Arizona republican., 1901-04-04
ARIZONA STANDARD OIL
New Company to Prospect For Petro'
 leum Near Phoenix.

Quietly and without telling the world about il the Arizona Standard oil com pany has incorporated itself right here in Phoenix. with O, P. Morton, presi- dent and r. x. Morton, secretary. The company has not been organized for the purpose of handling the well known Standard oil of commerce but for the purpose of boring for, and 1t Is believed finding, big oil deposit between Phoe- nix and Tempe.
 It will be remembered some months ago there was considerable excite ment over the oil indications in that To- cality and some liutle prospect work was done, hut no one had enough conf dence or enough money to bore down into any oil stratum that might exist
 The story of this enterprise is that Mir. J. D. Marlar who is a venturesome sort If an individual and who believes that one can never accomplish anything without trying, having got his Lime Creek mine into successful operation, decided to investigate the oil prospects d little bit. He had read a great deal about the Yuma fields and the upper Cila fields and the Jerome excitement. \ Nt Stll LN. V. Nllittls VI ifchNl 7- field. who is an expert in the oil busi- ness Mir Shiell at NIr. Marlar's re- quest went to Yuma, where he looked around for three or four days, but did not see anything that looked encourage ing 10 him. Then he went to Saford and vicinity and looked over tha sup posed oil district. There was nothing there that he could view with any great enthusiasm. go he came on to Pho nix. Mir. Marian proposed to him to so up to Jerome and look over the alleged indications there MT Shiell replied that on the way in he g1t off the train at Tempe, and looking over toward the hole in the rock mentally noted that that country seemed to possess a con- formation that was more suggestive of oil. to him. than anything he had seen in the territory. He rode into town on the platform. and the more he saw of that section the more he liked 1t. He said he would rather look over that than to go to Jerome.
 MT Marian then told him that that country had had its oil excitement and been discarded, or at any rate no one had found the oil, hut at MT Shiell 8 request they drove out the next day and looked it over. The result was that Mir. Shiell fourd everything needed in an oil prospect, as he said yesterday: "I found everything but the oil, and believe We can find that There was lots of gypsum, lots of shale. and as fine looking oil sand as tae most en- thusiastinc oil prospector could want.
 They returned to town and the next few days were devoted u the formation of the company and the preparations for sinking. The company has located 1,6S0 acres of hand, the boring machin- cry Is here and the estimate of lumber Tor the derrick was made last night it will take the contractors probably four or five days to construct the der rick, but the company expects within a week t) be sinking a hole from which crude petroleum will gush at no dis tant day.
 Mir. Marian sa last evening that while they could not see any farther in- to the earth than other people they are satisfied with the indications, have made up a little purse and propose to spend it or find oil.