Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-13
LOCAL ORGANIZATION TO
EXPLOIT ARNOLD FIELD
Company of GoIdfieId Men, with
Ample Capital Backing,
Enters New District

The Range Sixteen Oil company, a
new Arizona corporation, with offices
on the fifth floor of the San Fernando
building, Los Angeles, has started ac-
tive development in the Arnold oil dis
trict in the southern part OF san Ben
ito county, California.
This new district, new only in the
sense of general public knowledge, as
it was developed to a productive stage
twelve years ago by the Union on
company, embraces the land in town
ships 16 and II south and ranges 10, II
and portion of Il east, M. ID. M
being on the eastern slope of the Mt
Diablo range, the same as the Coal
inga. Midway and Sunset fields.
This company announces it is fully
financed by H. A. Brown & Co. OF
Boston. 1t is incorporated for S50O,OOO
and officered as follows:
]. c. Mccormack, Goldfeld, Nev.'
president; w. c. Erb, Goldfeld, vice
president; John M. Fairchild, Los An
geles, secretary and treasurer, who
with Richard C. Jacobs and Oliver H.
LoVejoy of Boston, Mass, constitute
the board of directors.
The Range Sixteen Oil company IS
now engaged in hauling lumber ON the
ground for an extra heavy standard
rig. Buildings are being erected and
lI1e CdIp6nL6IS nave Slcll LSO IliO IiS'
Two carloads of lumber are being un-
loaded at Mendoza, the nearest rail-
road point, this lumber coming from
San Francisco. The Range Sixteen
has three eight-animal teams engaged
in hauling this lumber, together with
a complete equipment for deep drill
ing which has been purchased from
the Los Angeles house of the j. f.
Lucey company, oil well supplies. The
first we'll will be started with screw
casing 151s inches in diameter, weigh
ing 70 pounds to the foot and the
comrNny has placed an order for 800
feet of this size.
WILL BE EASY DRILLING
From the regular and unbroken ap-
pearance of the formation in the Ar
mold district H. G. Heffron, consulting
engineer of Los Angeles, who is in
charge of the field work of the first
well, says the company, in his opin-
ion, will experience no difficulty in
taking the first string of 151a-inch cas-
ing down to a depth of 500 feet at
which point it is the intention to re-
duce to 12h-inch, finishing the well
at $500 to 5000 feet with S-inch pipe,
although from the dip of the forma-
ton the company expects to encOun-
ter the second or producing sands at
a depth of 1000 to 2200 feet.
The officers and directors of the
Range Sixteen Oil company have just
returned from a thorough examina-
ton of the field and they are most en-
thusiastic in it's praise. They brought
with them a five-gallon sample of oil
taken from a .seep just north Of their
property which they had tested at the
California testing laboratory in the
Pacific Electric building, the returns
being "a gravity.
This oil testing a small per cent
water. q trifing amount of sulphur
and 10 per cent tops which prove to
be almost commercial gasoline, make
it, according to Mr.. Heintz, director
of the California testing laboratory, a
desirable refining oil, and he takes oc-
casion to remark the large quantity
of tops and it's desirability as a refin-
ing oil.
This new field is about fifteen miles
west from two of the main Coalinga-
Port Costa coast pipe lines Of the
Standard and Associated and the
Coalinga- Monterey coast pipe line,
which passes up Los Gatos creek and
through Hernandez, runs within about
eight or ten miles, so it would appear
that it will be no great feat to market
this oil.
Mr.. Fairchild, secretary of the COM
pany, says he and associates made the
run in an automobile from Fresno to
lIllS l1elu III d lew minutes ltSS llldll
three hours with T. M. McKelvy at the
wheel, one of the best automobile
drivers in the state. The distance
from Fresno to the Arnold field is
eighty miles. He spoke of this to
show merely that the roads were good.
A railroad has already been sur
veyed from Hollister to Fresno, the
survey passing through the Arnold
field A short pipe line from this field
to connect with the Coalinga- Mon
terey coast pipe line has also been sur
veyed, and as soon as production war
rants this pipe line will be built.
TOWN IN PROGRESS
The new town of Syncline is being
laid out and an application for post
office will be made for this new point.
L. J. Abrams of Stockton, who has
land interests in this new field which
he has owned for six or eight years,
has already built small hotel and he
has Just ordered a carload of furniture
and furnishings shipped from San Fran
cisco, and within the month his place
will be ready for the reception OF
visitors.
Sickels & Brininstool, Phelan build
ing, San Francisco, have lately in
terested themselves as well as some
eastern associates in this district
Ralph Arnold, until lately with the
United States geological survey, has
made an exhaustive examination of this
new field and has recommended 1T
highly to Boston and New York capi-
talists in a recent report made for
them, and it is currently credited that
.hese eastern men, on his advice, have
under option to purchase or under long
time lease, something in excess of 1000
acres of this land.
William Bayly, 4O4 Security building
Los Angeles, is now in Paris financing
two sections of the land adjoining the
Range Sixteen Oil company, with Paris
bankers with whom he placed the
Goldroads, Arizona property, which has
made good and declared many divi-
dends for those people. He writes that
he will return with $4,000 for the de-
velopmeDt of his land.
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