Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-04
Chino VALLEY OIL
FIELD HAS FUTURE
EXPERT BELIEVES
(By P. R. Milnes.)

PRESCOTT, Arizona, Dec. 3-"In
my experience, covering nearly every
oil field on this continent, have never
seen any other un .ested location that
presented so many favorable features
as this one
This is what R. Ronald Sager, a
Standard oil geologist, wrote in sum-
marizing his report on the Chino Val
ley field, where a boom is low pre-
vailing and where a number of COM
panies. chief among which is the New
York Chino Valley Oil Syndicate, are
making preparations to drill in the I'M
mediate future Two companies al
ready have rigs on the way to the
field and others are engaging in finan-
cial campaigns with the same end in
view
Sager, who is known from coast TO
coast as a man whose opinions on OIL
fields are very much worth while
agrees with Etienne Ritter and other
noted biologists who have inspected
Chino valley, although he had not seen
their reports. Excerpts from his re-
port follow:
Il learn that this district mas been
funder favorable consideration for the
prospects Of oil for a period CT about
ten years past, and that reports from
oil biologists and reputable practical
oil men have been more or less favor
able to this district Notable among
| the biologists who have recently re-
ported favorably upon the Chino val
| ley oil stratification is DR.. Etienne A.
Ritter, mining engineer, doctor of sci
ences. member of the American Insti-
tute OF Mining Engineers and of the
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
In T. Is N, r. W., there has been
well drilled, reaching a depth OF
practically 1900 feet. l learned from
local his ory that this well was started
number of years ago by local people
and as result of lack OF knowledge of
the formation they would be likely to
encounter, they were compelled to
give up drilling at about 1900 feet
am satisfied from the statements and
data available that the well was drill
ed through 100 feet of oil sand, and
| that the showing for paraffin oil of
| high gravity was remarkably good
There is an abundance OF evidence
! in this field of the cretaceou lines,
with their various contents, to insure
base from which oil and gas are
created. There are many indications
of the porous sandstones and shales
to collec. the oil. and convey same.
: also the necessary strata or rock 10
form an impervious or oil-tight cover
ior oil-bearing sandstones and shales.
TINS oil structure is located on
an extensive anticline of carboniferous
/ limestone called the Black Fores.
mesa Nearly all the geological for
nations found there are exposed in
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado to
the northwest, and again in the Jerome
mining district to the southeast.
In making an approximate estimate
OF the thickness of the various forma-
] tons, one can only try to strike a gen.
eral average of the exposures at the
Grand Canyon and Jerome. | would es-
/ timae that it would be more than $500
feet to the bottom of the sedimentaries
or possible oil formations included in
this anticline, probably a considerable
less depth.
The fact that no proven oil well has
as yet been discovered in Arizona is
no indication that there, should not be
oil In the state. AS | have heretofore
stated, the various attempts made to
drill have no bearing from the stand
point of thorough test"