Arizona republican., 1917-05-18

being undertaken here of vital import ance to the future of the great local smelting and mining industries. as wei, as to the world at large, and which are likely to place Arizona in the unique position of rivaling Oklahoma
 in her basic industry. is the assertion of P L. Mullen. of Oatman. Arizona, well known in connection with the
 famous Tom Reed mine of which he was in charge for many years.
 Associated with MT. Mullen in the
 Arizona Del Rio Oil company are q number of men whose activities nave
 made them millionaires and largely in
 creased the taxable wealth of Arizona
 among them Geo. Rahhitt Of Pabbitt Brothers and Of Rabbit x Poison, re- cent purchaser for $212,00 of the Gen. tral school property in Phoenix whose multifarious activities ramify over the state. MT. Mullen is stopping at the Adams hotel and his story of how he induced George Rabbit to take an interest in the hitherto discredited occupation of 1 hunting for oil in Arizona furnishes aE interesting commentary on the import ance nov attached to such experiments by even men of the most substantial wealth and conservative trend of mind
  out by saying that oil is the one miss , ing link in the industrial chain here in Arizona and that if he finds any kind of oil in commercial quantities, from midnight oil to castor Gil that this state will be the scene of such stu pendOuS boom as the world has not yet seen.
 He says: "A few months ago my at tertion was attracted to reports that some parafine base oil had been found in the Chino Valley section. Mr Hays and I made trip to investigate and found some people trying to recover an old well drilled years before which had
 been regarded as spoiled. They were
 hai1ing the day we arrived and let of
 gas was coming up and some stuff they
 said was oil. We went and burned some of it because we were afraid it
 wasn't oil but it was The showing was so good it didn't take us long to
 decide to secure some land in the vii
 cinity. Then we went to Mir. Amund-
 sen, general mana ger of Eabhitt Broth CTS system of stores. and to Mir. George Babbitt, and told them what possibil-
 ities there were for oil. They said they didn't want to be in any unsuccessful ] oil wells and the only way they would i consider it would be if we would have report made by the most competent
 man they could select and in case the report was favorable. We finally agreed | and they named Etienne E. Ritter con- sulting geologist of the Midwest Com ! pany of Wyoming. He came on and we
 drove him back and forth all over fifty or sixty miles of territory for ten days and his report cost us some money al right, but it was favorable Then we went back to MT Rabbitt and MT.
 Amundsen and their friends and they
 came in after Fred Hensin2, their reg ular field man and partner, came down
 and tasted the real oil and said It isn't good enough to eat but it's good , enough to spend some money on" While MT. Ritter was there he kindly told us that most of the land we had previously secured wasn't worth much because it was in a syncline instead of an anticline but we didn't care much because he showed us where the good oil land was and we were able to get it as we were there first before people
 had grabbed about all the land within i twenty-five miles like they have now In fact MT. Ritter says we now have far the best chance of anybody to get oil and to get the biggest wells"