Show ari arizona zona oil ai 1 pro prospects aspects BY R B MILNES prescott arizona dec 7 in my experience peri ence covering nearly every oil field of this continent I 1 have never seen any other untested location that presented so many favorable features as this one this is what R ronald sager a standard oil geologist wrote in summarizing his report on the chino valley field where a boom is now prevailing ailin and where a number of companies chief among which is the new york chino valley oil syndicate are making preparations to drill in the immediate future two companies already have rigs on the way to the field and others are engaging in financial campaigns with the same end in view sager who is known from coast to coast as a man whose opinions on oil fields are very much worth while agrees agree with etienne ritter and other noted geologists who have inspected chino valley although lie he had not seen their reports excerpts from his report follow 1 I learn that this district has been under favorable consideration for the prospect of oil for a period of about ten years past and that reports from oil geologists and reputable practical oil men have been more or less favorable to this district notable among the geologists who have recently reported favorably upon the chino valley oil stratification is dr etienne A ritter mining engineer doctor of sciences member of the american institute of mining engineers and of the institute of mining and metallurgy in T 18 N R 3 W there has been a well drilled reaching a depth of practically 1900 feet I 1 learned from froin local history that this was started a number of years ago by local people and as a result of lack of knowledge of the formation they would be likely to encounter they were compelled to give up drilling at about 1900 feet I 1 am satisfied from the statements and data available that the well was drilled through feet of oil sand and that the showing for fo paraffin oil of high gravity was remarkably remark abl good there is an abundance of evidence in ii this field of the cretaceous limes with their various contents to insure a base fron from which oil and gas are created there are an many indications of the porous sandstones sandstone and to collect the oil and convey same also the necessary strata of rock to t form an impervious or oil tight cover for fo oil bearing sandstones and this oil structure is located on an extensive anticline of carboniferous limes li meston ton called the black forest mesa nearly al the geological formations found there are ar exposed in the grand canyon of the cole col rado to the northwest and again in ih thi jerome mining district to the southeast in making an approximate estimate 0 the thickness of the v vinous arlous formations oni on can only try to strike a general average 0 the exposures at th the grand canyon an jerome I 1 would estimate that it would 11 more than 2500 feet to the bottom of thi th sediment aries arles or possible oil formations in n eluded in this antic anticline liae probably a colls consid erable less depth the fact that no proven oil well has w yet been discovered in arizona is no ind in cation that there should not be oil in the the va v state As I 1 have heretofore stated rious attempts made to drill have no bea tes VP ing from the standpoint of a thorough |