Editing Glenpool, Oklahoma (section)

==Glenn Pool Oil Field==
{{Main|Glenn Pool Oil Reserve}}
[[File:Monument in 'Black Gold' Park, Glenpool OK.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|left|Monument in "Black Gold" Park in Glenpool, Oklahoma.]]{{quote box|width=25%|quoted=yes|Edith Durant, who is 18 on July 3, 1917, owns one of the richest oil and gas producers in the famous Glenn Pool in Tulsa county, where the first oil was struck in this country. Lee Hays and Monday Durant, joint guardians, will hand over next July to her a lease for the...company, giving her one-eighth of the production, $100,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes and mortgages and the title to a number of farms in Muskogee county, amounting in all to more than a million dollars.|source=''Muskogee Times-Democrat''<ref>{{cite news|work=Muskogee Times-Democrat|date=May 31, 1917}}</ref><br />Saturday, May 31, 1917}}
Galbreath and Chesley had used their own money to pay for an oil drilling rig, with operator, and a lease on Ida Glenn's land. By November 22, 1905, they had drilled through the Red Fork Sand, the deepest known producing sand in the area without striking oil. There was a small stream of natural gas at a depth of 
{{convert|1450|ft|m}}, so they decided to drill deeper. A few feet further down, the rig encountered a formation known as the Bartlesville Sand, where Chesley noticed the first trace of oil on the drill bit. The well began making a gurgling sound and soon emitted a gusher clear over the derrick. The well soon produced over 75 barrels a day of light, sweet crude oil. Galbreath and Chesley named the well Ida Glenn Number 1.<ref name="GPOF">[http://www.glennpooloilfield.org/history/ Glenn Pool Oil Field Educational Center. "History of the Oil Boom: The Ida E. Glenn Discovery."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926080045/http://www.glennpooloilfield.org/history/ |date=September 26, 2019 }} Retrieved May 6, 2014.</ref> In 1906, Galbreath drilled another well about {{convert|300|ft|m}} from Ida Glenn Number 1. This well was also a producer.<ref name="Davenport">[http://www.tulsaokhistory.com/cities/glenpool.html Davenport, Linda Haas. "History of Glennpool, Oklahoma."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904155428/http://www.tulsaokhistory.com/cities/glenpool.html |date=2017-09-04 }} Retrieved May 6, 2014.</ref>

Other people rushed to the area to begin drilling, and soon defined the extent of the field. Prices for leases and for drilling services rose sharply. Fewer than two percent of the wildcat wells failed to produce oil. Some of the Creek landowners began earning as much as a million dollars a year from royalties on the production from their 160-acre plots. According to one source,"... More money was made on the Oklahoma oil boom than the [[California gold rush]] and Colorado silver rush combined."<ref name="GPOF"/>

After only one year, the Glenn Pool field had 127 completed wells. Of these, 107 produced oil, 12 found only gas and 11 were dry holes. In addition, 24 more wells were in progress and 33 sites were being readied for drilling. By 1907, the field was increasingly controlled by three companies: [[Texaco]], [[Gulf Oil|Gulf Oil Company]] and Prairie Oil and Gas. Galbreath and Chesley were ready to move on. They sold their Glenn Pool holdings to Edgar Crosbie for $US 500,000 and $US 200,000, respectively.<ref name = "Davenport"/>

The Ida Glenn well was plugged and abandoned in 1964. The Glen Pool field still produces a relatively small flow of oil in the 21st century, using waterflood techniques. Over its life span, the field has produced more than 340 million barrels of oil.<ref name="GPOF"/>