Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-29
PARAFF|N FOUND IN O|L WELL AT
 65O LEVEL
DRILL AT UNITED CHINO CUTS THROUGH STRATA OF SANDSTONE WHICH CARRIES EVERY INDICA- TON OF PETROLEUM.
(From Sundays Daily)

The big drill which is pounding away night and day at the property of the United Chino Oil & Refining Company in the Chino valley, bumped into another mighty good indication of oil on Friday night, a strata Of red sandstone heavily impregnated with paraffin being encountered at a depth of approximately $50 feet. The rock which came up with the bailings from the we'll was so we'll soaked in the oily substance that it could read fly be whittled. A large piece of the sand stone was placed in the fire and the oil and paraffin bubbled out of 1t, leaving a blackish carbon deposit in place of the greasy substance. Ac- cording to Head Driller Johnson, the cncountering of the paraffin indica- tions Is practically certain forerun- ner to the discovery of oil in con- mcrcial quantities, and in the opin- ion of MT. Johnson. petroleum should be found within the next thirty days. The drill is making good progress just now, and Johnson believes that he can make an average of about 30 feet a day for the next month, at the end of which time he is almost certain that he will bring in a we'll which will put Yavapai county on the map as an oil center
 Johnson bases his belief on the fact that in his long experience as driller in the Tampico, Mexico, fields, he encountered practically the same conditions just before he brought in Q gusher, and he has ordered the work at the United Chino property rushed through night and day in an effort to get at the oil deposits which he thinks are to be opened somewhere below the 1,O00-foot mark. Several of the officials of the United Chino organization had been looking into the situation developed by the recent passage of the federal oil land lease, it being their intention to get lease on large acreage in the Maricopa, Calif., fields. Upon learning of this MT Johnson hastily advised them not to turn their attention to the Cali fornia oil fields, but to stick close to theGChino district, because he was al- most willing to wager them that oil would be hit in large quantities within the next month, and that after this, the organizers of the United Chino would be quite content to look after the business which would be produced right here in Yavapai county.
 X number of the samples of the paraffin rock Nre exhibited in Pres- colt yesterday, and several of the oil experts who had had experience in the Taft and Whittier fields in Cali fornia. stated that the presence of paraffin at the 65O mark was sufficient to cause them to believe that oil would be hit in large quantities be- fore many more days.
 Each time the well is bailed out. the presence of light oil is becom- ing more and more marked, large black drops of crude oil now appear Ing occasionally and the smell of gas becoming more apparent. For sev- cral days last week the gas came out of the we'll in such quantities as to resemble a light blue mist and was 70 strong as to cause the employees 10 refrain from lighting matches or smoking near the, we'll.
 The company announces in todays Journal Miner that the stock Is to be from market on June lst. It is understood the company IS go- ing to list its stock on N. Y. Curb. -