The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-07-10
PHOTOGRAPH FALLON
OIL FIELD FROM AIR
PROMINENT CALIFORNIA ATT0R-
NEY HAS BEEN INTERESTED N
FALLON FIELD; OTHER WORK
PROGRESSES SATISFACTORILY
fspeclal Correspondencel

fALLON, July J.-DtH l. NlcuoiS'
of w. b. Nichols & Sons, has returned
from a trip to the Coast. While there
he interested General U. S. Webb.
United States encouragement, for
California, in the Fallon oil district.
General Webb will incorporate a COM
pany under the laws of California,
having secured from Nichols a block
of patented land near saltwater. a
block of lands of the Indian reser-
walton and a section of government
field. He will have associated with
him as officers and directors, George
w. Clark, capitalist of Berkeley, Cal;
David Dicky, civil engineer of San
Francisco; r. J.. Proctor, capitalist
of Santa Rosa, Cal; F. J.. Langstroth,
real estate dealer of Oakland, Cal:
NJ. B. Winman, oil operator of Ala
media, Cal, and w. B. Nichols of Fall
Ion, Nevada. The new company will
be titled the Alamo Oil & Refining
Company. General Webb has had
biologists report on the field. He
has a large following in California
and the company will be financed pri-
vately, no stock offered to the public.
E. j.. Moffet and G.. E. X. Smith,
aviators, were engaged by the Fallon
Commercial Club as a Fourth of July
attraction. The Fallon Oil Exchange
and the Churchill County Oil & Gas
Company took advantage of their
presence and engaged them to take
aeroplane photos of the field. To make
sure of good photos three trips were
made over the field. On the first trip
M. B.. Wilson, of the Fallon Oil Ex-
change, manipulated the camera, on
the second George Edison Porter, and
on the third r. w. Muffin, of the
Churchill County Oil & Gas Company.
worked the shutter. Each of the
fourteen rigs were circled five times
at very slow speed and at as low an
altitude as safe. These photos will
be assembled in panorama view and
distributed to the public by the Fall
Ion Oil Exchange and the Churchill
County Oil & Gas Company. r. w.
Muffin, of the Churchill County Oil
& Gas Company, is writing the text
to go with the photos.
The event in the way of develop
ment during the past week was the
cutting of a stratum of oil sand at
a depth of 200 feet by the Silver
State Consolidated. The sand carried
oil to the extent that it dripped from
the bit whenever drawn to the sur
face. Passing through the oil sand,
the bit entered a blue shale. This
proved fourteen feet thick and the bit
was still in at this time of writing.
At a depth of only ninety feet. the
Silver State cut a stratum of oil
sand carrying some oil, but not to
the extent of the showing at 200 feet.
The Weaver Oil Company has re-
paired the accident to its machinery
and resumed work Tuesday. They
have passed through about the same
formation as encountered in the Fal-
Ion Oil & Gas Company we'll. The
same may be said of the Big Four
Oil Company, which is drilling about
one and one-half miles northeast. So
far as indications go, these companies
will strike oil at about the same
depth as the Fallon, $50 feet. Follow
ing the same, the Silver State Con-
%solidated should get it at fifty to 100
feet lesser depth. Within one month
any one of these, or all three should
be in oil. The bringing in of any one
will start a boom, such as Nevada has