The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-04-12


! his reputation as a geologist on hi
/ Iprediction, Col. j. w. Adams, geologis
5 last evening told stockholders of tn
: Columbia Basin Oil company that n
! is certain that oil will be found Il
the Alfalfa well of this company an
asserted that from present indication
) it is possible that oil will be reached
/ by Sunday, says the Walla Walla. Bull
letin.
Col. Adams, after being introduces
iby stockholders, announced that ne hat
spent the last two years here investi
eating this field for one of the larg
est oil companies in the world. HI
! said that he had resigned from thai
concern and would read report which
he had prepared on the entire district
for this company.
i 1t is Col. Adams contention that the
general contour of the country is such
that there must be oil and that re-
cent indications pointed to it's discov.
cry in the Alfalfa well.
/ Following the presentation of Col
Adams report, officers of the COM
pany announced that stock in the COM
pany, which has been placed on the
market, would again be offered, first
to stockholders and then to the public.
1t is desired, it is said, to raise funds
with which to construct storage for
the expected output.
Following is Col. Adams report in
full:
The Typographical relations Of this
field being diversified, the surface in
character consisting of low rolling hills
flats and benches with small valleys.
A great section Of the country has
been highly disected- by movements
and erosions of the water courses. A
large portion of erosion is in evidence
by the uneveness of the country in
general and that the younger erosions
have eroded entirely. The main fea-
ture to be observed is that of the Blue
Mountain range, a large, flat foot hill
lying to the west and being divided
by the main tributaries of the Wa1la
Walla river and Mill creek, severing
it from the main mountains. It is
here where great formations show
that the big, snowy mountains are an
ticlinal in all appearances and in
structure extending Northwest, being
composed of the Madison formation of
highly folded nature. The major
feature being that of the mountains
to the Northwest, rendering many
Typographical features which are
greatly in contrast, presenting diff
ferent structure, being laccalithic in
type and the presence Of igneaus rocks
which have forced their way upward,
pushing the everything strata into an
uplift. The mezosic strata has been
eroded in many places leaving the
igneaus rock exposed in q rugged
mass. This is the chief characteristic
of he district Of the Columbia and
Walla Walla county, while that Of the
snowy mountain group and its imme-
date associations, anticlinal and DOM
inal features, together with the strait
fed and various shales, show conclu-
sively that of carboniferous forma-
ton. They vary in different localities,
due mostly to the Theological char
acters composing the structures.
In the southern and southwestern
part of the field is the waste waters
of the Snake and Walla Walla rivers.
Its general course being a meandering
southwest direction approximating Is
degrees to the southwest and emptying
into the Columbia river.
The lowest beds in the sedimentary
series exposed in this series are deeper
down. For more definite knowledge
of the possibility of oil concentration
these formations run in age from the
carboniferous to the quartenary, inc
elusive. There are exposure of these
beds in the field not far distant,
which indicate their nature in the field.
These sedimentary rocks discussed in
the report are divided in formations
on the basis of lithologic and paleon-
talogic character. The nature, thick
ness and formations of these relations
can be determined only at such places
where the greater erosions have TAX
en- place.
During the intrusion of the Walla
Walla valley and the uplift of the big,
snowy mountains the intervening coun-
try was left in series Of anticines,
synclines, domes and faults. The for
nation in general dipped from. to 4
degrees to the North until they reach
the center westerly portion Of this
field and near to the approach of the
Columbia river where the degree
changes to a sleeper degree to the
northwestward Tire are very de-
cided changes and dip Of the formation
fro mthis point is to the south and
west changing to much sleeper de-
gree, and to the westward there is a
very decided change.
On the eastward there is general