Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-29
YAVAPAI CoUhTY.

PRESCOTT, March 2S.-The oil excitement in the vicinity of the 1aY- apai Oil and Development company's well. near Valley station, continues with uuabated energy. Yesterday large number Of locators of land. from this city, Jerome, Phoenix and intermediate stations along the 5. F., P. 6 P. railroad, swarmed over the country adjacent to the holdings of the oil company, selecting locations and stalking claims Section after section was appropriated in all direc- tions and mountain and mesa in that vicinity is now staked out, for miles around. under the placer laws of the United States and Arizona.
 4 large number of those who went out from here yesterday were repre- sentatives of syndicates of eight per persons, hastily organized for the purpose, when the Tumor Of the oil strike appeared in yesterdays Jour nal Miner, so that the number of prospective "Coaloil Johnnies" in this county now is as large as the number of stockholders in some of the Standard Oil organizations.
 Even the women were attacked by the oil fever, and several of the mar ried ones joined their husbands in To- eating claims, while the unmarried damsels insisted that their best fel- lows" include their names in the lo- cation notice, inasmuch as it would be but a matter of time until their names were the same, anyway.
 A J. Head, F. L. Wright and w. J. MulvenCn, heavy stockholders in the Yavapai Oil and Development com pany, visited the property yesterday afternoon, returning last evening. All were enthusiastic over the outlook, but those interviewed qualified the sensational rumors afloat during the day regarding the strike.
 Mr. Head stated that oil had been encountered; not a flow, but trace, sufficient to show plainly on the sur face of the water that is brought up from the well. while the petroleum odor is strongly in evidence. MT. Head stated that his company had To- cated four sections, or 2,560 acres Of land surrounding the well, so that, in case a gusher is brought in, CT new strike encountered sufficiently strong to make the well a paying proposi tion, the company is well fixed as tC holdings. While satisfied that the trace of oil discovered is a strong indication of the existence of oil in that vicinity, Mir Head stated he hat to admit that his company, as yet did not have a full-fledged oil well all sensational reports to the con trary notwithstanding.
 Work on the well, which is now 84! feet deep. has been suspended, pend ing the arrival of 1000 feet of addi ticnal casing that will be ordered to 4l, 5 hnGf f, have this casing, in order that the oi might be protected from the water in case heavy flow is encountered after sinking is resumed. Over s1,00 worth of additional, supplies and al pliances for the well will be ordere today, and the management is conf dent that the present indications vii give way to a substantial flow a depth is gained
 Last Thursday the first real CT couragement the company has ha since boring first began came with tn presence in the well of gas. Since tn gas was struck the water in the vel has become more and more pregnate witk salt as the bore went down, uI til the oil trace was finally encounter ed. This trace of oil was what led { the sensational reports, sent to Pho' nix and elsewhere, which inf1amed tn imagination Of many prospective o millionaires.
 The same indications of oil Y1iscoN ed at the Valley station well wer also first encountered at the famou Spindle Top fields, near Beaumont Texas. prior to the bringing in of tn gushers. The same indications wer encountered outside of the prove territory, but in these last cases n wells were ever developed. It is t be hoped, however, that the indics ticns at the Yavapai Oil and Develop ment companys property vii! be fo lowed by the discovery of the req stun, and that that section of Yays pal county will become the latest an greatest oil field in existence.