The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-11-30

The West Pearl Oil and Gas com
pany gave a barbecue dinner a
their well ON Goose creek, twelv'
miles south of Oakley, Tuesday. 70
the purpose of giving the people o
authern Idaho actual proof the
there is oil and gas in the state an,
that a productive sand is situated il
southern Cassia county. A moderate
sized crowd attended the dinner
This crowd certainly became an en-
thusiastic one when the bailer wa.
run into the well bringing up waite
which demonstrated the presence o
an exceptional amount of gas and {
nice showing of oil. No one present
could doubt that oil and gas hae
been struck. They had the privileg,
OF lighting the gas.
Some local mining men are be.
ginning to look to natural gas for :
solution of the fuel problem in the
further development of our mining
industry There is such an abun-
lance of ore in the vicinity of OAK
ley that a smeiter no doubt viii lis
required 1t may prove to be y
paying proposition to pipe the gas
from the id well to The smelter.
Idle Rumors Squashed
Idle rumors as to the procedure
that should be followed in complet-
ing this particular well have been
prevalent in this part of the state.
For the past two months, work has
been shut down. To some it seemed
foolish to cease labor Immediately
upon the discovery of oil and gas
However, i is clear now to those
who made an investigation of the
that the only feasible
Gas company to do was to shut down
and wait for the proper material
and tools to arrive for completing
the work without endangering the
hole. The gas pressure at the bot
tom of the we'll is enormous and re
suires the utmost care in drilling.
z. is reported that the new equip
ment, including control head, is now
on hand and work will be resumed
once.
There has been aonther rumor tn
The effect thta oil and gas in COM
nercial quantities could never be
struck on Goose creek. Traced to
is origin, this rumor meant no more
or less than the following: What
never has been done never will be
lone. Within a certain radius,
MOTTO of this sort is WONDERFULLY eff
ective. There is a strong human in
Iination to walk in beaten paths
md avoid the career of the pionee~.
ew resources are constantly being
eveloped and new possibilities
to Highland gas and oil
truck whtre people said it couldn I
ossibly be found. If it hadn't been
or wildcatters and pioneers. the
'orld would have frozen to death
nd starved to death-literally and
Igura ratively-hundreds of years ago.
: happens that one of the places
here they said gas couldn't be
1und-and yet where it was found
was on the I'D ranch, Goose creek,
eve miles south and a little west
Oakley, Idaho. That's something
} be thankful for, unless you hap
sned to be one who predicted they
ever would find gas herein which
ise, of course, you will have to lie
wake at night worrying because
10 discovery of gas makes you out
false prophet
The gas coming from this we'll is
an exceptionally high quality wet
ade. The oil is believed to be OF
very good grade of high gravity.
1t is estimated that the pressure {
the bottom of the well is more '
an 100 pounds per inch. There /
ems to be little question but that l
ere is a good paying gas we'll on '
e id ranch. superintendent Toon- c
believes that little more drilling q
II show well far beyond the ex- I
rtH tions of the people of Idaho. !
What an exquisite though uncon- I
GUS humor there was in the stand
certain geologists who proclaimed a
AZ natural gas could not Ne st~nck a
Cassia county, Idaho. If we may 5