Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-20
DRILL E POUNDING IN LOST
 HILLS IN IFS SEARCH FUR O|L
Parties of Bsbee and Douglas People Take Sunday Trip to Location Which They Hope to See Developed into an Oil Fieid-ImpOrtant to County and State

rig had Deen erected. it had been nee essary to bring up from Fairbanks. the churn drill that was not shipped with the rest of the machinery 10 Ryan's siding. the nearest point on the raihOad and a hard formation had been encountered which made the drill that was started yesterday morn ing indispensable for real progress in of the work. IL may have been a large boulder. it may have been a rock stratum 5ut il was so hard that in seeking to penetrate il, it was found necessary in one day 10 sharpen five bits and then little progress was made From now on better progress is assured since the star rig has been erected over the first one that went up and all sorts of boring appliances everything that can be needed in the work is on the held
 The Lost Hills deserve their name. From a distance one sees hills all about. but on reaching them to us a
 "Paddyism' they are not there, one
 is only in a barren rolling country,
 the most desert of deserts This formation makes 1t plainly evident
 that there has been a settling all
 about. It was once a level plain that has settled in spots and this is one Of the indications of the basir that is believed to exist beneath the surface Here too is the shale and
 the usual surface indications Of oil I below That these indications are
 good IS the opinion voiced by the con | fro a1gr hf r4r neer The latter has had experience | m Louisiana and in New Mexico anC states that he has never seen better surface indications than those whicl occur here although in Louisiana the, | look for gas escaping through w2tel
 in bubbles and the different condi tions make that indication an i'm ! possibility. On the other hand. Johl 1 Igo, city marshal of Douglas, who wa
 one of the first 10 show interest fl
 the present project and was one o
 the Douglas party to visit the wei ! yesterday. was born but a few mic! from the field al the Huachucas anC
 passed his boyhood there-states tha
 as a boy he noted the oozing of oil
 | he deposit on the river and on va ter holes after the rainy season whel
 he lived there. Later these attracte'
 attention to the field and are one D the reasons for the belief that her
 lies an undeveloped oil field
 The site selected for the puttinl
 down of the well was determined oI
 by three who have had experience il
 the oil country They agreed it va
 apparently the best location to strik'
 the oil deposit believed to lie beloN
 the basin. that here there was les
 apt tc be Assures or fault in forms
 ton Time will determine whethe
 he field is there. If oil should D
 found the location of the rig is aG
 mirable for the oil will flow by na'
 ural gravity 10 the railroad which |, not more than a mile away when th
 new line is completed.
 Means Country's Future.
 ] il oil shall be found in the mos } rromisinz location in Cochise cour ] ty. which is the field of the Arizon Oil company it will be the making c
 Coehise county and of Southern Ar
 zona All that is necessary for suC cessful agriculture is cheap fuel 10 pumping. This Q strike by the loca , company would insure It would als mean economy in mining and smel ing that is not now possible an ! would further mean oil burning loco . motives. This county is the greates . mineral county of the state of Ar D zona. It's agriculture. as yet undeye , oped. offers opportunities hardly { , be exceued and fla third great r' , source is added the riches of "Dea 70 Old Cochise~ will be indeed incalcu able.
 Prospects Appear Good.
 The discovery of a mine or of a oil field have many points in con . mon in both instances surface Il dications and geological formation el ter into consideration. With tn mine there are oUtcroppings on th surface to make the prospect, wi; the oil field there is the shale, oo } ings, escape of gas and other stmila indications. Given these there is prospect and the Lost Hills hay those oil indications. They have
 prospect, and an excellent one, to
 developed. It will become an c field and not a prospect if the We ] that is now going down shall d ' yelop into 9 sushsr and a short tim F viii determine this. But there is ] vast difference on one point betwee . oil and mineral. To develop a mir Il costs thousands upon thousands 2. dollars. in the case of a copper min ? hundreds of thousands. To determiI p whether or not a V ell will strike O takes very much less. Both may - termed gambles but if oil Is disco e cred the dividends on the inyestmei ? are hundreds of times greater tha s are the mines. This is the condItic $ here. The Arizona company has D prospect worth developing and IS d :. ing this. if successful. they will i q dividually reap a great financial T y ward If they fail the cost to the '- will have been comparatively sma II they succeed the reward is m e theirs alone, they have still furth' . made Cochise county and the ne }. state of Arizona. As stated, sho k time will determine whether or m
 they have the oil deposit indicate
 and which they are spending the l- money to find All who went to Il :, rig on Sunday are well satisfied vii ' all that they saw, are hopeful of u 2. prospect of an oil strike and all a c agreed that it will be a prospect u
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