The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1919-12-19
FT-Y-BARREL on WELL
BR0UGnT m NEAR GALLUP

The prediction ~ government 81
|oloeisls that New Mexico Is soon 70
become an important producer Of
petroleum Is strengthened by the
bringing In Of a commercial well IN
Mckinley county In the northwest
crn part OF the state. The OIL well
which was brought In on the Ferris
homestead near Gallup, D. nov said
10 b. a paying proposition and will
produce about 50 barrels Of oil a day
The oil is high In grade and should
bring top prices on the market The
well H. down less than $50 feet and
In TN days The OIL has rome up be-.
the casing 10 the height Of 200 feet
Two GfO-barrel tanks are now on
the way 10 the site Of the we'll and
will be set up IN y few days, but the
exact capacity Of the new we'll can
not be determined until the pumping
machinery Is on the ground and b.
tested out The Gallup field b In
ihc same grcat basin rs The oil Geld
near Aztec. san Juan county. about
100 miles farther north. where a we'll
drilled some years ago b. said 10 be
eood for % barrels o day. but heing
loo far from market Is moi utilized.
Tho geological features Of Gallup
Geld arr said 10 be similar 10 lhose
IDf the Holbrook neld IN Navajo
county. Arizona. which are about
ao miles southwest. The same oil
field extends south through san Au-
suslino plains, which Prof. Fayctth
tones has reported as a likely OIL
region.
IF. Nassau Of Denver. who ha.
been In Magdalona. n. NJ for several
weeks looking over western Socorro
county oil prospects, has closed q
contract for leases lon the Red Lake
county covering approximately %.
900 acres Of oil placer claims aud
leases ON state land for the purpose
II drilling for oil.
The kcoughan % Hurst Drilling
company ~ Denver. which has Just
iaken leases upon 10000 acres Of
state land In Socorro county. New
Mexico. b. assembling tools and ma
terials preparatory 10 moving upon
the tract and beginning 10 develop
40 once.
The Navajo and Apache Indian
reservations in New MEXICO and Ari
IONA have recently been opened Ia
prospectors. and already The rush io
those fields has begun. According lo
the holbrook Tribune. there are q
number of oil seepagcs In evidence
in the Navajo reservation which Wi
be- Of great interest 10 oil men. The
government has shown through d.
geolouisis that practically the same
conditions exist there in the Iol-
brook field as in tn San Juan held
IA southern Utah, whore CONNER
cial oil has been developed. These
g%eulogisls years aro traced the co..
ditions from that field IN the south
lOf the little Colorado river at Hol-
brook. II = due 10 these early IN
yosiigations and reports on the part
lof the government that g~eologisi.
aud oil operators were attracted o.
the Holbrook aud Gallup fields. all
of which, after thorough cxamina-
tion, have placed their approval up
ON the belt as being a possible
highly productive one.
Petroleum has been found at two
places in the Navajo country at
Seven lakes, on the Chaco plateau.
and at Goodridge IN the San Juan
valley. both in New Mexico.
y. l. Goodridge discovered oil on
the north side Of Sun Juan river
about 30 miles below Blun, Utah. in
iss2. and stakcd q claim on the site.
Drilling. however. was not begun III,
In 1907. by the end Of 1911, p wells
had been drilled. nine of which are
producing oil at a depth Of about
225 feet In what Is known as the
Goodridge sand series Of pennsyl
yania age. There are five sand
stone siratas In this series, all Of
which are producing oh.
The oil seeps are found between
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