Weekly journal-miner., 1918-02-06
VENTURA MAC IS CHIEF DR|[LER
 AT CHINO WELL
MAN WHO KNOWS OIL LIKE MOTHER KNOWS HER BABY SAYS IT IS A CINCH THAT WELLS WILL BE DEVELOPED.
(From Saturdays Daiiy)

(From Saturdays Daiiy) Vincent F. McDermott, known throughout the California oil fields as Ventura Mac" has joined forces with Dr. E. A. Edwards in the de- vclopment of the Chino Valley Oil ! fields.
 He has become chief assistant to Dr. Edwards who is personally in charge of the drilling operations or the Arizona Oil & Refining Com pany's property.
 Ventura Mac" will be in charge of the field operations for the Arizona Gil Company, besides giving Dr. Ed wards the benefit of his years of ex- pcrience as an oil driller.
 It was the Chino valley oil boom that brought Mir. McDermott away from one of the best jobs on the Pacific coast.
 Sure there's oil in Chino valley" he asserted confidently several days ago. "Dr. Edwards says there is, and that's good enough for me. Now you are going to see little Mac horning in where he can do the most good for himself and grab off the biggest hunk of coin. I've fussed around long en- ough-let several fortunes get away from me, because l was too slow to grab them; but this time I'm going 10 show a little speed and common sense. Millions are going to be made in Chino valley, and one or two of them are going to be mine or I'll know the reason why"
 Before he came to Chino valley he was sales agent for the Ventura Re lining company. He is the man who pushed Ventura gasoline to the top in California. Before he went with the Ventura concern he was with the Puentc Oil Company in similar capacity. Before that he was driller in . dozen fields.
 How did l happen to come to- Chino valley" he reminisced. Well I had a good job in Los Angeles, but il was cnly job, and the life was living made it impossible for me toi get ahead. l knew that the time was coming along when l ought to think about making a stake. So went to T. w. Oakley, general salesmanager of the Ventura company, and told him my troubles.
 "I want to get out into some new oil field where there's chance for a man of experience to get in on the ! ground floor and make few dol i lars for myself, instead of for the other fellow, l told him.
 "'If you're in earnest about this, Mac, he replied, go over to Prescott. 1 Somewhere around there IS valley where they're going to drill for oil. Dr. Edwards is over there, and he thinks he's going to find oil. Con- meet yourself with some company that he is identified with
 "So l took that advice and here am. As l passed through Jerome function it struck me that 1t would be the finest place in the world for an oil field Think of it. A railroad running right through the middle oi the field. and all these big copper mines only few miles away.
 "You may ask me why l go so much on Edwards judgment We'll, was up in Taft before anybody ever found oil there. They were drilling up in the hills, and finding nothing Edwards advised them to go down into the flat, but they thought that he was crazy. Finally some darn fool did go down in the flat, and he got ! gushcr that started the Taft ex- citcmcnt.
 Edwards knows oil formations. He has had an almost uncanny sue cess in finding oil, and I'm going to string in with him I'm going to stick until Chino valley is the biggest oil field in the United States"