The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-17
WILEY TELLS WHY OIL MUST
Be FOUND IN THIS DISTRICT
Well Known Expert Made Report i'm
Elemental Terms, Understandable
Laiety.
Reno, Nevada, Dec. 15, 1919.

ACA oOiiit iottif anu ddhitiOhui
information, as to my study of the
Fallon oil field formation, | am
herewith pleased to hand you my
latest summary of the geological de-
velopments as | now find them.
| prefer to give this report to you
that it may have wide circulation
through your Bulletin than to sell
it to some private company to use
with all rights reserved and thereby
make a lot of money for themselves
tot he exclusion of others. | would
much rather see oil wells drilling or
an oil gusher flowing. 1t has been
my object to make plain certain
features that exist on the field, to
those that may go out to the field
and see for themselves, rather than
| resort to "technicalities" and the
quoting of Ancient authorities. With
this object in view | submit the fol-
owing exclusive report:
This Neocene deposits of the Fal-
.on. oil field area was evidently
layed down upon flow of an erup-
tion, of chiefly andesite of Tertiary
age. Related no doubt to the same
| Indesite intrusion referred to by
Lakes, in the Comstock lode situat-
ed some so miles to the south west
from this Fallon oil field. This re-
port states that the Comstock lode
shows displacement of about 5000
feet along a line OF faulting in erup-
tive rocks of Tertiary age. This
region is one of intense past yulca-
nieity. whose dying forces are still
seen in the hot boiling waters at
Steamboat Springs nearby.
Ii was in the beginning of this
solfatarie hot water springs and
fumeroles period that ore eoncen-
tration and deposition appears to
have taken place. As at this steam
boat springs we have these condi-
tions of a fissure vein actually form
ing before our eyes.
This hot water belt carrying In SO
luton florine, chlorine, and sulphur
has found an outlet through fault
ines of this tertiary intrusion to the
r'allon sedimentary fields and at the
early stage found egress from be-
,a.tt .ho .ad;v.a,.orv hade N,
through he Salt Wells uplift neal
- cente~ g. this :is.G CveTao weo
with more or less dynamic expul-
sions, carrying out great masses o.
salfatartaric decomposed lavas, par
tally metamorphosed sandstone
and shales, and other sediment
4 ong the course of action, SOM
showing an oil st4in and oil co,or-
alton.
As this overflow built up a cone
of this material, then the entrance
ehoked and later sealed by oxidation.
fhe sediments from this hot geysel
became scattered over the north end
of this field by erosion as we now
find it today.
There has been a hot water seep
age no doubt from the beginning a.
the south west margin of this field,
seeping up through the overburden
flowing out over the salt deposit
which is abundant in this part of the
field, caused borax to accumulate
permeate the soil and form a crus.
upon the surface. This borax hat
been scraped up and refined at the
lAinney borax works near by. A
new crust or deposit reforms within
a few years, but not so rich as tue
original one. The "Salines," whicl.
contains the borax receives then
supply from these hot springs re-
sulting from the neighboring vo.-
e4nlc emanation. Quoting Prof. K.
s. Tarr, in his economic geology,
he states: Petroleum, natural gas
and salt water frequently occur to-
gether intimately associated in
stratified rocks of the tertiary sedi-
mentaries, such as the shales, sand
stones and iimestones.
Oil and gas has been seeping up
through this Kinney salt deposit for
ages, churn drill holes has been
sunk down on this to sufficient depth
to tap the hot water flow that has
been seeping up from fracture plains
deeper down by the constant flow
through these salt beds, causing such
agitation and by evaporation in this
arid lake has refined this salt, that
il is claimed to be one of the purest
grades of salt known.
When this salt we'll uplift became
sealed up, then this hot water flow
coming up from beneath these sedi-
mentary beds. began the process of
distillation of these oil shale beds by
percolating through loosely strait
fled sand stratas, fractured plains
md penetrating the oil shale stratas
driving the oil into anticiine domes
aud cavities, the later fromed per-
haps by the displaeements of flow
material from the salt wells uplift
geyser. These cavities would be-
come assessable for oil reservoirs or
pools. This process should be in ac-
tion today IL any of the oil shales
are left undistilled. From certain
parts of this field where erosion has