El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-21
INDICATIONS FOR PLENTY OIL NEAR ALAMOGORDO
NEAR OSCURA AND OTHER NEW MEXICO POINTS
Big Flow of Gyp Water in
New Well of Twin Buttes
Company Near Alamo.
By NETTIE VI. VAN EPPs.

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"A Indications point to real oil in
L , the vicinity of AlamoGordO and
/ it would be no surprise any day nov
i TO have a real oil flow brought in.
/ The well OF the Twin Butte Oil and
/ Gas company that is being drilled
about IS miles south and west of Ala
| magordo. \. NJ. and about two and a
half miles south and east OF the
'Plain of White Sands
The Twin Butte OIL and Gas com
pany has 1880 acres OF land lying
I between the Sacramento and san An
: dreas range OF mountains in the
! Tularosa basin The well is located
on what appears 10 be major anti
clinal fold, running north ana SCUM
and reached from Alamagordo by
driving over badly cut up and dusty
/ gypsum roads
On the way one passes good looking
! farm houses. that are Unoccupied,
windows broken, farm yards filled
with scraps that spell busted. py
thunder" and the farms deserted
Wen OF Real Water.
From the beginning OF the drive
you catch glimpses of the White
Sands" Mountains are the back
ground in every direction What APP
pears in the distance as mirage
proves to be a lake Of real water
more than q mile in length by
quarter mile wide-and the cattle
along the banks drinking prove to be
real live cattle, and YOU wonder;
Where can the water come from IN
this dusty, deserted, apparently -God
forsaken" country A round about
drive Of a couple Of miles brings you
to the derricks Of the Twin Butte on
and Gas COMPANY An arteSlan Wen
OF any kind is a wonder. but here one
finds an artesian we'll Of warm
-Gippy water. flowing more than
1000 gallons a minute. 5ubbllng up
through a ten inch casing and pillng
over the top with Club, Club that
seems 10 say "this is not the best ]
could DO. but this is all the room j
have"
Penetrating The Mystery.
7 felt perfectly helpless as 1 stood
in the derrick by the side OF this Won
Gerful wei OF water could see the
miles of White Sands" on one side
and the dusty trail we had just
driven over on the other, the seeming
~ impossible splashing all over me,
and I wished / was gelOglst. one OF
the kind that can tell all about the
undiscovered things in this wonder
full world OF ours, and my thoughts
went back TO an old man who has
spent the best part Of his life drilling
for oil and he says. There amt no
such thing IL is only hole IN the
ground that tells
The Twin Butte Oil company is
made I'D Of men who live in -Alama
gordo Y. n W. B. Jackson is presi-
dent. L. y Jones, mayor Of Alamo
gordO. vice president Chas T. Thomas,
secretary and trea surer. G.. E. Ward,
field superintendent DR.. j. r. Gil
bert. Lee r. York. attorney; Geo: l.
Lanley and ". c. Haynes complete
hoard If directors They We're
attracted TO this location d. an out
cropping OF lime stone which gives OH
q pronounced Odor OF petroleum This !
outcrcpping occurs on the anticline
where the well is being drilled and la
many other locations on their prop
erty- The present well is cased with
10 inch casing
Good OIL Indications.
There has been more or less gas
from tine be"inning-at about 500 feet
there was some oil at $50 feet they
drilled into artesian water. below the
water they also have some oil But
ON account OF not being ready TO case
the water off they can not tell
whether there is coil in paying guam
titles
The intention of the company in the (
beginning was 10 drill TO depth OF
1000 feet unless oil and gas in paying
Quantities were found at lesser Z
depth From present indications II /
would seem that il viii not be neces- ]
sary 10 carry this well 10 the depth Z
originally intended
Several days spent in prospecting in /
the vicinity OF this we'll show vast (
beds Of gypsum. salt and the sulphides
Of sodium and magnesium The plain
Of the White Sands" occupies the
central part Of the basin. forming the
largest body Of gypsum sands in the
world This and the OutcrOppings OF
limestone that gives off petroleum
gas suggest the presence Of pc
troleUm and warrant the drilling for
Oil
OH Indications Elsewhere.
This IS only one location in New
Mexico that suggests petroleum"
There are others
About % miles north and west of
Albuquerque there is an autcrOpping
OF sandstone completely filled with
oil. The writer spent ten weeks and
personally traced this outcropping
for a distance Of about so miles. 1
have also seen the crude oil come 10
the surface in a spring in the same
location There are mountains OF
fossils. gypsum in crystalized form, I
coal. shale and limestone carrying pc I
troleum gas There has been. all told, I
about $4,000 spent in drilling in this
locality but on account Of the excess /
sively hard formation, none Of the