Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19
BOISE men BUY
DRILLING RIG IN
VALE OIL field
The Pacific Oil & Gas Com
pany Will Engage in Elk
tensive Operations in
Eastern Oregon.
(Staff Correspondence.)

Vale, Ore. Nov. tS.-An important
deal was closed here Friday afternoon
whereby the Western Pacific Oil II
Gas company of Boise. whose head Of
flee is in the overland building, pur-
chased complete standard drilling
rig belonging to Doin Miles of Baker
Ore This rig has sufficient power to
drill down to a depth of 5000 feet.
Three years ago Franklin c. Wiley
of Derry, N. H.. secured an option on
four STANDARD drilling rigs in what is
locally known as Wales south oil field
TWO of these rigs belonged to w. T
Davidson of Vale, one TO Dolan Miles
of Baker, and one to Charles BesgroVe
OF Spokane.
II was only recently that Mr.. Wiley
was compelled to give up title to two
of The rigs, Mr.. Wiley having left the
Vale field lie dormant these three
years
INTERESTED BOISE COMPANY.
r. W. Davidson of Vale who for q
number of years has given much OF
his time and money IN an effort to
have this oil field developed, and still
has an abiding faith that this is Il real
oil field, got busy when Wiley gave
up two of the standard rigs here. Mr.
ljdNlOSpn SuttFFutu III interesting w
u. Meyers. formerly an oil expert in
the California and other fields. now
vice president and general manager OF
the Western Pacific Oil & Gas COM
pany of Boise. Mr. Davidson had Mr..
Meyers look over the rigs at the south
oil field here several weeks ago. Mr..
Meyers was SO much interested in the
field and was so much impressed on
his first visit hprp fhDt hp- La ct E'ri1n \
brought other officers Of his company
here These men are W. \. Reeves.
president l.. s. Savidge. secretary and
T.. w. johnson. treasurer. Mr., David
son accompanied these four men on
their trip to the south field. After
showing them the indications, they al
so became very favorably impressed
with the field They purchased thC
standard rig, including all the tools
and equipment that belonged TO Dolin
Miles.
WHAT RIG INCLUDES.
\ complete standard drilling rig
consists of n 45 horse power boiler and
q "a horse power Oil well engine; two
strings of tools to drill Il hole from IA
inches down to four inches: bull
wheels. calf wheels. casing blocks COM
pletc with steel cables. sand wheel with
steel sand line complete; fishing tools
such as three sets of slip sockets of
various sizes under reamers. casing
spears, rope spears, combination sock
cts. and various other fishing tools too
numerous TO mention.
The deal includes d standard derrick
So feet high. with walking beam and
the foundation for the derrick and
engine. In addition the deal includes
another engine and boiler in complete
running order. which have been used
for doing location and assessment
work.
In addition to the standard rig are
many extras such drilling stems, a
main shaft etc, that have never been
used and are just as they come from
tho factory. These also are included
I'm the deal.
Vale is directly tributary TO Boise
i'm Il commercial WAY. The growth aud
development of Vale is of interest to
l'oisc. Should tho Western Pacific OH
4 Gas company develop the oil field
here, their success would be a direct
benefit to Boise.