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The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-27

Mrs w. C. Dale of Salt Lake spent
Sunday in Ogden as the guest of her
sister Mrs. Fred Howard
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-27

NJ R. Delahunty of the signal SER
vice OF Lexington. Nebraska. is In
town visiting relatives and friends.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

the natural conditions and the man
ner in which the work is being done
become known"
In the booklet prepared for free dis
tribution on request is given descrip-
ton and history of the Santa Maria
fields. together with many facts re-
garding the uses to which the oil is
being put.
One of the most remarkab1 features
of the Santa Maria district" the book
let says, lis the extraordinary thick
ness of the oil sands and their high sat
uration with petroleum. The sand of
the Santa Maria field is somewhat finer
and darker than that of the famous
Baku field of Russia, but it is Identical
with that of the latter in the fine crys-
talline particles that compose 1t and the
saturation of the sand with oil is es-
timated to be about 40 per cent more
than the usual oil sand saturation. Fox
this reason the wells of the Santa Maria
field are believed by experts to be al
most ineXhaustible and will undoubt-
edly be big producers for many years.
Some of the Baku wells have been pro-
ducing for over 100 years.
The Santa Maria wells are nearly all
very deep, the average ranging from
$500 to $500 feet, while several are
more than 1000 feet. The deepest pro-
ducing well in the world is in the
Santa Maria district and is down 1900
feet
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
TEN GOOD POINTS
FOR THE INVESTOR
Reasons Why the Santa Maria
Field Commands the In
yestOr's Attention !
A Careful Estimate of Its
Present Status and Stay
ing Qualities

1. The geological and structural con-
ditions in the Santa Maria field are
perfect
2. The OIL measures are massive, from
900 feet to 500 feet in thickness
They are thoroughly saturated with
oil and the gas pressure is heavy.
3. The oil horizons are found at
depth below the surface from 1000
to $500 feet. Thus depth OF wells,
heavy gas pressure. massive oil hor
lions and ideal geological and Struc-
tura1 conditions all tend to make
long lived. big producers OF high
grade fuel and refining oils
f. The cost of drilling is low as COM
pared 10 the cost of drilling to the
same depth in other fields.
3, Many Of the wells of the Santa Ma
ria field are "gushers" and nearly
all flow more or less. thus reducing
the cost of raising the oil to the sur
face TO a minimum.
s. Proximity of the Santa Maria field
to tidewater-
7. There are three eight inch pipe lines
and one six inch pipe line leading
from the field to tidewater, which
gives il the best pipe line facilities
OF any field in the state
s. The staying" qualities of the wells
years continuous production and
these wells are still producing heav-
lily.
q. The average production per well is
over two times as great as the aver
age production per well In any other
field in the state.
10 The acreage of the Santa Maria
field is held very closely by a few
legitimate companies who are pro-
ducing oil as an industry. All OF
these are successful and paying
large dividends.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

Canyon, which form the boundaries OF
the oil pool as far as the present de-
velopment has gone, places the prop
erJE of the Palmer Oil Company In
peculiarly advantageous position and
insures q long life and a steady pro-
duction TO any wells drilled on this
property. virtually tapping a subter-
ranean sea of oil upon which gushers
make but little impression.
The present development in the oil
field has shown that between two
points east and west. having a distance
apart Of over three miles, and another
point mile and half south, forming
triangle containing about three and
a half square miles. the center of which
is held by the Palmer Oil Company,
there exists a vertical thickness of
over 1900 feet of the sands and shales
that contain the oil of this field. Of
this depth there is a thickness Of ac-
tual, heavily saturated oil sand ex-
ceeding 700 feet containing the heavy
oils, the intervening beds of shale be-
ing the reservoir of the lighter oils.
Nowhere else in the oil fields of Cali
fornia does such a condition exist, and
it well merits the opinion of the dis
tinguished biologists and practical oil
men who are familiar with the oil
fields of this state that the production
of oil per acre and the consequent life
or the wells In thlS nelo Will De greater
than in any of the other oil fields.
'eThe proximity to tidewater and the
cheapness of transportation TO the mar
kets of the world from this oil field
are two of the prime factors that helped
TO make the Union Oil Company of Cali
fornia the great and growing market
ing concern that it is today. With
three pipe lines running out of this
field to tideWater, a distance of only 35
miles, the cost of placing the oil on the
market can he materially lessened as
compared TO the West Side oil fields in
Kern county. and by this means adding
largely to the profits of the operators
in this field.
The development on the Palmer
property at the present time is in very
healthy condition. Palmer No. is
down over 1900 feet, and preparations
are now being made to finish the well.
This well has passed through over 1900
feet of continuous oil bearing sands and
shales, of which thickness there is act
ually $50 feet of heavily saturated oil
sand, being specially prolific at the bot
tom of the well.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Expert Opinions and Statistics on
the Operations in the Santa
Maria Field

Enthusiasm runs high when inside
OF 80 days one single gusher belches
forth a million barrels of oil worth
over 100000. 1t reaches its maximum
when gusher follows gusher and, with
out a pound of pressure other than the
throbbing pulse Of natures heaving
BOSOM, well after well pOurs out its
stream Of liquid wealth into the lap
OF industry.
Nowhere else in America has there
been discovered so vast an area of oil
and with so illimitable a prospect
FreNlous operations in the oil fields
Of the state seemed TO have mapped
out certain localities as oil bearing, and
IJaln others as non bearing. All
these old maps and theories have proved
AZ fault oil is just like gold after
aii-it IS whore you find it. and the
only way TO find it is TO select the
place with best indications and go
down and see
The oil fields Of California have
wonderfully great staying qualities"
declared c. D. Greenlee recently in an
interview at Los Angeles. Because
of the remarkable thickness Of the
oil bearing sands. California may look
forward 10 an industry permanent and
oennlte. In the eastern oil fields the
sand lies in blanket formations with
thin pay streaks In the California
10 thousand feet in thickness with
continuous pay streaks all the way
down. Thus il follows that wells run
ming low on one pay streak may be
ueepened TO the next. renewing their
pumpage and prolonging their life and
productivity indefinitely. 7 want to
register my opinion now that the CALI
fornia fields viii continue the best pro-
oucing oil districts in the entire world"
Nj Greenlee speaks enthusiastically
because of knowledge and experience
he speaks brosdly because Of his ex-
pert acquaintance with nearly every oil
field in Europe and America for over
IS years As one Of the old firm of
Greenlee & Forst, he was instrumental
IN boring the largest well ever put
down in the Pennsylvania field, 2,4OO
feet AT Mcdonald. Pa. in 1892.
Mr. Greenlee, while enthusiastic over
the gushers already produced. is still
looking for the real big one. which. he
maintains, IS yet TO come
Other authorities agree as 10 the ex-
tent and stability of the oil industry,
and quote facts To prove the remark
bic depth and pregnancy of the oil
sands Of the state Speaking Of his
own company recently. J. c. Kemp Van
Re, identified with the oil and mineral
industries Of California for over IS
years and second vice president of the
Palmer Oil Company. had this to say
q the company's holdings in the Santa
Maria field.
owing to the enormous thickness of
the middle mfocene sands and shales
which are the source and reservoir Of
the oil, that exist in the eastern Santa
Maria oil pool, the possibilities for a
long lived production Of oil from this
field are unQuestionab bic.
This fact, coupled with the regu-
larity OF the structural features Of the
TWO anticlinal folds known as the
Howard and Cato Ridge antilles and
the intervening synclinal trough of Cat
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Big Profits in Palmer Oil Wells

The engineers report on the Palmer
properties in the Santa Maria field pro-
vides interesting reading for those who
like to contemplate big figures on the
profit side of the ledger. Ralph Arnold
formerly attached TO the government
geological survey, and now consulting
engineer for the Palmer Oil Company
recently reported:
In the circuit field, individual wells
only four or five years old have yielded
over 100000 barrels of oil and are
still producing from $50 to 500 barrels
per day. The average production for
the entire circuit field at the time of
the preparation of Robert Anderson's
and my report on this district in 1906
bulletin U. S. geological survey. No
1929 was between 800 and 400 barrels
per day per well. The Palmer well it
self produced 637,75s barrels of oil up
to January 1, 1910, or an average for
the entire two years of its life of ap-
proximately $40 barrels per day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Good Showing Made

Palmer No. is drilling steadily
with the water cemented off and has
reached a depth of 1900 feet and is
already in the oil shales. Palmer No.
has the water cemented off and is
drilling at a depth of 1.765 feet in the
oil shales, which have just been reached,
and has a very favorable showing for
this depth.
There is every reason for the belief
that these three wells will be equally
as productive as the famous Palmer
No. !. In fact, up to the present time,
no well that has been brought in in this
field ever had the showing to become
a producer of the proportions that the
Palmer No. 2 promises to be.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

to production and large quaint
ties of oil and water are now
being pumped from il. The out
look for large well is ex
tremely encouraging. The Bell No. 1, on
the south point of the triangle, is flow
ing and pumping between 500 and 500
barrels per day, with a gradually in
creasing gas pressure and oil produc-
ton. The West and New Pennsylvania
companies wells, on the eastern end of
the triangle, both have the making of
very large wells. These wells are
about to be finished, being respectively
$500 and 5000 feet in depth and each
showing over 500 feet of actual oil sand,
heavily saturated with oil and gas
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
How Long Will a Well Produce?

This and other interesting questions
receive able treatment in a booklet re-
Gently issued by the Palmer Oil Com
pany of San Francisco. The company
has been operating for years in the
Santa Maria fields, and is in position
to speak more intelligently than many
others on the oft repeated question,
What is the life of an oil well?" The
following is quoted from the book
mentioned:
ITO answer this, several things must
be taken into consideration. viz. the
thickness and saturation of the oil
bearing stratum, the gravity of the oil,
the gas pressure, the depth of the well,
etc. In general. deep wells last longer
than shallow ones, and wells yielding
heavy oil are longer lived than those
yielding light oil. A few of the first
shallow wells drilled at Newhall and
at Santa Paula produced oil in COM
mercial quantities for % years. several
for 20 years, and many, drilled Is to
Is years ago, are still producing. 1t is
believed that some of the deep wells
now being drilled into the massive oil
formation so often found in California
will have even a longer productive
life"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
REMARKABLE FIELDS OF HIGH GRAVITY OIL

Palmer No. 1,
the famous Palmer
gusher,' is flowing
at the same steady
e a i I, averaging
1900 barrels per
day, with a prom
ise of contin uing
this production for
many months to
come.
Matters at the
Stendal1 No. 1 of
the Palmer COM
pany, located at
the eastern end of
the triangle, are
proceeding salts
factorily and it
will not be long
now before this
well will be added
to the list of ia
nous producers of
the eastern Santa
Maria oil field.
The Los Alamos
well, at the ex-
IRENE western end
of the triangle, has
been put on the
pump DreparatOrV
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Output Is Nine Million Barrels

"The Santa Maria field is less than
10 years old the first effort to test
the territory for oil having been made
in 1899 In 1902 the production of
crude oil in the Santa Maria field, ac-
cording to official reports, amounted
to 99,2S3 barrels, and since then it has
been increasing by leaps and bounds
until during 1909 the production for the
year amounted to the great total of
5000. 900 barrels.
The following table shows the
amount obtained in the Santa Maria
field each year since its discovery:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Strata of Oil Sands
Underlie the Territory Yielding
Wells of Long Life and
Productivity

more than Is times greater than 10
was 10 years ago. the demand Is in
creasing even more rapidly, for the
price of coal in this state being very
high. oil Is fast supplanting it for fuel.
and is now used in firing the boilers
in four-fifthS of the power houses in
this state, and it's use is almost as uni
verSal in Nevada and Arizona The rail-
roads of California use it almost ex-
clusively in their locomotives, while
steamboats,. factories. shelters. sugar
reineries and manufacturing plants of
every description from Alaska to Mex
leo are fast changing to oil burners.
The Southern Pacific railroad alone
is estimated to consume nearly 10000
barrels of oil daily. doing the work Of
10000 tons of coal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

were proved. The company's first well,
the now famous Palmer No. l, which
has been flowing from 1900 to 10000
barrels day for more than a year, was
finished and producing oil before we
ever offered a share for sale. Then
we offered the first share to our bond
customers and to others in whom we
have the highest confidence. We con-
slider that the high character of our
stock holders adds greatly to the
strength of the company. Among these
1 might mention F. S. Stratton, collector
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

of the port. and
George r. Webster,
F. P. Cutting, H.
f. Gordon, II. H.
Sinclair and w. II.
Snedeker. Gustave
Baumann of the
III o l / a n d house,
New York, is a
large stock holder;
Charles Z. Ladd, e.
II. French, Paul NJ.
French, f. o. Nc
Coy and F. /. Full
Ter, bankers and
railroadmen in Or
egon. In Los An
geles we have Bar
ton Darlington, the
attorney, and N.
b. Darlington w.
+. Hook and many
o t h e + prominent
men in that city.
The Palmer COM
pany's property is
one which recon-
mends itself as an
investment to men
who are most care
full in making in
veStneOtS W N @ N
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

TT is therefore safe to assume that
the wells on the Palmer property will
average 200 barrels per day and that
they will continue this yield for at
least five years; but, to be on the safe
side. assume that they will average
only 100 barrels per day. Under this
assumption it is certain that an allow
ance of Is years for their life will be
all too small
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Every Foot of the Ground Proven

In a recent Interview given out by
Frank L. Brown. president of the Pal
mer Oil Company, Croker building,
San Francisco, he said in regard to oil
lands and oil companies:
The Palmer Oil Company never Of
fered single share of stock for sale
as a mere speculation, before the lands
which the company proposed to develop
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

I'm spite of the rapid increase in the
of crude oil in California,
the records showing that the output
from California wells last year was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Profits Startling to Consider

1.-The two leases of the Palmer Oil
Company comprise together $50 acres.
Placing the wells about 500 feet apart
"a very conservative distance in this
kind of territory-will allow So wells
for the property. Three of these are
already drilled. Assuming the cost of
each well as 900 and the price Of oil
at so cents per barrel net Git is GER
tainly worth more, and will. L believe,
go much higher). we get the following
figures:
Value of $50 acres of land Gas
per balance sheet Sept. 80.
1909 $2,OSO,OOO
ment) ....... $4,000
Cost of SIS wells at 100000. 3,400. 900
Value fully developed
property ..... S5,773, 900
Production IS wells, 100 bar
rels per day for Is years
Gross income Is years, A.,
100000 barrels at soc. $4,000 900
Deduct cost of property and
development .......-.-.-- 5,77S.000
Gross profit for stock
holders from which in
terest, depreciation and
expenses of admins
tration and operation
must be deducted. SIS, 81 900
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
Demand Increasing

Total S5,617.076 barre
, 1910-02-19
A NEW COMET.

A Telegram has just been received from
the Centralstelle at Kiel, the centre for the
distribution Of astronomical intelligence, an
rouncing that q bright comet was discovered
at johannesburg on the morning Of January
II by a Mr.. Drake. He first saw the comet
about sunrise, and it continued visible (pre-
sumablv to the naked eye) even alter the
sun had risen, so that it must be of eZcop-
tional brilIiance. lie gives its position as
five or ten degrees outh-south-we6t Of the
sun, which it was approaching.
A telegram on Tuesday morning announ-
ces that the comet has been observed by Mr.
Irnes, late Of the Royal Observatory, Cape Of
Good Hope, who is the director Of q small
observatory at Johannesburg. At Z am. on
january II it was / Of a degree west OF the
suu and II deg. south Of it; it was moving
east 4deg. per day, and north 24deg, per
day; if this motion is maintained it should be
visible in our evening sky at sunset this eve.
ming. Any prediction of this kim is uncer-
tain till three observations of the comet are
a. valuable, that being the mtiaini0a necessary
to determine the elements Of its orbit.
The circumstances are very like those Of
the great comet of 1892, which was also
discovered III the southern hemisphere, Lut
which shortly afterwards became a promin-
emf object IN our morning skies that comet
could be traced in the daytime right mp to
the limb Of the sun, which shows its extra
ordinary bri!liance.
1t is curious that another bright comet
should be found just at the time when we
are expecting Halley's Comet to make a fine
display. 1t is not, however, the first time
that this has occurred. Several of the Old
records OF Halley's Comet note hat other
nue. comets were visible in the same year.
This was the ease in Ap. IS and Sc, also
in GO7 and in 1877. The records Of these
years are in consequence somewhat difficult
to docipher, it not being clearly stated to-
which comet each record referred.
Sir Robert Ball telegraphs that the new
comet was observed at Cambridge by Mr..
A. R. Kinks, chief assistant at the Cam
bridge Observatory. Greenwich time, AIR.
1Omin. right ascension, 2Ohr. 3Omin. 8sec;
declination. 17dog. 105min. S.. nucleus
equal to Mercury; tail 2deg visible to
naked eye.-Ij0eS, 81 Jan.
, 1910-02-19
IMPORTS OF SUGAR.

The imports of foreign sugar into the
United States for the eleven months endiI 6
December LIST, reached 1856, 900 short tons,
valued at 50 millions Of dollars. OF these
imports 1,621,00 short tons, valued at over
rs millions Of dollars, came from Cub
Java was our next largest source Of supply,
giving us 138,000 short tons, valued at
millions of dollars. No imports whatever Of
raw beet sugar were received during these
eleven months. A notable fact IS that dul
ing the month of November there came into
the United States 1900 short tons of sugar
from the Philippines, free Of duty, and the
total receipts of free sugar from the Phil
ippines thus far have been $4,000 short tons,
valued at something over a million Of do
lars. The imports Of sugar above No. Is
Dutch Standard during these eleven months
have beeu but $4,000 short tom, valued at
1892, 0OO.-Ujd.
, 1910-02-19
BAD WEATHER IN CUBA.

As viii be seen elsewhere in his issue in
our Havana letter, they have been having
considerable bad weather in Cuba, which
has resulted in making the crop prospects
far less hattering than they we're earlier in
the campaign. The crop harvest this last
season in Cuba reached slightly over a mil
lion and a half tons, and the immense GUAM
tity of cane in the fields has indicated a
total production of seventeen to eighteen
hundred thousand tons for the crop now
coming off. This enormous Increase would
have beeu difficult to handle, even if fair
weather throughout the season should have
prevailed. AS during last year. Thus far this
has emphatically not been the case. and APP
prehensions are now expressed as TO the
final results, with prophesies Of q total out
put OF perhaps as low as 400, 900 tons and
the possibility of reaching as much es $780,
O00 tons. Amy way, the short supply Of beet
sugar in Europe already manifested, the
diminished supply in Louisiana, tle iaat-
Gated shortage 10 Cuba md The Increased
consumption Of sugar 5Auoughou6 tie a3ass
world have SO exhausted all Of the surplus
crops that any crop that Cuba couil make
would surely be absorbed AT cu,Ient prices.
AS it now stands it has become very DOUBT
, 1910-02-19

is, in fact, not a little curious that some OF
the painted designs, representing friezes OF
birds, warriors, fishermen, or merely conven-
tional ornament, have e strange similarity
to the archaic wares of the Hgean. Stu
dents Of ancient cultures will, however, not
he led astray by such resemblances, as com
mon as they are difficult to explain. It will,
at any rate, be not amiss that these relies
Of a far-western primitive race should be in
the same building as their Mediterranean
analognes the field Of study Is therefore use
fully widowed, and the student OF early civil
~izntion8 as we'll as the less serious visitor May
well be grateful to their generous bonefactor.
Without such men our public collections
would fare but poorly.
The collection wilt probably be on view
at The end of the present week in the Amer
icon Room Of the British Museum. Times,
JuL nth.
, 1910-02-19

tonic, or, better still, with the morning and
evening cup Of tea. Put a sprig Of lemon
V%erbena, say five or six leaves, into the tea
cup, and pour the tea upon it; you will
never suffer from fatulence, never be made
nervous, never have cholera, diarrhoea, or
loss Of appetite. Besides, the favour is
simply delicious no one who has once
drunk their Pekoe with it viii ever again
drlnk it without a sprig Of lemon verbena-
Gardeners Chronicle.
, 1910-02-19

full whether or not any of the higher an
ticipations will be reached and it seems like
Iy that the sugar crop Of Cuba will be no
larger than that of last year and we may
anticipate better prices for our own sugar
during the coming season than we have had
during the ast.-Loujsjana Planter, 29th
Junu0rH