| Show DISCOVERY NEAR YERINGTON yerington nev times the oil discovery in coal valley still occupies the minds of the people hereabouts several wagon loads of yerington citizens are going there this week to look over the country and see what the outlook is for business or any other thing the supposed oil fields are about forty miles south of df this place and are said to extend as far south as mono lake where outfits are now boring wells with good results men alen who have been operating in the oil fields of texas and california and who are competent to give an opinion say that the conditions are the same and express the belief that gushers bushers will be tapped it is reported that boring borin g machines have beai ordered and a thorough test will be made the country is covered with oil shale and numerous sandstone dikes cross the valley which is not exactly level but rolling the shale when a blowpipe is used gives off a pronounced kerosene odor |
