El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-30
INDICATIONS
FINE NORTH
Of HERE
Camp City Still Attracting
People From Everywhere;
Ali Have Faith.
INDICATIONS OF
OIL ALL AROUND
Driller Of Well Says Indica-
lions Are Same as in ALI
Big Southern Fields.

Camp City, n. NJ, April 3o-That the
indications beneath the surface at this
point are identical with those In every
big oil field where he has ever sunk
is the declaration of Capt. j. L. Mayo,
and he has sunk wells in all the big
gest fields of the south.
That there are ample indications OF
oil in the foothills all around here In
the declaration OF many men who have
lived here and had the opportunity OF
prospecting I'm the past. These, coupled
with what experts from outside think
of the proposition, gives those who have
filed on land, further hope that the
Camp City oil field is going to be ono
Of the greatest In the country.
Frank VI. Leland, OF Tonopah, New,
acting for himself and associates I'm
California and Nevada, 10 optioninS all
the land and claims he can secure and
believes this is going to prove q great
oil field.
Dog Canyon" shouts the porter, and
a crowd of "sooners" and capitalists
rush and leap off the northbound Rock
Island passenger train at Camp CITY,"
scene of the oil excitement.
Instead OF a barren desert they see
a quarry, mesquite prairie with cosy
cottages and picturesque windmills all
around. ! From the new depot IL Is half
a mile walk north to the oil derrick
about $50 yards to the east of the rail-
way track. The clouds Of black smoke
from the engine shoot upward above the
high derrick, possibly a prophesy of
future burning gusher.
A force of men are busy pumping
the material that had filled up the hole
and caught the fish tail drill, which is
imprisoned in solid gumbo at depth Of
1916 feet below the surface. Another
t. 10
ing lowered to loosen the drill by
slushing the gumbo with water forced
down by the pump They have gone
down about $50 feet day, making 10
feet yesterday, and at o'clock last
night had attained a depth of go feet
leaving only ZIG feet more TO go TO
reach the drill bit, which, barring acct
dents, viii be in the next "A hours
S B. Camp and H Whitmore, secre-
tary of the Sacramento Deep Well as
ISOLATION. are in charge of the opera
tions.
Our association" Camp said. "let
the contract 10 Capt Mayo, who had
the drill, but after the drill was stuck
We gave him week to release 1t, fall
ing in which, we took hold ourselves
We are getting along nicely and viii
soon be ready TO sink below the 1910
feet point"
Oil on SerfRce Nearby
Whitmore says that four miles north
east of the drill hole is fine oil seepage
near San Andres canyon at the base OF
the Saeramentos, which Joe Morgan. thu
rancher states, burns we'll To the west
of the drill hole about five miles are
salt springs and gypsum beds These
were the only surface Indications
over in that section some Caddo,
La, oil people. are getting ready 10
sink a hole and the Tucumcarf COM
hod rio 20
near Them he says.
Yesterday a Standard OIL expert,
who has been watching US for two days,
started out afoot for Alamogordo, proc,
pectfng the foothills OF che Sacrarnentos
and stated that he would stake out any
vacant lands"
John Hunter, also OF the Deep Well
company, stated that there is something
strange about the drill becoming stuck
The Mayos," he says, after the sink
ing was stopped, came to the managers
of the company and said that If We
would convey them the 40 acres IN
which the drill hole IS located. they
would not charge for their services al
ready rendered and would furnish the
on some adjoining land. This offer was
declined That night the Mayos and
their friends went out and staed off
claims all around. the cat leaked
out that oil had been struck After
three weeks Of work. the Mayos had not
succeeded in 1Oosening the drill, and
there is 700 feet of heavy tubing lost
down the hole.
Obstacle in Well.
I'VE began last Friday" said Hun
ter, land have gone down go feet al
ready. At $40 feet we encountered a
camented material, composed of smell
ter Stag or ballast mixed with the white
sand 1t was about seven feet thick
and extremely hard and was placed
there for some purpose; why or by
whom, we can't understand The Mayos
said they could not get through il and
didn't know what the trouble was and
gave 1t up Camp put on a nozzle re-
duced to half inch jet and forced a
hole through it and since then We have
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