Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-08
OI[ EXPERTS IF MANY COUNTRIES
 ] K BOWIE BASIN
Formation in Locality Declar- ed to be Ideal for the Dis covery of Oil; Local People Drilling; Many Interested

A concensus of opinion is expressed in the reports of a number of geolo- gists who have stuffed the oil possi- bilities of the Bowie Basin, charac- terizes that section as rich in promise for the production of petroleum. With marked unanimity they declare that this field exhibits happy union Of those essentials of structure and ge- ological era that are inseparable from the great oil fields of the world As if checking and corroborating the conclusions and deductions of his predecessors, each successive student of the field read it's geology along conYerging lines. All agree upon the classification of structure. the pres ence and approximate depth of the oil making and retaining strata and the freedom of the field from the op- eration of destructive forces.
 Professor Reneski, Poland, reported on this field in the summer of 1918. His work in the oil regions of Ga licia did much to eliminate and rem edy haphazard methods Of explora ton and to conform development to scientific principles. Tn reporting on Bowie Basin he was tho first to identify as cretaceous the zone of origin of the surface oil seepages. He likewise found and classified the low CT carboniferous and devonian and established their possibilities for pc tToleum and hvdro-carbons. He also established the anticlininal axis of tho field.
 After Reneski came Prof Gayhart Of Los Angeles whose findings inti- mately coincided with those Of Re neski
 Then came Prof. .U. G. Wolf of Fl Paso and Eli Webb Of Pittsburg, who, reporting at different dates, reached identical estimates on every phase of the subject.
 It should be borne in mind that these geologists had no personal ac- quaintance with each other and never read one another's reports, yet they harmonize with precision only usual in the work of personal collaborators
 Agreeing with the work of his predecessors in the same area comes Prof H. w. Locke of Socorro, N. NJ. and the Wyoming field, who has just finished a survey of the field He adds the weight of his opinion to the mass of that already recorded. He dwells with great emphasis upon the extent of the undisturbed sedimenta- ry beds and their exemption rom the complication common to g mountain country. He strongly favors the con tention that the oil bearing strata belongs to the Mezoic time and will be found in the cretaceous series.
 The test well of the Basin is now drilling in the heart or the field on the land of the United States Oil & Ref. Co. It is calculated that the ere taceous horizon will be 'penetrated and the source of the seepage oil disseminated through the quartenary deposits and constantly appearing in the slush from the well, will be reach ed before the middle of March. There is great interest felt through out Southern Arizona in the outcome of this drilling in the Bowie Basin. Encouraged by the spectacle of li- quid oil flowing in the slush pond. many sanguine observers who visit the drill site. take home coIorful sto- fies that bring flocks of land seekers and spectators into the field. who swarm into the outlying reaches of the desert in search of claims"
 The public mind is fast becoming attuned for the impending stampede to new Eldorado and should the oil come, as so many feel sure it will, there will be standing room only in the Bowie Basin.