The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-02-05
.L|GN|TE COAL FOUND
IN FA[[0N OIL FIELD
(special Correspondence,

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Wednesday and Thursday of last
week one road was blocked with auto
mobiles, en- route to the Williams
ranch and Fallonites got little
taste of what would happen when
big well should come in. The
Churchill County Oil & Gas Co has
lease on the Williams ranch and are
putting down a test well about fifty
feet from the water well. drilled some
months ago. This water well made
good showing of oil seepage and at
traeted attention to that portion of
the field. which is only five miles east
from the town of Fallon.
On Wednesday, at a depth of 300
feet, strata of Ignite coal was en-
countered. 1t was only three inches
thick and very soft, still bearing
traces of the oil from which it was
formed. At 375 feet strong seepage
of oil was ran into. This is being
saved to be turned over to the Nevada
State University for analysis.
All sorts of teams have been
brought into commission in hauling
the big supply of machinery out to
the fields. 1t would seem at first
thought that any old sort of team
might do this work, but experience
proves that the economic handling
and hauling of oil machinery and
casing is a trade in itself. Teams
have been hard to secure. However
when determined men get behind any
work it goes through. The Weaver
Oil Company, formed of California
people almost exclusively, has ma
chinery on the ground and spudded
| in. 1t is good equipment and rapid
drilling should follow.
The Fallon Pioneer will be drilling
within day or SO. Jay l.. Heady re-
turned last week from Colinga, Cali
fornia. He brought in three loads
of machinery and casing He has a
regulation standard rig and two
boilers, making the Fallon Pioneer
rig and equipment one of the best in
the field. Drilling will start with
121a casing. This company is COM
prised of some of the best known and
wealthiest business men in Fallon.
w. B. Nichols of w. B. Nichols &
Sons, fiscal agents for the Big Four
Oil Company was in San Francisco
all last week He has completed the
purchase for the Big Four Oil Com
pany of what has been known as the
Martha Baumann Lease and the Bau-
mann Lease No. 2. These leases ad-
join the Williams ranch and com
prise about 100 acres Owing to their
location they are considered valuable
acquisitions and spreads the holdings
of the company from the north to the
east side of the district and increases
the amount of holdings to 1900 acres.
The Federal Oil Syndicate has,
through Judge Jerome Wenderwerker
of Reno, bought two more quarter
sections giving them in all four quar-
ters in various localities of the field
They are also increasing their Texas
holdings.
The Fallon Oil Exchange reports
great activity in stocks, lands and
leases. This company is composed of
DR.. w. E. Harrison of Fallon and re-
Gently of the United States army in
France and Milton B. Wilson. for
merly of Wyoming, where he played
an active part in the recent Wyoming
oil boom.
II. E. Donahoo of the Lasen Oil &
Refining Co., also a California enter
prise. has returned from Sacramento,
California, where he has been before
the state corporation commissioners
securing a permit to sell stock of his