The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-16

date refinery, good buildings and living quarters for the men that are uneXcelled. A new twelve ton boiler has been installed on a concrete foundation and when the concrete floor is finished this boiler will furnish steam for all the wells. in. stead of the four or five small boil CTS being used at present. Recently building housing four tanks, each filled with from 12,000 to 14,00O bar rels of oil and gasolene, blew down. None of the oil was lost and the building will be reconstructed. One of the oil tanks is now being moved from the gulch in timber on to the beach. Mir Hutchinson says the Chil- kat Company is using gas for fuel. lighting and domestic purposes in all of it's buildings. They are taking three gallons of gasolene from every thousand cubic feet of gas coming out of the ground.
 BIG SURFACE SHOWING
 MT. Fruit was even more optimistic and said: Il have lived in a good many oil fields, including those of Texas, Oklahoma and Tampico, but l have never seen as big a surface showing for oil and gas as there is at rIN ;,, Before l came north I had no idea of the extent of this field nor wit messed so many gas bubbles In one place in the slough it OOzed out and when a match was touched to the gas flame shot into the air. This is true ill dozens of places. In no other field did 1 ever find the oil literally running out of the ground and we dipped the oil off the surface, bring ing many samples back with us. In other fields they find little gas dOmes, oil shales and oil sands At Cne place there is an open cut, where the oil is continually running out. It is more extensive field than I had any idea of, with a large basin and the best indications for oil That the field will be developed on an ex- tensive scale and prove one of the best yet struck I have no doubt. Cor dOva certainly has a bright future, al though I do not think your people fully appreciate what is in store for them. Nothing stampedes people CT booms a town better than the dis cOvery of oil and I believe it will be found in big quantities in the Ka- talla district"
 The members of the Amber Oil &c Gas Company who inspected the field are Jack Long, Loomis, Wash; E. J. Judd, Tonaskett, Wash; Guy Fruit, Bakersfield, Calf; J. E. Thorn ton, w. E. Thorp, Sam Hutchinson and Sam Highfill, of Yakima, Wash; also MT. Gilbert, Mabton, Wash: c. P. Linderman, of Spokane and W. G. Cheney, the former owner of the property. The officers of the com. pany are Sam Hutchinson, president: Jack Long, vice president; F. J. Thornton, secretary; Warren Thorp, treasurer.
 BOUNDARIES OF OIL BELT
 If the great oil interests of the globe are sparring to gain an ad- vantageous position with relation to the Alaska petroleum fields, num- Der of inquiries naturally arise. How extensive are the fields? Whae kind of oil will they yield? How much has oil been developed, and how much will be produced?
 The Katalla oil belt extends along the coast a considerable distance, from the mouth of the Copper river toward Mount St. Elias. Traces of petroleum have been found a dis tance of more than 100 miles, but the district immediately contiguous to Katalla is about twenty-five miles in length, and from four to eight
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