The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-02-23

More than half million dollars is the
ransom that has been paid for the release
of King Oil from the subterranean depths
sum is entirely worthy of the captive who
is held a prisoner within local geological
strata We say this willy and more or less
elusive potentate, old as the present day
formations of the earth, is with us and in
making this statement we merely reiter-
ate what every geologist, including A. E.
Wiley, one of the best known authorities of
the entire country, has told u.s. King Oil
lies hidden away in many places and he
has a refuge here. Sixteen big drills are
seeking his release and five of these are ap-
purtenant to as many standard oil drilling
rigs than which there is no better within
the entire country.
People who are here or have visited this
field from other places in the United States,
notably the oil producing sections of Texas
Oklahoma, California, Wyoming and
Pennsylvania are all agreed that never
within oil development history in the
country has any field made the rapid steps
toward full determinations as has the Fal-
it is still within its swaddling clothes, but
it is about to cast these off once and for all
and assume its place among the fields
where the pioneering stage has passed into
history and the era of production has come
about.
This half million of money has been in
troduced into the Fallon field through le-
gitimate channels. AS often as not it has
come from the purses of private individu-
ais who have sensed the opportunity and
with commendable independence have
sought the coveted goal without eclat or
stock sales. In other instances bona fide
projects have been launched and brought
to very large percentage of maturity
through stock sales which have been effect
ed through commendable business methods
Two years ago the Fallon field was
practically unknown save to a few who
earlier had taken note of the propitious-
ness of the geological formations. Among
these was Prof. Everett, for many years a
geologist employed by the United States
geological survey. Prof. Everett came to
Fallon Is years ago to inspect and report
upon the great salt deposits generally re-
ferred to as the c. w. Kinney holdings and
his interest in these, vast as they are, were
almost lost to his mind in favor of the
anticlines and domes and whatnot that
surround them. There he saw in replica
the oil producing sections of other states
and he paused in his reports to emphasize
the auguries that lay all about.
After Prof Everett came many others
from proven oil fields and as they Travelled
across this county in automobiles they too
took note of auspicious oil signs and talk
went the rounds of oil circles wherever
they were that in Churchill county, Ne
vada, existed certain exterior evidences
that have made for success in other places.
We mention these things merely to
prove that the Fallon oil field did not come
about by chance nor is it the product of the
wildcatter's imagination, but that it has
been a place of legitimate development
and vast money expenditures as a sequel to
sound, logical reasoning. This investment
of money and energy has come through en-
tirely plausible fact and many are the
drillers who are even today taking their
pay in the stocks of their companies be-
cause they entertain full faith in the en-
terprise they represent. This is thing
you do not see in wildcat fields, for the oil
driller of parts is much sought individual
here and elsewhere and he most emphati-
cally does not have 20 take his salary in
company stocks. demand exists for his
services from the Yukon to Patagonia and
clear around the world into Mesopotamia
where exploitation is in progress as re-
suit of the late war
The Fallon field came into prominence
two years ago when oil seepages were en-
countered at nominal depths at different
parts of the field. These seepages were of