Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-07-18
GETTING DOWN
TO BUSINESS
Jefferson Oil Company Pre-
pairing to Begin Work Of
Actual Drilling
MACHINERY IS ARRIVING
Modern Oil Prospecting Out
fit Is Going Into the
New Field
MACHINERY IS ARRIVING

by august /, at the latest ana WIFI
ordinary luck, the work of drilling
for oil on the Hob River property of
the Jefferson Oil company, will be
under way, according to an announce
ment made by J. D. Crary, president
of the company. Mr.. Crary bases
his statement on the fact that all
the machinery is now here and that
all now needed to be done before
work can begin is the transportation
of the machinery and material to the
Hob region.
The car of drilling machinery to.
gether with the complete drilling out
fit arrived Wednesday morning. 1t
is now in the railway yards awaiting
transfer to a scow to take it to the
Hob.
Loading at the Anderson & Middle
ton docks today is a scow containing
a donkey engine and all the lumber
which will be used in the construction
of the derrick for the drilling ma
chinery, and for the workers, offices
and the necessary tool and supply
sheds. This scow will be loaded by
tonight. 1t will be sent to the Hob
as soon as word is received from
the men already there that the an.
chors and buoy and cable used in the
landing place in the Pacific, 1900
feet from the beach, are in place. 1t
is thought that this work is com
pleted, but as the district is miles
away from telephone or telegraph
lines, word can not be received until
some one of the crew, which went in
last Monday, can get out to Moclips.
Hard Job.
AS soon as the scow is dispatched,
the work of transferring the machin.
cry and casing, which arrived several
days ago from Los Angeles, will be
undertaken. 1t will be some task to
get the machinery from the scow to
shore and thence up the steep hill
to the plateau where the drilling op-
erations will be undertaken. The don.
key engine is being taken along for
use in this connection. This, in fact,
will be the hardest task confronting
the oil prospectors.
Expert George E. Woodard, who
will have charge of the actual field
operations, went into< the Hob last
night, as did A. w. Lane, engineer
for the Jefferson Oil company, as well
as it's vice president. They will head
a party of Harbor business men, who
will follow in the tracks Of the party
that went in this week and whose
members have come back enthusiastic
over the prospects of the discovery
of oil in rich paying quantities. Mr..
Woodard will remain on the ground.
He said today that If he had ordinary
luck the drill should be in operation
by the first of next month.
"This outfit is the most complete" ,"
said Mr.. Woodard, that has ever been
turned out by the Tulsa Iron Works,
according to the statement of the fac
tory. 1t includes every conceivable
tool and material used in drilling for
oil. If oil is not found it will not be
due to any fault in the machinery.
Mr.. Crary and his associates told me
they wanted the best machinery pos
sible to procure so that thorough
test of the prospect could be made.
and we will make such a test"
Electric Light
The outfit includes among other
things an electric light outfit. which
is run by the waste steam from the
engine boiler. This apparatus is cap
able Of supplying 20 lights, and elec-
trio light will be the only light used
around the derrick and oil drilling
rig. This is done to prevent fire in
the event of the sudden discovery OF
oil combined with gas. Every part Of
the machinery appears to be of the
best possible make, and there is plenty
of it. There is also plenty of casing,
and in fact, the entire outfit seems
complete in every possible way.