The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-05

HOWEVER,, dIIeT uuulcIous UfSdh doWAS
and constant delays caused by lack
of coal and the enormous expense of
transporting it 20 miles from the rail-
road, the little company found itself
very near the end of its our and
all signs of oil Of gusher nature or
any other had disappeared at a depth
of more than 600 feet. At this juno
ture one of the stock holders pulled
out and left leaving DIR. Brice and his
companions in pretty bad shape. and
or more.
1t was at his point in tAe com
pany's affairs that DIR. C. F.. z. Carac-
risti appeared upon the field and gave
the company a report which caused
the officials to reverse the methods of
operations. The casing was pulled up
and at the 10 foot depth the oil was
again found and pumps put to work,
with the results as stated above.
A new company has been organized
with sufficient capital to put down a
half score of shallow wells drill
locality putting them down. In the
meantime the three wells already Dor
ed are being pumped, with no percep-
tible decrease in the yield Il date.
c. w. Maxson, an old California,
oil man of many years experience,
-v[o ha- ha4- H-u1 ~ on1
invested heavily; Prof. Leopold Bal
bash. who is regarded as high authori
ty, and Captain Richards, formerly
United States Marshal for Alaska, are
among the oil men who have had so
strong faith in the trans-Pecos field
that they nave made this their resi-
de1ce and headquarters for operation
for more than two years past, and
they have expressed themselves to
your correspondent repeatedly as per
fectly confident of the final successful
development of the field on a large
scale by private exploitation, but at
no time have they given any coloring
to the situation thai would justify
stock jobbery. These gentlemen, es-
.pecially Mr.. Maxson, have bee per
sistently at work, N nave succeeded
in interesting some substantial oil
men who are actually in the business
on a large Independent SCALE
One of these gentlemen has devel-
oped to be Capt. T. B. H. Haase, the
well known West Virginia coal and
oil operator. He has secured about
00 acres of the choicest lands and
development on a large scale will be
gin at a very early date: in fact, may
be said to have already begun.
So remote is this portion of the I'm
tied States from the west, and so
little is known about New Mexico's
that it is difficult for Am
orleans elsewhere. especially in the
east. to realize that out here develop
are going on hat will some day
astolish the world.
Quietly, without ostentation and
wagon display, DR.. c. F. Il. Car
acristi has made a full and complete
research into h sulphur deposits of
the trans-Pecos region, and has found
immense. So immense and i'm
portant, in fact, a they been dis
covered to be, that a small aid select
but verp potential clientele of east
ern men have bought outright some
%, 900 acres of these lands, and active
preparations are now under way to de
velop them fully. DIR. Caracristi has
made an elaborate report on the sui
phur deposits of the trans-Pecos coun-
try which has been published in a
very limited edition for the benefit of
clients.
This report is exhaustive and volu-
minous, containing maps and draw
i1gs made by the expert showing the
sulphur deposits. Many of the richest
deposits which the reports shows
would average a net profit of many
thousands of dollars. are remote from
a railroad but this has not deferred
the investigators who have undertak-
en- the development, as it is contem-
plated in their plans to build a pri-
vate railroad from the fields to the
nearest trunk line at a cost thai will
not be far under $500 900. This pos
may be obviated, however. by
the construction of the proposed roa
Ell Paso. Texas, to Kansas City,
and which, if built, would run thru
almost the center of the sulphur de-
Following is the analysis of the Toy
oil:
Specific gravity: 20 degrees c eos
degrees FL, 5000, equivalent to "a
degrees Beaume.
Barometer: 29.2 inches.
Color: Dark brown. Odor. sweet
viscosity; Engler test. &c degrees
at 25 degrees ca degrees F.
Cooling test: Oil flows at minus
10 degrees C.-3 degrees F.
Flash point: "a degrees C.-165.2
degrees F.
Burning point: ITO degrees C.-23o
degrees F.