The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-02-14
TWELVE OIL WELLS
FOR SULPHUR FIELD
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marin deposits containing organic life
which was deposited in it. Those ge-
| ologists who maintain that marine
life is the origin of petroleum, find
here in the Black Rock Desert, ample
evidence to support their theory. Hun
dreds of square miles are spread out
in the Black Rock Desert that was
once a source of tropical Or semi
tropical marine life. Through con-
traction Of the earth, a rim was lifted
and a huge basin formed. During the
Tertiary period, it is assumed, nature
threw in cubic miles Of animal tissue
and countless billions of fish and all
sorts of marine life, also such miner
ais as salt, sulphur and lime for pre-
servatives. The constant contraction
of the earth and movement OF the
faulting planes formed corrugations
usually called folds, and these OF the
anticlines, which are called domes.
Through solfataric action, heat was
generated and the rendering OF tn,
fats of the marine life commenced n
this, through countless centuries, was
covered over and Theoretically sealed.
At least, this, in condensed form, is
the theory of some biologists as to
the origin of oil and there seems to
BE- substantial foundation for this
theory.
This theory leads to the interest
ing speculations when one finds in the
north end of the Black Rock Desert
an artesian we'll bringing up from
out the earth with the flow of water
blind fish, the source and origin o
which are unknown. There is geo
logical evidence to demonstrate the
tropical nature of this region and
here also is found fossils, lime, sui
phur, gypsum, shale, etc. In a gravel
bed, about two miles east of Sulphur
on land of the Western Pacific, the
bones of huge prehistoric animals
were found that crumbled to dust
when exposed to the air. One tooth
the molar of such an animal, was I'M
covered that was of enormous size
and weighed possibly twenty pounds
These remains were identified as
those of huge animals of prehistoric
times inhabiting tropical jungles.
Southeast of Sulphur, about three
in the Antelope Mountains, are
sulphur mines that have been worked
'or about forty years. These noun
,ains are a continuation of the Jack
Mountains and form the easterly
and southerly rim, or walls, of the
Black Rock Desert at Sulphur.
Sulphur appears to be the most ia
vorable location for the drilling of
test well to prove the petroleum
possibilities of the Black Rock Des-
ert. The favorable geological condi-
and the very important fact that
paraf1n oil has been dis
covered at shallow depths at Sulphur
leads to the conclusion and predic-
ton that a we'll drilled near Sulphur
to a depth of 1900 to 1000 feet will,
question, result in substantial
production and the discovery of a new
oil field of high-grade parafin oil.
Such a discovery would afford almost
financial returns for those
advantage of present condi-
1t would probably mean as
much to Nevada and the West as the
discovery of the Comstock Lode.
A standard drilling rig should be
used in drilling operations, and a
practical, experienced oil man placed
in charge and kept right on the job
until the well is completed, which
should result in rapid progress. Drill
ing conditions are very favorable. The
Western Pacific well was sunk
through clay, gravel and shale, $40
feet, with only one string of eleven
and 1ve-eights diameter, medium
weight casing.
Two strings of ten and eight-inch
new California Special pipe would, no
doubt, be sufficient to drill to the oil
formation