Show I I VIRGEN BENCH OIL FIELDS A PERMANENT PERMANENT DIST DISTRICT I Ii x r c L 1 jv r i t a tt z iJ j if ift ili t 4 fri j jf i f c F t t a f i i q tom tr Ir A A A r t x IV r 0 i i r a 1 F d JL k S W l V 1 t t M y 4 t Y 34 w y k i t q r rr V A V i t tc tz c z a Hy c 1 z r rM rr M r i Lt 1 y f OIL EXPERT ON VIRGEN M FIELD FBI Wealthy Operator and Field Expert of Wide Experience Talks of Conditions F P W Dunn a wealthy mining operator of Nevada and Jh hi h oil oU operator of wide ex experience experience experience In the different fields of or the United States Is in the city with his fam family family ily after having made a careful Investigation tion of the Virgen City oil aU fields Dur During During ing his trip he sIzed up all a conditions even to t the roads leading I into the region re lon the cost of transportation and living Jiving ac accommodations accommodations accommodations and he ho returns an enthusiast enthusiast on the country Not a wild un unreasoning unreasoning unreasoning reasoning enthusiast but as an Individual individual ual who was able ble to take the real measure meas measure measure ure of the region and draw conclusions tram from the standpoint of a sane reasoning expert The following statement from Mr Dunn will win be read with the keenest interest not only by those who are al already a aready already ready Interested in the field but by oil on oilmen oilmen I men everywhere as they will recognize i that some one is talking who knows and who is making no n attempt to color any anything anything anything thing for some particular combination or orto orto orto to boost the merits of some somo particular section of the field District in Fine Region Virgen City Is a settlement with about inhabitants situated on the Virgen river at the Junction of the north branch and the main stream It Is really a beau beautiful beautiful beautiful spot in a fertile valley that can easily easIly ily Hy be extensively irrigated when all the waters are used The town Itself itsell is well shaded with trees with water running on both sides of ot the streets There arc are also good schools school and churches and a aver very honorably class of If people peo e The place Is now sorely In need of a livery ivery sta stable stable stable ble machine shop oil aU drillers supply house large hotel hoto stores and in fact ev everything everything everything required in a new oil aU field There is plenty of at timber Umber for rigs In Inthe Inthe inthe the country but not mills enough to saw the logs Jogs So those shipping in rigs should for a time Ume send their own timber Umber In Teams and wagons of sufficient size are arc not to be had Men lIen having good outfits should go Into the country countr as liS there wilt will willbe be several years ears of work for all aU Formation Is Described The formation of the country for miles Is a series of alternating strata of sand lime and shale varying from hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of feet in thickness down to nar narrow narrow narrow row layers aers At Intervals this formation is out cut ut through by deep canyons leading to the river In these canyons the stratification strati stratification Is clearly shown ranging ran from 3 feet altitude to feet From some of these stratas at different altitudes oil 01 seepages Trenton rocks and fossils are shown I visited sixty of these in a distance of fifteen miles The formation dips d ps about feet to the mile to the northeast and the seepages show at dif dlf different different ferent frent altitudes from to GOO 00 feet apart one above the other at from two to six miles in distance This proves beyond a doubt that there Is both a shallow and a aseep I seep field Record of First Well The drilling will be unusually inexpensive inexpensive sive as proved by the first and only well w ll llo so o far drilled The history of this well shows a new record for this country The rig was landed on the ground timbers se secured s secured cured from the woods derrick built and the well finished in days das The drilling took twelve daylight shifts no night work being done Oil OU was struck at 68 tsO feet The well was drilled into the sand thirty feet making the well 60 feet t t deep It has only feet of casing casing in it though it Is located only sixty feet from the waters of the th river The hole was perfectly dry after casing off oft this surface water No clays or mud were encountered To make matters as aH bad as they could possibly be for the three men who were working miles from a railroad a waterspout broke in the canyon and washed away their camp when the well was half naU finished Still SUU they made the above record The Themen Themen Themen men who bored this well are unusually unusual i competent drillers having had experience in Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky and California Had It been otherwise i they could not have performed this feat The well is of barrel barre ca capacity capacity 1 They have three other seepages known below them all aU of which they will reach in 2000 feet from the surface Other Interesting Data UTo To illustrate how regular the forma tion Is It may be said that these men chained back from tram one of the tho seepages to the northeast for three thre miles taking the I dip of the formation They figured they would strike the pool at feet They rhe struck the oil all sand at feet thus miss ing their survey by only twenty feet This formation and these seepages ex over many miles square There have been many competent oil all men In the coun try who have secured land and the geo logical survey men who are now in th tho the country pronounce It one of ot the largest fields in the United States There are al already alread already ready read twenty rigs ordered for the field The Rio Grande railway can get a line I I 1 hf t 4 1 i Y r w t 2 f t a a ad J r H r a c k i Y J 1 d if Ayi t E i ii f t tit p W t x J t it S l Jj I r t r o U 3 0 i y k Y Yf jt 1 I f II I II IC It I k h hM hr I M C r r r ry r x a w y r r M A cs r x t I t Vii 1 w a tir saw x t ca Itt y Z y i c jw t ti tiThe I The Theis cliffs shown sho n In the top picture are of the Permian age overlying the upper carboniferous rock It Itis i is between these two series serle of rock that the several strata of oil sands lie 2 a aJust f it P Just below the general view are shown well No 1 of the Virgen River Oil Development company and nd jf f the oil pond and which formed when the well came cam e in L t A r iP t 1 v Pr 1 j Below is a bit of the country surrounding su th eI well looking northeast to t 11 4 l t tx t f u a ai j l i tt p by heavy work from Marysvale to the I field fled In miles The Salt Lake Los Angeles and San Pedro Arrowhead route can get an easy line in from Lund Lundin in miles A pipe line Une can be built to the latter road in sixty miles anil anU to Salt Lake in miles The worst drawback to operations down there right now is the lack of teams and some more teams These are the facts regarding the new Utah oil au discover discoveries ies and they the will be proved as fast as men and money can do it Discovered in 1902 The history of f the development of the tho Virgin Bench oil on fields begins with ith the discovery in 1902 1900 In the Virgin River can canyon canon canyon yon on of oil all sands outcropping and drip dripping dripping dripping ping oil all Locations were made and an at attempt attempt attempt tempt was made to interest capital capita to drill the field fled Finally Fina In the spring Of 01 this year ear Bakersfield and Rhyolite men took hold placed a rig on the field north of Virgin City and commenced operations The well was way quickly put down The ground drills easily and little water was encountered ther th r being only thirty t seven seen feet of casing in the well we weThe The oil on secured by retorting the oil rock gathered at the outcrop is shown by to te consist of 40 per por cent coal oil 10 per cent gasoline 45 per cent lubricating lubricating ing oil oH and 5 per cent tar and wastes The oil has hIlS a ine base The oil all from the well is similar in appearance appearance and is undoubtedly of the same high grade The cliffs cUffs shown in the picture are of Permian age overlying the upper car carboniferous carboniferous carboniferous rock It is in these two series of rock that the several strata of oil oU sands lie He HeThe lieThe lieThe The strata is not erupted or broken and dips to the north about five de degrees degrees degrees grees v The Virgin valley fields lying to the west of at the Hurricane fault the primary geological feature of the country are as asyet aset asyet yet et In this field Is a well defined anticline and oil oU dripping oil aU are found at every very turn Every acre of ground both in the val valley va valey valley ley field and on the bench Is located Deals Deas are being closed daily dany for oil on lands both on located ground by purchase and on patented ground by purchase or royalty m a 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