Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-02-15

the Holbrook section-and the enter prising spirit which they absorbed during their residence in America leads to the conviction that the time to get the most desirable sit for a refinery at a low price is before oil is actually struck and the wild boom is on.
 Mir. Loper has picked out several sites, from which he will make a final selection, and left early in the week for Phoenix for the purpose of getting a price on one of them. He will return shortly.
 From information which has come to F. s. Graham, one of the drillers for the Hopi Oil Company, the pros pective oil area of the Holbrook field may be even more extensive than has been thought. In Professional Paper 93 of the U. s. Geological Survey, by Herbert E. Gregory, map of section from the San Juan river in Utah where oil was found in twenty out of twenty-five wells drilled-to Hol- brook, shows that the Goodridge for nation of the Pennsylvanian series of the Carboniferous age underlies the whels section, though it crops to the surface only in the San Juan country and in the vicinity of Holbrook. Some of the most prolific field of the country are found in that formation. MT. Graham's information is that oli and gas seepages have been found in tributaries of the main Colorado river, about 65 miles northwest of Flagstaff, and that the Indians fol years have caught up the oil from the surface of the water and used it for medicine. In the same vicinity one can dig into the surface, and from the opening, gas will come which, when lighted, will burn until the sand caves in. This section t inaccessible at this time, but MT Graham has made arrangements te go there in the spring and make g thorough investigation. Near his ole home in Texas oil was found on the surface of small lake and no atten tion was paid to it for years. It i: now the center of great oil-produc ing section and has made people ht knew immensely rich.
 From the above it seems probable that the oil field, of which Holbrool is near the center, will extend some distance west of Flagstaff, and tha' it's northern limits will be the Sal Juan oil field in Utah. Though thu San Juan field is so situated geo graphically that the expense of mar keting the oil is almost prohibitive it was being successfully developed until in October, 1909, the govern ment withdrew from entry the lant in that vicinity.
 According to Bulletin 431 of the U S, Geological Survey, by Marius R Campbell, one of the wells in the Sa' Juan field, though only 220 feet deep was a gusher---"oil spouting to height of 70 feet. This we'll is il the Goodridge sand, the same whiel is in evidence near Holbrook.
 Henry Beeler, former state gsolo gist of Wyoming, arrived here las Sunday in company with Bob Adams I He came for the purpose of goin, over the field thoroughly, and pos sibly to spot the wells for x1 fAdams, but deep mud from recen storms prevented this and he va forced ts postpone the examination until the last of tho week.
 | Among other prominent visitors 2 Holbrook, most of whom invested il oil lands, arc: Thos. Taylor, viee president of the Bank of Deming, N M., and o. F. Tidmore, . merehan of the same place; J. s. Price, busi ness man and investor of Chicago Henry A. Cole, an oil man of To Angeles; Joseph Rankin, who IS in terested in the Texas fields; and Be McCloskey, a mining and oil man o Los Angeles.