The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-02-10
UTAH OIL FIND IS
FA[[ON ARGUMENT
Especial Correspondence

fAILON, feDfuafy 1.-TWO events
have tended to stimulate speculation
and activity in the new boom field at
Fallon. One is in concrete form, the
other in theory. The first Is the cut
ting of a shallow oil sand at depth of
only 500 feet In the test well on the
Williams ranch. This we'll last week
cut a thin strata of Ignite coal at
depth of 375 feet This enthused
all the oil men of the district and the
engineers and geologists predicted
that this would be followed by an oil
sand at little more depth. Their
theories prove correct. At the time
of this writing. the extent of the seep-
age is not fully known, as unfortu-
nately before the oil sand had been
fully explored breakdown occurred
which will delay further drilling
day or two. This well is being put
down, to test the formation, by the
Churchill County Oil and Gas Com
pany, who have leases on the Will
liams ranch. 1t was on this ranch
some months ago, and which attracted
a great deal of attention at the time
The other event of Importance is
the bringing in of a well at Moab,
Utah. While Fallon, Nevada, and
Moab, Utah, are far removed from
each other. yet there is a close re-
lationship in that the Moab well utter
ly confounds the theory advanced by
some geologists that owing to vol
canic origin no oil can exist between
the Rocky and Sierra mountains.
They admit that the formation is ideal
but say that the oil was burned out at
some early date. 1t is this theory,
so persistently exploited, that has
kept capital from investing The his
tory of the Moab we'll begins some
fourteen years ago and no doubt if
told in full would parallel that of
Charles Lindner, who has had "oil at
diiOh 90 hfo cAO6ai lOl QDOut tHC
same period of time The 1000 barrel
we'll at Moab at depth of only 1850
feet removed the rock that has
blocked the wheels of capital.
The Rainer Oil Company, composed
of business men of Reno, Nevada, San
Francisco and Tacoma. has holdings
of 1900 acres, a portion of which has
been plotted, surveyed and recorded
as a townsite Their derrick is up
and it is their intention to begin
active development at once.
The Big Four Oil Company work is
progressing and another carload of
casing is on the way in. The Fallon
Pioneer, of which Jay L. Heady is
fiscal agent, is making good progress
with its big standard rig.
The Peerless Oil Company, Thomas
P. Nelson, field manager, a California
company, with two producing wells
on its California property, is prepar-
ing for active work on its Fallon
holdings. The Weaver Oil Company,
also California company. will go
660 feet with 121ainch casing and the
next 1000 feet with 10-inch and then
on with S-inch.
The Lassen Oil and Refining Com
pany is being successfully financed
and has added very materially to its
holdings. This is another company
headed by California capitalists. Their
ground was recently reported on very
favorably b. E. P. Ossgood, whose re-
ports on this field have proven so
accurate.
The crew for the Silver State Con-
solidated Oil Corporation arrived
from California oil fields and started
at once on placing of machinery.
The Silver State for a month-40e