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Permalink Reply by reallyoldguy on November 18, 2010 at 3:25

Jon Willaimson: How odd. Have you been drinking?

Permalink Reply by Jan Childress on November 18, 2010 at 5:14

Can there be two Y'Barbo A-60 surveys? We are in J.I. Y'Barbo A-60 (south of Hwy 21) with Sonerra's Lone Wolf #1 (west of Carrizo Creek) and the area on your map for Y'Barbo A-60 isn't looking familiar. Maybe I've just got my brain turned around wrong.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 18, 2010 at 6:11

Jan, A-60 is probably the second largest survey in the county. When you try to map it on the RRC GIS map, it zooms out to show the entire east side of the county, it's so large. You just may not be familiar with that area of the survey but there is only one Y'Barbo, A-60.

Permalink Reply by btj on November 18, 2010 at 7:55

Jffree, I am in the unit for Samson's newest wells the Michelle 1 & 2. It appears they will be drilled from the same location as the Revelution which is in a different unit. Would you by chance know if that pad is built yet?

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 18, 2010 at 8:10

That is what it looks like to me, too. The Revolution well has a rig on it now so there is a pad built. They may still need to enlarge it, possibly, but I would suspect that it is ready.

Permalink Reply by btj on November 18, 2010 at 9:52

Thanks Jffree

Permalink Reply by Jan Childress on November 18, 2010 at 8:30

Still confused but thanks for trying. "Our" J.I. Y'Barbo, A-60 is surrounded by J.A. Veach A-575 to the north, Day A-181 to the west and De la Garza A-875 to the south. (My ggrandfather bought small parts of the Yarbo/Veatch/Flores surveys in 1880.) I thought our Y'Barbo A-60 was a small survey of a few hundred acres but it sounds like you're saying it's much larger. It's still a mystery to me.

Setting my confusion aside, I guess my real question was whether or not the 4 M Tall Pines Gas Unit #1 H, EOG Resources; Carthage Field (Haynesville Shale), Nacogdoches Co. Co., Survey: J.I. Y'Barbo, A-60...was on our land? Based on this description "...2.9 miles northeast of Chireno..." It looks like it's not, even though my land survey says A-60. I'll figure this out sooner or later.

Thank you for your help...and patience. :)

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 18, 2010 at 8:59

OK, I see what you are talking about. When you search for Y'Barbo there are two returns for J.I. Y'Barbo, A-60 but when you choose either one it takes you to that wide shot of the big survey. The only thing I would figure is that at some point in history... your part of A-60 was inside the boundaries of the original grant, which was huge. Over the years, small pieces have been divided out of that original grant to form other surveys. It looks like your A-60 is just stranded from the rest of the original grant. Next time I go to the Appraisal Dist. Office, I will try to remember to find out what is up with that.

You are not anywhere near the 4M Tall Pines well unit. You are near several Sonerra wells, though, so there is certainly hope for an EOG Haynesville well in the future. You are just west of where FM 226 joins Hwy 21 and there have been numerous wells drilled this year just south, around Woden.

Permalink Reply by Jan Childress on November 18, 2010 at 10:44

Well at least I'm not going nuts. :) Sonerra's LoneWolf is on our survey. Sonerra has assigned all their leases to EOG and I was wondering if a deeper would every be done in tandem with LoneWolf. A real newbie question I'm sure.

About the Y'Barbo survey...at first I thought maybe it was because it's in a different quad...I'm in Woden. Then, like you, I thought maybe it was just stranded acreage but looking at the 1880 map from The Portal to Texas History it's exactly as it is today surrounded by others. The map description is:
"J.Y. Yborbo
July 3 1800
P. 37 P. 5"

I'll be interested in hearing what you find out from the assessor.

Thanks again...

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 18, 2010 at 11:15

I'll make myself a note but in case I forget anyhow, give me nudge later. I may not have to go back over there real soon.

I may give them a call tomorrow and see what I can find out.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 18, 2010 at 12:04

My curiosity was killing me so I looked in Tx. GLO archives and on their GIS map. The original grant was in spanish and there wasn't a translation available but the original acreage was 15,499.4 acres.

On the GIS map, your A-60 survey, patent # (347) and volume (37) is the same as what is shown on the large survey north of Chireno.

The Spanish Land Grant was dated 1840 so by 1880 the smaller survey could very easily have been cut off from the main acreage and stranded by the other small surveys being carved out of the original acreage. A lot can happen in 40 years.

Permalink Reply by Jan Childress on November 18, 2010 at 18:00

Your curiosity is as bad as mine. Thanks for researching it further.

You're right about there being hope for an EOG Haynesville well. I read about EOG's plan for the Edgar Unit (Carthage Field) to be drilled in the Hall, BM Survey A-263 which is about 4 miles east of us. I had to smile when I read the name. BM Hall was my gggrandfather...a good omen for sure. :)

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