The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-27
Government Biologists Point Out
Possible Production in New
Mexico Wildcat Field;
Find Structures,
TRACE FORMATIONS
FROM OKLA. FIELDS
Little Evidence of Oil Found to
Date; Says Wells Should Be
Sunk Deep; Think from
1000 to 5000.

Washington, June 27-In an exam
nation of the geologic structure of
parts of New Mexico made during the
last four years by the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior, N II. DartCn, geologslt, has
discovered ia the beds Of rock many
domes and arches that may lie re9er-
voirs Of oil or gas If these substan-
ces are present in the regions exam
ined. These flexed beds are parts OF
formations that produce oil in Wyom'
ing, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas,
but little evidence of the presence
of oil and gas in them has yet been
found in New Mexico. A small
amount Of oil at Dayton and few
seeps and some traces OF oil report
ed in water wells at several other
places are the only favorable indi-
cations so far reported. Only a fe%
deep wells have been bored in New
Mexico, however, and these have
been bored in places where the struc-
ture was not favorable for the occur
renee of oil or gas, or the wells have
not been drilled deep enough to make
them satisfactory tests Much of the
Geologic guidance used in loca.i1g
the wells drilled has come from IT.
competent expert, - one "eosne
having been deduced from haphazhrd
dips taken from layers of cross
bedded sandstone. One probably
hopeless project is a deep hole in the
middle of Tularosa desert, where
there are no rock outcrops to indi'
cate structure. In some Of the hec-
tic literal ire Writen to prolncta th2
sale OF oil .tock the chief geonB 81 If
the Unite. states Geological Survey
is falsely quoted as authority for the
statement that New Mexico would
develop ono Of the biggest oil fields
on, this ointment There is ~ :oun-
! dation for such a statement.
Promising Domes and Arches.
The general structure of central
eastern New Mexico is that of an east
ward dipping monoclne, but there
are local rehearsals Of dips due to
domes and arches, or anticline5
some of which are rather prominent
! Only a few of the many localities
where these structural features ap
pear to be favorable to the storage OF
gas or oil, if either exists in this re
gion, can be mentioned here. II
Guadalupe county, for example, the
apex of one of the most clearly mark
| ed domes in the west central part o.
~. II N, r. 10 E. The uplifted beds
/ which are $500 feet thick, are OF Per
mian and Pennsylvania age, ta'
Pennsylvania beds lying on granite
at a vertical depth Cf 200 feet o
more. On Plntada creek, in the cen
ter of r. 8 N, r. 19 E. there Is
smaller dome involving the same stra
ia. and a slightly less pronounce
dome is indicated in the same canyol
q few miles above Pintada post ol
flee. There are several broad. loN
acres in the strata in the northeas
corner of this county and in adtoir
ing parts of San Miguel, the mex
II In
broad. low anticline in the red bed
passes a short distance east OF Tt
cumsari and extends for some di'
tance north and souht CT the Roc
Island railroad. In De Baca count
the strata dip nearly due east in gel
eral, but a few local reversals of di
suggest that minor domes or archie
may be found when a detailed su
vey is made Lincoln county Is tr'
versed by a broad anticline that lie
| east of the Sierra Blanca structur'
} | basin and passes near Lincoln. In th
. western part of Lincoln county thel
, are several domes that appear to
. favorable for the storage of oil, 9
: though there is no visible evidenC
+ that they contain oil. They are
; T. 6 s., R. 3 E., in the northeast pa
. of t. 9 s., R E., and in the cents
= CT T. 5 s, R IL f. In the eas;ei
. part of socorro county there is a n