White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-06

felt it best TO go to the southern part
OF the state, where he feels that the
money will be readily available.
MY last report from the well, :"
said Mr.. Amenda. was that the drill
had reached depth of 740 feet.
which was at o'clock Thursday
night. During the last six days the
drill made sixty-eight feet. Every
thing is in perfect shape and not a
minute is being lost, so that it would
be perfectly safe to say that the drill
Il now down 765 feet and still going.
We are now drilling in gray clay,
which Is streaked with gray fossil
shale. These streaks are from two
and one-half to three feet in width
and occur about twenty feet apart.
The formation could not be better IL
made to order, and as you look at our
log It Is perfect. Any stroke of the
drill should bring us into gray shale
with white iron, which Is the cap
ping found just over the oil in 90
per cent of the producing wells in
such fields as Oklahoma and Texas.
where the formation is identical with
that drilled through in our Petroleum
we'll in the Illipah field.
The recent bailings sent in indi-
cate a heavy oil seepage through a
fault in the formation and is being
driven toward the surface by gases
from an oil bed below.
With every drop of the drill it is
the opinion of those in position TO
know that We are coming closer 10
that oil bed, and there is sufficient
reason to believe that 1t is now no
great distance from the bottom OF
our well as 1t stands today. Every
man is entitled to his opinion, and
we invite the public TO visit our well
and then form their own opinion, be-
| liesing that 1t will be TO the effect
that we will have a well at any time
unless all signs in the heavens and
under the earth fail, and that has
never been known to occur in the
| history Of mankind
At the offices of the Consolidated
| lllipah Oil Company IL was learned
! that the six horsepower Fairbanks
Morse pump engine had been set VI
at the we'll and was working perfect
ly This new engine will handle al
the water necessary for drilling and
domestic purposes
L. V. Gamble, head driller for the
company. was called to Ely during
the week on account of the illness oI
Mrs Gamble. hut her condition has
sufficiently improved TO permit Mr.
Gamble to return 10 The we'll yester-
day.
All developments are gratifying 10
the management The well is in per-
feet condition. Ii is now down to a
depth of over $40 feet and is cased
to n depth of 444 feet with ten-inch
casing The water is completely shut
of and the formation is such as to
indicate that further casing will not
he required until much greater depth
is attained
The drill Is still in the blue gumbo
and has now penetrated that forma-
tion for distance of about thirty
five feet Work through the gumbo
is slow but the indications are so IA
vorable that the management is elat-
cd over il and glad to contend with
the slight difficulty presented. Blue
eumbo is encountered in every proven
oilfeld in the country and the entire
log of the Consolidated Illipah well
shows just tho formations found in
the other fields, from which one can
safely say that from all that can be
seen it looks like oil below. and the
Consolidated is prepared TO go below
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