The Grangeville globe., 1922-01-05
OPERATORDECLARESS AGE
OIL BEST INDICATION;
PROVES STATEMENT
Druggist and Land Owner Gives Views Regarding Coun
tvs Native Resources; Asks people to Forget Advice
and Use Common Sense


the pen of j. ]. Pulse, for many years
an active druggist and at the present
time land owner, in which he quotes
a successful oil operator, gives very
comprehensive view Of the oil and coal
situation in this country. In the ar
ticle quoted seepage indications are de-
clared to be the best indications of oil
pools. Surrounding Grangeville there
are a large number of oil seepages, sam
plies of which have been pronounced by
many well known oil operators to be
of virgin quality. The coal property
that is being developed by the Grange
vile Coal 4 Development Co. on the
mountain south of town has now reach
ed q very promising stage. After dis
covering very good surface indications
a couple of years ago the present
company was organized for the devel
OpmenI OF the prospect, and While
shares were readily subscribed, the
financial depression that followed or
ganizatiOn prevented many from tax.
ing up their subscriptions, and until
recently the company had difficulty in
securing sufficient capital to keep q
crew of men ON the work OF develop
ment. If a very small portion OF the
money that has been sent out OF the
county for investment In foreign oil
companies on which no returns have
been received had been invested In this
county. and as Mr.. Pulse states, few
250O-foot holes had been sunk on
Camas Prairie, different conditions
would undoubtedly prevail here today
If merchantable coal or oil in suffi-
-cient quantities were not found in the
county, the money expended would at
least remain here. The article follows
To the Editor of the Globe:
The writer has been most intensely
interested of late in series of arti
,cles being published in the large dailiee
relative to why true oil factors are
lacking in Idaho and eastern Wash
dngton, and especially directed to
North Idaho.
One published in the Spokesman
Review of January 1st Is deserving o.
mention as the bureau Of mines geolo
gist at the University of Idaho, states
five so-called essential reasons why In
seeking petroleum, there are no reser'
voirs in basalt formations, and that
he positively believes that no oil IL
paying quantities can be found. In G
long technical article describing for
nation, etc, that would require life
time study for any ordinary individual
to comprehend, he says there Is no Oh
in northern Idaho, either at Lewiston
Pittsburg Landing, or anywhere else
in this part of the state
The writer lacks the technical edu
cation to enter into a discussion witt
these wise and learned men OF oui
universities, but has taken a quiet
comprehensive Texas common horse
sense digest of different phases Of the
conditions as they really exist and are
known, and crystalized them into brass
tacks and is going to give them to yOl
for what they are worth.
In the Spokesman-Review of Decem
Der 18TH / read the following article
published and dated at Chicago. Head
line reads as follows: "Basalt COntac
Scene of Seeps; Oil in Mexico Find
Line Of Least Resistance There Say
a Mr.. Il. l.. Doheny. Seepage a Relia
Bile sign. Even if small 1t indicates ,
Large Pool Says This Large Produc
er." Here is the article verbatim
e. L. Doheny in his address on Mexic'
before the second annual petroleum
meeting of the American institute
said that up to the present the oi
exudes found in places along crevice
have been the only guide for the devel
opment of oil. Such a guide has beel
successful and will continue to be 8
until the first of these areas showing
oil exudes will be exhausted Nor
basalt, more oil. He pointed out tina
the oil which makes its way to the SUI
face generally showed contact betweel
basaltic rock dikes and plugs, alon
which 1t finds a place of least resis
tance. The more and larger the basal
tic dikes, the more frequently they ar
encountered, the larger the size Of tn
oil pools In the proximity. Nor doe
it apply, he said, that where there ar
no basaltic ridges there no oil will b
found. He has faith i'm very sma
seepages and said that there are thre
questions of vital interest in this COZ
nection: First-do oil seepages. sparse
lv scattered over immense areas, IL
dicate with certainty the existanC
of pools of oil in the vicinity beneath
His twenty years experience gives til
affirmative answer to the question
Second-Are there substantial poo
of oil likely to be found on places ia
away from the vicinity of these seel
ages or volcanic rock formation? Il
answered in the affirmative.
Third-How to look and disocvt
the much desired oil pools? He state
that his company In drilling for o
had demonstrated that a very sma
seepage may he the indication of
very large pool which may not be
roctIv undar tha spnaQe but one side
it, hut this can only be determined I
drilling second well II the first
unsuccessful. which must he followe
by a third in order to be sure. TIL