The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-02-16
Reports
on Fallon Field
A. +. Wiley, Pioneer Expert to Pass
Favorably on Fallon Field
is Here

A. E. Wiley, the man who made
the famous Inspiration mine in the
Globe mining district of Arizona
and who later studied the Fallon
field with favorable conclusions, ar
rived in this city Sunday from his
home in Los Angeles, Calf, and
will remain in this vicinity for some
time. Mr.. Wiley had no sooner
donned his field clothes until he set
out for points in the local field and
started to buy, for spot cash, oil
lands. He explained to this paper
yesterday that he is playing no par
ticular location in the field as a fav-
orite but that he has bought land
holdings in every direction from Fal-
Ion. This in anticipation of early
development activities on a broader
and more comprehensive scale than
has ever been attempted In this or
in any other western district during
the pioneering stage of a field.
Mr.. Wiley said yesterday:
''The Fallon oil field is more than
holding up to my early and most
sanguine expectations. Indeed,
there has been no field in the United
States that promised So much at
relative stage of development and
understanding. Down in the I'm
perial valley you hear much about
oil prospects and the ado is consid-
cradle yet many things are lacking
there that are distinct characteris-
tics here.
For instance oil seepages, al
ways a concomitant of oil in paying
quantities has been entirely absent
there. Here it has filtered through
pervious geological stratas and
scarcely well has been sunk to any
depth without encountering oil. To
my mind this is evidence of oil pools
of great size just as placer gold fire.
quently leads to great lodes
Mature has certain inexorable
rules under which its geology is
constructed and its treasure cared
for and | emphasize at this time
that l am fully cognizant of these
in making my forecast that the Fall
Ion field is to be one of the great oil
eenters of the world"
Mr.. Wiley submitted the follow
ing, taken from the California Oil
World, Los Angeles publication,
which is of interest to all who have
invested In the Fallon field:
Protection for wildcat operators
holding prospecting permits on pub
lie lands is the purpose of two bills
Just introduced in congress by Sena-
tor Smoot numbered S. 1925 and S.
1926, both of which have been re-
ferred to the public lands commit
tee. The two fields where such pro-
lection is at this moment most con-
spicuously needed to relieve the
fears of operators are Fallon, Ne
vada, and the Imperial Valley, Cali
fornia. Secretary Payne has held
that discovery of oil and official de-
termination that new geological
oil structure has been established
vitiates all permits previously ap-
piled for and forces the operators to
ask for leayes on the competitive
basis
"In the first bill, S. 1925 the
Utah senator proposes that the
designation of any lands of the
United States or deposits of oil or
gas owned by the United States, as
being within any known geological
structure of a producing oil or gas
field, shall not defeat or require the
rejection of any application for
prospecting permit under section 13
of the act of congress approved
February 25, 1920, field in the
proper United States land Office
prior to such designation and prior
to the discovery of oil or gas on the
structure, but such application may,
II otherwise regular, be approved
Notwithstanding the designation
Enactment of that bill would
make it impossible for the secretary
of the. interior to defeat the object
of the prospecting section of the
land leasing law by saying that on
such and such a bit of land there
was a known geological structure of
a producing oil or gas field and that
therefore IL was not open to pros
pecting.
1.-THE other bill. S. 1926, pro-
poses that section 13 Is hereby
amended by adding after the words
anu arc hOA HAAAilu any huONn ScO-
logical structure of a producing oil
or gas field the words at the date
of filing in the proper United States
land office of the application for a
prospecting permit"
I'm other words the Utah senator
proposes that the discovery of oil
on land for which prospecting per-
mits have been asked shall not viii
ate the proceedings initiated before
the discovery was made. That
would also upset one of the Payne
rulings.
Number S 1925 reads as follows:
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled. That section 13 of
the Act of Congress approved Febru-
airy 25. 1920 (Forty-frst Statutes at
Large, page 437). is hereby amend
ed by adding after the words and
are not within any known geological
structure of a producing oil or gas
field the words at the date of filing
in the proper United States land Of
flee of the application for a pros
pecting permit
Number S 1925 follows:
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
rress assembled, That the designa-
tlon of any lands of the United
States or deposits OF oil or gas own
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