Bisbee daily review., 1903-10-25
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COMPANY ORANiZED TO Ex-
 PLORE THE OIL FIELDS.

Edward M Sturges. of the firm of Sturges & Townsend. Mines and h. vestments. is in the city from Fl Paso. Mir Sturges' business in the city at tLis time is for the purpose of arrang- ing for the organization of an hxpio- ration and Development company which will explore a certain tract Of land at some point not far from the, E. P & S. W. R. R., between Douglas and Fl Paso. which has been pro- nounced by oil experts to have all the indications of an oil field that are found n California.
 The Review made mention of this project several days ago. and since the last visit of Mir. Sturges to this city that gentleman has lost no time ;,l starting the preliminary work. The company will be composed of not less than twenty men each of whom agree to subscribe the sum of $500 if neces- sary. to thoroughly explore the ground which they will secure by location.
 This tract of land came under the notice of Mir. Sturges several weeks ago. and since that time he has beer 7uietly at work securing the repor. If some of the most eminent oil ex- Derts in the West, and on their opin- ion has concluded that the ground will justify the exploration work
 Prof. E. NJ. Skeets. the well known oil expert. late of the California oil fields. says in his report regarding tbis property: ...-
 Tn favor of this district found in three different places. gas under heavy pressure which burned with strong flame when ignited. The anticlinal uasin, containing the oil strata. repre- senting an old sea bed, is surround e5 by eruptives containing the accu- mutation of centuries Of oil produc- ing elements The same conditions exist as found in the California fields. the anticlines consist of fresh water and marine deposits of sand. gravel and clay or silt. containing the re- mains of plant and animal life and fish: the sands have been matted and the clay and salt compressed into shelves containing bitumen-the low CT oil zones belonging to the tertiary epoch
 With my experience of the Califor- ria oil fields I have been over some hundreds of miles Of land along this oil belt which is parallel 10 the main range, and found only the most favor able indications: in fact, in some re- spects more superior to the California fields. in that considerable amounts of narafne was found. which produces a superior quality of oil for illuminat- ing purposes. The property is locat- ed within ten miles of a R. R. now: in oneration, the maximum cost of install lation, surveying and acquiring the nrope-ty which is situated on govern ment land. open for location, of pros ecuting all necessary drilling to thor oughly prove the value of the land would not exceed s10.O00, from careful 1 estimates. and probably but one-half os that amount would be amply sufti- cient.''
 ME Sturges stated last evening that he had already secured seven s'gners in Bisbee who were willing fo share in the enterprise, and that an oil boring machine wound be shipped
 immediately from Los Angeles, and
 would be on the ground and at vol Ii within the next three weeks. 2 ] Mir. S.urges is well known in Bis lee. and. in fact. throughout the entire Southwest, as the original own
 CT of the Lucky Tiger mine. and IS
 still interested in that company. His
 integrity is unquestioned. and he iS very sanguine, in the face of the faN
 crable reports received, that an oi
 field. equailing anything in the To;
 Angeles district, will be uncovered II
 c'nse proximity 10 the E. P. & $. W
 RR. The effect of such discover or. the prosperity of this district i: easily figured. Disbee is enjoying 1t mining rom, it's real estate boom and now it is to be oil.