The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-06-04
NEW SULPHUR OIL FIELDS


These experienced oil operators are
6rm in the belief that they can again
distinguish their Company by opening
an oil field at Sulphur, Nevada, that
will bring them and the stockholders of
their Company the tremendous profits
that accrue to the successful pioneers
of an oil field.
The discovery of oil in California
revolutionized the commercial condi-
tions of the State, affording cheap fuel
for transportation, manufacturing and
all the industries of the State, Great
ing immense fortunes and many mil
Ilionaires and a competence for thous-
ands of people throughout the u
try. California's production Of oil is
greater than its production Of gold.
Only a few years ago, ten thousand
acres Of it's barren desert land was
not worth a sand lizards bids; today,
as proven oil land, it sells at many
thousand dollars per acre.
SULPHUR OIL FIELDS
The successful development of an
oil field at Sulphur, Nevada, will
lutionize the commercial conditions of
Nevada, just as the discovery of oil
has done in California. The scarcity
of and the high price of fuel in Neva-
da has prevented it's industrial develop
ment. The production of oil will solve
that difficult problem and permit Of
the production and reduction of ore at
a big profit, ore that cannot now be
handled at all. 1t will mean the saw
ing of great sums of money annually
for the mines of the State in their
fuel bill alone. It will open scores of
new industries, giving employment to
thousands of people. Tt will create a
stampede and a rush that would result
in building many fortunes, and lands
now barren as desert waste, will be
worth vast sums of money.
Study of the Sulphur Field.
Hearing of the discovery of oil at
Sulphur, Nevada, the President of the
High Gravity United Oil Company was
ordered to investigate. In the latter
part of April and early in May, he ex-
amined lands at Sulphur, carefully sam
ping the various formations. Upon his
return to San Francisco, careful ana
|lytical tests were made, and most en-
.c%ouraging reports made by the best
chemists of the Coast. The matter was
taken up with experienced oil men of
California and the formations of Sui
phur, Nevada. were identified as oil
bearing, and the oil itself acknowledge
ed to be a very high grade p~araffin oil.
The officers of the Company, being
very conservative, again ordered their
President to the field for further ex-
animation, in the latter part of May.
Again the formations Of the field, over
a distance of thirty miles, were care
fully studied and conditions appeared
to be so extremely favorable, that the
President of the Company, a few days
ago, closed a deal for the purchase of
the property of the c.. 0. d. Company
at Sulphur, Nevada, taking over all its
drilling equipment, its well already
drilled to a depth of $50 feet, and all
its land, save one 20-acre claim about
one and one-half miles from the pres
ent well, the land holding approximate
ing 900 acres.
In addition to the c. o. D.. holdings,
/ 900 acres more were acquired at Sui
phur, and negotiations are now pend
ing for an additional thousand acres,
the deal to be closed soon, giving the
High Gravity Oil Company a holding
of approximately 5000 acres at Sui
hur, Nevada.
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