The Winslow mail., 1921-01-21
OIL field DEDUCTIONS.
Based On Actual Con.
dltlons.

Tnere seems to be little that is
new in the way of information from
the oil fields this week. This is not
startling: neither must it be taken
as dfscouraging, for oil fields are
centuries and ages in the making
and it is the application of years of
pioneering and hard work to bring
in producing field. The United
States Geological Survey, Department
of the Interior, designates this north
eastern portion of Arizona as the
largest unbroken sedimentary area
in the United States. AS this is the
primary condition that must obtain
If there be producing oil field, Win
slow should feel appreciative of the
fact that she is located within this
great area. 1t is just as true in
Winslow and the wildcat field a.
round it as it has been true over
other fields; that is, the fact that
those closest to the field know less
If it and have less interest in it than
those at a greater distance. How
ever, this may be, the fact. still re-
mains that no wildcat field any
where in the world at the same stage
or development could present the
same or an equal amount of evidence
to support it's probability of future
productivity. The Texas oil fields
attracted and held the attention of
people of this section of the country
like no other section of country ever
did before Texas has become
great oil producing state yet there
is more tangible admissible evidence
of an oil field spread although and
oil Of ri
there ever was in Texas. Such evil
dence is more or less circumstantial
yet it must be given credenc.. With
the geological conditions superior to
any like area in the country and
the logs of the drilling wells proving
every foot the continuation of the
conditions expected and which would
be necessary to the ultimate proving
of productive field, there comes not
lone possibility, but rather, a great.
probability of the bringing in of the
field within the next few months.
The impatient are expecting it to be
done sooner Some had it don't sew
eral months ago. The history of
fields show that four to six and seven
years and sometimes more are oc
cupied in the development of oil
fields. 1t is unreasonable to expect
anything different in the Winslow-
Holbrook field. The individual who
rises to great heights because of en-
thusiasm for day, week or al
month. and then because great things
have not been accomplished and
world wondrous news spread around
the globe, shrinks back into his or-1
binary shell, will never startle, the
world or do great things. To the
pioneers who have suffered the hard
ships, the privations and the criti-
cisms Of wildcatting, is due the re-
ward of bringing in field, although
they usually get but small share
of it while the inactive hanger-on
profits by the procrastination of the
pioneer. The people Of Winslow are
due to wake up some of these pleas
ant mornings to learn that they are
in the midst Of a great oil field that.
Is proven to be beyond the wildcat
era This Is not an idle prophecy of
visionary but the findings deduced
from actual knowledge of the field
While we stop for moment to con-
slider these things, let us not forget
the thousands of acres of reclamable
land in the valley of the Little Colo
rado adjacent to the city, and con-
tinue our efforts to see that 1t be-
comes productive and is the basis
for greater W1nslow.