Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1907-05-17
OIL EXCITEMENT
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Entire State Stirred up Over Finding
Of OH Near LOvelOck.
Company Of Washoe and Churchill
County Capitalists Organized to
Start Boring and Others Rush
Ing to Scene Of Discovery.

central point from which you go to
get all manner of minerals. If you
want gold and silver mines, come to
Lovelock, If you want copper, nickel,
cobalt, anthony, sulphur, mineral
paint, borax, sheelite, nitre-in fact
anything in the mineral line-come
to Lovelock.
And now Lovelock is the center of
an Oil Excitement. For some months
past ]. W. Frank. a former Kern
county driller and oil expert, has
been testing ground about twenty
miles east of Lovelock, in the vicin-
iry OF Antelope Springs. So quietly
has he done his work on the ground
and come and gone through town.
that few knew of the great import of
his findings. By the means, chiefly
of magnetic needle or instrument
Mr.. Frank and a Mr.. Smitten have
located 1880 acres of this oil land.
The land il controlled BY the Ne.
vada Oil and Gas Company with a
capitalization of $l,5O0,OOO and with
the following stock holders: D. ].
Kennedy, R. L. Douglass, |. H. Kent,
Harvey L. Burchell, j. M. Smitten,
W. L. Cox. ]. B. Menardi and j. W.
Frank. All these men are represent
ative business men and they have so
much faith in the new oil fields that
they have already subscribed enough
to puschase Standard we'll boring
machine and will Immediately begin
drilling for oil. Mr.. Frank, the oil
expert, has inspected the field and
has given very favorable report of
the property and is confident in the
success of the new company that he
has asked that he he paid in stock of
the company and not with cash.
| Following is one of Mr.. Franks
letters to the men who have formed
the company for the purpose of work.
ing these fields:
Lovelock, New, Feb, 10, 1907.
Mr.. D. !. Kennedy and Associates.
Fallon, Nevada.
! My dear sirs:
Mr.. Smitten and | returned from
the oil lands, after having located
1880 acres of oil land for the COM
pany. There is no question 10 my
mind about oil being there and also
in large quantities, with a strong gas
pressure also good quality.
We located the following groups
and the width of the channel given
where each monument or stake was
placed:
Oil City group, width of channel,
600 feet; Mammoth group, channel
795 feet: Confidence group, channel
1850 feet; Realization group, channel
lilo feet; Contentment group, 1895;
Wonderful group, channel 800 feet;
Monster group, channel l4l0 feet;
Morning Glory group, channel, 1886
feet.
Having completed my agreement
with you it is now up to you to get
to drilling. The sooner you get at it
the sooner you will all realize the
great income that awaits you.
Wishing you the very best of sue
cess which you are certain to have,
| RENAME. Yours, most sincerely.
Signed: j. W. FRANK.
So confident is D. S. Kennedy OF
the opinion of ]. W. Frank. the oil
expert, that he has given up invest
ing in oil fields near 'Barstow, Calf
ornia, and has invested in the Nevada
company instead.
Mr.. Kennedy is a large oil owner
in Kern county, California, and the
fact that he has invested in the Ne.
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