There She Blows Traditional Cache
The Fatman and Robin: Sad to see this one go but we feel safety has become an issue. This site is now posted. No admittance please,
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A ammo can loaded more so for the young cacher. A few jewels may also be found and our SWEAT RAG AWARD for theFTF went to WhoDatGang
THERE SHE BLOWS
Fred "Sag" Stovall had been prospecting for oil around this area for years with nothing but bad luck. He had his share of stuck tools, twist offs and just about every misfortune known in the drilling business of the day. In early 1924 his luck got even worse one mile northwest of this cache site. He was drilling Louisiana Central #1 when he hit a shallow gas pocket at 1445ft. The resulting blowout opened a creater 125ft. deep and half acre wide, more than enough to swallow his entire rig. This creater was used as a city dump until the early 60's with gas still bubbling around the casing.
Only a few yards northeast of this cache site on March 25 1925 the discovery, Urania Lumber Co. #6 blew out through the tubing at 1511ft. This flowed 2000 barrels of high gravity oil in two hours before sanding up. Obviously oil was in good supply and of excellent quality, but there was never any production from this well.
Another wildcat driller , George Zeign drilled an offset well ajoining the discovery well. This well was just as promising as Urania #6 but because of a dispute between the producre and landowner, no production was ever made.
A short time later and a half mile south of this cache site, wildcatter John Bill Robichaux completed the Urania #1. This was the first well from which oil was marketed. This also indicated future drilling should be more to the south towards the quite little town of Tullos. This strike was followed by National Gas and Oil's gusher of "clean , sweet ,pipeline crude" flowing 2500 barrels a day from 1548 ft. Few if any remember how the Goodwin and Daniels #1 came in flowing 3500 barrels. This high flow soon over ran the holding pits and begain running into Castor Creek. Men were hired to work night and day with shovels to damn up the creek and hold the oil.
This flurry of drilling soon transformed this quite little community of religious people who had built Pine Hill Church and New Union Church into a virtual over night boom town. Tales of this rich new field quickly spread and exploration became furious. The prospect of making a"quick buck" by fair means or foul, attracted not only the experienced oilfield hand but the slick operators, hijackers, bootleggers, gamblers, dancehall girls, and all the other nasties that follow boom towns. Money was made but more money was lost. At one time Tullos hosted 13 bars, 2 barber shops, doctor's office \, a drug store, machine shop, grocery and dry goods store, a skating rink, movie theater, and even a 5 & Dime Store. Some of you older ones may remember the 5 & 10's. This one was Hobson's 5 & !0 and one of my favorites in younger years.
Later on a friend once told me more beer flowed through Tullos than oil. He seemed to know things like that as he was in business in both. Anyway, all that is gone now and only a few old relicks remain.
The derrick you see at this cache site is the modern version of the wooden derricks used in the beginning. If you will look NNW across the road you can see the tops of three more. One could safely say there were hundreds in this small area referred to as the Tullos Bubble. Only a few remain.
Entry is to these corridance ONLY and CITO please. Remember, this is Louisiana, so if it crawls, walks, flies, posions, stings or stinks, it's here.
Stop by The Culture Center in Olla for more history and pictures of our area.
This Cache Site was made possible by a person ,born and raised on Castor Creek
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