milessou'h.of Yazoo City and adjoining

'the Y. & M. V. tracks. The siteis ."...jr .the E. W. Cooper plac-j

:y;:i Short Creek.Surveying and leveling of the

;•:;.• is now underway, and actualc -.'.ruction of the "cracking

pi.:;'.:" viW get underway Tuesdayor Wednesday of next week. Somef •••••.•• hundred men will be emplj"--t'\ <•;•) the; job and the completedref'p.ery will represent an invest-tn--r.t of $200,000.00. Ninety daysv.i'I be required to finish the job.

The refinery will have an average capacity the "ear 'round of2,G~0 barrels per day. Mr. Krug-'_••.• said. This takes care of the

periodic cleanouts which are required every 30 or SO days. Theprnde of the crude oil here will

d; N-'i-rrrne the frequency cf clean-r.-*i. The plant ma;- handle asr-i.'-.v js 4200 barrels in one day.

in trie actual operation of thepUnt and offices, Mr. Kruger saidfrcm 70 to 80 persons would beemployed, forty percent of whichv.-:-:i\i be imported skilled labor.

Ir:- n^ard to securing crude oilfor the refinery, Mr. Kruger stated that he had contracts with theoi! markets and there would beno difficulty on this score.

S£ PT- Z9t \ 9 3 9

SOU. NATURALGAS TO DRILL

OPERATIONS REPORTED TOPFGJN ON A. G. JOHNSON

PLACE

Operation* Awaiting Clearing Of)Titles—Ls In Northwest Quart

er Section 14

The Southern Natural Gas-Com

pany will very probably be thenext company to enter the drillingleld in Yazoo County, a report re-reived here this morn ng, indicates

The firm, the report stated, will"irill on the A. G. Johnson place*nd operations will begin aa soonis the titles are cleared. This is expected to be within the next twoweeks.

The A. G. Johnson place is justwest of the Jenn e Stevens property and the Union Producing Co.Stevens No. 1. It is located in theNortheast quarter of Section 14.

THIRD DERRICKNOW GOING UP

REX DRILLING COMPANY ISBUSY EAST OF STEVENS

NO. 1

Expect To Go Deeper In Next TwoUnion Producing Company

Wells

A third derrick will within the

next few days rear its head in vheTinsley oil qeld. The structure isbeing erected by the Rex DrillingCompany just east of the UnionProducing Company'^ Stevens No.1.

The drilling company crews arenow engaged in clearing the landand setting concrete for piers.

Meanwhile at nearby Stevens No.1 and Perry No. 1 drilling is going forward at a rapid pace. It wasst.ited.this morning that boththe:* wells will in all probabilityhave to be sunk deeper -than theNo. 1 Woodruff producer befcrep;iy is .struck.

OIL SHIPMENTBEGAN THURS.

FOUR TANK CARS LEFT TINS-LEY FOR BATON ROUGE

REFINERY

Union Producing Company HasLeased Four Tankers For

Service

The first shipment of oil fromthe Woodruff No. 1 well, the firstMississippi crude oil, and the firstshipment of crude oil producedfrom a well south of the Ohio

River and east of the MississipiRiver, rolled out of Tinsley Station yesterday afternoon about5:00 o'clock bound for the Baton

Rouge refiinery of the StandardOil Company.

Each tank car, W. J. Quigles, general superintendent for the UnionProducing Co., said, contained approximately 200 barrels of oil anda total of about 8,000 gallons made-up the shipment

The cars were loaded on thefive-car spur provided by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad..which load has the distinction oihandling the epoch-making shipment.

Shipment b7 tank car had be»iidelayed because of road work onthe route, from Tinsley to th?Woodruff Well. The fuel line whichwas utilized in pumping oil to thestation had to be taken up duringprogress of the road improvement.

The Union Producing Companyhas leased the four tankers whichare being used. If the shipmentof oil makes its scheduled run andis unloaded at once at the BatonRouge refinery, the tankers may baback on the Tinsley spur Tuesdaymorning. It is not yet known howfast the shipments will leave Tins-ley as this will be goverened by theexpedition with ; which shipmentsare handled and cars returned.

A great deal of light will be shedupon the value of the Woodruffod when it has passed through th-refinery. One oil nam. stated thatthe specific gravity of 32. at *• huh.the Woodruff producion was ratedwas not so good. However, he saidthere are nearly a score of products which are made from crudeoil. and he had seen some lowgravity oil which was verv valuable because it was particularlynted for the extraction and nv.nu-facrure of some certain product.v Some crude oil, he said, might

«6. .<nd such oil. just as it cornea•.rom rhe well Tould come near toninnin? an automobile.

TINSLEY FIELD

DAILY CLARION LEDGES, JACKSON, MISS-

SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 7, 1939

Expert Says Tinsley OilField Covers 220 Square

Miles; Lease Prices Up

27

YAZOO CITY, Oct. 6—The Tins-ley oil field was described today asapproximately 20 miles long ar.d1 lmiles wide, in the opinion of

.William Randall, state field manager for the Illinois Refining company, which has taken offices here.Randall declared that his firm wasready to take its part In developing the field.

The field lies northeast by southwest, the oil expert said, and addedthat people should not be discouraged if some dry holes result fromdrilling, as this is a natural consequence in plotting the outline ofthe field.

Randall's company is now engaged in clearing titles and willbegin drilling operations as soon asthis work is completed. Around 4,000acres have been leased by the firm-and it is tentatively planned todrill seven wells in the county. ThePioneer Drilling company does thedrilling for Randall's firm.

Also among the company's plansfor developing this section is thebuilding of a refinery near YazooCity should the field pan out asexpected. The company has alreadyprocured a 250 acre tract whichwill be used for erection ui therefinery. .,. ,_ .

Drilling operations will begin,Randall said, in Section 9 of theTinsley sector.

With the arrival of several hundred out of town people during thepast week, interest in oil interestshas hit a new high with the exception of the first week after theWoodruff well was brought in.

During the past three or fourdays Yazoo City has seen the firstof "settled citizens," meaning thosewho are moving to Yazoo City withtheir families and taking leases onhouses and apartments for a long

All of this new activity hascaused much feverish action amongoil lease and royalty buyers. Thenews has spread around that newmoney is coming into the Yazoofield during the weekend fromTexas, Louisiana and Illinois.

Prices for royalties and leaseshave fluctuated with news of developments in different sections,with most of the activity swingingsouth of the wel laround Mechanics-burg. However, a last bit of newsduring the day has directed interestof many buyers to the north. Leasesand royalties are higher in thesouth.

The Yazoo Realty company today announced the following scaleson transactions:

One lease sold within % mile ofthe Woodruff well for $3,000 Wednesday. Royalties in the % mileradius continued at $250 to $375.

At 3-4 mile, leases $100 to $170,royalty $120 to $190; 1 mile, lease75 to $140, royalties $90 to $165;1>£. lease $72.50 to $115. royalties$8 to 125; 2 miles, lease $40 to $55,royalties $50 to 70: 3 miles, lease25 to $40, royalties $40 to 80; 4 hiles,tease $1750 to $20. royalties same.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS,

SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1939

LARGEAREn ASCRIBEDTO YAZOOJL FIELD

Randall Says It's 20 MilesLong By 11 Miles Wide

Special to The Commercial AppealYAZOO CITY, Miss., Oct. 6.—

The Tinsley Oil Field, south of here,was described today as approximately 20 miles long and 11 mileswide by William Randall, statefield manager for the Illinois Refining Co., which has taken officeshere. Mr. Randall declared thathis firm was ready to take its partin developing the field.

The field lies northwest bysouthwest, the oil expert said, andadded that people should not bediscouraged if some dry holes result from drilling, as this is a natural consequence in plotting the outline of the field.

Titles Being ClearedMr. Randall's company is now

engaged in clearing titles, and willbegin operations as soon as thiswork is completed. Around 4000acres have been leased by the firmand it is tentatively planned todrill seven wells In the county.

Also among the company's plansfor developing this section is thebuilding of a refinery near Y;<7.ooCity, should the field turn oui nsexpected. The company har. already procured a 250-acre trpctwhich will be used for erection ofthe refinery.

Drilling operations will bo.gin,Mr. Randall said, in Section.9 ofthe Tinsley'sector.

With the arrival of several hundred out of town people during thepast week, interest in oil has hit anew high, with the exception pf thefirst week after the Woodruff No.1 was brought in.

Realty TransactionsThe Yazoo Realty Co. today an

nounced the following scales ontransactions:

One lease sold within one-halfmile of the Woodruff No. 1 for$3000 Wednesday. Royalty in theone-half mile radius continued at$250 to $375.

Three-fourths mile, leases $100 to$170; royalty, $120 to $190.

One mile, leases $75 to $140; royalties $90 to $165. Oone and one-half mile lease, $72.50 to $115; royalties $80 to $235. Two mile, lease$40 to $55; royalties $50 to $70.Three miles, lease $25 to $40; royalties, $40 to $60. Four miles, lease$17.50 to $25; royalties about thesame. Five miles, leases $12.50 to$20; royalties same. Prices outsidethe five-mile limit have increasedin the south from $2 to $3 an acreto as high as $7 to $10. Other sections have about held their ownoutside of the five-mile limit.

Oil Test Near ToccopolaArouses Excitement

PONTOTOC, Miss., Oct. 6. —There is renewed excitement overthe oil test near Toccopola—but noindications of oil as yet. The drilling is on the property of ZollieLewelling and hes reached a depthof nearly 3800 feet.

This is the second test In this immediate area, the first being madea few years ago. Dr. H. M. Morse,director of State Oil and Gas Survey, has said that the area "lookedtoo good to be true." The late Dr.Lowe, when he was state geologist,said "the structure is. the most outstanding and picturesque In thestate and is certainly worthy of atest."

Crews are working daily in threeshifts at the well, keeping the machinery going 24 hours a day.

The original contract calls for adepth of 4000 feet, but a new contract has recently been made to goto a depth of 6000 feet, or to continue as long as prospects for astrike are favorable.


THE YAZOO CITY HERALD, YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI

Yazoo County Oil AnalyzedBy State Chemist W. F. Hand

An analysis of the crude oil coming out of the Woodruff No. 1 wellwas taken by Dr. William C. Morse,state geologist and sent to Dr. W. F.Hand, head of the chemistry department at Mississippi State College,for anaylsis. Dr. Morse wrote usas follows:

Mississippi Geological SurveyUniversity. Mississippi

October 3, 193SHon. N. A. Mott. Editor.Yazoo Herald.YazoO City. Mississippi.Dear Mr. Mott:

A sample of crude oil from theUnion Producing Company's Woodruff No. 1 well was taken by theMississippi State Geological Surveyon September 9. 1939, and was submitted to Dr. W. F. Hand. StateChemist, for analysis. The samplewas analysed, under Dr. Hand'sdirection, in the new PetroleumProducts Laboratory, created by actof the 1938 Legislature as an addition to the Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory. The analysis follows:

YAZOO CITY CRUDEGeneral Characteristics

Specific Gravity—0.852Per Cent Sulphur—0.730%Saybolt Universal at 100 °F—54A. P. I. Gravity—34.5Color—Black

Distillation. Bureau of MinesHemphel Method

Dry Distillation Barometer 756

First Drop 81 "FTemperature Per Sum Spe. A. P.

°F Cent Per ciflc I.Cut Cent Grav.

Up to 122 3.18 3.18 0.630 93.1122-167 2.07 5.25 0 670 79.7167-212 3.09 8.34 0.697 71.5212-257 446 12.80 0.717 65.85257-302 4.43 17.23 0.735 61.0302-347 4.53 21.76 0.755 55.9347-392 4.20 25.96 0.762 54.2.102-437 4.30 30.26 0.786 48.5437-484 4.26 34.52 0.8045 44.4182-527 4.80 39.32 0.820 41.0Kerosene 13.36; Light Naphtha 17.62;

Light Gasoline 8.34.

Total Gasoline and Naptha 25.96%—62.4 A. P. I.

Kerosene Distillate 13.36%—44.0 A.P. I.

Dr. Hand, who has devoted yearsof outstanding professional servicelu the State of Mississippi as itsstate chemist, and as head of theChemistry Department of Mississippi State College, writes: "Wc hadhoped to do some additional workon the >il, but the pressure of various dutif:.-- here, especially thoseincident to the opening of college,h.ive delayed us. At any rate, thecharactoistics shown on our report will enable you to determinethe ini»:!ulr.css of the oil for rearing."

Very truly yours.

WILLIAM C. MORSE.State Geologist.

Yazoo Oil FieldArousing Interest

Grant G. AlexanderFound Interest HighIn Greenville Section

Grant G. Alcxjmd^r of the Mississippi Really Co.. b;ick today fromn week-end stay in Greenville, saidho finds interest in Yazoo County'.-*oil prospect?; oxtr-mMy high all overtho northern part of iho state. Hehas hnd inquiries, ho said, from menin nearly every kind of businessconcerning Yazoo City and YazooCounty.

Interest in residence property isincreasing, he .-.aid. because of theinflux of people who will be moreor less permanently located here.Houses are still to be found, hecontinued, though they are becoming more scarce with every daythat passes. \

Mr. Alexander said rooms stfU, canbe had here, but that apartmentsme becoming more and more difficult problems.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1939.

Law Very Strict OnSale of Securities

Yazoo Situation IsBeing Investigated ByThe Secretary ol State

Hon Walker Wood, secretary ofstate, who has the responsibilityfor the enforcement of the "BlueSky" lawr. of the state, is developing information with reference topossible violations of the law inconnection -ith the oil developmentin Yazoo County. Securities of anykind, except those exempted by law.cannot be sold in Mississippi without compliance with the law. Theterm "securities" is very broad under the statutes. Before even exempted securities can be sold anagent's permit must be secured andthe exempt securities listed withthe secretary of state.

Judge O. B. Taylor of Jackson,a former chpneery judge of Ya?ooCounty, is acting as attorney for thesecretary of state, and is spendingsome time in Yazoo County investigating the situation for Mr. Wood.

It would noem to be importantthat all persons or companies engaged in selling oil securities shouldfirst contact th" office of secretaryof state in Jaekoon. and do whatever is necessary to qualify securities for sale under the laws ofMi*-<sir."ippi.

Persons purchasing stock, beforebuying oil rvenritie;; or other items,should ascertain if the stock hasbeen qualified tinder th* "Blue Sky"laws.

TINSLEY FIELD 29

!>MLV OLAKTON I;BDG"?R. JACKSON. BOSS.. SUNDAY MORNINO, OCTOBER 15, 1939

YAZOO WELLSNEAO0TT0M

Crews Drill Deeper Into

Second Sand Layer; Oil

'Trend' Reported

(From Tcsterdajr'a L*te Editions.)

YAZOO CITY, Oct. 13—Reportsreceived here today from the two

offset wells being drilled north andsouth of the Woodruff No. 1, by theUnion Producilg Company indicated that both holes are showing favorable developments and final andconclusive reports may be available tonight or tomorrow.

A showing was struck yesterdaymorning in both wells at around4500 feet and both crews were occupied with coring. The same thinsand was struck in the Woodruffwell, It was reported, but the crewwent deeper to find the second oil-bearing sand.

Deep well tests are reported inprogress today and the result ofthese will probably determine thefinal decision on the two holes.

Developments In Yazoo county'sfast breaking oil activity at the twoUnion Producing company's offsetwells were overshadowed today inthe face of a congealing of opinion among scores of oil expertshere to the belief that the petroleum concentration will prove to bea "trend" rather than a "dome" aswas first suspected.

If this belief ls true, the magnitude of the field will be intensifiedan unlimited number of times, andthis section will see much impetusadded to development that has notbeen dreamed.

Roughly, the oil men describe a"trend" as an underground river ofoil as opposed to a dome accumulation which is compared to a pool.The trend, many f r e e 1 y stated,might be as much as 75 miles inlength and 25 miles wide dotted inplaces with faults, or spots wheredry wells might be drilled.

The course of the suspected trendwas given as southwest to north

lb their belief, the experts pointed out that the same elevationshave been maintained in the underground stratas In various drillingsin the county, and point out in verification the logs of the old FreeRun well, the well near Flora, theWoodruff No. 1, and the StevensNo. 1.

They said they had been puzzledtaring the past week and earlierover the geophysical conditionshere but had, in the vast majority,become firmly convinced duringthe past few days that the trendexisted. Especially Is this true Inthe big delegation from east Texas, it was reported by members ofthe representation from that aec-

YAZOo CITY, Oct. 13—The Yazoo Realty company In their oil exchange market release reported thatasking prices in the vicinity of thePerry and Stevens wells had advanced sharply during the past twodays with some deals being closedat fancy figures. In some instancesbuyers have refused to give the advanced prices.

Prices asked, 1-2 mile, no leasesavailable, royalty 350, $450.

Three-fourth mile, leases $15 to$250, royalty $150 to $265; 1 mile,leases $100 to $140; 11-2, royalty$115 to $150; 11-2 mile, leases, $75 to$110, royalty $80 to $115; 2 milesleases, $60 to $90, royalty, $65 to$100; 3 mile, leases, $35 to $55, royalty, $40 to 60; 4 mile, leases $25 to$40, royalty $27.50 to $45; 5 miles,leases $17.50 to $25, royalty $20 to$27.50.

Outside the 5 mile limit prices areremaining at 25 cents to $7 and $8,with the better prices prevailing Inthe south.

LAUREL, Oct. 13.—(AV-Oil development interest m Mississippiis invading Jones county againwhere thousands of acres wereunder lease some years ago andwhere geologists have made encouraging reports. No real testhas ever been completed. Recordsat the Chancery Clerk's officehere show more than a scoreof leases and royalty deeds havebeen filed recently and othersare reported being drafted.

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. IS.—(&h-Oil flowed today from a second well on the Louisiana StateUniversity campus.

The second producer on University lease was brought in byWilliam Helis and the LouisianaProgress Oil Co., Inc., as practicallya routine completion at 6.500 feet.

It is flowing at approximately200 barrels daily with tubingpressure reported at slightly morethan 1,000 pounds.

TOCCOPOLA, Oct. 13—A depthof approximately 3800 feet has beenreached by the drillers in the Toccopola oil well located four milessouthwest of here. The well Is located on the property of Zollie Lew-elling.

The original contract calls for adepth of 4000 feet but a new contract is reported to have been madeto drill to a depth of .6,000 feet orto continue as long as prospects forstriking oil are favorable.

Crews are now working in threeshifts at the well keeping the machinery in operation continuously.

MERIDIAN, Oct. 13—(^—Negotiations for leases and mineral rightsfor the Irilling of two wells inClarke county were In progress today.

One location Is four miles south-cast and the other 15 miles southof Quitman. Two blocks of leasesalready have been taken by JoeModizett of Shreveport.


DAILT CLARION LEDGES, MOKSOH, MISS., TXTSSDAT MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1939

NOTHING CALMON OllJRONT

Activity Increases In State

After Second Producer

Tapped

YAZOO CITY, Oct. 16 — Crewsat the Perry well, where oil wasstruck Saturday afternoon, will begin pumping concrete tomorrow toset the production string, it wasreported here today, and the wellis expected to be brought in Friday of this week.

Reports as to its potential commercial production are but guessesat this stage of the game, and itwill not be known definitely whatthe well will do as a commercialproducer until it is brought inHowever, it is conceded to be abetter well than the Woodruff No.1.

At the O'Brien well, being drilledby the Rex Drilling company onJennie Stevens land just east ofthe Stevens No. 1. the crew hadreached a depth of 3688 feet thismorning.

It is believed there may be nomore Union Producing companywells until the Stevens No. 2 isdecided. At the rate the work isprogressing, nay may be struckearly next week. /

At the Stevens No. 1 indicationsare not so favorable, however, thewell mav be drilled considerablydeeper in search of a second paysand.

Only about a fool of pay with alight showing has been enounteredso far. It would not be unusual ifsuch were the case. In other oilfields there are wells standingclose together which are producingfrom sands which He at depths ofconsiderable variance.

Drilling contract Is expected tobe let this week on the Yazoo Refinery Co.. site where the derrickhas already been erected. Thiswell will be In the Tinsley field andthe location was highly praised byGeologist Frederick Mellen, whodiscovered the Tinsley field.

Nothing wfs quiet on Mississippi's oil front yesterday as enthusiasm gained momentum after Yazoo'; second commercial producerwas brought in Saturday. Firststem tests on the new producer—the Perrv No. 1, owned by UnionProducing Company — indicatedIt might be capable of even greateroutput than Union's discovery well,the Woodruff No. 1.

The discovery well, brought inone-half mile to the north on August 29. Ls tabbed as good for 4.000barrels or better a day. The Perrymight produce as high as 7,000barrels, it was said.

While production string casingwe being set on the new well today, drilling operations on six other locations in Mississippi were intensified and there was word ofmuch other activity.

Several companies, hat wereawaiting results on the offset wel,were reported making final prepa

rations for operations on the locations they already had secured.

The flurry of lease-taking androyalty-buying that swept IntoScott county, Clay county and intonortheastern Mississippi two weeksago. extended southward into Clarkeand Jones counties.

Negotiations were in progress inClarke county for the drilling ofwells -1 locations four nilles southeast of Quitman and 15 miles southof the county seat. The Jonesactivity was the greatest since incomplete tests for oil "ere madeseveral years aeo.

An early start on a Wilkinsoncounty test likewise seemed assured.

Of the six wells under drll. twoare located in the Tinsley field, andme. each in Hinds. Itawamba. Kern-oer and Lafayette counties.

In the Tinsley field. Union'sStevens No. 1, located to the northof the discovery well, was reportedat 4.540 foot depth, and the Jones-O'Brien Stevens No. 1 below 2,000feet. The latter well is to the eastof Union Producing company's locations.

Surface casing was set during thepast week at Mississippi Basincompany's Gaddis Farm No. 1 wellto the east of Brownsville in Hindscounty, and at G. C. Grasty's Kentucky Lumber company No. 1 InItawamba county.

The Lafayette county well, fourmiles sourItwest, of Toccopola, wasreported drilling once more aftertime had been taken for tests at apoint below the 3,800 foot level.Tnere was no statement as to howmuch lonpcr drilling operationsvould continue.

Meanwhile, reported recent showings of both gas and oil at theKemper county test well near Dale-ville, created additional interest inthat sector.

Oil sand in Union's new Perryweil was reached between 4579 and4,589 foot depth and the well wascompleted at 4.603 feet. Drill stem-ests mowed oil flowing at a 310-barrel rate on a 1-12 Inch choke.

The Woodruff discovery well tapped pay sand between 4.540 and4.550 feet. Its first flow, after casing was set, was 312 barrels througha 1-4 Inch choke. This productionincreased greatly as the well cleared itself and it is now tabbed ascapable of between 4,000 and 6,000barrels unrestrcted flow.

The Perry's production stringcasing will be allowed to set for72 hours and the well then will be"brought, in" and mere completetests taken.

United Gas company officialshere were highly pleased with thedrill stem test. John Rogers, manager of the Jackson office, said theoil sand in the Perry was verysimilar to that of the discovery welland indications were that production would be as great as that ofthe first.

EDWARDS. Oct. 16.—A big business in oil leases has been goingon in Edwards within the pastfew days.

C. W. Hicks, an independent oiloperator of Tulsa. Okla.. andOwensboro. Ky.. has been here,and an operator from Tyler, Texas,is expected this week.

It) is rumored that drilling Isto be started here in the nearfuture.

DURANT. Oct. 16. — Holmescountians are very optimistic overthe developments to follow In theoil field following the successfuldiscovery of a commercial producing system in Yazoo county. About17,000 acres of oil and gas leasesare already on file In the chanceryclerk's office. The acreage is inscattered areas of the county,southern, western and easternareas being In the list of leasesfiled.

With the oil area southwest ofHolmes in adjoining Yazoo county,lease buyers are not all seekingacreage in the field to the south,but they are following what geologists in the past have termed astructure that forks in this county,one following the foothills of thedelta and the other going acrpssthe county from southwest tonortheast. Most of the leases onfile embrace the two areas, although some have been taken bordering the Big Black river in theextreme eastern part of Holmescounty.

Although no test well has everbeen drilled in northeast Holmescounty, a well in the Free Runarea between northern Yazoocounty and southern Holmes, wasdrilled sometime ago in December,1934, and the well showed severalencouraging oil signs, but thedepth penetrated was not withinhalf of the distance where oil wasfound in the Yazoo producer.

Gas pressure was found alongthe Tcheva creek area thatprompted location of the test well.This company, known as the FreeRun Oil company, was headed by

several prominent business men ofthe county with the late Bill Willis as operating manager. Willislater became prominent in the development of Jackson gas field.

Geologists have always predicted a potential oil field in Holmescounty, their claims being basedon structures they claimed randown into Yazoo county, givingHolmes county a larger pool. Drilling tests now in the process ofdevelopment, will soon prove orrefute the claims.

In the list of leases bought inHolmes county on file with thechancery clerk are found the following :

Lexington Lease and Royaltyompany; Dr. O. D. Hooker, PaulL. Domengeaux, Irby Turner, Wilbur Hooker, D. B. Watson, D. F.SprulU. Parker Ellis, J. E. Gwin.Mrs. Irby Johnson, J. P. Artouth-not, Mrs. Olivia Jones, N. SchurNo large block of acreage hacbeen secured as yet, although several are working on blocks of 8,000to 10,000 acres. These have notbeen finsh the fact is generallyknown. Several other private buyers have secured leases in various areas to be filed later,

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THE VICKSBURG EVENING POST, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939...rwTT /~ac AM-r, wmroi, xr-AO*. 6' LeSSee Eha11 h*Ve frefl ^ °f °U' *»*> *"** and ^»*« '">»•OIL, GAS ANn MINERAL LEASE said land, except water from lessors wells, for all operations here-

This agreement made this 4th day of October, 1939, between the under, and the royalty on oil and gas shall be computed after de-Board of Supervisors of Warren County, Mississippi, lessor (whether ducting any so used. Lessee shall have the right at any time duringenc or more) and G. M. Sudciuth, lessee, witnesseth: or after the expiration of this lease to remove all property and fix-

1. Lessor in consideration of One and 001100 Dollars '$1.00) in lures placed by lessee on said land. Including the right to drawhand paid, of the royalties herein provided and of the agreements and remove all casings. When required by lessor, lessee will buryof lessee herein contained, hereby grants, leases and lets exclusively all Pipe lines below ordinary plow depth, and no well shall be drilledunto lessee for the purpose of investigating, exploring, prospecting, within two hundred feet of any residence or barn now on said landdrilling and mining for and producing oil, gas and all other minerals, without lessor's consent. Lessor shall have the privilege at his risklaying pipe lines, building tanks, power stations, telephone lines and and expense of using gas from any gas well on said land for stovesother structures thereon, to produce, save, take care v-f, treat, trans- 2nd inside lights in the principal dwelling thereon out of any aur-port and own said products and housing its employees, the follow- Plus 8a» not needed for operations hereunder.ing described land in Warren County, Mississippi, to-wit: 7- The rights of either party hereunder may be assigned In

School Section 16, Township 16 North, Range 4 East. whole or in part and the provisions hereof shall extend to the heirs,2. Subject to the other provisions herein contained, this lease successors and assigns, but no change or divisions in ownership of

shall be for a term of ten years from this date (called "primary tne land» rentals, or royalties however accomplished shall operateterm") and as long thereafter as oil, gas or other mineral is pro- to enlarge the obligations or diminish tile rights of lessee. No saleluced from said land hereunder. or assignment by lessor shall be binding on lessee until lessee shall

3. The royalties to be paid by lessee, are (a) on oil, one-eighth be furnished with a certified copy of recorded instrument evidencingof that produced and saved from said land, the same to be delivered same- In evcnt oI assignment of this lease as to a segregated portionat the wells or to the credit of lessor in the pipe line to which the ot sa,d land the rentals payable hereunder shall be apportlonablewells may be connected; lessee may from time to time purchase any as between the several leasehold owners ratably according to theroyalty oil in its possession, paying the market price therefor pre- surface area of each, and default in rental payment by one shallvailing for the field where produced on the date of the purchase; r,ot affect the right of other leasehold owners hereunder. If six(b) on gas, including casinghead gas and other vaporous or gaseous 01" more parties become entitled to royalty hereunder, lessee maysubstances produced from said land, as follows: In case lessee shall withhold payment thereof unless and until furnished with a re-itself use gas in the manufacture of gasoline or other products there- cordable instrument executed by all such parties designating anfrom V« of 25% of. the maTket value at the plant of gasoline or other a&ent to receive payment for all.produce manufactured therefiom, quantity of produce to be ascer- 8- T"18 lease a*11111 not be forfeited, cancelled or terminated fortained in a manner recognized in the industry; in case lessee shall fallure by lessee to perform in whole or in part any of its impliedsell gas at the wells, ft of the amount realized from such sales; obligations, nor while oil or gas is being produced in paying quan-and in all other cases when sold or used off the premises, the mar- tlties for anv cause whatsoever, unless there shall first be a finalket price at the well of ft of the gas so sold or used; and (c) on Judicial ascertainment that such obligation or cause exists and thatall other mineral mined and marketed, one-eighth, either in kind lessee ls ln default. Upon such final determination, lessee ls herebyor value at the well or mine at lessee's election, except that on eiven a reasonable time thereafter to comply with such obligation,sulphur the royalty shall be fifty cents (50c) per long ton. or at lessee's election, to surrender the lease, with the option of

4. If operations for drilling are not commenced on said land reserving under terms of this lease, each producing well and tenen or before one year from this date this lease shall then terminate acres surrounding it to be selected by lessee. Lessee shall not beas to both parties unless on or before such anniversary date lessee liable ln damages for breach of any implied obligation.shall pay or tender to lessor or to the credit of lessor in 9- lessor hereby warrants and agrees to defend the title to saidBank at ...Mississippi (which bank and its successors land and agrees that lessee at its option may discharge any tax,are lessor's agents and shall continue as the depository for all rentals mortgage or other lien upon said land and ln event lessee does so,payable hereunder regardless of changes in ownership of said land lt sna11 b® subrogated to such Hen with the right to enforce sameor the rentals) the sum of twenty-five cents per acre, (herein called and aPPly rentals and royalties accruing hereunder toward satls-lentals) which shall cover the privilege of deferring commencement fvln8T same- Without impairment of lessee's rights under the war-of drilling operations, for a period of twelve (12) months. In like ranty ln event ot 'allure of title, lt is agreed that if lessor owns anmanner and upon like payments or tenders annually the commence- mterest in said land less than the entire fee simple estate, thenment of drilling operations may be further deferred for successive tne royalties and rentals to be paid lessor shall be reduced prO-perlods of twelve (12) months each during the primary term. The Portionately.payment or tender of rental may be made by the check or draft of Lessee herein or assigns agrees to make his own arrangements withlessee mailed or delivered to said Bank on or before such date of the owners of the surface leases affecting the property described hereinpayment. If such bank (or any successor bank) should fail, liquidate wltn reference to ingress and egress, thereby relieving the Board ofor be succeeded by another bank, or for any reason fail or refuse Supervisors of Warren County, Mississippi, from any liability con-to accept rental, lessee shall not be held in default for failure to cerninS the surface leases alfectlng the property described herein,make such payment or tender or rental until thirty (30) days after Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, it is under-lessor shall deliver to lessee a proper recordable instrument, naming slood bv a11 Parties hereto as follows:another bank as agent to receive such payments or tenders. The Tnat if bonafide drilling of a well for the production of oil ordown cash payment is consideration for this lease according to its gas is not begun within six months from the date hereof upon theterms and shall not be allocated as mere rental for a period. property covered by this leane, or upon the land, commonly known

5. If prior to discovery of oil or gas on said land lessee should as a block' covered by a group of leases of which this lease may bedrill a dry hole or holes thereon, of If after discovery of oil or gas R part" or within a distance of five miles from the land under thisthe production thereof should cease from any cause, this lease shall lease> and thereafter prosecuted with due diligence to a depth ofnot terminate if lessee commences additional drilling or reworking c'm feet- unless oil or «M ta found in paying quantity at a lesseroperations within sixty days thereafter or (if lt be within the prl- dep,th' then and in ^al event this lease shall become null and voidmary term) commence or resumes the payment or tender of rentals snd of no cffect.en or before the rental paying date next ensuing after the expiration . That lf at any tune during the life of this lease a well shallof three months from date of completion of dry hole or cessation be, comPleted as a producer of oil or gas in commercial quantityof production. If at the expiration of the primary term oil or gaswlthin a. distance of five miles from the land covered by this leaseis not being produced on said land, but lessee is then engaged in l,ut 110t thereon, then withiu a period of six months immediatelydrilling or re-working operations thereon, the lease shall remain lollowln8 such completion a well shall be begun upon the landin force for so long as operations are prosecuted with no cessationcovered by this lease and shall be prosecuted with due diligence toof more than 30 consecutive days, and, if they result in the produc- at least sufficient depth to test the horizon from which such pro-tion of oil or gas, so long thereafter as oil or gas ls produced from auction was had. In the event of failure to fully carry out this pro-said land. In the event a well or wells producing oil or gas in vision then this lease shall become null and void and of no effect,paying quantities should be brought in on adjacent land and within In witness whereof this instrument is executed on the date first150 feet of and draining the leased premises, lessee agrees to drill &bove writtensuch offset wells as a reasonable prudent operator would drill underthe same or similar circumstances.


DAILY CLARION LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1939

Jackson May GetSupply From OilField Outskirts

Increasing Pressure in East

ern Fringe of Tinsley.

Field Noted

Officials ol tne Union companyexpressed the hope that the coarseroil-bearing sands would be encountered at a greater depth.

In the meantime Texas interestsare preparing to drill one or moretest wells in the vicinity of Bolton,and hope to start the first well byNovember 1. Harold Byrd, of Dallas,has a contract for the Stewartcompany to drill ihe first well inSection 12. Township 6, North,Range 3. East.

E. R. Owen, local driller, is working on a well at Brownsville, northeast of Bolton, and was reportedvesterdav to have encountered theWilcox 'formation Little Information concerning this well has beenmade available.

The Byrd interests of Dallas haveleases on some 10.000 acres in theBolto narea and their geologists arehopeful that this section offers better oil production man the Tinsleydome section of Yazoo county.

Notwithstanding this. Yazoo actually has three producing wells already and plans are being maderapidly for the drilling of othertests in that area.

The output of the Woodruff No.1. the state's first commercial producer. Ls being utilized in drillingoperations in the immediate area. "

"Hard" Sand in Union's

Stevens No. 1 Sends

Drilling Deeper

Increasing gas pressures in oil testwells drilled in the northern and

eastern fringe of the Tinsley field

in Yazoo county raised hopes yesterday that a new source of naturalgas for Jackson may be found nearat hand.

Geologists interested in the Yazoo development reported that thegas pressure in the Jones-O'Brienwell, newest oil producer tapped inthe Tinsley area, was considerablyhigher than in either the Woodruffor the Perry wells previously drilledby the Union Producing company.

Increased gas pressure also wasnoted, they said, in the Jennie Stevens No. 1 well of the Union Producing Company.

Although doubt was expressed thata profitable gas well can be madein the Tinsley ana at this time,the possibility of a large pool ofgas between the field and Jacksonwas admitted by oil men and geologists.

The news of increased gas pressure ln the Yazoo area was heartening to local interest very muchconcerned with the rapidly dwindling supply of gas in the Jacksonfield and the discouraging effortsto bring ln new weils to supply local demands.

Drilling continues within the citycf Jackson but officials admit veryfrankly that the chance of discovering a new supply of gas is rapidly growing more remote.

Meanwhile, the Yazoo oil field isthe state's chief center of interest.

Oil men who have followed theTinsley developments carefully sincethe first well came in six weeks agodeclare that the Jones-O'Brien wellis by far the best producer in thearea thus far.

This well showed 19 feet of coarse,oil-bearing sand in a drill stem testFriday and the experts agree that itwill produce in the neighborhood of7,000 barrels a day.

Further tests were made yesterday at the Union Producing company's Jennie Stevens No. 1 withresults that were more or less discouraging. The project has not beenabandoned, however, and followingthe tests the drilling was resumed

.at a depth in excess of 4,800 feet.Yesterday's test, it was learned,

fhowed twenty feet of sand in thiswell and strong indications of oil.The sand was said to be too fine-.grained, however, to permit theprofitable expelling of the oil.

YAZOO CITY, Oct. 21.—Anauthentic report circulated thismorning that the union ProducingCo.'s Stevens No. 1 had struckpay were denied this eveningwhen Cores at 4800 feet recovered "tight" sand with traces ofoil. The crew was going aheadwith coring activities howevter,and it is believed pay will bestruck shortly.

Fifty-four feet of sand, it wasreported, had failed to producewhat the drillers are looking for.

Striking of -pay' at two morewells this week brought to a closetoday the most exciting and active wsek in the history of Yazoo'soil bojoi which began August 29,and will no doubt be the signalfor a wave of drilling in thiscounty.

Further teste in the TinsleyField bv the Union Producingcompany will be announced, it Isreported, while inauguration ofdrilling tests by Southern NaturalGas, O'Brien Brothers, Amerada,Barnsdale. Gascon, Merrin, Magnolia, Byrd, Frost and others whohave leases In the field will probably be announced at any time.

A drilling contract will probably be left next week for theYazoo Refinery. Inc.. Brooks No.1 which is In the Tinsley field.The derrick has already beenerected on a location describedby Frederick Mellen. geologistwho discovered the Tinsley field,as the most promising in thearea.

Southern Illinois Refinlery company is another interest which isbeing looked to for early drillingand refinery developments. Theconcern already has a 250 acretract near the city, it is reported,which was secured for a refinerysite.

H. E. Gardner, senior trafficeconomist out of the United StatesEngineers office, in Vleksburgspent Saturday in Yazoo City atthe office of the Chamber of Commerce gathering data on shipmentsoriginating in Yazoo county whichmight go by way of river freightIn case transportation were available. A complete survey will bemade by Mr. Gardner of allcounties bordering on the Yazooriver with a view to submittingto congress a recommendation withreference to providing a nine footchannel in the Yazoo river.

Secretary Foster of the chamberof commerce assisted Mr. Gardnerin securing available data for thiscounty and a summation of thetotal tonnage in freight whichoriginates in this county astounded the statistical expert.

The development of a potentialoil field vill vastly Increase theamount of freight originating inYazoo county which could go bywater transportation. A detailedreport will be prepared by Mr.Gardner and a copy furnished thechamber of commerce.

Formation of a pipe-line corporation is being talked here,whose facilities would transportYazoo oil to water where cheapbarge line transportation would beavailable. It is pointed out thatthe cost of a line would not beover $25,000 per mile and therewould be few engineering problemsdue to the absence of cold weather. Only one booster stationwould be needed between the fieldand Vleksburg it was stated.

However, a nine foot channelin the Yazoo river would allowtanker traffic and eliminate theneed of laying the line to theMississippi.

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JACKSON (MISS.) DAILY NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939

FACE HAPPY FUTURE

Unclt' Tom Germany and h> wife me shown here on the porch of theirmod»*t Yazoo county farm home, .-till somewhat bewildered bv the evtntsaflcrting iheir live.'-. The couple can lock out across the sue of Oil City,proposed townsite in Hie newly discovered Yazoo county oil field. Soonderricks may rise on their acres as operators hunt oil in Mie area. Forthem money means a release from worry lather than a path io luxuries.Thry si* it all as "God's blessing."

Yazoo Couple FacingRiches, Bewildered

OIL CITY—Uncle Tom Germanyhad never spoken of failure untilabout, a- year ago. when, at the aceof 73. he realized he had bent tothe plow to the last day of hisstrength.

Then lie was forced io taee prosaic facta—that he and liis courageous wife who had fought the samelosing battle with him could do little but a wail the time when the

mortgage would be foreclosed u.i(heir 200 acres of obstinate clayhills.

Unclr Tom does not- care to t. Ik

much of tiic bitter months which

followed. His wite. who. during thelone years of fruitless rilling oftenworked in the fields beside her husband, however, will speak cl ihe con •eem she felt tor Uncle Tom. whosehealth began breaking rapidly. Butihev both had rather live in Hie

present and lell the story ol a newlife which Is beginning for them.

It i the : Ml- ]-!'] ••

discovery -a »t >ry which (Mil applygenerally to n any (amilies resid-lig 111 Ihe Ye zoo vie in IV.

Tn the Germ in vs. the lil i iscov-

pry has mean lining a mortgagewhich lor roars has nun'.- nve theirarm like ati o inions cloud. noiieyn the haul; aj tl prom1st • if

which may ith h bevond the! ' oon-

•option. They concede hat folkswlin have tiller those ei- siot -sea r-

*ed hills for ii U1HHV rat Hiirirectved such little roi lpc-i sal ion

rem nature, ct nnot readily . ppre-lain the lull signilicaiH. e o •sud-

ien riches bein ! thrust i ion theni.To ihein if is 11 a little bev\ ildcr-im—and after such tryii •i ci CUIll-

tances which ( onfronted them lesshan a year r jo. money to thenis not so much a means to luxury

as an end to worry.In a few swill months not only

the Germany's but their tuggedwood-clad acres as well have undergone transformation. Roads leading to various wells now in production have been cut across theirproperty, and to cap the climax ofexciting events, a new town. OilCity, is being built, on a large hactof their land which inimediatchcon (rams their home.

Shortly alter ihe discovery well.Woodruff No. 1 was brought in.land for the new town was purchase «f from the Germany* by J.L. Duncan, townsite developer and

oil operator, who saw need for a

commercial and business center in

the oi| field. Uncle Tom and hiswife have taken great interest intownsite development, watchinghuge road-making machinery levelolf the tops of wooded hills andfill in the gullies and ravines andtwo small ponds which once provided water for their few head ofstock. Various buildings which willprovide a retail outlet in the vicinity are now under construction,and it has been assured by Mr.Duncan that the road from LittleYazoo on highway 49 will begraveled and oiled.

Tn speaking of the oil discovery,one visitor suggested to Mis. Germany that the good Lord placedthese riches under ihe ground

siirtfii'i'

no lor tiic |' r lai i Ihr

lrobably did." answered theelderly woman, "but He let u» tug

I a long time at the top before he; let us find it."

Many of the people who havevislied Oil City in the making haveprobably observed the genial oldcouple at the townsite. for the mainstreet of the town is less than ahundred yards from the home.Uncle Tom is addressed by Mr.Duncan, engineers and other workers «s Oil City's unofficial mayor.The title brings a smile io his ruddycheeks.

There are llinse who have asked

them what they will do with theirmoney. The question always bringsa little puzzled expression to UncleTom's face and he reserves his

ideas, but, Mrs. Germany ls verypositive that the first things she'splanning to buv is a new ccok stove.have a new flue built and get anew whistle for her steam cooker.

To the Germany's, discovery of oilis a reward for two lives that have

been lived for others. During thelong years they fought to enticenature to yield them a living, theyraised three children. After the

children married and left ihe homestead. Mrs. Germany adopted fiveorphans, children of her own relatives, offering them every advantage within heir power, until they,too. either became married and leftthe Germany home or departed toseek their fortunes elsewhere.

'It is difficult to describe ourfeeling at all this sudden good fortune." Mrs. Germany said. "I knowthat other families who have beenfanning for years in these partsfeel the same as we do. That it lsall God s blessing."

In addition to the founding ofOil City, extensive drilling Is beingplanned on other acres of the Germany farm. Mr. Duncan statedthat nine drilling locations havebeen selected. Two of these wellswill be located within the townsiteproper, he said, and drilling will bestarted in less than 60 days.


THE YAZOO CITY HERALD. YAZOO CITY. MISSISSIPPI fllKSIUY, NOVKMIIKU 7, 1939.

Yazoo Field AttractsOnly Woman Oil Driller

AiMwuiirh *h»'s stric.tlv feminine, on her own, she drilled her firstAlthough shesi strictly ™™\™n wUdcal weU m&„Augustine coun-Buda Lee Mauldin is engaged in ty Texas< wnich made her one ofone of the most strenuous and most ^ most co^fui personalities indangerous Jobs In the world. the oU game.

In fact, she is unique, even jjj tne nine years intervening.among women doing men s work. Ae nRS sunk weUs ta ihe Lulingas she is the only woman oil driller (Tex , and Many. (La.) fields.in the world. in addition to being a driller

Miss Mauldin pulled into Jackson Miss Mauldin is noted whereverthis week and will go shortly to ottmea congregate as one of theestablish headquarters in Yazoo Dest lessors in the business. SheCity. She will spend some time j^ obtained all the leases drilledthere while assembling a block of by ner company in competitionleases. with the best oilmen in the land

Miss Mauldin is president of Ihe Before entering the oil businessMauldin Oil company. Her son. B. and matrimony. Miss Mauldin was1Henry Mauldin. who is a graduate a school teacher in a small townof Southern Methodist university. near Dallas. Texas.Is vice president of the company.

It has become more or less commonplace to find women engagedin occupations which formerly werereserved for men. but the attractive little lady who has just cometo Mississippi is more than unique.She is "exclusive."

The public often hears withoutmuch surprise of women dor torsand lawyers, but uV business ofdrilling for oil is regarded, andrightly, as heine one of the moststrenuous and most rlanpprous jobsIn the world. It doesn't seem possible that a pretty, rive-foot-three-tach lady could succeed in a gamewhich taxes the nerve and brawnof burly "roughnecks" and leather-necked drillers. Yet that is exactlywhat little Miss Mauldin has done.Yet, she gives the older drillers,roughnecks, and all the other oiloperators credit for what she hasaccomplished.

For nearly fifteen years she accompanied her former husband, anexpert driller, on his trips to thegreat oil fields of the south, southwest. Mexico and even SouthAmerica. She worked side by sidewith him, learning the tricks ofthe trade, matching her strengthwith that of husky roughnecks whoformed the crews. She learned thescience connected with operatinga drill rig. and incidentally mostof the lore of the oil business. Sowell did she learn that a few yearsafter her marriage she urged herhusband to form the Mauldin Oilcompany with her as vice president. They sunk more than a dozenwelis in half a dozen big fields,with the usual luck of the driller—some dry. some small payers,and a few good payers, but no richstrikes.

After serving an apprenticeshipof seven years as a roughneck.Miss Mauldin's career as a drillerbegan by accident. While drilling awell in the Panuco field near Tarn-pico. Mexico, her husband wasstricken with tropical fever. Tocease operations meant that theystood to lose several thousand dollars already sunk in the "hole."She stepped into the job and finished it after a rather trying time.Later, as an independent operator

TINSLEY FIELD

THE VTCKSBuTVG EVENING POST, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939.—J.JVLUJ

LOCAL SQUINTSBy

POIXY VUY

»>W IVirifiTrAFeTJe^T:v'i<1 |-.n!.h mV-?i_- :--talwart. upstand

in:•; lie.. '"Srv Hill not. fped Muttthey would bn :;:,|isfn-d in a strangepl-it-• 'I ivv lived amid friends andrehi'.vs May he one did not see~vc to ry on all subjects-—mayhapthere mirjlii have Ivcn a little focl-i:ir: about .i In;. ndarv line—never-•hckss. Ih»••. w<-re all good neighbors none holler. Anyway they had<" work. fiT arier a lif- of arrtiv-iifcv th«y could not. live happily ifidJc. and what d:d they know cx-cerf farm \vo*'k. I can name nonames, for 1 promised, hut theirfii'nds will readily rocor.nb'e them.'!'!!•..•>' are ;.wo of the most highlyufp:cted men of their community,and iheir hoa<!s have not been turner! by the judden accession of mon-

leyond the Oil AreaIs where 1 told Kit Hullor !

.-anted to go in my old used «•«'

.'•.sterday. He said, "Miss Polly-ou've a long, long trip ahea I.'ind sent his most experienced "en-'room" !o fill the tank, look at Mrn!. tost, Hie tires, and wipe 'In• in'is-hicld. It is astonishing \Ur'tioiint of service these filling si'en operators give. Finally. K-'

aio evii-yii..ric whs O. K. and I.••as off while yet "'twas ea.I;

Running True To FormIn no lime at all I was <»u

".rung road. In a lane almost knocicep" in leaves fallen from the'ence-row trees along side, I stop-Ted to get my bearings and heardIhe rattle of metal on a wagon-oole. I spied a wagon coming from•I cornfield on a hill loaded withfodder corn; heard the whirr an'!Irak of a rasoline engine; heard »cader call; heard black crows cawirg t-verhead; saw cattle hangupinquisitive heads over the fence bya milking'riied: near the end of '.helane, I glimpsed a silo rising tower-like, around its base marks madeby the black snouts of fine porkerslolling about the enclosure; sawone last red apple on a rugg?d tree;ind as I responded to the hail'rqm the wagonner in clear ovcr-cill which had faded .to a soft blue.'•he scene was so picturesque, sooeaceful. to pastoral, I decided 1had reached my destination—beyondthe oil area in Yazoo County.

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Wrong Was I—Very WrongThese t-vo farmers, working to

gether, were near neighbors andlife-long friends and were just lev-•»l-headtri. sensible men. who hadleased their land to an oil-company,but saw no reason whey they shouldneglect their usual farm work because of it.

9Buiineu As Usual

Was their motto. I was filledwith admiration as they told in aquiet, bi-ifcf manner, so often one ofthe characteristics of those who aremuch alone, of their hopes andpl^n;. To make the home morecjt&ufortsbl?. "dress up a bit," especially "Vie wife," improve thefarm in every way. and put by asmuch as possible for the educationof the children—a bright and happygr%i*Jp, these children, as they setout.to catch the school bus.

-it-huiolicld. He'd I)'- Ihe sainricii'-il.v. wliol::-:;<>Mlcrl, typic;oiiOi'-ric !. whose kindly humii

:nl d;y v.-it have been enjoyed I.l-K! and all Yazoo Countians, ft,Sere's r;i man belter known <idler lined than Marl in Stubblirlcl. I nrl Marlin before I read.'1 tii" w- I! site. As all the Slut

"slciicitlv and there are many <hem are 'he personification of hew>:t:\liiy. I never saw the oil sitjut v. as m.hcivd into the dclighi 1 "i.l.'j-l:.!-,cy" looking, ramblinw>m-\ pr.-t.ided ovi r by Marlin•i,v.->|y. .-»-it-voiced, cultured, gratoris wife, Mary Posey StubblcfielrThe fnany rooms of this comfortable iibofe are furnished with rarinticiii-.'s. handed down from botIhe Tosey ,-nd Stubhlcfield familie:Believe it or not. during the hout[ spei.t wilh these two good friendof .nine, the matter of oil we)wcaiMi w,i., forgotten.

•Or Oil People

I have met. there is what I l»n.a typical American family, the E. RSmiths, hailing from Tyler. Tex

ho have made their presence fclamong us. Most interesting anpleasant. i;i this excell"nt eoupland their two adorable littl? Haiightcrs. Daphnn and MioliaH. I do n<>regard them as strangers, howeverfor they arc friends of Callie BeairHind while no stamp of approv;s needed by this lovely, likeabl'/oiing matron, the delightful fatnly have it. And. by the way. tlie;peak of casting anchor in Yazn<

:o I hasten to extend advance welnine to th" dignified, polished pen

tleman. "Ernest." Mr. Smith, anrfriend wife, vivacious, "lil.erlainin-Daphne, win>-.:<? *\y*»k brinn; to vOnrth«> "Blue RonnHr" of her nativstate, and th • precious rlicrubs wlvcomplete the family ciivl«\

•Pick-ltps

"Doc" Callihain. as he io knowto us all who travel the road" f>;which he works, dirt not mi-j a da;because of leasing his land to ivoil company..

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Satsuma -eason ir. in. and Hie purveyors of ther/i are on the jobWagon loads are sepn going in <-very direction. Small apples'are ah-being peddled over the county.

•Paul Mosier. well known Ion

time dealer in fruit, trees, is makiug hki rounds, delivering order?and stocking up the householdswith a variety of fruits.

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No dull moments in Yazoo County. Oil may have grown a trifl<commonplace, so old Yazoo show*up a new substance to give upause.

'lil ActivityHas inrreasi.tl. daily. Hninoi h:is

i' that leases in what has been termed the "basin" are being sought"jigerly. I've been lolrl GrifTint.nrkett was among those whose oilIr..so is satisfactory, tn lessee and''s-or. Interest in the highlandshas novel abated. Citizens of certain vicinities are said to have or-Mr.izeH a sort of pool, handed to.gelh^r in nrri'r to rcI devplnpnirnt.1 r.-.-.v th" :-.|->t ->n the Frank Broncksnlac^ v.jhf>re I.lie proposed well mavlw drilled. 1 started nnxl tn visitMv pla«;- T was Iold the well onTallin SiMbbleM'ldV. pla-e would•v lora led

A <'>ni (Ntilllon or More"Vould make no "liange in Marlin

tors in Yar.oo City Tuesday rS'.zr-,.oon.

; Rev. and Mrs. J. F. ''cCK-»llr:ivere visitors in Yaroo City Tues-!ay afternoon.

Mrs. Hunter of Jackson spent ?ev-ml days this week viriting Mr.nd Mrs. Darringto:i "hillips.John Kelly McClelland has rc>

urncd horn'- after speneiirig :•< vc-alays visiti.t'i relatives in Louisville.

.' Mr. and Mrs. Jimuiie Lewis and'aughter, Ann. spent Monday and'uosdav witii her parents. Mr. and•Irs. Kirk, of Adding.

Mr. and Mr*. Henry Wilson were>usines.i visitors in Greonv/ood"itirsdov morning.

J. W. PettiPrew. Fete Walker and. A. Stricklin wee business vis-tors in Yazoo City Thursday morn-ig.

Mr. arid Mrs. Jimmie Lewis andaughter. Ann. '•••••> a shov/ in Yaz-mity Tuesday night.Mrs. W. W. Shurley and mother.

Irs. Bosv--ell. spent Thursday in"azoo City with friends,Charles Henry Crawford of Yazooity spent Thursday night wilh A.. Crawford, Jr.Rev. D. I. Young is visiting Mr.id Mrs. T. B. Peaster of Alexan-ria, La.Mrs. Bert Middleton, Mrs. DeWittalker and son have returned to!

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Starkville—The Home of Qppbrtamityg—THE STARKVILLE (MISS.) NEWS—OktihbeKa—"The Dairy Center b

State Oil Discoveries PlacesSpotlight On Local Geologists

*Editor's Note: Because oithe "recent- oil .brsom in Mississippi, attention has been leeu- -.'len Freddie Mellen. assistivestate geologist who di.scove:c<!the Tinsley home In- Ys.-.'uCounty. In the following at tide is given' a short .sketch cfGeologist Mellen, his instrtr.-\or, Dr. W. C. Morse, and oth-i-.r fucces-slul Mississippi gco'.n-îstsi.

General geology is a subject thatshould br studied in the cnV--înd universitirs primarily for V;.scultural value, for its aid In tc riling a student to •t'.'ink cleaily oleco'jnize thft truth, to abhor tiicralrn. And just as the student ..•»able on field trips to inte.vv'.what he learned in t';e geclogyclass room, so also will lie be «ioleto interpret in life that which heha;; learned ln other c'.n^s :"ve

Despite these firm convictions of ILr. William Cllffcrd Morse. p.<^lessor,of geology and state geologist at the University cf Mts-'.s-sippi. nevertheless, if a .student oyhis honesty. Intelligence, and industry reveals his aptitude for l-'esubject and feels that he willnot be happy In any career otherthan that cf a geologist, then,and then cnly. does Dr. M >:>'.>grant him advanced work.

Dr. Morse is happy that hundreds of students brave taken general geolc.Ty; he is especially prt.uaof his boys and girls who havetaken their major or minor in ecology. He is intensely proud cf hi-Mississippl boys and girls, mostlynative Misslsslpplans.: named below.He Is- proud that when they arcweighed in the balance with ;!u-dents of the best universities thatthey are not found wanting.

Among them are tlv.p? meal men.Frederic Mellen. V. M. Foster. PiidT. H. Shropshire.

Assistant State Geologist Frederic Francis Mellen. t'e discover:cv

of the Tinsley dome that, hivyielded the first ctiivnercisl oi:well In Mississippi, was one of Dr.Morse's former students at lm'-ithe university cf Mississippi findat State College, cf whom h? isintensely proud.

After Mellen finished at State

College, Dr. Morse, on requestfrom the chief geologist of the T.V. A., a-ecommended him and a

number of ether yoni:<- r.eri .s

r. .-,I;i:'.isi.s to that ca.-'.ani.-.ati-- ::.J'.i--1!--n received an Ti.'jpiiniiiiC. t.Sii:. :e differed frcm "i;;ry yoii;\-'

men in tlmt ':? wr.s i:m. ât,i;!!.-.lwith a •-. ov-.rrimen'.rii chtv.

When th3 TVA'.s day, \vr:s c].r,r.o.he continued his re-eirch'-s <n\ hisctMl tir.u. and at Lis cvn e:iepu:>«\H; became especially interested i:'itiic residutil material iemain::i£Irorti !he weathering of the Pate-zclc reeks in the adjoining part?,of Mississippi. Alabama and Tennessee.

He prepared a. preliminary paper on t' is material which h2mir.ee5. the LitMc Bear residuumalter- a .small tributary of BearCicc-k in Ti.shr,;ninao county .-.ndmfcrnitUHl it to !ii- fnrmer teacher, now at Ttir Urrivrrsiiy of M>-siv.ippi for his apivoval as a stilt-,hll< ai-tic'.e for one of the kvuvee;jc'VnP.ls.

Put Dr. Morse urged him tocontinue his studies on the problem and submit the paper to theuniversity a< a thesis for themas u s device in the departmentcf -teology.

His research was s.o outstandinsthat it was not only accepted'uo a>kesis. but Dr. Morse decided Iopublish it as Bulletin 34, the I/it.'eBear residuum, of the State Geological Survey. Under similarcondi'ions. Mellen discovered thebentcnite heels in Pontotoc coun

ty.

In the .meantime, the TVA feeol-orucpl budget had been reduced,a number of geologists had beenre leasee'. Dr. Morse had placedMel-en in. chtu-ge o'f the WPA-Miî.'sippi Geological Survey inWinston Cmmty, Bulletin 38 hadappealed from the press, and. Je-srite t.e depression, Mellen l.adrcro'.ved a number of offers, one.at. least paying in excess of $4'!0a menth and expenses, which iioatriptcrJ in part, -jiving everythird week ot his lime.

When th? Winston county project was expanded into a statc'ic'c-project, involving 10 to 12 ccunlie.-:Mellen resigned from this commercial jjcolosic work, which Jisci

rosuiUd, in the establishment ofthe scut':orn branch ol the Eas

tern Clay Products Incorpmatec!of Elfert. Ohio, at Pontetcc. now

employing some 40 or 50 peopleand producing a bond for mold

ing sand that is said to excel thefamous Wyoming bond.

Thus, because of his loyalty tohis native state, to his State Geological Survey, to his formertoacher, and especially to himself.Mellen has voluntarily sacrificednearly half of his. salary—but, letit be hoped, not in vain.

In fact, only reecntly, one ot ti"-eoil cerporations sought his services, which Dr. Morse refused torelinquish unless Mellen was crf-ercd a salary considerable in excess of the one from which he

had withdrawn.

Another favorite student of Dr.

Morse was Velora Meek Foster,who grew to manhood on hi?grandfather's and his father's

farms adjoining State College. Always intensely interested in geology, Foster' was such an excellentstudent that he was elected to afellowship first in Washington University, St. Louis, and then inNorthwestern University, Evanston,where he has completed all therequirements for the Ph. D. degreeexcept the thesis.

Foster served as geologist lo

t'.:e Mississippi State Planning

Commission until he was releas

ed td the Mississippi State Geolcg-

ical Survey to serve as supervising,geologist of the WPA mineral survey of Lauderdale and Forrastcounties. More recently he has become a member of the U. S. Geo

logical Survey.

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SAH.T CLABI0N LEDGEB. JACKSON. HISS.. SATUBDAT HORNING, DECEMBEB 2,1939

Oil And Gas NewsFrom The Tinsley Field And Elsewhere

New Well

InspiringTo Buyers

YAZOO CITY, Doc. I — The•hewing of 36 feet of oU aand ln theWoodruff No. 3 Thursday ha* created some excitement among royalty and lease buyers in the Tinsleyyield, according to the Yasoo Realty Oil Exchange, in their officialreport today.

for the past two weeks activityin the exchange of leases and royalty has been very slow and thegood showing of the second Wood,ruff was welcomed by many holders of oil Interests.

The Exchange said, however,that prices have not materially advanced due to the high prices asked before Thursday.

Tor the past month buyers almost have ignored the south andsoutheast but with the showing ofho new. Woodruff they have begunto Invest in some extent.

Prices to the north and northeastcontinue to hold their own with thepossibility of a rise should theO'Brien-Stevens No. 8 come in ateither the first or second sands.

The following prices are beingasked, with the distances quotedbeing from, each individual producing well with the better pricesprevailing to the north, northeast,east'and southeast, while the northwest, west, and southwest ls stillsuffering from the Friley "dryhole."

1-3 mile, leases, none available,soyalty, $350 to $600.

$-4 mile, leases, none available,loyalty, $360 to $450;

1 mile,, leases, none available,loyalty, $S00 to $SM; •

1 M mile, leases, $160 to $800,feyaltgr, $160 to $376;

S miles, leasee. $116 to $380,royalty. $138 to $300;

ttnU**, leases, $60 to $10, roy-•to, $$$ to $1160;

imllee, "Fmiles, leases. $40 to $78 royal.•j, $40 to $86;

• miles, leases, $11 to $88. regral-|y%j17.60 to $40;

There Is much more aotlvity out-sloe the five mile limit.

The first oil derrick slnee WorldWar days was erected to Choctaweeonty yesterday oh land owned byJta JMllard. ten miles southwestof Methlston.

_. - 1 that the leasesjaHa for Ballard to receive one-emUeuthof the royalty in ease ellSs discovered. A Louisiana compear 1» to charge of drfllmg,

PRODUCING WELLS

Union Producing company'sWoodruff No. 1, the Discoverywell, Yasoo county; topped eflsand 4640-4680 feet; easing pressure, 440; tubing, 408; capacity,600 barrels on 8-8 Inch ehobe.

Union Producing company'sPerry No. 1, Yasoo county;struck pay 4470 feet, easingpressure 170; tubing 380; capacity, 808 barrels on 12-«4th Inch

Mies-O'Brien Jennie StevensNo. 1, Yasoo county: toppedOH sand 4497-4530 feet; easingprcssnre 305, tubing 810; capacity, 1656 barrels on half-inchchoke.

Union Producing company'!Stevens No. 1, Yasoo countytopped oU sand 4860-4877 feet;recovered 3900 feet 36-gravityoil in 11 minutes, on 3-8 Inchchoke tubing pressure 195pounds; casing pressure 70pounds.

Jones and O'Brien's StevensNo. 3, SE N ESeetlon 13-10-3.Topped ell sand at 4550 feetand recovered 33 feet of oilsand through half-Inch choke.Flowing 5 barrels hourlythrough 38.64 In. choke. Holewas carried to 5,085 feet andeasing was set at 4,669 feet.

OIL MAN'S CALENDAR

Albert X. Manning and R. M.Orabb, associates in the oil teatenterprise at Daleville, have returned to the state after a trip to

•"- '- to obtain necessary

easing Is expected to be settoday.

Coring to expected to begin Sunday at the Jones-O'Brien No. 3,ceiled the No. IB, located in Yasoocounty, northeast of the Jennie

— i No. 1.

Dee. 4-7 American Society ofMechanical Engineers. Philadelphia, P.

Dec. 4-9,17th Exposition of Chemical industries, Orand Central Palace, New York.

Dec. 5-7, Nebraska PetroleumMarketers, Inc., 19th Annual convention, Hotel Pontenelle, Omaha,"ebr.

Dec. 7, N. J. OU Trade association, annual meeting and banquet,Robert Treat hotel, Newark, N. J.

Dec. 7-8, Mid-Continent OU andOas association, general association standing tax committees. Ricehotel, Houston, Texas. .

Dec. 7-8, Mid-Continent OU andOas association, general association standing tax committees. Ricebetel, Houston, Texas.

Dee. 11, West Central Texas OUand Oas association, AbUene, Tex-

i.

Dee. 14-15, Petroleum ElectricPower association, Texas State hotel, Houston, Texas.

Dee. 18, Mid-Continent OU andOas associatioln, annual meeting ofgeneral board of directors,Tulsa club roof, Tulsa, Okla.


Oil And Gas NewsFrom The Tinsley Field And Elsewhere

Gas Drilling \In City Area \Is Approved

Two pas drillinc 'c-'s in .larksonand vi initv were fopm-. :d yesterday by the Miw-K- rni mineral;lease commis/ion. "inch at thesame time approved modifications,in oil drilling requirements to encourage exploration on state li»nd

Thr pas leases we»c on the fate ,fairgrounds property and on a narrow strip of land In Rankin countyacross the Pearl River from Jark-

Heretofore the rommis-sion ha?held that in the event a producer.is brought in on primely '.(.a-.rTacreage in a block of land which,Includes state-leased acreage, atest must be made on the state ;•land within 60 to 90 days Today1the position was modified to Rive ,up to six months time on lameblocks to permit orderly develop-,ment of structures.

Tm modifirni'on \\;i: mao> •'• 'connc tion .vith ti.>n'.;'tivr approvrof a lease on 120 acres of stateowned land ln Madison county,nine miles north ol Canton toRalph A. Johnston of Houston. Tex. *

Meanwhile oil exploration activity on private leases moved a;quickened speed

Two test.-;, oik in Yi./no countyand one in Hinds were closeddown over ihe \\><kcm! but derricks were stuncd : >r three additional tests in Ya/oo and permitswere issued for drill'iiil in Sharkeyand Issaquena counties

Hessie Hunt ot Dallas. Tex .started two of the Yazoo tests it.the Tinsley field area-an A. GJohnson No. 1 at the rentpr of Hit8E 1-4 of the RF 1-4 of sect ion1M0N-3W. and an \. O. JohnsonNo.'2 at the center of the NF. 1-4of the SE 1-4 of the sar>-« section.

Union produeine ron-nanv started erection of derrick on ts PerryNo. 2 at the center of th. NF, 14Of the NW 1-4 of section 2VWN-3W

Ralph E. Fair et. at oi Dallastook permit for a test, on the Houston estate in Sharkey county withlocation at the center of the NE1-4 of the NE 1-4 of section 12-10N-TW.

The Issaquena permit went toW. E. Hall of Shreveport La..for an Irby Charping No. l test lnsection 29-10N-8W

Abandoned, at least temporarilyover the weekend were the GaddisFarms No. 1 test of Byrd-Frostand associates in section 12-6N-3W.Hinds county, and the AtkinsonNO. 1 of T. B. Slick of San Antonlo. Texas, in section 3-10N-3W,Yasoo county.

The Hinds test was below 6.300feet and the Yazoo test at 5,043feet In igneous material.

PRODUCING WELLS

Vnion Producing company'sWoodruff No. 1, the Discoverywell, Yazoo county; topped oilsand 4540-4560 feet; casing pressure. 440; tubing, 408; capacity,600 barrels on 3-8 inch choke.

1 >ion Producing company'sPc No. 1, Yazoo county;struck pay 4470 feet, rasingpressure 170; tubing 230; capacity. 303 barrels on 12-64th inchchoke.

Jones-O'Brien Jennie StevensN<>. 1. Yazoo county: toppedoil sand 4497-4520 feet; casingpressure 295. tubing 210; cajac-ity, 1656 barrels on half-in-hchoke.

1 nion Producing compan-'•Stevens No. 1. Yazoo countytopped oil sand 4860-4877 feet;recovered 2900 feet 36-gravityoil in 11 minutes, on 3-8 inchehoke tubine pressure IASpitand: rasing pressure 70pounds.

Jones and O'Brien's StevensNo. I, SE N ESeetion 13-10-3.Topped oil sand at 4550 fe«tand recovered 23 feet of oilsand through half-inch choke.Flowing 5 barrels hourlyIhrouRh 22.64 in. choke. Holewas carried to 5.085 feet andcasing was set at 4,669 feet.

1'nion Producing Company'sWoodruff No. 2. Section 1*.Township ION. Range 3W.3220.5' south. 680.7' east of NWcorner of NE 1-4, topped oinsand at 4539 feet, recovered 23feet of oil sand; in first 24-hour test produced 612 barrelsthrough 20-64 inch choke, witheasing pressure 0. tubing pressure 111.)

Jones-OUrien's Stevens B-l(No. 3). located in Section 12,Township 10, Range 3W. Yazoocounty, half-mile from Tinsleytownsite topped Eutaw sand at4865 feet.

jTunica WellDraws Crowd

I Into SectionTUNICA. Dec 18—The Kentuc

ky Lumber Company's Trementwell in Itawamba county, which isproducing 25 barrels of oil a day,yesterday attracted a hundred ormore visitors from all parts of thestate, including oil scouts and officials of a number of producingcompanies.

The Tremont well located justinside the Itawamba county linenorth of the Monroe - Itawambaboundary is the first well to strikeoil in Northeast Mississippi sincethe campaign for oil began tospread from Yazoo county to numerous parts of North Mississippiand the Delta. Drilling will be continued ai Tremont in spite of theoil showing in hope thai a largerflow may be obtained sufficient tomake the well commercially profitable.

Kentucky Lumber Company representatives said that the roadsleading to the location were Jammed with motorists vesterdav.They would not comment on prospects for a paying producer.

Blocks of 10.000 to 15.000 acresare being leased ln Itawamba.Monroe. Lee. Chickasaw and otherNorth and East Mississippi counties.

BUSINESS BOOMSEEN IN YAZOO

Retail Sales Show Five Per

Cent Increase Over Same

Period of 1938

YAZOO CITY. Dec. 18 — Figures supplied the Chambe'r of Commerce by A. A. Stone, chairmanstate tax commission, indicate thatsomeboc' in Yazoo City during

"'he mot! : of September and Oc-ober re i-.d'considerable benefitfro .il >il boom according toPi. -:d E. J. Ferris.

' u . v September of 1938 the rein • lc- amounted to $228,800.IUr • the -ame period for 1939,the .-ales were $264,100, or an increase of over five per cent.

Durinc October of 1938 salesamounted in Yazoo City propsrto $321 000 while in October 1939retail sales a .lounted $408,000 anincrease of 27 per cent.

Figures for November are notvet available but from all indications sales have been, graduallymounting since August, 29. exceptfv.- the heavy good mterchants whowill simply have to wait until coldweather sets in before their particular sto/-k will move to any appreciable extent above normal. Local predictions are, however, tothe effect that when bad weatherreally does set in local stocks ofheavy roods will soon be exhausted ".here anticipated increases inbusiness have been made.

Telephone connections, whilethey have not Increased in November as they did in September andOctober, according to R. D Owen.local manager ol the Southern BellTelephone and Telgraph Co. are

, still at an all time high with overi 1100 installations in operation,i As an evidence of the fact thatj Yazoo City is taking care of the in-i creased number of persons com

ing into our midst, figures furnished by the Chamber of Commerce,by City Clerk J. B. Cobb, andManager F. W. Crisp, of Mississippi Power and Ligijt, show thatin November of 1939, 16 buildingpermits were issued, while nonewere Issued ln November 1938.

The value of the permits issuedIn November 1939 amounted to $20-435. as against nothfmonth of November.

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ITHE VICKSBURG EVENING POST. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1939.

Union's Stevens No. 1 Makes600 Barrels Through 14-16Inch Test Choke Yesterday

New Well Is ihe Fifth;Fori Worth SyndicateLeases 720 Acres OfState Land In Yazoo

With the fifth producing wellmarked up on Yazoo's map withthe bringing into production of Union Producing Co.'s Jennie StevensNo. 1. at an estimated productionof 600 barrels daily through a 14/64choke, location work is intensifiedover the entire county.

Bottom hole and cusing pressurein Ihis well are reported to bethe best so far in the field.

Foremost in new developmentswas the leasing of 720 acres of•••"i« Hrf'" in west central YazooCounty adjoining the Kinkead prop-i. iy in Sec. 28 «t 29-10-3w. A FortWorth syndicate, headed by W. L.Stewart and Hill & Hill, securedthe lease from the State MineralLease Commission and announcedplans for immediate operation. A$1,000 performance bond was posted,with assurance given that ultimatedepth of the well will not be lessthan 6,000 feet.

Taking a part of the spotlightwas the disclosure that plans forimmediate drilling have been madefor the I. H. Plunkett tract, sixmiles northeast of production inSec. l-10-2w. Fifteen days remainfor the start of operations here by11. R. Allen of Cedar Rapids, Mich.

In Holmes County. State SenatorJ. S. Watson completed a 12.000-acre block with a lease on 6,300acres of state lands in Holmes county, immediately north of YazooCounty and the present field, fromthe State Mineral Lease Commission to his son. Operations on thistract are to start in 90 days, andwill increase the value of northernYazoo County holdings if successful.

Also to the north of the field, inHumphreys County, an 11.000-acrelease of state lands to J. B. Mori-crief, a Texas independent, was approved by the Mineral Lease Commission. A 5-000 foot" well is assured there.

North of the Stevens No. 1brought in by Union Producing Co.yesterday. Jones-O'Brien was drilling ahead today after casing yesterday at 1500 feet, which depth wasreached in three days' operations.

T. B. Slick's Atkinson No. 1. twomiles northwest of the Stevens No.1 well brought in yesterday, inSec. 3-10-3w, was approaching 1300feet this afternoon in the farthest.west outpost of current efforts. Thestate lands leased to the Fort Worthgroup is a mile farther northwest,however, and may alter considerably the drilling picture.

the fault as is the Friley;ib«nHineH as drv Tuesday morninga half mile west of the WoodruffNo. 1 discovery well.

Another western test is contemplated by Taylor. Kent and Mc-Kinley of Longview, Tex., who havemade location on Ihe Selby properlyin Sec. 9-9n-3w. This locationhowever, is the first to be placedfar south of production.

North of Benton, the Conroe-Wil-cox Stubblefield No. 1 was reported today to be drilling ahead onits wildcat operations after waitingnearly two days for a section ofeasing, which went in at 1100 feet.

Meanwhile, Union Producing Co..the discovery firm in the field, hadtaken to 3219 feet its Woodruff No.2, east offset of the No. 1 of thesame name. The drill was in blackshale of a slightly sandy naturethis morning, and should reach paysand by Monday at the latest, if

nothing goes amiss.Grading is being done for the

Woodruff No. 3 in Section 13. andflags have been set for the No. 4in the same section. All the Woodruff wells contemplated thus farare by Union Producing Co.

At the Byrd-Frost Milner No. 1,which is to be put down by thePlains" Producing Co. in Section 7.right-of-way and clearing contractshave been let, as is the case on theMilner No. 2.

Harold Byrd, another independent, has located on the Mrs. CullCessna property in Sec. 19-l9n-2w.

At the site of the Yazoo RefineryCo.'s Frank Broocks No. 1, no activity was evident today.

Leasing throughout Mississippi ison the increase, with a few morethan 30 wells either drilling orstarting, and 49 geophysical crewsat work in scattered parts of thestate.

OIL WELL TEST RESUMED

MERIDIAN, Miss., Dec. 26—Iff)—Rain put a halt to work at theCrabb-Manning oil test. R. M.Crabb. geologist, said but it wasresumed today after the crew observed the Christmas holiday.

^ ,_ Crabb made the following state-On the chance that the Yazoo ment: "I am staying over Christ-

field may, like Houma and Bull mas. foregoing an anniversaryBayou production in Louisiana, event that I have not missed forshow on bolh sides of the fault, years, because this well means sothe Slick operators are pinning much to me and this section. W*their hopes, as the location is be- have a well, but we are not puttinglieved to be on the same side of out the barrelage yet, because we

rant to test it thoroughly.'

SCORE: 5 TO 1Union Producing Co.'s Wood-

run* No. 1. Sec. 13. TlOn. R3w.600 barrels on a 3/8 inch chokeat 4540.Union Producing Co.'s PerryNo. 1. Sec. 24. TlOn. R3w.303 barrels on a 3/10 inch chokeat 4470.Jones-OBrien's Jennie StevensNo. 1. Sec. 13, TlOn. R3w.1656 barrels on a V4 inch chokeat 4497..Tones-O'Brien's Stevens No. 2.Sec. 13. TlOn. R3w. 55 barrelsan hour through 11/32 inchchoke at 4660.Union Producing Co.'s FrileyNo. 1. Sec. 14. TlOn. R3w.Abandoned as dry after goingto 5200 feet.Union Producing Co's JennieStevens No. 1. Sec. 13. TlOn.R3w. 600 barrels through14/C4 inch choke (estimated)at 4807 feet after drilling to6200 feet.

WELL LEAHN. THOUGH

In Mississippi we aiv woefully ignorant{•bout some things, and one of (hem has Jk-oiithe terms used by oil men in their everyday conversations.

A farmer overheard a telephone conversation the other day in which it was said thatin a limited area of the Tinsley field there'sa well density of 40.

"That's a helluva lot of them steel thingsto be sticking out of the ground for oneacre," sagely remarked our friend, shiftinghis cud over to the left side.


THE SUNDAY POST-HERALD, VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, JANUARY 28, 1940.

Orderly Development of State's OilIndustry Desirable

"Mississippi Is particularly fortunate in that thereseems to be an orderly development of the oil findIn the Yazoo area." said Col. T. H. Barton, president of the Lion OU Refining Co., at El Dorado.Ark., in his address before the Vleksburg Chamber of Commerce Friday night. He continued:

"The finding of commercial quantities of oil inyour state will be a great developer and it is toyour Interest to encourage the reputable oil manto explore for the great unknown quantity. Yourstate is the most recent one to enter this sphereof activity and although no one can predict to whatextent or what territory this activity will extend, Ifeel sure that I can say to you that you are justahead of an influx of geophysiclsts, geologists,scouts, land men, oil men and lease hounds. Map-making and lease printing business will boom. Yourcounty record offices will seethe with filings, forwhen oil men move in. real action starts. I hopefor you that time will reveal that Mississippi Is areal oil state."

The Lion Oil president warned against being convinced that every farm leased will produce oil,against being too hasty in passing oil laws andagainst under-balanced taxes on sales, leases androyalties. "You In Vleksburg have a 'natural'—right on the Mississippi." he advised, "for youhave an easy outlet to the sea and an easy inletto cities between here and Chicago." t I

Col. Barton said he hoped that the oil development would be on such a scale eventualy that theLion OUCompany would be Justified In establishinga refinery here.

Thus another head of a large refinery points outthe favorable position Vicksburg occupies to become the oU refinery metropolis of Mississippi ifthe Yazoo field proves to be of major capacity.

« * •

That impending legislation governing the oil industry wul perhaps play the major role.in orderlydevelopment of the state's oUresources seems obvious.

Just now the issue of "spacing rules" for oilwells is a live one. Some advocate no rules at all.But it seems obvious that this would ln the endprove disastrous to orderly development. Unlesssome such law is enacted it seems that anyone whodesired could set up a drilling rig and start operations on the smallest tract of land he could lease.

This would develop areas quickly but not orderly."Booms" would be likely to materialize and Justas quickly "fade." Some areas, would be overrunwith "transients," and when conditions levelled offto a solid basis there would be a deflation ofbusiness all along the line for the community.

Ool. Barton pointed out that El Dorado experienced an early boom. The papulation of El Doradogrew to 60,000, and then finaly dwindled to about25,000. During that time, however, business conditions in the city were uncertain. He said that a"boom" in an oU area is certainly undesirable.

Gov. Johnson gave assurance In his inauguraladdress that any actual proration law was far Inthe distance. That waa a matter that would haveto wait the production of oU on a very large

The proposal of a tax on mineral rights of bothlessor and lessee, which the governor made, raisesan important issue and one that will have to befaced. It is said that Gov. Johnson believes landshould be taxed on which mineral rights have beensold for $100 an acre.

But there is another side to this. Does payingmoney for a wUdcat lease fix the value of the landwhen the lease is nothing more than a gamble?

In commenting on this question raised by thegovernor's proposal, the Yazoo City Herald said:

"Is the intrinsic value of a given 80 acres of landincreased because money was paid for the right toexplore for oil which may or may not be beneaththat ground?

"Is the value of Mr. A's 80 acres of land increasedto $10 an acre from $2.50 because Mr. A leased hisland when the 80 acres of Mr. B. adjoining It has notbeen leased and has no increased valuation.

"What is to happen when Mr. C leases his landfor $1 an acre to Mr. B, who sells the lease the nextday for $10an acre? Who is to pay the tax bill then?

"And will Mr. A have to pay taxes on his mineral rights that he has leased and his neighbors paynothing because they have not leased? In eitherevent, who will set the value of his neighbors'leases, and what yardstick will he use?

"Finally, how is the assessor, or anyone else, tofind out how much a givax 2,000 acre tract wasleased for when It appears on the county recordsas $10 for the whole thing?

"These questions and others wUl have to be answered before a tax on potential oU lands, not already in production, can be determined.

"With such things in mind, Dave S. Shackelford,Yazoo county's assessor, asked for information fromtax authorities in Arkansas and Louisiana oil-producing areas. He was told, he said, that assessments usually are not raised on non-producing lands,but that only slight dlfflcultues are brought aboutby higher assessments on producing tracts, as noone can deny the value has been increased."

TINSLEY FIELD 41

THE YAZOO CITY HER A\A), YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY. JANTTARY 30, 1940.

O Brien's Stevens C-2 WellFlows 104 Barrels Hour On3 0-64 Choke Last Night

113 Carloads OilOut In Four Days

Crude Shipments ToTotal Of 768 Cars;Standard To Continue

Up to noon today 768 carloads ofYazoo county oil had been shippedto the Standard Oil refinery atBaton Rouge, according to Y. &M. V. officials here. This makesa total of 113 cars shipped duringthe past four days, or approximately5.085 barrels.

It was pointed out that thismeans, roughly, $635 to owners ofroyalty on Yazoo county lands.

Although Standard Oil indicatedat the first of January it wouldaccept no more oil from the Yazoofield after Feb. 1, it was reportedauthoritatively today an extensionof time has been granted to March1. with a possibility existing thatthe deadline may be forgotten whenthat time comes.

This was largely on the strengthof the probable erection of a hugerefinery at Lake Charles. La., byContinental, calculated to take aportion of the south Louisiana output now bought by Standard. IIplans for the refinery go through,it was pointed out. the refinery atBaton Rouge will need Yazoo oilto keep its operation on the safeside.

A total of 40 tank cars are expected to be shifted this afternoon tothe three sidings at Tinsley whichhandle oil. These are owned byUnion Producing Company. Jones-O'Brien and Jiassie Hunt-E. C.Johnston. Availability of thisshipping space, along with the arrival of other cars, is expected toincrease production here for thenext week.

I

Hassie Hunt BringsIn New Well, Field'sEighteenth Producer;Horizon Widening

Guaged at a 104-barrel an hourclip through a 30 64 choke lustnight, the Jennie Stevens C-l ofJones-O'Brien, brought in yesterday afternoon, sent the stock ofthe Yazoo' county oil field to anew, all-time high. Coming from.23 feet of sand topped at 4729 feet,production was at a pressure of385 pounds on both tubing andcasing.

The test on this, the 17th producer of the field, shows it to bea 2,500-bari'jl-i. day well, by farthf b-. .•: of the field. As one oilman expressed it this morning, "itwould be a good well in EastTexas." It offset the E. C. JohnstonNc. 1 Brumfield to the south andli ; in the NE',i of the NE'/4 ofSv: •!-lC-3.

Brought in for the 18th wellof the field this morning was theIda Fair No. 1 of Hassie Hunt inthe NEV4 of the SWy4 of Sec-.13-10-3. in the heart of production.Initial guage was not available,as washing operations had notbeen completed this afternoon. Thecasing was perforated between4585 and 4605 with 60 shots.

Union Producing Company'sJennie Stevens No. 4 was coringahead this afternoon at 4715 feetin an effort to penetrate the Eutaw.or Stevens, sand. Tl-is «"<t. in theSEy4 of the. SW'/4 o' .. 12-10-2w.is an east offset to ihe JennieStevens B-l of Jones-O'Brien. TheWoodruff sand was fuund between4419 to 4449 but officials have indicated they prefer Eutaw production, up to now more successful thanany other in the field.

The No. 9 Jennie Stevens ofUnion Producing Company was at2840 shortly before noon this morn-10 3'4 inch pipe here before drilling ahead. The location is in theSWy4 of SWy« of Sec. l-10-3w.MORE ofU5I2-

On the J. C. Johnston No. 3 ofHassie Hunt, the core bit was at4900 feet this afternoon. Woodrulfsand was found at 4425 and a testshowed 27 feet of pay.

Magnolia Royalties and LeasingCorporation's well on the FrankBroocks tract on Sec. 17-10-2w w.u»at 4107 feet this morning buttrouble was encountered with oneof the boilers. Black shale wasthe formation.

A new rig came into the fieljlast night and was being erected onthe No. 1 Robertson site of WhigateOil Company in the NWv4 of th"NWV* of Sec. 20-10-2w. two milessQuhteast of current production.Whigate is a Jackson corporationand owner of the derrick couldnot be determined immediately.

E. C. Johnston, whose producer,the No. 1 Brumfield. is flowing ata 450-barrel a day rate, under aclose choke because of limited storage space, is erecting a rig forthe B-l well, offsetting his producer to the west and situated inthe SW/4 of the SEy4 of Sec. 1-10-3w. Operations •will get underway immediately, Johnston indicated.

After a delay of two weekscaused by extreme weather conditions, drilling is under wav againon the Hill-Hill Dent-Kinkaidwildcat in Sec. 31-11-3. Bottom ofthe hole this afternoon was justshort of 1.000 feet. Drilling will goahead without further delay, theoperators said.

Building derricks were HassieHunt, for the No. 2 Ida Fair, inthe SEy4 of the SWy4 of Sec. 13-10-3w. and Jones-O'Brien for theNo. C-l Jennie Stevens, in the SEV4of the NEy4 of Sec. ll-10-3w.

Union Producing Company's Perry No. 3. in the NWy4 of the NEV4of Sec. 24-10-Sw. was in shale,lignite and boulders at 3508 feelthis morning.

T. B. Slick. Jr.. is to be back inYazoo couniv on Feb. 15 to deepenthe No. 1 Atki».jon well in Sec.3-1C-3, it was learned this afternoon. After leaving this well itseemed likely, according to a usually reliable source, that he woulddrill an offset on the Slick estateto the Johnston Brumfield No. B-l.for jvhich derrick is being erectedtoday. The Slick well would be inthe SEy4 of the SWy4 of Sec. 1-10-3w.

New locations made known are:»he No. 6 Woodruff by Union Producing Co.. in the SWV4 of thoNWV4 of Sec. 13-10-3w. offsetting tothe south the No. 1 Jennie Stevensof the same firm: the No. 10 Stevens, centering the NW>4 of theNWV4 of Sec. 12-10-3w; the N6. 11Stevens, center of the SWy4 of theSEVi of the same section.


THE TAZOO CITY HERALD, YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY, FEBRUARY A 1M«.

Mass Meeting IsHampered By MudAt Tinsley Sunday

Several Hundred InAttendance DespiteRain; Speeches Later,Says B. E. Grantham

Despite bad weather and worseroad conditions, several hundredpersons, residents of the Tinsley-area and others, attended the massmeeting at Tinsley Sunday. Formality was at a minimum, with everyone having a good time justtalking.

Dr. Wm. C. Morse, state geologist,discussed events leading to thebringing in of the first producingoil well in Mississippi on land owned by Green C. Woodruff, longtime resident of the community,who was unable to be present onaccount of illness. Arrangementswere handled by B. E. Grantham,secretary of the Tinsley Bettermentassociation.

Dr. Morse, presented to the meeting by K. S. Foster, secretary ofthe Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce, gave credit to Fredrtc F. Mellen, young geologist who first pointed to the Tinsley area as a potential oil-producing area. Mellen declined to speak.

Because of bad roads and weatherconditions, Hon. J. F. Barbour. Yazoo City attorney, and State Senator Henry George Warren were advised by Secretary Grantham thattheir part of the meeting was postponed to a more favorable date.Mr. Barbour was expected to express views of Governor Paul B.Johnson on oil legislation, and Senator Warren had announced hewould make a vigorous attack onproration, or any other form of restriction.

It was said today that plans fora discussion of proration, spacingand general petroleum legislationwill be set for a later date, withMr. Barbour and Senator Warrenslated to lead the discussion.

Many Calls Made ByOil Field WorkersFor Apartments

From Six to Ten NewFamilies Would MoveHere If They CouldFind Accommodations

Pointing to a number of callsmade yesterday at the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce office asindicative of a potential increase inthe number of new families forYazoo City, Vcie-President NathanOstrov remarked cryptically thismorning, "If people of Yazoo Citypropose to take advantage of the oilsituation, it is up to them.

"Several families whose headswork in the Yazoo County oil fieldare living in Jackson now. butwould move here if we could satisfy their needs for apartments,"he went on. Digging into a list onhis desk, Mr. Ostrov produced thefollowing three instances as examples of the need for apartmentshere:

J. B. Lum and his family noware living in Jackson and working for the Union ProducingCo. in the production end ofthe Yazoo oil field. They needa two-bedroom, unfurnishedapartment or house.

Cleo Milliamson is living inJackson and wants an apartment here. He, like Lum,works for Union Producing Co.He needs two bedrooms.

Howard E. Richardson. 311Millsaps avenue. Jackson, needsa two-bedroom unfurnishedapartment.

"These men." said Mr. Ostrov,"undoubtedly will be in this areafor the next four to six years.With 20 oil wells in production now.several of these belonging to theUnion Producing Co.. there is littledoubt of their services being needed."

According to records on file, atIhe Chamber of Commerce office,six to ten new families could beplc«ced now in one- and two-bed-roosn apartments, but none are tobe had. , '• .

"If is up to the property ownersof the city to see that somelSing isdone now." the welJ-kho&flYazooCily merchant poWtinued: "to determine the future of Yazoo City."

TINSLEY FIELD 43

DAILT CLARION LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1940

Union Producing Company hadcompleted two new wells yesterdayto bring to 41 the number of producers in the Tinsley Field.

The No. 14 Stevens, brought inMonday, guaged 54 barrels In 4hours on a 14-64 Inch choke, withtubbing pressure at 180 pounds andcasing pressure, 200.

This well, located ln the SE4of the SW4, Sectlonl-10n-3w. Is aneast offset of the No. 0 Stevens.

Union was washing Into production Tuesday the No. 15 Stevens,north offset of the No. 14 Stevens.Both wells showed for productionin the Woodruff sand at 4*700-4800feet where the horizon Is about200 feet low, being on the downthrow of the north edge fault.

A quarter mile west extension ofthe field is looked for at Union'sNo. 1 Ross NW4 of NW4, Section10n-3w, which is drilling at 2076 feetafter running 613 feet of 10 3-4 Inchcashing.

Hassie Hunt owns the 80-acrelease east of this test and southof Union's No. 1 and No. 2 Her-ron completions, and has announced location for his No. 1 Shannon, east half of SW quarter, Section 14.

Hunts A. G. Johnson No. 3, NW4of NE4 of Section 14-10n-3w, iscoring at 4490 for the Stevens sand.

Union has another test to getunderway this week, their No. 5Woodruff, midway between the Discovery Well and their No. 1 Perry,which ls receiving the rig from theNo. 4 Perry.

Union's No. 4 Perry, south edgetest SW 1-4. NE 1-4. Sec. 24 wasbeing swabbed in Tuesday andpower lift will be installed if thewell falls to flow.

A squeeze job is in progress atthe No. A-l Friley. where 8tevenssand ln the Eutaw was logged at4897 to 4919 feet, The test Is WOCat 4961. Union has a derrick ontheir No. 1 Cull Cessna. NW 1-4,SW 1-4, See. 14-10N-2W, an easttest.

Edgar Johnston's B-2 Brum-field. NE 1-4. SE 1-4, Sec. 2-10N-3W. is drilling at 3,000 feet andSlick-Urschell Oil Go's No. 3 Slick,a quarter mile north of the edge of

-the field ls at practically the samedepth.

nelson* QuitNelson Bros. No. 1 Stoner. wild

cat northwest of Tinsley in NW 1-4,Sec. 2-11N-5W, has been abandoned at 5013 feet. A drill stem test at4602 to 4612 feet recovered 600 feetof mud ln 6 minutes.

Union Producing Company'swells produced 4,407 barrels Monday, according to the report hereyesterday. The company recentlycut ls allowable from 300 barrelsper day to 150.

Derrick and pits are complete atUnion's Woodruff No. 5, Section 13-10n-3w; and the Woodruff B-l. RossNo. 2 and Perry No. 5 are still locations.

Union's McCorvey No. 1 (Modi-sette) in Choctaw county, Alabama,reamed to 7420, recemented surface casing, and is now waiting oncement to harden.

Ihe Partridge No. 1, SW4, SE4,Section 1, spudded and drilled to 51feet in sand and gravel, set andcemented 41.63 feet of 16 inch O.D.,using 50 sacks of cement.

At the troublesome Stevens No.1. Union ran tubing, with cementretainer set at 4792 and ls waitingon Halliburton cement machine.

A drill stem test, with tool set at4848, recovered 3610 feet of saltwater and 270 feet of oil, with 3-8choke, top and bottom, open fourhours. Pressure remained at zerofor 10 minutes but was built up to1600 at the bottom of the hole.

The Woodruff No. 6, which madefive barrels in six hours Monday,is shut down to work over, withrods and tubes being pulled Thiswas one of the first producers to beequipped with a pump.

Humphreys CountyFohs-Oil Co-Loffland Bros. No. 1

Holaday. northeast of Louise inHumphreys county, will be sentdeeper, an announcement yesterday reveals.

Schlumberger was run 8undayand officials decided to abandonthe hole. Monday afternoon the superintendent at the well was ordered to re-rlg. The rig had been completely torn down and parts sent infor repairs, and it will be twodays before the test is underwayagain, and the cement plugs aredrilled

Pickens FieldIn the Pickens field Kmgwood's

No. 1 Wilbourn ls still closed In maccount ol lack of storage. A contract, for loading racks is In formation and three new locations will beannounced soon.

Holmes CountyHawkins and Matthews Ellis No.

1. center of NE4 of SW4 of Section18-14-4e, cored sand and shale early-Tuesday morning at 4940-56, withno show of oil. The crew was pre.paring to go deeper. Contract depthis 6.000 feet.

Still a location ls Exchange OilCompany's S. D. Gwln, Section 6-16n-le. The rig ls being moved lnand the crew expects to begin making hole this week.

Clarke CountyArkansas - Mississippi Corpora

tion's School Land No. 1. 8E4 ofNW4 of Section 16-2n-16e, is drillingat 3007 in Selma chalk. This testresumed Monday after a delay dueto a breakdown.

Madison CountyRalph A Johnston's Dinkins-Ray

Reld No. 1, center of SW of SW ofSection 14-10n-3e. Is drilling at 4927in the Eutaw

Sharkey CountyPlans were made in Jackson at a

meeting of the Eureka PetroleumCompany directors to renew operations at the Cooper No. 1. 8ection15-14n-6w. which has been shutdown several weeks at 3600. JackRoell, president of the company,said operations may get underwayagain in the next few days.

Warren CountyBurden-Cummlngs Morrlssey No.

1. center of NE4 of Section 8-17-2e.was coring yesterday after drillingto 5470 in shale and streaks ofsand.

Copiah CountyJ. 8. Wheless. jr.. Columbian Mu

tual Life Insurance Company No. 1,NE4 of NE4 of Section 19-ln-3w.was shut down yesterday morningat 176 to await arrival of a fishingtool. The tool was expected to arrive yesterday and the fishing Jobwas to get underway last night.

The Humble Oil Company, whichls conducting tests of strata andformations throughout the south-est section, has opened a centraloffice in Natchez.

H. M. Morse, state oil apd gassupervisor, has issued this weekfour permits for drilling. They werefor Union Producing Company'sCessna No. 1. N WSW, Section 18-10-2. and Patrldge No. 1, SW SE,Section 1-10-3- and Hassie Hunt'sA. O. Johnson No. 3, NW NE,Section 14, and Shannon No. 1, NENW, Section 14, all in Yasoo county.


SAILT CLARION LEDGER, JACKSON, HISS. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1940

OIL AND GAS NEWSTINSLEY TO GET

60TH OIL WELL

Test Successful at Union

Producing Company's

No. 11 Stevens

The sixtieth producer for Tinsleyfield loomed yesterday when UnionProducing Company made a successful drill stem test on their No.11 Stevens in the southwest quarterof the southeast quarter in Section13, with the tool set at 4820 feet andwith 3-8 inch chokes, top and bottom.

It was opened for 16 minutes andbuilt up 13 pounds of pressure.Recovery was 2146 feet of oil. Thehole was reamed to 4850 feet andcasing cemented to 4826 feet.

Union spudded two new tests thisweek, the No. 2 Cull Cessna, southoffset of the No. 1 Cessna completion, in the SW SW of Section 18,and the No. 4 Twiner, in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 1. Both tests navecemented 32 feet of 16 inch casing.

Production of Union's latest completion, the No. 16 Stevens, in thenortheast corner of Section 12, was24 barrels an hour on a 4-hourgauge, with 10 pounds on the casing and none on the tubing. Thedally gauge yesterday was 417 barrels on a 26-64 choke.

Union is moving in a derrick atthe No. 2 Partridge, east offset of'the No. 1 completion, in the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter in Section 1. The No. 5 Twiner.No. 6 Twiner, No. 7 Stevens, andNo. 5 Perry are still locations.

Hassie Hunt has completed bisNo. 4 A. O. Johnson in the SW ofthe NE Section 14, for an estimated150 barrels daily flow. A derrickhas been fastened on Hunt's No 2Lammons, in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 1, northeast offset of Union'sNo. 2 Twiner completion and thecrew will rig up tomorrow.

Sllck-Urschel Oil Company isdrilling at 4600 feet at the No. 1Slick in the SW of the SW in Section

ISetc Hinds TestSpuds Thursday

J. P. Fraim and Harvey Robinson spudded in yesterday at theirNo. 1 Alford, SW corner, 8W SESection 18-6n-le, Hinds county, andexpected to set surface pipe today.E. R. Owen of Jackson is the drilltag contractor.

Arrangements had been completed earlier in the week to launchthe new test Thursday, and theschedule was followed ln spite ofthe drizzling rain that fell duringthe day.

The test is about four miles fromJackson, and is Just outside theproven area of the Hinds-Rankingas field. It is probably that thetest will have gas showings atabout 2500 feet, but unless thisgas is in productive volume, it islikely operators will carry the drilldeeper in search of oil.

This is the only current test Inthe county, although Mrs. 8. O.Thompson has staked location fora Catchings No. 1 in Section 22-5n-lw.

The most recent test in Hindswas Tatum, Dunbar and Shaddock-Royal Oil and Oas Company's No.1 Hinds Junior College, abandonedlast month.

New Wayne LocationWayne county got its second new

location in two days yesterdaywhen the Tri-County Oil Companyof Waynesboro staked a No. 1Jones, C NE NE Section 33-8n-7w.

This location is on a block whichis carried in the name of HughesDrilling Company of Abilene, Tex--•!.

Wednesday lt was learned herethat L.W. Dennis, jr., and OttoGraham were completing arrangements to drill in Section 2T ' '

The "sea-gulls were hovering over Ralph Johnston's derrick yesterday" — as the oil men expressed it — after his test cored saltwater in the Tuscaloosa at 6180-6205. The test, the No. 1 Ray, 0SE SW Section 6-8n-3e. was drillingahead in sandy shale at 6233.

Scott CountyExchange Oil Company is still

experiencing difficulty in dislodging 1300 feet of stuck drill pipethe No. 1 Newell Mineral .Lei

at

Company, Section 30-7n-7e, and E.L. Martin ls still rigging up at hisnew No. 1 Newell Mineral LeaseCompany, Section 5-6n-7e.

Leflore CountyExchange Oil Company's No. 1

Wildwood, Section 6-20n-le, is drilltag in shale at 3933.

Yasoo WildcatsSuccess or failure at Sells Pe

troleum Company's No.

determined ln the next few <The test yesterday was at thebase of the Midway, at 6060 andwas expected to move into theSelma at any moment.

Thompson-Rowan-Hope'6 No. 1Elliott-Edwards, Section 30-10n-3w,is drilling in Midway at 4602.

Holmes CountyExchange Oil Company's No. 1

Gwin, Section 6-16n-le. is drillingin sandy shale at 4735.

Lionel Hawkins' No. 1 Humphrey, Section 33-13n-2e, is drillingat 1600,

A. H. Rowan's No. 1 Eakin, Section 20-14n-le, ls drilling in shaleat 5909.

Pickens FieldHill and Hill's Montgomery No.

1. SW SE Section 24-12n-2e, wasdrilling in chalk yesterday after-nnon at 4371.

Exchange-Ktagwood's No. 3 Wil-burn, SW NE NE Section 31-12n-3e,is in shale and chalk at 4670. TheNo. 4 WUburn is drilling In shaleand shells at 1158. The No. 1 Wil-burn increased its oil output during its recent production period to808 barrels, with 114* barrels ofwater. The No. 2 Wilburn made752 barrels of oil.

Exchange Oil Company's No. 1Bennett, SE Section 28-12n-3e, Isstill waiting on completion of awater well.

Leon Dunn has spudded In hisNo 2 Pepper, Section 26-12n-2e, and1— set 600 fr-*) feet of 9 5-8 inch but-face casing.

TINSLEY FIELD 45

II&200 @iifi Iterate-CONSERVATIVE—DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF YAZOO AND HER PEOPLE

YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY. AUGUST 13, 1940.— ~ * Southwest of the Vanrievcre v

cat. E. M. DeLoach Wo. I w.Wilburn was announced last nas being readied for drilling «>|<tions. The two locations are s!ily more than five miles apart.

Five miles northwest of Tinproduction, in the NW'i ofNWV4 of Sec. 19-lln-3w. Joe Fson's No. 1 McGraw-Curran LutiCo., although rigged up. hasspudded yet because of bad w«

78th Producer InProspect Today ForYazoo Oil Fields

Twiner No. 5 and B-5Of Brumfield LeaseHaving Casing Set AsThe Newest Producers

Yazoo County's 78th producing ..well was in prospect today. Wilthis latest development and tin-'.purely wildcat operations .i-<-iii:,under way, the area seemed i<> Ireaching out for a larger propm-imof the South's industrial expansi.n

Two wells were cased fur induction in the Tinsley field i..dawhile another, the No. I .1 .1 Miner of Magnolia Petroleum i'..!-p..i-:tion, was lowering a core-Oil inithe hole to test the Woodruff .-..-,tion reached with a drill-Oil laithis morning. MagnoliaV |ji ..1...I.well will add a new producer I.. iiHeld, inasmuch as the Miliar i>-is the firm's initial e;i..rt ,.., nTinsley dome.

Union Producing Co.'s Twim-i- \5, although it did not make a -lining in the deep Lainmons :a.:,i5455. will be a producer from iirich Woodruff zone already |>i-i:ied by the Schlumberger lov 0- ;..4800 feet. Casing was set ••••E. C. Johnston meanwhile pr. i, nto bring in his seventh proo'.."•••, .the Brumfield lease, casin;- !••.• i:well tor production fKorn !;; 0 • i .Woodruh sand reached at I,/;:;

Hassie Hunt was* testine. Oi; IA. Lammons B-3 this all •'•:....,having removed a stuck drill - nSunday night, and was pr. pamto run casing.

However, one dark spot appear.in the otherwise bright piciaiv. wiithe announcement that Uni...>•'.•; .\1 Powell, a north-end le.-.i in i;

|SE>/4 of the SWV4 of See. W-l i:,-:;'was drilling at 5665 with no indie.tion of pay sand having been readed. The hole will be taken P.. (i<iifeet, where it will be abandonednothing appears to change p,plan.

Outside the Tinsley are.,. !'• i>.eum Explorations. Inc.. prepai--!'spud in on the No. 1 ],. K. Van.rvere, in the SWYi of ihe Slv, .Sec. 25-13n-lw, and the i••;: u.expected to start luniin- i..indfor a test of what is regard.-.' :the most favorable •trin".;•.-.•side the Tinsley and Vau;'.0..n p.-.duction areas in Yazoo c.aiuiLeases within a radius of a miare unobtainable, while only ..imajor holding within a ratlin.,two and a half miles remains uleased, that of 1040 acres b.i..ie.uto Wise Bros, of Yazoo t'ily. i:,.alty sales, although slower fo, •;past few days because ..f ni;i:iholdings, have been at raU* of $an acre and above.

er.

In the Vaughan field, the e.of producers remained at nun-a drill-stem test late last weekthe No. 6 Wilburn of Kinyv.-.

I Exchange was unsuccessfulcrew was awaiting orders i...while the No. 5 Wilburn wa4900 feet. Rowan, Hope /;• Th..son, drilling the No 1 (',. I' ra half-mile south of producti..nSec. 6-lln-3e, was at :{<;?! Idrilling.

Back in the Tinsley area. 10Producing Co. had a derrick ered for the No. 6 Twiner, whileNo. 1 Adcock unit was at 2!))> ISlick-Urschel will embark lmn..rmorning on the No. 1! Slick K.-lin the SEV4 of the SW'i of

, 35-lln-3w, an attempt at a i,..west extension.

Magnolia Petroleum Cup- >•..was drilling at below 2.000'l'eHthe J. J. Milner No. 2. in the Nof the SWV4of Sec. 6-10n-2w.

Exposition Given$500 By Oil Firm

Union Producing Co. IsLarge Donor This WeekTo Success of Oil Show

A cheek for $500.00 was received' Moiitiav of this week by the Mis

sissippi (,M Exposition from thei l.'nicn iioduciiig Co., who drilledi the G. <-. Woodruff No. 1 discoveryi well in the Tinsley oil field, striking

the nay sand la ;t August 29.

It is llii: diseov-ry that will be- celebrated in Yazoo City on August

20 am. 29 with two days of fesliv-' ities-thet will provide both interest-1 in*? cut: r'ainment and educational1 features

Ofliciali of the Mississippi Oil exposition are very grateful to the oil

' concern 'or this evidence of their

gcod wj.sreE and co-operation to-; ward the future upbuilding of this

Oil Exposition IsBoosted By Radio

I Musical Salutes GivenEvery Saturday NightOver Memphis Station

A series of musical salutes to theMississippi Oil Exposition was started Saturday night, June 10, overradio station WMC. Memphis. Theexposition, to be staged here August 28 and 29, has the radio recognition through the courtesy of theconvention bureau of the MemphisChamber of Commerce. Time ofthe weekly program is 7:00 p. m.(Yazoo City time) every Saturday.

Mack Rae, familiar as maestroof the Memphis Blues orchestraand as producer of the program,said attention of the entire Mid-South area will be called to -azooCity's celebration in the next broadcasts.

Rae's band is made up of musicians who formerly were with"name" bands, but who now aremaking their homes in Memphis,devoting their time"toward boostingtheir home town and playing danceengagements in and near Memphis.It is well known to many Missis-sippians who have attended conventions in Memphis.


DAILY OtARTOKUDQTO. JACKB0B, MIBB.. WEDNESDAY M0RKINO, AUOTTST 38, 194

Yazoo's Oil Fete OpensToday;GovernorJohnson

To Crown Royal Rulers

The plans for a comprehensivetour of the Tinsley Oil Field arecomplete for both days of the Exposition Wednesday and Thursday,it was announced today. In addition to having members of theseveral producing companies accompanying the tour to explaindetails of operations, Frederic_F.Mellon, discovered of the TinsleyDome, has also been requested tomake the trip to outline geological phrases of exploration and development. ._..,*

The tour will assemble In frontof the Yazoo Theatre where parking space has been arranged, leaving at 1:30 p. m. each day. Stopswill include the following in the order named: Slick-Urschel's facilities at Valley, Hassle Hunt's leases and wells in operation west ofTinsley, the Discovery WellJones-O'Brien loading rack andoffices, Magnolia Petroleum Co.wells, Tinsley, including Union.Producing Co's offices and facilities, Union's Powell No. 1 well,and E. C. Johnston's leases, wells,and offices. Important develop-ments may call for additional

St0PS* Buses AvailableIt has been arranged to have

school buses available for thosewho have no automobiles or whoprefer not to drive their own carswith a nominal charge to helpdefrav expense for each bus. TheSour ywUlPb7 about 35 miles tolength and require from two totwo and a half hours.

Detailedinformationmay be hadat the Exposition offices.BE. Grantham.of the Exposi

tion headquarters from W. G.Skelly,president of the Internation-al Petroleumm Institute, throughWm. B. Way, general manas**'conveying the greetings <A the In-ternatiional Petroleum Institute ofTulsa to the oil exposition, to Gov-ernor Paul JJohnson,- and to J. L.Beven. presidentof the IllinoisCentral Railroad, and N. C. McGowan,president of the Union ProducingCo.. and inviting all visitors tomake plans for attending the 1942Tulsa Oil Show.

The telegram follows:"Chariman OU Exposition-3''Please extend greetings fromthe International Petroleum Exposi-ion of Tulsa to your oil exposition,to Governor Johnson, President Beven of the Illinois Central andChairman McGowan. We invite allof you to be with us the nextTulsa oil show ln May. 1942.

W. G. Skelly. PresidentW. B. May, General Mgr.Mrs. L. E. Morris, chairman, an

nounced this morning the membersof the royalty court for the Mississippi Oil Exposition.

The King. Dr. Gilruth Darrington. will excort the Queen, MissLetitia Rainer, at the formal opening of the Exposition and on otheroccasions where the couple will becalled upon to appear as representatives of the Exposition. At othertimes Miss Rainer's escort will be

YAZOO CITY, Aug. 26—Governor Paul Johnson today will head

a list of distinguished officials andbusiness men as Yazoo City opensits two-day oil exposition.

At Jackson today, the governorsaid he would attend the fete withan escort of highway patrolmenheaded by Col. T. P. Brady, commissioner of public safety.

Sponsored by the Lions Cluband the result of months of preparation, the Exposition on the eveof its opening promises to eclipseany gathering held in the state'shistory and to excel all others lnsome respects.

Yazoo City will be host not onlyto Yazoo Countians and Mississip-pians, but to thousands of visitorsfrom other states, including Texas, Louisiana. Oklahoma, AlabamaTennessee, and others— visitorswho have the same common interest with Mississlpulans in thenewly discovered oil field.

A list of attractions which willconsume the entire time from Wednesday morning into the wee smallhours Friday mornlrg, has beencompleted in the last detail andvisitors to the Exposition, young,and old, or rich or poor, will allfind entertainment, recreation, andeducational features.

To Crown RoyaltyThe Exposition will be opened

Wednesday morning by GovernorJohnson and the King and Queen,Dr. Oilruth Darrington and MissLetitia Rainer, daughter of Dr.and Mrs. J. T. Rainer, will becrowned by the chief executive.

Following the coronation, theexhibits at the far grounds will beopened. Here more than a milliondollars in oil field equipment willbe on display, some of the samedisplays which have been shownat the Dallas and Houston shows,and one. by Edgar Johnston, whichwas exhibited at the world's fair.The fair building itself will be decorated by an expert who has hadwide experience in the Texasshows.

From this time on the Expositionwill move on through one entertainment after another with toursof Tinsley Field, lectures, parades,softball games, dancing, and thegiving away of an automobile andsuite of furniture and other prizes.

Tour of FieldThe tour of Tinsley Field is cer

tain to attract every visitor. Mississippi is proud of her new oilfield where 75 producers are nowpouring out more than $10,000 wortof oil daily and where the dailypotential has exceeded 40,000 barrels. Here will be seen toweringderricks and slow turned pumps;here will be heard the laboredexhaust from powerful rigs, theclatter of tong on drill stem. Atrip to Tinsley is worth any Mis-slpplan's time.

Charles Summer, Miss Jeanne La-cey with T. M. Dixon; Miss Catherine Olden with Calvin Stubble-field. Miss Claire Bennett, with Billy LaBarre, Miss Charlie MaeFisher with Gene Dixon; Miss MaryLeila Bradley with Edmund Montgomery; Miss Sally Williams withNick Roberts.

Train bearers will be the JuniorKing and Queen, Joe Elliott andJean McGraw.

The crowning of King and Queenwill be held on Wednesday morning at the fair grounds at 10:00o'clock. Governor Paul Johnson willofficiate. Hon. R. R. Norquist willbe master of ceemonies.

Junior Ride'sThe Junior King and Queen will

be crowned at 6:30 p. m. that evening at the fair grounds and a special state and the children will bedressed in colorful pastels. Mr.Beanland, of Oxford, is making upthe stage and background.

Maylor Love will crown the kingand queen and Breton Grantham,Jr., is master of ceremnies. Children in the court will be MarieClark and Jack Deceit, who willcarry the crowns; Billy Vandevereand Ann Stricklln, of Eden, LouiseGene Strickland and Gloria Anderson, of Benton; Lamar Peyton,of Anding; Mary Ann Griffith, Robert Coker. Judy Grantham, all ofYazoo City; and Charles Nicholsand Sue Virginia Exum, of Vaugh-

OIL SEARCHIS STARTED

BILOXT. Aug. 27—The HumboltOil Co. has established offices lnHotel Tlvoll and has started oil exploration ln Harrison. Jackson andHancock counties. George O. Morgan ls superintendent of the geophvsical cr«w which already hasstarted operations In this sectionworking at Vancleave. There are25 men in the crew and they expect to be here six months.

John B1U Jordan.The Maids of Honor and their

escorts will be as follows;Miss Patty Barbour with Billy

AllffoodMiss Julia Posey with John Chap-

mMtes Elsie Holmes with EddieRobertson.

These young ladies were runners-up in the contest for Queen.

I Miss Golda DeCell, "Miss YazooCity," will be in the court and willbe escorted by Sam Olden.

Others In the court will be MissiDicy Carr with Tom Rainer; MissSara Rainer with Billy Brldgforth:Miss Jean Morris with Bruce Brif-fith; Miss Mary Ann Holmes with

TINSLEY FIELD 47

Later Development

The pages reprinted from the area newspapers haveshown how the Tinsley Field developed rapidly. More andmore wells were brought in until in 1941 there were 322producing wells in the Field. Development of the Fieldshowed the Tinsley structure to be a high-relief faulteddome, probably overlying a deep-seated salt structure.Plate 1 shows the surface configuration of the Field andthe property owners along with a structure map with thedatum the base of the Woodruff sand, the most prolificproducer in the Field. Production was established in theField from seven Upper Cretaceous sands (Plate 2), and itis from these sands that the great majority of productionhas come. These sands are developed in the "gas rock"section, and production is controlled both by faulting andvarying sand characteristics. Plate 3 is a cross sectionshowing these sand characteristics in a portion of theField. The location of the cross section is shown on Plate

1.

Some sour gas and condensate was tested from theSmackover Formation of Jurassic age and other encouraging shows have been encountered in this deep formationgiving promise of future development. It should be notedthat no giant field such as Tinsley has ever been abandonedin this Country, and that deep production has been established in most of these fields. Discoveries in the last few

years in the area north of Tinsley Field have been promisingand certainly Tinsley needs further evaluation and exploration for deep production possibilities.

The Tinsley Field has produced 193,413,727 barrels ofoil through January 1, 1974, according to figures furnishedby the Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board. Production byyears and cumulative production is shown on Figure 4.

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A refinery was established by the Southland Oil Companyto process Tinsley crude. This refinery is located at CruppStation, Mississippi, and is still in operation. In March1974,this refinery processed 94,578 barrels of oil. Anotherrefinery was constructed by Edgar Johnson, who built aplant in Vicksburg. This refinery never operated as such,although for a time it was used as a storage facility foroil. Sohio Petroleum Company constructed a pipeline from

Tinsley Field to the Mississippi River near Mayersville.This pipeline transported crude to the river where it wasloaded on barges and shipped to refineries in Indiana andOhio. This pipeline presently connects with the Mid-Valleypipeline at Mayersville.

During World War II when oil shortages threatened,Tinsley Field answered the call and during April 1942delivered 2,600,000 barrels of oil, a daily average of 87,000barrels. Production declined in the late 60's, but in 1969

secondary recovery was initiated by Pennzoil United at theTinsley Field in the form of a water flood in the northsegment (Figure 5). Pennzoil United estimates that thesecondary flood will continue for some fourteen years.This program has been quite successful, with the rise inproduction being shown in 1970 through 1973 in Figure4. The success of this program has caused company officialsto consider tertiary and even quaternary programs for thegiant field. An ultimate production of over 250 millionbarrels is a good possibility, and as it approaches 200 million barrels, Tinsley is the largest oil field in the southeast. It seems certain as Tinsley celebrates her 35th birthday that she will most assuredly celebrate her 50th andbeyond.

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Impact on Yazoo County

Norman A. Mott, Jr.*

When the Tinsley oil field was discovered in August of1939 Mississippians, and Yazooans in particular, thoughtat last Mississippi would mushroom in development as didOklahoma and parts of Texas and Louisiana.

The Tinsley strike did produce a "boomlet" but as itturned out all the grandiose dreams and schemes nevermaterialized. Talk of Yazoo City's becoming the "oil capital" of the states also proved out to be just talk.

Today the typical Yazooan is hardly aware of the hugeTinsley oil field and Oil City which sprang into being over30 years ago has the appearance of just another ruralcrossroads community.

There are no visible signs of the streets and commercialbuildings and developments that Oil City promoters hadplotted and sold to optimistic business interests andspeculators. Tinsley has the Pennzoil offices and yard butthat's about all, aside from the numerous work-over typerigs visible from the town.

Nevertheless, the oil industry is a very significant onefor Yazoo County's economy. In spite of all the discoveriesover the past 34 years elsewhere in the state, no field hascaught up with the total production taken from the prolificTinsley Field. Latest figures from the State Oil & Gas Boardshow a total production of 193,413,727 barrels of oil and anannual production rate of 3,053,706 barrels from the several producing zones.

Today there are several oil service companies and a halfdozen producing companies employing approximately 100persons who look after their producing wells in Tinsley.The major operator is Pennzoil company which acquiredUnion Producing Company in the latter part of 1960's. TheUnion Producing Company is the exploratory division ofUnited Gas Corporation of Monroe, La., which on Monday,August 28, 1939 brought in the No. 1 Green Woodruff dis-

*Editor - Yazoo City Herald, Yazoo City, Mississippi


covery well at Tinsley. At one time Union operated 77producing wells.

In 1939 the section around Tinsley was one of the poorestof the hill sections of Yazoo. Other than the old Jackson

highway, the hills of southern Yazoo County had very fewroads and most of them were unimproved—not even to theextent of gravel. Some of the early oil company personneland speculators had to resort to horseback and mulebackto contact the settlers about their land rights.

In Yazoo City today other than the headquarters of theSouthland Oil Company, there are no signs of the billiondollar oil industry that is benefiting Yazoo County.

In 1940 the Southland Company erected a small oilrefinery at Crupp seven miles southeast of Yazoo City nearthe Illinois Central railroad company freight line cutsthrough the hills by Tinsley and on to Jackson. The plantis still operating today, producing mainly asphalt.

Besides the obvious advantage of the salary payrolls ofthe Southland Company, which still operates its asphaltfacilities at Crupp, and the few oil well service companies,Yazooans are also enjoying a sizable share of the state oiland gas severance tax collections each year.

Last year (fiscal 1972-73) the county's treasury was enriched by $119,116.12 as its pro rata share of the tax collected on Yazoo County oil production. In addition thecommon school fund of Yazoo County received $96,440.

Knowledgable observers of County government say theoil severance tax has enabled Yazoo County, despite itsrugged topography, to have a much better than averagesystem of hardsurfaced farm-to-market roads.

Less visible but of considerable importance are theroyalty payment to Yazooan landowners and the leasing ofmineral rights. Tens of thousands of acres are under leaseand most of it has been under lease continuously since theearly days of the "boom."

Seismic surveying, leasing and exploratory drilling

TINSLEY FIELD 53

have been continuous in Yazoo County.

So far deep oil production, such as from the Smackoverformation, has not been found, but the search continues

and oil money circulates in the local economy, quietly butsignificantly.

Every now and then excitement and "oil boom towndreams" are re-kindled with the announcement of a goodshowing of oil and gas in a wildcat venture. This nearlyalways sets off a flurry of leasing activity and a royalty"play" by speculators, both local and outsiders.

Certainly, the oil industry is an important part of thebasic economy of Yazoo County and will continue to be.Not many Yazooans realize the significance of the mammoth Tinsley Field which in pre-Arab oil embargo days hadan estimated, ultimate economic value well in excess of a

billion dollars. Now that oil is selling for up to $10 dollarsa barrel, the ultimate monetary value under the ground atTinsley has increased enormously.

Yazoo City experienced a great deal of excitement andthe chaos of the early days as the center of the beginningoil industry in the state. Adding greatly to the dreams ofan oil boom was the discovery in the spring of 1940 of thePickens Field in eastern Yazoo County. However, Pickenswas not another Tinsley. Nevertheless, it had at one time44 producing wells.

In nearly three and one half decades Yazoo City hasoften been in the limelight in oil field development. Seismiccrews have traversed the country side, often with as manyas three or four crews operating at once.

At latest count 187 exploratory wells have been drilledand abandoned. Several more "dry holes" are added eachyear. Besides Tinsley and Pickens other producing fields inthe county are the Bentonia Field and the Satartia Field.

Backing up to 1939-40 legend has it that at one timeUnion Producing Company entertained the idea of erecting


a seven story office building in Yazoo City.

The legend also says that indifference and subtle resistance by Yazoo business interests caused Union Producing to decide to locate its headquarters in Jackson.

Did Yazooans fumble their opportunity to become amajor Mississippi city and the state's oil center?

The following excerpts from a prize-winning paper,written by Deery Mott and published in the fourth annualedition of the Mississippi Junior Historian, April 1966,affiliated with the Mississippi Historical Society, seem togive the answer:

"But aside from a handful of oil servicing firms and theSouthland Oil Company's small refinery, there are notmany signs of those exciting great expectations that werein everyone's mind as 1939 drew to a close.

It's significant that the annual membership meeting andbanquet of the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce heldat the end of December that year 1939 had for its programa formal debate.

Two prominent local attorneys, Henry George Warrenand John Sharp Holmes, debated the question: "resolvedthat the citizens of Yazoo City have slept on their rightsand have not taken advantage of the good fortune thrustupon them through the discovery of oil on August 29, 1939."

Federal census figures show that Yazoo City in 1940 had7,258 people — a gain over 1930's total of 5,579. In 1950 thepopulation hit 9,746, in 1960 it's listed as 11,236, (and in1970, 11,688).

History seems to have proved the affirmative side of thedebate."

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Epilogue

Tinsley Field was discovered as a result of the applicationof the basic principles of geology in a project not specifically directed to oil and gas exploration. The follow-updevelopment of the field utilized much of today's sophisticated petroleum technology. Most of the giant fields in thisCountry may have been found, and the set of circumstanceswhich led to the Tinsley discovery may not present themselves again. While the possibility may be small, that iswhat makes the oil industry exciting; the one faint hopethat even now another young geologist may be approaching that anomalous outcrop whose discovery may lead toanother Tinsley.

Acknowledgments

The Mississippi Geological Survey expresses its appreciation to Pennzoil United for their assistance in assemblingmaterial for this publication and, in particular, the helpof Murphy F. Shelton, Production Geologist in the Shreveport office of Pennzoil United. The Survey is also appreciative of the help of the Mississippi State Oil and Gas Boardin preparing production data. We would like to thankMr. Frederic F. Mellen for the use of material from his

files. We would also like to express appreciation to themany geologists, engineers, drillers, land owners, andnewspaper reporters for their part in the Tinsley story. Wewould especially like to recognize Mr. Norman A. Mott,Editor of the Yazoo City Herald, for his contribution tothis bulletin. Our thanks also go to the Works ProgressAdministration, the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce,and the Board of Supervisors for their help in the initiationof the mineral survey in Yazoo County.

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