Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1935 — Page 10

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‘DOODLE-BUGS' FAIL TO CLICK IN CAS SEARCH Trick Inventions Are Still Yet Looked Upon by Firms as Reliable. Th Tm* *nt t'ln'ml l.tnni. F<llr. • th • rr lh I>i PnfcanitU i rld. Inrnilm nil >- UrmatUn f.tn.H . a re.ott f b* trip am tM in a *f al* arU<l* ®f ahlrk thi t* tha BY VINCENT LYONS Tiaaaa Financial Fditnr Do you know what a ‘doodlebug l*? It is the oil and gas trade's name for the man who thinks he has devised an instrument which will locate these two under surface substances. To date there have been many “doodle-bugs" and all have ended up the same wav. carrying a wav with them the money and fantastic ideas of their backers. The geologist with his minute studies still holds the respect of the big companies and it is he whose reports bear weight. Dove-tailing somewhat with the geologist are the sample-grabbers." They are the persons who. when a well is drilled, collect the various fossils lining the under-surface and send them to laboratories for examination. Placed under the microscope, these fossils are studied and compared with fossils from other gas and oil fields. Fossils of Various Sires These fossils, incidentally, are of various sizes and dimensions. The largest, one found thus far is what is known as the Exoygera Texana Roema. a circular piece about five feet in diameter. Gas wells and oil wells are quite different. You can make an oil strike and transport the oil to market bv tank cars or storage tanks. But with gas you just have to wait until some pipe-line company feels benevolent enough to come in and buy the product from you. The little fellow wants action for his money, but he doesn't get i? so readily with gas. The first thing one does when he wants to drill for gas is to get title to the land on which he intends to operate The most common method, amounting almost to a standard, is for the potential driller to negotiate a lease with the property owmer. He pays to the owner of the land a yearly rental for each acre at the time the lease is signed. In addition the contract provides that seven-eighths of the revenue received from the well will go to the driller and the remaining oneeighth to the owner of the land. In addition bonuses are paid in many instances at the time the lease is arranged. large Firms Take Blocks It does not necessarily follow that drilling will commence immediately after the consummation of the lease. Large companies which seek to build up their gas acreage take up blocks of iand years before the territory is tapped. Thus, they gain a certain measure of security. The owner of the land, however, is compensated for this by the receipt of about $1 an acre a year so long as the area is not tapped. Let’s assume that the latter does not occur, but that a lease has been arranged and the company is about to drill. The actual work of drilling is either done by the company itself, or by a drilling contractor, who is paid a certain sum per foot drilled. A crew of workers clear the land. A steel or wooden rig which is the framework of the entire operation, is constructed. Meanwhile, the workers are improvising a little house that will shield them from the wind and the flying mud once actual drilling begins. This job completed, the “rigging up" begins. All of the drilling equipment, comprising engines, tools and various supplies are moved into the rig itself assembled and pu; to work Now they are ready to drill. crews working in eight-hour ts will be in attendance until tnc well is brought in. Work for 80 Days Standing aside we notice that the rig itself rises about 112 feet in the air. a height which permits the various drilling instruments to gain momentum and be driven into the ground. A string of drilling tools consists of a bit, stem, jars and rope socket. This incessant pulling, driving and straining goes on for days; sometimes for as long as 60 days. Perhaps the instruments have driven down 2400 feet before the porous rock, or pay sand, which contains the gas. is struck. Atop and below the cas formation is a hard rock substance which encases the gas. Sometimes a charge is sent down in the well and this hard formation is broken to permit the gas to flowmore freely. This is known as shooting the well. After the well has been shot, it is cleared. Then tubing is lowered until it reaches the bottom of the well. Gate valves are installed on the top of the tubing. The gates are then closed and the well is shut-in. after which the rig Is customarily removed. Now the well may be tapped by a pipe line company and the gas transported a thousand miles away. TECH SENIORS WILL GIVE PLAY APRIL 26 Pupil Committees Named to Aid In Production. Pupil committees were appointed today At Technical High School to aid in the production of the A-K division senior class play. “The Royal Pamilv." Friday. April 26. at the Tech auditorium. Committee heads are Dorothy Garritson, make up; Mary L. Carter, costume: Joyce Gorton, properties, and John Crawford, financial. Gilbert McCallie will be stage manager. D. A. R. Congress Convenes Mrs. Frank R Baker, regent of Irvington chapter. Daughters of American Revolution, will leave tomorrow for Washington to attend the continental congress. The chapter met yesterday at the home of Mr*. Charles Smith. Mrs. James W. Denny gave a paper on National Defense."

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(Copyright, Bachracln. Another name will pass fnm the list of eligible American heiresses when Katrina McCormick. Bbove, and Courtland D. Barnes Jr., socially prominent New York broker, are wed in June Miss McCormick is the daughter of the late U. S. Senator Meriill McCormick, and of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, former Illinois congresswoman. The wedding will take place in Washington. ‘PRANK’ EARNS YEAR ON FARM 18-Year-Old Youth’s Plea for Mercy Ignored by Judge Baker. For what L. L. Dickerson. Indianapolis Public Librarian, called a "kids prank." Joseph Zupan, 18, of 749 N. Haugh-st, today w r as sentenced by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker to one year s imprisonment on the Indiana State Farm. The boy was caught with two others in the Haughville branch of the Public Library in an alleged attempt to rob it, but they had taken nothing. When arrested young Zupan had a severe injury on his leg and he was sent by Judge Baker to City Hospital where ‘hp had been for the last three months undergoing treatment that probably saved his leg from amputation. Young Zupan pleaded his case with the judge, asking to be sent back to the hospital "for them to find out what's wrong with me." “Judge," he said. “There's something wrong with me. I keep trying to take poison.” “Who keeps you from it?" the judge asked. "The attendants.” ‘They should have let you have it." retorted the judge. “I wish there was some place I could .send you and other sub-normal persons. But if I'd let you go you'd either be dead or in trouble within 90 days. I'll send you to the farm for a year to teach you what prison is."

TOASTMASTERS’ CLUB NAMES NEW OFFICERS Walter J. Mercer F.lccted President of “Y” Organization. Walter J. Mercer, vice president of the Indianapolis Meat and Grocers’ Association, has been elected president of the Indianapolis chapter. Toastmasters International, it was announced today. Other new officers are W. H. Kortepeter, vice president; Lisle Tinsman. secretary; Frank Yarbrough. treasurer, and Ray Lindsay, sergeant-at-arms. The chapter is sponsored by the Central Y. M. C. A. 300 PUPILS TO ATTEND JOURNALISM FIELD DAY City Newspaper Workers to Speak at Sessions Tomorrow. More than 300 high school pupils will be guests tomorrow at the second annual journalism field day at Butler University. They will hear speeches from a group of practicing newspaper workers recruited from all Indianapolis newspapers and from the wire services. Sessions will begin at 9 and continue until 4. with a sight-seeing trip through the plant of the Indianapolis Star. MONON ASKS RIGHT TO DROP 2 STATE LINES Short Routes Are Unprofitable, I. C. C. Advised. Hi/ f n itcii Frrnt Washington. April 12 —The Motion Railroad today applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to abandon two branch lines in Indiana totaling 70 miles. One. tween Avoca and Bloomfield. is 34 miles, and the other between McCoysburg and Dinwiddie. is 36 miles. The road said neither line was profitable. MASSACHUSETTS MAY PASS HEART-BALM ACT Bill Pdi| Modeled After Indiana's, Reports Stewart. Indiana's heart-balm law may be a pattern for the act under consideration by the Massachusetts state legislature, it was reported today by Herbert W. Stewart. Indianapolis attorney, upon his return from a visit to Boston. Mr Stewart, during his visit, talked with Mrs Katherine A. Foley, only woman legislator of Massachusetts. who is sponsoring the bill. Mrs. Barth Renamed Mrs. Lulu Barth was re-elected president of the Woman’s Athletic Club last night at a meeting r.t the Hoosier Athletic Club. Others reelected were Miss Margaret Wacker. treasurer; Mrs. A. J. Corey, corresponding secretary, and Miss Mary Wilcox, recording secretary. Miss Merxie George was named vice president,’

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