Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-07-27
BEST LUBR|CAT|NG
OIL IN COUNTRY
At ARTES|A
Representative of Company
Controlling 5000 Acres in
Pecos Valley District En-.
thusiastic Over Prospects.

sEl Paso. July 2G.---"without doubt
we have a great oil pool" said John
q. Collins. president 81 the Pecoa
Valley OH ana Gas company. Thomas
~. O'Nolll, of Houston. Texas, one uf
the directors of the Same company.
exhibited several bottles Of crude oil.
These samples I have Just brought
with me from our biggest prodncins
well near Artesin, ~ NJ" said Mr.
.O'Neill. we have four wells three
and a hair miles east of Artosia, three
OF which are producing 2tM barreiaI
of OH day ana thg fourth one,
which az first flowed from scepagg
only, 90 barrels day. we have clean
sd out. ana Il now produces 100 bar
rels at oil day. This oil is proba-
bly, the best lubricating oil in the
United states. 10 h worth. Just as
u comes out oi the ground. eight
cents gallon on 81 a barrel. After
refining. this oil viii be worth 40
cents gallon. Here In the analysis
OF this crude petroleum, which was
struck at $50 feet depth, which shows
It's remarkable quality. The analysts
was made for us by T.. = TilsOn, ana
lytical and consulting chemist ut the
Houston laboratories
"B. n. r.. io9is; Raume 60 degrees
r., 20.l; flash point. closed vessel.
33S degrees f., flash point. open ves-
sci 3b2.f r.; fire point. s3T2.2.
"Frattionnl Water 3.33
per cent. light oils. distilllng over up
~ 1870 degrees O., trace, illuminating
oils. diatiliing over from $50 degrees
q. 10 $50 degrees g.. 1909 per cent,
light iubricattng oils. dlatilIing over
from ESQ degrees 9, 20 34b deRre,f
c.. 63.S9 per cent heavy lubricating
oils Cor tar oilal. distiliinR over from
$40 degrees up, ga per cent
This oil ls not an illuminating Oh,
but IN a lubricpiinE oil, and therefore
far more valuable.
Have 1000 Acres.
I'VE have secured by icasoa ana
purchases, 5000 acres OF ground Ia
what IN called the Dayton field. u.
r, YOakum and associates have i20
acres IN the same field.
The PecoB Valley on companys
first oil we'll was brought In seven
miles fram Artesia. producing 2fM
barrels day. The second, gas
we'll with a pressure of 500 aonnds
per square inch, was developed IN
August. 1910. These wells were bored
20 depth OF 500 90 1000 feet for
water for domestic use ana because
81 failure 10 find water were ahan-
d0ned. But the gaa IN stlll flowing
ANA N OF excellent quality.
"The first gas we'll was struck by
&. r. Brown, farmer. Tie bored
$50 feet and what little water he on
c0untered was highly charged with
gas. He then continued his boring
sinking an elght.iDch casing 10 the
cap rock (sB0 feetl. he drilled down
10 9li feet and encountered the first
on sand. He penetrated this 20 a
depth ~ 926 feet. This flows efh
barrels Of oil a day We are coins
down with a le-inch casing and viii
continue 10 depth OF about LOO
feet.
''Tha true oil bearing sands Of this
field, ns determined by Oh experts. We
Al n depth OF 1900 feet. Oil experts
from almost every section Of the
country have inspected this Held, and
every sno without exception Expresses
iho firm heller aud opinion that the
Dayton field near Aftesln VIII prove
equal a. n not better. than tho cnddo
llssd ln Loultaun.
u Iarec Yield.
1.-THE magnitude ~ the pocoB valley
oil basin can ~ Imagined whom YOU
consider that "A has been traced olnpf
H9nu IL ToNnh ana Fort lftonktou.