Show i ELY EXCITED OIL FIELD Rush Is Expected to Region Fifty Miles South of the Big Copper Camp to The Herald Ely EI Nev ev May 6 A rush Is expected to begin at once to a new oil oit region which has been discovered about fifty miles mUes south of ot Ely and near the Nevada Utah hue lne by Sol Snider and Silas Branch two well known local prospectors prospectors tors tore who have hae just returned from that district and who hare hao ha c made known their discovery to a number of ot local men who have hae immediately taken an active inter interest Interest est in the exploration and development of the region Snider and Branch have brought with them large samples s of oil shale and fos fossil sil 1511 au rock which they say abounds in the district These samples sample have been as assayed assayed sayed and tested by Feeler Custer local assayers and metallurgists who state that the samples shown carry from 15 to 25 per cent bituminous matter In some of ot the samples the oil oU is so plen pien plentiful plentiful that it drips from the rock when exposed to the heat of ot the sun When this rock Is held to the tho flame of an alcohol lamp it I bursts Into flame As soon as these samples were shown to ta the assayers they negotiated for a large interest in the district locates locate in inthe Inthe inthe the choicest part of the field Their good fortune was communicated at once to toa toa toa a number of ot local capitalists who im immediately Immediately Immediately mediately took hold of the proposition and wires to Pennsylvania for or two ex experts experts experts who are now on their way to Ely to go over the ground Among the local men who have secured an interest in the proposition are A J T Fesler A E Custer formerly of ot Salt Like Lake L Tex Rickard Ole Elliott S D Crump Frank Flank Rathbone Rathbone A at B Witcher formerly of Salt Lake W r W V Thomp Thompson son and others Snider one of ot the discoverers said to The Herald that the oil oU country looks equally as promising as the Wyoming fields in lit which he has had wide ex ax experience and in some points it exceeds that country countr He lie refuses to tell the ex exact exact exact act location of ot the new territory but says that it is between fifty and anel sixty miles from Ely in a southerly direction Uon and near the line He says that there is a well defined area fully ten miles in length len th in iii which the shale crop pings are found on the surface The formation is composed of at strata of ot shale and sandstone containing many fossils in alternate layers la ers of ot fifty feet In thickness The shale when put Into a t retort emits a first class clas quality of ot fuel uel gas In the event that ml oil Is 18 not found in commer commercial commercial commercial cial quantities the shale can be con converted converted converted to gas on tho the ground and piped to this camp where it can be bo sold at ata ata ata a profit The Tho formation is so placed that all of the mining can be lone done from the sur surface surface surface face making the handling of ot the shale cheap and expeditious About acres of the most valuable land has been taken up tip for the local capitalists who are in interested Interested interested The country will wm be given gien a thorough Inspection and eXl and the de do development development will vIll be carried on on a large scale in order to determine det tho the actual value alue and ana permanency of ot the field Snider says that while there Is no other ther mineral In the range It w l h the shale is found tou the nearby ranges are filled with rich rl h bodies b of ore which can be cheaply mined and handled They say that copper lead silver and Iron are found In abundance and that the tho entire district for twe twenty ty miles square Is ill a veri veil veritable veritable table treasure trove troye |